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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Bada
Yes. I read the article. Have Spurs caused it to be withdrawn?
JJ
Phil’s suggested that a bottle of malt for a concierge or porter could get you a story.
JJ
Wot? No Boerigter?
There are others who are free of criticism, mostly because they have rarely appeared e.g. Scott Allan, Ryan Christie and Liam Henderson. Saidy Janko also fairly free of criticism
JJ-not sure,but Phil asked to be corrected if not true,he sent a list of questions to Spurs Press guy
Phil’s blog was based on the word of a pal of his at a Spurs Q&A where Nathan Oduwa had been asked about his time at Poundland. The upshot was that Oduwa had been moved round three hotels, had to buy his own sandwiches at one point, and had suffered through the Dickensian Hard Times of a new club who are staggering along on their Journey.
He finished by saying he had asked Spurs about the night, which to me had covered him.
Odd then that it has disappeared
JJ
I think the whole squad are quite good.
I am possibly easily pleased, however, professional fitba players in Green and White hoops tend to impress me. :)
SFTB
I knew I would forget one .
BB & DD
I will be interested in reading Phil`s next article!
Goodnight all,
JJ
See that wonderful team who are challenging the greatest team in the Universe, for the Scottish Championship, have been well beaten 3-1 by Dundee. Like they were well beaten by Ross County. Don’t Believe The Hype!
Willie Miller on Shortbread tonight said the same as Pat Nevin about Dundee’s defence. Don’t think both can be wrong. Wonder how Paul Hartley will react. Good job for him that he doesn’t post on CQN.
Public Enemy could write the songtrack for Scottish fitba.
Big Shuggy
Darren O’Dea will help the Dundee defence.
Manfield mains earth band
Blinded by the light
Marspapa
Have you seen the light? :))
DD
Soundtrack for Scoddish Fitba: The Smurfs:)
HH
The green man,
Try the muppets……
Joe walsh
Life’s been good
Prestonpans Bhoy
Monster Mash.
They do the Mash:)
HH
Ram jam
Black betty
TGM
Who is Papa Smurf?
Imagine going into a grocer and shooting someone for fags. Mental.
Better eejits like that are incarcerated, than running about on a Rambo trip, the story am hearing.
Green man,
Or perhaps MASH will do them :-)
DD
A bit much for milk and a loaf:)
I was saying earlier…huv they no got tick doon there:)
HH
Saw Public Enemy last summer.
The message was smash all institutions in order to Smash the whole System.
FTSFA Institution!
Boston
More than a feeling
Pink Floyd
Comfortably numb. Haha :)
TAX EVASION
Strange that the Guardian are giving coverage to tax evasion in Italy when a quick trip north would have provided them with a bigger story. Likewise the ongoing Barca players tax cases.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jan/26/tax-evasion-italy-serie-a
DD
A wee guy we both know….would have kidnapped 5 people, handcuffed three coppers, disabled two cop pursuit vehicles….and got clean away.
It was just when people threatened him, that he didnt take too kindly to it:)
HH
Bigshuggy
If that was you who put up the caption about a certain player’s tackle on another Celtic site today. . . Belter!
TGM
Was scary down here this afternoon. Dalmuir was in lockdown, and a maniac with a shooter driving at 70 mph down Dumbarton Road followed by 3 Mitsubishi cop cars packing wi guns.
He hit a few vehicles on the way. They ambushed him in Dumbaron. Carstairs job.
It appears to me from John Clarks meeting at the SFA in which he represented the views expressed on the SFM site, the views John Clark expressed are endorsed by the fitba internet bampots here and in other club blogs across Scottish football, indeed Jim Spence and some stadium announcers will be able to tell a tale about telling it as it is in ref to a deid club
Mr Broadfoot called the bampots oot (a) They have no evidence (b) The Ragers are the same club is the official line from the SFA and Ragers will be going for title no 55, Mr Broadfoot is a fully paid up member on two of the internet bampots biggest opposition foes, the SFA and the MSM, Mr Broadfoot carries the full unanimous support of both camps
Can the internet bampots call him out, does Mr Broadfoot have the winning hand in this game ?
What semantics will Celtic and the SFA play ? Celtic will not speak out publicly in ref to the Ragers being a new club nor will they refer to the next game as an old firm derby, whilst the SFA and the MSM will build up the next match between Celtic and the Ragers as a return of the historic old firm derby, both camps will dance on the same floor drinking at the same bar hoping they have appeased both sides by their respective semantics
I personally wont be at the dance myself, no hampdump trips for me, no Celtic v Newco games either
The only change at the SFA can come through clubs voting for change, Celtic only have one vote at the SFA, they need assistance from lots of clubs to change the SFA, fan pressure as Mr Broodfooot has stated is the only weapon the clubs listen to, spend your money wisely, i intend to………………..good night CQN
old
Sailing on the seven seas
THM
It was his local Langy grocer that got robbed.. Spookily you mention that criminal genius. ;))
Lionroars67
Dont know if you caught my post to you the other day?
I wanted to apologise to you for last week.
No harm done i hope.
HH
Eddie and the hotrods
Do anything you wanna do
Buzzcocks
Ever fallen in love
The Green Man on 26th January 2016 10:13 pm
Apology accepted as you say no harm done
Bigger battles to be fought
Good night CQN
U2
I will follow oh and next and last haha. Jjcale
Call me the breeze woohoo
Wireless headphones there’s no stopping me.. Goodnight one and all:)
Apologies to those who don’t have me on the delete app…. A well be noo hahaha…
L8verpooo beat stoke in sudden death penalty shoot out
Can Everton put city out in the other semi and make it a scouse final
Just watched Liverpool go through after a shootout. I must say, as long as Celtic are not involved, I quite enjoy the Ol` Penalty Decider..
`night all,
JJ