Today, with the game tonight, I’m catching up on some of the other stuff I missed during the last week, stuff people have sent me and asked me to make some comment or other on.
One of the stories I found funniest appeared in The Record, but I recall that it started out somewhere else first before it found its way there.
The story was on the Loyalty League Table, one of a number of pitiful attempts the media has made to downplay the actual league table, another being the “80 Minute League Table” which is doing the rounds on several Ibrox sites and which will certainly be adopted by some in the mainstream press in due course; all it proves, of course, is that we’re very effective in the latter stages of games.
It’s as if we’re exploiting some loophole in playing to the whistle.
The Loyalty League Table refers to how long players stay at clubs, and whilst we’re about a mid-table finisher – the average is just over two years – they and Hearts are “top.”
I’m not sure what prize they want for this, but even the act of pressing “publish” on that sort of junk should get you drummed out of the NUJ for scandalising the brand.
I mean who comes up with this crap?
We know of course what the point of it is; the shelf-life of this Celtic side is two years.
There’s a reason, of course, why Ibrox sits at the top here and why we’re nearer the bottom … our players are sought after and we frequently get massive offers for them. Their players, on the other hand, are not.
Look at Tavernier; they’ve been trying to find a buyer who would pay their fee for him for nearly three years.
They have been unsuccessful.
They’ve been trying to punt Morelos for just as long.
Kamara has been offered to clubs for huge sums; nobody is biting.
They don’t even get to sell on their squad players now, they languish on the wage bill for years before being released on freedom of contract.
So this is the new line of attack, disguised as something else; don’t worry, Ibrox fans, about this Celtic team because it will be broken up soon enough.
They never say how they came up with this either; does it include loanees? We’ve had a lot of those, and that skews the number. Development players who we signed and moved on after 12 months? It never elaborates.
It is pathetic, and it is weak.
It also fails to take into account an unpalatable fact that they don’t appear ready to internalise; even if this side lasts only two or three years, the damage it might inflict on the club across the city could be fatal.
If we can secure Group Stage Champions League football and spend the money wisely – would you bet against Ange doing that? – we can leave them in the dust.
Every Celtic fan should be mocking this piece if they aren’t already.
This and whatever other junk comes next.
Honestly, expect that “80 minutes’ league table” to be on one of the mainstream websites soon, along with the stuff about how their squad is stronger on FIFA and how Football Manager still predicts they’ll win the league.
Our media is a joke.
It also ignores the fact that if this team is successful at home and in Europe then if it breaks up after two years the players that leave will likely go for big bucks of the sort they can only dream of! Then we can go out and replace those players with quality whilst they scramble about signing lower league Bosman cloggers
Great highs usually suffer massive come-downs, our came last season after 9 glorious seasons of dominance. Their high from one moderately successful season is beginning to wear off, the come down is going to be heavy, and they’ll have to watch us go from strength to strength at the same time. I’d feel sympathy for them but…it’s them so not a chance, and I’m addicted to schadenfreude!
It’s cringe-inducing that they have to resort to such desperate nonsense like this, but pathetic is as pathetic does….
80 minute league table? They keep telling us Celts are pish after 45 minutes. HH
Indeed James, it is pitiful the ways in which the others try to get some sort of table or list or whatever to best us on. As we all know only one table counts and we’re on top at the moment..
daily record and sunday mail owed £312. herald and times owed £1500 by the oldco ibrox club. we will never ever let them forget.
Cr*p like this is standard fare when we’re top
As long as they can claim to be above us they’ll go with anything
It’s usually something along lines of ..
‘ Rangers top the table for the most Mars Bars sold at half time than ANY other team in the country ‘
To look at it another way; they can’t sell their mediocre players who know they are taking sevco for mugs, and even the ones that do want away, nobody wants to buy them.
Usual pish for the consumption of the deluderinos.
As for the Jam Farts their fans are about as stupid as the klan and will believe any old borrocks they read in the papers as long as it has some sort of feel good factor for them.
Utter feggannies ralottierum!
Fegganneggies.
It will only be mocked by Celtic fans that read the Daily Record.
We win it this year.then they are fcuked. We were left with a mountain to climb after last seasons shambolic mis management..but we are doing well. Big games every week now