Congratulations to who originally penned: “We shall not be move, not by the Hearts, the Hibs or The Rangers, erm, we’ll not be moved, OK?” Celtic stand alone, our historic rivals, those who half a century ago denied our grandparents, are gone. Do we have a perfect season ahead? Maybe not, but it will be a unique historical joy nonetheless.
Some of the chat yesterday was that the Premiership would be poorer without Hibernian next season, but anyone who watched Hamilton out-pass and out-play them on Sunday wouldn’t think so. Hibs have offered nothing of note to league football for years. Terry Butcher has got practically everything wrong since arriving at Easter Road but his post-match comment, that perhaps his team needed relegation to thoroughly clear the decks.
Whatever Hibs are they are not competition to Celtic. Our domestic competition next season will come from Aberdeen, Dundee United and Motherwell. United and Aberdeen both finished the season poorly after showing considerable promise early on. Expect Jackie McNamara and Derek McInnes to build on their work over the last year.
If you were an aspiring Championship club you will not have welcomed the Accies result on Sunday. Now clear of their administration travails Hearts have the strongest squad in next season’s Championship. They will also be solvent, able to build on their squad and are likely to sell more season tickets than anyone else in the league.
Hibs’ newly recruited chief exec, Leann Dempster, is potentially the clubs most important recruit in 10 years. She will surely attempt to fit her successful Motherwell template onto the Edinburgh club – and may even have more resources at her disposal.
Queens and Falkirk know they are up against it in their bid for promotion next season but they are two well-run clubs who will have an influence on who does go up. I’m not even prepared to consider anyone else for the promotion spots, some just don’t have the players, some don’t have the management, some don’t have the money to end the season. Some are afflicted by all three ailments.
With the potential of a rejuvenated Hibs making next season’s play-offs, Premiership clubs will spend the next 11 months anticipating the very real possibility that it’s odds on that two clubs will go down next season. Accies and Dundee look more than a match for St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Ross County and Partick Thistle. While Celtic will win the league comfortably, we’re likely to see intense competition between Motherwell, Aberdeen and United for the ‘Best of the Rest’ badge, and between the other eight clubs to stay up.
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barry robson
Gordon_J
I feel its perverse anyway you look at it.
Going by precedent if the TV deal is to be renegotiated then the SPFL should offer to hand back more money based on Hibs and Hearts viewing figures. Possibly even the Edinburgh derby alone. Will the representatives of Hearts and Hibs within the SPFL seek this like they did with Sevco. It would make sense for them as their profile is bolstered and they will sacrafice very little finacially. Less than 10k a year
If the TV companies do nothing and accept the contract to being the way it is only favouring Sevco then it is a very strong indication that it was the SPFL SPL at the time who brokered the no huns TV deal.
If nothing does happen. I.e no renegotiation at all it demonstrates clearly without speculation that Scottish football is all about the Old Firm and is hamstrung by it.
Will be interesting to see. I wonder if it is then when thr gory details of it will be exposed to the paying public.
HH
Joos Valgarean
Mark Burchill
twentyfirst
Had high hopes for the Bhoy from the Brig
Hh
Craig Whyte
Rasberry
I remember it well,
Bada Bing
Reid was one of my favourite players at the time, think he scored last minute pen against them ? I moved to London for two years and went to watch Charlton when he was there, he was their POY in first season
Badr El Kaddouri
Anton Rogan
I don’t know what the question was, but I’m fair enjoyin’ reading the answers.
Craig Whyte hahahahaha
sure it was only the one he scored ?
gordon_j backing neil lennon
16:21 on 27 May, 2014
I am hearing EPL teams are worried that the Scottish Championship will become a serious threat to their “greatest League in the World” label.
They are meeting with Sky to block any coverage.
Awe_Naw_,
I don’t see why contracts agreed and signed up to need to be negotiated. TV companies pay to televise a certain division and it should be their risk on which clubs happen to be in it at any particular point in time.
If a poorly supported team was relegated and a well supported one promoted, how would they respond to a demand for extra cash?
As yesterday was Memorial Day here in the U.S.A. a little anecdote for those of you who are Veterans and for those who had relatives during the battle of D-DAY. Sadly some will be upset at this but we all have to take the good with the bad.
Just for the record I am a Veteran:
Every year the French have a 4 day celebration
in Normandy complete with American uniforms,
tanks, jeeps and guns.
They still honor
the Americans
who died there…
June 6, 2013, the 69th
anniversary of “D-Day”,
the largest invasion ever attempted,
where 200,000 Americans
stormed the beaches at Normandy
to begin the final push to defeat Nazi Germany in WWII.
D-Day marked the turning point
in WWII in Europe…
Today, European heads of state
make it a point to recall and honor
the sacrifices of those who landed in Normandy,
as do our Presidents….
well, most of them…
In the 69 years since D-Day,
there are four occasions
when the President of the United States
chose not to visit the D-Day Monument
that honors the soldiers killed during the Invasion.
These 4 occasions were:
1. Barack Obama, 2010
2. Barack Obama, 2011
3. Barack Obama, 2012
4. Barack Obama, 2013
For the past 69 years, every American President —except Obama—
have taken the time to honor the
memory and sacrifices of the
6,000 American soldiers killed on D-Day.
…Except Obama!
June 6 2010,
Obama had no
events scheduled.
June 6, 2011,
Obama met with the National Security team
and was interviewed by WEWS Cleveland
and WDIV in Detroit about the auto industry –
FAR too busy to visit
the D-Day memorial.
June 6, 2012,
instead of honoring our fallen soldiers, Obama made a campaign trip
to California on Air Force 1 (at our expense)
to raise funds for (his) upcoming election.
June 6, 2013,
Obama was doing ANOTHER fund raiser with the multimillionaires in the Democratic
Senatorial Campaign Committee in Palo Alto, CA,
once again at our expense.
America – Aren’t you proud
of this dude?
Four times in 69 years!!
SHAME ON AMERICA
FOR ELECTING A NON-VETERAN PRESIDENT WHO DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF: HE IS
ABSOLUTELY A DISGRACE TO ALL WHO FOUGHT FOR THIS NATION AND GAVE THEIR
LIVES.
VETERANS – PLEASE FORWARD THIS
TO YOUR
VETERAN FRIENDS!!!
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
Edson Braffeid
The TV companies want more money from the SFPL to cover Hibs and Hearts.
Knew them tune for the coverage will be “Bring on the Hearts, the Hibs ,the Rangers.”
Rangers ,hearts ,hibs all in the championship next season.Hamilton, ross county, inverness ,to name 3 in the Premier League next season,i know which 3 i would like celtic to play against next season.if it was boring last season,cant imagine what like it will be this season,
would’nt it be good if the TV contract negotiations were televised/recorded.no ifs or buts on transparency there….just sayin
hh
Dariusz Wdowczyk
TBB
We beat Dinamo Moscow under TM, 2-0 away after losing 1-0 at home
Jan Vennegoors one of my favourite goals ever, wee McDonald gutted after missing the penalty, what a header he put over for that goal, and you could see what it meant to him
Joe Miller
Phil Mac def worth a read.
His sign off is peachy…
Aff oot to the kitchen. Pies to cook.
Wild stab in the dark – any CQNers with Jamaican connections?
HH jamesgang
Wdowczyk with a wee bit of assistance fae the hammerthrower ?
Gordon_j
Contractually I am sure they have their asses covered and have the SPFL over a barrel.
The point you raised being a very good one but not something that would require a renegotiation I would suggest.
The precedent has been set however. The question is by whom. If the Edinburgh clubs start seeking a similar proviso then clearly it was the SPFL that instigated keeping the huns in the picture. If that was the case it would be negligence from both Hibs and Hearts not to seek a deal that removes finance from every other club to pay for keeping them in the picture a la Sevco.
I am pretty convinced nothing will happen and that Hearts and,Hibs will have to lie in a pissy bed of their making.
HH
BMCUW 15:56
some things i can help oot wi some i cannae.
bingo wins and splits erm…ad ratha be somewhere else lol:-))
hope your good bud and settled in after your tour
hh
Gary67
Indeed. Made something of a Moscow Mule of myself there…
Paul Lambert
‘Cancel HB’
I should coco.
timbhoy2
16:46 on
27 May, 2014
Rangers ,hearts ,hibs all in the championship next season.Hamilton, ross county, inverness ,to name 3 in the Premier League next season,i know which 3 i would like celtic to play against next season.if it was boring last season,cant imagine what like it will be this season,
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Hamilton, Ross County and Inverness are better football teams than Hibs and possibly Hearts.
I’ve got an idea.
Go and watch Celtic, ya greetin faced numpty.
Nobody ever said Scotland needs a strong Celtic. Well thankfully for us it has one now, enjoy it!
HH
weeman67
Usual made up pish from Tea Party nutters:-
” This item claiming that President Barack Obama is the only U.S. President who has “failed to go to the D-Day Monument” on the anniversary of that event is a bit ambiguous, but by any reasonable interpretation it’s far from accurate.
The term “D-Day Monument” is non-specific and could refer to any one of a number of different sites. If the term “D-Day Monument” references any of the various monuments,
memorials, or cemeteries around the sites of the 6 June 1944 Allied landings on the Normandy coast of France, then appearances by U.S. presidents at any of those sites in commemoration of D-Day have been neither a long-established tradition nor a regular occurrence — such visits are a fairly recent phenomenon, no president has made more than one visit, and President Obama is in fact among the small number of U.S. presidents who have attended D-Day anniversary ceremonies in Normandy.
The first president to travel to Normandy for D-Day was Ronald Reagan, who in 1984 attended commemorative ceremonies there for the 40th anniversary of the Allied landings. Bill Clinton attended D-Day memorial ceremonies in Normandy on the 50th anniversary of the landings in 1994, George W. Bush did so on the 60th anniversary of the landings in 2004, and Barack Obama did likewise on the 65th anniversary of the landings in 2009:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/dday.asp#tMvUVJbB47mHKttb.99
(George W. Bush also delivered a commemorative address in Normandy in 2002, but that event was held in conjunction with Memorial Day, not the anniversary of the D-Day landings.)
If the term “D-Day Monument” is interpreted to mean the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, U.S. presidents have no established tradition of regularly visiting that site, which didn’t even open until 2001. President George W. Bush was on hand for the dedication of the memorial on 6 June 2001, but the site has not seen a presidential D-Day visit since then.
If the term “D-Day Monument” refers to the National World War II Memorial, in Washington, D.C., that site didn’t open until 2004 and has never hosted a presidential visit on D-Day.
In fact, any public presidential activity paying tribute to fallen U.S. and Allied soldiers on the anniversary of D-Day has been an exception rather than the rule in recent years. Available White House presidential schedules for 6 June, going back to the beginning of the George W. Bush administration in 2001, list no public events connected to D-Day in 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2003, or 2002.
Between 1944 and 2013 — a span of 69 years — four U.S. presidents have attended D-Day memorial ceremonies a total of six times, and Barack Obama was one of them.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/dday.asp#tMvUVJbB47mHKttb.99
Bournesouprecipe
I doff my cap mate
HH
Lambo scored at least twice against them; both top-notch crackers from the top drawer of the ole top-notch cracker shop
Roy Orbison.
Tam Rogne Craig Burley
jamesgang
16:51 on
27 May, 2014
Phil Mac def worth a read.
His sign off is peachy…
Aff oot to the kitchen. Pies to cook.
Wild stab in the dark – any CQNers with Jamaican connections?
HH jamesgang
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on the golf course I am often called a “jammycant” …..any help to you ?
braw
Let’s tell it like it Wiz.. n.. IZ .. Time.. Eh?
Ah liked Neil.. But…
Ah Thought,… that as the time went oan.. n Ah saw whit Neil wiz capable o’ achievin’…
it seemed tae me..
That , Neil Wz Limited… in his Efforts n Abilitee…tae Mak Ma Team intae the Kinda World Classers.. whit Ah thought wiz Possible.. But, Wiz no …well. Happening,under His Stewardship.
Heck, Ah know that Neil’s Budget wiz Small.. Tiny ,even..
But.. Personally Speaking..
Ah don’ t believe …in oor Particular Case ..that Looser Purse Strings wid Help us tae Achieve World Class Citizenship..
Fur.. in this day n AGE.. it takes a HELLAVA Loat mair Money… in the Piggy Bank , than Whit we hiv in Oor’s … fur Cetlc tae even Contemplate, going THAT route!
We are Talkin’.. .. Fifty Million Pound Player’s, Here..
Yep.. Fifty Million Pounds ..ye wid need tae be able tae Splash oot. Fur anither..
Murdoch.. Ninety Million…? Easy…. fur anither.. Big Billy..
Five or Six Million Pounds..which is oor Limit..
Wull Bring ye..
Mebbe..n Ah said Mebbe… Anither Bercovitz( sic) Type.
Ah could go oan. but, Surely , ye see where Ah am Going???
Na..
fur us tae Splash the Little Cash that We Could Rummei up wid be an exercise .. that wid de doomed tae be…well.. being… Laughable..
Whit could we afford.??
Look,kids..
Twenty Million, noo Adays is Chump Chinge!
Which, we could not afford,anyway
.. We may .. come up wi… Ten Million.. But that is the Top… That figure could buy. a Player, who wiz Valued ..
In the Auld Money… at.. 500,000! .. Which tells Me that He wid Be a Gamble.
Anyway.. In regards tae bringin in a Marquee Guy..
there is a Leetle Detail ..that the… “Celtic, should Splash the Cashers”, who dwell among us.. conveniently furget..
It is Called. “Player Renumeration” in the better class Circles.
Witever it is called. It translates as
A CRIPPLING ALBATROSS, which wul be Hingin Roon Celtic’s Neck.. fur the Forseeable..
Fur..High Priced Players.. equate tae . Correspondingly..
HIGH PRICED EMOLUMENTS..( Great Word,pal.. ed.)
Na.. Whit Pierre is Daeing,in keeping a Tight Rein oan the Club Kitty… is No only the Correct Thing.. fir Celtic tae Dae..
It is the ONLY thing fur us tea dae.. that is if we Want tae No Tae End up …TOES UP..n Penniless, as anither… Sevco…
Fur Mr.Lawwell.. He knows oor Financial Obligations , as Well as Ah know Ma Real Age!
Summing it all up..
Neil wiz no the Guy.. He jist wiznae.. He wiz Limited…He could go so far..which he did.. then..
He wiz Runnin Empty..
So.. May Ah Say.. that Ah wiz not Unhappy tae be apprised, of the fact.. last week.. that He wiz Leaving us??
Thanks,guys..n Gals..
So… Ah Wull!
Whit Ah Ah want is A Manager..who Agrees Wi Ma Thinking..
Which is..
Bring in oor Yooths.. Tak .. FULL ADVANTAGE.. if the STREAM..o’ Young Turks, whom we ur Noo jist BEGINNING tae Hatch oot.. fae the ..well ..Hatchery..
They hiv a Terrible n Threatenin’ Potential.. which is Jist Imploring us ..
Tae Let ’em Loose in the First Eleven..
Ah am convinced that Celtic could Mak it tae The Very Top of World Soccer..
But.
By taking the Yoof Train.. No..the Throw away the Money Train..
We Kin dae it.. We done it Before..n..
With the Right Kind of Far Seeing Manager..at the Helm..
We Kin dae it, once More.
In Ma Opinion. Neil Leaving us.. in the Lurch.. afore oor C.L. Obligations..
Is A Blessing … in Wolf’s Clothin’!
Noo..
All we hiv tae dae is tae Pick the Right Managerial Candidate.
Who is..
Malky Mac Kay.
( or.. if No him.. Jackie Baby)
Maks sense tae Me.
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
Has Ian Black been called into the Scotland squad?