This is our second CQN TV stint where Glasgow’s hottest model and TV presenter Nicole and social media masters’ student, Suzie, ask me about the season ahead Celtic and our Champions League chances. I also get a great question about the Generation of Domination, which I’ve not written much about here recently, but you’d better believe it’s coming.
It was great fun talking about Our Celtic, hope you enjoy it.
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That Kasabian mob are quite insipid !
T4
Moonbeams. 23.51
Thanks for the advice it sounds good i ll need to do.one of the trips. Is that all the one trip where you finish in the gardens of villa cimbrone i like the sound of it then.
Peace be with you
See link to Rangers Supporters Trust Statement.
2 things to note – their snidely atitude towards the Hibs statement and their view that Sevco should start in SFL3.
http://www.rangerssupporterstrust.co.uk/rstsite/latest-rst-news/472-rst-board-and-members-statement
Jimmyk
Hope you didn’t accept cookies from those strange men.:)
Ggh
STAND STRONG
WE
ALL
ARE
TURNBULL HUTTON
Bushy
Bus from San Angelo/Sorrento to Amalfi. Get off at Postano. Lovely town with great restaraunts. Then jump bus from Positano to Amalfi. Amalfi is a nice we town and St Andrews Cathederal is defo worth a visit (holds the remains of St Andrew). From Amalfi take the bus up to Ravello and then it’s about a 10 minute walk through the lanes of Ravello to Villa Cimbrone and it’s gardens.
MWD
What is the Stars on 8 July, 2012 at 23:12 said:
Bushy Eyebrows
Re Rome,
If you are only on a day trip to Rome you wont get to see all the sites worth seeing,and they really are worth seeing but here is one slightly off the beaten track (although still central) Its where the great Irish rebel chief Hugh O’Neill is buried
If ya know yer history etc
http://www.theflightoftheearls.net/tombstones.html
share on F’book or Twitter
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thanks for sharing, never knew that, and now passed onto mt O’Neill nephews
See iPods. See spell mistakes. See see see…. Arrgggghhhhhh.
Sabre67 on 8 July, 2012 at 23:49 said:
Wow …. Talk about hitting the nail on the head ….!!!!
The establishment reckoned without the sons of our wronged fathers….
Good Mhan …..
MWD …… TELL ME ABOUT IT,……!!!!!………LOL
after everything thats went on.
the cheating the corruption, the insider dealing.
the one criteria they failed on
“do you know a handsome hun ?”
xase closed, application denied.
blantyretim on 8 July, 2012 at 21:21 said:
never thought of that will look into it tomorrow, thanks.
Kevtic on 8 July, 2012 at 23:49 said:
I love her, really
Well if you’re going to enrage them – might as well do it big time!
By EWING GRAHAME (Scotsman)
Published on Monday 9 July 2012 00:13
THE Charles Green consortium have told Rangers supporters that it would take at least £50 million for them to sell the newco club – a figure which would give them an astonishing 900 per cent profit on their initial £5.5m investment.
eddieinkirkmichael on 9 July, 2012 at 00:28 said:
blantyretim on 8 July, 2012 at 21:21 said:
never thought of that will look into it tomorrow, thanks.
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allright bud.
i have a very similar story to share from back in the early 90’s in the company of argyll and southern highlanders, one who knew my family and made a point of letting the rest of them know.
scary, for a bit, but then i thought, ………………. och will tell it when i am sober.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiIx_TxFpzU
remember when T in the park was good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z40fhBxcg54&feature=related
as i was saying
is there no a night shift on a sunday/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FagEXaPTwRE
good morning britain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeJGATZ8Yx4
sally is a
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkCcDRzcZrM
aye the old ones are the best ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmXMA34CeoQ
dont understand a word,but good tune
Ernest Borgnine was a staunch Freemason who won an Oscar for his part in the film Marty but will always be remembered for his part as Sergeant “Fatso” Judson a sadistic stockade NCO in From Here To Eternity. This was the film where Sinatra reputedly got the part when the director found the severed head of his favourite horse at the bottom of his bed! If you haven’t seen it get hold of a copy – it’s a masterpiece!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgVApWi4Y3o
we do marching too
Seems like the msm is catching up with reality so ra berrs can get the full picture. I read it,then I read it again. I’m still laughin’!
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spl/rangers-newco-charles-green-consortium-put-50m-sale-price-on-club-1-2400417
looks to me like
the fabric of scottish society is runnig around with its arse hanging out
By EWING GRAHAME (Scotsman)
Published on Monday 9 July 2012 00:13
THE Charles Green consortium have told Rangers supporters that it would take at least £50 million for them to sell the newco club – a figure which would give them an astonishing 900 per cent profit on their initial £5.5m investment.
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Anyone remember the old horror movie, ‘Scanners’ where people’s heads would blow up?
That’ll be Bummer Broon in the morning.
Cannot wait to see his first tv interviews regards that news. Popcorn ready!
Morning fholks ,
while Jobo is sunning himself in Cancun (or wherever) , a brief weather update from G1 – it’s p$%^ing doon .
Mind you , it’ll make all the bedraggled T-in-the-parkers i’ve just seen at Central feel right at home .
Think this should be an interesting week. Lot’s of horse-trading , leaks , rumours and double-dealing to come . What’s not to like ? Scottish Football – the world’s first sporting soap .
Sanna
So Friday will be Morton’s Fork day. And so it will come to pass that a decision on what to do with Sevco 5088 ( a group of individuals trying to be recognised and licensed as a football club ) will be made. Rather than follow their own rules they have invited wrath to their own door.
I personally think Sevco will go to the 3rd division; I think the playing squads of the Ist division are too rich for the Sevco. What an embarrassment it would be if they did go into the Ist and, despite the best efforts of the MIB, they failed to win promotion; or even worse… they were relegated.
Well whatever happens, not everyone is going to get what they wish for – incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim – whichever route they so choose, it is bound to end in tears. Such is life.
Oh! and if they do go to the 3rd. I would not be too surprised if they spent more than one season there.
Just noticed on Celtic FC site – Joe McBride seriously ill.
Thoughts and prayers for this Celtic hero.
Paul67……et al
Dance to this……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
You deserve it……
The GOD is on the horizon.
Meanwhile …….
CQN will bear it’s teeth when appropriate to do so…
Watched The Gaffer conduct a press conference that was the paragon of intellect and diplomacy in choppy waters ….
Smart cookie is The Gaffer…
Roll on the Future
I believe, that if fans, players and yes, even officials stand together in this crisis, it may even turn into a wholesale renaissance in the game.
Corrupt officials/administrators should be removed from office.
Ironically, I suspect that there is likely to be a universal call for this among Scottish fans. Yes, even diehard RFC (ia) fans are calling for officials to go, even if for entirely opposite reasons to the vast majority of others.
Players/officials must start to behave professionally.
Stop play acting and cheating. There is no honour in winning by conning the referee. You bring shame on the club and violate your supporters integrity by your actions, asking fans to celebrate your inappropriate actions. As a fan, I find no satisfaction in my team winning by deceit.
Similarly, there is no honour in refereeing if you show favour to one team over another. Your role is to ensure the rules are applied without fear or favour (remember that phrase Mr Regan?). It should be of absolutely no concern of yours which team wins/loses.
“The beautiful game” as it is so often called, has become very ugly through neglect by officials, players and sometimes the fans themselves. It has suffered for many years by the play acting and down-right cheating by players. This is exacerbated by club officials (& fans) standing by their player when everyone knows they cheated.
Whilst we cannot stop other teams players from such actions, we most certainly can take action within our own club.
What is happening in Scotland is a battle for integrity in the game.
A battle to reverse the corruption of our game by those who desire money and glory at any cost.
I sincerely hope integrity wins out. Otherwise what’s the point in having the game at all?
Who stole the Nightshift.
Better put it back Bhoys n Ghirls before Sinister McCoist comes looking.
MWD
PS. They tell me it’s snowing in EK this morning.
Good morning CQNers,
Trawling through the papers this morning I came across the following 2 pieces that I thought might be of interest.
Perfect example of why Celtic were right to keep silent during Rangers implosion.
Sunday Independent piece by John O’Brien
Worth a read. Blogged from RTC.
corsica on 09/07/2012 at 12:08 am
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Still dubious says:
08/07/2012 at 4:40 am
Reading Graham Spiers’ musings, the image of Corsica seated in his hot tub after climbing Cairngorm, whisky in one hand, cigar in the other, bunnet clamped firmly to his head, dictating his latest outpourings to Mrs Corsica while refusing all offers of Skin so Soft to ward off midges, came to mind.
Plainly, Corsica is not a man to trifle with the truth – in fact he is quite willing to reveal it in gruesome detail.
Yet, Graham Spiers assures us, piously no doubt, that Messrs Regan and Doncaster have assurances that Sky will walk away from the deal if there are no Old Firm games for three years.
A deal which Corsica and others have estimated should have brought in about forty million pounds per year, rather than sixteen; a deal which Corsica’s contacts in Sky assure him is not dependent upon Rangers being in the SPL.
So, we know that Mr Doncaster has negotiated a poor deal, just from the amount of money that it brings in. If he is telling the truth about Sky’s willingness to walk away, it’s even worse. If he is not telling the truth, then he’s just lying in a final desperate attempt to hold onto his position.
The question for Neil Doncaster and Stewart Regan this week appears to be, “Would you rather be thought a fool or a liar?” To which their answer seems to be, “We aspire to both.”
Is their no depth that the shameless men in charge of this game will not plumb?
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As you know, I do not visit Scotland that often outwith an annual holiday and football games so I very, very rarely pick up the Scottish media (prior to this blog I liked to pick up a copy of the Daily Jock to have a laugh but no longer) so I did not really know about Spiers. I have however followed his performances on TV and in print as they have been posted here.
How can I put it? The man is a self-serving, narcissistic fool – a football writer’s Lloyd Cole if you like (a man so vain that he had a suitcase of books with him when I met him at an after-concert soiree once) or worse still, a football writer’s Pat Nevin (now there is a man who also probably carries around a suitcase full of books – all Penguin, Hachette and Gallimard classics no doubt).
Spiers’ latest article does not disappoint. I particularly liked the notion that he would have anyone (let alone a famous St Johnstone fan – Cosgrove?) up against a wall. I suspect that our Mr Spiers was exactly the kind of terrified Mummy’s boy who was constantly up against the wall in school. I have no time for bullies but sometimes you have to ask yourself if some people are just so repugnantly full of themselves that they deserve a slap. How many times did it happen, Graham? How many times did the head go down the toilet? How many times was there an unfortunate accident? How many times did the thumb go in the mouth and the teddy get cuddled?
Spiers states it is pertinent to ask if Regan and Doncaster will survive the political maelstrom five days before the SFL vote. I’ve got news for Graham, both Regan and Doncaster will not survive and I will lay £1,000 on that (you read this blog, we know so just name a charity and they’ll benefit by £1,000 if I am wrong). They will not survive for one very simple reason – they are both incompetent fools who have made the most almighty cock-up. Whatever the outcome, their heads will be served up on silver platters as sacrificial offerings. I know you are only a journalist and don’t understand the workings of business, finance and politics. I do and they will be sacrificed because heads will need to be seen to roll.
Spiers then states that “Doncaster, the SPL’s chief executive, and Regan, his equivalent at the SFA, have both proved adept, even in this agonised drama, at tip-toeing across the minefield”. No, Graham, what they have been adept at is avoiding going over the top and facing the enemy; they are Captain Blackadder, Lieutenant George and Baldrick combined (although perhaps Longmuir could now take up a part) with Ogilvie and Bannatyne behind the lines as General Melchett and Captain Darling. Not one them has shown a single scrap of leadership in this whole sorry saga. If they had we would not be here, 3 weeks from the start of a new season with so much still up in the air and the very real threat of civil war in the offing. To even equate Regan’s “slow,lingering unrest” and “civil unrest” statements as leadership shows how stupid you really are. Did you think Enoch Powell’s references to rivers of blood was leadership too? What we have had is months (yes, months) of vacillation, ignorance, bullying, intimidation and cowardice.
Spiers goes on to ask us to imagine that Regan and Doncaster are right. The problem, Graham, is that we can’t because we – the paying customers and shareholders – have been left in a vacuum devoid of any meaningful, realistic and accurate information or data. The one single source of anything approaching verifiable data is this blog and this blog alone.
Let’s look at some simple facts shall we?
1. Scottish football will lose out on £16m income per season.
That is clearly wrong as the BBC will continue to support Scottish football and both Sky and ESPN have made public statements to that effect and (as I have revealed here) a senior executive within Sky has told me personally that the prospect has not even been discussed. It will only happen if every sponsor walks away and no one is willing to broadcast Scottish football. Ridiculous!
What you fail to understand is that even without Rangers or Sevco, Sky have a very good deal – £8-10m for a product that makes a major contribution to generating some £430m income and fills much-needed airtime. If Sky/ESPN had threatened this, then the SFA and SPL should publish the correspondence/proof because that would have a major impact on Sky’s customer base and bring them back to the table sharpish.
2. Scottish football is reliant upon TV income.
Once again, a complete myth. PWC – an internationally recognised firm of accountants and business advisers – publish an annual report on the state of Scottish football finances. The most recent one stated quite clearly “Even before the collapse of Setanta, the SPL was in a unique position compared to the other big leagues such as the Premiership, Ligue 1, Serie A and the Bundeslige, with ticket sales forming the SPL’s most important revenue stream (with TV and radio deals being second and sponsorship taking third place). This means the SPL clubs have been hit relatively harder by the declining attendance levels than other major leagues. Add to this the average 18,277 fewer fans attending their team’s home matches during 2009/10 compared to last season and the average resulting impact wipes £10m off the SPL’s aggregate revenue.”
That’s right; the experts (as opposed to journalists with no financial or business knowledge and understanding) calculate that the loss of 18,000 fans resulted in a loss of £10m income. So let’s say that Regan and Doncaster are right and we parachute Sevco into anything above SFL3, how many fans will we lose? We lost 18,000 fans in one season due to dwindling interest, an uncompetitive league, and economic circumstances and that cost us £10m. Add in corruption and I would not be surprised if it was 50%. Can you imagine Kilmarnock, Motherwell, St Johnstone, St Mirren, ICT losing half their support? What about Aberdeen, Dundee United, Hibernian, Hearts? Celtic even?
Spiers states that Regan and Doncaster only get one shot at this – and they have to call it right. No, Graham, they had the time and space months ago to commission independent enquiries into the alleged wrong-doing as well as hold discussions with broadcasters and sponsors which would have given them the information required to make a reasoned and accurate analysis of the situation. They could have asked experts to look at the situation and make recommendations on the way forward (which could have protected their own positions). They could have asked the Scottish government (or UEFA) to assist with a recovery plan and an emergency hardship fund.
Instead, they have sat on their hands, hoping that this would all blow over and their mummies would come and rescue them. Probably much like you at school, Graham; instead of standing up to the bully, they have allowed themselves to be cowed by the bully until it is too late.
Instead of presenting verifiable facts and figures openly and honestly to ALL stakeholders, they have sowed misinformation, mistrust and deceit.
Instead of facing the future with a modicum of confidence and a positive plan, they now present to us a cowards’ and a cheats’ charter that will be the death knell of Scottish football.
Instead of talking up the positives in Scottish football and the evident harmony and agreement amongst all fans outwith RFC, they have given us their Gerald Ratner moment.
G
Sandman
You make two assumption in your post from earlier…
1 that Bummer Brown can read… and
2 he wasn’t at the meeting in question (which he was)
The reason why BB is so quiet of late is that he is a.busted flush with the ‘rangers’ support.
A little knowledge is dangerous thing… never a truer phrase with regard to Bummer ‘title deeds’ brown
Good morning fellow Celts from grey North Hampshire
Well played Andy a valiant attempt. but never got enough across the net on first serve good tactic on second serve to his backhand… You will beat him next time
Taking nothing away from a wonderful champion RF
Have we signed a Chris Sutton type striker yet?
HH
Celtforlife
BumblerBrown has gone all twitteraty. (I’d been following for a few weeks thinking it was a parody account but apparently this is he who canny speak).
@johnbomberbrown: So £5.5m buys you the assets of RFC?.. Dont think so…..ask GREEN what hold over assets has TICKETUS and WHYTE…..
@johnbomberbrown: I called m murray more thn 15 times since TFFF meeting last week- NO reply Every day im getting more info that i will be able to tell you
@johnbomberbrown: All i can tell you for a fact is if you give them ur ST money it will go into a black hole. GONE i will have more info soon
@johnbomberbrown: The albion car park brought in £900k last season ( how many games did rangers play at ibrox ) then add the days car park not used. OWNER got