“We have been doing local pilots on mental health and wellbeing in Aberdeen which are working.
“The days of booze and betting sponsorships doesn’t really tie in with healthy living and being at the heart of our communities.
“Football can be a magnet for people, healthy living and mental health, so we need to be at the centre of the community.”
The words of Aberdeen chairman, Dave Cormack, spoken less than two weeks ago. Yesterday, we discovered two of his players tested positive for Covid and a further six have been isolated as all eight attended the pub at the centre of the Aberdeen outbreak.
Mr Cormack, those are empty words. Today, you are a poster boy for poor governance in healthy living, booze and the caring for the heart of your community. Your primary task as a director of a football club is to direct the actions of those you control. What happened?
His interview, in the Daily Record, was full of empty management speech:
“Something I think we have to explore at the centre to drive an agenda.
“What do we want to be? What is our vision? I don’t know what the vision is. We don’t have a branding strategy.
“At the centre, it’s not run like a real company that would have a vision, a branding strategy or goals to drive income.
“The cup is half full, how can we drive things?”
It’s like he had just finished watching a very poor Ted Talk on business growth by an entrepreneur who sold for millions and has no idea how it happened. Or maybe that’s really him.
Scottish football is the great grounder of egos. Think your business background gives you better insight and decision making than those in an industry you’ve never worked in? Buy Hearts or Aberdeen and find out. Think that your experience as on the Conservative Party – Scottish executive while Tony Blair earned a landslide prepared you for anything? Maybe you should become chief exec at Partick Thistle?
Football players have been granted ‘sports bubble’ special status, when they abuse that privilege by hitting busy pubs, they have let us all down.
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Jamesgang. Verrrry interesting and complicated
In the words of Don Henly
The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I knew, I’m learning again
FRITZSONG on 8TH AUGUST 2020 4:27 PM
There’s a lot that will come out in the wash.
I posted a wee while back about what myself, son and dad went through Christmas time.
I’ve now been told they want more blood samples from me due to a pneumonia related condition and a blood clot.
Hope your lass is back to normal now.
Although it grates well done to England – an unlikely win – Pakistan will be devastated – they’ll be crying on the streets is Islamabad
GG
I understood it all pretty well as I read it.
How much can I retain, is the question???
I think my wee brain got maxxed out some time ago!!
HH jg
Philbhoy
My understanding was masks were recommended & instructor had to make provision for screening however that may be David Nish.
HH
What a story of the Bayern Munich left back, young 19yr old Alphonso Davies
CELTIC MAC on 8TH AUGUST 2020 6:11 PM
What i don’t understand is why the SQA had to wait until a week before the new term starts to release the results.
They had about eight weeks head start on a normal year, there were no exam papers to mark, they knew students were going to have more to deal with once they received their results compared to a normal year yet they weren’t able to expedite the release of the results.
A cynic might think that it was to reduce the time for criticism of them and their political master before the start of the new term.
I see our ex-player Jonny Hayes was amongst the eight sheep on the bevvy.
Ernie Lynch cynical 🤭
ADI_DASSLER…………..
Thanks for your reply!
The team giving Barca a real run for their money,Napoli,finished 16 points behind Lazio.
Brilliant Messi goal.
What a goal⚽⚽⚽
Messi again.
Wiz that a better wan???
Champions League Q1
Group 1
Seeded
Celtic (SCO)
Legia Warszawa (POL)
Ferencváros (HUN)
Unseeded
Djurgårdens (SWE)
Winner of preliminary round
KR Reykjavík (ISL)
So Sweden, Iceland or Linfield or Drita (Kos)
Ludicrous VAR decision denies Messi brilliant goal. Not one Italian protested.
Ernie Lynch
The date for publication of results is set in advance every year. The 4th of August was announced months in advance. Way before the pandemic hit.
VAR should give a pen to Barca, surely?
Can’t understand why it’s taken so long to decide. penalty, clear as day on the replay
Messi 634 goals for Barca so far.
Bateen Bhoy 8.47pm
The very last angle was the obvious foul … I like VAR … it’s the people who are running it that are eijits :-)
I would love it in Scottish fitba .. would show the cheating up for the cheating it is :-)
Djurgardens in 4th place, 5 points behind leaders Malmo. It would not be an easy away draw.
I agree, but they need to try and speed it up.
That was so obviously a penalty, it should never have taken over 3 minutes to make a decision
( well, technically, they didn’t – they handed it back to the ref to make the decision. )
Iniquit 8.54pm
Do you suggest it would be an easy hike draw then ?
No easy draws these days
But go with the negative if that’s your immediate thought :-)
hike = home
Great entertainment again tonight.Hope Messi is OK for 2nd half.The idiots in the VAR room getting more and more erratic.To refer that to the referee was disgraceful.
Djurgardens have won only 7 out of 13 league games.
KR Reykjavík have won 5 out of 8 league games
Linfield play Kosovans Drita on Tuesday for place in Rd 1(away in Kosovo would mean a lot of travelling so ‘Mon the Linfield’)
Home against anyone – away might be trickier in Sweden but should be straightforward.
Fingers crossed for a home tie in tomorrow’s 11am draw
May have missed it, but has there been any decision from Celtic on selling their home games on PPV to non-season ticket holders ?
Bateen
would undermine season ticket holders
OK Celts
Had a good day overlooking the Clyde on a cracking day and had a few swallies. Back on the blog to see whit the craic is. I’ll read back in a minute but won’t be discussing anything about the quicknews cricket stuff, it has a valid reason to be discussed on celticquicknews but it’s sucks the very being of me lol.
HH Celts
Gene,
So that’ll be a no then 😂
VMHAN
Good to see you back up the road ,yir Frodo feet must be killing you after that long walk.
As for cricket …I;m with you mhate fekn shite game.hh :O)
Vmhan 9.13pm
I much prefer the cricket quick news much more than the constant negative Celtic … posts :-)
By the way it’s “rounders” to me and I didn’t really like that either, but enjoyed Gene even getting Corkcelt to watch some cricket … the power of the internet
Batten Bhoy
Its on Sky, so you could get a Now TV day pass if needs be. Hope all is well with you and D.
HH
EMBRAMIKE on 8TH AUGUST 2020 9:04 PM
an away tie against Linfield would be lovely :-))0
HH
GFTB
Do you always have to get in a wee dig if you don’t agree with a post? Do you want to say the same to Embramike, whose reaction was the same as mine?
VP
Cricket can be as dull as dishwater but also very exciting. Just like most sports