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Podium
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Why all the fuss about Rangers?
Any CELTIC News?
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No??? need to read the article now!
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3rd
Click the ads
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1st?
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Sorry Hampden, Conamara, you guys were there first.....you've been robbed by the clock.
I get the feeling Paul has held back some detail on this one and there was more juice to it. But none the less it goes to prove for very penny we don't spend that muppet Murray will happily throw away a tenner!
He and his club deserve everything they get.
Hail Hail
Martybhoy
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surely these lu guen rumours, that have been fairly persistent throughour the season are just that, rumours..
even though william hill arent taking bets.
a man like that, with no local knowledge of any cheap talent, would need cash, and lots of it, along with a very healthy salary
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Great stuff Paul! Would anyone recognise Fanfan if you bumped into him in the street?
Love to see Souness's face when Roberts gets unveiled as the new manager!
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Interested to kn ow where your info comes from, Paul67....but i know you won't reveal your sources..hehe
I don't think Paul le Guen would have any more success than Paul Daniels given the quality of players the feckless one has signed.
Another classic quote from the mint has to be "a massive moonbeam of success". Admittedly, I'm not sure what the quantattive adjective is for "success" but i didn't think it was measured in moonbeams!
WGS is doing a decent job adn i'd say we're better off than anyone would have predicted when he arrived. Next season will be better.
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Brilliant. Couldn't have happened to a nicer man...
Does anyone happen to know how much the JKPLFF (sorry for the offensive acronym) affair cost the Mint including wages?
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"I'm sure Fanfan is a Good player but I wouldn't recognise him if he came up
Sauchiehall Street and poked Me in the eye with a stick,"
Excellent Gordon, except your wrong... he isn't a good player!
TBE
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I'd pay money to see 50,000 faces when Roberts gets unveiled. They are getting into a Le Guen and billions to spend frenzy - and its only day 2, wait till mid March they'll all be imploding with anticipation - and then the mint will pull the rug from under them - AGAIN.
PS - When is the huns seasons book renewal due. I bet its round about the Villareal second leg.
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Anyone one else think we're on a hiding to nothing this Sunday? Everybody and their grannie is humping this mob at the moment and Murray announces yesterday that their season is officially over.However, got to stay focussed and get the three points.
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Lets see now, the huns probably feel that they are on for a hiding this weekend, what would be the best way of handling that ... ah yes
1) keep the fans happy - so Eck is out
2) offer some ray of hope - have story about Le Guen spread about (absolute pants - and I will eat mine if LeGuen turns up at Ipox as manager)
And to help keep the media initiative - whack in a story that there is no way Larsson would come back to Celtic and, by extension, nor would anyone else who was any good.
So, even if the great unwashed do get trounced they feel that there is something better on the way, a light at the end of the tunnel. Sadly for them that light is a man setting light to his own flatulance.
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Graham Roberts is plan B from Outer Space...
so what was big Eck's involvement in the signing of JPKLFF?Was DM behaving like a Romanov and signing players with minimal involvement of the team manager?
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I find it unbelievable that one club would buy a player just cos they think another club is going for him - when they haven't even seen him play! What a way to run a football club.
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Paul - on the investment front, do Rangers own Ibrox or does the 'great property magnate' own it through MIH?
Possibly more smoke and mirrors from the legendary businessman!
TTTT
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Dontbrattbackinanger:
Hilarious! Almost fell off my chair.
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Just a wee thought on LeGuen. If Willy Hills have stopped takin bets on him being the next manager, does that mean you could get a bet on him not being the manager?
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I kind of thought that the jist of this story was already in the public domain? Didn't Speirs? say that Celtic had refused to be interested in the player?
The rest is just speculation. Every player's agent releases stories in the press about another Club's interest. Ok, this one may have been a tad foolish 'cos Celtic would probably have denied it if asked but luckily Rangers believed it. Ultimately, though that's part of the usual negotiations and I'm pretty convinced we've overpaid a number of our bigger earners on these speculations...
B
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Good point Gatecrasher - just why did a complete non story about Larsson not coming back to Celtic surface this morning?
oooooh, I hope we really hump them on Sunday.
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Paul - not the scandalous, rip-snorting exclusive on FF that I had built up in my imagination but enjoyable nevertheless - our very own Scheidt story however suggests we aren't always above falling for a dummy based on hype and hearsay.
Why oh why does Mr Murray not get the interrogation of his life from the likes of Glen Gibbons and Messrs Spiers on his spin-doctoring? Surely someone will be prepared to do a warts and all feature on the McLeish saga since November and the lies that have been propagated since.
RK for MOM on Sunday after single-handedly giving BF the football lesson of his life - come on the Hoops!
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Thanks Giz A Huddle.
Dontbratt, ever wondered who made the bid for Riordan, considering we are not told Alex was given his notice a month ago?
TTTT Rangers own Ibrox, valuation £118m.
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There is no master plan or anything up his sleeve. I am completely with Paul67 take on this. If he can afford to go for Quashie who turned them down and prove this at the last lodge meeting then how come he couldn´t secure Riordhan? Edward were you there ? The Riordhan bid was just a bit of fluff added to the bluster at the end of the transfer window especially with Hibs coming up next in the cup for them. The cup competition being the last realstic bastion of solace in a dreadful domestic season. Come on ! an Aberdeen team with 7 wins this season 2 of them against Gers tells you that Rangers are not going to get passed Villa Real in the CL and that Bazza and his cronies were speaking directly to Murray. i.e write off the season and defuse the situation, Eck has lost it completely .. due to incompetence. He will never win anything of any note again in football.
If the OF game was at CP this Sunday then no Eck announcement would have been made. The timing was due to the very real prospect of a first time away day demolition derby (i´ll take a dodgy 0.1 penalty with the last kick of the game btw) and to avoid the very embaressing "potential";-) of car park demonstrators being in there thousands and with Murray the real focus. At least this way it looks like Murray is in complete control at all times thanks to the castrated laptop poodle loyal.
Eck I have no time for a mouse of a man. Not one spat in 4.5 years with Murray, no spine to walk out when he actually achieved something rather than Celtic under achieving. The only difference between Rix and Mc leish was unfortunately for Rangers is that Eck picked the team.
Paul le Guen (My bahooky),
A team that might well have no European funds next season and that is carrying major debt. Murray can make 20m appear from his personal wealth at any time and dress it up as 60m with his ability in creative accountancy by firing of an email.The number literacy and the mental inertia of the laptop loyal nevermind and the teddy bears leaves them unable to scrutinise behind the scenes. The ostrich syndrome and I hope they follow the pied piper from ayrshire for some time yet. Even if he did manage to squeeze another 30m from some mug it would be absorbed immediately. Murray has been in pain too long and is obviously getting desperate. He may not be a fool but he is a very vain glorious man as any of his direct competitors and the FanFan story indicates why he still hangs on to Rangers football club. We couldn´t ask for more.
Eck may have won a few battles but never the war. As far as I am concerned this has been a period of Celtic domination. On and off the field.
CELTIC ARE WINNING THE BUISNESS WAR. IMAGINE IF DERMOT DESMOND AND BRIAN QUINN BEHAVED IN THIS WAY.
Anyway as they say the more you step on it the further it spreads. Lets talk about things that will have a more far reaching effect on the direction that Scottish football is going to go in the next 5 years.
Does anybody know how Aidens legs is doing?
Hail Hail the Bunnet, he must be having a darn good chuckle !!
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a wee smile was on my face watching murray bluster and stutter his way through his exclusive interview last night.
this looked like a man unsure whether he was able to spend another tenner!
david, do what i do. when you've no money in your wallet use your credit card!
oh that's right you can't. you've exceeded your credit limit!!!
david, there's no manager to hide behind now!
it makes you wonder why the press are still fawning to him after all this?
can they not see they've also been made a fool of?
good news about beattie. he will give us a good option when he's fit.
away to watch the young uns at airdrie today. let you know how they got on.
Emjay
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New article posted on www.thelordofthewing.blogspot.com
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what is the difference between Vladimir Romanov and David Murray?
One is an egomaniac chairman who buys players without consulting his manager
AND THE OTHER IS A LITHUANIAN BUSINESSMAN ... BOOM BOOM
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WHO cares about rangers Paul?
I know I don't,I know most don't want recycled hun rubbish as far as I can see or hear,becoming a habit......
How about a decent topic about CELTIC instead of the doom and gloom of the huns,
If I want to know about them,I'll read the local rags and then read between the lines,or go to the local blue friendly pub,they will soon tell me what they think of their team.
Now I know why that geezer Edward is starting to feel at home here.
Congratulations by the way Eddy.
Talk about Celtic,after all this is a CELTIC WESITE,isn't it?
The word rangers has been spoken 312 times in the last months on here.(yes I did count,but never again)
Getting our own house in order would be a better idea instead of trying to "Word up(or is that down?) the huns" to make the CELTIC sound good in some of our worst football played by us in the last 10 years.
Decade of domination,you bet,a decade of being just above the huns(or hearts,who knows).
Rangers had a decade of domination over us as even the most recent generation of Celt will testify to.
That's domination,
not buying GARBAGE players like TELFER,DUBLIN,TELFER,and letting LENNON play on when he is obviously past his worst by a season(altough a great player and servant)Replacing one load of deadwood with a new cycle of deadwood (at a cheaper rate albeit) with a standard of football to even embarass the bhoys from the 90's.
Even Tommy Burns only lost one game and drew a few too with his "flowing,passing football"
Look where it got him!
Lost the league to a far superior rangers team(313 and counting)
Start talking about the REAL CELTIC ISSUES and stop clouding the issues with rangers rubbish,
(314 times now,even you have me talking about them,see what it does to even me!)
Take the site back to a once great place,a place where we can talk ALL things CELTIC and how we can improve.
Even my granny knows that the huns are out the picture,time for us to take advantage to just be better than the rest.
Over to you Paul,the eternal optimist.
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If Murray had someone to take over from McLeash (Le Guen)he would do it now if he could,think of the boost they would get for the Villareal game.This leads me to believe the new man is still employed by another club. ROBERTS?
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Am I the only one who'd be quite pleased to see G. "The Beast" Souness back at in his spiritual home ?
He's the most overrated manager ( failed everywhere but first time in Scotland when we were supine )and it's good crack watchin' him lose his rag.
And we could resurrect the Wullie Mulloy Fan Club ( I was a brown wullie ) which used to list Graeme Souness as 'Leader of the Opposition'. ( they sent him a card ).
but failing that, Roberts will do.
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Due to the public nature of our accounts the press have had a field day analysing how we cannot make money despite Seville etc. DD is constantly banging a drum about moving to England but the summary point is that no serios money can be made by staying in Scotland. So why would any independent investor put significant cash into Rangers with no chance of a return.
The only real serious monies would come from The Blue Nose Community -Skelly, Arnold Clark, Tom Hunter. But even then it would not be huge amounts £20 million tops which they would need to re build a whole team and pay top flight manager money. And the big question is how this investment would be sustained. Without any new avenues to England or Europe thye cycle of unsustainable losses would start again.
Most notably any significant investment would result in Murray significantly reducing his stake or hobbling away completely.
3-0 Sunday
Magic, Maloney, Hartson
Boyd missed pen
I Murray sent off (2 bookings)
D Murray sent off (Orcs decisions failure to make any good bookings)
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Carfinharp, it is a Scottish media tradition that during the week before Celtic play ‘that team’ that all sorts of anti-Celtic stories are published which drops seeds of discontent on some people.
I believe Rangers enjoy space to sort their problems that Celtic do not, giving them an unfair advantage. For better or worse, I have decided to save all my ‘that team’ comment and information up for these occasions. Tell your granny normal service will be resumed soon.
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Finally Fan Fan.
Is "Dagenham" Dave Murray the Chamberlain of our times? I hold in my hand a moonbeam of success that means peace in our times.
His policy of appeasement includes hamstringing his manager,and promises, promises,promises. Huge investment.Real money. All this and not one single bit of evidence,not once has he stated X amount of money will be made available or invested.
Edward i would like to here your thoughts on this.
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Awe Naw......
CELTIC ARE WINNING THE BUISNESS WAR.
"IMAGINE IF DERMOT DESMOND AND BRIAN QUINN BEHAVED IN THIS WAY"
Helloooooooo
Did you not live through the White family & Co. era?
We didn't need to imagine,it happened,Just ask Fergus
But out of the ashes......
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Paul67...
Seems like you can't win. Half of us desperate for the FanFan story half of us not (aparently!) :-)
I'm glad you ran with it though - if only for the anthropological insight into David Murray and his cohorts. It would appear that Rangers are reactionary rather than innovative and are in fear of us. I worry about Rangers on the park, but I've never been fooled by his business acumen. A few years ago, didn't the financial times run a piece on his saying (I'm paraphrasing slightly here) great chairman - of someone elses company. IE he's a great gambler but they wouldn't be comfortable with him spending their money.
My sincere hope is that we don't allow ourselves to become complacent and lower our standards. We must alsway strive to get the best for Celtic, do the best for Celtic and achieve the most. The decade of domination will prevail over the financial side of things - but if we don't be careful with our footballing operation all the money in the world won't make us the dominant team. Money can't buy us happiness, but it sure gets us into a good bargaining position.
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Paul,
loved your article on Alex McLeish. You were spot on, and its great to read such honesty. Also, some good stuff on David Murray's false promises from last year.
With regards David Murray's plan B, I would suggest to you that Graham Roberts and Joe Miller for that matter, have impressed me greatly in the past year or so. Albeit, Roberts is a pain in the backside continually gloating on the radio, but the way he talks tactics, I think he is one for the future. Perhaps not 'Rangers' class, but certainly someone who leaves a lot of the Scottish managers well behind.
I always watch David Murray from an outside point of view with interest. I have no 'hatred' of the man, and I am sure you or most people don't also. I think he blows hot and cold, but from an individual point of view, you can't help but admire his achievements in life. When he is down, we are up. Long may it continue, although I do suspect he is about to announce something big. Whether that brings its own problems only time will tell.
TERRY NAR
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CarfinHarp Lighten up.
On the eve, or run up week, to OF games we are subjected to anti-Celtic stories religiously!
Its now common knowledge to expect something in these weeks. This is our platform to strike back. It may sound childish to you but the ethos of this site is "Not Lazy Journalism" its an opportunity for a Celtic spin on stories, to counteract what we have been subjected to for decades.
I'm perfectly happy to read anti-Rangers stories this week. We all know these stories wont get aired in the mainstream media.
By the way you finished with 315 'Rangers' in your post!! Keep up!
TBE.
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Great story Paul, I suspect you've held back on the involvement of the keeper of the gates of paradise!!!
But never mind the FanFan story, did anybody read the Broadfoot story on E-Tims?
On Murray, didn't he promise all the same things back when ENIC bought in; when Dave King bought in; when NTL bought the media rights and so on?
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It would be foolish to write off Murray.
I have a feeling that there will be new money on the table shortly.The source,no idea,although like all here i have heard various names banded about.
If anyone thinks for one minute the etablishment are going to allow Rangers to go to the wall then think again.
He has led Rangers to financial failure just as those pre Fergus MCcann did with Celtic,but ask yourself,what were his motives.
The obvious answer of course is profit,closely followed by empire building,but behind them another more sinister one ,to keep Celtic and it's supporters in their place as the perpetual underling.
Think not.
Have a look at some off their web sites as i have done and you will find a common theme.
Keep them in their place.
So don't think Rangers will dissappear or will be allowed to drift to a position of obscurity. If you do you underestimate just how far some establishment figures will go to maintain the self designated position of superiority they perceive far transcending the boundaries of football.
We were almost forced out of business by the Bank of Scotland.
Rangers debts eclipse ours at that time.Don't be fooled into thinking they will be forced down that route.
We have a lot off input on here from individuals with financial backgrounds however, finance is only part of it when it comes to Rangers the rest will be decided behind closed doors.
This is my personal opinion and only catastrophic happenings on a mindblowing scale will make me think otherwise.
Rant for the day concludes!
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Like the share price and disclaimer Paul, worthy addition to the site.
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I don’t know where you got plan ‘B’ from Paul, unless you have been keeping count from the beginning of the season and they have started at ‘A’ again. If so I make McLeish getting replaced by LeGuen in November Plan ‘V’
V: McLeish is going to be replaced by LeGuen
W: McLeish is staying as he got us into the knock out stages of the CL and is the guy to take us forward in Europe
X: We will be having a cash injection
Y: We will be making 3 significant signings in January
Z: We've made a significant signing
Start at ‘A’ again
A: We will be having a Cash injection at the end of January
B: McLeish is going to be replaced by…………………..
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I think the word *angers should be band from this site Paul.
Funny that I should mention that the word is used toooooo much on this CELTIC SITE that after refreshing my CQN page,
SHOCK HORROR
COULDN"T BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scroll down to click on an AD and what is being advertised on this ONCE great site?
GLASGOW RANGERS,
GLASGOW RANGERS ON EBAY
REGISTER ON EBAY FOR GREAT PRICES.
(bottom left)
Now don't you and everyone agree that it's time to talk about GLASGOW CELTIC and not GLASGOW *angers?
If you even have to use the word,then replace a letter with a %,&,* like ran*ers,that way Goog*e won't picjk up the filfy word.
The CQN website will be a laughing stock if this isn't REMOVED.
Time to act,time to talk CELTIC don't you think?
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Carfinharp,
are you my echo ?
Away down to the grotto and say a prayer and I´ll meet you in The Watfiel
Hail Hail
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Paul,
I have been pondering your assesment of Alex McCleish. I basically agree with you (says I very reluctantly). But I can't bring myself to see any good in a manager of Rangers (sorry EdwardUrsus). To me, we ARE the forces of light, while they and all who have positions of responsibility there are TFOD. Sounness and Roberts (and Greig, of course) epitomise them.
Naive, simplistic, bigotted even. Quite possibly but that is how I feel. Long may we have generations of dominance.
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Carfinharp... deep breaths...
According to Paul the ads are a work in progress and has said there will be teething problems.
Also the irony that the site is being funded by THEM, tends to lighten the mood not drive everyone stir crazy like ur good self.
Come on, you sound edgy today, you'd think we had a tough weekend ahead of us!
TBE.
(nothin personal by the way mo chara we just need to enjoy these times more)
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Estadio, pablophanque etc,
Today's youth team game against Rangers at Airdrie is OFF due to a frozen pitch.
But don't let that stop you all meeting up at the Imperial!
(;-0)
By the way, I hear all the card shops in the west of Scotland are running out of banners, balloons, badges, hats and confetti to commemorate birthdays for those aged 18 and 21.
Plus a lot of those "Sorry You're leaving" balloons and banners, too.
Wonder why!
(:-0)
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Carfinharp,
I dont know , Rangers advertising Tickets on a Celtic web site for the biggest game in their history tells its own story and raises a smile NO ?
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Terry, you might be right about Roberts.
Tough crowd today p8ddy.
Thanks thismancraig, we will be making a few cosmetic changes along these lines.
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DM has made it on the big stage at last. Sky Sports has picked up on his promise of a big investment.
Oops Dave. How do you control them when your definition of big turns out to be significanltly smaller than expectation? Attention from beyond the lapdog loyal could be a mistake! (Not another mistake, surely?)
The noose tightens, I think. Pulled by his own hand.
If only we could get ourselves united behind our team and our club as easily as we unite against them.
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316 and over to you Bald Ego,
ps did you click on the AD?
Mint story is NOTHING that isn't spoke about day in day out when bringing down the huns(better not say that word too much,may have WWII ADs coming up soon)
Promise of a big story,an exclusive,what did we get? rehashed redtop rubbish,thought better off you paul,believe it or not.
We will still win against that mob(gangster ADs now?)
Ban the word or forever be a laughing stock.
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Why the surprise with FanFan in Murray we are talking about a man who bought Colin Hendry with DAs involvement so that he could ahve the traditions of the club intact.if I remember rightly and a bit of paraphrasing he doen an interview more or less saying that they should be captained by a scottish protestant without actually using the second word. Imagine DD saying that was the reason we bought RK
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Yeah I click on every ad before I post. I just hold SHIFT and click them all then go and close all the windows again. Does me no harm whatsoever and to be honest I've no idea what the ads are for, I dont pay attention to them.
Just ding my bit to help this site move forward. I cant see it becoming a laughing stock. To me the articles are immaterial. Its the debate and discussions that follow (oh is that a bad word too?) that keep me coming back.
As I say, enjoy these times. Remember when we had no good news to talk about?
TBE.
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From the Rumour Mill in todays Guardian:
Friday's rumours
Today's hogwash is brought to you by YOUR NAME HERE. Hopefully
Paul Doyle
Friday February 10, 2006
Ronaldo, back when Real players were happy to hug him.
The Germans have a word, in fact they have lots of them, but there's one in particular that the Mill intends to introduce into English. It is scheissenbedauern and its figurative meaning is "the disappointment you feel when things don't turn out as badly as you'd expected." Another humdinger from the people who gave us schadenfreude!
Up on Merseyside, meanwhile, there's much debate amongst Evertonians as to whether they should be feeling joy or scheissenbedauern at this season's achievements. Has Peter Crouch been as awful as they hoped or has he been strangely effective? No one can decide for sure, though the Mill suspects that when Rafael Benítez finally sums up the courage to drop the lanky blankshooter he splurged £7m on. Particularly if the sensational mutterings in Madrid turn out to be true, viz.: Liverpool will this summer sign none other than barrel-bellied Brazilian phenomenon Ronaldo! Word is Ronnie is unpopular in the Real dressing room, where galactico colleagues reckon he only cares about winning the World Cup - and club bean-counters hope he does just that, so they can flog him for an astronomical fee. True, the 29-year-old has been just a podgy shadow of his former self this season and appears to have forgotten how to finish ... but that didn't stop Liverpool taking Fernando Morientes of Real's hands.
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And Real's summer shake-up won't stop there. Because the current manager, who hasn't even been around long enough for the Mill to learn his name (OK, it's Juan Ramón López Caro. See, doesn't even ring a bell, does it?) will be ousted and replaced by former Lyon boss Paul Le Guen, who at this precise moment in time is probably guffawing to himself at rumours linking him to Scottish minnows Glasgow Rangers
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Paul
I don’t know if anyone has posted this since yesterday’s announcement but last November I posted the reason that William Hill had stopped taking bets on Le Guen being the next manager of TFOD.
I heard at work the day before it broke in the papers back in November. Surprise surprise but The Mint in actual fact had plans for a new manager and he interviewed possible candidates. The first name to turn him down was Omar Hitzfield, then Alan Curbishly. They both had meetings with Murray (I cannot confirm whether it happened in his “plush Edinburgh office” or aboard his private jet). The reason this is known is one of Murray’s Bodyguard/Minder was in the room/ on the premises at the time. The Minder told everyone that neither Hitzfield or Curbishly were not going to be manager.
After two meetings with Le Guen Murray was extremely optimistic of him becoming manager and the deal was apparently as good as done. After hearing this the Minder told all his friends and family to get their money on Le Guen being the new manager at very healthy odds of 20-1. £60,000 was put on Le Guen (Cannot confirm or deny if the winnings were going to be Murray’s “major investment :-)!) Hence William Hill no longer taking bets.
Shock horror Le Guen had a change of heart and is looking favourably at the Real Madrid job.
If you look at all Murray’s quotes he hasn’t once mentioned Le Guen, he has let the media do it for him. He can after the season book money has been received, and Le Guen joins Madrid claim that he tried his best to get Le Guen but Madrid is the “only club bigger than Rangers” or some other waffle. Then bring in Billy Davies or The Two Jimmy’s.
The last paragraph is just my opinion as I haven’t heard anything else but if I do I will post it on Monday.
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The situation at Ibrox is spinning hopelessly out of control, and when I first posted on this site in the middle of last year I thought that something like this COULD happen, but never really dared to dream that it WOULD.
What has happened since that post has exceeded all of my wildest expectations and more: Rangers in FOURTH with less than fifteen games to go. A ruined squad. A mentally shattered team and manager. Debt that won't go away.
And now they're going to spend MORE money in an ill-concieved game of catch up?? Financial mismanagement doesn't even come CLOSE to this chaos.
I think that this "era of dominance" is on the way. But the danger for Rangers is acute. If Murray pulls millions from somewhere this time, it will be for the LAST TIME. It's all well and good having fellow Tim's say that the banks will never let Rangers go to the wall, but Murray has debt problems which would have had Nick Leeson reaching for the pill bottle. The banks have shareholders, corporate responsibilities. They will NEVER allow a company in such debt to spend untold millions on the off-chance that a football club mired in fourth place (lovely to say, isn't it?) can rise above their present mediocrity.
If there is ANY siginificant investment in Rangers, that money will HAVE to be put down the deep hole of debt before ANYTHING can be spent on the playing staff. To spend money they don't have on chasing us would be insanity.
And if they fail? An generation of dominance?? Forget it. If they gamble THIS time, with ALL THE CHIPS THEY HAVE LEFT, and come up short - the party is OVER.
One team in Glasgow.......... there's only one team in Glasgow.........
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Personally I cannot wait for the 'dream team' Souness (director of football), Roberts (manager), McCoist, Brown and Dodds as coaches. Oh please Oh please Ghod. I'll never stop laughing.
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Paul and usual financial contributors - if The Mint managed to move over £50 million of debt from Rankers to MIH, what else can he legally transfer out of their ownership with cash going in the opposite direction?
Would HBOS allow such a scenario, given the existing £556 million of MIH borrowings?
He's planning something and there's no way he's going to attract ANY outside investment as there's nothing to be gained within the current football environment.
It's purely his vainglorious ego at work here....his biggest weakness. Long may he reign over them!
TTTT
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toohey's-will there be a lot of 'scheissenbedauern'among some of the Charlie Quebec Novembers if WGS wins both the cup von diddies and the SPL?
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Donbratt,ever been on 11 metres or clame to be a HAM?
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carfinharp-you've lost me there,bud!
Is 11 metres'elfmeter'?
The only thing I know about fussball is that the crew on'Das Boot'supported Schalke
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carfinharp
If you keep mentioning something repeatedly on here do you get an ad for it?
angelina jolie. kate moss. lucy pinder.
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AAHH, Carfincarp,good to see some things never change.
Somehow it doesn't surprise me that you would spend your time counting the amount of times Rangers have been mentioned on this blog.
'Cos you obviously don't spend it thinking about what you are going to write.
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lets look at the facts regarding investment in rangers.....
just over 9 months ago rangers had a share issue......they were looking for £57 million.....they got £51 million.......
murray was looking for as much as possible of the targetted £57 million to come from new investors or existing investors other than himself.....the figure i believe he hoped for was £14 million with £43 million being put in by him, borrowing this from HBOS through MIH and promptly lodging it back with HBOS through reducing rangers debts.....
rather than get £14 million he got £1 million.....conclusive proof that he, and more particularly rangers, are not viewed as a good investment by outsiders....
these are the facts.....that was plan A....
it bombed.....
and since then......apart from qualifying with the lowest points total in CL history...a points total that was exceeded by MON twice against much stiffer opposition....and in fact was also exceeded by Advocaat also against much stiffer opposition...
...what has happened....only the worst performance domestically in 20+ years.....the poorest quality squad since pre-souness days.....and a support who are at the end of their tether.....sounds like a good time to invest doesn't it!!!
the only investment option that makes sense here is a fergus type takeover.....at a highly reduced price.......
interesting times
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paul 67
So it was you who posted the Graham Roberts post on football rumours dodgy .com !!
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thismancraig 11.37 i always enjoy your posts, the following snippets
illustrate not only the amnesia but also the aquience of a journalist who is supposed to be one of our most critical, hardened and not easily duped...aye right.
Daily Record March 28 2000 James Traynor....writes
Rangers are about to embark on a money spinning strategy which will leave Scottish football stunned.
The Ibrox club are close to announcing fresh investment which business analyses desribes as enormous.
The amounts involved will easily top the £40MILLION received from Joe Lewis almost 3yrs ago.
A must have missed that one.
Once bitten twice shy? no not our Jim....Daily Record June 21 2003 James(i am not worthy)Traynor
I'll give Big Eck Millions...
David Murray is poised to pour as much as £20MILLION to boost his treble winners.
The rest as they say is History instead of the promised £20MILLION they proceeded to sell everything that wasn't nailed down.
When David Murray speaks the critical facilties of "our" reporters go in to suspended animation.
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Kano,no need to be rude,it doesn't suit you.I'm on here to talk about CELTIC not r*ngers,or to read the likes of you bad mouth a fellow fan.
Stick to what you know best,talk about CELTIC and keep the bad personal comments to yourself.
DION DUBLIN IS GARBAGE
You know it,I know it,EVERYONE knows it.
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Carfinharp.
Boring
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Terry 12.48 last line that should have read faculties.
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If you don't like what I say Kano,then surf past and read the ones you do like,but keep the nasty comments to yourself.Just like I don't the rubbish spouted out by Fargo and the like,I just surf on by to the HONEST Celts.
Unlikeable YES,Fool NO
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On a happier note -congrats to Tony Warner for his callup to the Trinidad squad.
Celtic 5 Rangers 1 is not a bad result to have in your c.v.
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Carfincarp,wrong. You are rude about everything.
I,on the other hand am not being rude.
Merely stating the blindingly obvious.
DION DUBLIN
WAS
QUITE GOOD ON WEDNESDAY.
You know it,I know it,EVERYONE knows it.
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Commentating on the day of the Wimbledon tennis final, Dan Maskell always referred to this poem. Quite poignant for the times we live in.
IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you Keevins
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too Ross Wallace
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting the fan-fan story
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies never hurry a .........Mint
Or being hated, don't give way to hating, traynor
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: strachan
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, Kojo
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;Chick Young
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same; 3-0 versus Rangers /
Artmedia
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Radio Snyde phone in
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, Celtic crest
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: Telfer and Camara
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, Tore Andre Flo
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss; laptop loyal
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" Celtic defence in the last ten minutes
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, Aiden mcGeady
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; ex player pundits
If all men count with you, but none too much, Thompson, Hartson, Varga
If you can fill the unforgiving minute injury time which is always added when Celtic are ahead
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, time of celebration at Broomloan Stand end
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, League Cup would do for starters
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! Shaun Maloney
--Rudyard Kipling
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Carfincarp
If you must reply to my posts,please take the time to read them.
At no time did I say you were a fool.
Merely opined on the time I think you take to think before you write.
If you consider that being a fool,then so be it,but you did not see it come from me.
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It's a great day today, Rangers are in turmoil. But that's no good, we don't want that,we want to grab the big stick and hit Celtic over the head again. Try enjoying yourself for once, you might like it.
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Brattback now that we are all European its certainly sounds a lot better than the McGinns Malcontents and Kellys Kold Kale-ites.
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Well said Arrannmore, I'm in excellent form today and will be all weekend... until Sunday when the prematch nerves kick in that is.
But you left the R word in your post!!! Shame on you!! dont you know you're attracting Orc ads!!
TBE.
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I dont mind the ads, I am thinking about becoming a sports agent.
To carfinharp
If you can ignore some peoples post then it must be quite easy to ignore the ads as well.
I dont see how we will become a laughing stock I mean whats your beef man.
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Returning to the game at hand against the Infidel (that one doesnt count carfinharp), it will be won and lost in the midfield. I'm a horses -for- courses man and I expect another brute force, desperate-times sortie by the Infidel. I would go with Petrov Keane Lennon Maloney in the middle for this one only. Once the beast is tamed we can always bring on Naka for some sprinkling of passes, for surely if he comes on from the first minute the Infidel's game plan number one says "blooter the skill".
21 points clear and still 4th in the SPL.
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Kano,walk on by.Ignore me as I will ignore you.
DION DUBLIN IS GARBAGE
You know it,I know it,EVERYONE knows it.
If you are trying to state a case for DUBLIN,go ahead make my day.
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Barcabhoy...
the only investment option that makes sense here is a fergus type takeover.....at a highly reduced price.......
I can't see that happening. Murray used to subsidise Rangers, like Mohammed Fayed used to do with Fulham. The boot is on the other foot now however - Rangers subsidise MIH like Fulham subsidise the phoney pharaoh. The similarities are stunning - Both have shifted debt from the footballing operation to the umbrella company to give the only part of the company providing positive cashflow a rosier glow. And both have scaled back their "grand plans" regarding the football club to run it simply as a cash cow for the failing empire.
There is no upside to Murray selling Rangers (for him). The most obvious move for Murray is to sell Ibrox and lease it back - like the Murray Park operation which is no longer ran/owned by Rangers and that has embarked on massive cost cutting.
Note : I am no expert on Fulham, just going by what Private Eye report (regularly).
/p
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Carfincarp,you may well consider yourself unlikable,but let me tell you this.
If you were sitting next to me at Ibrox on Saturday,and we scored a goal.
You,would be the first person I would hug and dance with.
Whether we like each other or not(and I have never met you,so I can't say)we still have one thing in common(I hope)and that is to see Celtic do well.
We may well have our differences on how that may come about,and on opinions on players and management.
But to ignore what you don't like is merely childish.
To read what you don't like is one sure way to know what other people think.
Personally I prefer to know what Celtic supporters are thinking.
Even the ones I disagree with vehemently.
If you can't take a little criticism of your posts(not you personally)then the answer is simple my friend.
Don't make any.
DION DUBLIN
WAS QUITE GOOD
ON WEDNESDAY.
You know it,I know it,EVERYONE knows it.
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watching our beloved scotsport last night wasn't it strange to have archie "socks" mcpherson on for the first half hour only to be replaced by ned flanders!!
what was that all about?
just in time for ned to repeat the same turgid lines about us panicking in the last 10 minutes just like he repeated over and over again on wednesday.
i hate scotsport but i liked walker's comments on murray.
brutal but honest.
the easy way to get listeners? stir up the tims!
clyde fm and real radio. you are banned from my airwaves!!
Emjay
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Carfin Harp
so its Ok for you to badmouth and spout bad personal insult at Celtic player(s).?How else can you descibe your constant attacks on DD.
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Carfinharp,
I have to say that you either didn´t understand or fully read my post when you had a go at me earlier. Questioning my experience as a Celtic fan.
Lighten up !!
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DION DUBLIN
WAS
VERY GOOD ON WEDNESDAY.
You know it, I know it, EVERYONE BUT MARK GUIDI knows it.
I was gutted when I heard Dublin had signed. However, I was prepared allow him the opportunity to make me change my mind.
He may yet turn out to be duff over the course of the season, but he played very well in his 1 appearance to date.
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carfinharp & Kano
geeza brekk you twa
are you P8ddy and Kojo on disguise? *¬)))
Either kiss and make up, or simply do what I do with the posters who (IMHO) are posting garbage - scroll on down. . . .
There are hundreds of posters on here, each with their own opinion of all things to do with our great club. Last thing we need is arguments amongst ourselves - let's leave that to the other mob.
We only have constructive dialogue amongst like-minded people!!
We shall emerge victorious on Sunday (1-4), with hopefully an even bigger lead over the embra lot after they drop 2 points to the sheep.
Hail! Hail!
Curly
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If Paul Le Guen becomes the next manager of Glasgow Rangers then I will quite happily sing simply the best in the nip walking through the streets of glasgow whilst letting passers by skelp my bare buttocks with kippers and bamboo. Wait though, maybe I should pick something that I wouldnt actually enjoy? Anyhoo you get the jist, I cannot wait until this story blows up in their faces, and how I will laugh as the 'I can exclusively reveal' journalists makes up stories about how Le Guen got away.
We will win on Sunday, believe it.
Hail Hail
Bhoy O'Bhoy
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Bhoy O'Bhoy
*¬))))))))))))))
Curlywiththeachingsides
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Cheers Terry, I have to keep reminding myself that Murray has done all this 'massive announcement' stuff before.
Did anyone see the letter to the Herald from the Rangers Trust?
Respect
Stops just short of the usual succelent lamb and fine wine!
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On Sunday we must set out a strong mid-field capable of protecting the rear for the first 25/20 mins till we get settled in.
Once we see Burke and Lovenkrands off, we can then open out and impose ourselves and hopefully score one or two before half-time.
After we hold them again for the first 10 mins of the second half, we'll be loudly chanting 'cheerio,cheerio' to the thousands of departing Orcs making their way to the carpark......
Their players heads will go down and we then unleash Naka,Shaun and BBJ/Magic and close them out with a final couple of goals. 3 or 4 nil and a chorus of 'Over and Over 'and we can all go home or to the pub happy and content.
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CarfinHarp:
"Kano,no need to be rude,it doesn't suit you.I'm on here to talk about CELTIC not r*ngers,or to read the likes of you bad mouth a fellow fan.
Stick to what you know best,talk about CELTIC and keep the bad personal comments to yourself.
DION DUBLIN IS GARBAGE"
There are so many that read this blog without posting. We have no proof that Dion Dublin does not visit this site, therefore i would suggest that your 'personal comment' regarding our latest signing should perhaps have been kept to yourself ;-)
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11:59 AM, tooheysnew-scheissenbedauern - erm there is no word for this in german lol...
it is a term invented by an american author...
literal translation dont make sense.
reserves game has been cancelled..hopefully those boys going to watch arent already on the way there...
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Carfincarp,I stand corrected.
At 12.42pm on 31st Jan I referred to "fools"(without naming you personally)in the context of one of your statements.
For that I do apologise,my mask of hitherto superb restraint and excellent manners did slip on that occasion.
Once again I do apologise.
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Curly,relax.
Sometimes it is good to have a wee tet-a-tet.
No harm done.
I don't have the time or the HTML knowledge of P8ddy,and I don't even come from the same planet as Kojo.
The whole point of here is to get things off your chest,without washing the linen in public.
And long may it continue.
In between the mouthy garbage,some salient points are generally made.
Personally I scroll past no posts.
As I am intensely interested in what other Celtic supporters(and Edward)thinks,regardless of whether I agree with it or not.
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Bhoy O'Bhoy,excellent.
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p8ddy - you've hit the nail on the head regarding that south side property!
Where else could the money come from....
TTTT
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Curly
Geezabreak - leave CarfinHarp and Kano alone - stuff like that is what makes this site entertaining. With all due respect, I find your posts very boring.
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Whenever you play any sport don't you find that your game improves when you play against, or with, someone who is better than you, or at least very good?
For example, when I play golf (can I say that?) my handicap comes down when playing in competition. When I play with my father-in-law I can win easily but my game goes to pot as he has a weak bladder and also insists on stopping for a fag every 8 minutes or between shots 8 and 9 on each hole, whichever comes first.
The same happens when I practice kick boxing with my 64 year old mother-in-law instead of at the local kick box club, although I find both just as enjoyable.
Where am I going with this? Well I'm filling in my lunch hour really but we have to be very wary of maintaining our own standards. This has always been difficult in Europe while we are part of the SPL, but with our main rivals now in crisis of historic proportions and no real threat anywhere else it is going to be extremely difficult to get ourselves up to speed for the CL in football terms, regardless of whether we manage to get a couple of top drawer players in.
Games like Sunday, Easter road in a few weeks and Hearts twice more have to be used as our only real means of preparation. Ibrox WILL be intimidating, Rangers WILL be up for it and WILL play better and show more fight than they have since the last time we were there.
So no let up Celts, focus, raise your game, trust your team mates, be prepared to die for each other, fear nothing and fear no one.
GET INTAE THEM!
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Does anybody else think that three lions shirt sales will take a serious drop in sales in Glasgow if a certain British manager takes over from Sven ?
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12:32 PM, dontbrattbackinanger
The only thing I know about fussball is that the crew on'Das Boot'supported Schalke....
excellent reply...
elfmeter is german for penalty..
das boot is a great film..sadly spoiled by the shalke references...pah!
im celtic st pauili and to a lesser degree dortmund, through and through.
slan
aldo
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James F, Arctic Monkey (noon'ish)
Good points both of you. The wise thing for Dodgy Dave to have done would have been to have sold Dignity FC some time ago, but he's now stuck with it and, like so many others who find themselves in this kind of muddle, will hope he can trade out of it (your Nick Leeson analogy is apt here). This is a common behaviour among investors whose investments go rotten.
Of course selling Weeyarapeepil FC would also require a serious due diligence exercise which could scare off a few bidders or force him to give it away for a song. Perhaps the former has already happened.
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Blantyre Kev,
You are right we are playing a 2nd phase CL team on Sunday. Lets beat them !!
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P67
Thanks for putting us out of our misery with the succeulent FanFan tale.
I am sure you had to water it down (like adding soda to a Chateauneuf)for obvious reasons and understandably too.
Hope it reaches the lazy media just as the esteemed Chairman is chewing some chuch(sp)lamb
hhplc
ps - 2-1 with another Keano deflection off Big Boab's napper
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new article posted
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Paddy,I think you will find the "grand plans" have been scaled back at most clubs in Britain.
I would disagree with you on Rangers and Fulham(or Private Eye).
The plans for those two have become complete pie in the sky to prevent criticism of to egomaniacs and nothing else.
I do not believe(particularly in Rangers' case),the "grand plans"will be enough to get them out of the mire they are in for a good few years yet.
I think they will merely keep their heads above water and no more.
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p8ddy
i'll have to start reading private eye again....always good knockabout stuff....
they were the first to blow the whistle on the dodgy italien lawyer who put dundee in receivership....and that was 6 months before our media asked any questions.....
basically what they said he was dodgy...he wasn't a lawyer....he wasn't italien.....and he had a track record for scams....
they were also very hot on outing cap'n bob maxwell way before everyone else.....maybe they would be interested in someone who is similiar to capn bob and a dodgy quasi italian scam artist......anyone come to mind ??
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JonG
"If anyone thinks for one minute the etablishment are going to allow Rangers to go to the wall then think again".
totally mate agree, this is not an acceptable scenario for them
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Although i don't profess to have any real financial knowledge, i would like to ask a few questions about the debt level currently being enjoyed by our rivals,at the risk of being naive i can't understand how they can owe so much money and yet promise cash for expenditure on players,surely,at some point,the people who are owed this money are going to start demanding they be paid,i find it mystifying that a company can continue to spend without any real effort to repay current debts.If,as the extremely dodgy chairman has promised, a major investment is coming to Ibrox shouldn't that money be used to clear the money owed?.
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test - last clever and very erudite post never hit!
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test
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It's so difficult to read these comments as a Rangers fan. Sure, you find the same ill concealed venom on our sites, but it amuses me greatly to read the comments from you lot as some sort of uber fans, untainted by the depths of your hatred. There's a well known saying in Rangers circles concerning Celtic fans and facts. The implication is that they don't go together - 2 minutes on here and there's ample proof. It's all semantics I guess - the lowest points total in history to progres to the last 16? If only your posters spent more than 2 minutes on the UEFA site and checked who else before us got through with 7 points too. On a Celtic website, I'd have thought you'd be more interested in the team with the worst away record in the CL of any team ever who had taken part in it more than once, non?
However, on to my main point - I hope you are people of principle - Bhoy O'Bhoy stated that "If Paul Le Guen becomes the next manager of Glasgow Rangers then I will quite happily sing simply the best in the nip walking through the streets of glasgow whilst letting passers by skelp my bare buttocks with kippers and bamboo". Better look out the Savlon, son.
Gatecrasher, moi wrote " (absolute pants - and I will eat mine if LeGuen turns up at Ipox as manager)". Hope you didn't have a curry last night you tit.
And on and on and on.....In the blind hatred of all things Rangers, it was inconceivable to you lot that a manager like Le Guen would sign for Rangers. Even "sellick minded" Irish journalists for the Guardian like Paul Doyle wrote through green tinted specs when he said (and 'tis reproduced on this website) ".....will be ousted and replaced by former Lyon boss Paul Le Guen, who at this precise moment in time is probably guffawing to himself at rumours linking him to Scottish minnows Glasgow Rangers."
Unfortunately, the only folk guffawing are the Rangers fans, at you. Rivalry is one thing, the sort of odious, malevolent hatred that seeps from this site only makes it sweeter when events that are only inconveivable in this little cess-pit actually happen. Anyway, enjoy Strachan - I'm sure deep down, you're all 100% behind him...bwa ha ha ha ha ha
