You get the sense that the Sword of Damocles is hanging over Newco Rangers. Some wondered about the sense in Mike Ashley controversially renaming Ibrox as the rumoured ‘Sports Direct Outlet Village’ but having bought the rights to do so for £1, he is now able to leverage this detail in his earlier loan.
He has the retail and stadium naming rights but ownership of the club badge, details of which it appears the Newco board leaked to the Daily Record yesterday, would allow him to control the strips, novelty ducks and other tat, no matter where it’s sold. Any future shirt deal would need his authority, as it would require use of ‘his’ logo. Which would inevitably lead to shirt deals being concluded by one of Ashley’s in-house brands.
All this makes sense if you are a retailer with notions of monopoly status. ‘Rangers’ branded pencil cases, alarm clocks and shirts will continue to sell, no matter in which league Newco inhabit. It’s a straight merchandise play from the retailer, who is the only person in the UK in a position to exploit clubs going through a hard time, like Newco.
Ashley is thick-enough skinned after sitting through all that Newcastle fans could throw in his direction for years. He doesn’t need to be liked, and with control over intellectual property like the badge, he doesn’t even need to be the retailer to make money every time club merchandise is sold. Newco wouldn’t even be able to put the badge on their tickets without his agreement.
In many ways this proposed deal is an inevitable step. Clubs are enormous merchandising opportunities, the people who can profit most from this are the retailers. It is, of course, only inevitable because of the state Sir David Murray left oldco in. As soon as he handed the keys to a liquidation specialist the game was over.
News in today’s Herald that an S&P study makes Celtic the least likely publicly listed football club in Europe to default is likely to sound a little hollow to some who watched us against Accies on Sunday. There are many ways to build a sustainable and successful football team, but none of them involve spending more than you earn.
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We have a young, inexperienced yet ambitious and forward thinking management team. Given that this is probably the last season without the Trading as Rangers then this is probably the only season we could risk such an experiment.
If it works they will never catch us and they know it. If it fails and they sort out somehow their own crises then they dream of us failing back into the pack.
To make it work we need to support the management team throughout the club from top to bottom. Directors, players and supporters.
The MSM will do all they can to attack the manager.
The Boatd have left RD and JC without anyone of experience, or stature within the game to provide some wisdom – in short term alteration of tactics to get wins, dealing with media and so on.
Hamilton was Morton last autumn and we should be glad it didn’t cost us a cup. If RD comes good none of us will care that we lost to a well run wee club who try to play football correctly and got a little lucky one day back in October.
I’d still like to see someone of stature appointed – maybe until the summer – to assist the new management team. Davie Hay is the name I suggest and he would do it in a minute if asked. Maybe there are other names worthy of such a role.
Didn’t the board suggest something similar for Lenny in his first full season?
ACGR
U still struggling wi the :-) thingy? Or are u trying to be a happy smiley boxer :_)
PS
When was the last time y spoke tae Gerry ?
What is the stars
YES,I believe in Ronny.
Winning Captains.
Give us a break ,this is 2014 not 19s?.David Hay has done it ,time to move on.
Just before I hit the cot, I love father and son’s chat. Hahahahah :-)) Night Night. KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Johann Murdock
“Green fields of France”
Written by Eric Bogle, a Scot for, Biggar I think. Best sung by Paddy Reilly, (my opinion) Listen to Eric’s other great epic;- “The band played Waltzing Matilda”, and then tell me you didn’t turn pacifist!
PS my great grandad was a Murdock from Ballymena. Are we related?
winning captains
Yer having a laugh. Nighty.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Pedro, – & _ are interchangeable. I prefer :_) to :-)
Can’t remember the last time I spoke to Ger. I remember being on the phone and internet for hours trying to get him a ticket to the Juve game and having an epic fail, fail fail moment. That was going to be his press for his big 50. Maybe not that epic given how we got rodgered senseless by the Italians.
Don’t know? Two years maybe. Is he ok?
fanadpatriot
Unfortunately Ronny is at severe risk of making the same mistakes over again and finding himself out of a job. The pressure is building.
Who has he to speak to at the club? The CEO?
Davie goes to all the games, supports the club, has won and lost leagues, has European experience and knows the pressures of managing our club when results and/ or circumstances are against us. I don’t know if Ronny appreciates all that.
I sat just in front of him in Dublin just after he was appointed and while the players were confident and assured he looked to me ill at ease and apprehensive. It’s a big job managing Celtic.
Thunder Road we had a piper play The Green Fields of France at my big brothers funeral 21 years ago. Miss him today every bit as much as I did then. Not a day I don’t think of him. He was 37 and my best mate.
Sure we fell out but that’s brothers for you. Do what ever it takes to make up with your brother pal it will be worth it.
HH
KTF
Margaret McGill
00:21 on
10 October, 2014
macjay1 for neil lennon
00:19 on 10 October, 2014
“I quite enjoy being difficult”
Too true
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Oh,Maggie I wish I`d never seen your fa-a-a-a-ce.
That`s from Rod,not me.
I still enjoy dealing with you.
Weefra, ha cheeky wee bassa I actually remember they day that bro of mine was born. We should have drowned him there and then. If we didnay have him I’d have got them gemmy Adidas samba trainers instead of the cheaper wans.
He was an unaffordable luxury for my maw n da. But that’s the rhythm system for you, it’s like Russian roulette.
Ronny D is an idealist.
Pragmatism will always overcome idealism (‘iDeilaism’?)in the footballsphere.
Mourinho v Wenger.
12-0.
Give us Steve Clarke.
Mourinho’s former right-hand man. Good enough for us, pragmatic enough to solidify our squad, bring in tactical nous, knows how to WIN.
Scottish, familiar with the script, a major mistake by WBA letting him go after a handful of poor results; can’t believe we overlooked him in the summer in favour of RD; can understand he’d have cost Pistol pete more money; well, it should soon be his time.
ACGR
Aye he’s braw as an esteemed poster says…..
4 out of 10 to both of u for effort…must do better!!
When u away?
Had a right good night wi BMCUWP’s & Ayrshiretim, Catman never made it, he was just back from his epic voyage to the old country and MickTT was at a crochet class……I can only go on the information supplied…
MT, what was the outcome with the fiasco with your young fella? Did the charges get hoofed into the long grass?
Hope all is well with you and your lovely missus
HH
ACGR
We view this differently : you say Adidas samba
I say they kept going till they got it right………..me!!!!!! :_)
ACGR
EH WHIT????? That is taking the urine to a new dimension, ya pest!
Kiss N C – – – -are you pulling my (Very short chain?)
The only kiss I would give him would be of the Glasgow variety!
Sorry you are going to miss our intellectual gathering on Saturday, I was going to force feed you some Jura-juice!
acgr
The both of you are brilliant ghuys, and I am sooooooo proud to have met you both. Please excuse my age thingy with the both of you, yez are a couple of crackers and well worthy of being Celtic Supporters. I look forward to meeting you both again soon at CP. And I really mean that, as well you know. :-)))) KTF.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
The unthank road agreed Paddy Rillington best for me also.
Winning captains I would love for Davie Hay to be our Director of Football. Think he could help Ronny get through this and go on to excel as a Celtic manaģer.
HH
KTF
Rillington=Reilly but you know that.
Winning captains.
It is obvious that you are close to David Hay,and I respect that ,and indeed his contribution to Celtic.I also go to games support the club watch the winning and losing of leagues,followed Celtic to Lisbon and Milan and everywhere in between but I do not want David,with due respect,have a post at Celtic,let’s move on,let’s get young men with new ideas to lead our club.I also think that Jim McGuiness from the Glenties will be a big influences in our future
Pedro67, aye your right but its a two way street bro. Maybe he’ll want to cast a fly furra fisk in the Hebrides In may wi us. I’d like that.
Off on sat, canny wait. Been a hard few shifts this week. Knocked in a 20 hour shift today. But I’m getting a bit sick of it. Looks like Alaska for me next month. I really can’t be arsed travelling for work any more.
Say hello to catman from me when you next see him. Is he Big Peter’s secret gay love interest?
From my lurkdom, can I offer a wee insight to Tims who are posting on here and slaughtering Ronny Deila ad nauseam and polarizing opinion accordingly?
You are doing the SMSM’s joab for them. Not only that, but huns reading the blog must be laughing at us just as much as folk on here having a dig at their consistent attempts to decode the string theory.
ACGR
Met a guy in the thorn inn tonight, I used to play football with him, a fantastic footballer and an equally good story teller. He lurks on here, posted a few times, but he knew BMCUWP’s instantly, because he was at the last hootenanny, spoke to MG for ages and then mentioned your name ( ACGR ) said he spoke to u for ages and you “Drammed” together….he never made a connection with you being ma bro….
A really good guy…..told him u weren’t making it on Saturday and he was disappointed.
Ian get posting :-)
Acgr how you doing M. Bhoy goes to court in November mate. Hamiltontim went with him to a meeting at celtic park and got his ban lifted. Celtic say they have no problem with him and no evidence that he did anything wrong. Only people pursuing it are the cops and even on citation they say they have no video evidence only word of 2 coppers standing 70 yards away looking into a crowd of a few thousand.
Unthank road, Next time. We can compare drams and the size of our trouts, ha ha.
I do like Jura, it’s just not my favourite. That’s not a hanging offence BTW.
You lay off conman, he’s a good wan.
ACGR
Catman can’t reveal his sources….he told me coming out of mass one night…. I couldn’t even think about divulging that sort of info…..
No no no, especially when I’ve got £500 on the next pope :-)
Bedtime
Cept I’ll be having nightmares because ACGR wants me to give a big slobbery kiss to N Canamalar.
What’s that line? I’d rather stick pins in my eyes? You Bet ! Night Night timdom. Be nice.
Hasta manana
dulces suenos
MT, it’s nice to see our taxes are being spent wisely.
Good luck to your lad. See when it gets thrown out you should have some of these wankers from the SBbc, Scotsman and the Dr lined up to report the story.
Had on, forget that idea.
Good to hear from you and it looks like fail from corrupt Scotland plod. My mate I’m off to Spain with is a Dundee plod (not a fitba man at all). I’ll be quizzing him about all the football related focus pocus site. I’ve an idea he’ll tell me the whole focus and bill idea has been a total waste of our money.
Slan
Anyone know how to switch off predictive text on an Asus tablet?
Sdoon mi not in
Damn
Probably the worst indictment of Ronny Deila and his record is that our friends in the Sottish media,to the best of my knowledge,have not called for his removal.
Pedro, I’ve met him twice at Celtic doo’s, a smashing bloke. Pity I’ll not see him on Saturday. When you see him next tell him I said hail hail bruv, bruv.
Unthank road, you behave yourself when you meet canamalar, and make sure you land my kiss wi the lips and no the forehead, ya mad bam.
Thank god heid butt Boyd’s case got thrown out today, WGS will be happy he can now contribute hunners o goals to the on going Scotland campaign.
Goal, goals goals from Scotland finest ever fat fud.
Aye, that’ll work.
Right, bed time for me. Been up for 24 hours trying to make a crust and keep the oil flowing in the pipe.
It’s obvious from some posters that they think my wee bro looks like Brad Pitt whereas I look like Brad Merrick.
If I’m ever going to convince the beautiful Annabel that I’m more than a stalker, I need my beauty sleep.
Goodnight Celtic men and wummin.
Hail Hail
Sorry…..but I don’t think Boyd’s head butt was a big deal. He doesn’t have a past record for assaults either.
That clown Moshni though should be suspended by Sevco for several games. Not gonna happen…..just their type. El Hadji Diouff moron.
pedrocaravanachio67
23:30 on 9 October, 2014
Just left BMCUWP’s & Ayrshiretim in the boozer….I’m gettin ma train….no so sure about them…
Great food, good drink and fantastic company.
Maybe see u Saturday.
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My double said he had a great night in fantastic company.
I was in my cot for 7pm,of course.
Those who managed along were-apparently-in fine fettle and great form.
Bloody embarrassing when sumdy comes up to you in the pub and tells you what a great time he had the last time he saw you,mind.
Well,IR,I sure won’t make that mistake again.
Well,not with you at least!!
Meantime,Ayrshirtim and Pedrocaravanechio67 are my new best pals cos at least they come out to play,ya buncha wooses.
And IR,he’s jooost smashing.
And PC67 is spot on-fantastic meal,highly recommend ROMA in Johnstone.
Aye,really. Superb.
PL’s Brand Celtic in another top 10 survey…….geez peace, I wonder if the other teams have 5 players on loan in their first team. ?
dontbelievethehypecsc
!BADA BING!
Ronny is being made to carry the can for the failure of others.
I hope he gets it right,but he needs to be more flexible but without sacrificing his principles.
Meantime the blame is being deflected by our highest ever earner.
Marvellous.