You asked for it, many of you campaigned for it. All of you debated it, expressed a view on it and now your wish has been granted. The SPL voted 10-1 against parachuting Sevco into the league next season, with only Sevco itself voting for, and the Loyal Resisters abstaining.
Our fellow SPL clubs have spoken “unequivocally”, as have their fans. To be fair to fans of former club, Rangers, many of them wanted no part in this shoddy arrangement.
Having won the argument we must now win the future. As Celtic said in their statement yesterday:
“During Celtic’s long and illustrious 125-year history, there have been periods of difficulty. At these times, our supporters have always stood shoulder to shoulder with the Club. We need our supporters to be with us now, more than ever.
“We know our own supporters will be acutely aware of the significant challenges that lie ahead. We enter next season as Champions of Scotland and look ahead to retaining our title and to making an impact in a European context. We know how difficult this will be and we call on our supporters to join us in tackling these challenges, to take their place at Celtic Park, to invest in the Club and to continue to give us the kind of support for which they are renowned.”
The call has been made. Now, more than any time apart from when Fergus issued a similar call in 1994, you need to step forward and buy a season ticket for the champions and only club in Scotland who have played their entire history in top flight football.
The important debate isn’t about Newco anymore, it’s now about Celtic.
I’ve read the doom and scaremongering this morning, some of which is downright inappropriate. The grassroots fans who raised their voices and brought about this situation now have a responsibility to ensure our common future is successful.
There are many desperate for all or some of the 10 clubs who voted No yesterday to fail. We have to ensure all succeed. The forward plan for Celtic has to be a forward plan for Aberdeen, Dundee United, Hibs, Hearts, Motherwell and the rest.
All of these teams need a solution which allows them play competitive football in front of packed stadiums and to retain the talent they develop well into maturity. Any plan which does not aim for this will fail.
If we achieve this, yesterday’s vote will be the day foundations were laid for a stunning sporting achievement.
More later.
I don’t need to tell any of you about Oscar Knox, the three-year-old who is currently going through chemotherapy. We have all been touched by his photographs and TV appearance, while his dad has kept us up to date on the blog.
If you think our football club is worth stepping forward for, I make no apologies for asking you to dig deep twice today and remember why the entire Celtic project started. Take a read at Oscar’s blog and get involved.
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VP-Will you be in your usual armchair in the bar on Saturday?
Not THAT william of orange obviously but then it’s Sevco we’re talking about not THAT rfc!
Bomber Brown’s chant :
“How happy is the moron,
He doesn’t give a damn,
I wish I were a moron,
My god, perhaps I am!”
Anyone heard the prank calls on YouTube calling Sevco pubs ?
Hilarious.
!!Bada Bing!! on 5 July, 2012 at 14:23 said:
Cheers I’ll mention it. Sometimes Celtic have things like that in place but it is not widely known, somethig else a MS can address.
Re the Inter game.
£15 IMO is a very fair price & £5 for kids superb. If I lived in Scotland I would be at it no problem.
I do feel sorry for the Irish Celtic fans. A Celtic XI is playing in Belfast that day playing cliftonville. I believe cliftonville thought a good few first teamers would be over as it was a free day.
Tickets are on sale at £19 for adults and £14 for kids for what is essentially a kids game. Surely Celtic could have found a different date for this game and sent a few recognised players over.
SffS
“Impeach McCrummoch”
In terms of pricing of tickets for the Inter friendly, I think it’s reasonable.
Celtic will be the biggest losers financially with the death of the huns – albeit we’ll be able to absorb those losses more easily than other SPL teams. This is a way of offsetting those losses.
If 30k season ticket holders (hopeful I know) turn up for the Inter game at £15 a pop, after paying the appearance fee, Celtic stand to recoup roughly the same amount of money that we would’ve expected from an RFC(IA) game at CP – but without the enormous policing costs.
Added to that is the chance to “get our eye in” for the 3rd Qualifying round a few days later against opposition which should be of a higher standard than we’ll meet in those rounds.
All in all, I say it’s the right thing for Celtic to do.
Tombola
Sanna completly agree mate lovely wee wummin. safe journey back home,next time theres a cqn social gathering i would love to go,put some faces to these names that mean so much.OH how i love you all,best thing i ever did was getting timternet.Never has one been so well informed. Rangers are going bust,i heard it here first. Ahhhhhhhhhhh magic.
Today,for the first time in months,I feel reeeelllaaaaxxxeeed…….aaaaah…..feet up.
:-)
hen1rik on 5 July, 2012 at 14:08 said:
Outstanding link………
Hope you are still talking to me….
The second and third division clubs will make more ££££ from having the huns visit twice a season than they’ll get from any trickle down benefit from the sevco huns being allowed straight into the first division, so logic suggests it’s going to be the third division for them.
SFFS
I forgot all about the Cliftonville game – that is disappointing. Hopefully Celtic can go back with a better squad later in the year.
TOmbola
!!Bada Bing!! on 5 July, 2012 at 14:24 said:
VP-Will you be in your usual armchair in the bar on Saturday?
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Should be mate ,God willing and the wife allows me out.
hen1rik on 5 July, 2012 at 14:26 said:
”Anyone heard the prank calls on YouTube calling Sevco pubs ?
Hilarious.”
Let me guess.
You were too overcome by mirth to post a link?
curly on 5 July, 2012 at 12:07 said:
Curly
You wee rascal. You had me completely fooled for a minute. I read back to double check the unpronounceable names of these ‘seers’ before I caught on! Nice one :-))
Seven Fishes Four Steaks-Agree,might be better postponing it ,until we can do the fixture justice mate.HH.
Paul67 et al
Compare and contrast your own positive approach with the surly negativism of the guy who is supposed to be in charge of Scottish football, Stuart Regan. I for one am looking forward to the new season, but rather than playing friendlies, it might be worth considering starting the season with the old group stage League Cup qualifiers with games across the divisions. That won’t happen this year obviously. Regan needs to consider that his own organisation has failed Scottish football, in part because it has, even now, been seen to band over backwards where Rangers FC are concerned. In his latest outburst Regan shows he is more than capable of carrying on that honourable tradition. The only slow lingering death I can see is the one currently being experienced by Rangers itself. The operation was a success, the patient died.
deliasmith on 5 July, 2012 at 14:11 said:
There will have to be a bit of assurances that can be verified over time that clubs will use any extra sharing income to improve the quality of player the sign and it does not simply put more money in an average players pocket.
Also on financial prudence ie that clubs are able to demonstrate that they are living within their means and not just looking for a cheap subsidy to enable bad practices to continue.
The club licensing with some additional tweaks and if actually policed properly by the SFA is an excellent vehicle for this and I would make acceptance of an improved licensing regime an absolute condition of any wider sharing agreement.
VP-Might venture down,will see if Kittoch can look out his passport :} ,saying that,is the circus not in town this Saturday?
Does anybody else think its odd that the BBC still have RFC (IL) on the Scottish Premier League page? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/scottish-premier
I seem to remember that their application was not accepted. ;-)
Natknow
Was that Michael Murphy of St Pats Coatbridge?
Surely the SFA and the SPL are heavily conflicted with the financial armageddon that they predict for Scottish football. Together with the SPL also having Rangers minded EBT beneficiaries in strategic positions I can understand why the decision rests with the SFL. Why both these bodies can still intimidate the SFL having presided over the financial vandalism in the first place is unacceptable. With the SFL also having participated in drawing up these plans with direct restriction of business threats. I wonder what would happen if enough clubs also went to the court of session due to an overt corrupt qaungo being in Situ. With UEFA not getting involved until the police or politics get involved.
I think the majority of the SPL chairman along with the respective boards of the bodies want to see a revitalized Rangers play in the SFL 1
Scottish public wants to see a clean game.
Which of these two camps will win we will find out.
I expect to see a campaign from all those SPL chairman advocating the compromise. I also expect to see lots of clubs expressing their true financial situation more starkly.
I believe that the thought behind it is to ressurrect them as soon as possible before the police and the politicians get involved so that that entity is already established.
HH
Highlandtim,
RFC(IA) still ha a license and full membership, neither have been revolked, wonder why
Highland Tim,
No actually Rangers FC PLC (in administration) still holds an SPL share – the application to transfer it to Sevco was rejected.
There is, if anyones interested a simple two worded solution to the apparently apocalyptic financial armageddon about two befall our national game. A solution that may see grounds swell again the length and breadth of the top flight.
Two words.
Ready?
Standing. Area.
auldheid,
the memorandum of association in the sfa handbook, is this being used to justify the ongoing corruption
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on 5 July, 2012 at 14:38 said:
Natknow
Was that Michael Murphy of St Pats Coatbridge?
The one and only, the truly original…indeed!
!!Bada Bing!! on 5 July, 2012 at 14:35 said:
VP-Might venture down,will see if Kittoch can look out his passport :} ,saying that,is the circus not in town this Saturday?
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just asked our Apprentice boy,he says ,walk shouldn’t be back till
4ish ,plenty of time to get our missiles ready :o)
think I go and buy a 125th year polo for Saturday.
Starry – dont worry will be back to negative self soon enough.
GSCbhoy – cheers – I am so chuffed you and others were proven correct. I was really fearful of having to give up Celtic – it felt awful.
Ten Men Won The League on 5 July, 2012 at 14:18 said:
Hen1rik@14:12
@BBCBMcLauchlin: SFL meeting on where Rangers Newco will play next season will now be held on Tuesday 10th July
They wouldn’t want to hear bad news on the 12th now would they? :)
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LoL.
The Chieftans ‘O’Sullivan’s March’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vffqnYUyFVQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
archdeaconsbench
A good call.I will raise you two more words
BE ER
;)
HH
stflannansbg on 5 July, 2012 at 14:21 said:
thomthethim CQN (genuine) Badge Wearer on 5 July, 2012 at 13:35 said:
stflannansbg,
Your timeline and experiences mirror my own.
St. Agnes, Lambhill.
From your list of deviant refs, you omitted Jack Mowat.
St Ninians Kirkintilloch: wan good guy wance, Scar face Phillips two penalties against the Huns now NewCO
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*****
whether for health or other reasons, Hugh Phillips retired shortly after the ’65 LC Final.
I suspected “other reasons”.
A nephew, with the samename, was a guide at Celtic Park, when I did the tour, back in the 90s.
I asked him about it, but he wouldn’t be drawn.
Incidentally, I missed that game through being best man at my cousin’s wedding in Toryglen.
So near, yet…..
NegAnon2 on 5 July, 2012 at 13:58
Well said my man.
I was one of those who took issue with you the other day ‘we should state our position now’ but I’m glad we both got what we wanted (so far at least) in the end.
Unfortunately I live too far away to make use of a season ticket but I’ve renewed my subscription to Celtic TV and I’m with you in spirit. Warsaw.
With thanks to Awe Naw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrgfVen0NoM
Now,here’s an interesting league table!
http://www.heidtoheid.co.uk/showAllQuotes.cgi?flavour=Person
SFL vote on10th July must put Toxico in Div 3.
That makes financial and moral send to all ESP in Div 2 and 3.
They gain extra revenue as they fight their way back.