Neil Lennon’s interview with the official site was the second resounding State of the Club address from Celtic within a week. The manager said:
”Clearly, in terms of where Rangers do play, that is now a matter for others to decide upon, it is something we have no control or influence over.
“We must now move on, and move on with a collective unity between the supporters and the club and the team.
“We need to stand strong, shoulder to shoulder and all work together to continue to move the club in the right direction.
“We want as many fans as possible to come back to the club and take their seat at Celtic Park and invest in the club as much as possible.
“We are now looking forward and not back, we have a vibrant young team, I want to progress this team as far as I can but we cannot do this without the fans’ support.
“There will be no slacking off or complacency, we have a lot to look forward to and that´s what we are preparing for, but I need to be very clear, we need our fans with us every step of the way.
“We cannot let outside negative influences dictate the mood at Celtic, we are very optimistic and we are very much looking forward to the season but we need our fans right with us”.
“It´s imperative we make inroads in Europe again this year and it would be nice to get through the qualifiers and into the Champions League group stages, but I´m under no illusion how difficult that´s going to be
“Everyone wants to play at the big table and that´s our whole focus. We go into this as champions and that is a fantastic feeling, so hopefully that will give the players an extra spring in their step.
“If we qualify then you never know where it will take us.”
I hear season ticket sales are up on the corresponding period last season but the message from Neil is clear, with the driver for high-value corporate ticket sales missing, Celtic are more dependent on ordinary supporters buying tickets than ever before.
This is your tax-and-supplier-paying-champions-today-and-next-season-Celtic. You wouldn’t rather it any other way so get along and enjoy it.
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wee jamsie forrest
excellent
http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=2779
Top Corner
Would not like Deberecen, Molde (managed by Ole Gunner Solskjaer), Helsenki, Shamrock Rovers and especially not Polish champions Slask Wracow. All the teams are champions of their leagues so we’ll have to be at our best to go through, although for the play offs there is still the same list of teams we could face, just halved! So we really are a better team than all there but there are some tricky, tricky games
HH
MWD
Totally agree ‘ what’s not to like?’
If Ki goes – happy days for me. Don’t rate him in the SPL..
Wish him the very best in the EPL or whenever he ends up – I’m sure he’ll do well…. But he’s not for SPL IMO.
jmccormick/oglach,
at this minute we have not sold Ki for any amount of money,
are you just using speculation to have a go at the board,
why not wait til the transfer window is closed before having a dig
jmccormick on 10 July, 2012 at 23:07 said:
We can all dream….. ;0)
oglach
“‘we don’t need the Huns to prosper’ strategy. I am sure that is what PL said a couple of months ago. Am I mistaken? ”
My memory was that he said ” we don’t need them in order to survive”. I doubt he indicated that we would thrive without them.
Top Corner
As for the JF picture, his shirt looks too big for him and you can almost feel his bursting pride!
Kojo
haha
great story
hope yer keepin well
off tae ma bed
headin up to see the Pro-Am at Castle Stuart the morra
hope its no armageddon n suchlike
aw the best
TC
I see Linfield got thru tonight (pens)
Could it???
“We’ll survive very well. There will be no material impact on our business going forward.
“We have a stand-alone strategy, a stand-alone financial plan.”
setting free the bears on 10 July, 2012 at 23:15 said:
Asked if their own finances would suffer because fans might not buy into a one-horse race Lawwell said: “Not at all. I can tell you now that is not the case.
“We have a robust financial model we will continue. Our horizons are to dominate Scotland and compete successfully in a European context.
“Our focus and priority is always to optimise the opportunities for Celtic. Our debt is extremely manageable and maintaining our model and winning on the pitch is our focus.
“All we want to do is concentrate on taking our own club as far as we can and I wouldn’t see anything that may or may not happen with Rangers getting in the way of that.”
My dear,dear,dear,friend.. Top Corner.. Top Guy!
Thanks fur that,pal..
Gled Ye liked it…
Sweet Dreams,palomine…
And.. Thanks fur enquiring.. about my health.
Ah am Feeling.. Tip Top.. Hoppity Hop!
Kojo
Yer pal..who thinks ye’re swell.
Still, Laughin’. of Course!
setting free the bears on 10 July, 2012 at 23:15 said:
oglach
“‘we don’t need the Huns to prosper’ strategy. I am sure that is what PL said a couple of months ago. Am I mistaken? ”
My memory was that he said ” we don’t need them in order to survive”. I doubt he indicated that we would thrive without them.
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ooops messed that up any way PL said. There will be no materail impact! We have a roubust financial model.
“We’ll survive very well. There will be no material impact on our business going forward.
Asked if their own finances would suffer because fans might not buy into a one-horse race Lawwell said: “Not at all. I can tell you now that is not the case.
“We have a robust financial model we will continue. Our horizons are to dominate Scotland and compete successfully in a European context.
“Our focus and priority is always to optimise the opportunities for Celtic. Our debt is extremely manageable and maintaining our model and winning on the pitch is our focus.
“All we want to do is concentrate on taking our own club as far as we can and I wouldn’t see anything that may or may not happen with Rangers getting in the way of that.”
“We have a stand-alone strategy, a stand-alone financial plan.”
Linfiled with there home tie in a CL qualifyer at Ibrox would be funny. Then nobody goes after we’ve thrashed them a CP.
oglach
The quotes use terms like Survive, Stand Alone,Robust, & Manageable. Those are stoic descriptions of getting buy. They are very far from saying we would be better off financially without Rangers.
Time alone will tell/
by not buy
Which may well be PL’s new slogan as well
Kojo….
Fine…So you and Lil’ Audrey seen off the Bear…
But whatever happened to the Prize Huntin’ Dog belonging to Lorne Greene ?
SFTB won’t sleep tonight till he finds out
I posted earlier…
I don’t care where Newco end up. The damage and SHAME is indelibly marked upon any team
Hun that materialises. They are Scotland’s SHAME forever.
I will never again worry about any encounters we might have with them. I used to desperately want to beat them , to be better than them. No more – we are now indesputeably BETTER. They may at some point gain a win over us but they know we are better, more honest and superior. They know it you know it… nobody disputes it.
EK Green & White resident on 10 July, 2012 at 23:23,
As a seeded team we would be away first.
But, rearrangement could still be on the cards:-)
It could also be covered by SKY either:
Sky Sports or Extreme Makeover Away Addition:-)
IMHO it was always the case that we would need to sell before we could seriously invest in some experienced players, Rankers in SPL or not. If Ki goes for £7M, then I would hope to see at least £5M being made available to the manager for a CB and a big CF.
CL experienced players are required to progress this young squad, if we are serious about qualifying for the CL group stages.
oglach – after Neil’s recent statement on the club website, are you questioning his integrity?
T4
Cultsbhoy
So what your saying is
WE ARE THE CELTIC
How could I ever have doubted you? ;-)))
MWD
setting free the bears on 10 July, 2012 at 23:10 said:
For me the prize is now the dismantling of the SFA and installing an accounatble organisation in its place.
The season after next if a weakened Rangersaswas make it back to the SPL I would enjoy beating them regularly on a level playing field.
To get that and reassure the likes of Falkirk that they have a chance of being promoted before Sevco next season, if I were them I would want the SFA dismantled during the season with special watch on the refereeing service.
What has become abundantly clear is that whatever happens to Sevco the SFA must go not just the tainted personnel but the organisation itself.
The club IMO, knew that the huns had to win the league the past few seasons to get the CL money, the sfa did what they had to do, they crapped on us when required, they were easy on the huns when required, they also supplied the people who really mattered, the referees.
What I don’t get is we are apparantly still allowing the sfa to crap on us, masachistic tendacies are not what I would imagine a football club is all about, but, I live and learn.
I hear via twitter that the Derry Orange Order have the names of the 14 murdered civilians on top of their bonfire ready to bit lit on the 12th.
I don’t have the words to describe them!
MWD
SFTB 22.27
A very good & appropriate post.
I share the concerns of many posters on here while hoping my faith in the actions
of the board reflect that we are a football club first and a PLC second.
Time will tell and a balancing act of financial reality/ Celtics ambitions and due
punishment to the huns are all at stake.
Personally,only when their tainted titles are stripped will I feel justice has been done.
Just humour me, I know there is more chance Canamalar buying a season ticket than this happening ;-)
Assuming the huns are voted into SFL, starting in the 3rd division, wouldn’t it just be fantastic if Celtic loaned a number of fringe players (Murphy, Paddy, etc) to Clyde and made sure they kept the Huns down there, now that would be funny!!! ;-))
I was talking to one of our friends recently and we were contemplating the prospect of the huns results next year, we could be playing barca in the CL while the Huns could be playing at home against the only team in SFL3 called Rangers…… Berwick.
There will be much fun the next few years.
Let’s hope Celtic and the rest of Scottish football prosper, get to a few games and support the clubs who are going out on a limb to ensure we retain a semblance of sporting integrity.
hh
bjmac
CultsBhoy loves being 1st forever & ever on 10 July, 2012 at 23:26 said:
Careful there, you could become the supremacist that you despise :)
I’m sure you mean an internal satisfaction, that inner sense of value that needs no banging on a lambeg to reassure itself ;)
T4
No, no, no, we don’t need a big CF, far from it, we need to follow the Iberian formula, flood the midfield, buy 2 quality midfielders with the money, blow them all away, small is beautifull :>)
oglach,
can you not wait til the transfer window closes and all ins
and outs are complete before deciding whether the board have let
you down or not
MWD
I know what we and other teams are. I know what Huns are. It’s out for all to see.
Funny to see if in the course of the next few seasons we become associated with all other teams finally disassociated from the ‘OF’ tag.
That is much more important than whether or not Huns emerge in SPL in the future.
Cults Bhoy
“No more – we are now indesputeably BETTER. They may at some point gain a win over us but they know we are better, more honest and superior. They know it you know it… nobody disputes it. ”
For somebody who has spent so much time with their fans in Ranger’s hospitality you do not seem to understand them at all.
Go onto their websites and search in vain for any admission that they KNOW themselves to be inferior or even to have been at fault.
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and believe that you know a few bluenoses but do not know the huns.
THE EXILED TIM on 10 July, 2012 at 23:30 said
Hopefully in a couple of months we can chew over it all over a beer or two and the tales I have to tell..
Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Champions. C’mon Wee Oscar. on 10 July, 2012 at 23:31,
They do that a lot, don’t worry.
JODA will extract revenge.
It will either be Romulan or Ferengi hell for them:-)
MakeItSoCSC
Auldheid @ 23:30
Good luck with that ! ;)
Going by how hard it is to dismantle “no dis-assemble” Ogilvie, it’s hard to see the hun-ridden SFA doin the walking away bit.
At least, not until after some more of this evidence of corruption is released – er, mind you, that’ll be the evidence that they’re releasing themselves everyday in the latter stages of their hun rescue campaign.
If only we had a government with the balls to dismantle them.
THE EXILED TIM on 10 July, 2012 at 23:34 said:
I think that not only did Iniesta make Adam, he did not make Eve. He is THAT GOoD. will he sign? :)
Fortunes Favour Mibbes on 10 July, 2012 at 23:36 said:
Auldheid @ 23:30
Good luck with that ! ;)
If only we had a government with the balls to dismantle them.
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Indeed and I’m working on it :)
TET – ha! It will take us many years to produce enough technically gifted players to even contemplate playing the Barca/Spain model, so a big feck-off striker will do for me!
In truth, we have to plan ahead for what will follow the Iberian model.
T4
Sorry abt this Bhoys but clock the number plate on the Honda!! Only in Coatbridge!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQG4ltPGzEg
tommytwiststommyturns on 10 July, 2012 at 23:28 said:
oglach – after Neil’s recent statement on the club website, are you questioning his integrity?
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As I do not know the man personally i cannot comment on his integrity and i would guess that you do not know him well enough personally to validate his integrity. The public personas of people in the media glare are sometimes misleading – again not meant as an indictment of NL merely a statement of fact. Posing a question or proffering an opinion on a statement made by NL does not, in my opinion, question Neil Lennon’s integrity to any degree. Having said that I do not believe that i have questioned Neil Lennons honesty at any juncture