There are parallels between Salzburg and Celtic. After an outstanding season Salzburg lost their coach, Roger Schmidt, in May to Bayer Leverkusen, appointing Adolf Hutter (commentators beware), who previously managed Austrian Bundesliga club Grodig and is largely unknown outside Austria.
Unlike Ronny Deila, Hutter has not tried to change Salzburg’s system, but the period of transformation has been blamed for Salzburg failing to overcome Malmo in the Champions League play-off round (Malmo taxed Juventus in Turin last night before two second half Tevez goals settled things). New instructions, new training techniques and, in some cases, new personnel present challenges.
Ronny has had a few false starts but the return of Scott Brown at the weekend, the return to form of Kris Commons, who will surely start, and the addition of Scepovic, Tonev and Wakaso to the squad give reason for confidence.
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FC
Just checked it out
You can still vote even if you do not have a poll card, as long as you are on the electoral register. You should check with your local electoral registration office whether you are on the electoral register and report the fact that you have not received your poll card. – See more at: http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/faq/voting_in_person.aspx#sthash.CdXN76aa.dpuf
Apparently, only applies to voting “yes” :-)
HH
CRC
favourite uncle and kickinthenakas:
Glad you Bhoys caught up.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
….PFayr supports WeeOscar
I agree.
It won’t be unless the people vote to make it go in that direction.
Scotland COULD elect a conservative government and I an FINE with that IF it were to happen.
How likely do you think it is in the short term though?
I would say highly unlikely in the first 10 years.
What we know is that if Scotland WANTS a Conservative government as an independent nation then they can vote for one as a majority and they can kick them out or any party for that matter within the correct time frame.
We cannot do that under the current system where we must cross our fingers and hope middle England fancies Miliband or any other Labour leader.
Celtic roller coaster
Thanks
PS i was only joshing about the polling card
See if yes the morra…does that mean I don’t have to pay this years income tax to
merry ole England ?
selfishbasssssssssssa c.s.c
Jobo
So would I !!!!
But I think it would leave the losing side feeling raw – whereas if you get gubbed then you have to accept it!
Some countries place a higher tariff on such constitutional changes. Rather than rely on a simple majority
Some people think there should be a third option on the ballot paper but could have meant the winning option might not have had even 50% of the vote!
HH
Auldheid
“An Edinburgh Minster could make WM look like paragons of virtue”
Any comment on these paragons of virtue ?
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=
rja&uact=8&ved=0CDoQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.craigmurray.
org.uk%2Farchives%2F2012%2F01%2Fscotlandengland-maritime-boundaries%2F&ei=jOAZVIuyOIiv7AbbmYGwDg&usg=
AFQjCNG5mHLg4JiRrQAmeSNPRvJMVO_zJQ&sig2=Y9aOlEnXzWwe4s8a
EO8UKQ&bvm=bv.75097201,d.ZGU
Now that the polling card dilemma has been resolved , i’m hoping cqn can help me with something else that everyone seems to know but i don’t …
How do you run a menage ?
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Well Ah’m Switherin’ Too….
In Need Of Divine Inspiration…
Does Anyone Know Graham Norton & Dot Cotton’s Take On The Referendum..?
http://takimag.com/article/scottish_independence_is_crap_gavin_mcinnes/print
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croppybhoy
I too want harmony. A more decisive majority would naturally help to facilitate this process.
Individuals have an important role to play in this. By getting locked in the bathroom from 07.00-10.01 you can play your part in this process.
Scotland needs you to take on this momentous role.
;-)
HH jamesgang
I’m very sorry to hear that one of the genuine gentlemen of CQN, ole Vmhan, is having health problems.
I hope he makes a full and complete recovery.
Snake
What makes you think that Scotland has a left leaning majority?
Scotland has a long history of being right of centre
The SNP in many cases are just tartan Tories
The Lib Dem usually are Tories with a bit of a conscience
The line being peddled about a fairer society is just that a line
They need your votes for independence -once it’s achieved they don’t
Many getting caught up in the emotion but thats exactly what the game plan has been all along -it will be the triumph of emotion over reason if it comes!
HH
Live out in the country amongst fields and woodlands but I do have the local polling station (community hall) at the end of the garden . Thinking of going down there tonight with a pot of white paint and putting yes’s everywhere. Might convince a few waiverers.
James
I’ll leaving the locking up to you and your pals in Police Scotland!
It’s a wonder that you haven’t started taking names for your black list or has Sillars beaten you to that!
HH
All those Yes supporters standing about in George Square. Where are the No supporters??
I’m sure they are out canvassing and picking up a few extra votes ….
A wee story that I think a couple of CQNers will recognise. Many years ago in a student election a candidate decided about an hour before polling closed that he would head off for a shower and a change before the count rather than try to pick up a few extra votes.
He lost to a bloody Tory by 13 votes …
I think the first government after a yes vote will be a right of centre Royalist/Loyalist mix of about 30% the current NO voters and a large bunch of SNP voters who left the conservatives to join them years ago.
Labour and the left are in bits after loads of us swallowing the Nationalist fairy dust.
Scottish inherent fairness is a phrase I heard, if I ever get a chance to speak to Lenny i’ll ask him about how that works.
It’ll be alright on the night……….course it will.
My contribution to the referendum debate.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rqkMsXcHQYg
SCOTLAND BE BRAVE
if anyone has lost their voting card then they can have mine
looks like i wont be back home before the polls close tomorrow night
just don’t tell the acting returning officer (the original returning officer accidentally brutally stabbed himself in the stomach while shaving)
Fred Colon.
Advertise in your local horsie paper that you have a menage and want to rent it out too horsie people and wait for enquiries.
Are any of you lads heading over to Deustchland for the Ireland game next month ?
I will be there
HH
Bawsman
20:37 on
17 September, 2014
I think the first government after a yes vote will be a right of centre Royalist/Loyalist mix of about 30% the current NO voters and a large bunch of SNP voters who left the conservatives to join them years ago.
Labour and the left are in bits after loads of us swallowing the Nationalist fairy dust.
Scottish inherent fairness is a phrase I heard, if I ever get a chance to speak to Lenny i’ll ask him about how that works.
It’ll be alright on the night……….course it will.
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well if thats what you come up with when you “think”, then probably as well you dont bother
what a load of, errr, bawsman
croppybhoy
With me seditious pals on here I’m more likely to be in their books than on their books!
This is a weird process isn’t it. There are many who would think of themselves as having good rebel principles voting Yes while many harbour genuine fears that this would be a politically reactionary move.
There’s a PhD waiting to be done just on CQN views alone. I might suggest it to tony d!
Yours in Celtic!
HH jamesgang
Ouch my back, gie us a mobility motor.
Gie us a focus.
Naw, no the 1.4 I need the 16… In fact gies the ghia…..better interior.
Socialism.
Magic.
Magic that is until you run out of other peoples money.
There needs to be a major re think here.
If you are skint, you are skint.
You don’t have as much as people who work.
We need to re introduce poverty.
There is an education system.
You can go to night school and get an o level, and go all the way up to being a Dr.
It’s possible
I know you need to get up in the morning I suppose.
Mibbie too much for some.
cmon scotland especially celtic fans vote yes tomorrow
its a canace of lifetime
ye can all make history
The Glorious Balance Sheet
I wrote to the SNP controlled government when Gretna went bust to suggest they have a look at the governance of Scottish football.
They said that was not a matter they could look into ( in spite of the later reference of the importance of Rangers and so football to the fabric of football society.)
In Dec 2011 a First Ministers team met representatives of Rangers to discuss Rangers perilous position. The result was the FM’s request to HMRC to find a way out. What else was discussed by FM and HMRC was hidden from an FOI request.
There was also a high level Govt meeting where it was agreed that the last thing Scotland needed in the run up to a referendum was police on the streets dealing with social unrest.
The thing is good governance , ethical governance, sensible governance even should have led to wtf is going on in Scottish football with a Select Committee appointed ( as WM did for the FA in 2011) to investigate the role of the SFA in ripping apart a portion of the fabric of society.
They did nothing, zilch and no amount of drawing attention to the corruption has had any effect. Such blanket application of Nelson Eye had to come from somewhere.
The SFA were at best negligent of not complicit, Rangers must have committed fraud, all of which is provable and it’s like wading through treacle trying to get it acknowledged.
I have my reasons for my conclusions. I’ve given them. Add in the OBB and tell me I’m stretching it.
I know it’s uncomfortable reading if you are in the hopeful Yes camp but if you want an indication of future behaviour look at previous.
Stevo, re Sky news getting it wrong as the referendum being an anti-English vote.
Them and sky sevco news continually report things to suit themselves.
The first time we played Barca in the Champions League at Celtic Park, was on the day or the day after the Madrid bombing.
Sky sevco news reported the booing during the minutes silence was started by Celtic fans. Anyone in the media should know of Barca fans’ contempt for anything Madrid & Spain.
Fortunately, some Celtic fans texted in saying that was a lot of baloney and asked them to get their facts right.
I very rarely watch Sky Sevco News now thankfully.
its a chance of a lifetime
typing in the dark
bawsman
10,000 or so turned out for the numpties march on Saturday, and half of them were bussed in from the shires.
Nobody is interested. The word went out on social media to ignore them and that’s what happened.
I would guess that even ‘loyalists’ would be shocked at the level of stupidity and incompetence that encouraged them to believe they would be influencing the debate in their favour.
The idea of an ‘loyalist’ uprising when ‘don’t know’ or ‘don’t care’ is the prevalent religion in Scotland is in the realm of a sectarian bigot’s wet dream.
croppybhoy
If Scotland has a long history of being centre right it has not been reflected in the way the nation has voted since the 1950s.
All of the times that Scotland voted Labour from the 1950s onwards the country returned a majority that was for Labour and therefore they were voting for what we understand as OLD or REAL Labour. The party I was told to support like so many others of my generation.
In my lifetime (born 1979) we have voted Labour at EVERY general election and for 22 of my 35 years we’ve had Tories in charge and the worst Tories there has probably ever been into the bargain because of votes in England.
The former industrial bases of Scotland are the MAJORITY in Scotland not the MINORITY and it is going to be fascinating to see how they vote.
For that reason the working classes in Glasgow and the central belt and in cities like Dundee hold a large portion of the electorate.
If Glasgow votes YES then I believe we’ll get independence.
I believe Dundee is supposed to be very pro-YES.
If we MAKE it happen Scotland will become a more socially fair place to live. I have no interest in blindly voting SNP in an independent Scotland. I want to hear what they all have to say and then I will cast my vote.
That is as it should be because we have been dogged for too long with the voting out of party loyalty.
those two accompanied by ‘downright hostility’ to religion would win a majority in every seat in Scotland.
Yes or no tomorrow I’m really proud of the country that I was born in. Not often in my life I’ve felt that way. It’s been more or less civilised and grown up.
You have a chance to change a society. It’s not a guarantee but it’s a real chance. If it’s no then there won’t be any real change. I’m sure of that. Govt in London is too far in the corporate pocket.
I hope it’s yes but whatever it is we have our common Celtic bond.
Hail hail
Kitalba…..I think you or anyone else will be genuinely safe taking the saltire into paradise…I have never encountered any hassle in the past 5-6 years and I sit close by the GB…..only once did it infuriate one guy whilst I waved it….I was very plausible and encouraged him not look at it …..after all its the flag from the Stuart clan…..similar in a way to the red hand o”neil clan
West of Ireland
Purely as a Celtic fan wanting Celtic to take a place on the world stage powered by economics the last thing a supporter with that ambition for Celtic should do is vote Yes.
There are many other reasons for folk wanting to do so but unless a true European League is formed Celtic will join the likes of Malmo in global terms.
I’d have no problem with that btw. Malmo are a membership owned club which might suit the no PLC aspirations of many but let’s be clear that a Yes vote in the very narrow sense of Celtic’s ambition is going to mean a lessening of it.
LuxCelt
19:30 on 17 September, 2014
Great anaysis; spot on!
Wonder why so many on here just don’t see the woods for the trees.
Bob
“The word went out on social media”
Who put the word out?
Same people that organise counter demos to debate/ oppose/ harass / intimidate the no campaigners?not so much democracy in action as perhaps intolerance of opposing views?
HH
Gordon_j
Speaking of canvassing, are we not missing one of our more vocal no men tonight?
Could end up another not so happy day for the hun tomorrow……..passed thro wee village in north Lanarkshire today…….where the union flags had been flying from every lamp post for past few days….today they had all been removed…..either the police or council has removed them…..or else they no its all over…….I think their lucks running out
It boils down to democracy. This isn’t about Alex Salmond or the SNP. It’s about Scotland taking control of its own destiny and the Scottish people getting who they vote for. One Scottish Tory Westminster MP out of 50 yet they’re in control. I can’t square that circle.
It’s a Yes from me