Yesterday I caught myself moaning about potentially winning the league without playing a game (epitome of first world problems). How quickly we forget the pain of the 90s. Let’s bring the title home as soon as possible, no matter where we are or what we’re doing. There could be people doing the Ronny Roar in shopping streets across Scotland on Saturday.
The one place Ronny will not be doing the Ronny Roar is out shopping, though. This time of year managers’ weekends are fully booked: one day for the game, one day scouting at another game. With a game on the Friday night Ronny will be able to take in games on Saturday and Sunday. Scouting opportunities before the end of the season are limited, so he’ll value the extra day.
A year ago Hibs asked to allow their season ticket holders into a play-off game for free – there’s your rule. The opportunity to deny another club the same has gone. Faux indignation about not even asking permission doesn’t register with me.
Club sponsor Magners have offered us a pair of premium tickets to the Jock Stein Stand for Friday’s game. All you need to do to win is send me an email with the name of the team we play in the SUBJECT line of your email. Competition closes at 9pm tonight (Wednesday), so not a lot of time.
If you would like to do something enormously constructive while entering the competition, you could always donate £1 (or more if you like) to our Mary’s Meals school kitchen appeal, which you can do right here. Many thanks.
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Dublinbhoy: enjoy the weather there. Yesterday we had all four seasons in one day here in Dublin. I was in Florida last Easter. Never realised that much of the state is less than 11 feet above sea level. I hope global warming doesn’t raise sea levels much before you retire:)
glendalys
I agree, it was by design. Roy Keane was a good player, end of story.
nakas
PL and DD are not infallible, but I think they got it right this time.
The Huns statement regards gate money is nothing more than a smokescreen for this struggling board.They know full well about the “Gullabillies”.
Trust the SPFL to let Hibs away with it last year.Not a leg to stand on,unless they have grown a pair,and want to take the upstarts on.In saying all that,I agree.Sticks in my craw saying that,but fans(ST holders)should not be charged.
Corkcelt,
He’s hooked on the hoops eh?
I’d like to see what he’d be like in today’s team
HH
glendalystonsils
19:46 on
29 April, 2015
bournesouprecipe
I would like to think it was by design rather than by accident that we got Ronny. Let’s give PL his due and say he did his homework on Ronny’s beliefs and philosophy of football as well as his man management skills. Add to that his ideas on developing young (affordable) talent and we can now see what a good fit he is for us.
Hell will freeze over before PL and any Celtic manager agree on the matter of the folding stuff.
Carpi have won promotion to Serie A .Capacity of Carpi’s stadium @ 5000.Average attendance at Carpi’s home games this season – 3216.
HAMILTONTIM. 2000
I think you would be pleasantly surprised. For a forty-minute lecture on management technique-subtitled at that!-it went surprisingly quickly.
Dena29: Glad to see you got sorted for Friday night. I got lifts to Belfast from supporters buses a few times and then got a late bus home. It’s a lot of travelling but after a win at Paradise, who cares?
The Ronny lecture is a must watch. Our team’s improvement is a direct result of his approach.
LongmayitcontinueCSC
Kikinthenakas
Hope to see you in the BV on Friday.
Should make it.
HT
You should watch it. Surprised you haven’t. Do me a favour. Between cleaning the house and getting the radox ready for her ladyship’s evening bath (don’t forget the scented candles!) take a gander and tell us what you think. As a teacher and moulder of tomorrow’s citizens.
HH jamesgang
Not on playing field Greenpinata, bur for his unstinting support of the Club since he left. Professional Footballers come and go and they all “love” the team that’s paying their wages. Marc is different, any and every chance he gets he is on Twitter talking about and supporting Celtic. He was on again after the under 17 game last night.
Huge amount of revisionism going on tonight if people think that RD was first choice for the top job at CP!
He was originally ear marked to be big Johann’s replacement and to work with a bigger “name” as assistant and coach!
When the bigger names turned the job down or made clear what their demands would be – PL eventually persuaded DD to take a punt on him!
Now I think that Ronnie has down quite well but some of the talk recently has gone well OTT.
If he had lost the league it would have been a sacking offence, given the huge financial advantage we have over anyone else in the league!
He was robbed in the cup semi but that slightly covered up another poor Hampdump performance.
1-0 at HT should still have seen us in the final but the team played poorly in the second half.
The manager should have used the anger that the penalty incident sparked to get a second half performance from the team that buried ICT and the refs!
On the plus side have been the improvement after Christmas but there have been some poor showings in there as well.
The guy has my sympathy as it looks as if he could lose his two centre backs for next season and they are integral to the way he wants to play.
As ever the real challenge will come in Europe – yes we played well in some aspects against Inter but then again their results show that they are far from being a power in Italy let alone Euope!
RD remains a gamble – a club like CFC should never really be taking punts but we have on our last two appointments !
What he has done is build a solid relationship with the away support and started to change attitudes among some of the players.
I really hope the zombies don’t get promoted as that would give him another season to establish himself and his methods without the need to face them and their acolytes in the media!
My report card would read B rather than an A !
HH
Corkcelt.
Fair enough.
HH.
SOUTHOFTUNIS
Interesting parallels with Bournemouth,financial difficulties,way down the leagues,tiny stadium and small town.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/29/italian-club-carpi-extraordinary-serie-a-promotion
Lotito will be pleased though.
Croppy,
Celtic will win the league before the split next season weather the huns are in the league or not.
Fact
HH
http://videocelts.com/2015/04/blogs/former-celts/bishop-crosas-celebrates-glasgow-cup-success?
Normal links disclaimer. Its a 50/50 chance whether link works or not.
South Of Tunis
Couple of articles from the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/29/italian-club-carpi-extraordinary-serie-a-promotion
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/apr/27/italian-football-crowd-trouble-serie-a-torino-juventus
Fact –
Ronny Deila can divide by zero.
Choppybhoy,
I take it RD will not be getting your vote for Moty then. It’s all about opinions and it’s hard to argue with some of yours.
HH.
BMCUW.@ 20.08.
Thanks for the link !
kikinthenakas
19:43 on 29 April, 2015
I think that Ronny could be anything, I am of the opinion if he is the Celtic manager I am with him (and have been from the start) but I think he has a brilliant bond with our captain, who is also one of my favourites, Scotty Brown is a better player than most give him credit for and I think he is buying into Ronny’s philosophy
Tom McLaughlin
13:52 on
29 April, 2015
If Rangers decide to let season ticket holders in free, how does the SPFL verify that? By which I mean, if the official attendance is 40,000 for example, what is to stop them saying 30,000 got in with their season books and 10,000 paid cash?
How can that be verified?
Are Rangers in effect working a scam here?
Dont think so.If the SPFL go along with this,I would think that if the Huns have 30,000,ST holders,anything above this would be treated as cash.
Well,you would think so,Would you not !!!!!!!!!!!!!?.
soukous@ 20 09.
Thanks for the links.!
Almore
20:04 on
29 April, 2015
Dena29: Glad to see you got sorted for Friday night. I got lifts to Belfast from supporters buses a few times and then got a late bus home. It’s a lot of travelling but after a win at Paradise, who cares?
Exactly it’ll be well worth it when we get 3 points ….we can sleep on the bus (not )and the boat
HH
BMCUW/Jamesgang
If I have the time between my unending list of chores I’ll maybe give it a viewing :-) As I said though gents I’m far more interested in what his teams are achieving and how they’re performing.
What we hopefully see is his visions and views expressed in the lecture being replicated on the park.
Croppy boy hopes that the zombies will not get promoted.
THEY may not WIN promotion, but by hook or more likely by ~CROOK THEY will be in next season’s top flight.
The best we can hope for is that THEY fail in the play offs and have Scottish Football exposed for the corrupt body it is.
Stumbled across this while waiting for the boy to finish his match. It’s a blog from a blue nose called Billy Austin who patrols twitter land ready to argue that they really are the same club.
Paul engaged him in some debate on the subject and this is what followed. It’s from January this year…
The curious case of Paul Brennan
I wouldn’t normally blog about a twitter conversation, but as it’s bampot (as the “new club” side like to call themselves) king-pin Paul Brennan, and the exchange was so symptomatic of their hapless efforts, I’ll do so…
The story begins when I – as a connoisseur (manic obsessive) of this topic does – stumble across an old “Celtic Quick News” (Brennan’s blog) article entitled “Doncaster’s Totally Inaccurate Precedents” stating…
“Creditors of Crystal Palace agreed a CVA proposed by CPFC 2010 Ltd in June 2010. Following this, CPFC 2010 took ownership of the club and successfully applied to assume its league share.”
Eh? Club? That entity that’s “indistinguishable” from the company, after incorporation (the bampots’ favourite club=company mantra)?
Alarm bells rang! Having prior knowledge that this was in fact a business/assets transfer from Oldco to Newco, a quick google and there we go…
17th May 2010, Minutes of a Creditors Meeting with Administrators of Crystal Palace OldCo, regarding :
“joint administrators’ progress in concluding a sale of the business and assets of the Company to the CPFC 2010 Consortium.”
Where the following proposals are “accepted unanimously by creditors”…
“The Company will move from Administration to Liquidation, this to be via a Creditors Voluntary Arrangement subject to approval and to last a maximum of 6 months. Any sale of the undertaking is to be by way of a sale of the assets and not the Company itself”
So there we have it. Signed, sealed etc:
Brennan claims CPFC “took ownership of the club”.
Evidence proves it was an business/assets sale to NewCo, Oldco liquidated scenario (as with Gers)
1 + 2 = Brennan believes the club = business/assets of Oldco, Club certainly does not = Company.
But the fun was only just beginning…
Unexpectedly Brennan tweets me asserting “Crystal Palace were not liquidated”, with a raft of newspaper article links attached.
I reply: “The club wasn’t, as its distinct from the company that most definitely was liquidated… https://twitter.com/NewcoFCs/status/551754658923184128”
The link is to a tweet with Companies House records showing the company’s status as “DISSOLVED”. Not “in liquidation”, as only a company in the active process of winding up/still on life support carries that status (eg. Leeds United’s Oldco).
But even better than that, it’s already dead. The company has moved “from Administration to Liquidation”, as the Admins document above stated (and I remind Brennan of that with a JPG from the very document, at this point) and the process has concluded – in dissolution.
But Paul thinks he’s onto something. Why, lord only knows. But he continues…
“It wasn’t! Your link even says Dissolved, if you check CHouse of RFC 2012 (the renamed Rangers) you’ll see Liquidated”
“Your link says “in event that”, suggesting it’s prelim doc. Check CompHouse, ANY news source, Crystal Palace fans, not liquidated.”
Erm… wow. This is an undoubted leader of Celtic bampottery, who is as likely to be seen sharing a stage with “mad” Phil MacGiollaBhain as he is sipping a coffee with Peter Lawwell.
As I’ve said, “in liquidation” is a stage preceding the company finally be dissolved – using the “DISSOLVED” status as some kind of denial that liquidation happened is plain absurd, especially considering that one typically follows from the other as night follow day: a full stop ending the death sentence.
Brennan suggests the article is merely a “preliminary document”, the company passing into Liquidation as stated merely being “in event that” and – presumably he’s claiming – it didn’t happen. Well read again, Paul: “After discussion, the joint administrators proposals, subject to the following modifications, were accepted unanimously by creditors…The Company will move from Administration to Liquidation”. Wrong. Again. In black and white.
Check “any news source”. Oh dear. News sources in that case were interested in the fate of the football club, not obsessed – as in Scotland – with that of the company (explained to an extent given high-profile ongoing issues regarding the tax case, BDO investigations into Whyte/Duff and Phelps, etc). So as the football club continued – an essential point of the “same club” position that we know the “club=(dissolved in this case)company” side can’t explain – inevitably the media will not be writing that Crystal Palace (the club) has been liquidated, even though we know the old company was in fact doomed. All perfectly compatible with, in fact in positive support of, the position that a football club can span companies, being a distinct entity.
As a coup-de-grace (characterisitcally, to his own position) Brennan claims:
“Crystal Palace changed status, as did Rangers in 1899”
Wow. So we now know that a business/assets sale to a NewCo, from a soon to be dissolved OldCo, Paul Brennan describes as “Crystal Palace changed status”. If that’s not a raised middle finger to the club=company position, I don’t know what is!
We’ve a final own goal: “…as did Rangers in 1899”. Rangers in 1899 incorporated, where:
A new company was formed
To which ownership/operation of the business/assets/membership comprising the football club were transferred
The old, committee-run, constituted entity (unincorporated) was wound up.
Essentially a scenario from which continuity of the F.C. is unexplainable without distinguishing, in one’s definition of a football club, from the constituted entity (be that the unincorporated body or the new company/legal entity subsequently formed).
Once again, Paul, thanks for the unintentional endorsement of my position ;-)
Brennan signs off – fair play to the lad – in some style, claiming modestly “I’ve handed you your dinner on this”.
I’ll shamelessly plug a superb response from a follower of mine to Brennan’s tweet, to sign off this demolition of a bampot and the beleaguered position he represents…
Robin @Pitt4th 13h13 hours ago
@CQN @Bryce9A if that’s getting handed your dinner, Billy will need to go to a food bank.
Gerryfaethebrig, Couldn’t agree with you more about Brooney. Sad, but he won’t be fully appreciated until he is gone.
Yep, I know he has done a few silly things and got himself sent off needlessly in a couple of vital games. However every team needs a real warrior and Brooney is our one.
HT
I think you would enjoy the lecture. It increased my already existing confidence in Celtic under Ronny.
As regards: “Ronny will be judged on what his Celtic team achieve.
To be honest I think he’d prefer it that way.”
If I remember correctly, he said he would rather be judged a good person than a good Manager. If he is as successful as I think he might be, your ticket sourcing will become a full time occupation 0:-)
JJ
“I’m far more interested in what his teams are achieving and how they’re performing.”
HT,
Gawd aye. I think everyone is. Talk is cheap as they say.
But as has been posted, it’s a very interesting and well presented talk.
If it was Lennon singing the rebs you’d have retweeted a hunner times by now :))
Mike in toronto
I like your modesty :)
It was the use of the word “swoon ” that had me thinking you were older, apols :))
Mike years ago my cousin left Scotstoun for Toronto where she met and married and had a lovely kid
She got married in full sari dress to an Asian guy and on returning home with her new husband the men relatives took him to the local ” Drydock ” pub, after a few beers we went across the road for a few groceries, well he didn’t stay in the shop ( Asian) to long, when we paid and went outside we asked him why the rush to get out, his reply left us stunned
He said “they don’t like me because I’m. White
I don’t know about the culture, he calls himself a white Canadian Indian.
Btw what a guy.
Sorry if that bored the thruppnies oaf ye, just saying like :))
JJ
Ah yes but in terms of management I’m sure he’d rather be judged by actual performances and trophys.
I don’t tout, well not tickets anyway :-)
mickbhoy1888
Aye, they do, they are called containers.
But you knew that didn’t you.
HH
Jo inge Berget quick news.
A brace bagged in tonight’s Allsvenskan game against Halmstads
Almore
20:00 on
29 April, 2015
Dublinbhoy: enjoy the weather there. Yesterday we had all four seasons in one day here in Dublin. I was in Florida last Easter. Never realised that much of the state is less than 11 feet above sea level. I hope global warming doesn’t raise sea levels much before you retire:)
You’re right there…if global warning gets any worse I’ll be fecked :)) My house backs onto a canal so I won’t get flooded out unless the whole state goes under.
If you see a hill down here you know that its a land fill site…always makes me laugh.
You are getting involved in organising the Dublin 1916 trip, aren’t you? I’m seriously thinking about getting home for that.
Hail Hail
GM
I’m only scared that as ex teacher, he embarrasses me :-)
I’ve saved it so if I have time over the weekend I’ll give it a try.
DUBLINBHOY
Carl Hiaasen is scathing about the environmental damage done to Florida over the years.
And very funny too!
Just catching up on today’s posts but some of the post on the sevco link about their airport shop closing down are comedy gold, especially the one that says “why don’t we just pay Ashley his 5m and sell our own kit”, they really don’t get it do they:-))).