Bluedell
-
Posts
17,822 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
98
Everything posted by Bluedell
-
So we shouldn't sing songs to wind up our biggest rivals?
-
The song and the chant are two totally different things. The club has made its view of the song clear, and that is that it isn't racist, which is obviously correct, no matter how those at Celtic try and spin it. It would appear that the PF's office may take a similar view.
-
Murray only gets involved when it's a personal attack on him. There has been no such attack, so he won't get involved. I'm sure Bain cleared his statements with Murray, but there has been nothing in the press which would prompt Murray (and probably Bain) to get drawn in, which is probaly what Lawwell (through Reid and the BBC, and other Rangers haters such as Ewing Grahame) is trying to provoke.
-
Nothing to do with Murray, so I would doubt it.
-
My comment was aimed at JMS. Just because the BBC say that Rangers were looking to make the song an arrestable offence doesn't mean that they were.
-
I guess he must have said it on more than one occasion, as I'm fairly sure he didn't go into it in that level of detail when I heard it. I'd agree with your last sentence.
-
Horses for courses. Seems like the right decision to put the more mobile JCD on.
-
So we are now believing what BBC Scotland tell us?
-
We're obviously not important enough to get our name or badge on it like most English clubs who have them.
-
I had accounted for that. That's why you get �£1.45m per year from �£18m over 10 years. In 2003 accounts Nick Peel said we were 2nd in the UK with a turnover of �£19.2m. What sort of net profit did we make on that? 15%-18%? Would that be normal for a retail business? Perhaps less as we don't have great economies of scale? And that was a good year. The prior year was �£11.8m Still appears to be far less than we are currently making. There is nothing wrong with him doing the deal to reduce the debt. IIRC the "12 months" comment was made after the the JJB deal. I also believe it was carefully worded and he said something along the lines of "hope to be debt free" or similar, so he couldn't be accused of lying about it.
-
I think that the shops were short leasehold and therefore we would not have made money when we moved out. It probably costs us the balance of the lease. You would imagine that plans for establishing merchandising again were low down the priority list given it's meant to be so far in the future.
-
"Auditors to JJB Sports have raised concerns about the sports retailer�s financial situation and warned that the company could go under." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/3084664/JJB-auditors-raises-doubts-about-sports-retailer-as-a-going-concern.html This could have serious implications for us. While the JJB deal was financially good, what happens if they go under? I would assume that we get to keep the upfront payment, but no other retailer will touch that deal with a barge poll and we have sold all of our shops. We may need to start our retail business from scratch again sooner than we expected.
-
Barry Robson doesn't seem to have any problem putting in killer corners.
-
Whether the bonuses were too high is obviously a judgemental call. I don't have the detailed breakdown of how much the bonuses were for any specific stage, but if you think that for a round in Europe the gate money is only going to pay players' wages then it suggests that they were too high. Did they need to be as high as they were? My feeling is that they didn't and that they could have been negotiated at a lower level.
-
-
I've been arguing the same thing for years and years, but usually get told by neutrals that it's not the same as they don't mean it when they sing it.
-
Agreed, although there are obviously some financial benefits, plus a whole lot of glory from a UEFA cup run, but it seems apparent that the bonuses were too high.
-
These accounts seem to suggest that we need to do it every year. 2006 and 2008 show small profits which come nowhere near meeting the loss in non-CL seasons eg 2007. bain's comments don't seem to stack up against the evidence, although perhaps he was looking at budggets that have been subsequently superseded by the large and expensive player purchases. It's incorrect to look at just a figure of �£3m. You also need to take account of the �£18m that we got upfront (�£1.45m per year after expenses plus the interest savings on that sum (arguably +�£600K), so you really should be asking if we would have made over �£5m. It's impossible to say, but I would say that the financial benefits of the JJB deal in other years would outweigh any potential gain that we may have received last season.
-
Broadcasting income is up from �£5.0m to �£5.4m, which covers both domestic and European income. However income for the CL group stages and UEFA Cup from the quarter finals onwards are negotiated centrally and are excluded for here as they will be contained in Commercial income. There therefore weren't that many European games included in Broadcasting income.
-
Not exclusively, and that's the problem. Whe you hear a Rangers fan call a Portugese player one when playing against a Portugese team in Europe, they aren't meaning a Celtic fan.
-
Part of our problem is that too many have used it in the wrong manner.
-
What the response should be: Dear UEFA, Celtic fans refer to Protestants as "huns". This is a widely accepted fact, so much so that the Police Service in Northern Ireland (PSNI) have outlawed their officers from using that term along with other sectarian and racist terms. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7206891.stm I am disappointed that you can dismiss this complaint without proper investigation, and the fact that it is discriminatory has nothing to do with personal feelings or impressions. When walls around parts of Belfast are daubed with "Huns Out", they are not referring to Rangers fans, but are put there by extermists who wish for people of the Protestant religion to leave that part of the city. I hope that you will reconsider this matter and treat this matter with the seriousness it deserves, and not attempt to brush it under the carpet.
-
I think the accounts have surprised a lot of people. Too many believed the hype about the extra cash forgetting that we have expenses as well. I would agree about the debt. I never felt the debt was ever going to be down at zero, even before I found out about the bonuses and we bought the additional players in June although I did think it may have been under �£10m. Some people say it's not a problem as long as we trade profitably, but we don't and it is.
-
31st January 1987. :Shudder:
-
Our corners seemed to improve for a while last season, particularly in the second half of the season, but they have reverted back to the usual pish this year.
