“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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reading back,
a lot of shite typed about griff again.
leave the bhoy alone.
he wil be scoring goals for celtic again
castle greyskull is a home of the good guys, and tarzan,
snake mountain, is the home of snakes,
its obvious,
ffs.
Why don’t you fix the log in issues? The “ Remember me” function does not work. It takes 7 or 8 attempts to get logged in, and once in, you are kicked out again. Losing patience with this farce.
Were the Aberdeen players celebrating their loss?
Were they unaware of their club restrictions?
Did the manager sanction their outing or fail to inform them of the protocols?
Or are they just too foolish and think rules don’t apply to them?
I had to look this up:
Definition of coruscate
intransitive verb
1: to give off or reflect light in bright beams or flashes : SPARKLE
2: to be brilliant or showy in technique or style
Hmmmmm!
‘GG on 8TH AUGUST 2020 4:03 AM
The latter I suspect.
No sympathy for them whatsoever.
AFC season could be over after one game (which was dire)
HH
If I were a supporter of AFC, I would seriously consider switching my allegiance to Cove ~ managed by Paul Hartley btw.
Hello again all you young rebels.
From a deserted and still locked down Melbourne.
Well hungover this morning, and a severe craving for something
sweet.
Must have been that Glen Moray malt and it’s traces of chocolate
last night, need to try another and see if it’s Cadbury’s or Nestle 8- ))
Anybody seen big Christopher opening the new Celtic store on CTV?
Doesn’t he look immense in our new top? need to order that one as
my 67 one is a bit bedraggled now, wonder if they do any to fit
someone with a beer belly and a humph.
Thank you all again for the birthday wishes, if I missed replying to you
blame the rid biddy and chocolate whisky.
H.H. Mick
Et cum spiritu tuo
Good morning from a dry Garngad
Sun better bloody come out this savvo, I want some relax time in the garden🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
Dominus – welcome
MM – get a curer
Bring on the Kilmasonic
D :)
Took a lot of coaxing DAVID, o.k then.
H.H. Mick
Big hoopy welcome to DOMINUS VOBISCUM.
and any other new blogger I’ve missed.
H.H. Mick
MELBOURNE MICK on 8TH AUGUST 2020 6:56 AM
Must have been that Glen Moray malt . Just finished mine was given as a present never tasted it before….
man thats a fine dram!!
JAMESGANG on 7TH AUGUST 2020 7:45 PM
Aye in the caravan with loads of G@T’s 😂😂
FOURSTONECOPPI
Yes, that was a good whisky.
( Was ) being the operative word lol.
H.H. Mick
🐏
Good morning friends from a bathed in sunshine East Kilbride. PIty there’s now no lunchtime football game to watch but an outside siesta will be just as pleasant. LIfe’s Good!
Beautiful morning in locked down Aberdeen.
Good job I have a garden 😡
And a beer fridge in the garage. 👍
DOMINUS VOBISCUM
Welcome to CQN ☘👍
BATEEN BHOY
The garden has been a godsend during these terrible times.
Really feel for those people stuck in small flats.
H.H. Mick
Harrogate Town, promoted to the EFL for the first time in their 106 year history HAVE to get rid of their artificial pitch to play in the bottom rung of the EFL. Welcome to Rugby Park, Big Barkas.
Melbourne Mick,
I can understand why so many feel the need to get ‘out’.
Been furloughed for 3.5 months and just returned to work this week. Didn’t miss it one little bit. 😂
Hope things are bearable in your neck of the woods. Not sure how well observed a night-time curfew would be over here.
Dominus Vobiscum
Et Cum Spiritu Tuo.
Welcome to CQN 😄🍀🍀🍀
Wee heartwarming human kindness story , we have an old telephone box in the village which was used for provisions stocked by locals free of charge during lockdown tins of soup vegetables etc. A wee girl from our village (she’s 50)married now and stays in Carlingford back home to visit her Mum made about 50 face masks triple layer with ties not earloops put them in the phone box for the locals to help themselves to 1 each .
Hrvatski Jim
Damn you, mhan! You beat me to it. 😄
APAJOE55 on 8TH AUGUST 2020 11:03 AM
Nice one!
HH
Great result for Moussa and Lyon last night hope they beat Man City as they did a couple of seasons ago.
Have to say if the stories about Leigh’s latest indiscretion are true it’s time for him to leave Celtic.
Pakistan all out for 169 – England need 277 to win
Dominus vobiscum
Et cum spirito tuo
Can’t miss an opportunity to butcher the old altar bhoy Latin.
Gene- Pakistan favourites on that wicket I would say….
DR kidding us on that Lille have had a second bid turned down for morebellythanus aye right you are😱😵
Morning CQN, it’s been a wee while since I’ve poked my (big green) nose in.
St Stivs at about 12:30am, its a bit difficult to ignore as it’s all over the media including the CQN main page newsfeed.
Looks like it was a very small private family gathering for Griffs partners birthday, apparently there was one over the limit, bit difficult to ignore a family favourites partner or something similar. Nowt to see here but the huns will have their day with it.
Onwards to 10iar and a turd rangers.
HH
Third!
That’s what happens when you post without being able to see the latest page.
VMHAN
One more than I should have had is something with which I am very familiar.
DOMINUS_VOBISCUM
Welcome to the madhouse.HH
Did Leigh Griffiths break any rules ?
It’s virtually impossible to know what the rules are, as they seem to change daily. Our local pub has ordered more visors as PPE, but the rules changed again yesterday.
There is so much inconsistency.
Give Leigh a break.
HH.
VMHAN
Good to see you posting again.