Claims like ‘World’s most successful football club’ are meaningless to most football fans, as the vast majority are not attached to a club which can make such a boast. We are more concerned about who is winning and the direction of travel at our club.
When Newco made a totem of this claim by plastering it all over their properties, they clearly never considered what would happen in the event the claim was no longer sustainable. Losing it to a club in Serbia, or Egypt, would be awkward, but losing it to your nearest rivals? Going from ‘World’s most successful’ to not even being Glasgow’s most successful overnight! That’s going to sting.
The indignity of being forced to redecorate because Celtic have won more trophies than you is symptomatic of the mindset which caused Oldco to march off a cliff. They could not deal with playing second fiddle to Celtic to the extent that they gambled ever-higher stakes instead of paying tax bills.
What we are talking about here is identity. If your identity is intrinsically fixed to holding a position of primacy over others, no amount of red flags will stop you self-harming. The need to be No. 1 is so great, you spend everything you can trying to achieve that status.
Every football fan wants their team to win, but if you cannot cope with losing without losing your sense of future survival, you should find another way to spend your weekends.
The problem Newco have now, is how to convince thousands of fans to climb off the summit and accept their place in the food chain is that of a cash cow for other clubs and a coefficient monkey for Celtic’s Champions League campaigns.
That message will not be evident this summer, but it’s coming to a stadium near you soon!
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As the old Zen Master said ” we’ll see”.
Last season in spite of being in a very healthy financial position Celtic according to accounts of both clubs spent less on players than R2ngers did.
The title race became more competitive than in previous years ( bar Covid season ) as a result.
If Celtic spend to be more competitive in the CL and spend wisely, the chances are the SPFL will become less competitive, year on year as Celtic will always have the financial upperhand.
So it is a dilemma in choosing which path to follow and that dilemma, like last season will influence what we spend on players .
That in turn is influenced by FSR* that sets a spend limit on player squad including manager and coaching staff.
It levels off at 70% in next years licensing round for 25/26.
We will always be able to outspend R2ngers give our bigger football earnings income .
However in light of last summer”s spend of both clubs the question is will we?
The answer is “we’ll see”. :)
* On FSR: Celtic played a role in its development and next to Fergus increasing stadium capacity, helping develop FSR with UEFA and clubs who spent only what they could afford is a domestic game changer in the same bracket.
the bridge was on the portillo railways programme a wee while ago,
he got up top with the paint crew, end to end painting was done is somethink like 12 years..
they then talked advances in technology, the paint itslef now has a lifespan of 18 years, and that analytics and specialist software monitors the rate of deteriation as in some areas are more vunerable than others
portillo said that must be woderful to know the paint lasts longer and specific areas to concentrate on, makes the job easier …………..
ays said the fella, we were able to pay off 4 men
In slight mitigation, coefficient points gained in the Europa League competitions, have an equal value to those won in the Champions League. Clubs at our level would be expected to progress further in the EL than the CL giving them the potential of gaining more coefficient points.
No more newco, no more sevco. From now on it’s R2ngers. I like it. Says it all really.
Oh the R2ngers are shite…
i refer to them as the 2nd rangers no rifles volunteers
As a primary school kid we had a day trip to Edinburgh which took in a visit to the Forth Bridge. The trains going across seemed miles up in the sky. Some years later, on the train to Kirkaldy and Dunfermline to see the bhoys, we would throw toilet rolls out of the window as we were crossing the bridge to watch them stream down to the water below. Since then I have walked up there with Scotrail engineers and also crossed it aboard the old steam train ‘Union of South Africa’ (renamed Osprey for apartheid reasons). Wonderful bridge.
really funny thread on the rangers blogs ,,,,,,,,,,,
why is the dortmund bus being seen around glasgow this weekend
answers –
here for a touch up at dennis coacjes.
driven here pre euro final for servicing
my favourite – arrived at prestwick as cargo …………
real answer it was at celtic park for their legends game.
hahahahahaaha
Just watched Icons of football with Frank McAvennie on iplayer.
Some bitter sweet moments…..yet another case of a young professional football player that had it all but made a lot of bad decisions….obviously playing for the hoops wasn’t one of them ! 👍😂☘️
ERATIC on 28TH MAY 2024 5:34 PM
Just watched Icons of football with Frank McAvennie on iplayer.
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mcmurdos hair, i mean seriously wtf, he must be in his 70s
weebobbycollins
There was one I was thinking about recently after the show returned to Radio 4…..
‘Dead Ringers’
mightworkcsc
St Stivs
Yes , wasn’t quite sure what that was all about , don’t want to say too much !! 🤪🤣
That moment that you think this Sevco team,Would be able to waltzpast,Fenerbache,,FC Twenty,the Billionaire owned USG,who will really be going for this CL,and then,beating,Lille or RB Salzburg,is really pushing the limits of credulity.The Sevco team that somehow gathered co- efficient points in the EUROPA LEAGUE,is no more.
This bunch of bargain basement players they are scouting,added to the has been they can’t shift,won’t get them there.The team playing in the qualifiers,is not the team that racked up the points.No matter what the Medias feel good nonsense says.
As BR said” Come back and see me in August”
Like Ulster,”The most successful team in the world”,were bastions they could hold onto.Pillars of their staunchness.Like “Never liquidated,going for 55″,most built on self delusion.Reality has come around and wrecked their vision of ” Staunchness” Ulster has said YES to Sinn Fein.
Their fantasy world record has fallen to Celtic,and next season their” 55″ will have been shattered by Celtic.
Their vision of their supremacy has been destroyed on all fronts,by Fenians,Taigs,Tims,Tarriers.
Don’t think its too much to expect a bit of piss taking,and numerous mentions of these calamities.
You know,just to sink the boot in.
Rangers had 53.5 titles. R2ngers have1.
We have 54.
That is it
AN TEARMANN on
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“They were ‘ra peeple’ yeah the people Her Majesty ended.
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And then 4 YEARS LATER….7,000 daft glaikit lazy Tims bought tickets for the Broomloan in 2016 awe full of themselves because Brendan1 was recruited to make Timdom go along with the, ahem, “Same Club Lie” by going along with Lawwell and Desmond’s secret backdoor deal of putting old Rangers FC ticket price £49 from 2012….onto new Sevco tickets also £49 in 2016 FOUR YEARS AFTER Rangers died and Timdom became Old Firm cuck facilitators agreed through the Zio Wall Street controlled, Celtic PLC backdoors. 👀️
PS, AN TEARMANN hasn`t mentioned this crookedness ONCE…NOT ONE SINGLE TIME. 👀️
PPS, Do you think the Kelly`s and White`s would have agreed to the PLC Backdoor Old Firm ticket shaft of Celtic supporters?
PPPS, The Kelly`s and White`s didn`t have the money to build a stadium etc…but they would NEVER have jumped into the Establishment`s bed to keep David Murray out of jail…the way his fellow Celtic PLC aka Zio Wall Street crooks did. 👀️
PPPPS, Who do you think grabbed the PLC`s ear and told them to take down the Green Brigade`s pro Palestine flag display? 👀️
Celtic FC = A ugly can of worms [It is for those fans with their own eye`s] 👀️
Yuck! CSC 👀️
Something evil this way comes….
Turkeybhoy
I really hope you are right Re their qualification.
Twente were 15 pt adrift of Feyenoord who were not great this year themselves.
USG has done nothing ever in Europe and even lost to them a couple
Of years ago.
Kiev won’t beat anyone as they have shown this past few seasons.
Fenerbache are hot and cold and especially cold at the beginning of the season most years. But you probably know more than me Re them.
Lille were a poor 4th in a poor French league and Red Bull Salzburg are definitely in transition stage.
I do hope you are right though. I really do. Them gettg more from the CL than us would be disappointing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThhkPG_IFpg&ab_channel=Fozcast-TheBenFosterPodcast
ERATIC
The John Robertson one was amazing and truly humbling.
The only record that you can’t lose is being the first to do something eg 67
They couldn’t even be first to be liquidated
So let’s not get into the ‘ most successful etc ‘
BSR
Thanks will watch that tomorrow 👍
Born under a union jack will die under a union jack.
Dear oh dear.you are raging tonight haha
That the same Kellys/whites(att 21,000) who took Celtic within minutes of ending?
Would the kellys have spoken out?
Celtic would have not been in business in 2012
They would have been a memory.
A Third Lanark,An Abercorn,A team that once was.
4 years later we play a team tuped over
Thems the rules
A 3 year european ban served as a nooklub
Its not down to Celtic to define old or new ragers
Repeat 49 times
Folk learn not to stand on shoite
I know you eat it with your confused pash
Why is it a bother to you? You stopped goin 12 years after the kellys were kicked down london rd,
Wish you had kept goin,if only to save you spending time on youtube
Love
Ps The Palestinian Flag was there on Saturday
Bigger than any union fleg you sooooook:-)
https://x.com/Zeshankenzo/status/1795494921442312646?t=jT0dAsApPFMDEzQF0u6EkA&s=08
VG
Paul67 et al
From next season ‘NewCo’ will run the top two divisions of Women’s football in England. It will take over the running of these divisions from the FA. Amongst other things it is proposing to broadcast games at 3pm on a Saturday from season 2024-25. NewCo is a radical idea, hoping to develop opportunities for the WSL and others.
NB I do not know if ‘NewCo’ has copyright the name, but if it has it just might stop Paul67 from continuing his obsesssion re our main rivals, one which perpetuates the myth of the same club. Might help fix that ‘narrative’.
If that happens Paul67 may have to seek special permission from yours truly to use the (coprighted) and more accurate description he seeks….you guessed it “OldFirm r Us”
Just watched a documentary,Israelism.Anyone interested in the present,or past conflicts,its a must see.
The Palestinian guy,who is one of the narrators, a guide in Bethlehem,has his Hoops on most of the film.
If you have a system with access to Films,should be there.
Burnley,
Fenerbahce just got pipped for the league this season by Galatasaray,losing one game out of 38 matches.6 draws, saw them lose by 3 points,an incredible,102 points to 99.Believe me,they will not want them.
Twenty lost 7 games from 34 matches,finishing 3 rd.
USG finished top of the Belgian league,losing 2 games from 30.
RB Salzburg finished top,but got pipped in their crazy play offs.
Any one of these is very hard game for their freshly cobbled together team.
Can’t see it happening.Hopefully,Fenerbache.Will go with my Darts mates,who re even sicker at the moment than the H.uns.
A wee reminder
Euros Predictor Competition
We have 33 entrants already for our competition but we are aiming to double that before June 14th. I am suggesting a £20 entry fee but, based on feedback, I have decided to proceed with the same arrangements as we had for our SPFL tournament. We will pay out 50% of the money raised to charity immediately and I would suggest a 50/50 split between a) Sentinel Celts nominated Blood Cancer charity and b) John Fallon’s 12th Lion scheme to raise money for a school in Africa.
The other 50% will be paid to the Top 3 in the competition after the final is played to do with as they please. I will announce the actual prize money once we see what we’ve raised.
Now to pay an entry fee- these are the methods:-
Superbru payments:-
By cash in person to CRC or SFTB if you see them
By bank transfer to
Account name: Walk With Shay
Account number: 15326765
Sort code: 80-22-60
Bank: Bank of Scotland
Ref: Enter your name or blog moniker (so we can identify you and check off that you’ve paid!)
By paypal to walkwithshay@yahoo.com (please send as gift, so prize money pot is not diminished by paypal charges).
Feel free to pass on to friends etc; Those who have played before should be able to enter directly without fuss. New players might need to wait a day or two to get approval from me as the Competition Captain. As soon as you are in, you can start making predictions on the matches. Provided you do not click on the green lock beside your prediction, you can change your prediction several times on the way to kick off (but not afterwards). You can make all your predictions in advance if you are going on holiday or you can make each in the last hour before kick off.
Just join in and have a bit of fun. The money is going to a good cause.
In the summer of 1928 he turned down an offer from Arsenal to become the highest paid footballer in Britain because he could not bear to leave Parkhead. It later turned out that the Celtic board were banking on Jimmy McGrory’s departure as a way of boosting the club’s bank account and so riled were they by his refusal of Arsenal’s offer (£10,000 transfer) that they secretly paid him less than his teammates for the rest of his career. When he later discovered this dastardly deed Jimmy McGrory simply said:
“Well it was worth it just to pull on those Green and White Hoops”.
Scumbags caught with their pants on fire lying about vaxxines causing Autism. 👀️
https://x.com/myhiddenvalue/status/1795012351080473067
….oot.
Celtic Mac
If they call the company running the women’s leagues an appropriate name such as “Nooky” instead of Newco, Paul won’t have to worry.
Goodnight all
Tearman
I wish to withdraw my prick remark.
U r not a prick. Indeed, a prick can be useful. How dare you chastise and bully Celtic fans on this site.nip over to foolow foolow where you will find lots of morons like u who despise Tim’s.
U r a bully and a pathetic plastic paddy, the worst type of moron.
I’ll paraphrase mark twain, I think, who said
Never argue with a moron. He will bring you down to his level and defeat you with his experience.
Finally, I issue u this challenge, and I’m certain you will not accept it –
I have responded to your trolling.
Now let’s be adults and leave it at this.
Where’s Darwin?
Before Brendan Rodgers arrived we had a disastrous record at Hampden Park. In 15/16 we lost to Ross County and second tier opposition while struggling to win a one horse race in the league. We were embarrassed by Malmo and Molde amongst others. In 15′ we lost to Inverness, 13′ to Morton and in 14′ to Aberdeen at home in cup competitions.
Brendan changed everything, he set standards and shifted our mentality which has brought sustained success. A trophy laden decade has followed. Nobody understands this better than Neil
Lennon.
Celtic quick news is becoming compare against Rangers quick news. Every other day brings another article drawing comparison with the club playing out of Ibrox. No articles place any praise or recognition on our elite manager.
Since Brendan arrived our systems and processes have not been able to match his level. Nicholson and McKay will come under pressure to deliver this summer. Rodgers got this one over the line despite the malaise created and left by the Lawwell axis. Lesser managers would have floundered under the the strain of such executive dysfunction.
Despite being treated appallingly by a large section of the support who abused him, Brendan has worked with humility and dedication to deliver a league and cup double.
Make no mistake about it, Brendan Rodgers is here because he wants to be here and because he loves Celtic.
I assume your coefficient monkeys jibe is just that Paul?
Harmless enough wind up I suppose.
R2ngers (yip, I’m persuaded) have amassed more coefficient points over the last five years than Celtic.
They’ve outscored us in four of those.
The only time they did worse was when we were both in the Champions League.
Our campaign under Ange was disappointing. I reckon we left at least two more points out there.
R2ngers’ was an embarrassment. They were shown up as being MILES off being a CL team.
Europa appears to be there level.
If they can thrive in that lower division, make some cash, pick up coefficient points for the nation?
Good news for everyone.
BTW – R2ngers are not unique here.
15 years ago, ago Romania had two automatic qualifiers for the CL.
If you are wracking your brains trying to recall who the Romanian hi-flyers in the Champions League were?
Don’t bother. They routinely got skelped.
The situation only came about because three or four teams did well in the lesser competitions picking up loads of coefficient points along the way.
As for speculating on R2ngers’ pathway to CL …. respectfully … is it worth it.
We know the script.
They’ll trade in volume this summer as always.
The new recruits will be world-beaters.
Their opponents will be in crisis pre match either because of injuries or a sacked manager.
If they reach the CL they’ll have earned it.
… and they’ll need the money.
“rebuild hots up”
Yip. I actually saw that today.
Good night CQN.
I hope the double winners have finished partying and are now resting.