I try to avoid those who really should be avoided but I caught the report of Peter Lawwell’s Sky TV interview on their website yesterday. The “No summer sales” headline was misleading in itself as our chief exec actually said “there is no real necessity to sell players now”.
We are a solvent and well-run football club, there is no real, or imagined, necessity to sell, but there is an enormous leap between this status and “no summer sales”. All clubs, not just Celtic, sell when an offer exceeds their valuation for a player and they believe the money could be more productively redeployed elsewhere. There is no necessity for Manchester City to sell players, not until the oil runs out in the Middle East, anyway, but they may still sell.
Best part of the article was from Charlie Nicholas, “I’m a bitter idiot. Listen, I’ll prove it…..”
I’ve translated that quote from the vernacular.
Loved newco Rangers accounts. £3.5m in the bank on 31 December, £1.5m loan since, so they have £5m to operate until the season ticket money comes in, which will just be enough, but cash burn is running at over £1m per month; close to £15m a year.
£30m-£50m is not enough.
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KItalba,
I have NEVER, now or in the past, ‘put you down’.
We are going round in ever decreasing circles for NO reason.
If my language has been clumsy & you feel insulted in ANY way, then I apologise for whatever percieved slur has upset you.
Good Luck.
minx1888:
Yeah we won the league, all’s good… sweet! One Love, One Road, One Heart, One Soul, One hope, One death…. I’m on the way down the bookie to put my house on 10 in a row, I hope I’m not ever honestly mistaken.
proudbhoy,
I spent a week in and around San Sebastián last year and a couple of days the year before, if you want to give me a call in the morning here in WA I’ll have a chat and fill you in as much as possible.
0468702899
AR
Proudbhoy
Are you thinking of the Spanish Basque country or the French Basque country?
I met a man in St Jean de Luz once who told me that he was a Basque in birth and spirit and French purely for tax reasons!
St Sebastian is a great city — very Spanish the last time I was there with virtually no sign of the British tourist types.
Never been further along to Bilbao and on into Galicia but have been up into the mountains around Pamplona etc.
The French side is fantastic — great coast between Biarritz and Hendaye with great beaches. If you are in the area and fancy a drive down the spine of the Pyrenees on the French side via Pau and Bayonne I can recommend it as it is absolutely sensational.
Hitchiked down there in my youth with a very funny story about a night spent in a bus stop but will save that for another day.
* perceived
Pfayr-a bhoy on here said you were the Laird of Tenerife…:) have you been to Puerto Santiago? Just booked it for July.
My friends in Celtic,
If I may put my tuppence into the on-going discussion over left and right.
Maybe I have a very simplistic attitude; however I regard both far left and far right like a clock. They both meet at 12.00 hrs. There is nothing between them as far as the ordinary man in the street is concerned.
The excesses of fascism / communism as history has demonstrated both reject the democratic process and their ideology rejects fundamental human rights.
The ethos of Celtic seem to reject both.
HH.
What’s the current odds on 10 in a row?
9 in a row?
8 in a row?
7 in a row?
6 in a row?
I don’t think I need to go much further
Philbhoy
I can’t be sure but I really don’t think they will be receiving millions for TV rights between now and the end of the season.
BRTH
Did you enjoy the show last Saturday night and what time did it finish?
Bada,
I can never understand why folks ask what they think of a place after its booked.
Naerefunds csc ;)
Each team gets £82,500 for a Sky game,BT will be the same,not sure about a cup final.
Marrakesh Express
13:03 on 28 March, 2014
So McCoist is on Goals on Sunday this week.
I usually watch that programme but I think a round of golf might be better this Sunday.
Sky have no shame in their efforts to keep the turds floating!
Geordie Munro
I posted that half in jest, but suspect/expect the huns to get plenty for tv fees before the end of the season.
Bada
That’s a heck of a games to make it to millions then.
!!Bada Bing!!
Thanks for that!
I’m not sure. Will it be enough to base a movie on?
GlassTwoThirdsFull
14:21 on 28 March, 2014
Tom Molach 14:14
You seem to have missed out the income from the Dallas Cowboys deal……
…….and the space age casino
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
14:29 on 28 March, 2014
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Can imagine, did the st pauli trip and love to go again but trip to basque country and a game is also on the list.
antipodean red
14:41 on 28 March, 2014
proudbhoy,
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Cheers mate, wont be goin until least christmas time so i’ll give u a bell closer to the time. Just making a list with the good looking half on where we want to visit in the nxt year or so.
Big list small bank balance is the problem lol
Marrakesh Express
13:03 on 28 March, 2014
So McCoist is on Goals on Sunday this week.
I usually watch that programme but I think a round of golf might be better this Sunday.
Sky have no shame in their efforts to keep the turds floating!
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and thems will have clocked that oor Neil has been on a fair few shows darn saff and will have stamped their hobbit feet until Superally gets his slot…
El Diego Bhoy
Yes great fun with lots of great memories re the run to Seville and an absolute host of communal singing to round the night off.
Finished about quarter to ten — was in Tennants Bar on Byres Road doing Malorbhoy’s Celtic Quiz by 10:00pm
brogan rogan trevino and hogan supports oscar knox, mackenzie furniss and anyone else who fights neuroblastoma
14:42 on 28 March, 2014
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Sounds great.. Need to research it more and decide where would suit us.
Kinda planning a holiday we could maybe do when we eventually move closer to home. Something to break up the journey between oz ad ireland.
Hopefully in the nxt 12/16months.
Saw a guy walking down Sauchiehall St at lunchtime – Celtic backpack, mustard cords and brown loafers.
Got me thinking that all those saying the ordinary fan is being driven away from Celtic might be right.
….pfayr supports weeoscar
14:31 on 28 March, 2014
Proudbhoy
Been to the Biarritz , San Sebastián area …thoroughly enjoyed it
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Sounds like a nice place san sebastian, is it far from bilbao itself ?
Good Afternoon Timland.
I see all the joy of our championship win has dissipated, wish
the intellectual bullies would all eff off…….am I talking aboot
you, corse a am!!!!
I’m quite miffed at some of the posts on here today.
Loadsa arguing about who said what and when and if it really was said in the first place.
Usually I’m in at the start of these things,but I missed out today-I blame SWINDONBHOY.
I’d be grateful in future,folks,if you could tip me off when these things start,but I’ll make a late point.
Jeanette Findlay seems to be taken to task solely on a perceived admiration of an historical figure.
So what? I admire-greatly- Robert Burns,and his views roughly coincided with said historical figure.
I largely defend right-wing opinions on here as being worthy of comment,and worthy of belief. Though not my own.
I find it therefore utterly hypocritical for someone to rubbish JF based on her political opinions when,with the exception of the occasional total bampot,everyone else’s opinion is tolerated and discussed.
IMO,her beliefs are her own,as are mine and yours. They should not be used as a yardstick to judge her credentials as a Celtic supporter.
BRTH
Your comment ‘Are you thinking of the Spanish Basque country or the French Basque country?’ This reminded me of an occasion at a cousin’s wedding in Cork when I asked if one of the guests was a French Basque or a Spanish Basque. I was told in no uncertain terms that the gentleman in question was Basque and under no circumstances was I to refer to him as French.
Again I once met a priest in Lourdes who informed me that ‘sadly I have a French passport, but I am Basque’. The Basques are a very proud and “independent” people and it is why the Spanish politicians are so afraid of Scotland going Independent.
However I agree totally with the rest of your comments about the Basque country. Really worth a visit.
Paul67
Good read today. I always enjoy posts when you’re slapping down outsiders.
I vote for much more of this proper football etiquette from now to the end of the season, please:
“..if you don’t have anything bad to say about them, then it’s best not to say anything at all..”
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Personnel for the week-end.
Hope LH and DF are unused substitutes on Saturday to let them enjoy the walk around the ground at the end of the game. Think they’ve earned the opportunity.
Play them both on Monday night at Murray Park to add some necessary steel to the hoops.
Just back from the Celtic ticket office, I was pleasantly surprised when the young assistant said he wouldn’t charge me for a replacement season card, I expected to pay a minimum of fifteen pounds.
Just caught up with PL’s SKY interview. I’m on the verge of binning them after that. They are more pro Sevco than the DR and thats saying something. Paterson is clearly a Jim White puppy as is Tanner. His questions were scripted for him and I counted at least 6 that were loaded in order to gain a headline, be it ‘no rangers in the league’, ‘poor champions league’, ‘Lenny going south’, ‘poor attendances at CP’. Total negativity from start to finish. Lawwell handled the boy with ease with though.
Meantime a thousand questions relating to the scandal of the century remain unanswered over at the KKK arena.
The whole world wants an Old Firm
The hole world wants an Old Firm
Like Tom and Jerry
That wurruld is too close to home for me. How about you?
weeminger
15:05 on 28 March, 2014Saw a guy walking down Sauchiehall St at lunchtime – Celtic backpack, mustard cords and brown loafers.Got me thinking that all those saying the ordinary fan is being driven away from Celtic might be right.
Here’s me thinking Voguepunter was oot working…..
BRTH
Cheers mate we’re going next week.
Not sure whether to eat before or after the show.
decisionsdecisionscsc
So in a nutshell, according to the Scottish MSM, we just need to play the hundead 4 times a season, no other teams involved, and the winner takes all and is granted entry into the CL.
When they were alive they couldn’t compete fairly with their 500,000,000 supporters worldwide and their squillions of pounds they generated. They needed taxpayers’ money to compete as well as ‘friendly’ officials and the wee knucklecrush handshake. Only in Scotland can the fact be ignored that a company was allowed unlimited cash facilities from a bank and that that money disappeared.
Their zombie offspring are still carrying out the same modus operandi of trying to win competitions by outspending everybody else with cash they do not have and when the well runs dry they’ll suffer the same fate.
We may or may not do 10 IAR but I don’t think it will be any type of hun life form that will be the reason for it not happening.
For all you horsey type/degenerate gamblers out there
Been told that Faranadooney is worth a bet each way in the 6.45 at Dundalk
odds between 16/1 and 20/1 at the moment
Best of luck
Afternoon bhoys and Ghirls
Just a wee congratulations to my dad. Getting a long service award today for 35 years with the company.
An Obituary printed in the London Times. Absolutely Brilliant
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
– Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
– Why the early bird gets the worm;
– Life isn’t always fair;
– And maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition. Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live, as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust,
– by his wife, Discretion,
– by his daughter, Responsibility,
– and by his son, Reason.
His 5 stepbrothers survive him.
– I Know My Rights
– I Want It Now
– Someone Else Is To Blame
– I’m A Victim
– Pay me for Doing Nothing
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.