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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When assessing whether or not you permit someone to be a member of your association, you should be looking for members who ‘tick all the boxes’ rather than those who have excuses for not satisfying requirements.
It is abundantly obvious when an applicant is grasping at technical, legalistic reasons for getting around the rules, that the applicant is exceedingly dodgy and should not be invited to join the association.
Further to this, when the applicant is essentially the same applicant which has a track record of flaunting every rule it sees as standing in its way, has followers who have a track record of issuing death threats, it would be reasonable to assume that admitting this applicant to join your association is going to lead to continual headaches for your association in the future.
When considering how to vote on item (j) the chairmen of the SFL should perhaps assess whether they believe that the executive of the SFL and the SFA have served them well.
These are the same people who have allowed this fiasco to flourish to the degree where you are not placed in this most undesirable position.
You now have the chance to tell these people, NO, you are not administering the game to our satisfaction and we prefer that you step aside so that a more competent, less compromised body of men take your place.
Say NO to item (i), take back the power to run the game and rid yourself of these corrupted officials.
Any club which votes YES, you’d best get used to empty grounds because the fans are going to disown you and disown the game if these corrupt procedures are allowed to succeed.
Auldheid
I look forward to the day :>)
The water will still be warm enough well into October,and the way things are forecast into Nov as well, treat yersel to a dip.
Auldheid
“For me the prize is now the dismantling of the SFA and installing an accountable 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.”
You are a more optimistic Tim than me. What evidence is there, from the actions of Doncaster & Regan, and the latter was supposed to be our new clean white hat, that pro-Rangers influence still looms large in their thinking. You must be somewhat disappointed in Stuart Regan’s willingness to lie to SFL chairmen and to lie so unconvincingly. What guarantee do we have that we will get our next clean up operation any more right? Is it not more likely that the other club chairmen will come after us having got a taste for humbling Rangers?
And as for enjoying beating Sevco next year, I may be too conflicted to enjoy it as much as I used to. Why are they even in the same division after what they did? Are we doormats or masochists that we want abusers back so quickly? Don’t we need to free ourselves from our dependency on Sevco, even if it is a dependency that thrives on beating them?
And for how long will beating them be an easy ride? TV and Sponsors told us to jump and have them back in our league and we will have sold principles to comply. The same TV and sponsors will not thole an uncompetitive Sevco for long. Either they will get the refs to re-dress the balance/advantage again or they will introduce a Championship play off format whereby winning the league, even by 50 points, does not guarantee the title as Sevco deserve a knockout play off chance.
I am still feeling a little grubby at the blatant disregard for rules with which we are being urged to go along
not placed = NOW placed
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Whit wulll Happen tae the F.G.A.?
Whit diz the Future Hold fur Them?
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The Mair Worried we become.
as tae How this wull awe end..
Wull, the F.G.A. survive ..?
Wull the Dug be .. wait a minute.. wrang.. Worry!
Wull Celtic Go Under withoot the Income fae the Four Big Humongous Games, which we will no longer Play…?
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Some of the debates have been a bit heated in recent weeks but was only to be expected.
The majority of us being left-wing extremists – a sentiment some spokesperson for Strathclydes finest shared with a sunday rag while victimising the GB – we are likely, like most left wing thinkers, to have numerous disagreements on the best approach to progression.
This inter-strife amongst socialists was the reason given to by me a prominent Swedish communist friend for supporting communism (hallå if you’re lurking), as otherwise the united right, in their pursuit of self interest, will always win through.
For the benefit of the UK security services, I disagreed though. We can embrace healthy debate and agree to differ, and use intelligent debate to win through ourselves. (I just need to master the intelligent bit).
Audheid @ 23:40
I didn’t doubt that for a minute – the good luck comment was a genuine expression of support :))
gordybhoy64 on 10 July, 2012 at 23:34 said:
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
===
And perhaps you could also do the same before slapping them on the back. I would say I am usually a fence sitter when it comes to the board. However over the last few weeks i have definitely sided with those who have questioned their handling of the Newco fiasco.
SFTB
I was brought up in Dalmarnock from 0-14..I know a Hun when I see one. I was surrounded by them.
I also attended a ‘non denominational’ school in Blantyre from 14- 15..surrounded by them.
I don’t expect the Huns on FF and the like to admit anything. They still know it though…
My guess is most Bluenoses have disengaged through shame. My Bluenose pals don’t even talk about them now.. They are scunnered and have stopped defending the indefensible.
To me they are no more..
Auld Neil Lennon heid
i do have broadband, but unfortunatley this is Oz and sometimes even watching youtube picture just stops. I tried to watch a few games on CH67 but gave up as too much buffering and went back to setanta.
7M for Ki that would give neil about 3m to spend, the rest towards our debt and PL bonus
Setting free the bears, i do hope Murphy is away soon
Jmccormick …… It’s my silly iPad …honest …… I am actually very confident they will start in DIV3 ….. I have a little on all this,but will comment further Friday PM ……HE HE……..G’night
We will cut our cloth accordingly….
PL and co anticipated this…
And we will flourish and prosper!
When hooper,wanyama,kayal and izzy first came they were all on contracts under £7k pw and earned their new ones…
This is the blueprint now…
We will bring In more 7k projects to replace the ones whom will move on probably January…
And we can now afford to offload this talent in January …
We cannot sustain a large amount of high earners at the same time …
Hopefully we will get to the group stages of CL
£15m
Then with that we can secure the new prospects for jan … When the likes of hopper,izzy,kayal and wanyama will move on…
£30m banked .
Without the fear of collapsing domestically !
Tony watt and co will flourish
This blueprint WILL. Work
The sponsors of Celtic and Augsburg – couldnae make it up.
They’re now ‘owned’ by peepil who couldn’y give a tuppeny sh1t about football. The only thing the new owner wants is ‘no place to play, not ma fault! ‘ The new owners want to cash in the dunghill and the tommy cooper training ground before the ten-bob bit hits the fan.
CW & Cee lo walk away, minted!
Follow the money!
See …..”theory” ….disappeared
jude @ 23:43
Got to admire how the women folks walk behind them. Question I have is, where are all these hingers oan and hinger oots at 8am in the morning?
oglach,
i have made no comment whatsoever about how the board have performed,
its just a bit grating to see posters criticise them without good reason
believe me i will be the first on here having a go if the board take
us for clowns
oglach – I posted this earlier.
“I really hope to God that nobody on this fine Celtic blog is accusing Neil Lennon of being a man without integrity or principles, following his recent statement on the official Celtic website.
You know, the same Neil Lennon who could have walked away from the club when his life was threatened with bombs & bullets. The same Neil Lennon who was physically attacked at Tynecastle and his family moved to a safe house in the middle of the night on a number of occasions.
Nobody would dare question this man’s integrity or principles on here, would they?”
You have to ask yourself, is Neil a board flunky, a man without integrity or principle or was he just offering an honest opinion?
T4
So,NL released a statement on the club website today…
He could have given us an enthusiastic and upbeat message,without referring even obliquely to the G.A….
He chose not to…
As a manager,he remains very much the ‘unfinished article’…
He really needs to find a bit of guile..
Ain’t that right,Virginia…?
Gotta Go…
why should celtic say fa about a club that doesn’t, or indeed can’t, exist?
Cults
You asserted that NOBODY disputes it anymore.
I am telling you that 99% of those saying anything on Rangers sites, whether Follow Follow or the myriad other Sevco sites, are admitting nothing and are screaming WE ARE STILL RA PEEPIL
We can project our views onto them and say “We know you know…” but I am not hearing that admission from any but a strange handful of them.
pauloantony on 10 July, 2012 at 23:53 said:
We will cut our cloth accordingly….
PL and co anticipated this…
And we will flourish and prosper!
When hooper,wanyama,kayal and izzy first came they were all on contracts under £7k pw and earned their new ones…
This is the blueprint now…
We will bring In more 7k projects to replace the ones whom will move on probably January…
And we can now afford to offload this talent in January …
We cannot sustain a large amount of high earners at the same time …
Hopefully we will get to the group stages of CL
£15m
Then with that we can secure the new prospects for jan … When the likes of hopper,izzy,kayal and wanyama will move on…
£30m banked .
Without the fear of collapsing domestically !
Tony watt and co will flourish
This blueprint WILL. Work
+++++
I would see two players and no more move in each transfer window, with two coming in (or ‘up’) to replace them.
Continuity and all that – nae sense in having to rebuild a whole team every year or two.
I certainly see Wanyama, Ki, Kayal and Izzy being for the off in the next year or so with a very reasonable return for their and our efforts: 2 league titles, a CL last 16??, a cup or two and the not inconsiderable sum of cash from the sales, £30m or so.
Then it would be Hooper, Ledley, Forster a year or two later for similar or more, hopefully consolidating CL last 16, or pushing into qtr-finals would see values rocket.
This could put us firmly into the ‘Porto’ model, which we seem to be aspiring towards, and have certainly being working towards since Neil took over.
Which would make me happy.
i think this sums up these morons better than anything:
http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=230793
FFB
Maybe anything wae mair than 3 letters they canny read? <o))))
How am I going to survive the next 7 days without my iBone?
Goodbye friend. We shall meet again soon.
MWD
SydneyTim on 10 July, 2012 at 23:52 said:
Cheers. I wonder how much poor reception stops folk signing up and what can be done to improve delivery.
“Porto model”??
FFS, I thought we were aspiring to the Barca model :)
Or mibbes we are taking the best from both and making our own….
I still think we should invest in Pep as our youth coach, with the opportunity to progress to assistant manager within 2 yrs.
Jude @ 00:01,
Aye, “clock” and/or “time”. :)))
Muppets.
LuxCelt on 11 July, 2012 at 00:00 said:
i think this sums up these morons better than anything:
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it’s like asking a dead man who would they like to join them!
FFM
If we mix the best of the Barca Model with the best of the Porto model we might have a Barto (Simpson) Model.
Cowabunga
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on 10 July, 2012 at 23:43 said:
Loved that.
Such a pleasure to be reminded of what I am not missing..
Celtic intrested in South Korea winger Kim Bo-Kyung according to sky ,sounds about right if we selling ki we’ve had an Asian player in squad last 7 season or something !
Marketing csc
LuxCelt
Oh dear, nobody safe from the fury of Der Fuerher.
Those clubs must be shakin in their boots – albeit the players will be looking forward to a season less affected by mibbery sponsored injuries and career ending tackles.
Within just this one season, no matter what happens after, the quality of football should improve considerably, if the SFA and MIBs are prepared to allow it. Oops, just read how stupid that last bit sounded.
So many critics!
Come on now guys, we are all Christians after all and that fine group of Protestant Christians from across the city are only upholding that fine Christian tradition of self-denial.
Mind you, I thought that it was actually the other way around when it comes to sinning but hey, who am I to grasp the subtleties of their beliefs.
I’m sure they will clarify such matters with their Minister next Sunday at their local Kirk – which they all attend faithfully.
Or are they all 3 strikes and you’re out attendees:
1. Baptisms (or as they prefer to call it Christenings).
2. Weddings
3. You’re out! Funerals.
Fine Christian peepul. Every one of them.
I can imagine the singing at the local Kirk being wonderful.
After all, they all have such good singing voices as evidenced by their singing of The Sash and various other fine hymns when they gather to watch their disciples in blue.
15 yrs ago Gazza tried to play an imaginary flute now he wants to play an imaginary team!!! Them Mars Bars!!!
SFTB
The sites will be full of die hards but my point is they are not representative. I take your point they are irrational therefore maybe grappling with reality is difficult but for the rational Huns I know, they’ve thrown their cards in…
Critically these are the folk who spend serious money at Ibrox. My pal had 4 corporate seats, he personally sponsored a first team player. He now sees association with them as discrediting his business. He’s sponsoring community level football and thinking about Man Utd seats…
That is what will keep them mediocre whatever league they start of in.. They have lost financial muscle.
Ibrox with only rabid UDA supporters will not attract the more sophisticated clientelle with disposable income. In fact even the extremist Huns will tire of it..
Meanwhile salt is rubbed in to the wounds by Celtic domestically and in Europe…
Having said that- I expect more challenge in SPL as one of the other teams will take their chances and will not be handicapped by sacrificing 12 points to RFC..I know we will win by January but I’m expecting challenge.
Aberdeen the team to watch Niall McGinn, Johnny Hayes and Russell Anderson all decent additions and Archie and Craig might be old Huns but are no mugs..
SFTB,
Am trying to hard to find a witty response to that one, but the comedy double act ain’t goin to work, unless you play the wing-man to my humour, and not the other way around.
Point being, stick to the serious posts, which display a high intellect, just jeopardised by that witless reference to a “Barto” model. :)))
Anyway, it’d be called the Porca model.
flush the lavvy fc: they’re gone. now we’re waiting for the next big obi-wan-kenobi!
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ – Thanks for that.
I always enjoy seeing Coatbridge, although I fear the place is looking the worse for wear these days. It seems that, like the once bustling High Street, even the Orange marches are a shadow of their former selves.
Interesting to see so many XXXL Rangers tops following that parade. Soon to be retro classics. (thumbsup)