On Thursday I wrote Brendan Rodgers ‘will be a remarkable signing’. One day after the event, it feels very remarkable. Some found it so remarkable they have attempted a smile for the first time since Artmedia took the lead. I’ve even spoken to Newco fans who were engaged by the appointment. The aphorism, a rising tide lifts all boats, feels apt.
Some weeks ago I heard Peter Lawwell talk about the difficulty of landing a top tier manager in our current environment, however, he finished with a positive “But we are Celtic”. People want to come here; managers, players, even tourists. For all the Scottish game’s limits, we are Celtic, let’s not forget.
We’ve used some of that cachet to bring people to the game. There will be more cameras, more reporters, more international media, more TV viewers and many more glutes on seats next season. This will reflect on all.
Our media rights are worth more today than they were a week ago. Consider for a moment how Dafabet and Magners view yesterday’s news? For all they knew when they signed their shirt deals, we could have had Owen Coyle in charge next season, unless his auntie told them otherwise [an old CQN in-joke].
I’m pleased to hear so many comments that this is a sign of ambition, although ambition is always more nuanced than it appears. Ambition every year is to win the league and qualify for the Champions League, that’s always the plan, whether it happens, or if it’s only half achieved. Hopefully the ambition is loaded with a little authority this summer.
Sannabhoy asked me to pass on these comments on behalf of the Kano Foundation to the CQN community:
“To round the season off the Kano Foundation had a visit from Almore to present us with a donation from the Dublin 1916 CQN gathering on Sunday for the sum of £580.
“As you know, this event, to commemorate the Easter rising of 1916, was organised by CQNers Almore and ClogherCelt, and featured 30 CQN members among the 70 scots who travelled over to join the 120 locals at the festivities. A brilliant time was had by all (just to rub it in to the absentees).
“Brian Ainslie, trustee, is pictured here receiving the cheque from Almore and Delaney’s Dunky.
“On behalf of The Kano Foundation it gives us great pride and pleasure to accept this fantastic donation. We appreciate the numerous good causes that are out there and to be beneficiaries of this, and the historically significant events it commemorates, is humbling and makes the efforts of the patrons, ambassadors, volunteers and trustees worthwhile.
“To Martin Connor and Alan Curran, who organised it, we’d just like to say, on behalf of the almost 5000 kids we have taken to Celtic Park, thank you very much. Without support like yours we couldn’t continue to do this. Hail Hail.
“On that note, I’m away for a kip until next season – I’ll need it – we can take 2000 kids next year . HELP!!”
What a stunning community you are. Well done.
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BRTH wrote the feature on Nevin in CQN Magazine after I sorted out the interview by challenging Nevin on his views.
It is commonly accepted that Nevin isn’t liked within the Celtic support.
The article could have been harder hitting and in some ways I wish it was.
However as in the case of Resolution 12, BRTH was clearly playing the long game to get a significant result.
Nevin was challenged by me in the interview which took place at The Grosvenor Hotel on Byres Road.
For instance I asked is it fair to describe him as a ‘soup taker’ because that is how he is regarded?
He said he had never heard that term and didn’t know what it meant. I told him.
You could say we did s good cop bad cop routine on him.
I challenged him on his supposed support for Hibs – and he was embarrassing last night on Sportscene – and reminded him about a quiz on Five 5 when he had to name as many grounds in the Uk with the word Road the name. He got around 7 but failed to say Easter Road.
I asked him if he was lying in saying he is a Hibs supporter.
He gave us an explanation which was family related and personal for his reason to switch from Celtic to Hibs. The family circumstances are real enough but should remain private in both BRTH’s view and also mine.
I told Nevin that despite this I disagreed with his action and like every other Celtic supporter I know, I could never ditch Celtic for any reason.
We wanted to get beyond Nevin – who only gets the gig on the BBC – to target the bigots working there and distorting the agenda to make it anti-Celtic.
We got corroboration from that interview that the reason the BBC were able to say that there was sectarian singing ( when there wasn’t) from the Celtic support in the first half was because someone in a van outside the group was able to implant this lie to discredit Celtic.
We subsequently were able to ‘let it be known’ to the BBC that we were now aware of the facts.
Nevin told us what happened. Go back and watch it. Rob McLean was instructed to say it – but he was able to think on his feet and was canny enough to avoid the trap.
He hadn’t heard any such sectarian singing.
Nevin – who didn’t hear it either – jumped right in and did their work for them.
BRTH as anyone who has met him will tell you, is a lovely guy who will always try to see the best in people. I hope that never changes.
He is also a smart cookie and as I said we were after the bigots who previously were able to work with immunity within the BBC and we were able to shut that down.
I believe the guy didn’t get the sack but he had his card marked for him.
If that’s what you mean by CQN Magazine, who you say ‘shat it’ then guilty as charged.
I’m away to tan my yellow belly.
Let’s not forget young John McGinn, auld Jack’s grandson.
HH!!
Worldwide reaction to the Huns’ outrage continues to flood in…
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Any news on the huns that’s been released from A&E after them dreadful attacks on the pitch yesterday -)))
The St Mirren fan blames it on a 5 year old Hibs fan!
Aye, all very cosy! Fit and proper no doubt!!
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GIRUT
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Pog, people I work with are fed up with me going on about the the number of clubs who have won the cups since the start of the 2011/12 season and why our game is better without them. fans of teams I know who have cups in the last four seasons for whatever reason disagree. Very strange.
Gerry, James was a regular scorer for our youth and development teams before his injury. I’m delighted he has a winners medal now.
It was the goading!
You must not goad!
If you goad you will be attacked!
GTTF
Just heard Chico saying “a 4/5 year old on his dad’s shoulders was flicking the vickies at Rangers fans, what chance do we have” he has now said “thankfully the majority of the Rangers fans showed restraint” what the fcuk showing restraint for getting beat in a game of football !
Tom English at least brings up the sectarian singing.
marks hat was broken
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James Keatings was the leading goalscorer in the Scottish Youth League, the season before Tony Watt burst on the scene.
He had a bright future ahead.
Injury curtailed his career, but delighted for him.
Talking of Tony Watt, whatever happened to him?
Is he not a Blackburn?
What a terrible waste!
HH!!
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The decision by Alan Stubbs to leave David Gray on, when he had just been injured, as he was about to make his final substitution, was the pivotal moment of the game, IMHO.
Tallybhoy, there was a picture in either etims twitter or celtic underground twitter of John McGinn and his grandad after the game. They both looked very happy, unsurprisingly.
Jack however, looks very frail but looked very proud of his grand son.
Tickets for the Europa league, anyone?
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Tallybhoy
Tony Watt got named in WGS last squad but got injured just before end of the season
Barney67 … I was shouting at the telly telling Stubbs to sub Gray as he was injured, shows exactly what I know
Chico has just compared yesterday’s events to someone running into a bakers and battering the guy who makes the doughnuts .
WTF ?
DALLAS DALLAS
Yes I saw the photo.
They both looked delighted, but Jack does seem very frail.
Wish him all the best.
HH!!
With so much joy in the air and on the pages of this blog, it has been difficult to read through all the contributions. Will do so later. This may have been asked previously, what about FOCUS? Were they seen at Hampden? After all they appear in Dingwall, Aberdeen, and Inverness plus other locations when we play. Their cameras always ready to spot offences under the OB Act. So surely with their spying actions, the BBC and Sky’s recordings of the game the truth will come to the fore? …Oh, wait a minute I forgot who Hibs were playing.
Of course, the SFA will duly fine the team whose supporters let off flares at the game. Or is that just reserved for Celtic if some its supporters let off the same. Surely there cannot be a rule for one and not the other in this egalitarian country?
But all that aside, I am truly pleased that the sun shone on Leith yesterday, and more especially that Celtic players did win medals this year.
GFTB, I was shouting the exact same, as i was worried about the prospect of extra time.
Stubbsy took a gamble, it paid off. Fortune favors the brave, as they say. HH
Surely if historical consistency is their measure, the SMSM will uniformly come to the sage conclusion that the Huns and their players, ‘brought it upon themselves’?
After all is that not the standard Scoddich media conclusion when a fan attacks a player/staff member of a Scottish professional football club in plain view of cameras and watching millions?
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I watched the post match stuff from the studio and again last night and if Pat Nevin ever drew attention to the sectarian signing (as I believe he committed himself to when we were set up), I missed it.
If you sit by the river bank long enough you will see all the bodies of your enemies drift past.
Nevin is just symptomatic of a media culture that itself supports a culture that produces what Regan (for once getting it right) said was an image of Scottish football that is damaging to its reputation.
I would go wider: its damaging to the reputation of Scottish society but that society has never been keen to look at itself in the mirror.
Wallace, Hun Kapitan, claiming that refree Steven MacLean called him ‘a grass’ when he reported being attacked to him inside Hampden.
How quickly disappointed Huns turn on their own after a defeat…
Where are the pictures of all these black eyes and assaults?
Surely they exist?
Ask their wives.
GFTB
Yeah – just incredible. But just what you expect too I guess…
the magic hat is on a non winning run thats worse than anything mccoist did,
we are going to pump them every game next season, they will be battling relegation,
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It might be no surprise that the catalyst for Celtic’s recruitment of Brendan Rodgers was Rangers. The unexpected element is how the impetus was formed. It was the Scottish Cup semi-final between the two Glasgow clubs last month that convinced Celtic’s largest shareholder, Dermot Desmond, that the upscaling – which was always planned – had to “go large”. The antics of the Rangers directors that day as they celebrated the penalty shoot-out win over Celtic is understood to have had a profound effect on Desmond.
ANDREW SMITH 22/05/2014
If we take Andrew Smith’s above piece in Scotland on Sunday at face value, then surely those who are obdurate in their opinion of our CEO must re-evaluate their stance – not for a minute of course do I expect this.
Desmond is the supremo at Celtic, of that there is no doubt. Peter Lawwell is his CEO, and as such is charged to run the club/company in the best interests of the shareholders.
This is exactly what Peter ha been doing successfully for over twelve years. Of course like any business there must be a link to the customers, or in a football club, the fans.
The actions and attitude of the latest and distasteful new regime at Ibrox, seems to have had a profound effect on Dermot, so much so that he was determined to ‘go large’ to answer it.
We have had the first of which I believe will be a number of instalments, i.e. Brendan Rodgers.
So please lay off Peter Lawwell, his is an employee at Celtic and answers to Dermot.
Lawwell’s shrewd and professional management of the club during difficult times, has ensured that when Dermot Desmond decided to ‘press the button’, he was doing so from a position of financial and administrative strength.
I have no doubt that when ‘the dust settles’, Dermot will make a statement encompassing all the facts, and Peter Lawwell’s name will be front and centre of it.
So again I say, stop the obduracy!!!!
How many hun players and officials are still in intensive care after yesterday’s ‘riot?’
I demand to know their names!
HH!!
We should have stood up against these bigots a long time ago.
They are beyond redemption.
They are corrupt, and their time has come
Pat Nevin got a hair transplant or some enhancement to help his tv career, Pat Nevin will not hinder said career by telling the truth, by the way it was Pat Nevin who said having hair helps his tv career…. I would rather be bald and tell the truth
Soooo the Sevco players were standing about in their penalty box at that added time corner, thinking about how to spend their holiday pay….
wait a minute…
COLLIN STAM
Enough wi revisionism. Reading your posts,you’d think everything was part of A Great Plan.
The European humiliations,the dud signings,the kowtowing to a press which clearly loathes us.
We are on our way back and it’s not because of the strategy. It’s because one very important person saw what was happening and woke up to reality.
Otherwise we were sleepwalking into oblivion.
Dermot,a huge HAIL HAIL and THANK YOU for this.
Gerry
They don’t call it the ‘bald truth’ for nowt ;-)
I would rather be bald, than have Pat Nevin’s “hair”.
I see Mr Pastry is back.
Or Collin Stam as BobbyM calls him
No one likes them, they don’t care
Now….if that wee pathetic ditty, doesn’t sum them up, I don’t know what does.
They are truly lost.
Rabid dogs