The Celtic PR machine showed yesterday that maybe its time to put itself in for a service, as its clearly not working properly.
Although that may be concentrating on the vehicle and not the driver.
Fans fears, for instance, that the club was pretending to go along with the no old firm angle simply to prevent criticism or investigation were realised when the official twitter page seemed to forget that Rangers had entered liquidation and were now merely a basket of assets playing out of a cheaply bought stadium.
Carefully avoiding the actual phrase “old firm “, the tweet referred to the Glasgow Derby, the “official ” title of the game between Celtic and “rangers “, a club that Harry hood never faced, instead of the Old Firm, which was Celtic and Rangers, the latter a club Moussa Dembele never faced.
Still, at least there was an announcement about season book renewal, though again they probably wished there wasn’t.
After telling the Celtic Trust there had already been added value to last seasons books, the board decided they would get the message about next seasons out of the way….
We are pleased to confirm that the renewal window for 2021/22 Season Tickets is now open with all prices frozen.
- Standard Season Ticket prices are frozen for the 2021/22 season.
- For the 13th year Under 13 Season Tickets remain at £50.
- A range of exciting additional benefits for the coming season.
- Season Ticket holders have until 5pm on Friday, June 25 to renew.
As we look ahead to the coming season our commitment to you is that your investment in the Club will continue to be used to invest in the squad and to build a team which can achieve success both at home and in Europe.
We intend to finalise the appointment of the next Celtic Manager shortly and we are also encouraged by the recent announcement of crowds at sporting events across Scotland this summer including at Hampden, Murrayfield and on Glasgow Green.
Celtic has been at the forefront of the effort to get our supporters back with us and now as we return to normality we are preparing to welcome you home to Celtic Park.
Our Club was born in adversity, raised in defiance and defined by no other. With our own standards and own values – we always have been and always will be a Club open to all. Now we have a real chance to start afresh, to work together and once again create a Club built for the future, a Club built to last.
Thank you for your fantastic support. It is greatly appreciated and we will do all we can to bring back success.
The deadline to renew is Friday, June 25.
The quickest and easiest way to renew is online now, and better yet, you’ll automatically be entered into a prize draw for the chance to win your seat completely free of charge for the season!
Thats some competition by the way. Win a seat you probably won’t get to sit in.
One of the benefits is a voucher for the club shop, which is valid online or in person until the 31st of September.
I read somewhere that around sixty per cent of gift cards remain unused, and given our own boards considerable canniness where the green pound is concerned, I’ll wager that even the cheapest item available will be £51.
However, amidst all this cynicism there came forth an idea from the Etims twitter, @etims.net , and its a very good one….
The question was put to John Paul Taylor, who said:
At this stage , details are sketchy as to how that can be done, but we’ll try to find out, as it is indeed a splendid idea, and yet again demonstrates that the support can be united when they want to be, just not with the board, who have a rather different outlook on giving anything away.
Things they haven’t given much away on include the name of our next manager, although its fairly obviously Eddie Howe and his pals.
It seems they are all under contract until May 31, and if they joined Celtic before that the club would have to pay for them.
And we know where the board stands on spending money they think they don’t have to.
Which,co-incidentally, if they don’t get their collective fingers out, is where we’ll be watching the games from.
As far as we have heard, this is the line up….
Eddie Howe, Simon Weatherstone, Stephen Purcell, Peter Grant. Richard Hughes as his Chief Scout, along with Mark Burchill his main UK contact. Sports Science team inbound also to work with Tim Williamson. Fergal Harkins DOF.
There’s no mention of Jonny King, the Bournemouth physio who left the club yesterday, which prompted a newspaper report or two saying he’d told a pal that he definitely wasn’t coming to Celtic.
Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t, but a new manager who knows how to improve players and won;t stand for any shite sounds good, as does a sports science team to work on fitness and injury recovery.
And Peter Grant, who can point at things.
Not a laptop in sight.
For the first time in a few months, maybe quite a few months, we have something to look forward to, and by donating our vouchers to the Kano foundation , something to remind us of who we are.
I might even smile later on.
By the way, Ashley v “rangers ” was in the courtroom yesterday. Anyone know what happened, or has that been airbrushed out of history ?
And before I forget, congratulations to Villareal, who won the Europa League last night after an enthralling penalty shoot out. Say what you want about penalties to settle major honours, but its pure drama.
And football is all about entertainment.
And credit to David De Gea of Manchester united, twelve penalties he was involved in, eleven ended up in the back of the net, but his determination meant he ensured the twelfth went nowhere near.
Ashley V Sevco was in Court this morning at 10.30 am no update as yet.
Update:
From SFM:
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2021/790.html
The SDIR v TRFC case was an appeal by SDIR to confirm that TRFC could not profit from the Elite/Hummel deal. TRFC had interpreted an earlier injunction differently from SDIR and sought to sue Elite for monies due.
The three judges concluded, by a majority decision, to accept the SDIR appeal and their interpretation of the earlier injunction.
Not seeing any coverage elsewhere, so please keep us posted!
Looks like a loss for the Huns hence no mention in the MSM.
No, it wasn’t.
It was SDI’s action to enforce the terms of the settlement that the Huns wanted to vary for their nefarious purposes.
No, that wasn’t what it was about.
You’re entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts.
Martin O’ Neill cane on the 1st of June, not a bad act to follow. Howe will assemble a good support team, at his level reputation is everything if he is to have a future in the game. He got away with Burnley but he will need to succeed at Celtic. He will need backing from the board, all staff and above all the support. If he gets that we can think positively. The media are convinced the new club is on a roll, I would love it if their best days were behind them!
He’ll probably be Howe’s first signing. HH!
Board need to be removed!
Backed both teams to win on penalties at 11s last night so found the shootout most enjoyable. Wee tip for Saturday?
Since the 31st September never comes, have the vouchers no expiry date?
or they’re all invalid.
Villareal’s success is a poke in the eye for any Super League concept. A small club from a city of 50-60,000 and a ground capacity of 23500 swept aside a “super” club through superior coaching.
interestingly, VR did this by not employing a coach for more than one year all the way back to Marcelino in 2016. Since 2016 they have had 5 coaches! League positions obtained floated around 5, 6, 7th…..not bad for a small club.
more interestingly, Emery was appointed THREE days after the previous coach left!
VR showing us how it should be done.
rebus
Once, in our distant past, Celtic FC were the New-Co, a New-Co of Irish clubs. Hibernian- Dundee Harp- then Dundee Hibernian. Club’s gloriously named like, Shamrock – Emmett – Harp – Erin – Emerald – Columba i think was Brother Walfrid’s first go, at naming a football club, before he named the club that became world famous (if I miss any pray-tell). There once was a bridge across the Irish Sea, it was built with empathy, compassion, tolerance, values and of course faith. We know our history and recognise that Brother Walfrid’s message spread world wide, with over 200 Celtic Supporters clubs and millions of Celtic supporters. We must remember too that not every Celtic supporter is a member of CSA – AICSA – Green Brigade The CT, or ones that post on a Celtic blog.
Celtic supporters have many firm opinions, varied and strongly held. The one thing that binds us all together, is that Celtic is in our DNA, you cannot just shrug that aside, or dismiss it, for to do so would be a denial of yourself.
Excellent thought and idea regarding The Kano Foundation BTW. or to give it its proper name…
The Kan-do Foundation. There it is again you see.. Empathy – Compassion – Values.
You echo all of my thoughts but without the Irish background. My dilemma is that a) I understand that the club has to evolve as the environment changes, but b) do I like what it has become?
many fans have a nostalgic view of the club, based on “charity” values but, if you read the history, much of that vanished within 5 years of the establishment of the club…..when business saw the value of crowds of 5000 at a game.
the present board, IMHO, is incompetent and is not a basis for judging the values of the club. Would a more competent board still espouse the original values of the club? Who knows?
rebus
Yes, Celtic plc. is a sad reflection of modern day football clubs, money orientated. The pretence is to ‘keep the club safe’, while paying out to those that manage the club, badly.
The football part of the club is run in an amateur fashion, as you say by incompetents. And yes, the money factor soon took priority over everything else, but Brother Walfrid also recognised at that time, that it had to be so, to keep the club safe, his motive though was very different,his was for feeding the poor with their penny dinners.
The ‘Bunnett’ IMO got it right, he too though was critisised for taking so much out of the club, however, we knew that he cared for the club and it’s support and did much to set up the “Foundation” and to speak up for it. Boards are like football managers, they come and go, the sooner that the currant one goes, the better. The support IMO is the club, it’s them that are the real custodians and they certainly deserve much better than the ones they have got. Time for another ‘bunnett’ or sombrero perhaps?
I disagree. Yes, Fergus made money out of Celtic but he risked his entire fortune to bail out Celtic when other, richer individuals (including DD) didn’t bother. If the Celtic support didn’t step up to buy shares, he would have lost the lot and we would have lost our club. He deserves more credit than being bracketed with Desmond
There was no risk!
Why wasn’t there hundreds queuing up to do the same?
Spoke up for the club on numerous times, DD spoke up for The *Rangers.
New 60,000 stadium. 53,000 new season ticket holders.
5,300 new, small Celtic shareholders (me and two sons included) and tried to leave the majority shareholding to the support, I think he did at the time. DD – ?
Created – Bhoy’s Against Bigotry. Set up the Celtic Charity Fund and donated £1.5million. DD -? He, John Keane and others saved the club from bankruptcy, risking all his fortune.
All this despite being in competition with the SFA- SPL and the serial cheats from Govan. No different from Dermot?
McCann wouldn’t have wanted Sevco to be out the top flight, he would have voted for them to be in the top flight.
Why did he then sell the 5000 Rangers shares, the shares that were in the boardroom safe? You do know that this was 1995, not 2012. There was no Sevco then and no-one knew then that Rangers would go on to rack up the crippling EBT debt, that came years later. McCann was the treasurer for the Croy CSA, he was never faced with the question of what he would have done if they had gone bust, that’s just pure speculation.
Remember also the support,who over subscribed 2/3 share issues.
We built the club alongside Fergus, not all down to him.
How much was a ‘relatively small Bank Debt’ ? You know that the club had a £7.00 million bank debt don’t you, a fortune then? you know that it was 24 hours from insolvency don’t you? John Kean went into the Bank of Ireland and deposited £1.00 million, to keep the light’s on. If it wasn’t for Kean and McCann the club would have died.
The support never oversubscribed any share issue, in fact only 5,300 shareholders took up his offer. He said at the time that he was suprised how few supporters took up the offer.
If Lawwell had been a “shroud” operator over the last decade we’d have hugely enhanced our European credentials, be in a better financial position and won THE TEN.
I hope he’s a “shroud” operater sooner rather than later. The bastard.
Ditto DFD and the rest of the Board.
Oh, and the new huns would’ve been called the new huns!
It wasn’t pedantics, CS!
I was using the meanings from both shrewd and shroud, i.e. if he’d been dead OR shrewd……when explanations are needed it’s a waste of fukkin’ time! Bye!
He never made £40.00 million in 5years. He sold his shares which were underwritten by big Institutions for £40.00 million, but he invested £9.00 million, worked without pay for 5 years, never took a penny out of the club, then gave the football academy £1.5 million. That’s £29.5 million, less any salary. He had a 51% shareholding offered first to existing shareholders, one new share for every three they had. Took turnover up by 385 % Profit from £283K to £6.7million.
CS
Who was McCann expected to leave his money to? I have never ever known anyone to sell a business without pocketing the takings. £40 million in 1999 is equal to £70 million today so I find your figures hard to believe. People justify the high wages of footballers by stating that they have their familiies to look after, so why isn
t this the case for McCann, a person, by rhe way, that I wasnt particularly enamoured (or enamelled, as Charlie Nick would say) by.If I sold my house tomorrow I would hardly be leaving the money I got for it in a drawer for the new owner to spend.
Oh no JimboH, I would never, ever cough do that, never. 😉
You will be relieved to know, I am off out to shop for groceries. The kit kats are finished. However, one piece of advice for our invisible new CEO. Go and study other teams, like VR, to learn how they manage player and manager churn. If you can bring best practices back from that, you will have earned your salary and tge club will be in a better position, long term.
Rebus
You cheap bastard Lawwell. Why didn`t you go the whole hog and make the vouchers 55 pounds?
Portpower,
that was me giving you a negative response. I meant to give it a thumbs up. Sorry.
Rebus
Sorted
Rebus67,
raise a kit kat for me.
SMSM putting the pain before the pleasure…
The rangers look to sign £15m-rated international striker.
Celtic to sign free agent.
They exist only as sevco`s object. Exposed.
RUMOUR MILL:
Howe is considering the Socceroos coaching job.
Port, he’s called Eddie not fukkin’ Joey! 😉
I wouldn’t blame Lawell. He appears a bit burnt out at the moment
I thought his red face was a tan. HH!
Message in a recyclable bottle;
Manager – Steve Clarke.
Coach – John Hughes.
Assistant coach – Peter Grant.
BYO tablet.
CS
You betray an appalling lack of knowledge of the ‘lower leagues’ players, coaches, referees and fans. A tired cliche of a post. Dalglish was loaned to Cumbernauld Juniors.
If you buy a strip. Renew your season or pay for Celtic tv you are nothing but a SCAB!!
This is a complete shambles
Amazing timing from Dysfunctional FC. Thieve as much season ticket money they can, then surprise surprise, ‘talks’ with Howe break down. A shower of indescribable low life scum. Lawwell and Co will need to find another planet to live on.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9629177/amp/Celtics-Eddie-Howe-COLLAPSES-talks-break-backroom-team.html
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/7177130/eddie-howe-celtic-off-bournemouth/
Deals off
Ach well, at least we can rely on the inspirational leadership of John Kennedy and Peter Grant. What’s not to like?
Peter Grant has just taken the Dunfermline job. It’ll be Clarke after the Euros.
Thanks. No telly, so don’t keep up much.
It’s a hard life in the seminary. I’ll send you my copy of Titbits.
I’d rather have bill tennant and pee wee Hermann
If it’s true he didn’t want it without his back room staff, which is a prerequisite for any good manager then the club is fucked. Sounds like they want their man on the inside. Like Kennedy.
Yesterday I mentioned that Villareal were able to appoint a top toer manager three days after the previous coach left. What is the problem at Celtic?
Here are my thoughts….flawed or otherwise.
Firstly, it might not be Eddie Howe and the mystery candidate is only free at the end of his season. I think this is unlikely but possible. If it is accurate then the mystery man needs to be high profile to overcome the shock of not betting Howe.
More likely, it is Howe and he wants Richard Hughes to come as well. Howe probably has a covenant in his B’mouth contract prohibiting him from luring players and staff away from his former club for a period of time……perhaps one year. Hence the delay in announcing Howe’s appointment because he wants to be sure that Hughes can come. Further, promises may have been made to Fergal Harkin that he will be the DOF. Now we have a conflict of who does what between Hughes and Harkin. Negotiating acceptable divisions of responsibility will take time especially if both are under contracts elsewhere.
The DOF should be independent of the manager but Howe wants his man to head up scouting, yet Harkin would expect to be in charge of recruitment. A difficult dilemma and one that may scupper Howe’s appointment. Hope there is a Plan B.
Thoughts de jour. back to my Kit Kat. For goodness sake Tunnock get some caramel wavers over to Canada!
Rebus
Woops! Just saw the reports on the breakdown of the Howe negotiations! Let us see what emerges on the background to this. I really hope there was a Plan B!
If the Howe deal was up in the air, who is managing the scouting and recruitment? A mystery candidate?
Remember how we used to laugh at Sevco? Karma is a bitch!
Rebus
Where did my long post go?
Rebus
Talking Ange postecoglu now. Don’t know what to think of this. He does get teams playing good football. A bit cavalier. No European experience, I don’t think it’ll placate the fans. Could do worse though
Surely its going to be another Lennon wet-dream moment from the board?
Now that he’s recharged his batteries, he’s ready to step into the breach once more.
The Nightmare on Kerrydale Street XXXX.
bow wow eddie how wit a fookin dug its his loss
Ghirls and Bhoys, welcome to semi-professional football at Celtic.
What’s the half that’s professional?
Astute, professional businessmen. Remember when we LOL at the Huns.
Fence erecters.
but which side of the fence does the professional cheek sit?
It
s what is wiped from said cheeks is that thats thrown at us.So the curse of Lawwell continues, did he try to bring in Eddie’s back-up on the cheap or try to con him into working with his yes-men? Is this another 30 millions plus flushed as we lack preparation for the Euro Champs and the sevconians wet themselves laughing? Is Lawwell going to continue to cower behind his puppets and looking elsewhere from the Keano’s who would sell out Celtic Park at a shot and bring that fighting edge and self-respect back to the club? How much did his burnt-out garage sway Eddie? Where do we go from here? Are we folding like a pack of cards or is there a chance we might just come back fighting? Wish Lawwell and Banksie would take a job over at the sevco’s, would not miss them one bit! HH!
Was it Lawwell who tried it on with a Manager we were interested in a while back?
He told the interested Manager to pay for his back staff with his own wages?
P.S. Are we not insured for this pandemic?
I have absolutely no idea what is going on at Celtic, what i do know is one thing, i’m not accepting this.
My first choice…Marcelo Bielsa…for his proven track record and ability.
My second choice ….Keano….for his will to win and take no sh*te off SMSM, SFA, or any player not willing to put in a shift wearing the hoops.
“Just when we thought we were out (of the shit), they pull us back in”.
F-ck the board.
And again Lawwell sitting behind his new puppet ensues we lose out on European Champs money. Up to 50 millions with TV money, supporters buying seats and merch and esteem going down every year. Is the Lowland League where PL and Bankier have their ambition for the first-team? Where is the pride? Keano 100%! HH!
Keane??? You would be as well padlocking the doors and burning down the stadium.
Hear that, but he sticks in the throat of the establishment, which is why they would rather not. Lenny lost his fire, Keano will not. Celtic need a strong and respected leader, otherwise chaos and we have plenty of that right now and Roy would initially bring interest and excitement. But long term? I think so but yes, there is always a risk though Roy would take no pish or slacking from anybody! HH!
With no loving in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can
t say were satisfiedBut Ange, Ange…
Am I a bad supporter for thinking, I
ve had enough of this?Dave King is sitting there saying "readem and weep.”
Milked for near on 20 years. Next.
Dermot Desmond and his minions are basically turning the club into Man City’s Northern franchise. Fvck Desmond, Fvck Lawwell, Fvck Harkin and every other last no mark on the board. Shambolic and not fit for purpose, these parasites need to be removed by any means necessary.
Exactly my thoughts CS. At best it’s a half cooked idea. Youngsters won’t be attracted to Celtic by the chance of playing in a Colts league, they want to see a route to the first team. Is that in place yet? No.
If the Australian guy is the new manager it has the making of another Ronnie Deila venture ending in tears. The guy has not won much and has no European experience. If he’s willing to keep Strachan and Kennedy then for sure he is the cheap option. No offense to these guys but they just don’t have the Curriculum Vitae to be offered Celtic jobs or have Celtic really lost any sense of ambition? Which top players would these lot attract? I saw the clip of him talking about possession football and the downside of high pressing football. Some supporters are convinced he knows a thing or two. Simon Donnelly interviewed Barry Ferguson a couple of months ago and Barry was saying something similar! Anyone can talk a good game these days but can they manage a successful team in an increasingly competitive environment.? BTW is everyone so easily convinced that EH dropped the baton at the last hurdle because one of his team wouldn’t come to Glasgow? If that is the case I feel we dodged a bullet there. Three months negotiating and they’re telling us EH didn’t know the minds of his backroom staff until the last minute. Truly incompetent from Celtic. If EH expressed these kind of conditions way back then Celtic should have moved on at once. EH was in my opinion never going to be the guy to turn things around – his achievements are not that great and he has no European experience. Not sure why we were fixated on him.
Ange Who? Dr Jozef Venglos anyone? Which self-appointed genius came up with this one? WOW! A success in Japan! Anybody can open a shop and sell goods, but when they start making more than most they think they are geniuses and setting style. You are not an icon PL, just at it and fooling yourself more than anybody. But hey-ho, set up in your ivory tower pulling broken strings you will. Another 40-50 million opportunity wasted as Europe opens it doors and a Keano would run right through. Money that could be spent on rebuilding the squad and keeping us flush. Ridiculous. But users, which you are, are just that. HH!
The only suprising thing about this latest shambolic comedy, is that we are suprised. You wonder if it’s Lawwell’s last (V) two fingered salute departing shot, after being caught in possession of the 5Way Agreement. it’s not as if it hasn’t been done to the support before. This latest soap opera has been over a year in the making, it only add’s to the Covid depression. Resolution 12 and their treatment of the Resolutioners, the Delia appointment, the appointment of Lennon in the showers, they really are a bunch of serial incompetents. It’s no wonder that the support is going off it’s chuff. Their next managerial appointment fills me with dread, but the one thing you know, it’s that he will always be ‘not the preffered option’. If it’s the Aussie- Greek, then prepare for another Greek tragedy, you just know that it’s coming. Fuch – Hall, give them Fuch – Hall, a starvation diet…