It appears that the so-called spivs are once again the only people likely to put their hands in their pockets to fund the coming season’s shortfall at Newco Rangers. There has been a campaign for much of this year to drive the club into the gutter, although on this occasion no one has accused Celtic fans, the SFA, HMRC or various imaginary enemies of acting in an underhand manner. These moves were all the work of formerly loyal Rangers men, who wanted ownership of Newco on the cheap, or some kind of influence thereafter.
The ‘spivs’ have not been intimidated or been blackmailed into handing over the club to hostile forces. Instead they are prepared to invest again, stay the course and see a return on their money.
‘Spivs’ is an unnecessarily pejorative term but if money comes in from the variety of hedge funds and offshore entities it will not be a gift. Neither was the initial investment of £5.5m, or the subsequent monies raised at the IPO.
It’s too late to complain about who owns the club, or that a collection on wealthy fans could have bought the assets of Rangers on the cheap when Charles Green stepped in. Campaigns to undermine the club will not bring about a dramatic change, they will only weaken an already painfully weak entity.
Two years ago someone inside the game told me ‘the Rangers you know are dead, whether they phoenix or not.’ The outfit which exists now will forever be a bit-part player, which even Dave King recognises is an untenable commercial proposition.
Remember, Tommy Gemmell, Bertie Auld and John Hughes will be signing copies of their books at the Celtic Store in Argyle St from 1pm until 4pm on Saturday. Take a camera.
And before that, Bertie Auld will be live on CQN from 1pm this Friday. Expect anecdote overload.
Visit the CQN Bookstore to get Tommy Gemmell to sign your personal copy of his tome, All the Best.
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IGC 16:53
I don’t know if I’d agree with that but all but the over-arching message yes, I believe he could be a great manager given time.
The message from the man himself has been all correct so far, taking things a bit at a time, playing good attacking football but not wanting to change too much too soon.
My only worry is he previous employer basically saying he is great but will not veer away from attacking football. He obviously learned his lesson to some extent improving the away form, I’m not sure if he held back a bit or just tweaked the team/set-up – but if we go all out attacking in Europe we will get mauled. We will also drop points as you mentioned, particularly away from home. In the league I think most would rather drop some points but play great football, but attacking in Europe, as we painfully witnessed particularly against the Italian clubs, is often foolhardy.
Paul67
“Instead they are prepared to invest again, stay the course and see a return on their money.”
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There’s no possibility you typed that today with a straight face, even though 83% of this wee bit of our sceptred isle is aching to believe it.
Spinning them on the hook is cruel, but oh so funny. Keep up the good work.
Bada
I’ve just remembered isn’t Chiles on BBC?
HEBCELT,
That’s me sent a complaint to the BBC. Took quite a while to answer all their questions before I got to the real bit. Anyway, it’s done.
ITV
Bada
Jolly good!!
Malone Bhoy
Playing pressing football is attacking without being suicidal.
I like the way Red Bull played last year which is mentioned in the article below:-
Herald article mentioning Red Bull
Ronny’s team this year are 2nd top scorers in Norway and joint 4th best defence
When they won the league last year, they were top scorers and were narrowly relegated to 2nd best defence position by one goal, losing only 26 goals.
Going back to 09/10 when they finished 7th, they were joint 4th top scorers and joint 14th in defence, losing 59 goals.
That suggests that he did find a way to improve defensive stats and performance
So Jack Bauer now on FF banned list. It can’t get much worse for them or can it? Please pretty pleeeeeeeease
H/TIM- I think he was also keen to stop other faiths luring the starving Irish away from Catholicism with the promise of a hot dinner.
FU, will do! Noo where’s that Caipirinha?
I thought Br Walfrid was concerned for the children of the Sacred Heart, St Mary’s and St Michael’s first. I don’t think there was any attempt to stop anyone of any faith from having food. I also don’t think there was any attempt at proselytising, as there was at the soup kitchens run by the various Protestant groups.
DBBIA
Yes, at the time there was a genuine fear of that.
Hence the ole there’s yer dinner.
Keep the faith CSC
I thought it was to start the ball rolling on liquidation of the huns in 125 years.
Or was that just a bonus…
HH
Last Chance To See A Documentary On i-Player..
That Was First Shown On BBC 2 One Week Ago….
About Britain’s Finest Pilot Of WWII…
Eric Melrose ‘Winkle’ Brown..Of Leith..
A Damn Good ‘Tim’…
Who Makes You Proud To Be British..
In The Early Thirties…He Travelled To Germany With His Father,A WWI Fighter Pilot….
To Meet With German Pilots From Richtofen’s Squadron….
And Was Taken Under The Wing Of Ernst Udet…..
Second Top German Fighter Ace..
Who Was Later Third In Command In The Luftwaffe….
He Stood Alongside Hitler At The 1936 Munich Olympics…
When He Witnessed The Fuhrer Shake Hands And Congratulate Jesse Owens..
After Winning An Event…
The Outbreak Of WWII Saw Him Working For The British Diplomatic Sevice In Germany…
He Was Interned And Deported…
On Returning To British Soil,He Became A Pilot For The Fleet Air Arm..
Serving On Converted Carriers Which Protected The Atlantic Convoys…
After His Ship Was Sunk By A U-Boat..
He Was Recalled To Blighty…
To Serve As A Test Pilot….
As His Unique Skills Were Recognised..
Later,He Was With Units ,Which Liberated Belsen….
And Conducted Interogations Of Leading Nazis…
Including Herman Goering..
Then He Was Tasked With Flying And Assessing The Performance Of The Various Advanced German Jets Captured By The Allies..
Took Part In RAF Trials To Break The Sound Barrier….
By Jings…They Broke The Mould When They Made Him…!
Britain’s Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story Of Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b045pbq2/ad/britains-greatest-pilot-the-extraordinary-story-of-captain-winkle-brown
setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
16:35 on
11 June, 2014
greendreamz
“We were founded in Glasgow by Irish Roman Catholics to feed and support destitute Irish Roman Catholics”
I thought we fed the East End poor.
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The others were fed too?
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
16:42 on
11 June, 2014
greendreamz
16:30 on 11 June, 2014
I empathise with much of your post, however, being an all inclusive club we’ll never be limited only to that 17% Catholic population.
There are many Protestants who follow us and I’ve met a few Muslims and Jews as well.
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Read my post again (if you wish)……I said “in the main”
The post was written more as an attempt at an explanation of the board…in collusion with the police….and in the directives to paid employees (the stewards) behaving as they do to the supporters?
It does make sense if you examine their behaviour in the context of a strategic marketing plan…IMO
GerryBhoy
16:43 on
11 June, 2014
ymmbhoy
12:40 on 11 June, 2014
Quite brilliant! Archie and even Souness were deeply moved. Big Jock was a giant of the game and I well remember those days when we were a real force in world club football. Thanks for posting that link.
*It has been mentioned on here that Kenny and Big Billy were noticeably absent but Sir Awex was also absent and he was at the game as Jock’s assistant.
After watching this marvellous show isn’t it about time that something was done about the bjk mob. I was on ff when his posthumous knighthood was proposed and it was on this site that bjk was first mentioned. It was originally shut down by the custodians of the bigot dome but that didnae last too long.
They really are the lowest of the low.
RT @ 16.53
The “Scotland will never be Tory” argument does not hold water.
The Nats natural environment is small minded, small town, small horizon right wind fodder.
They are / were not called the Tartan Tories for nothing — fish in the same pool.
They have a neo-con economic outlook with a little bit of populist trimmings.
Low tax structure hoping to attract a whole host of unsavoury corporates.
Think RoI without the lessons learned — same old boy / crony capitalism.
Then you have the media and its outlook — hard questions asked of modern Scotland?
Think again — tea towel nationalism and all the “Wha’s like us” tripe we suffer from.
Then there is the influence that the “Forger’s Gazette” will develop.
Only growing dynamic media source at the moment — Wee Scotlander attitudes at the ready.
The Wee Eck future is tax avoidance, social conservatism and insularity.
Add in the tendency to blame everything on everyone else and it does not look good.
Robert Tressell
You are one hundred % correct if a Yes vote only changes the flag it will not be worth it. It has to put us on the road to a better society that aims for a fairer, more equal society in terms of wealth, health and opportunity for all its citizens but especially for the poorer sections of society.
For note since WW2 inequalities in wealth and health have widened in the UK despite Labour Governments. A no vote is for more of the same.
I honestly can not believe that those on the left can believe that a vote for the status quo is a vote that will take the progressive movement forward. The opportunity to create a better society for our children’s generation and for other their childrens to come should not be passed up.
setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
16:57 on 11 June, 2014
Big Nan
Even in 1927, Celtic were being accused of downsizing:-
“Montreal Guardian sportswriter UNO opines that the current Celtic squad are competent, but do not compare with Young, Loney and Hay and are “a Canal’s length behind the Celtic of Jimmy Quinn’s day”, who with McMenemy, Bennet, and Andy McAtee, were far superior.”
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Great stuff isn’t it?
I especially liked the stuff about Charlie Napier doing his good Samaritan.
While doing these articles for the Wiki I was struck by how vibrant the US/Canadian journalists were compared to our dry and dull lot in their style!
H.H.
Tim Tanium
17:40 on 11 June, 2014
And the first step on this road to socialism in one country is…………?
Cut corporation tax to 3% below the UK rate.
Tim Tanium
No vote is ever for the Status Quo (unless you are nominating for the best turgid blues band of the 70s).
Everyone wants change, whether it is the national boundaries or other much more important factors. This referendum offers us a new border but the same queen and currency. Voting Yes is pretty status quo too in that it is and it isn’t, just like a NO vote..
I’m back aff oot to the garden again
Something I’ve always wondered about Brother Walfrid’s poor table.
Were the peas fresh or frozen?
Does anyone know?
EL @ 17.49
Wee Eck will fund his dreams by stealing bread out of the mouths of poor English children.
Neo-con economics at its very worst.
The Arc of Prosperity has not gone away.
The future is US companies hiding their EU earnings in Auld Reekie.
Any notion that an independent Scotland would be a left wing country is delusional nonsense.
setting free the bears supports res. 12 & oscar knox
Cumbric aich aye.
Sons of the Rock aich aye.
Had a wee keek at the ole Evening Times online. Saying that if SFA leave Hampden, then Celtic Park likely to be used for international matches. Isn’t it funny how Ibrox has fallen into a state of disrepair and they can’t get any funds to bring it up to standard. Then I thought back to the Thatcher era when the SFA wanted to refurbish Hampden and rebuild it so that it would become a fitting National Stadium only for David Murray to put the kibosh on the project and tell Maggie’s government that it would be a waste of funding to give Government cash to Hampden as Scotland had a perfectly good, fit for purpose stadium, in Ibrox, that could serve as a National Stadium. This effectively killed the plans and the SFA had to more or less fund the upgrade themselves. Now we have Ibrox falling apart, Hampden to be possibly side lined in a few years and Celtic Park left as the only viable arena to host major football matches.
We need to remind the supporters of othemr Scottish teams of Murray’s perfidious actions towards Hampden and Scottish football.
Lest we forget.
SFTB
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_AAHwTL_jZw
Some Cumbric
The capital should be on the Osland of Cumbrae. Millport
Hearts out of admin !!
They’ll be able to sign players ?
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
Read this on BBC site earlier:
“Ibrox to host Scots’ Euro 2016 qualifier against Georgia (11 October).
With Hampden being used for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, the SFA have had to find alternative venues”.
My first thought was, the Games finish at the start of August…?
My Second thought was, Ibrox is also being used for the Games…as is Celtic Park ?
Then th epenny dropped: more rental cash from the SFA to help out the puir Sevconians.
Scotland at Ibrox for qualifiers
Celtic Park for Ireland game in November.
The Indy debate has reached the Celtic shop and the sevco pound shop at the airport. In the nae corner is the butchers apron red abomination compared to the great looking yes green tartan number.
Yes or No mmmmmm I wonder
NewstripisabelterCSC
Brazil doing the Huddle…… Who’d a thunk it????
Oh I think JK struck a raw nerve with salmond today. He was quick to tell the press in response to questions of cyber bullying, hat a wonderful debate we are having in Scotland.
Hahahahahahababag
Found out wee eck. Found out!
BBC Wales Sky 978 @ 9 pm The John Hartson Story
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Hearts out of admin……
“Good news all round”, so says the tit on STV news.
Can somebody show me the clip of him saying likewise with the Ger
So Hearts came out of administration on 11/06/2014
Free cyber pint to the first person who can give me the date that
R*****s came out of administration ?