Neil Lennon will begin to get his players back at Lennoxtown tomorrow after, what for most of the first team, has been a two week international break. For many of the established players, he’ll be hoping for a clean bill of health, but with trips to Tynecastle and Milan ahead, the manager will be keen to spend time with Teemu Pukki.
Teemu played 92 minutes for Finland in Tbilisi last night so will get little time on the training fields before Celtic’s next two games. Tynecastle itself may provide the most effective training opportunity ahead of Wednesday’s game at the San Siro.
Delighted for Gordon Strachan, who has already caused an unlikely upturn in Scotland’s fortunes. He is a better coach and tactician than he ever got credit for. His Key Performance Indicators (winning leagues, knock out stages of the Champions League) were achieved in spades, but there was a soft underbelly which always seemed to undermine progress. Curiously, his Celtic team went 15 months without keeping a clean sheet away from home in all competitions, despite winning the league in both seasons this run spanned.
The one game during this period of note was the 1-0 defeat to Milan in the Champions League knock out stage; the only game Celtic completed 90 minutes without conceding. If Neil Lennon can replicate this achievement he stands an excellent chance of a second successive memorable Champions League campaign.
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I thought gerald766 had signed off for good. I sure I read him saying he’d had enough. Apologies Gerald if you’re still there.
STFB. @ 20;57,
Thanks for the reply- know you guys have history but I’ve agreed and argued with Kojo over many a year.
Most notably over Journeyman Petrov.
Anyhoo
Nobody os going to tell me who I can and can’t converse with on CQN.
I’M. Not to hard to find.
So if yer pal Gerrard wants to do that…
Well guess thst’s up to them, but if he manages it, he’ll be the first
Hail Hail
fieldofdrams
20:46 on 11 September, 2013
I go on a supporters bus in Dundee and al ask the guy who runs it about him he knows everybody from way back HH
blantyretim
Thanks for your help. Email gone to P67.
HH
sftb
Re last night abt Kenny not getting 50 caps in a row and equal G Y record. I was of the same opinion as you but I heard Keevins say on SSB that this was not the case. Cant recall the reason he gave. Must ask him the next time we have a pint together. Aye right!!!
Roy Croppie – I’m not Jim Spence but would gladly buy the guy a drink, one of the few sports writers with some backbone
bournesouprecipe, thanks, positive drinking indeed
Jackie Mac, thanks for asking, not a dun, nor a bun, a hun or any of that sort of thing but I take it as a badge of honour to be asked on this blog!
Hun skelper 21.18
That would be great. Imagine if the old boy was still around and we could buy him a drink.
nctim
I’ve emailed Paul asking him to forward it to you.
Look forward to meeting up, maybe in Salisbury/Spencer.
HH
Jude2055
I think Kenny beat the record backwards 53 caps almost sure? Backwards as in he done it again after that game he was benched.
fieldofdrams
21:24 on 11 September, 2013
Al find out tomorrow am phoning him about the hearts game so hopefully HH
What’s this ‘we’ can buy him a drink you found the note so you can buy him one haha HH
Tigertim @21:10, now don’t you be being paranoid now. The 2nd rate painters hearing is tomorrow .
Summa , tickets sorted today -i’ll be in touch .
Tomtheleedstim , Defo up for next week – will have a mate and long time lurker in tow .
HH
Sanna
fieldofdrams
Quality moniker >}
Welcome
HH
Which Sevco players cashed in their 5,000 share bonus today at 15:08 & 15:12, do they know something we don’t?
Would this be insider dealing?, tut tut
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShareTrades.asp?shareprice=RFC&share=rangers_int
15:12:02 50.00 5,000 Sell* 50.00 52.00 2,500 O
15:08:36 50.00 5,000 Sell* 50.00 52.00 2,500 O
PS
Ormond was a wee weasel of a man!! imo
ps Sorry weasels. <:0)
Chairbhoy
I have not asked you or anyone to cease conversing with anyone.
It would not make the slightest bit of difference. He/they would just invent another acolyte to converse with and praise him. We have lost and are losing good posters and our reputation for decency with the stuff that shares space with us here. Kojo provides conversation and succour to our right wing troll from Planet Tin Foil, if indeed he is a different persona in real life. I would like us to win back those decent lost posters before this place becomes the online Fox News network
The CQN strapline says “not lazy journalism” but Kojo and posters of that ilk are peddling lazy simplistic notions and are full of tabloid thinking. They are determined that there will be more heat than light in any discussion and they are prepared to attack our manager and some selected players to achieve it.
There are occasions when criticism of the team and manager is apt and deserved but rarely does it come from that source. He over-stepped the mark early on when he described Neil as a corner boy and he continues from there. Neil has too much class and nous to deserve that tag but someone who yearns for a strong man to rule his world does deserve to be called a corner boy in the same mould as Ernst Rohm.
td67
He did it at Liverpool but not at Celtic. Ormond played Eddie Gray at Hampden that night.
Tigertim , how do you know it’s a player(s) ?
Jude
My late dad never forgave him for not capping King Kenny for the record. Was the first time I heard my dad talk about masons.
Why would mingwall be posting this, he must have had permission from his masters.
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Exclamation An accountant provides an analysis of Rangers accounts
I print below extracts of a couple of emails a chartered accountant pal of mine sent me.
He had a look at the December management accounts that were published online, took note of the figures released through the Sun newspaper, took on board comments made at the fans meeting with the directors on 8th August, and the projections made in the Prospectus which accompanied the IPO.
You can download his analysis as a spreadsheet using this link – https://www.hightail.com/download/OG…Z1ArV3hwdmNUQw
Key issues are:
Rangers Retail performance and dividend policy.
How much of this 2013/2014 season ticket money is included at June 2013
In simple terms if running costs are £2m per month (£24m per annum) and we have £10m cash at June 2013, we need another £14m receipts in the next 12 months.This looks highly unlikely unless we get some decent dividends from Rangers Retail or large sponsorship funding. I suspect we wont run out of cash until the turn of the year but really need to understand how and when cash is extracted from Rangers Retail.
Excluding Rangers retail the coffers will be empty in Q1 next year but there must be a mechanism for extracting cash from Rangers Retail ( probably dividends) but I have no info of the quantum and timing of this cash.
Sorry forgot to mention in first email that Rangers retail figures shown include 100% of their figures so we are only entitled to our share (50%) of the profits with the the rest going to Sports Direct (shown as minority interest in the P&L account)
Begin forwarded message:
Mark,
I attach a one page summary of the revenue and cost figures extracted from the management accounts.
This highlights how the boards own forecasts for improving results rely almost entirely on a massive improvement in Rangers Retail revenues (from less than £1m first half to £11m second half) and profits (from c £0.5m first half to c £7.0m second half).
Excluding Rangers Retail the board forecast an Operating Loss of £5.8m in the second half (c £1m per month) with running costs at £13.3m (£2.2m per month).
The cash forecast at June was £15.6m including an assumption of £6.8m of season ticket money for the new season.
As you know BS has said the actual balance was only £10m at June but it is highly unlikely anything like £6.8m was received before June so this would account for some of the shortfall.
We will need to wait to see the actual results but I would expect the Rangers Retail profit forecasts to be highly optimistic and the running costs to be underestimated given the fees and bonuses agreed since December. There may however be some additional sponsorship income which was not anticipated when these were prepared in January.
At least it gives us a much better insight into the the breakdown of revenues and costs.
Yours,
Very harrowing documentary “the falling man” on More 4.
Tarriers? It’s what the IRA did to those who snuggled up to the imperialists. They tarred them and then poured feathers over them. por cierto
Tarrier
Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill” is an American folk song first published in 1888 and attributed to Thomas Casey (words) and much later Charles Connolly (music). The song is a work song, and makes references to the construction of the American railroads in the mid-19th century. The tarriers of the title refers to Irish workers, drilling holes in rock to blast out railroad tunnels. It may mean either to tarry as in delay, or to terrier dogs which dig their quarry out of the ground.[1]
Which is a good excuse to play the Dubliners were tarry is mentioned as in delay :)
http://youtu.be/WMGvQ2v-ZRM
D D
Did he not keep Jinky on the bench V Yugoslavia in the W C?
Ps Im with ur dad on that one!!
Sanna, don’t know it IS a player, I do know thanks to Charlotte that the players negotiated a bonus of 5,000 shares for winning the bottom division in Scottish football.
2 + 2 = a nice stake for the fixed odds for Ian Black on Saturday.
jude and tonyd
I would not believe Hugh Keevins info on the day of the week
Kenny was dropped as he was about to equal George Young’s record of 34 consecutive appearances for Scotland. Everyone bar Hugh knows that was the reason. When Kenny was dropped, he had just started to play well for Scotland. Ormond could have justifiably dropped him at various stages in his first 25 caps when KD was not reproducing his Celtic form.
At the time, Ormond issued a cover story that Kenny needed a break. It was unconvincing then and it stinks as a belief now. I am not at all surprised to find an Uncle Tim like Hughie swallowing that story and repeating it.
BTW, it was not Willie Ormond’s decision. He was told to do it and he is guilty only of lacking a backbone.
By Jings….Ena…!
Stay Away Fae They ‘Dirty Blondes’..
Wontcha..?
Still….Laughin’
Which Sevco players cashed in their 5,000 share bonus today at 15:08 & 15:12, do they know something we don’t?
Would this be insider dealing?, tut tut
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShareTrades.asp?shareprice=RFC&share=rangers_int
15:12:02 50.00 5,000 Sell* 50.00 52.00 2,500 O
15:08:36 50.00 5,000 Sell* 50.00 52.00 2,500 O
Allegedly..
“Excluding Rangers retail the coffers will be empty in Q1 next year but there must be a mechanism for extracting cash from Rangers Retail ( probably dividends) but I have no info of the quantum and timing of this cash.”
What is wrong with the word “amount”, quantum for gawds sake
quan·tum
Noun
A discrete quantity of energy proportional in magnitude to the frequency of the radiation it represents.
An analogous discrete amount of any other physical quantity, such as momentum or electric charge.
Synonyms – quantity – amount – number
jude
I think Jinky was an unused sub in all 3 WC ties in 1974
!!Bada Bing!!
21:47 on 11 September, 2013
Allegedly..
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Apologies you are correct.
TSD
Still not one single recruit.
You’re wasting more energy than Ricky Martin’s groupies.
Exiled TIm- interesting stuff. They are seeing the facts in some ways even if they are being wildly optimistic regarding retail/ sponsorship.
Perhaps the preparation for the inevitable (admin or savage cuts) has begun.
Rangers are Dead, short live The Rangers……
angelgabriel,
I was flying to San Francisco on route to Vegas at the very time of the Twin Towers
attack,i ended up in Edmonton for 3 days before being able to enter America,am currently watching a documentary on the NYFD on national geographic,unbelievable bravery shown by so many of them that day
tigertim
21:47 on 11 September, 2013
“Excluding Rangers retail the coffers will be empty in Q1 next year but there must be a mechanism for extracting cash from Rangers Retail ( probably dividends) but I have no info of the quantum and timing of this cash.”
What is wrong with the word “amount”, quantum for gawds sake
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You’re not thinking outside the box nor indeed blue skying this thing going forward……..
You really ought to rationalise your human resources.
ManagementSPeakCSC
tigertim
Them words make him sound intelligent so they do……..
No being much cop when it comes to the financial side of things, my interpretation of that tells me they are well and truly fecked >}
Unless they sell some amount of oversized sevco tops that is
HH
When I jumped into my taxi at central station this morning I looked at the firefighter statue outside of the hotel and said an extra prayer for those bravesouls of 9/11..
RobertTressell:
“Lets see how it pans out”