Talk of trebles can disappear over the space of 90 minutes, and Ronny Deila will be forced to learn new patter if his team cannot regain the edge which was lost on Wednesday night at Celtic Park. The challenge will be all the greater for the absence of cup-tied Stuart Armstrong and Gary Mackay-Steven, with others, including Kris Commons and Emilio Izaguirre.
Dundee United have fallen apart in the last few weeks, the departure of Armstrong and Mack-Steven has probably had something to do with this, which means they will be hurting. Make no mistake, Celtic harmed their season by signing their best two players five weeks ago. United will have an edge to them.
Just loving the celebrations that one of the world’s richest 400 people no longer controls a Scottish football club. He still controls pretty much all profitable revenue streams, and holds security over assets, but he’ll no longer be asked to provide loan players, or loan cash. They have swapped an ‘off the radar’ wealthy man for a glib and shameless liar.
Ashley repulsed many. He was the archetypal fox let into the Ibrox hen house. The juxtaposition of Celtic announcing a £29m shirt deal with New Balance, rights Ashley bartered for £1 at Ibrox, gives you an idea of how impaired newco are. But allowing him to walk off with all those revenue streams, without the responsibility of running football operations, which will always lose money, is inexplicable.
I know people in the game who were concerned about having an opponent with the resources of Ashley. That blocking SFA decision was crucial. I don’t know anyone concerned about King, in fact, there is quiet delight at how things transpired.
Farewell Big Mike, thanks for all your work.
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Davy King either is sore about Davy Murray losing his cash and wants to make money from Sevco OR
He is doolally
The headline in midweek will be- It’s worse than we thought _70m kwid to be rid of Ashley and another 30m to be rid of the contracts from others
Then the stadium then the team
There is NO way guys of the calibre of McColl and Park will keep goin money-wise when they know it is a bottomless pit
The laughter I I had from the h ns going bust is honestly nothing I feel compared to watching Sevco do the same
Whilst Arabs Sheep Jambys and everyone else in the SPFL knows they have to break even, King is telling everyone that debt aint bad.
Defo doolally
We need a good 30 year old centre half like Mick McCarthy for next year
JCGE
The glee we all experienced
spaces and extra words aside
setting free the bears for res. 12 & oscar knox
08:34 on 2 March, 2015
16 roads@ 5.08
So, you could not keep your promise to leave it alone and decided to re-visit it.
In doing so, you make an appeal to another authority. You say “SFTB writes rubbish, read Shelby Foote and you’ll get the true story. Having read every word of his major work, The Civil War trilogy, I would heartily endorse your commendation. There is not one single word in the trilogy which contradicts the points I made, points you left unadressed because you hope that people will believe that Shelby Foote contradicts them for you.
However, Mr. Foote does not discuss the Indian Wars, except where the tribes were recruited, with false promises, to join one side or the other. It did not lead to any favourable post war treatment. The issue of slave ownership in the South is always a contentious one. Most families who fought did not own one but a substantial number did and it is the main “States Right” that triggered the war. Everyone who is an expert agrees with that. Only the Klan sites and other sites proclaiming “The South Shall Rise Again” try to diminish it.
Raising the point of white slavery in the West Indies is a red herring.
My point was always a counter to your simplistic view that Islam is UNIQUELY violent, however it is espoused and practised, and I am stating that all religious doctrines, and Non-religious ones, have murder and slavery in their background.
You tried to dismiss this as all ancient history, only Islam is violent now. Well, I could cite Rwanda, where around 50% of the population were RC and 40% nominally Protestant, or Yugoslavia where the Islamists got a hard time of it from Catholic Croatia and Orthodox Serbia.
I am not trying to convince anyone on CQN and would prefer to take this off line but there are Celtic minded individuals who practise the Islamic faith. I will not see them slandered on these pages and stand by.
Off oot till after 6 tonight
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First things first – I apologise to you for the late response to your post.
Secondly – We had an agreement, not to debate on here, CQN. I am genuinely sorry that I broke the clause.
However, ye have to and need to be challenged sometimes.
Ye read like a half crazed, tin-pot dictator at times.
One thing I agree with – CQN isn’t the place for it.
I believe that I am right though.
HH.
Should Celtic lose today(flukin hope no)…the bubble will be burst for RD and, home crowds will fall further than last wednesdays increasing the risk of more lost points and mibbery will ‘gift’ Aberdeen the league title…meanwhile…CQN will be obsessed with, the Lying King and poor victim PL…Off oot to the piano tune from the Hulk…bye.
Codswallop your post was SFTB.
Read it again for yourself.
Not recommended for any student of history… that’s for sure.
DiatribeCSC.
HH.
kevjungle
Can you do the team talk today?
And I’m sure Broony would love you to be in the huddle before the game.
Now that Lying King has shown us how the fans can control the board room, Sevco will now use the internet to run the footballing side.
Fans will be allowed to vote online on various issues effecting the club.
The first vote will be to determine the new coach. And I don’t mean between Parks of Hamilton and McGills.
Since Murray has told us they have been approached by many managers, all solid Rangers men without a doubt, wishing to manage the club back to its former glory, a short list will be produced on a secret site and shareholders with the correct credentials will be invited to participate in the poll.
They will also be able,to specify a salary and a contract length.
The site will also be available for fans to pick the side before games and to nominate substitutes when the game approaches half time and the team is struggling against the likes of Cowheath and Hen House Manure.
Once again the Govan side leads the way in supporter participation.
All votes cast will only cost £16.90.
As anyone who has experienced it knows, an alchy can never even begin to get his/her problems sorted until s/he admits s/he has a problem in the first place.
Up until then, denial, denial, denial is simply allowing the problem to persist and grow.
The huns are still in denial. They have never, not once, admitted the truth about what happened with RFCil and what is going on with Sevco. They don’t even admit to the term Sevco.
The WATP mentality, which played a massive part in the death of RFCil, is still the major driving force behind their support. They still see themselves as the victims of a massive ‘Timmy’ conspiracy.
That is the typical mind-set of an alchy. Happy to blame all their woes on someone, anyone else, no matter how bizarre that claim may be.
Very few people have any time for alcoholics. They are often left to wallow in their own self pity and drink themselves into a stupor.
Most people just wish they’d disappear or go and annoy someone else.
I think that is how most people view Sevco.
GG
I downloaded an app to specifically listen to SSB today. I wanted to hear how that result would be spun. One guy did suggest that fan power brought about this revolution. And he suggested that they should vote for the next manager….I figure you were listening too.. :0)
RD is now the ambassador of all that is potentially good about Scottish Football…. Whereas the MSM are all that is bad. They relentlessly sell a pig in a poke..unaware that in doing so they are journalistic lambs to the slaughter..
The one thing that caught my ear on my short listen, apart from the predictable stuff, was the commercials for Celtic Stores on SSB. One shouldn’t be surprised… But when scanning the Big Picture…
Made me smile cynically…
Someone mentioned earlier that the Ibrox ‘faithful’ would be now re-appraising their view of David Murray and the mess he left them in.
They find it hard, regardless of what the financial outcome was, or their administration and liquidation, or indeed their time spent in the lower divisions, and the fact that they might stay there for at least another season, to harshly critcise Murray.
He gave them their ‘nine in a row’ to match our achievement and he gave them their 54 titles, which allows them (so they think) to wear their five little white stars on their jerseys.
The 54 titles that spark their WATP mantra is what they have clung onto over the past three years – on reflection they will forgive Murray anything because of this legacy.
That is why we hear King, in every public speech he makes, referring to the need to stop Celtic getting ‘ten in a row’. Be in no doubt, this is what has prompted King to force his way into power – if ever Celtic get near to the magic figure of ten, let’s say in three years time, Kind, if he is still ‘pulling the strings’ will abandon any pretence of prudence and throw everything but the kitchen sink (financially) at preserving their joint record.
We will not be surprised if there are ‘friendly’ Scottish banks again willing to underwrite the venture.
‘GG
04:25 on 8 March, 2015
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Ha :)
Ye know what…if I was in the middle of the Celtic huddle…I’d fancy ma chances…well, if Broony is the leader and, as anybody who looks close enough will know…he leans wi his chin…what are the rest of them like…..?
C’Mon the hoops the day but…Jackie MacNamara is nobody’s mug…..only saying.
And I Though My Jokes Were Bad(Hans Zimmer) – CSC
….oot. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Good Morning Timland.
A safe journey for all of our wonderful away support making
their way too Dundee,nae sparklers, nae political song’s,
keep in mind yer every move will be scrutinized by”those
and such as those” so don’t give them a stick too beat us
with.
Big test today. Hoping for a result, not too bothered about performance.
Re: King & Murray. I honestly think they have completely miscalculated. PM’s IV yesterday made it clear he yearns for a return to the 1990s when money was no object, debt was a four letter word, and Real Rangers Men wandered Scottish football in harmony.
And the rest of us were glad of their “leadership”.
Scottish football, and the world, have changed utterly since those days. There is no more flow of easy cash, no questions asked. There are no Joe Lewis’ to throw money down a black hole. Celtic, Aberdeen, Hearts, and DUtd are all well-run debt-free clubs, who will not simply stand aside for the men in Brown Brogues.
Above all, no one is in any mood to take lectures from people like Paul Murray on how to run a football club.
Added to all this is the incredibly laconic attitude towards the man who has kept their jalopy on the road since Christmas. Ashley, it appears, will simply be told to leave and take his contracts with him. For the life of me, I cannot see that happening…
I think this could be the shortest honeymoon in history.
Murray came out with the predictable rallying cry for the Sevco faithful yesterday. It fits with their supremacist beliefs and will draw some back to the fold. It’s all about continuing to squeeze them for cash, this time to fund Kings ego trip. Don’t worry, it is really just like they bought the Titanic after it hit the iceberg.
Italiabhoy,
” Celtic, Aberdeen, Hearts, and DUtd are all well-run debt-free clubs, who will not simply stand aside for the men in Brown Brogues.”
Aye they’ve really changed eh, don’t kid yourself, everyone is currently standing aside awaiting the return of their masters. The brown brogues have rode roughshod over the rules and destroyed the idea that it’s a sporting competition, exactly what have any of those you mention done to counter that ?
Mornin’……………..
A wee swatch at shortie and ither ootlets wud suggest that Awwy, Chick, Dick an’ Co are less than keen to concoct the Coodenbeath…….excuses……..
Result probably doesn’t fit with the preferred narrative,
currantly.
HH.
stairheedrammy
07:26 on 8 March, 2015
Seemingly some Aberdeen fan journalist Derek Rae ? Got tore into Dodgy Dave mk2 for saying that he was going to lead Sevco to their rightful place or some other nonsense statement he had made, I think they have reached their rightful place, kicking about the lower leagues, as for today I think our team are actually better away from CeltIc Park, just play Brown & Biton with Johensen in front of them and we should win……
Enjoy your 3pm kick off to all the bhoys & ladies that are going
Monthehoops !
Is the kick off at 3 or 3.30 uk time today? Por cierto
kevjungle
Do you love Celtic? Or just the attention on here?
“If Celtic get beat today” I mean, what’s that all about? It’s redundent, your hate for PL and the board is off the radar yes, but you have no passion for the club, your negativity is second to none, it has been brought to attention by someone that you are indeed a tim, but I seriously have my doubts.
3-30
Enjoy your 3.30pm kick off to all the bhoys & ladies that are going
Monthehoops !
Two excellent pieces this morning. First from James Forrest, second from Auldheid.
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/dave-king-the-unknown-known/
http://www.tsfm.scot/did-stewart-regan-ken-then-wit-we-ken-noo/
canamalar,
those clubs have got their houses in financial order, and are clearly following sensible financial and footballing plans.
New Rangers top man Dave King has invited John Greig back to Ibrox for there next home game, lol, .
What’s next cups of tea in the parking lot.
Been checking all the UK gardening jobs and I still can not find one paying 15k a week
Sleekit charlatan.
nye bevans’ rebel soldier
06:55 on 8 March, 2015
Good Morning Timland.
A safe journey for all of our wonderful away support making
their way too Dundee,nae sparklers, nae political song’s,
keep in mind yer every move will be scrutinized by”those
and such as those” so don’t give them a stick too beat us
with.
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Is one permitted to clap politely if one’s team scores a goal? :-)
I’ve got a spare for today if anyone’s interested. If you can make your way to Cumbernauld you’d even get a lift!
hamiltontim@hotmail.co.uk
Morning all. Not a terrific morning weather-wise but a whole lot better than yesterday.
Hope for any kind of win today.
td67,
Believe it or not, I was just wondering when that invite was going to be made. Just further proof that King is pandering to the lowest of the low of that support. Ra peepil now in charge will lead them headlong back to oblivion.
Auldheid,
Fantastic work! What a read. Excellent analysis of every point.
Now, how to get this work to a wider audience?
Is there criminality involved where Ogilvie, Bryson, Regan have conspired to conceal relevant information to allow LNS his bizarre conclusions?
EC67
For the first time in a while I agree with an article written by Chris Sutton today he says John Guidetti should be showing Rony and Celtic more respect.Going on about possible moves in the summer is wrong he should do his talking by scoring goals.Like Chris Sutton I dont know what goes on in Guidettis head but he should be concentrating on playing well for Celtic.H.H.
morning all at Cqn….beautiful day here in Lower Saxony…hope everyone has a braw day oot ….enjoy these days…and COYBIG.
braw
back to Veltins 0,5 this afternoon…and homemade bridies fir half/time …braw
Eurochamps67
09:06 on 8 March, 2015
I agree, but for LNS to keep credibility should he not be saying something like – I could only come to the conclusion I did because of the limited information I was given
Great articles Bhoys. You are tenacious and justified in your convictions. Hopefully someone in the media will open their eyes once the latest love in collapses. Even a lapdog says enough is enough.
We live in hope.
KLV
Maidin mhaith achan duine.
Árd Macha