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| Topic Started: 15 Jul 2014, 12:03 AM (1,414,734 Views) | |
| patmccaulay | 13 Feb 2016, 04:07 AM Post #5761 |
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Getting noticed in the reserves
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You are very much correct sir. A revamp will happen relatively soon. Doncaster is predicting gloom and doom already because he knows it too. I doubt very much that there will be closed shop super league of 20 though. We are in a very enviable position both financially and having PL on the board. The future is bright and it certainly isn't orange. |
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| MMS | 13 Feb 2016, 04:33 AM Post #5762 |
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Youth team player
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5 years? Hopefully. Cannae wait. |
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| The Gorbals Urchin | 13 Feb 2016, 04:49 AM Post #5763 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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See old DD playing at pebble beach ,cares not a jot. |
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| therebelalliance | 13 Feb 2016, 08:44 AM Post #5764 |
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Everyone's Fantasy Football first pick
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TBF have you seen Celtic recently? If I had the choice I'd rather be playing Peeble Beach than going to watch the game this avo. |
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| Marado | 13 Feb 2016, 09:07 AM Post #5765 |
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I'll give you a war you won't believe.
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I agree the hun's were good for business but we've have a free run at the CL for the past 2 years - they had a huge opportunity to increase profits massively. Having been handed 2 of the easiest qualifying routes that I can remember the board effed it up by appointing a guy who can't organise a team. Whilst the lack of competition has had and effect it has also presented opportunities that should have been capitalised on. Fwiw in hindsight I have mixed emotions about our failure to get to the CL. I was gutted and angry at the time and on the whole would prefer we were there but I genuinely believe we could have been on the end of some humiliating results. |
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| harryhoodshatrick | 13 Feb 2016, 09:19 AM Post #5766 |
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Everyone's Fantasy Football first pick
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The big European clubs would like a European league to make more money.To decide which clubs would be invited in they wouldn't look at the league they play in today but they would look at the size of the club.Clubs like Celtic ,Ajax ,benfica wouldn't be discounted to let teams like Leicester in. |
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| Big_Bobo_Balde | 13 Feb 2016, 09:24 AM Post #5767 |
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Lizzie's Lothario
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Aye but you ain't the major shareholder in Celtic, DD is and is seldom seen at any games, his lack of interest in his investment is telling given the downsizing that continues at pace. |
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| georgiesleftpeg | 13 Feb 2016, 10:48 AM Post #5768 |
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Everyone's Fantasy Football first pick
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"The big European clubs would like a European league to make more money.To decide which clubs would be invited in they wouldn't look at the league they play in today but they would look at the size of the club.Clubs like Celtic ,Ajax ,benfica wouldn't be discounted to let teams like Leicester in". harryhoodshatrick Whilst theres a likelihood of this type of blue-sky-thinking from the other big clubs, the likelihood is that once their accountants get their teeth into the scenario, the size of any home audience's advertising base will be the most relevant factor, financially. It would also help if we had been punching above our weight in European competition in the antecedent years!
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| nowonder | 13 Feb 2016, 11:10 AM Post #5769 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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The 'downsizing' word.Somebody said the other week that Celtic have downsized everything except expectations.'Champions league club,EPL maybe but seat at the top table anyway,big fancy frontage for ..etc' Their big problem is that they can't really say that we are well down the food chain of European football and structurally it's getting worse.Sacking this board won't bring in a new one that meets the expectations,the alternative is a board that downsizes the expectations too. |
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| Big_Bobo_Balde | 13 Feb 2016, 11:29 AM Post #5770 |
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Lizzie's Lothario
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We beat Barca a few years back, the team was pretty damn decent to the squad we have now, granted we couldn't keep them all, but the way we are headed is looking most definitely a period with limited success in Europe at least, those in charge are now in my mind on the cusp of a full on revolt from the majority of supporters still going to games. |
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| Ess | 13 Feb 2016, 11:54 AM Post #5771 |
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Abooganza!
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We did indeed, we had a decent squad and if the money earned by that squad's success was reinvested then we wouldn't be in this mess. |
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| patmccaulay | 13 Feb 2016, 11:55 AM Post #5772 |
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Getting noticed in the reserves
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You are correct. Whoever replaces Platini, probably Infantino, will want to put down their mark. They are looking at the financial structures too. The recent failure to secure CL money has been offset by the sale of player like FF VW and VVD. There are no £9M in the current squad but we have been signing a fair number of very cheap home based players recently, many in the same positions. Whilst this gives us very good injury cover it is also gives us financial insurance should we fail again to get to the CL. (3 x £3M). Change is coming, you better believe it, and Celtic will be in a very good place when it does. |
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| Hairytoes | 13 Feb 2016, 12:02 PM Post #5773 |
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First-team captain
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“The Board considers that our self-sustaining model allows the Club to look to the future with reasonable optimism.” Iain Bankier We are in a self made mess, missing the opportunity of the Champions route being bested by Malmo et al. They are now terrified that this easier route will be closed. Meanwhile we're in the process of having real pressure put on us to win a one horse race. But all is good on the board, true psychopath director CEO behaviour & utterly removed from reality. Meanwhile PL is in Geneva sitting at the top table...
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| Zurawski 7 | 13 Feb 2016, 12:20 PM Post #5774 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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tbf it was the current criteria that seen us draw arsenal due to finishing 2nd |
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| georgiesleftpeg | 13 Feb 2016, 01:21 PM Post #5775 |
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Everyone's Fantasy Football first pick
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Dick Dastardly and Mutley... http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/celtic-doing-business-park-peter-2296739#GFphChpsYYhGL7YQ.97
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| jamiebhoy76 | 13 Feb 2016, 01:29 PM Post #5776 |
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Club Captain
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Thats from 2013?
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| Sergeant Pluck | 13 Feb 2016, 01:40 PM Post #5777 |
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Is it about a bicycle?
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Inclined to agree I'm afraid - I'm doubtful that we would be seen as an attractive proposition for, say, a 20 team super league. I'd be more hopeful, though, of us being involved in the restructuring of the leagues down South if they were to lose some of their big names to a Euro league. |
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| georgiesleftpeg | 13 Feb 2016, 01:59 PM Post #5778 |
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Here's hoping, but it seems we arrive at these situations (and become hopeful of beneficial changes) at regular junctures, and nothing ever transpires in our favour. The vested interests of the bigger clubs in the bigger leagues always seem to end up being accommodated, in order to protect the existing organisational status quo. Where we have failed miserably (and continue to do so) is in our cack-handed inability to run a, short to medium term, successful football club in even the minor European arena's After two entries into the last sixteen of the major tournament, our boards policies have decimated the starting eleven to such a degree, that we are now also-rans in the group stages of the europa league
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| Neil Jung | 13 Feb 2016, 02:34 PM Post #5779 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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Don't see the SFA, SPFL and Scottish media's beef with the European big boys doing what's best for business by trying to rungfence the Champions League for themselves. This is what they tried to engineer when the huns went bust and if left to them Sevco was to parachute into the top league. |
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| Dunbhoy | 13 Feb 2016, 02:35 PM Post #5780 |
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First name on the team-sheet
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Just after the Beatles split up... |
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