Celtic Rumours Archive May 03 2012

03 May 2012 23:28:32
It is all very respectful, standing by and 'observing passively', what appears to be happening within the SFA & SPL.

Is it not about time we stood up to this apparent 'whitewash', and threatened to do the same as the Rangers fans did (boycot all away games) if there remains silence from both the SFA & SPL; with what we all fear, Rangers walking away from this with minimal punishment ( which they most likely won't even honour, as they will leave any monetary punishment with the 'OldCo'.

Well said.

Totally agree, the power of our pound by boycotting away games will have the same effect as the proposed threat by Rangers, albeit with a slight sense of pity to these other clubs as they have effectively did nothing wrong and most feel the same as we do. A statement has to be made by us that we are not going to stand by idly and allow this to happen. We have to show the directors of these other clubs that there will be consequences too should the punishment be too little or at worse none.

A lot of supporters of non O/F teams are threatening to turn their backs on Scottish football altogether if a Rangers Newco are allowed to continue in the SPL rather than being made to start off in Division3

Isn't lawell on the SFA board and Riley on the SPL board? Plus with lawells past record with Regan do you honestly think these three men are sitting back doing nothing? Also thompson from Dundee utd is on the SPL board and absolutely Hayes rangers.

The SPL aren't trying to be nice to rangers, they are trying to look after themselves.

BNB

Totally agree. Absolute embarrassment and shambles the way the authorities have handled things so far.

Try emailing the SFA any thoughts and comments. I for one wont be going to another SPL game if Rangers walk away from their debts scot free.

BNB,

I fully understand what you are saying, but I think we all know what that the representatives you mentioned will be out voted, by the others who as you rightly said will look after themselves.

But, Rangers know that the SPL will procrastinate and delay any decisions, and they are taking advantage of the situation ( I think they will form a NewCo before the season ends, in order for them to avoid any penalties).


So I feel the only way for us to counter this, is to play them at their own game, and force the SPL's hand into making a decision quickly.

Original o/p well said totaly agree

EUFA FFP Regulations come into effect from Season 2012/2013, i.e. next season. Maybe it would also help posters if they read the Henry McLeish report on Scottish Football - especially the points on the History of Football around 1989 when Celtic's turnover was £8 million but debts were £ 36 million with average crowds of 22,000. That works out at a cost of £4.50 for every £1.00 earned.............in other words technical insolvency!!1

LMFAO, you lot copy everything everyone elso does, the huddle, ynwa, backs to the pitch, just can't get enough, going after the same players as Rangers & now you want to boycott away games. :-)

If there is a 'whitewash' we should stay away from any ground that supported the inaction of the SFA/SPL.

This post is ridiculous. Why punish other teams. We are better than that. Much better than that. Shame on this

Bring Fergus McCann back as head of the SFA. He will soon ther s**t out and is not afraid to make the right decisions regardless how upset people get. (as Cadette, DiCanio and the other mercenaries who thought they could hold CFC to ransom). Celtic supporters were begging him to spend but he knew what was needed and did not spend a tenner for every fiver! Painful at the time but look at the club now.

Whatever happens to the other mob happens, if they get let off scot free so be it,why would any celtic fan be suprised, lets just concentrate on CELTIC, we got lots to look forward to next season so lets not get caught up in their stupid games.

I dont think ANY Scottish team should attend IBROX again.

A more constructive approach would be for a mass cancellation by fans, of all clubs, of their SKy Sports subscriptions in protest of a newco being allowed to start of life in the SPL or at least a petition to Sky threatening to do so. It strikes me that Doncaster(quite an arrogant and dismissive character) is more interested in saving the Sky TV deal he negotiated than protecting sporting integrity in our game. in order to save face. Its all about the Sky money and thats why the football authorities are bending over backwards to accommodate Rangers

Whose the clown who says Celtic in 1989 had debts of £36M? Turnover was indeed around £8M but at the time of takeover in 1994 our debt had GROWN to £5M - £7M. Hardly £36M muppet. We were £36M in debt in 2003 with a turnover of £70M. There is no comaprison with the situation then or now. There was no insolvency event at CP (close as it came) and no atempt at a NEWCO. all debts were paid. What do folk not get about this. To encourage re-entry without punishment is the eqivalent of giving the green light to, say Aberdeen, to borrow £30, go for the league, then when the bank want it back just reform.

03 May 2012 23:06:13
11 o'clock just home from game parkheads a nightmare to get away from but anyhoo the game was'nt great , too many changes, the thai tms were brilliant , they must be the happiest kids in the world , bb

These kids should be an inspiration to us all they were superb tonight.

Was at the game last night too first for a while [due to work] took my youngest , who aint that keen , he enjoyed it the thai tims were great. the game so so ,best news youngest wants to go back again .theres hope yet !

Loved seeing the kids.So happy,they looked like kids at Disneyland.Game was typical end of seson affair,Ledley was good but Rogne was a stand out.Heard the Thai Tims will be back for Hearts game,good ending to their trip.When do they go to Ireland and also go home Ed?

Jungle Bhoy. {Ed007's Note - The Thai Tims are due to visit Belfast for a concert on the 8th May and are returning home on the 15th of the month JB.}

Come on you Thai's in Green; Thailands green and white; the kids were fantastic. Nice to see the St'Johnston fans putting their hands together too - well done the Saints!

Not enough changes that was the problem.

03 May 2012 21:38:21
Has big Fraser just broken this record for clean sheets now??
CB67 {Ed007's Note - Broken his own record.}

It was zaluska in goal tonight {Ed007's Note - Apologises, the club beat it's own record.}

SPL record broken + 2 more games and we beat the all time league record too.

Jungle Bhoy.

03 May 2012 20:48:12
hi there ed can you tell me AGAIN(sorry mate) mate how to get a live feed for the game tonight cheers,kb-bhoy. {Ed007's Note - The full match is being shown on BBC Alba at 10 p.m. (Virgin 118) as well.

1. Install the browser Google Chrome.

2. Look in the top right (your right) corner and you will see a spanner.

3. Click on the spanner and select 'tools'.

4. Click on extensions

5. At the bottom right (as you look at it) you will see 'Get More Extensions >>'. Select this.

6. In the search box type 'Chrome Live Football' and search.

7. Click on Chrome Live Football and then click on install. (it may download to a holding file in the bottom left as you look at it, in which case as soon as it's finished click there, but mostly it will install itself)

8. A small football will then appear in the top right (as you look at it). Click on that, select 'live stream' and reset the clock to GMT and it will list all the live games available all over europe and other places.

You may occasionally need to install other programmes or the link you pick will only work on Explorer (in which case cut and paste the URL into Explorer), but you will always get every EPL match (or any other). Sometimes you will only be able to find it with foreign commentary and sometimes you will get it in English. You'll get about thirty links and you may have to look through a lot of them to get what you want. You will also get most La Liga matches, Greek matches, Italian matches and French matches as well as top matches from South America.

Someone also asked about viruses etc. Google Chrome is actually far more secure than Internet Explorer so the risks are considerably less, but you should have decent virus/spyware programmes and run sweeps regularly as a matter of course.

The quality will also depend on the speed of your internet connection. If you have super-speed and have a modern HD TV, consider connecting your PC to the TV via the PC socket on the side/ back.

Cut and paste the above into a document and save it for future reference.

Ed thanks for that AGAIN LOL. just as i got it up and running got f**king called out to our storage yard some little B had tried to break in had to go and turn alarms off just back in and just about to watch it on alba can`t find it on 118 so thanks again big man,kb-bhoy {Ed007's Note - Sorry channel 188...d'oh!!}

03 May 2012 20:43:10
Any word on how the thai tims went tonight? Did alot of people make it early to see them? andy from oz {Ed007's Note - It went well and they came out at HT as well to form a guard of honour for the Under-19s who got presented with their league trophy.}

Thanks for that Ed, will be looking for the you tube videos later on, they kids are brilliant and amazing what everybody from the celtic family has done for them. andy from oz

03 May 2012 19:35:09
If they go newco and are allowed straight back into SPL ,shouldn't Celtic resign in protest and apply to join SFL ? Still in Europe next season and in control of their media rights .Would supporters back this stand against corruption and immorality ?

Paddy Malarkey

Cutting our nose off to spite our face. What would it achieve. Us in the SFL and Rangers still in the SPL.

And guess who'd be qualifying for the Champions League the following season.

Maybe this poster should lay off the 'funny fags' eh

If as I suspect they are going to be able to play their squeaky clean club in the SPL with little if any sanctions EVERY club in the SPL are as well packing up and going home....the baw would be well and trully burst for our national sport.
an SFA poll of 96% against them being allowed to stay in the SPL without sanctions and they still are given the red carpet treatment.

Thank you for the right to reply , but the poster doesn't smoke at all-gave up when I was 21 , 37 years ago . Just don't know how you can lie down to this s**te . PS Is it just my opinion or has the standard of written English on this site has improved since Thistle supporters began posting ? You are very welcome on our site . And don't believe a word of this .

Paddy Malarkey

I think that the newco can only get into the SPL if the other clubs allow that to happen. If they do then we should let them know now that we will avoid their grounds and rather than joining the SFL we should consider not playing in any of the cup matches too.

03 May 2012 18:01:37
I have absolutely no knowledge of the big bad world of finance but I can’t help feeling that the Yank has come in, pounded the table at the SPL/SFA saying any more punishments and I bin the offer. All the while knowing there will be further punishment by which time his offer has been accepted, the deal has been done and he is the new owner. Whereupon the further punishments are dished out he announces to the hoards, sorry guys but we can’t afford this anymore we have to go into liquidation.
And, hey presto! He has his club and the liquidation he had preferred all along and the knuckle draggers have been done over again. Simples! Well that’s what I’d do if I had the cash to throw at a toilet.
ED007:- Ankles looks very painful. You should get that photo into NUTS mag. I had a mate who cut his hand almost in half and sent the photos in and got some cash for it. He had to lie about his age mind ‘cos he was over 40.
KTF. Frankiebhoy. {Ed007's Note - Well I only turn a tender 38 tomorrow. But it would be a good excuse to buy NUTS, like you need one ;-)

Ed007:- Funny thing age. One day your young enough to read? NUTS and you're just one of the lads. Next day your too old and it looks like you're a perv. I remember when I was a lad!?! Have a great Birthday. I'll have tipple to you. ;-P Frankiebhoy {Ed007's Note - A fine piece of philosophy there Frankie, I never thought about that :-) Thanks for the birthday wishes mate.}

How can they get away with not paying all that money to HMRC as we all have to pay our bills to them even if we have to pay them up but its always in full

03 May 2012 16:22:21
Ed,i found this and i was just wondering if you knew anything about this guy?

Sly Spurts understands Blackpool and Peterborough are both tracking Welling striking sensation Loick Pires.

The 22-year-old is one of non-league football's rising stars and will be out of contract this summer, which is sure to spark a fight for his signature.

He illustrated his qualities again on Wednesday evening by playing an instrumental role in helping Welling gain a 2-1 lead in the Conference South semi-final first leg.

His devastating run from his own half, which left four players in his wake, set up Lee Clarke's winner against Sutton.

Pires has won the club's Goal of the Season award for the last two seasons and was also named their Player of the Year recently.

Welling, however, will be entitled to a compensation fee for the highly-rated talent should he depart the club.

Sounds a not bad player and is there any more news about our interest in that Fleetwood striker?

Jungle Bhoy. {Ed007's Note - I have never heard of Pires JB, sorry. Jamie Vardy has agreed to join Leicester, it is just the clubs who need to sort out the details of the deal.}

Cheers Ed.How many goals did Vardy end up with for the season?Think he would have done excellent up here.

Jungle Bhoy. {Ed007's Note - He finished on 34 goals in 40 matches. The reported bid is only around £750k but I think the Fleetwood owner might still hold out for the £1 million he was looking for.}

Ed 001,do you know anything about this Pires?

Jungle Bhoy. {Ed001's Note - I don't, 007 was asking me about him last night. The man to ask would be 003, but he has an internet problem tonight (probably brought on by celebrating Blackpool's win tonight and copious amounts of alcohol!), and isn't online. I will ask him about it tomorrow when I see him for you though.}

03 May 2012 15:46:59
Celtic and Motherwell will represent Scotland in the qualifying stages of the 2012/13 Champions League.

Neil Lennon’s SPL champions will enter the tournament on the Champions Path at the third qualifying round.

Third placed Motherwell are on the Non-Champions Path, also at the third qualifying round, at the expense of Rangers, who have not been recommended for a UEFA Club Licence.

Celtic

This season’s SPL winners need to go through two qualifying rounds to reach the group stages for the first time since 2008/09.

Projecting Celtic’s potential opponents is a lengthy process. Six teams will enter at the first qualifying round stage, with the three winners joining a further 31 participants in round two.

The 17 winners of the second qualifying round will then be joined by Neil Lennon’s team, the winners of the Belgian Pro League and the Romanian Liga I.

Celtic are guaranteed seeds for the third qualifying round. Basel, should they progress from round two, are likely to be top seeds.

At present, it is difficult to project who the unseeded sides, and Celtic's likely opponents, in the third round will be.

Taking into account those who have already qualified for the second stage, and guessing those who progress, potential opponents could include HJK Helsinki, Molde FK, NK Maribor, Shamrock Rovers, Linfield, Ekranas or Hapoel Kiryat Shmona.

Should they progress, Celtic will again be seeded for the play-off round stage. No further teams enter at this stage, which is contested by the ten winners of the third qualifying round.

The third qualifying round will take place on July 31/August 1, with the second leg on August 7/8. Play-off round ties will take place on August 21/22 and August 28/29.

Celtic's potential opponents

Already qualified for the second stage are Basel (Switzerland), Ironi Kiryat Shmona (Israel), Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia), BATE Borisov (Belarus), Molde (Norway), Partizan (Serbia), Helsingborg (Sweden), HJK Helsinki (Finland), Shamrock Rovers (Ireland), Ekranas (Lithuania), Ventspils (Latvia), Neftchi Baku (Azerbaijan), Maribor (Slovenia), KR (Iceland), Shakhter Karagrandy (Kazakhstan), Flora Tallinn (Estonia), The New Saints (Wales) and Ulisses (Armenia).

Joining them will be the league winners from Czech Republic, Austria, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Bosnia, Hungary, Moldova, Georgia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania.

Four of the six participants in the first qualifying round have been confirmed: Linfield (Northern Ireland), B36 Torshavn (Faroe Islands), Lustianos (Andorra) and Valletta (Malta). The league winners from Luxembourg and San Marino will also participate.

Jungle Bhoy.

03 May 2012 12:18:36
So nice to see ally throw his considerable weight behind Mr Miller's proposed new tenure at ibrokes.This it seems is the man with the plan that seems to fit in with mccoists own vision.Never mind all that rubbish about Whyte making rangers"fitter and stronger,make no mistake about that"as ally said.This before and during administration.Then in a flurry of far eastern metaphors came Mr Ng(no,not the villain in a bond movie) who ally it would appear,was right behind.Then the blue knights made their play.Ally knew these guys,knew they were indeed blue,and seemed to slide right into their slipstream with his old well thumbed cliche book again getting an airing.So,that was it a marriage made in the blue room,a synergy of rangers peepil to move forward.Then arrived a rugby loving hibs fan who ally spoke to,and he liked the cut of his gib! After the knights and kennedy merged it seemed all was well in planet ibrokes.But always lurking in the background was Mr Miller.A day before it seems that miller will be named,ally played out the final act in this pathetic play.A week or so after backing the rangers fans in their "red card" protest,he is telling them to give miller a chance Did'nt you seem to have the same thoughts about Whyte ally? My god,if you were in the trenches who would you want at your back? mccoist or Lennon?..............green jhedi

Green jhedi I dont wanna ask this on a gers page cos they in a bad mood just now lol but what about the big tax case No one is talking bout that anymore

Thats the guy all over Jhedi! The smiling snidey wee yes man, saying everything and anything the people want to hear. I have always seen through it mate, as im sure you have aswell. The guy is a joke. Lenny is most probably a bit of an arse at times. I met him once in Trash in glasgow just after he signed for the Celts we were jumping about pissed to oasis digsy's diner, he was a bit of a lad back then but seemed a genuine guy. i think hes honest and i like that a lot about him. wears his heart on his sleeve, gets him in trouble from time to time but you see what u get with the guy. The other guy shows himself up to pander to whatever they want him to be. I know who i would rather have in my corner or have in the trenches with me as you put it.

I wonder if Miller knows he will be towing their arses for years to come?

Jungle Bhoy.

OBSESSED. Youz must be beelin' that the Gers are going to survive. Enjoy the SPL next year, nobody will be watching/sponsoring.

In the same mould as derek johnston, Panders to the fans

Now we can shout at them "Who Are You?Who Are You?

Jungle Bhoy.

The only thing we are obsessed with is laughing at your club. Sally is telling every person what they want to hear and you are obviously all believing it as you seem to think your club will survive. Good luck trying to come back next season.

St Mikey

Obsessed? no.Observing,yes. We just find it funny how the next guy is the saviour,no wait here;s another guy and on, and on,....Try this on.Miller backs out after the due diligence phase,assuming he actually comes up with the 500k fee.To late for a new saviour,liquidated as Whyte has been planning all along!..........green jhedi

If Ally was good enough for Walter Smith all those years, as player and coach he's good enough for me.
Stevie-A-Bear

03 May 2012 11:12:48
Bill Miller names a preferred bidder for Rangers.

K.