You wouldn’t announce an event, encourage others to sell tickets, without booking the venue. You just wouldn’t do it. These things have an order: book the venue, then announce the event. It’s a matter of courtesy to all involved, not to mention being an operational necessity.
Why then, do we have the unedifying scenario of Hamilton Accies releasing a statement to say New Douglas Park is unavailable for the date the SFA advertised a Scottish Cup game between East Kilbride and Celtic would take place? It’s just remotely possible that Accies have reneged on an earlier commitment given to the SFA, but the tone of their statement suggests otherwise.
This is for a game which is scheduled to take place one week on Sunday. Fans have to acquire and distribute tickets, travel arrangements have to be made, police and stewarding have to be booked (by East Kilbride, who are the home team, remember).
This should be a great day for the young club but it’s shrouded in considerable commercial uncertainty: how much will policing, stewarding and stadium rental cost? Who at East Kilbride will guarantees these bills and how? The police and host club may take a lax view on credit, but the stewarding provider won’t. What revenue can be expected? None of these issues can be known until a venue is found.
I’m not going to support Pat Nevin’s views, which offended Dundee manager, Paul Hartley on Sportscene at the weekend. I didn’t hear his comments, so cannot conclude if he was talking “absolute garbage”, or if Nevin had verged into the kind of territory which saw him issue an apology under threat of legal action last month. But I’m not convinced the scope of Hartley’s comments are appropriate.
Dundee lose goals. Lots of them. Their only clean sheet since 12 September came against Hamilton Accies last month. The objective facts suggest their defensive strategy is an appropriate subject for criticism. This season they lost 6 in one game against Celtic and 8 over two matches against Ross County.
Analysis and criticism is the domain of pundits and fans, even those, who Paul Hartley notes, have “never coached or managed a team”. Attacking the pundit (or the programme) is easier than explaining a (subjectively) poor defensive record, or keeping clean sheets, apparently.
Paul said “It’s not what it used to be like, away back in the 1980s when you wanted to sit up and watch Sportscene on a Saturday night”. Back then Archie Macpherson fronted the show. Archie told me about a similar run-in he had with Alex Ferguson, who angrily disagreed with the commentator’s view of a defensive infraction.
Archie’s view on his opinion being irrelevant due to his lack of coaching experience was memorable, “I’ve never laid an egg, but I know when I taste a bad one”.
The Foundation Zip Slide in Paradise takes place on 26 March, bookings are now being taken. This time the slide is higher and longer, leaving the very top corner of the North Stand seating at the Lisbon Lions Stand end, diagonally crossing the pitch to land at the bottom of the Jock Stein Stand, at the South Stand end.
You don’t have a lot of time to get booked and start your fundraising, so get onto it now. Sign up here.
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jimbob71
Sounds like a good night.
KLV
Jimbob
I hear Willie Collum won’t be on the podium. He’s got a seat in the front row so he can see the Panel and the Audience at the same time.
Philbhoy
Haha. The majority in Dalmuir wear a Celtic top. :)
BAWSMAN on 26TH JANUARY 2016 12:43 PM ref. John Clark, SFM
A sadly disappointing performance from McRae. He appears to be the ventriloquist’s dummy, only his lips never move. So it’s “je suis SFA” Broadfoot is the man. Oh Lord. Surely it has to stop.
I had thought we were going to get a decent president, a real football man, with business savvy and presence. What a disappointment. The whole system has to be binned.
Thomas Hitzlsperger 9 July 2000
played with us in a friendly on the German tour in MON’s first season in which we were turned over by a collection of diddy teams. Apparently MON didn’t rate him…
Came for a two week trial and went on the Scandinavian and German tour. Did well in the FCK game but poorly against the Leipzig side; left and went to Aston Villa.
@celticwiki
TBB-;)
PHILBHOY
Great news on the wee Mhan. :-))) HH
DELANEYS DUNKY on 26TH JANUARY 2016 1:40 PM
Weefra G67
Cheers bhoys. Van from our industrial estate was crashed into by a white Audi with gunman driving.
Wild West Dunbartonshire!
I hope your van driver got oot and had words wae the bassa >))
If anyone wants tickets I can arrange.
Let me know or ask Paul67 for my email address.
I bet when the cops stop that white van gunman….he has got a plastic bag with bread, milk, eggs, spuds, and the DR in it.
He might even have got away with cigs and a bottle of Buckfast.
Lunatic.
FFS could he no have got tick:)
HH
Awe aye here we go it’s all kicking off.
https://johnjamessite.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/mcraebroadfoot-state-that-rangers-are-the-same-club/
Regan has the audacity to comment on Platini,Blatter and Co,as if he’s a big time player,canny sort out a simple game of fitba ffs.The SFA said the clubs should have sorted it out between them………EK are an amateur club for God’s sake.A bunch of clowns.
As I said this morning that is The SFA throwing the gauntlet to all supporters in Scotland, hmmmm
http://theceltsarehere.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/incompetent-sfa-challenge-fans-to.html
Hey! Don’t bring the clowns into this.
BADA BING
We can only wonder how these people get these jobs…Regan, Dungcaster etc.
Its certainly not on merit anyway.
Bowling Club Blazer Mob.
HH
Bowling Club Blazer Mob Fix False Flag Flare Fiasco.
By Keef Jackshun
HH
The Green Man
We can only wonder how these people get these jobs…Regan, Dungcaster etc. Its certainly not on merit anyway.
Could you name just ONE that got into a position with that mob on merit?
Me neither !!
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/the-guts-of-another-million/#more-7263
Bada
It looks as though you are calling EK `a bunch of clowns` !! I am sure ( maybe apart from TBB, ) that is not what you meant.
JJ
Legal advice? From a man acting in a non-legal capacity?
And how do we know The Former President is of the Highest Integrity?
He told us himself, you fools.
They really need to be given a rude awakening
If John James is a supporter of Sevco, he is a very strange one.
JJ
BURGAS HOOPS
There are a few ways to get employed by The SFA.
1. You must be able to understand hand signals.
2.You must worship Lucifer
3. You must refuse to pay for anything
4. You must be prepared to do anything for the Order.
5. You must sign the contract in Blood.
Merit doesnt come into it:)
HH
To be fair, no one at the SFA had heard of Regan before he applied for the job.
“Stewart Regan? Emdy know him? Heard of him?”
“Nope”
“Nope”
“Me neither”
Complete ignorance was a prequalification for the job. Gotta say he’s standing up well to the brief.
no googling now …………. what is
ELASMOBRANCHII ?
phils up.
TGM
6. You must be pompous.
Saint Stivs, off the top of my head I would say Elasmobranchii is a subclass of Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fish that includes the sharks (Selachii) and the rays, skates, and sawfish (Batoidea). They resemble the true fishes in external form, but differ from them so widely in structure that they are placed in a class by themselves.
JJ
JJHS
Thats a given:)
SFA, modelled themselves on Tammany Hall.
You could not make it up.
Its beyond satire.
HH
“They resemble the true fishes in external form, but differ from them so widely in structure that they are placed in a class by themselves”
A bit like some you get in the suppers in the South of England.
JUNGLE JIM HOT SMOKED
Only keech can google that quickly
come on own up Keith
HH
What`s the general consensus on here about fans turning their back on football? I know of one diehard CFC fan, season ticket holder for over 30 yrs, supporter for about 55 yrs who says he won’t be renewing next year solely down to his perception of the game being rigged. But although he `says` that, he wonders if he`ll be able to carry it out, as he says CFC are in his DNA.
JJHS
“The Way to have Power is to take it” William ‘Boss; Tweed
Dave King might be a fan:)
HH
Awe_Naw
If you start awe_nawing my posts, then I will know I am Keith.
JUNGLE JIM HOT SMOKED on 26TH JANUARY 2016 2:54 PM
It´s becoming more and more difficult that’s for sure.
I feel sorry for him.
Does that make me a bad person ?
HH
BILLYBEAR
Loads of supporters all over the country are quitting in disgust.
Most of them cant be bothered with the cheating and honest mistakes.
Sevco want to continue where Rangers left off.
Its boring.
Why cant you zombies all just feck off….be a lot easier.
Hail Hail.
The Green Man
Why cant you zombies all just feck off….be a lot easier.
Gets my vote !!
So they sought legal advice, according to the SFA?
I’d imagine BBC Scotland did as well, before publicly stating in defence of a complaint made to the BBC Trust:
“A football club,once incorporated, is indistinguishable in Scots Law from its corporate entity. If a club was separate it would need its own constitution, committee, members, trustees etc.
Rangers Football Club does not have that, because it is incorporated.”
Anything else is the Big Lie.
And any ‘sport’ based on such is a farce, and deserves to be ignored, emotional attachments, or not.
Let’s hope the clubs get the message, as they did from supporters back in 2012 as season ticket renewal time approached.
This is the priority. Stripped titles can come later.
Hail Hail!
Good Afternoon.
Here is my latest (and thank you to all of you who continue to read them!).
This one is about journalists who can’t bring themselves to properly criticise Sevco, and Sevco fans who take offence anyway…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/heading-north-or-going-south/
BURGAS HOOPS
They are the daftest fans in football history.
Numbskulls.
Boring the life out of me.
They have all the menace of a bowl of cornflakes.
I wish they would leave us all alone to enjoy the football.
They were funny once, but so was Mike Yarwood:)
HH