We got sight of a couple of interesting stats in the last 24 hours. Sevco released their proposed season ticket prices for this season – £258 for adults. The Herald today told us they have sold 450 tickets, which would generate £116k.
For every 10,000 full price adult tickets Sevco sell they can expect an income of £2.58m. 40,000 sales would bring in just over £10m.
The cost Rangers faced to run a football club at Ibrox, before employing any staff whatsoever, has varied in recent seasons, but not dipped below £16m. On top of this Rangers employed around 200 non-playing staff plus dozens of players.
You see the size of the funding challenge Sevco face, made all the more difficult by what appears to be an almost weekly appearance of a distraction in the form of other parties wanting them to relinquish control. It’s almost as though the universe is conspiring to starve them of income. Their issues with the SFA will grab current headlines, but if these are resolved far greater challenges lie ahead.
Fans of all Scottish clubs are invited to contribute their thoughts on a variety of subjects, including policing, stewarding, the media, offensive chanting, and are asked for ideas to improve the supporter experience.
I have spoken to the researcher tasked with getting a perspective on this and he is keen to hear from as many Celtic fans as possible. It will take you around three minutes to complete the online survey, which you can do from here.
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DBBIA,
Not sure the overall signing policy of the last few years (since Lennon) can be criticised. Kayal, Izaguirre, Stokes, Matthews, Forster, Wanyama, Commons, Hooper, Ledley are all first team regulars, they all improved the first team, as well as the squad.
Murphy, Bangura, Wilson have not worked out so well, and the jury is still out on Ibrahim, Blackman (less so) and Lustig.
The problem is that a £4million signing (Rhodes) doesn’t guarantee success, either in terms of success on the pitch or re-sale value. I think that these days only a few moon-howl fantasists would think £4million isn’t the absolute peak of what we can pay for one player, so if £4million isn’t going to guarauntee success, why not take a punt on the cheaper option, which seems to be Cox?
Apart from Hooper, our two other highest price signings (Murphy and Bangura) haven’t worked out as well as some of our cheapest ones (Ledley and Matthews). I’m not advocating a policy of spending absolutely nothing, just cautioning that paying over price for players is a real financial risk, and the board is right to look at the possibility that Rhodes will not improve while he’s here, and will end up costing us money, rather than making us money when we sell him on.
We get more right in the transfer market than we get wrong since Lenny’s appointment, in my opinion.
ElDiegoBhoy on 24 July, 2012 at 16:20 said:
I used to go and see Beggar’s Opera play at The Ole Burns Howff many years ago.
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So did I,& the Watermill in Paisley.
brilliant band.roon aboot 1970 ?
Sell,Ki and Stokes,buy Rhodes,play Lustiq in central defence.Problems solved.HH
philvisreturns on 24 July, 2012 at 17:00 said:
We need to cull the universities…
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Did you go to uni?
Forgot to add, Juarez, the most expensive of the lot and the one most fans (including me) were most excited about after the first summer of lenny’s reign, turned out to be the biggest flop of them all.
timbhoy in spain
That would be about right or maybe ’71. Used to go to the Watermill regularly in the early ’70s.
Bloke109 is Neil Lennon on 24 July, 2012 at 17:37 said:
bould bhoys
I’m backing them for a treble – liquidation, administration for sevco, jail.
Should that not read
Administration, Liquidation, Incarceration
Stringer Bell – Did you go to uni?
I sure did. (thumbsup)
Jobo @ 17:54
Son working tonight so spare adult season ticket going for section 111
Nobody interested in taking up the offer of of the spare
I managed to get someone to take my ticket for tonight but with difficulty
I imagine somewhere about the 20,000 mark
Is there a parent and child section at CP these days. Im taking my 3 young ones for first trip v Aberdeen. Not too sure which section to take them.
Family section used to be front stand west of the main stand
Gerryguk7
A didn’t really see juruez play a stinker he had ordinary games but no more than some for me it was a strange 1 think it was all the woman or was it men on his escapade when he was away with mexico
philvisreturns on 24 July, 2012 at 18:05 said:
Stringer Bell – Did you go to uni?
I sure did. (thumbsup)
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Pulling up the drawbridge behind you?
In a jocular right wing fashion, obviously.
family section is in the south west corner
Jungle Jim
Re preseason drink. Although not preseason we could arrange a few beers after the Aberdeen game.
Think MWD on hols at mo.
HH
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This is am extract from the Codex Gigas in a chapter called “On Evil Buildings”:
Ibroxia Terribilis- is a of a stature so horrifyingly vile and hideously obscene that it’s very monstrous presence appalls, all who are cursed enough to look upon it, with the most severe dread imaginable- its hell horrid silhouette is such as to blind all who witness the titanic grottyness of its towering obscenity.
According to the Black Decad, which is an Ancient Babylonian Manuscript, Ibroxia was the center of an evil cult that worshipped darkness, ignorance and flagwaving. The obnoxious domicile of doom was instituted from liquid moonbeam cement and bricks made from pulped Orcs who died in an ancient battle that took place in Dilbat, Sumeri. The ancients called Ibroxia various names: “The Black Vault of Unending Evil” or the “Guildhouse of Satanic Worship” or “S**tpit” for short. According to the Decad these ancient Hunnites, phonetically translated as “Blue noses”, was an evil cult that worshipped chaos, lying and cheating, fraud, tax evasion, lawlessness, the ancient worship of crooked crowns, royal insignias, uniforms, and descents to the nether world, otherwise known as the “3rd Division”, but above all the pathological practice of spastic onanism. Their Demon-God was called Pazuzu or alternatively Zubala. He had emerged out of the sacred river of the Euphrates as a woad blue coloured crocodile head upon a winter bears body. He would later become the man-beast high hierophant “Hurlock” with “HUN” on his forehead. Hurlock was an insane eunuch who was driven mad by eating too much square sausages made from wilderness serpents. He was the God-Demon of under the table deals, basket weaving, leather beating and pastie making. It is said he is still entombed in the “Dark room”, or tactics suite, in an orange sarcophagus at the center of Ibroxis. Even now, during the night, particularly at the weekend match days, Vampire mega-bats sleep in the underside of the roof, black cats and dogs, bowler hatted hyenas, jackal supremacist jackals, giant rats, weird monstrous simians, proto-sectarian skunks, vicious ascendancy velociraptors, unrepentant ravens, and rioting goats stalk the corridors of Ibroxia.
Even now it is said that the walls at Ibroxia Terribilis will cleave open with a rumble from the primordial pit, the great Abyss, as the Beast of Apocalypse rises up and comes with plague, war and a multitude of mainstream hacks riding upon its scaly hindquarters until it is defeated in a great battle with the mighty Red One from Neil and the man who keeps the Law Well for All at the Great Battle of Parkhead Cross.
The McCoist “Pasty Diet” clearly doesn’t work!
Try and punt Bangura, Murphy and Rasmusson and get Rhodes in. Even if it costs £4 million, 3 years down the line he might be worth 3 or 4 times that. Am I being too optimistic here? Hope not!
HH!!
Thanks Folks. (re adult/child seating)
Tallybhoy
the problem is …who wants to buy them ?
I would buy Rhodes no matter what- surely his sell on value will only increase, even if we buy him for 5m, we will still make a profit.
Wonkyradar – unless he flopped.
Bhoys,
signing people aint that easy surely,
has anyone asked Rhodes if he would like to sign
I wish buying and selling players was as easy as it seems on CQN…
Neil Lennon!!
Dependent on the price/wages, there’s no real harm in taking a punt on Cox.
His record, experience and reputation is better than Henrik Larsson’s when he signed for us.
And all I mean by that is there’s only so much you can account for and predict. Sometimes you have to roll the dice.
Starry plough 18.32
Buy them low,sell them high,what’s difficult about that ?
“…tactics suite…”, my reckoning was that the once monthly evil gathering took place in that other monstrity, vanity-ville.
ElDiegoBhoy on 24 July, 2012 at 18:04 said:
timbhoy in spain
That would be about right or maybe ’71. Used to go to the Watermill regularly in the early ’70s.
Can see you now with long hair, round collars and flares with at platform shoes??
Sandman
i think Cox would improve our squad …..probably on a par with Hooper..better than the other forwards we have
fanadpatriot on 24 July, 2012 at 18:35 said:
That would be ideal, this year I have no idea who we should buy I think the positives outweigh the negatives in the last two seasons, every club buys duffers, look at Liverpool!
googybhoy
Spot on mate but not sure about the round collars:o)
If things weren’t working out at the Watermill I’ve seen us getting a train into Glasgow and going for a curry.
CELTIC: Zaluska; Lustig, Rogne, K. Wilson, Izaguirre; McGeouch, McCourt, F.Twardzik, Samaras; Commons; Murphy good line up
Hopps line up…
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CELTIC: Zaluska; Lustig, Rogne, K. Wilson, Izaguirre; McGeouch, McCourt, F.Twardzik, Samaras; Commons; Murphy
starry plough on 24 July, 2012 at 18:41 said:
Don’t like all this game time Murphy is getting, starting to look like he’s staying. McCourt in centre mid is like a player short when not in possession.
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Looks like we are still hoping that someone,wii buy Murphy.Shop window again.
Kayal33 on 24 July, 2012 at 18:43 said:
Or he could be in the windae…
roy croppie
five wingers and a duff striker …jeez oh