Ronny Deila has been talking about a treble since early in the season, far too early for my liking. History suggests that trebles are notoriously difficult to win, even for dominant teams. The league is usually won by the best team but it’s hard to win every game in two cup competitions, no matter how good you are.
Despite this, I’ll not bet against Ronny getting his wish. He needs to win four games cup games, three of which would be at neutral Hampden, with only one game, the Scottish Cup quarter final, possibly being played away from home.
The cynic among you will, therefore, expect an away draw, possibly in some far-flung end of the country, like Inverness. My money is on a trip to Easter Road. I’ll be happy to avoid Tannadice, scene of our last defeat and a place they’re understandably feeling sort over the loss of Stuart Armstrong and Gary Mackay-Steven.
People of Kirkcaldy: that whole 1994-Ibrox thing, forget about it, we’re OK.
Well done to Celtic for highlighting their position as the least likely football team to financially default, according the US rating agency, Standards & Poor’s. Commercial and ticket income across Scottish football has fallen in recent years but that was only going to result in Armageddon if those in charge of clubs put an inflated sense of their own importance ahead of paying bills.
See the photo above sent by Mary’s Meals last week of the school kitchen we funded at CQ10. Work is already underway to raise funds for a fourth CQN kitchen in Malawi after the CQN11 St Patrick’s Dinner, on Friday 13 March at the Kerrydale Suite. Email me for ticket, celticquicknews@gmail.com
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starry plough
14:27 on
9 February, 2015
Turkeybhoy
Aye ah thought ye would be lurkin’ oan yer terrace:))
Aye,but I bet you did not know which one of the 5.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.Its great to be a rich Tim.
big-cup-winners
It’s yours mate.
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The Rangers Bra..
No Support..
And The Tits Keep Ending up Out of the Cups..
001
Turkeybhoy
You are The Great Desmondo and I claim my five Dinar:))
jungle vip – you’re making a value judgement [while referring to the law, even stating elsewhere stating that ‘people have an obligation to obey the law. No more than that.’]
Yes. I’m making a value judgement that, in a free society, we have an obligation to obey the law. If I understand you correctly, you seem to believe we have a moral obligation to maximise our tax liability?
Good luck with that.
So what if (with the stress being on that last word) the ‘top 1%’ [I presume you mean ‘top 15 of earners’, or maybe you do actually mean to imply something else] pay 25% of all tax?
Well, for one thing, it contradicts the idea that the well-off don’t pay tax. They pay huge sums of tax. They’re keeping the British government open for business.
Do they work significantly harder than their fellow countrymen who earn a mere fraction of what they earn?
In general, yes. To get to the top 1% of earners, you have to work bloody hard. Your average employee goes home at 5pm and switches off. Top earners are more likely to be glued to their Blackberries till ungodly hours, or working on a presentation for the next senior management meeting, or putting together a big damn spreadsheet while those with fewer responsibilities are watching Corrie.
Businesses expect blood, sweat and tears from their top earners. There’s no red carpet unfurled to you just because you went to the right schools.
Not that it really matters how hard you work, for we don’t pay people based on effort. We pay them based on results, and in accordance with supply and demand for their skills.
The guy who digs a trench with a teaspoon might put more effort in than a brain surgeon does in his job. But it’s the brain surgeon who’ll get the big bucks. And rightly so.
I’d go further to suggest that 99% of that top 1% enjoyed an immensely privileged upbringing, giving them access to resources and opportunities beyond the dreams of all but the most fortunate of their fellow citizens, thereby virtually assuring them of the feted life to which they have grown accustomed and which, by law, ought to be beyond the rest of us plebs.
So we should punish successful people out of class envy, eh? What could go wrong? (thumbsup)
I’d just like to thank Paul 67 for tempting fate
Philvis – your figure is wrong. The top earners do not pay 25% of all tax. It’s 25% of income tax. Which is a lot less than 25% of all tax. A whole lot less.
You need to talk about tax as,a proportion of income for it to mean anything and,if you do so you will find that the less well off pay far more than the wealthy. Hence the outcry when income tax goes up but not a peep when VAT or other indirect taxation is raised – it’s much easier to avoid or absorb when you are a top.bracket tax payer – that is,if your accountant let’s you pay it at all.
CQN not lazy right wing propaganda…..
Thumbs down
Been away for a while, so just chipping in with a few remarks.I’m happy with the draw. I want us to play the best teams and play the best football when we play the best teams. Dundee Utd will work us hard and it should be a great test of our credentials.
Alfie Noakes@14.29 – That is a formidable list of fixtures alright! As you say though, really looking forward to it.
McCullough is literally getting away with assault, week in, week out in Scotland. Madden was never going to red card him.This compliance officer guy needs to step in. Either that, or opposing players will take the law into their own hands and get their retaliation in first (which may be no bad thing in his case!)
Marti
hamiltontim
I’ll take one if ok ?
There’s a strong chance of a second-tier team reaching the final. Do the Cup runners-up still qualify for Europe?
Hamiltontim
Great, thanks.
Just watched highlights of RR easy victory yesterday . How in the name of God did mcculloch stay on the park ., and how in the name of God was 5 mins added . Answers on a postcard .
I have just read, on another blog, the most absurdly paranoid conspiracy theory ever, and it’s from a Celtic supporter.
Hibs and QOS are getting easy draws just to prolong their season and affect their league campaigns.
There’s just no hope for some people :-)
roberttressell – I know my friend in Celtic.
That’s why I said income tax.
You need to talk about tax as,a proportion of income for it to mean anything
Completely disagree. What we should care about is outcomes.
It doesn’t benefit us any if a man who has nothing but a pocketful of cat hair to his name pays 99% of it in tax. He is not contributing more to the common treasury than a billionaire who pays “only” 10% tax.
It’s the total sums of money that should concern us, not the share of income. We can’t pay nurses and teachers with good intentions and warm fuzzies.
(thumbsup)
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Tom..
Keep a Eye on Falkirk..
Then watch Rangers Media shout..”Houston We have a Problem”
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PEDROCARAVANACHIO67
Nae luck,bud. Second.
But yer camel’s toe comment will live long in my memory.
Robert t,
I could be wrong but I’m sure philvis originally said ‘income tax’
Jungle vip has changed the goal posts to being ‘all tax’
philvisreturns
This ain’t gona add anything to the debate, but……..
Why did the guy have a pocketful of cat hair in the first place ?
thetimreaper
They’ve gone I’m afraid mate but if Pedro only takes one then the other one is yours.
See that football genius,Mark Wotte Complete Prat,has said the SFA have failed The Monkeys.He says they should have taken more of an interest in them and not let them get into financial difficulties.They should also be put into the top tier with Hibs and Hearts.
There ye are.
BCW
Send me your number mate hamiltontim@hotmail.co.uk
Turkeybhoy
Did Coco Wotte give a reason why?? Or just that the Zombies should be in the top league, obviously Mr Football hasn’t seen them playing!
starry plough
15:01 on
9 February, 2015
Turkeybhoy
You are The Great Desmondo and I claim my five Dinar:
5 Turkish Lira.I use them to light my cigars.
Scottish Cup odds from Paddy Power
Celtic 4/5
Inverness CT 7/2
Dundee United 4/1
Hibernian 15/2
Falkirk 33/1
Queen of the South 33/1
Raith 50/1
Spartans 1000/1
Berwick 1000/1
starry plough
15:29 on
9 February, 2015
Turkeybhoy
Did Coco Wotte give a reason why?? Or just that the Zombies should be in the top league, obviously Mr Football hasn’t seen them playing!
Yes.”For the benefit of Scottish football”!!!!!!!!!!!!
turkeybhoy
15:26 on 9 February, 2015
See that football genius,Mark Wotte Complete Prat,has said the SFA have failed The Monkeys.He says they should have taken more of an interest in them and not let them get into financial difficulties.They should also be put into the top tier with Hibs and Hearts.
There ye are..
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Are you really surprised mate , you know what they say , if you lie down with the dogs ,you’ll get up with fleas . And to be honest , I always thought this guy looked the Rangers material
Turkeybhoy
Careful with your moustache whilst lighting the ole Havanas:)
For the benefit of “Scottish Football” ah that old chesnut…deary me.
FTSFA
Looking at fixture list, should we beat Inter we will have 12 games in 39 days starting this Wednesday with next round of EL being played either side of League Cup Final.
Isn’t Armageddon wonderful?
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
15:22 on
9 February, 2015
philvisreturns
This ain’t gona add anything to the debate, but……..
Why did the guy have a pocketful of cat hair in the first place ?
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and was the hair still attached to the cat at the time??
we need to know…
!!Bada Bing!! 13:28
Spanner on SSN,desperately trying to ease the pain of his heroes getting pumped,he said it wasn’t really a shock Raith Rovers won at Poundland…..
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He’s probably right. It’s basically a team beating a team four places higher in the league.
For two years they – assisted by the msm – tried to kid on that they were one of the top two teams in the land and were only out of the top league because of” “punishment” from their “enemies”.
Now they are 19 points behind a Hearts team that finished 76 points behind Celtic last season it makes it difficult to keep up this myth. Not that the msm are likely to stop however!
Monaghan1900
11:25 on
9 February, 2015
“Agree with all posters re. wanting to play Real in final, when they did play us in Glasgow we only lost 0 1.” [Second leg was tight too.]
*FFS they were gubbed 6-0….4 doon at half time…..To be fair though they played Real aff the park in the 1st leg only to lose out tae a last minute Ferenc Puskas goal…….overheard an oul hun say that he fancied their chances in the Bernabeu as Real would have to come out in attack in front of their own fans…..still urinating myself laughing at that.
Philvis @ 15:04
I know you to be a clever guy, Philvis, so I’m going to hazard a guess that you’re misrepresenting me: at no time have I ever held a view that one has any sort of responsibility (moral or otherwise) to pay more tax than one ought.
Nor (despite there being some evidence in the public domain to suggest that several (not-just-wealthy-but-seriously-rich) family dynasties have gone to great lengths to avoid paying tax on their incomes) have I ever suggested that well-off types don’t pay tax.
The tax system in the UK is unfair: for purely selfish, party political reasons; it uses a stick for the poor and a carrot for the wealthy.
Likewise, I understand that very many high earners work ‘bloody hard’. But so do very many more low earners, with limited means to lift themselves out of relative poverty.
You know this to be true, but you favour a system in which top earners are incentivized, while low earners (and others unable to earn much at all) are often characterized as ‘undeserving poor’.
Perhaps there would be a few more people willing to put together ‘big damn spreadsheets’ if they were getting paid an hourly rate several orders of magnitude greater that the national minimum wage … then receiving a tax-free bonus as well.
And don’t kid yourself that there’s no ‘red carpet’ out there.
You know fine well that where one is born has an enormous effect on one’s life chances: if born (like you) into an aspiring, white middle class family, with encouragement and opportunities aplenty, you stand a massively better chance of winding up in a top-paying career, meeting a nice partner from a well-to-do family, in a well paid profession, and so on.
That’s got nothing whatsoever to do with the supply and demand most young people will encounter when they reach their late teens or early twenties.
I’ll give you a very simple, real life example I observed recently: I work near a building with a number of stock-broker, legal and accountancy firms. Last autumn, as 4th year kids around the country were trying to fix up work placements, almost every morning for a few weeks I saw parents escorting their children into these same offices to help arrange work placements for their offspring. What sort of school uniforms do you think were worn by the kids in this procession?
The same scene was doubtless being played out in countless businesses around the country.
So don’t kid yourself that connections don’t confer further advantage on the already advantaged.
Few, if any, of those getting work experience at Asda, Yarrows, Scotrail, their local school or library, or social work department are ever going to have a chance to rack up 7 figure salaries for working bloody hard over a blackbury or spreadsheet, or in an operating theatre.
Nor have suggested punishing successful people: so you’re barking up the wrong tree there, too …
VIP
Anyone know where the development game against thistle tonight is getting played.
CQN is nice place to be in these days. Don’t know about anyone else but loving football just now.
As someone who started going to games with my mates, and no my dad, in the 80s (Real QF big cup to be exact) watching the highlights of a packed pitrodrie at the weekend, and the big games against utd, remind me of the days when scottish football was last rated number one in Europe.
It did actually happen – we were top nation in Europe and Huns were struggling to get above St Mirren in front of 9000 crowds. it’s early days but I think we might be making moves back in that direction. hail hail!
Look beyond the headlines of the Wotte article and the Agenda is clear.
Wotte reckons the Premiership is too small and there should be a 16-team top flight.
What were the odds that we would be going to Tannadice? Odds on, I imagine.
A tough draw for Celtic. Games against Dundee United at Tannadice are always tough.
But I’d rather play United at Tannadice than Spartans at Celtic Park. Last week was a reminder that games against lower-league opponents come under the ‘no-win’ bracket for Celtic.
At least there will be genuine enthusiasm and excitement for the United game.
ennon’s passion
15:48 on
9 February, 2015
Anyone know where the development game against thistle tonight is getting played.
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i heard airdrie