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| The Board - general discussion (including Res 12); notes from the AGM | |
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| Topic Started: 15 Jul 2014, 12:03 AM (1,414,909 Views) | |
| brogan | 30 Aug 2014, 02:51 PM Post #2281 |
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First-team starter
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and whit,,,theyrer pish tae. |
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| paddyjoe | 30 Aug 2014, 02:55 PM Post #2282 |
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First-team captain
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Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the board adopt the living wage at the next agm,not because they think it's the right thing to do but because it's a way of deflecting further criticism |
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| tinytim81 | 30 Aug 2014, 02:56 PM Post #2283 |
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Okay, let's assume that we don't have to sell players and that Lawell is lying about that (your words not mine). That means we must have a pile of money but Lawell has no interest in spending it. What reason would he have for hording it exactly? Edited by tinytim81, 30 Aug 2014, 03:03 PM.
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| quattrobhoy | 30 Aug 2014, 03:08 PM Post #2284 |
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First name on the team-sheet
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Lawwell is "speaking" on BT Sport 1's SportsHUB, this afternoon - actual time unspecified. |
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| hardy | 30 Aug 2014, 03:09 PM Post #2285 |
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Occasional Substitute
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Lawell doing the rounds he's now on BT sport later to slow at this typing lark
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| Lustig and Me | 30 Aug 2014, 03:13 PM Post #2286 |
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First team training
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What programme? |
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| murphio | 30 Aug 2014, 03:24 PM Post #2287 |
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Could start a row in an empty room
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A bank debt which once sat at 30m has now been completely cleared and we are sitting on a small amount of cash. Not all the money has been reinvested - quite a lot of it was used to pay off debt. That's fine, debt has to be paid some time but at what expense? If we were prepared to carry a small overdraft of say 5m and spend the cash we are sitting on (another 5m) - that would have given us 10m to play with before the Champions League qualifiers. We then would have recouped that money with the sale of Forster. All that is neither here nor there though because the figures are there in black and white. In the last accounts we made public we made a pre-tax profit of over 21m for the six months. It is simply not true, then, to state we need to sell players to keep the lights burning. And if it were true it would be an absolutely damning indictment of board strategy. |
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| Wee Red | 30 Aug 2014, 03:31 PM Post #2288 |
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not too serious
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I stress again, if loans are the prudent way to go about our business, why have we only started using them in bulk this window, surely we could have taken more decent level projects on in prior seasons and had a vetting competition as it were. |
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| Deleted User | 30 Aug 2014, 03:35 PM Post #2289 |
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That's the absolute core of the problem here. |
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| Wanyerma | 30 Aug 2014, 03:42 PM Post #2290 |
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Considering retirement
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They beat us, with a fraction of our resources. They have better players than us. I would have thought the "whit" was obvious. |
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| murphio | 30 Aug 2014, 03:46 PM Post #2291 |
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Could start a row in an empty room
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That is a red herring. We beat Barca with a fraction of their resources. How many times have Legia Warsaw been in the last 16 of the Champions League in the last 15 years? Or even the group stages? What about Maribor? You can't just look at one campaign in isolation because you are comparing oranges and apples. Celtic have out-performed those clubs remarkably over the last number of years. |
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| Bawman | 30 Aug 2014, 04:01 PM Post #2292 |
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Class is permanent.
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I'm a wee bit tired of hearing how great and better the Legia and Maribor players were. It's a whole different game to play in that Celtic jersey than against it. |
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| Corky Buczek | 30 Aug 2014, 04:06 PM Post #2293 |
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Trolololo
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up to a point Murph. Given our resources we should be out-performing them. The bottom line - for two seasons in a row we went into a CL qualifying campaign totally unprepared. We got away with it - just - last year. This year it has exploded in a way not even a pessimistic burger like me could have expected. And that is down to PL. |
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| CELTBHOY1988 | 30 Aug 2014, 04:07 PM Post #2294 |
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Getting on a bit
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He'll be on The One Show next at this point.... |
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| murphio | 30 Aug 2014, 04:14 PM Post #2295 |
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Could start a row in an empty room
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We are out-performing them. You can't just look at one campaign in isolation. These comparisons with Maribor and Legia are absolute nonsense. Maribor have only been in the Champions League once before and Legia have never qualified. We need to steer the debate away from these pointless comparisons with other clubs who happened to take advantage of us while in a period of transition. |
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| quattrobhoy | 30 Aug 2014, 04:15 PM Post #2296 |
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First name on the team-sheet
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In which case, I'd rather he were on Channel 4 News, being interrogated by Jon Snow. |
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| Wanyerma | 30 Aug 2014, 04:16 PM Post #2297 |
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Considering retirement
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We achieved way more than we should have given the difference in quality between us and the likes of Barca. That shouldn't be the case re Legia and Maribor |
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| murphio | 30 Aug 2014, 04:19 PM Post #2298 |
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Could start a row in an empty room
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It shouldn't be the case for anyone with greater resources but football doesn't quite work like that. Man City failed to make it out of the groups in the same season we made the last 16. If you want to make comparisons then do it over a prolonged period of time - not by taking a snapshot of one period of transition. |
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| Gonga | 30 Aug 2014, 04:23 PM Post #2299 |
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Older than dirt
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Maybe we are bringing the debt back to zero so DD can sell. |
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| Wanyerma | 30 Aug 2014, 04:24 PM Post #2300 |
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Considering retirement
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The period we're talking about though is one where glaring deficiencies in the team haven't been fixee. Even when we had Hooper we needed another quality striker. |
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