Our Annual General Meeting, held at Celtic Park this morning, was a more prosaic affair than last year’s. Chief executive, Peter Lawwell, told the meeting last season’s on-field and financial results were “fantastic” in difficult circumstances.
He repeatedly referred to the “balance” required between immediate expenditure policies and judging the long-term requirements of the club, adding that in recent years, “Rangers went bust, Hearts went bust, and Hibs were relegated.”
For the first time the AGM heard from the Celtic FC Foundation chief executive. Tony Hamilton was given a video slot alongside the chairman, chief exec and the manager and he spoke about how the Foundation was interwoven into the fabric of the club, from the top to bottom, and of our history.
The alleviation of poverty is a major target for 2015, building on work the Foundation carried out this year in north and east Glasgow, Inverclyde and North Lanarkshire. Tony added, “If things weren’t tough we wouldn’t need a charity – but they are.
“We’re deadly serious about making a difference.” I’ll try to get the video, it’s worth watching.
Ronny Deila laid out his objectives for this season: qualification for the Champions League, win the treble, develop players and play attacking, attractive, football. Peter Lawwell didn’t want to use the managerial transition over the summer as an excuse for failing to reach the Champions League, but suggested it was grounds for mitigation.
The chairman, chief executive and manager all liberally infused their comments with transformational effect Champions League qualification would have on the club next season.
The Celtic Trust proposed two resolutions, the first of which, concerning club-fan interaction, they agreed to adjourn. In his video message, chairman Ian Bankier informed the meeting that the directors would oppose the Living Wage resolution, but that they had entered into discussions with the staff on the matter, proposing that the starting pay for permanent staff is set at £7.85 per hour, which just happens to be equal to the Living Wage.
In response to this Jeanette Findlay, proposing the resolution on behalf of the Trust, reached the microphone and tore up her prepared speech. She did, however, urge the club to go the final mile and become an accredited Living Wage employer.
Peter Lawwell informed the meeting that he would be meeting John Guidetti’s agent within the next two weeks and that he is waiting to hear back from Kris Commons representatives on his latest offer.
Ronny Deila added that it was important for the club to retain its top players, giving Guidetti and Justin Denayer special mention, but insisted it was wrong to give into demands from any one player three times the going rate for other senior players.
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Paul 67
A few years ago the MO of CQN was more than self evident..
It was the antithesis of Lazy Journalism….
What is it now…..?
Serious question btw,…
in the midst of years of good work….
What is the CQN MO?
Westies. It’s only FT perm employees. Won’t cost the club much about 10k maybe
10 k to allow PL to get away with his million and no questions asked
Good day of business for PL all round :(
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
03:35 on
22 November, 2014
MACJAY
Yer getting soft in your old-age,mate.
I’ll settle for the huns getting gubbed by as many as possible.
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Strictly atween you an` me………………….
Right feckin` on.
Mate,pal,Jimmy,China, you understand…..
I`ve got to appear reasonable………
Heh,heh
What will we do with:
Ritchie ,SHEARER,Caldow,DAVIS,Baillie,Baxter,Scott,McMillan,Millar.Brand and that wee
chappie Wilson.
Doesnie bear thinkin` about.
Macjay
All humanity moves towards one great goal.
James Joyce
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
03:46 on
22 November, 2014
PROUDBHOY
Agreed. Lawwell got away with it again.
The Teflon Don.
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Only eleven million profit?
The bastard.
Viva Mexico y los Mexicanos.
Ayuda nos.
Favor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZzAflMoW-c&spfreload=10
Aye Macjay 11m and no goalscorers signed for CL
Wrong priorities
SydneyTim
04:42 on
22 November, 2014
Aye Macjay 11m and no goalscorers signed for CL
Wrong priorities
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Syd.
Shhhh..
Keep it to yourself.
Guidetti.
C.L.
P.L.`s fault
Nothing to do with Ronny the rookie.
Is Ronny P.L.`s fault anaw?
Gie`s a scapegoat.
Gonny?
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
Lads, for those who are in the CQN Saturday Naps competition, please go back and post today’s selection at the end of the previous article :
“Malky, Craig, redundancies”
All the best, fleagle1888
macjay1 for neil lennon
04:20 on 22 November, 2014
Raul Malo the Cuban Cowbhoy.
One of my favourite performers.
Particularly like this.
From Hell to Paradise.
http://youtu.be/qBoICf6yTik
macjay1 for neil lennon
04:59 on 22 November, 2014
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Who gave the rookie the job ?
You dont need to stick up for lawell everytime.. Blind loyalty
I think hes done great job up until season we beat barca.. He then saw pound signs with forster wanayama hooper etc and thought this bu cheap sell high stragety was easy.
Cleary its not.
Dunno what your probably is with living wage.. Seeing other people get abit more money should never be an issue.
Anyway beer time
Hopefully see ireland stuff these ozzys
Jayzus!
Bit of a sleepless night – so had a look through the Rags Sports Pages.
Back Page Shockerooneys!
P.L. gets the message across:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2_9jTZCYAAfjxY.png:large
Hootsman sub-editor facing dismissal for using the ‘L’ word?
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football
Hopefully there will be enough ‘back page’ headlines between now and Christmas for some enterprising Tim to come up with an apt Advent Calendar!
:-)
Good Morning Timland.
Not a lover of Dundee,my old man told me that during
the 50’s that they doubled their win bonus in a game
against us when we faced relegation.
Hearts look over priced @ 8/5 with WH,but then again
maybe the bookie is factoring in the hun can’t really
afford to lose this one,well that and the officials.
It’s been pretty poor reading here this week, more than ever.
Those who voice legitimate concerns are still being ridiculed as paranoid. Those who seek equality for all and ask the club, the first call before any political party, to strive for it, are dismissed by an increasing number of head bangers, with little comeback from those still posting on this blog.
A year from now, there will be heated discussions about whether or not the MIB was a homer or not. Celtic supporters will be still be finding themselves unduly harassed by the rozzers, and more evidence will come out, courtesy of the MSM, on how the Celtic board facilitated these arrests.
We will not have progressed at all.
The only hope we have is organizations such as the Celtic Trust who are actually doing something to protect out supporters, yet they are attacked here by several who would fall at the feet of former BT chairmen and high bonus earners in homage.
There are elements in the Celtic Support who would see us lurch towards the right wing and cry support for UKIP before taking any consideration of our supporters and the staff who work in our stadium.
I spoke to a teacher in my local supermarket tonight. He was packing my bags and dead on his feet, but needed the money to feed his family.
This is not what Celtic Supporters stand for nor tolerate.
In the meantime, remind yourselves of what to expect next season, and be prepared for discussions here to be focused on whether we are paranoid or not:
http://vimeo.com/21781980
And for those who would defend the Celtic board at all costs, can any of you point me to any single comment made by Bankier that doesn’t show his utter contempt for us, the supporters who pay his wages, while he drags our club into the cesspool where he left BT to rot?
lawwellsacountant
19:00 on 21 November, 2014
Just watched BBC scotland the hun reporter said rankers came out of administration no they did not,they were liquidated,why do we put up with this shite from the bigoted scottish media.
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Well….we(Celtic fholk) put up with a hostile anti-Celtic media coz we play by their(hun-establishment) rules.
So….why don’t we make up our own rules?
They fluckin hate us so, lets get it right roon them by, being the absolute best that we can be as a club ie: everybody on the same page but, with one wee addition to our portfolio.
We were born into/coz of oppression that leads us in nature to want to ‘rebel’ against this big horrible machine that hates us so much, so I’d say we should answer natures call and take the bassas on but, with one wee differentio…we do it on ‘our’ terms.
A local media/press conference to consist of info/details on a sheet of A-4 paper sellotaped to a wall/door indicating that ‘this’ will be the new code of contact with the ‘entire’ Scottish Main-stream Media from here on in.
I’m perfectly aware that, contract obligations previously agreed to should be obligated but, with minimal effort from the club ie: if someone from the club has to speak to the broadcast media….let it be Stevie Frail, Chris McCart a made-up ventriloquist whatever…just make sure that the basturts get the message.
Btw, I mean no offence to SF or, CM or the ventriloquist.
When we’re contractually obligated to meet our end of the obligation for CL/EL stuff, insist that it’s only the national media – not the local Scottish hun feckers.
I know that there are those who danced in the street when, Hugh Keevins was banned but, if yer honest you’ll admit that there are far worse wolves than him out there, and yes…I thought that the Keevins ban was a cheap-shot that told me that the level of fight that there is at exectutive level is not good enough and has to be remedied by removing some of the stuffed suits who, had a lot of fans believe that they were all on the same page v’s the establishment who made it clear that, at all costs…Neil Lennon had to be broken. An uppity tim who was unleashed and had the referee’s going on strike coz some of their brothers were caught lying to the Celtic manager. I don’t need to go into detail about the Neil Lennon v’s the establishment stuff but, please stop and consider this….on one hand we had a top class QC(Paul McBrideRIP) fighting the good fight in public, at the sharp end of the battle along side, Neil Lennon.
Yet, in private….this very same QC was, along with the duplicious Celtic ‘bored’….serving up the Celtic support – the Green Brigade in particular – on a succulent silver plater to be jailed and destroyed by the very same hun-establishment whom, they were supposedly fighting in public!?!?!?
Yesterday’s silver tongued performance from PL was, if you bought it…a ‘rally round the flag’ performance.
If you didn’t buy it…you’ll know that PL and the rest of the duplicious demons who run ‘your’ Celtic…are at it behind the scenes and, my guess is….WGS’s got a slack mouth. Aye.
Take care – Off oot, bye.
FFM And for those who would defend the Celtic board at all costs, can any of you point me to any single comment made by Bankier that doesn’t show his utter contempt for us, the supporters who pay his wages, while he drags our club into the cesspool where he left BT to rot?
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Nope, I can’t think of one.
Up with lark for the wee Mhan’s footie.
And then later, to paradise we’ll go.
‘Twas a quieter night shift that I’d expected! Moonhowlers being well behaved. It’ll never catch on!
HH jamesgang
proudbhoy
05:10 on
22 November, 2014
macjay1 for neil lennon
04:59 on 22 November, 2014
Who gave the rookie the job ?
You dont need to stick up for lawell everytime.. Blind loyalty
I think hes done great job up until season we beat barca.. He then saw pound signs with forster wanayama hooper etc and thought this bu cheap sell high stragety was easy.
Cleary its not.
Dunno what your probably is with living wage.. Seeing other people get abit more money should never be an issue.
Anyway beer time
Hopefully see ireland stuff these ozzys
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No problem with giving people a bit more money,pal.
I do have a problem with punters who use those people as a pawn to attack Celtic.
aka The Celtic Trust.
The C.T. couldnae give two tuppences about increasing incomes of working people.
If they did,they would be picketing outside every organisation in Glasgow which does not pay the “living wage.”
But they ain`t.
Ergo???????????????????
Wait for it…………………..Next C.T.manufactured issue coming right up.
Egg on face for Thomthetim if Ireland don`t stuff the Ozzies.
Enjoy your porter.
“Richt!…………. ‘at’s it boays……….tae Bairds!
See yeez err………….
…………………. a need to get ma kostoom riddy………”
(oh, aye)
Until The Last Chic Young.
‘GG
05:07 on
22 November, 2014
macjay1 for neil lennon
04:20 on 22 November, 2014
Raul Malo the Cuban Cowbhoy.
One of my favourite performers.
Particularly like this.
From Hell to Paradise.
http://youtu.be/qBoICf6yTik
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Thanks,mate.
Really enjoyed that.
Good morning my friends from a damp but very grey and threatening looking East Kilbride.
PS, post for the year for me (yesteray) goes to Up the Dubs:
“£10M a year not to play them. A bargain”
Big Nan,
He makes my skin crawl. But I’m more than grateful we have fholk like your good self out there. You’re a hero in my eyes. Sincerely.
westies
02:41 on 22 November, 2014
‘Casual workers and part timers should probably not be paid the Living Wage as their main income comes from elsewhere.’
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Most of them are stockbrokers and hedge fund managers and such like who live in big houses in Milingavie and Whitecraigs.
They just work at CP on match days for the craic.
ffm,
Well said Sir
AR
Top of the morning one and all.
Very much looking forward to seeing the Champions at Paradise today feels like ages since a game & my usual bet of big John for first goal.
Hail hail
2 players that have made a huge difference to our team since they returned from injury missing today.
Mathews to step in for Lustig?
Who is replacing Brown?
I can see our midfield having 3 left footers….
Wakaso……….Mulgrew……..Johansen……..Forrest
We owe this lot a doing after our performance up there!
.
Celtic and Alfredo di Stefano
The football world has bestowed many richly deserved eulogies on Alfredo di Stefano following his death on July 7th. Winner of five straight European Cups as he was, he might have surpassed even that had he chosen to take up the offer of a contract with Celtic when his playing days with Real were numbered. This bizarre footnote in the history of the club came in the midst of a particularly lean time of it for the fans when Celtic had instigated what was loosely termed a youth policy. Yet the so-called ‘policy’ was not always practised consistently, as Campbell and Woods relate in their seminal book, The Glory and the Dream:
“Some of the transfers were induced through panic, and nowhere was this more apparent than in a fruitless scramble after Alfredo di Stefano in August 1964. The famed striker of Real Madrid had been released from his contract by the Spanish club, and Celtic embarked on a wild goose chase to land the South American superstar. The club phoned Spain, but the player was on holiday and the calls were not returned; the club sent telegrams but these were ignored, until a belated reply rejecting the offer finally arrived at Celtic Park.
Despite the player’s manifest lack of interest and unavailability (he had recently agreed a lucrative one year contract with Espanol) the club ordered Jimmy McGrory to make a hurried, undignified trip to Spain, accompanied by John Cushley, Celtic’s reserve centre-half and a graduate in languages from Glasgow University, in a futile bid to change his mind.
It was fortunate for Celtic that di Stefano dismissed the overtures. Magnificent player that he was, di Stefano had an arrogant streak and ruled imperiously at Madrid for years. Well substantiated rumours were disconcerting; he insisted that passes be made directly to his feet and ignored others; he forced Didi, Brazil’s World Cup star, to quit Madrid because his vanity would not allow a newcomer to usurp his popularity; he accepted Puskas as a team-mate only when the Hungarian wisely gave up a chance to score in order to lay on a goal for him, a goal that gained for di Stefano the Spanish leading scorer title.
At the age of 38 the proud Argentinian would not have welcomed the rigours of a Scottish winter to play alongside the apprentices, even at the princely £30,000 that Celtic offered him for less than one season. Thoughtful supporters had to wonder about the club’s sense of direction; for years the club had advocated a long-term policy based on young teams of traditional Celtic values. Surely the frantic chase after di Stefano contradicted this.”
Celtic and di Stefano would cross paths again three years later, this time on the football pitch. Among the trophies adorning Celtic Park is the Real Madrid Golden Ball, featured in John Traynor and Douglas Russell’s illustrated book (1991) alongside the following caption:
“On 7th June 1967, fresh from the pinnacle of achievement in the European Cup Final, the Lisbon Lions entered the cauldron of the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid to have their new stature tested in the fiercest of fires. Real threw everything at Celtic in an attempt to re-assert themselves in a ‘friendly’ against their immediate successors as European Champions but the flowering Parkhead maturity prevailed for a 1-0 victory, courtesy of an inspired performance by goalkeeper John Fallon, the solitary strike of Bobby Lennox and a scintillating display by Jimmy Johnstone, who received a standing ovation.
This was the icing on the Lisbon cake, at the personal invitation of the great Alfredo di Stefano, who had wanted nothing but the best for his own benefit match.
The Celtic team that night was: Fallon, Craig, Gemmell; Clark, McNeill, O’Neill; Johnstone, Murdoch, Wallace, Auld, Lennox.”
Kevin McCarra concludes his brilliant book ‘One Afternoon in Lisbon’ with this description:
“Almost a fortnight after Lisbon a leg-weary and slightly fractious team took the field in the Bernabeu to play Real Madrid. Only the honour of appearing in the great di Stefano’s benefit match had tempted Celtic to accept the invitation. Real, European Cup winners of 1966, were desperate to demonstrate their superiority to the new holders.
John Fallon, who had been on the bench as goalkeeping substitute in each European match that season, was given the chance to demonstrate his worth. While Celtic struggled, he held Real at bay. As time passed Celtic’s competitive instincts began to surface once more. In the 69th minute they produced the only goal of the game. Jimmy Johnstone left half a dozen opponents in his wake and slipped the ball through to Bobby Lennox in the inside-right channel.
Bobby Lennox: ‘I ran on and hit the shot from the edge of the area. The whole stadium had gone quiet and I suddenly heard one of the other players, clear as a bell, shouting, “Goal!”’
For a brief moment the voice of industrial Scotland drifted out over a hushed continent.”
Summa
MAESTRO
Some bookies pay enhanced odds if first scorer goes on to score two or three.
I’m gonna check if Betfred are doing so today,I think he’ll hit a hat-trick.
FFM
Welcome back. I thought you might have quit on us.
I strongly agree that Mr. Bankier has shown a tin ear for the thoughts and aspirations of the Celtic Support. You have to wonder how such unempathetic people ever got to the top in business. It took Gerald Ratner 25 years to rubbish the business and “customers” for whom he provided services. Ian Bankier managed it in his first statement and has followed it up with several belters since that one.
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
07:34 on 22 November, 2014
It’s been pretty poor reading here this week, more than ever.
Those who voice legitimate concerns are still being ridiculed as paranoid. Those who seek equality for all and ask the club, the first call before any political party, to strive for it, are dismissed by an increasing number of head bangers, with little comeback from those still posting on this blog.
A year from now, there will be heated discussions about whether or not the MIB was a homer or not. Celtic supporters will be still be finding themselves unduly harassed by the rozzers, and more evidence will come out, courtesy of the MSM, on how the Celtic board facilitated these arrests.
We will not have progressed at all.
The only hope we have is organizations such as the Celtic Trust who are actually doing something to protect out supporters, yet they are attacked here by several who would fall at the feet of former BT chairmen and high bonus earners in homage.
There are elements in the Celtic Support who would see us lurch towards the right wing and cry support for UKIP before taking any consideration of our supporters and the staff who work in our stadium.
I spoke to a teacher in my local supermarket tonight. He was packing my bags and dead on his feet, but needed the money to feed his family.
This is not what Celtic Supporters stand for nor tolerate.
In the meantime, remind yourselves of what to expect next season, and be prepared for discussions here to be focused on whether we are paranoid or not:
http://vimeo.com/21781980
And for those who would defend the Celtic board at all costs, can any of you point me to any single comment made by Bankier that doesn’t show his utter contempt for us, the supporters who pay his wages, while he drags our club into the cesspool where he left BT to rot?
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It is excellent to see you back on here and once again, a video production that is of the highest quality, you select the right music everytime.
I read this earlier.
HH
Good morning fellow Celts, gonna enjoy a day off , bring on Dundee
Living wage, Only just catching up, is it correct that LIving Wage is only being paid to “regular’ full-time employees? it’s a step in the right direction but not sure it will stand scrutiny.
My understanding is that rates for similar work must be the same. If a male doing the same job as a female (or vice versa) is paid a different rate for doing the same or broadly similar work that will be challenged. Regardless of hours worked or contracted status.
Interesting to see next steps
BTW it is Livingston who has BT connection, NOT Bankier!!
Good work by Winning Captains et al on advert, I see the Scotsman now mentioning Liquidation and wonder if that is a direct result ( oops …better get something into print before WC Et all make us look like an even bigger bunch of incompetents than we already are…) methinks where one goes others will follow …..right Auntie? …..aye right!!
Mike Ashley walked away yet?
HH
I am the only person who thinks that the giving of a new contract to Scott Brown was a highly cynical move by the Bored given that it comes just before a game against Dundee?
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
I too was concerned that FFM had quit the blog,especially when he sent me a photo.
Fortunately it turned out he was wearing a flesh-tone leotard and not a tutu,so it wasn’t a full-blown flounce.
Fair put me off my cocopops though…
As you say,good to have him back,and in fine fettle!
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers.
True but I tend place with whoever offers the best price normally McBookie online.
I check others also with there offers and our game never appear to covered on the offer you mention.
I done well last season with Kris and getting a return now on John.
Good luck hail hail
Still a bit grey looking here but that won’t deter ole Jobo in his attempts to carry his moustache around a 5K Pollock ParkRun course. Running out of attempts at breaking the 22min barrier for 2014 but have a wee feeling that today’s the day…
http://mobro.co/jobobaldie
bmcuwp
Going along to the game today.
Was not sure if i would be, but as well as seeing the hoops again, i really wanted to pay a visit to Wee Oscars Paving Stone and it made me pull out all the stops to go.
I know you were very modest about the part you played in the memorial to the wee guy but you should be proud of all you did.
You have also put 1 more bum(mine not me) on a seat today in Paradise.