As far as Armageddons go, this one will surely be known as the Amiable Nursemaid of all Armageddons. The kind that not so much wipes everyone out, but buys them a meal, then takes them to a show and onto a nightclub.
Sky has renewed their deal to cover the Scottish Premier League after Our Man sorted them out yesterday. They will show a handful of Scottish Football League games as part of the deal, a nice quid-pro-quo for SPL clubs for their annual contribution to the lower leagues.
Delicious irony: those SFL rights are worth more to each SPL club than they are to any SFL club.
Chief harbinger of doom, Neil Doncaster, will, on the one hand, be relieved that there is still income to pay his wages. On the other hand, he must surely be embarrassed at the spectacularly in accurate scenario he portrayed to SFL clubs, and to several people in the media. Did he embark on a flamboyant bluff or did he simply not know what he was talking about?
Remember, why we are here in the first place… Our good causes this year are The Haven Centre in Blantyre, Oscar Knox Neuroblastoma Appeal, Martin Chambers Ecuador Trust and Aberdour Primary School Parents’ Association.
We have already distributed over £2000 thanks to the sale of a Joseph Gormley painting back in April. We have two further fantastic paintings by Joseph; one of Scott Brown and one of Henrik Larsson. We also have a wonderful signed Neil Lennon print by the artist Gary Brandham.
The items are being raffled on ebay right now for the price of a £1 ticket. Winners will be drawn at the CQN Open on Friday night. There will be further raffles and auctions on Friday night with some excellent golfing and other sporting activities been donated by the Celtic family. Perhaps the pick is a limited edition canvas print of John Thomson, donated by the John Thomson Memorial Committee. There are only 22 of these in the entire world, representing the 22 years of John’s life.
This is a unique opportunity to win three great pieces of Celtic memorabilia, items which would normally be pushed out of the reach of most people at auction. Tickets cost £1, buy as many as you like, but participate. This is what your club is all about!
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GG Russian
Well he was for his Lounger
proudbhoy on 1 August, 2012 at 04:15 said:
Spiers usually crap
I thought I read here last week we had sold 43k season books ? That was week ago . Any one have update on that figure ?
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Jobo if you’re around, can you provide an update on that figure of around 43k, that was about mid June if memory serves me right, I’d guess well over 45,000 ST’s…….
HH
Good morning all from a damp but fairly bright looking East Kilbride. It’s all about tonight!
Vmhan – a few weeks ago the facility to purchase a season ticket online was changed so I can no longer see a seating plan of the stadium. I’m unsure of the numbers sold.
Jobo
The fiascos of the death and attempted reanimation of the Huns has buried forever Spiers’ reputation as a good journalist.
He’s a bit more intelligent than Jackson etc, but his biases are similar: he cannot see past the Huns and views the entire game from a Hun viewpoint.
I wearied of his “I’m the only sane person in this crazy world of bigots” act a long, long time ago. The fact is, the Hun Crisis was Scotland’s Watergate and he added precisely zero to the story.
A story made for him and he didn’t have the courage to go for it.
Just re-read the Spiers “article”
Ooooft! Patronising or what?
“In the same letter he aimed a barb at ‘newco’ Rangers when he spoke about Celtic’s “125 unbroken years” of history. In truth, the Celtic chief should probably leave that sort of stuff to the stands and the message-boards.”
Or maybe he should leave it to journalists to do their job and point out the truth, eh Graeme? Graeme…?
Jobo thanks back to guess work, I’ll go for 47,000 ST,s
And Greens new team in Div 3, 470 loyal ST holders…..
Whistle while ye work :>)
Just passed Kevin Barry quality bakers, tickles me every time I see it …..
HH
Proudbhoy, I have a son out in Perth, been there about 16 months now, thousands of Celts out there I’m told, eldest son is in surfers paradise on the gold coast.
HH
Re any punishment 2012 fc have received .
The only punishment they got was FORCED on the powers that be by US the fans .
They would have been sitting pretty right now in the spl with CG snickering about how low their debt is compared to the rest .
Regan and his cohorts will set the leagues up next term to allow 2012 fc to gain entry to the top Div quicker than they would had they been ANY other club .
IMO the blatant corruption of our game will continue as long as a certain club has any tenuous links to Scottish football
Competitive Record v Finnish Opposition
16/09/1970 EC1/1 KPV KOKKOLA H W 9-0 Hood 3 (45 secs, 23, 36 pen), Hughes (15), McNeill (22), Johnstone (38), Wilson 2 (54, 70), Davidson (60) Att – 39,744
This was the only match I can actually remember my dad predicting Celtic would win. It remains the biggest margin of victory I have witnessed.
30/09/1970 EC1/2 KPV KOKKOLA A W 5-0 Wallace 2 (26, 46), Callaghan (35), Davidson (51), Lennox (72) Att – 5,096
19/09/1973 EC1/1 TPS TURKU A W 6-1 Callaghan 2 (1, 88), Hood (23), Johnstone (60), Connelly (78 pen), Deans (87) Att – 3,055
03/10/1973 EC1/2 TPS TURKU H W 3-0 Deans (20), Johnstone 2 (24, 53) Att – 15,969
14/09/2000 UEFA HJK HELSINKI H W 2-0 Larsson 2 (14, 25) Att – 40,454
28/09/2000 UEFA HJK HELSINKI A L 1-2 AET Sutton (107) Att – 6,530
P 6 W 5 D 0 L 1 F 26 A 3
‘GG on 1 August, 2012 at 06:27 said:
I’ve heard that idea floated by one or two recently. Not a bad shout.
3-0
tonight put the game beyond doubt
my team
fraser
matthews charlie lustig izzy
wanyama ledley kayal
sammy hooper forrest
good morning from a dreich paisley.
listened to SSB last night and found it strange that one of the main topics was the price of a kids season ticket at Celtic park.
My understanding of the pricing system for the kids tickets is, that in previous seasons it has been £129.00 to start with and there was an OPT OUT clause for the rangers games. This allowed the club at an early part of the season to gauge how many tickets they had available for these 2 games, which allowed them to sell them and recoup the difference to the £50 ticket.
This year there is no rangers, therefor the ticket is £129. As far as i am concerned, great value. 19 home games, 1 CL qualifier and a friendly, taking the friendly aside we are getting 20 competative games for £6.45 a game. I have bought 1 for my son ( 3rd year, 2 previous being £50 ) and would encourage these people whoever they are to stop whinging and get out and buy season tickets…..have a look at other clubs prices for kids and factor in it’s Celtic we’re watching. £6.45 a game… great value.
pc67
will the truth be released about the new Sky/ESPN deal? or will the SPL not challenge propaganda
By Craig Swan
1 Aug 2012 00:09
Massive cash blow for SPL as they lose £17m in new TV deal
AFTER weeks of negotiations a new five-year Sky agreement has been clinched but it’s well short of the millions on offer when Rangers were in the SPL.
THE collapse of Rangers has cost the SPL a massive £17million from one TV
deal alone.
After weeks of negotiations the game’s top flight finally clinched a new five-year
Sky agreement yesterday but it’s well short of the millions on offer when Rangers were in the SPL.
Last year Sky and the country’s leading clubs had settled on £80m over five years but the contracts were never signed. And it’s believed the deal will give the SPL only £63m over a similar period.
But from that figure £9m will have to be paid to the SFL over the next three years and then £4m over the remaining two years of the deal.
That, of course, means several SPL clubs are still facing financial hardship.
With Rangers in the Third Division the SFL were able to sell their TV rights to the SPL for just more than £1m a year for the next three years and that fee will have to come out of the new Sky deal.
The SPL must also pay a £2m settlement fee – agreed when the top clubs broke away in 1998 – every year and that, too, will be taken out of the new telly package.
So, with SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster and Celtic chief Peter Lawwell, who led the negotiating team, having agreed a new package worth just less than £13m a year the amount to be spread among the 12 top clubs is actually only around £10m a year for the next three years.
For the remaining two years of the deal the figure will be closer to £11m, although there will be clauses in the new agreement which will allow for an increase should Rangers win promotion every season for the next three.
Good morning CQNers,
There has been a lot of discussion around the need for an experienced new centre half and in all honesty I can’t disagree, but what we also need is a goalkeeper who helps his defence and is someone in whom the defence trust implicitly.
Fraser Forster has shown he’s a good shot-stopper but he’s still to prove he’s got the aura that all the best goalkeepers have, an aura that tells everyone they own the penalty area and that means getting off his line to help his defence.
Tonight we need to see a Fraser who has developed a poise, a self-belief and imposing presence that oozes defiance with a touch of arrogance, someone the defenders know will back them up.
Question: What have these two sums got in common?
1. £132,857,142
2. £155,000,000
Well, the 1st figure was the original average cost of a GB&NI London Olympic medal and the 2nd figure represents the cost if the medals target is reduced by 10.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/31/team-gb-olympic-gold-medal
It makes you question the values of a society that is prepared to spend such sums on the Olympics yet still insists on enforcing guidelines that limit the NHS to supplying incontinent patients with a maximum of 3 pads a day.
pedrocaravanachio67 on 1 August, 2012 at 07:44 said:
Well said, £6 a game value indeed
Cinema…….. tenpin bowling…….how much for a visit to these places? just paid for a session for my nephew at Glasgow climbing centre £13 for 1 session
It should have been handled better i accept that
Craig Swan
Blantyre boy doing bad 0((
Top of the morning to you all from a bright Fife, drying out from yet another night of heavy rain.
Italiabhoy has got Spier’s number but we should not be too critical of him. He is after all a journalist who must tailor his opinions to the demands of his paymaster. He could afford to act the liberal intellectual with the Times but since they gave him the bum’s rush he has had to set his sights lower and this is why he is now occupying the ground once held by that master of alliteration Darryl Broadfoot.
It could get worse if he gets the Traynor gig after the rotund one gets his marching orders from the Record.
All journalists are prostituting their services to the highest bidder. John Swinton got it right when he concluded a short speech with these words:
“We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
With a few notable exceptions such as John Pilger the media whores are pretty much all the same.
http://rense.com/general76/hourn.htm
Sticking my neck out a wee bit here, but my prediction for tonight . . .
Celtic 4-0 HJK
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ProudBhoy..Said:
Theres probably around 4 csc in oz Alone. Celtic should be in contact on how we can help out here.
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Ermmmm Your a Wee bit out with Your Calculations PB..
Melbourne alone has FOUR CSC’s
But your Point is Valid..
Summa
PS.. Are You a Accountant..;0(
Good morning from a cloudy Manchester.
Have we signed anyone yet?
Have we won a gold medal yet?
Morning all. Wet and wild here in North Ayrshire.
Truman Capote RIP.
I see Regan has raised his head above the parapet. Hardly overly critical about Green and McCoist considering what they have had to say. Mind you, he at least broke cover. Where is Ogilvie?
Stuart Regan
“They have a conditional membership, they’re close to getting that converted into a full membership, and then it’s down to the club and the new board to take the club forward.
“The governing body then has a responsibility to treat Rangers as we would treat any other club, and move on.”
Is granting a conditional membership in the SFA rules Stuart?
Stuart McCall on SSN on how difficult it will be to overturn last nights 2-0 lose.
“if we get an early goal over there. I remember Scholes scoring two against Scotland and then we scored one against them at Wembley”
Aye but Stuart, Scotland still lost 2-1.
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous Hillbillies the day?
Beginning to get excited , what a few days ahead
Big game to night also picking up my CQN badges
Golf clubs all cleaned, bought the expensive golf balls,the ones that are guaranteed to go straight and travel for miles roll on Aberdour on Friday, looking forward to meeting so many CQN bhoys
Then back to paradise on Saturday to see a celtic hero unfurl the flag to a full house
Oh it’s great to be a Tim aren’t we so lucky
Morning fholks ,
I love the smell of a CL (qualifier) day in the morning – nothing like the beginning of that knot in your stomach. And , after all that , I’m gonna miss it
:-(
Therefore , I have a parent+child ticket going for tonight. 405 (North stand – Upper – right on the half-way line). If you’re interested , drop me a line to sannabhoy @ thekanofoundation.com
FAO . The London Bhoys , i’ve checked my travel options , and Yucatan is 3 changes and about 80-90 mins each way for me on public transport . Will need to find another option.
With regard to the child tickets/opt out debate ,Kingoh spoke on our behalf last night. While we agree that £129 represents good value , it’s going to have a knock-on effect on us at The Kano Foundation . We increased our allocation this season from 50 (41+9adult) to 62 (52+10) on the understanding/assumption that the £50 book option would remain. It doesn’t take a genius to do the maths. Our book budget for next season will have to be revised from approx £6K to over £10K – a massive increase that we can only meet be either going to back to the supporters/donors (again) or by reducing our allocation and denying some of the kids (the next generation of supporter) the opportunity to experience what we take for granted – Celtic @ Celtic Park .
We have 40 kids coming along tonight , some of whom have never been to Celtic Park , a lot of them have never been on a European night .
Hopefully , once the sums are done for next season , Celtic will find a way to balance the books and protect the legacy for the next generation of Celtic supporters.
OK. That turned into more of a ‘soap-box oration’ than i intended so a final HH and remember , P+C going free for toinights game .
Sanna
After a busy summer workin’ out, ole Goldstar10 gets ready to tear up the links at Aberdour.
Rangers Tax Case has wrapped up.
Well done to this beacon of Internet bampottery.
18 months of fact and forensic investigation.
Well done.
There’s a sense of unease in the Spiers household today, a sense of having missed the boat, a hint of gutlessness that permeates the walls and chintz curtains and as the new season unfolds perhaps one of the most challenging and interesting in the history of Scottish football a sense of being on the outside looking in.
A sense of how could I let some internet bampots write the biggest story of corruption in World Football how could I remain a nervous bedwetter in these times of opportunity and change?
And so as one who has completed back the wrong horse in a big race contemplates his coupon in a grubby mirror the not so bold Graham decides to continue backing more losers for the rest of the race card.
What could he do now to take the attention away from him as a loser and focus it back on him, of course he could claim to have inside knowledge of the going ons at Celtic Park and even more bizarre claim to understand the thoughts and feelings of “the more discerning Celtic Supporter”
Claiming now that we and indeed Neil Lennon will be even more nervous about our season without the big boys of football Sevco in the top division and that we are surely all quaking in our boots at the prospect of facing up to the challenge of qualifying for Europe.
Spiers unsure of his position any more in football cobbles together very few facts, a whole clutch bag of speculation and throws in a little Celtic baiting to play to the orange gallery just in case they should ever forgive him for his trecherous behaviour in years gone past.
In his condescending supremacist arrogance he then dismisses Europes second competition as the Ugly Betty of the two top gigs and of course hinting from his perfumed arse that we would have in fact failed should we ONLY qualify.
There are not enough words in Graham’s verbose claptrap to represent just how far he has fallen as a journalist and indeed as a man, his complete lack of courage in tackling the BIG story has left him with only bitter sniping at Celtic to earn his daily bread…
Graham Spiers FAiled Journo coming to a drunken back seat of a taxi near you soon….
” I coulda been a contender you know”
“Aye very good Graham where ye gaun'”
lionroars67@08:14
They are making it up as they go along. He also says he is “doing what is best for Scottish football”
How is breaking your own rules doing what is best for the national game?
I mentioned to a friend yesterday about the complete silence from the Tartan Army. A threatened boycott of Scotland’s WC qualifiers in the event of SevCo gaining a full licence on Friday, would send Reagan, Ogilvie et al into a state of apoplexy
Just exactly where are the TA when the people who love the game in this country need them most?
Regarding speirs comments about the atmosphere at celtic ,i was up there last week,and speirs has a point,the place is to quiet,this bhoy started to talk about not having to play rangers this season,my response was to say to him ,this season without rangers will be dire.even as i type this article ,i have this feeling like being depressed ,cant be bothered going to watch celtic,is there any other celtic supporter out there who has the same feelings as me.and i will finish with this ,i think lennon and lawell dont help matters either,with there comments. from a fed up celtic supporter,
Buy your season tickets bhoys.
Lets stick it right up Spiers bahooki!
timbhoy2
Well said!
I too am totally fed up with the prospect of having to play against the top clubs in the world instead of thrilling to (almost losing) exciting cup matches against mighty Brechin and looking forward to edge-of-the -seat league encounters with Stenhousemuir who are so significant I dont even know if they play in Div 3 or not.
Wish I was a hun too!
HH
timbhoy2 on 1 August, 2012 at 08:32 said:
Ah you’re one of the more discerning Celtic supporters the banger Spiers was talking about…
timbhoy2,
Call yourself a Celtic supporter? I guess it takes all kinds. For me, every season without playing thon deid team will be a gift from the hods. They are gone and long may that last. We don’t need them, never have.
As someone who attended their first derby game in 1975 (1-1 draw, Tom McAdam scored for us), I honestly won’t miss our games against them.
At least for this season and possibly next. A couple of years out will be a good thing IMO as the 7 games of 10/11 season (5 in about 6-7 weeks) was too much and actually put me off the fixture.
I won’t miss the 2 hours of rascism and sectarianism we are subjected to (at least) twice a season at CP.
On the field the pressure to win every game at all costs should be relieved for a period that will now allow us to give our youth a chance. What’s the point in winning 3 successive U19 league and cup doubles if next to no one from these teams are given a chance in the 1st team.
One year, possibly two without games against definitely has its advantages for me. Then think about the hype, anticipation, sick feeling in your gut when they eventually resume.
Ignore Speirs he is looking for a reaction for tonights SSB show.
Club membership scheme, what ever happened to it ?
Big game tonight, looking for a 3 goal cushion, the worry being of course who is going to score them.
KTF
Parkheadcumsalford- Gore Vidal?
DBBIA/MyraBreckenridgeCSC