I’ve never known Celtic to subsidise an away match ticket before. Put aside for a second thoughts of thanking the fans for their support during a difficult period (which are valid), I like this move for the message it sends to those in the dressing room, as well as the stands.
We are in a league race, and we want to win it. You can understand Aberdeen’s razor-sharp appetite. They’ve not won the league in over 30 years, every man, woman and child in their ranks will be forgiving of faults and profuse in praise.
By contrast, this will be our five-in-a-row, the 11th title in 16 years. It will never come close to what we experienced in 1998, when we worshipped the words of Wim Jansen after a late-season home draw against soon-to-be-relegated Hibs.
For many of us, 1998 was our Celtic supporting high point – it meant that much. Hopefully we will never again be in a place where a domestic title has such importance. Instead we need to find techniques to deliver that edge, to remind us of the importance of getting it right in every league season.
I refer to that Hibs game in 1998 often, it felt like a pivotal moment. We were nip and tuck for the title, what would have been an historic 10-in-a-row title, one which would have violated one of Jock Stein’s teams’ records. That day, it felt like the chance was slipping, but there would be no let-up. We bundled our nerves together and moved on.
Telling the world that the club is subsidising fans’ ticket costs is one technique to help deliver a little bit of that focus. Let’s hit the plastic running on Saturday.
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Its Deja vu for me ……
naw talked this much since last year……
See im designated feckin new baby driver….
(Whit dae the daddies naw drive ..ed.)
Would prefer some music ..but open to dialogue lol
H.H.
@Mags ….
If you dont mind me asking …
What dates you in Glasgow?/
H.H
Drambowiecelt on 16th March 2016 12:17 am
April 20th-30th
Quiet tonight bhoys.
Mr Pastry, you about.
We could swap a few insults:)
Bored to feck….insomnia.
HH
From memory I think this investment company has about 6%(don’t quote me on that ) of the overall Celtic FC shares, I wonder if they are aware of RES 12?———————————————-
Celtic. The company has reported a c£4m annual loss (last year £11m profit) but was able to add to its net cash balances, now at £4.7 million. This last factor is important. The company is committed to living within its means; as it needs to in the current straitened circumstances for Scottish football. But note that Celtic still generated revenues of £50m last year. Recent transactions for top tier soccer franchises have taken place at 5.0x revenues or higher. Notionally Celtic might be worth £250m, against its sub £70m market capitalisation. We continue to build our holding in this unique global brand.
http://www.investegate.co.uk/fins-growth-inc-tst–fgt-/prn/annual-financial-report/20151210162035P0FD7/
The greeeeen man ye ra cumnt
youve never seen seelic play sober
and peter liewell rools..
M McG
Look me up when your home. We can sample some horticulture.
Bring Stephen Patrick too.
DD
Count me in on that:)
HH
Oh how we need a Paul McBride QC…
So So Sadly Missed… We would not be where are right now.. Justice would have been done, and seen to have been done.. Nothing more, Nothing less.. Justice.
DRAMBOWIE
No drink for the Green Man.
Im mental as it is.
If i drink the firewater….i will be chained to Devil’s Island:)
Forever:)
HH
TGM
You were first on the guest list. Who could have a surrealist evening without you? :-)
HH
DD
I will look forward to it bud.
Gags left right and centre.
Heavy hilarity….tears rolling down cheeks.
And a massive home made Bong:)
HH
Delaneys Dunky on 16th March 2016 12:22 am
will do. Looking forward to it!
DD
Me and the Scouser were staying in the Dam.
We used to rip the a*** right out of it.
Use to call the bold Magoo at 4am…whisper down the phone in backslang.
The bold yin would turn up a few days later….with his electrical toolkit….and assorted gadgets
Funny as feck….he never smoked, didnt drink, and ran half marathons while he wasnt working:)
Mr Muscle….aye right.
He will escape:)
HH
TGM
Not by Tim Robbins method. More take a warder hostage method. :)
DD
He got a result when they reduced his sentence to 26 years…ffs
One things for sure…that Manchester mob are very wary of Glaswegians now.
They only found two of them….one’s still missing.
They couldnt bully that lad:)
HH
Al Stewart – Roads To Moscow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ZG6tRGMYk
Nostradamus – Al Stewart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa89bt0GZvQ
Grateful Dead – Ripple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFsbAuX9P4w
Jackson Browne – For A Dancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig6X3-9wxlI
Richard & Linda Thompson – A Heart Needs A Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqViJyweNV0
Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot Out the Lights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDZpzJ2KKss
Good Evening.
My contribution to Current Affairs…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPOy7TPjfkE&sns=em
Roll on The Dice.
KTF
quiet
Proudbhoy: The Jim McGuinness programme on RTÉ this Friday at 8.30pm is part of a series where well known people recount their area’s role in the 1916 rising. It was on before but is well worth the watch.
WHITEDOGHUNCH on 16TH MARCH 2016 6:42 AM
quiet
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Is this a library?
There’s only one George Cadette
He puts the ball in the netty…
GOOD MORNING FRIENDS AND A BIG WAKEY WAKEY FROM A DAMP BUT DRY AND CALM OVERHEAD EAST KILBRIDE.
LetsBeAvvinYaCSC
Beautiful day here in Bohemia
My thoughts today are with all the CQNErs who have recently lost someone, or enduring some personal challenges.
HH
and always remember YNWA
Down in englishire these last few weeks. Just a general observation list from the myriad I ialk to.
Posher wealthier city types working at canary wharf think a BREXIT will be great for them along the lines of finance institutions will have a stable location away from EU turmoils to invest money.
Working class people working in Basingstoke earning 2-3 times average Scot believe a BREXIT is good cos it will stop mass immigration to their overcrowded island.
No one wants to talk Celtic. A big city chap did tell me though that Rangers did die cos he lost money in them from an emotional hand me down investment.
Good Morning Bhoys another grey morning in Central Scotland.
Saint Stives,
Just what do Scots think of Brexit. ? The people you mentioned in Englandshire are expressing their opinion, which is their democratic right. The UK government allows this.
The Scottish government however is less democratic. They tell their members, MP’s MSP’s etc what to vote. What to think even. Baaaaaah.
If Jim Sillers is truthful and I have no reason to doubt him . Then many SNP members privately would prefer Brexit, but are too scared to express this due to repercussion and the fact that they will be branded disloyal.
I am undecided. Like many from the posh Glasgow West end to the less posh East End I need to be convinced by argument and practicalities, both ways.
I do not know any big city chaps, or even move in their circles but I do know that the Engineering / Construction Industry from an employee perspective has still to be convinced of EU benefits.
Just ask the Rosyth workers ?
Hail, Hail.
If we leave the EU, it will give bosses carte Blanche to change employment laws.
And not for the benefit of the common working man.
It will be like Victorian times, with Victorian mill owners.
I think we are safer in the EU.
Saint Stivs
Good on the ‘big city gent’ for recognising a truth some on here seem reluctant to accept, with their Sevco coming ‘back’/ ”returning’ nonsense.
Deal on 5pm.co.uk this morning for tickets for a football chat night in Glasgow with Lenny and Alan Brazil later this month. (other voucher company deals are also available!)
Says it will be a ‘fact-filled’ evening.
To city gent standards, hopefully, but I doubt it!
Newradbhoy
But Victorian times were wonderful…….at least that is what I was told at school. Maybe I should ask Old Tim what it was really like :-).
JJ
Former Justice secretary Kenny MacAskill really has foot in mouth disease
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THE Government minister who oversaw the introduction of Scotland’s controversial football laws has said the legislation was necessary as the sport “couldn’t or wouldn’t” address bigotry at games.
Ahead of just the second Old Firm in the last four years, former SNP justice secretary Kenny MacAskill said the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act was not an attack on culture, traditions or heritage but the celebration of terrorism in Northern Ireland in the last 40-plus years.
Writing in today’s Herald, the Edinburgh MSP said those prosecuted under the legislation were “hardly the heirs to the…Tolpuddle martyrs”.
Mr MacAskill added: “Some behaviour has been utterly appalling and others, perhaps, as Monty Python might have said were ‘very naughty boys’. It’s right to let the courts deal with the former and for the Minister to be looking at diversion and education for the latter.”
But one of the country’s most prominent legal figures has said the Act is unnecessary, claiming the laws which existed before its 2012 introduction adequately covered offences caught under the legislation, describing it as “unfair, unnecessary and unworkable”.
Brian McConnachie QC also claimed the Offensive Behaviour Act “invites people to be offended and tells them what it is they are to be
offended by”.
Mr MacAskill’s intervention comes as new efforts are made to repeal the Act, with Scotland’s two main opposition parties calling for it to bne scrapped ahead of the Holyrood elections.
The Herald also revealed how Scotland’s pre-eminent historian Professor Sir Tom Devine had added his voice for calls for the contentious legislation to be scrapped, joining a number of high-profile media personalities, members of the legal profession and academics, as well as Celtic FC.
The most recent statistics show there had been 79 convictions last year under the Act, compared with 15,000 breach of the peace convictions.
But justifying the need for the Act, Mr MacAskill said: “It wasn’t invoked to deal simply with some banter between “fitba” fans. But, because of confrontations on the park and random disorder well away from the ground; the hateful “Famine song” sung and even bullets sent in the post and death threats made.
“It wasn’t just the Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police, but many ordinary people the length and breadth of the land, that wanted full time called.
He said the size and supporter base of Celtic and Rangers meant the two clubs were “always going to be under more scrutiny and face more challenges”, adding. “If football couldn’t or wouldn’t address the issue and with its impact on wider society, it was necessary for the authorities, not just football ones, to act.”
He added: “Those who are being prosecuted are hardly the heirs to the Clydeside Apprentices strike, let alone the Tolpuddle martyrs.
“It’s neither the singing of delightful Irish airs nor an attack on culture or tradition that’s being targeted. It’s often an obsession by some with more recent Northern Irish terrorism.
“Far from the celebration of the Somme or the Easter Rising a century ago, it’s the veneration of those who have killed and slaughtered more recently.”
But Mr McConnachie said the legislation was primary designed to be “a hit” with the public rather than tackle sectarianism, adding: “The Act is capricious. Who knows how many hundreds (maybe even thousands) of people were singing offensive lyrics in Dingwall (Ross County versus Celtic game 2013) yet only Mr. (Joseph) Cairns was prosecuted.
“At the last Old Firm semi final one side in particular were heard singing supposed banned songs. I do not understand there to have been any prosecutions as a result. What is the criteria for who/how many are to be apprehended? Where is the justice in that approach?”
IDS & the DWP reign of terror will get even worse if the Uk decides to leave the EU next up will be the curtailment of your human rights. Caring conservatism is a sham the figures in this are are truly shocking for a supposedly civilized country.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-pension-cuts-linked-rise-7564608#ICID=sharebar_twitter
If Patsy Gallagher had lived, he would have been 125 years of age today.
Would he have been in Ronnie’s strongest 11?
Hail hail
Matt