After yesterday’s discussion on values, what we’re all about and where we’re going, today’s announcement by the Foundation that they will have a badge day at the Dundee United game on 11 May is something that requires us to step forward and do something about.
“Volunteers will be in place at all turnstile areas and supporters will be asked to make a donation of minimum £1 in return for a badge, which illustrates the new Celtic FC Foundation crest. All monies raised on the day will support our work challenging homelessness in the Glasgow area.”
I’m going to volunteer. You should too. It will mean getting to the game a wee bit earlier but it will also mean you can look those values we all preach in the eye. Words are easy but on this occasion, so are actions. Let’s do it.
I’ll find out how you volunteer and report back soon.
Seville – The Celtic Movement
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THE EXILED TIM
11:02 on
10 April, 2014
Very good!
With regards to the Sevco accounts, does this mean we can expect their share value to fall below the price of an Ice Pop?
Ok Neg anon2
You asked so shall you receive.
Here are some real questions about this union of equals –
Trident – YES or NO?
Child poverty to increase – YES or NO?
More Foodbanks – YES or NO?
More austerity leading to the dismantling of the welfare state while the rich get richer – YES or NO?
Tory Governments we as a country don’t elect and haven’t elected since 1954/5? YES or no?
Casino Capitalism of the City of London – YES or NO?
Removal of the NHS (which is coming to Scotland in time) YES or NO?
Eventual student top up fees coming to Scotland if the Labour party under Lamont ever get in again? YES or NO?
Privatization of the postal service charging the hell out of people living in the north of the UK (or the highlands) because of petrol duty in an oil rich nation – For or against?
Pensioners choosing between eating and heating in Winter in an oil rich nation – ok with that?
No outrage that the benefits of oil in Scottish waters has been sucked down to London for the London bubble since its discovery?(a new study today is very revealing on that one among other things)
No problem with our fishing industry being used as a bargaining chip with Europe back in the 70’s?
No outrage that a Labour cabinet lied and hid the McCrone report from the Scottish people in the 1970s to stop us wanting self -determination?
No outrage at a rigged 1979 referendum?
More foreign wars? Fancy it do you?
The possibility (a very distinct one) of being taken out of the EU against our wishes in 2017? You ok with that?
Nigel Farage possibly being King maker in 2015? No worries?
If you’re fine with all of the above then you deserve to Be-tory-together and be run from a one -size fits all UK (which it patently doesn’t).
You see for me those things I list are all the reasons why I would vote YES.
If you vote no then do not ever complain ever again about the political situations in the UK if the rest of the population vote with you.
You asked for it and you’ll get it and you’ll know about it into the bargain.
We know where we are going if we vote no – it’s everything I listed above. We don’t with independence but as Margo MacDonald said – When you are dependent on yourself, you try harder, you grow.
There will be no more false measurements, no more blaming of Westminster for our failures, they will be ours but we will be able to look ourselves in the mirror and face up to our realities rather than play the blame game. That must be a good thing because even out of the bad there must come something that is good.
Scotland can go another way with different plans and rebuild our country, our industry our lives. We can think outside the UK box and dare to do what we are told we cannot.
One final thing –
We are not oppressed but we are abused in this marriage, taken for granted, get all the dirty jobs when they need to be done and we get less back than we put in.
If this is a divorce we are the ones being told you’ll never survive without me, no one would want you because without me you are nothing and YET they want to cling to us.
Why?
Vanity-
Oil
Trident
Scottish soldiers in foreign wars
We’re the last bit of the empire
They believe (the Brit nats) if we leave their place on the UN security council and the G8 is under threat so they become even more irrelevant in the world than they are – cue Lord ‘Devolution will kill nationalism stone dead’ Robertson with his beggin bowl in the States – gonny come out against it, gonny, gonny, gonny. Pathetic man. It wasn’t so long ago they were asking Putin (but I digress).
Labour votes – because the Labour party would sacrifice Scotland for the sake of the party and have many times already – google McCrone report/Denis Healy for starters (and there’s plenty more where that came from).
These are the only reasons they want us to remain in the union.
What a feeling eh?
Vote YES and do yourselves the biggest favour you will ever do.
Morning Bhoys from a sun kissed Lytham, on bus to Blackpool.
Going up the tower.
Got my Championees flag with me, think I’ll pin it on the side.
Blackpool’s Green & white!!
HH
Cowiebhoy
Lovely sentiment from your daughter.
Hope she has a great trip.
About 25 years ago the future Mrs Tally met David Tanner through à mutual friend.
She took an instant dislike to him.
She described him as – and I paraphrase:
“An a***-hole who gave me the creeps.”
He has’nt changed.
HH!!
With regard to who journalists, commentators etc. support, I am of the opinion that they should simply be clear about their allegiance. I have no problem with people in the media supporting the deid team or any other team. This is a classic case where a lack of openness and transparency leads to a lot of cynical view and mistrust from the general public. The episode when Young and Traynor were having a go at each other live on-air about who was the biggest hun was hilarious – but also telling. They gave each other away of course – not that anyone thinks they are supporters of anything other than the deid club. But if we already knew that then it would never have been a big deal. What are they afraid of? Ex-players allegiance is worn on their sleeve without any problem. I think we need a campaign to have them outed. Could someone phone Patrick Harvey…?
Just had an e mail from my mates wife in Dublin, he is not long for this world, has cancer and now had a stroke, just sending him home to die.
Some on here will know him, Peter Watters from Dumbarton originally, a right good Celtic mhan.
YNWA Pete.
The govan Guacamole
Proper Guacamole
Wans a dip
Wans a dipstick
HH
Super salary takes an £800k chunk out of the £17m wage bill. I know he doesn’t do adding up and dividing and such like but Super Suppers wages would pat half the monthly wage bill. Do you really need a corpulent miscreant to shift the season tickets?
The purchase of assets at £5.5m now valued at current use £41m is eye watering when you consider they paid a large percentage of that fee for catering from the liquidators. Current use value versus top end 60 odd . Hmm.
How much are Easdale and Laxey prepared to loan to keep the ship above water to make up the gap? Mind you they get a share in assets as above if they own it?
Actually sale and lease back by them , even as a front, is not a bad idea. Rangers may be back in the top league Ally permitting in little over a year but they will be a shell.
Dj67YNWA
Ha, The way them spivs can manipulate share prices, they will be going through the roof…..buy, buy ,buy, buy, or is it by, by, by………..>}}}
HH
Surely the Hun is contravening FFP rules going by those accounts?
Thought there was a rule regards % of turnover against salaries?
Then again, probably doesn’t apply to them, no rules seem to
mullet and co 2
11:28 on
10 April, 2014
Super salary takes an £800k chunk out of the £17m wage bill. I know he doesn’t do adding up and dividing and such like but Super Suppers wages would pat half the monthly wage bill. Do you really need a corpulent miscreant to shift the season tickets?
The purchase of assets at £5.5m now valued at current use £41m is eye watering when you consider they paid a large percentage of that fee for catering from the liquidators. Current use value versus top end 60 odd . Hmm.
How much are Easdale and Laxey prepared to loan to keep the ship above water to make up the gap? Mind you they get a share in assets as above if they own it?
Actually sale and lease back by them , even as a front, is not a bad idea. Rangers may be back in the top league Ally permitting in little over a year but they will be a shell.
#They’re just another Leeds United. “We alll Hate Sevco Scum!!
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TET
Thoughts & Prayers with your friend & his family in their hour of need
YNWA
the exiled tim
That’s a shame about your mate
God bless him
HH
Tet
Thoughts with your friend and his family.
HH!!
Snake,
A lot of the things on your list would be reality in Scotland too. You seem to have a mentality that says if we go it alone others will say fight the foreign wars to help defend you. Won’t we habpve to take part too or will someone else do the dirty work for us? If we want to be part of NATO that means we need to be a full part of NATO?
And tell me as independent country can we really have it all? Free education to uni level, no child poverty, no food banks, council tax frozen reduced rates for businesses???metc etc etc. it’s all unaffordable and contradictory unless we all pay a massive increase in income tax. Is that what we are voting for or are we just going to be like the Huns and spend what we can’t afford till it all goes bust?
You say casino. Apical ism from London??? Err wasn’t it two of the biggest scottish banks that went bust????
I do believe a break up does threaten England’s place at G8 but it also means we lose that influence too.
Oh and you have forgotten being dependent on the uk for currency, Bank of England, monarchy blah blah blah. And there is no guarantee on EU membership for Scotland which if agreed would come at a massive cost. So I think your eu referendum point is moot.,
Nigel Farage is the best thing to happen to England in an age. He is splitting the right wing Tory vote. That makes it less Likely we will be I inundated with Tory govts particularly if labour can get their act together. In any case devolution means that we can fight back against Tory nonsense if we have to.
And what about emotional arguments for staying together. I have a lot more in common with many people in England than I do here in Scotland. What about the sectarian Scotland I live in now where the scottish parliament passed the OB act, where vast swathes of our institutions are institutionally racist agains Catholics and Irish? How about the scottish govt losing statistics? What about being a small catholic minority in an institutionally racist country, where the media are controlled?
So you see I can’t rant too.
I do not trust Scotland and it’s tendencies. We have seen how that plays out even without independence and you want to make it worse??
We will never change one another’s mind but all this freedom stuff is just cringeworthy.
TET
Send miss cowiebhoy a wee email. She is off to lourdes next week..
My mate was buried Tuesday, 3 months was all he got…
God bless
We were threatened with ARMAGEDDON if we did not accept the cheating of the now dead club.
We knew that the threats were empty.
Time has shown that we were right.
We are theatened with CATACLYSM if we reject being controlled by our consistently cheating neighbours.
We know those threats are empty.
I am confident that time will show that we are right.
new article posted.
afternoon champions …a changeable Lower Saxony …
you shall not ,you can not …..you will not … The Knots prayer…what I can remember ….braw ………
“I ask that you remove from my mind ,my heart and my life all of the am nots that I have allowed to hold me back,especially the thought that I am not good enough”
I hear Jackie McNamara and Tommy Wright are both going to be banned from the touchline for the Scottish Cup semi-finals.
NO!
Thanks.
No you don’t!
NegAnon2 and Snake
I’m pleased to see a rational and even tempered debate on the issues instead of the invective of recent weeks.
Snake has put forward several good “yes” arguments which the better together bhoys haven’t answered, IMO.
NegAnon, you seem to define yourself solely on the basis of your religious upbringing. Religion is important to some folk, and fair enough for them but I think more folk class themselves according to other criteria such as social class, race, sexuality etc.
I am more confident and more trusting than you in the ability and willingness of the Scottish people to make their own decisions on important issues not solely on the basis of religious affiliation. You wish to differ, as is your right.
Btw, are you joining the bhoys on 10th? If so, I’d like to meet you. I promise to not debate the referendum. We’ve got a board to sack.
HH
CQN Saturday Naps Competition : Week 33/29th March & Week 34/5th April results & standings
Week 33 winners :
Rockon Neil Lennon (Benbens @15/8)
Week 34 winners :
BMCUWP (Pineau de Re @25/1) :o)
What is the Stars (Bow Creek @10/1 – less 25% R4)
Bada Bing (Balder Success @7/2)
It’s all getting very tight at the top… big well done to BMCUWP in finding the Grand National winner !
+£18.60 PF Ayr (11)
+£17.88 Rockon Neil Lennon (9)
+£17.38 BMCUWP (7)
+£11.50 valentinesday (8)
+£ 5.50 tommytwiststommyturns (3)
+£ 1.50 Bada Bing (5)
+£ 0.50 leftclicktic (6)
-£ 0.13 Som mes que un club (5)
-£ 6.50 Cathal (4)
-£ 7.25 green T (6)
-£ 8.00 What is the Stars (3)
-£10.00 BULL67 (4)
-£10.00 fleagle1888 (4)
-£13.00 El Madrigal (3)
-£13.70 unionbearBhind (3)
-£15.75 16 roads (3)
-£16.75 Kilbowie Kelt (4)
-£20.50 twists n turns (2)
-£21.80 voguepunter (2)
-£24.25 Che (2)
-£26.20 Sponsored by Cheetah (2)
-£26.75 MHARK67 (2)
-£28.94 Burgas Hoops (2)
*No selections (wk 33) : Burgas Hoops, Che, What is the Stars
*No selections (wk 34) : 16 roads, Burgas Hoops, Che, El Madrigal
*Non-Runners : (wk33) : Cathal
Cheers, fleagle1888
Lads,
CQN naps for week 35 (April 12th) on here please…
Cheers, fleagle1888
Lads,
I’m trying to follow in the footsteps of BMCUWP…
my nap is : Rigadin de Beauchene (Scottish Grand National)
Cheers, fleagle1888
FLEAGLE1888
In which case,I’ll use my lucky pin again.
ALPHA VICTOR 350 Ayr
Silsol, 1330 Ayr
Mutashaded 1:50 Newbury……dropped out the
top 3, I really am a spent force…..oh!!! good luck.
Thirsk 4pm Tariq Too
Good luck everyone
BIT OF A JIG ….17/00 AYR
Good luck to all
Heading shortly to Ayr town centre for opening time :-)) .. Then onto the races
Hoping for a more productive day than the last time I was at Ayr …Silver Cup day ..got routed …barely a place never mind a winner
HH
Meccas Angel 5:10 Thirsk
30 seconds of study :))
Enjoy the racing Bhoys & Ghirls
Lads,
I received a strong tip this morning for Hannon’s Brownsea Brink (Newb 3.30)
It’s around 10/1 and some of the bookies are paying 1/4 odds 1,2,3,4,5
As ever, don’t shoot the messenger…
Happy punting, fleagle1888
fleagle1888…….thanks for the heads up bud,now
into 8s wae WH,a wee something e/w.
Astaire 2.55 Newbury
Godsmejudge for a repeat of last year’s National.
Good luck everyone.
Morning Lhads and Lhassie lurkers.
Going for Mendip Express in the National GL BC BF HH
morning all, I’m going for Roalco de Farges 3.50 at Ayr, be lucky