There’s always some excitement when a player arrives at Lennoxtown with the intent of giving the club a look at his wares. 17-year-old Norwegian midfielder, Kristoffer Ajer, did exactly that yesterday, ahead of what we hope is a busy transfer window.
I’m pleased Ronny is scouting a market he knows well, and that we are looking to recruit below-radar players with potential. It’s also good to have prospects play training games with the squad ahead of any decision. It’s too easy to make multi-year mistakes but Kristoffer will be measured against the first team squad, and the Development Squad.
One of Celtic’s perennial failures is our inability to promote the country’s best youth talent into top professionals. Before Rangers liquidation we were involved in an all-or-nothing arms race. Every game was precious so the prospect of allowing youth players time to develop in the professional game was seen as a luxury too far.
With the greatest respect to our current rivals (including Newco, should our paths meet in the Scottish Cup), those competitive pressures have now eased. Ronny can afford to take a different view of team development. Until August, anyway.
I know what you’re thinking. You read the charges laid out at some of the characters involved with Rangers, old and new, and thought: haven’t Craig Whyte and Charles Green suffered enough? Surely calls for due process to be fulfilled are nothing short of bigoted rants? These men made their mistakes and have come through the mill, they should be allowed to get on with their lives!
Aye, I know, it’s a ridiculous suggestion.
The charge list includes “fraud, conspiracy and serious organised crime”, which is a Sword of Damocles hanging over Ibrox. No current Newco directors were involved in the criminality which is alleged to have facilitated the club’s setup, but that won’t change what happens in the event charges are upheld.
I’m sure the SFA are pondering the scope of punishment appropriate for this scenario. Irrespective of team loyalties, such is the seriousness of the alleged offenses they will be praying for not guilty verdicts.
Please note that all men charged are innocent until and unless proven otherwise and are entitled to a fair trial unprejudiced by public comment and desist from inappropriate comment.
If you have two minutes, take a look at Steven Donnell’s page here. He’s currently cycling round the Premiership’s 12 grounds to raise money for Accord Hospice in Paisley. In minging weather. With his dad, who is blind.
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“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
HH.
16 roads…,
was he talking about a nation or an empire ?
which nation ?
If empire then there is no such thing as treason
Below taken from https://johnjamessite.wordpress.com/
Charge of the Whyte Brigade
CHARGE 1: That between January 1, 2010, and February 16, 2012, Whyte, Withey, Grier, Whitehouse and Clark committed fraud by conspiring to obtain a total of £28,262,094 from Merchant Turnaround and Ticketus.
It is alleged the Ticketus cash was used to fraudulently persuade Sir David Murray’s representatives that Whyte had the money to buy Rangers.
CHARGE 2 : That Whyte and Withey breached the Proceeds of Crime Act by concealing the “nature, source, ownership and rights” of the Ticketus money so it could be used to buy the club.
CHARGE 3 : That between January 1, 2011 and February 14, 2012, Whitehouse and Clark breached the Proceeds of Crime Act. It’s claimed they “knew or suspected” Whyte was involved in laundering the Ticketus money and failed to tell the authorities.
CHARGE 4: That between December 13, 2010 and January 31, 2012, Whyte, Withey, Grier, Whitehouse and Clark breached the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 by agreeing “to do something you knew or suspected, or ought reasonably to have known or suspected, would enable or further the commission of serious organised crime”.
CHARGE 5: That Whyte and Withey broke the Companies Act 2006 by using a “proportion of the club’s prospective income from season tickets for 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 to pay a debt due by the club and fund the acquisition of the club”.
CHARGE 6: That on May 20, 2011, at the Scottish Football Association, Whyte and Withey failed to disclose that Whyte had been disqualified as a company director.
CHARGE 7 : That between January 31, 2011 and June 14, 2011, Whyte and
Grier tried to obtain £253,800 from Rangers by fraud. It’s claimed that on May 11, 2011,
a bill for that amount was sent to Rangers when it should have been sent to Liberty Capital, a company Whyte owned.
CHARGE 8 : That between May 9, 2011 and November 28, 2011, more invoices were sent to Rangers that should have been sent to Liberty Capital. Prosecutors claim Whyte and Grier obtained £409,320.
CHARGE 9 : That between August 18, 2011 and October 4, 2011, Whyte and Grier obtained £66,120 by fraud from Rangers using a bill that should have gone to Liberty Capital.
CHARGE 10 : That between May 6, 2011 and March 19, 2012, Whyte, Withey, Grier, Whitehouse and Clark acted to make the club’s administration inevitable so Whyte could buy it back from the administrators debt-free.
CHARGE 11: That on July 16, 2012, Whitehouse and Clark tried to pervert justice by submitting a false statement to Court of Session judge Lord Hodge.
CHARGE 12: That between February 14, 2012 and October 30, 2012 Whyte, Whitehouse, Clark and Green fraudulently acquired Rangers for a sum below its true market value.
Prosecutors claim Whitehouse and Clark falsely pretended they would act in the interests of Rangers’ creditors as administrators. They allegedly agreed that Green would “falsely present” himself as an “independent purchaser of the club”.
It is also claimed Whitehouse and Clark permitted the transfer of £291,823.10 from Rangers Youth Development Ltd to Sevco.
CHARGE 13: That between February 1 and December 31, 2012, Whyte, Whitehouse, Clark and Green agreed “to do something you knew or suspected, or ought reasonably to have known or suspected, would enable or further the commission of serious organised crime”.
It is claimed the men conspired to buy the club from the administrators for “significantly below the true market value”, depriving Rangers’ creditors of money they were due.
CHARGE 14: That Green took £5.5million for his own use which he obtained by fraud.
Prosecutors claim he bought “the business and assets of the club through its corporate entity Sevco Scotland Ltd with money provided by investors to Sevco 5088 Ltd without their knowledge and agreement”.
CHARGE 15 : That between November 10, 2015 and November 24, 2015, Whyte failed to disclose the passwords and usernames needed to unlock two mobile phones, a portable drive and a MacBook Pro which were seized from him.
I will carefully make some pertinent comments and do my utmost to form as few conclusions as possible. I will address them in reverse order. I have dealt with Charge 15 in a previous article. The police cannot compel Whyte to disclose his passwords and user names. He could easily assert that he had forgotten them. Lord Bannatyne could order that since some of the charges allege racketeering, and that this is a serious crime, Whyte must surrender his details. Counsel for Whyte have evidently apprised him of his rights in this matter. Whyte, who was known to use a microphone in a pen, would be smart enough to encrypt his data in his MacBook. The preliminary hearings include discovery. This charge will be the primary focus of the advocate general in Aberdeen. I would also expect each defendant to issue a plea to each charge that pertains to them.
Charge 14 is self explanatory. The prosecution must prove that Charles was not authorized to move the capital raised from Sevco 5088 to Sevco Scotland. Green’s public statements that he ‘shafted’ Whyte might be perceived as disingenuous. I recall minutes from a board meeting where King and Ahmad allocated shares.
A minuted meeting occurred on 31st October 2012 which provides some clarity in regard to the activities of Sevco 5088 Ltd and of Sevco Scotland Ltd. The latter was subsequently renamed The Rangers Football Club Ltd (TRFCL).
One of the items on the agenda was to consider and document steps that were taken, since 29 May 2012, in relation to the acquisition of the assets and a business known as Rangers Football Club, pursuant to the terms of an Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) on 14th June. The participants in this APA were Sevco Scotland Ltd,Sevco 5088 Ltd, RFC 2012 plc and the administrators of RFC 2012 plc, namely Duff & Phelps. These minutes provide a formal record of actions taken by Charles Green and Imran Ahmad, who were both present at this meeting. Whether this is an accurate narrative remains to be seen.
Prior to completion of the APA, various investors referred to as ‘original placees’ had letters signed by Charles Green for the allotment of ordinary shares in the capital of Sevco 5088. Those of us who have paid close attention will recall Charles Green travelling extensively to seek funds and investors in Sevco 5088.
It’s important to emphasize that the original placees had advanced placing money for their allotment of shares, conditional upon the completion of the APA by Sevco 5088.
A few days prior to the APA on 14 June 2012 the purchasing agent was changed to Sevco Scotland. Fourteen June 2012 was an important date as it was the day when the CVA was formally rejected. If we are to believe Green’s narrative at his board meeting, Sevco Scotland, Duff& Phelps and directors of Sevco 5088 all signed up to this switch. The directors who allegedly signed for Sevco 5088 were Charles Green and Imran Ahmad. We now know that two other directors, appointed to Sevco 5088 on 29th May, more than two weeks prior to the switch, were Craig Whyte and Aidan Earley.
The next part of Green’s narrative is that the original placees gave their ‘oral’ permission to change the asset procurement agent from Sevco 5088 to Sevco Scotland. Sevco 5088 was an English company.Oral consent would not constitute a binding contract.
This ‘oral’ consent was the basis for the transfer of the original placees funds to Sevco Scotland. When Sevco Scotland subsequently changed its name to TRFCL, the latter issued replacement placing letters for shares.
Events of 29th May lead to Green’s first dilemma. The appointment of Earley and Whyte, countersigned by Green, was confirmed on that day. Despite this, Green acts as sole director,and has a meeting on his own. I realize that this is preposterous but since Charles Green signed off the minutes of the board meeting on 31/10/12 it is the narrative that he wants us to believe. He actually uses bold type to draw any reader’s attention to it.
At this meeting with himself, he passed ordinary and special resolutions which allowed him to issue equity up to a nominal value of £100m prior to 29th May 2017. Which meant that anyone who received shares in TRFCL were provided with them at the behest of Green.
So how did Green benefit from this meeting with himself? He paid £21,999 for his shares in Sevco 5088 which resulted in 2,199,000 shares. These were itemized as Founder Shares, which were worth circa £1.54m. Mr Green sold some of his allocation of founder shares, more than 700,000, prior to the IPO.
Mr Green also converted his original share capital of £2 in 5088 to TRFCL shares.
At the meeting on 31/10/12 Green confirmed his allocation of 5m additional shares at a purchase price of £50,000 and Mr Ahmad’s 2.2m shares for £22,000
Charge Thirteen is the allegation that Whyte, Green, Whitehouse and Clark colluded to engage in a serious organised crime. There is not much more I can add to this.
Charge 12 if proven would shed light on the mechanics of the alleged procurement of assets at less than their market value. Green, Whyte, Whitehouse and Clark are clearly established as the main defendants in this central plank of the Crown’s case. I perceive this as the most serious charge. For some levity in a long blog I was earlier reminded by a fellow blogger of the Pinsent Mason investigation into alleged collusion between Whyte and Green. The SFA who had access to this report under ‘legal privilege’ evidently found nothing to link Green to a former director who they had banned sine die from Scottish Football. Either parties at Pinsent Mason did not conduct their research with the utmost rigour, or they did and the SFA chose not to disclose it.
Charge 11 alleges that on July 16 2012 at the premises of Duff & Phelps and at various locations in Scotland and England, Whitehouse and Clark attempted to pervert the course of justice.Prosecutors claim that this happened after being requested by Court of Session judge Lord Hodge to provide a report to him following an allegation of conflict involving Duff and Phelps. The Crown claims that in this report, the claim is made that “prior to the acquisition of Rangers on May 6 2011, Duff and Phelps were never made aware of the terms surrounding the financing of the transaction through Ticketus.” It is claimed that they knew this statement was false and that Whitehouse, Clark, and Grier were fully aware of the terms surrounding the financing of the transaction through Ticketus. If proven this is also a very serious charge.
Charge 10 is by far the most interesting allegation. It suggests that the alleged fix was in right from the start.
Charges 7,8,9 are clear and unambiguous. As is charge 6, although I’m surprised that Whyte dropped in for a chat, given that a fax stating that everything was hunky dory was all that the SFA required. The SFA would never question the word of a Real Rangers Man. That would set a dangerous precedent. Stewart Regan has gone out of his way to uphold this tradition.
Charge 5 is an alleged Companies Act transgression. This won’t concern Whyte as he has already been banned for the maximum term at The Court of Session, save that Lord Bannative does not impose a consecutive ban if proven to be guilty. Gary Withey will be concerned that if proven he could be banned for up to 15 years.
Charges 1.2,3,4 focus on the acquisition of 85% of the equity in RFC plc and alleged impropriety.
Now that I have been apprised of the charges I will not express nor imply any conclusions or entertain speculation as to the guilt of any of the parties. I will be duty bound to trash any comments that arrive at a ‘verdict.’
“although I’m surprised that Whyte dropped in for a chat, given that a fax stating that everything was hunky dory was all that the SFA required.”
Good times for a change
See, the luck I’ve had
Can make a good man
Turn bad
So please please please
Let me, let me, let me
Let me get what I want
This time
Haven’t had a dream in a long time
See, the life I’ve had
Can make a good man bad
So for once in my life
Let me get what I want
Lord knows, it would be the first time
Lord knows, it would be the first time
PLEA AND CONFESSION BARGAINING IN SCOTLAND
Fiona Leverick
Plea and confession bargaining has long been a feature of Scots criminal law. This paper describes and comments upon the procedures governing this practice in Scotland.
Prior to charge, various alternatives to prosecution exist—such as prosecutor fines—whereby the accused avoids court proceedings entirely. Recent proposals for expansion are examined, including prosecutor imposed community service orders and work orders and a controversial proposal whereby an accused is deemed to have accepted the offer of a prosecutor fine simply by virtue of taking no action within a period of 28 days. These proposals, and their accompanying policy justifications, suggest that the courts (with their accompanying safeguards of judicial scrutiny of evidence and legal representation) are no longer seen as the appropriate place to deal with minor offences.
Subsequent to charge, there are two ways in which the criminal justice system offers an inducement to the accused to try and persuade him to plead guilty. The first is sentence discounting for guilty pleas, Du Plooy v HM Advocate 2005 JC 1 having established that an early guilty plea should attract a sentence ‘discount’ of up to one third. This sits alongside a system of informal charge bargaining—whereby the prosecutor accepts a guilty plea in exchange for the reduction or deletion of a charge on the indictment. The hope of the accused is that this will result in a lesser sentence, although because there is no judicial involvement, this cannot be guaranteed. Taken together, a substantial reduction in sentence for the accused who pleads guilty can result. The justification for offering sentence discounts is openly stated by the Scottish Executive and the courts to be the resulting efficiency benefits.
The paper concludes by suggesting that these processes are evidence of increased managerialism in the Scottish criminal justice system at the possible expense of due process.
http://www.ejcl.org/103/art103-8.pdf
Canamalar – Obviously the scribe is of Rome.
I cannot however see any reference to the Roman Empire.
It says what it says.
A people. A nation. A civilisation.
In a modern context – the here and the now.
Who/what is the enemy within?
The greedy, corrupt politicos and the cultural Marxists whom do their bidding for them.
They are no longer relevant.
Slan.
HH.
macjay @ 5.05
“And the holocaust was directed by some Nazis.
While the others and many of the German population looked the other way.”
Yes it was but most nazis were already predisposed towards a lower level of atrocity towards the Jews, communists and Romany population, short of extinction. In that environment, evil can flourish without condemnation, but even then, they applied such strict secrecy to the planning that one of your “missing posters” can feel free to indulge in holocaust denial about the numbers affected, while posting on CQN.
Are you seriously asserting that the general Islamic community, including those in Australia and in Europe, bear the same relationship with Al Qaeda and IS as the German population did in WW2? Do they have a cowed and coerced compliance? A willingness to overlook atrocities? Or merely a conflicted attitude because many of their compatriots consider them as traitors in their midst? (a condition not shared by the German population under the nazis).
“Where are the vast number of Imams condemning I.S. and it`s medieval and primitive crimes ?”
They are all over the place. The last time you posed this question, I even supplied you with a list of articles citing their responses. That evidence appears to have made no impact upon you. You go on with the view that “As I am not aware of vast numbers of imams condemning atrocities; they must not be doing so”. A dangerous assumption to make when evidence has already being supplied and ignored.
“That`s the question.”
It really isn’t the question. There is no more duty on a peace loving member of the Islamic community to condemn the atrocities than there is on the rest of them. It becomes a variant of the “when did you stop beating your wife?” type of question. The implication that they have some duty to respond more than you or I is as daft as saying you or I need to make a statement on the Breivik killings because they were committed “in our name” by “people who looked like us”.
And yet, there have been many responses by Islamic leaders. Typically the atrocity will get covered on pages 1 to 12 of newspapers or in the first week of television coverage and typically the condemnations by Muslim leaders will be hidden away at the bottom of page 12 or given short coverage on the 4th or 5th day of the news cycle. Either way, those that want to believe there has been no condemnation by co-religionsists can willfully avoid being better informed.
“Perhaps looking the other way?”
Or. perhaps, the audience they are trying to reach has switched their hearing aids off.
“Why do you feel the need to bring Christians into this?”
I didn’t!- you did! You emphasised the Islam vs Christianity and Islam v The West narrative in your original post. I was the one who stated that fellow Islamists have been the main victims in the medievalists terror- Remember?
“I don`t feel any threat from Christian Jihad?”
Well, perhaps you would not be their immediate target? Do you think the populations of North Africa, The Middle East and even Turkey do not have a blood memory, akin to the Irish, of a history of invasion, suppression and atrocity? (and I know, there were wars on at these times but some of the wars were fought in their territory by proxy- North African countries did not declare war in WW2 but there are many battlegrounds there.
And do you think there are no Curtis Le May types willing to see your destruction and harm as a small price to pay to defeat “the heathen”? I would be less sure that there was not a “so-called Christian” Right movement more than willing to indulge in the stereotyping and dehumanising of Islamic adherents in the same manner as the Kipling quote did to Germans (and was not Pastor Niemoller a German too?)
“I do feel threatened by Islamic jihad.
How about you?”
I feel threatened by all terror movements that would kill me and see me as worthwhile collateral damage. I am grateful that all of Islam has not launched a Jihad- a small but, nonetheless deadly, group has and we have the right to be scared- all of us. Where I part company is in policing methods. The biggest and best alliance we can form to reduce the likelihood of that terror is with the vast group of Islamists who are opposed to the violence and terror being deployed in their name. Those amongst us who demonise that large group make the task harder and help to split us along sectarian lines.
I still think this is best dealt with off the blog – but I would welcome your observations on the links provided by Eddie in Kirkmichael last night.
I will catch replies later.
I note that the Crusades got a wee mention earlier lol.
Nobody could have seen that one coming.
What about the Spanish Inquisition?
HH.
macjay
“people from Islamic backgrounds ? ”
Why can`t you just say “Muslims” ?”
Were they Muslims? Is this a “Once a Catholic…” type deal? People can come from all faith backgrounds and not be adherents to that faith- we have many lapsed and non-catholics amongst our support. The vast number of reports of drunkenness amongst the perpetrators should set some warning bells that these were not Strict Muslim adherents. The reason I rarely say Muslims, as shorthand, as it tends to lead to confusion and conflation, and suggests I am stereotyping a whole group of disparate people- Now what is your motive for wanting me to use the terminology you prefer?
“Fred West ?
British troops in 1945 ?
What`s that got to do with Islamic jihad ?”
Perhaps the other side of the coin? I know you would prefer to ignore cause and effect because any explanation of Third World anger can be easily misrepresented as condoning the atrocities. What they show, and EIK’s links too, is that rape and grooming are offences committed by people of all faiths and none.
I am now at work and have to leave this subject for the day.
Awe Naw @ 08.45 hrs,
Very interesting I think. Sooooooooooooooooooooo complicated. I wonder if the trail is deliberately so hard to follow that it will be impossible to unwind.
Another example of why accountants and lawyers must think football is a never ending Christmas bonus. And we say football is not a business.
What is the bottom line for ordinary football fans. How will it affect Celtic.?
IMO the whole thing is just a @@@@ing joke. They were liquidated : kaput, done, gone. Yet they are still here and we will face them next year.That for me is the bottom line. They continue to successfully redefine the word liquidation.
Hail, Hail.
From yesterday’s discussion about how we sign players…
!!Bada Bing!! on 6th January 2016 5:40 pm
It’s true, I cannot prove that Ronny had the final say on Gordon. You couldn’t prove otherwise.
What is important to point out, is that Gordon was signed on a free contract with incentive’s to take Zaluska’s place in the squad. If Ronny didn’t fancy him, he could have remained the number 2 behind Bailly.
THE EXILED TIM on 6th January 2016 5:52 pm
“Ronny was asked soon after he was appointed about these two, he said that they had been scouted extensivley and he was happy with what the scouts had told him about them and he was indeed delighted that they had joined the club.
I suppose he was telling porkies, and he scouted them himself.”
I never said that Ronny personally scouts every player. I said that they don’t sign first team players without Ronny having the final say. In the case of these two, Ronny was probably presented with these players by John Park and was impressed with what the reports said. These guys were squad players on loan deals.
My personal opinion is that when Ronny came in he understood the budgets at Celtic just fine and decided that he would rather work with what he had initially. This meant that he opted for some loan deals that wouldn’t hinder his chances to rebuild the squad in the long-term while giving him the chance to cast his eye over the current squad.
He now knows what he has and is out to rebuild
“wheresoever dirty acts of sexual baseness are committed, there you will find the Muslim in Scotland with all but a monopoly.”
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
GreenPinata
Dont you know, that its written in to Scots Law, that the Rainjurz can never die.
No matter what century we are in:)
They have a government charter to cheat from waaaay back.
Says on the bottom of it in old german script….Let us Cheat, or else.
They have all signed it with their hooves….in Blood:)
HH
Timaloy -thanks for your reply HH
In case nobody else has confirmed it yet. Rumoured target Wout Weghorst fits the ideal scouting profile for a Celtic striker – he doesn’t score that often. About 1 in 4.
Hmmm – League reconstruction ? Do FAC have representatives at this meeting ?
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14188263.Football_group_bids_to_kick_off__big_conversation__about_beautiful_game_at_Holyrood/
The green man
I studied Scottish and Irish history under Professor Devine. There was a queue to get in to his classes some of his talks were spellbinding. I spotted him at a few Celtic games which only endeared him further.
Good luck with your paper..
The Green Man,
You are obviously on the ball today. No signs of doolallyness.
That is precisely why it is difficult to play this charade anymore.
Cheers and hail hail.
Cultsbhoy
TM…The best man there is.
None finer.
Love his work…tried to catch his lecture on Thomas Muir in Edinburgh.
Could not get a invite:)
TM is a wee bit of a genius.
Whereas im like the Charles Manson of Scottish Historical Studies:)
HH
WEEMINGER on 7TH JANUARY 2016 9:42 AM
This is something I don’t understand. Celtic employ analysts who judge players based off stats.
For example, Wanyama was supposed to have been identified because of the number of tackles and tackle success rate (we were looking for a CB)
How could our analysts recommend somebody with such a scoring rate? I reckon his agent is trying to punt him to us. Can’t see us signing him after we’ve just signed Carlton Cole.
Good Morning Bhoys from a driecht Central Scotland lots of debate about muslims and Islam now there is no doubt in my mind that there are many many evil people in this world.Many are muslims many are christians many are atheists etc. I dont believe any religion makes a man evil I believe the evil always existed in his heart and he only needs a prompt be it real or be it a misunderstanding to trigger his evil.The good Lord said it is not what goes into a mans mouth that makes him a sinner (evil ) it is what comes out of his mouth that makes him a sinner ( evil ). We are all made in Gods image all Jock Tamsons bairns and we could also say there but for the grace of God go I.We need to deal with evil men in order to protect society but in my opinion to blame all evil on one group or another would be wrong. H.H.
timaloy29 on 7th January 2016 9:52 am
I long ago gave up believing any player was signing for us until he actually appeared on a football pitch, in a Celtic top surrounded by players that I knew were in fact Celtic players.
timaloy29 – RE Android boxes from yesterday, I set mine up last night. Easy enough PnP and all the latest movies and box sets are there. If it’s football you want it for, I was disappointed with it. Lots of buffering even through an Ethernet connection. I tried other sports and they were watchable but for some reason football wasn’t great…
The Green Man
Haha – I’m sure you do yourself a disservice…
My Brother was a history teacher before going in to guidance – he and I attended an evening lecture at Aberdeen Uni a few years ago where Tom Devine gave a superb lecture on how Scots ran the Brittish empire. English may have taken over the countries but it was the Scots from the clan based system who ‘managed’ the natives. It was interesting and shameful to hear.
Sevco is a thesis waiting to be written.. Be a field day for a PhD student in years to come. Be interesting to see the longer term impact on Scottland’s social and cultural heritage.
TIMALOY29
The idea used to be, that any decent foreign striker, couldnt fail to score loads because of the amount of chances the team create.
Dont think thats the case now though:)
Wish it was.
HH
Cultsbhoy
You can catch TMD’s lecture on The trial of Thomas Muir online.
Very good it is too.
That period is fascinating, 1790s leading up to the Radical War in 1820.
I could go on:)
But catch that lecture.
HH
Hughes has requested Stokes as a loan to Inverness … I can’t think of a better move for AS.
He’s worked with JH before and he’d enjoy Inverness out of the spotlight- allow time and space for reflection.
Could be a good move for all involved.
Morning Timland from a damp hun free mountain valley.
T29
We are sort of saying the same thing.
RD may well have the final say, but when you are presented with player xy or z he has a choice, they may not be what he wants but he will take them anyways, he would be a fool not to.
Of course he understood the constraints he would be working under, the job is a massive step up for him, a chance to put himself out there, I personally think he will make it, I just hope it’s with us.
I still think the scouts have far too much influence, and am heartened to see that RD is actively scouting players himself.
HH
THE GREEN MAN on 7TH JANUARY 2016 10:03 AM
I suppose your right.
We’ve particularly struggled with players who we identify as target men. Bangura, Balde, Ciftci, Scepovic & Fortune are examples of lads who we liked because they could “hold the ball up well” and were physically impressive
Domestically, what Celtic benefit from is somebody who has a bit of movement and is able to take chances in the box like Stokes, Griffiths or Hooper
I personally think we should scrap the target man option. The last one who was any good was (whisper it) Dion Dublin ;)
Joe Filippis Haircut
using dark age superstitions as a basis of debate on ‘evil’ is a hoot
West End of East End on 7th January 2016 10:01 am
Really appreciate the info mate. I’m looking for a good selection of TV shows and also sport.
Sad to hear the sports buffer.
What was your box called?
Auldheid downloaded Kodi on to my desktop, it works a dream, cost feck all, no need to pay anything for it.
ernie lynch
Where does that quote come from?
JJ
Timaloy29
Im with you on the target man fiasco.
What id do, is play young Aiden Nesbitt up front with Leigh Griff.
Give the bhoy a run in the team….learning off Leigh.
Never mind Ciftci:)
HH
THE EXILED TIM on 7TH JANUARY 2016 10:10 AM
“RD may well have the final say, but when you are presented with player xy or z he has a choice, they may not be what he wants but he will take them anyways, he would be a fool not to.
I still think the scouts have far too much influence, and am heartened to see that RD is actively scouting players himself.”
I agree with you to a point. I think the reason he agreed to sign Wakaso and Tonev was because he didn’t want to waste a lot of money before he had a chance to look at the squad he has.
The context is important. Ronny was new in the job and probably didn’t have the time to sign players he had personally looked into. He decided he would sign a few loan players and decide what he wanted for this season.
I don’t think the scouts have too much influence. They are tools for Ronny to work with. The criteria is usually set by Ronny after all.
timaloy29 – Film & box sets quality was very good, just a pity about the sports. I’ve sent them an email this morning in case I was doing something wrong or need to download additional s/w, see what they say…could be operator error right enough…
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Jungle Jim Hot Smoked
Originally about the Irish I believe.
Is that correct Ernie, ma French is no whit it was:))
S.F.T.B.
I still think this is best dealt with off the blog – but I would welcome your observations on the links provided by Eddie in Kirkmichael last night.
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A final thought.
First link:
But Yasmin Ishaq, who has supported victims, said: “It’s not just the young white girls that they’re targeting.”
No prosecutions and no trials.
Anecdotal evidence.
A cynic would be entitled to think ” She would say that ,wouldn`t she.”
Nevertheless,
I take your point.
Off blog.