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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@andy_murray: Huge day for Scotland today! no campaign negativity last few days totally swayed my view on it. excited to see the outcome. lets do this!
HH
Our time is now. Vote yes. Let’s do this. Let’s show the world what we are made of.
From Twitter
@McNallyMirror: Before voting have a wee listen to Caledonia by Dougie MacLean & hopefully you will be roused to join the #Yes clan.
http://t.co/nLreW6FyjQ
Spooky thing was I was just about to post exact same here.
HH
Here’s The Silencers instead
http://youtu.be/0-QbaTQQga0
HH
My justification,
It was only 8% yesterday – has we been busy producin?
Look, i cannae sleep – Scotlands future is at stake today and I hope all have the courage of their convictions…..good or bad ;-) I say this because not matter who’s in government, we’ll all b under their thrall ;-((
tic to win 2nite 2-1 denayer & scepovic scorers
Hail Hail
P.S. My 1st gig was Public Enemy @ the Barrowlands 1990ish supported by mmmm not 2 sure was young and smashed ;-)) Was great gig energy, noisy, sweaty, loud and friendly……..except those poor souls carried out…ouch…..ha. ;-))
P.P.S. I was 19, u old mummies ;-))
Hail Hail
Hijack, as support maybe, will b happy 2 b corrected ;-))
Hail Hail
Mhan it feels good 2 ramble ;-)))))
K.T.F.
Good Morning Timland.
On the way to work this morning I will visit the polling station
and cast my NO vote.
My yes voting family and friends will still be my family and
friends.
Celtic 13/2 wae WH fill yer boots,have a great day CQN.
Use your vote and good luck with your choice
Regrets…. Later or Whit..?
Nye Bevans & Neil Canalmar,
We’ll still b in thrall 2 watever government
;((((((((??((((((((((((((
new political system needed??
Ok, time to own up,
am a believer in Scots self determination, I believe we’ve got the knowledge & experience to go it alone ( with the interdependency that it involves ) to make our Country good ( not great ).
It ain’t gonna b easy, but using international precedents & law, we, as Scots will eventually b ok ;-))
As for those that say I’m voting no for my children, your wrong, our children are an already lost generation under this governments austerity programme.
This is a blog, cannae argue indepth on such a complicatd issue.
Tic 2 win 2-1, Denayer & Scepovic to score
Hail Hail
K.T.F.
Regardless of the outcome today. War will be waged by U.K. in Iraq and Syria tomorrow.
Am absolutely sure of that. You get what you vote for.
Gerrybhoy,
did u seriously buy into the governments reasons for WAR in the middle east. Its all about oil, hav’nt u read Dune?
Control of finite resources……………….
Hail Hail
TheLurkinTim
06:01 on 18 September, 2014
Gerrybhoy,
did u seriously buy into the governments reasons for WAR in the middle east. Its all about oil, hav’nt u read Dune?
Control of finite resources……………….
Hail Hail
Tell that one to the NO squad.
LoL Gerry
Good Morning, Big Big day. I can’t believe the no vote is winning by the polls, Who does the polls? no idea. Are we glutons for punishment or what? If its a no the country will be ruined as we are obviously weak and cowardly in the eyes of the world and we had our chance and anyone who thinks it will end in any other way but ruin for us and our kids is having a laugh or just lying to themselves. We have a chance to get out from under.
Vote Yes.
KLV
Gerry,
LoL,
it’ll take a generation unfortunately ;-((
Fail Fail lol
KLV
Fuks sake take a breath,
Am as scared as u , but we Scots arnae daft, i hope & pray ( as an agnostic….ed ) that we have faith in each other
K.T.F.
This will be the place to be the morra if Salzburg win 4-0 and the Nays have it.
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Stole the post below from another blog, however it sums up why i will be voting yes very shortly
It seems incredible the way the people of Scotland in increasing numbers have refused to be told Indy has no chance. Where did that big no ‘majority’ go? We go into the last day with absolutely everything to play for despite all the media bias, almost every paper a unionist paper. All the British Nationalist jingoism has just put Scots off and no matter how much Brown shouts (has anybody seen Darling, Darling?) at us or Cameron weeps for us everyone seems to have realised that no one can stop us other than a lack of self belief. No more votes for a system that does not look after its people or for an uneven union. No more excuses for rule by Eton millionaires or the House of Lords or the Tory owned banks. No more UKIP racism. No more unelected governments deciding who we go to war with. Nobody pretended independence would be perfect ever. What needs saying is that we are faced with a choice between freedom and subservience. It is about the freedom to be ourselves, the freedom to decide if we go to war or stay at peace, the freedom to spend the money in our own purses, the freedom to do what it takes to make our own problems better. It is about not being a mental slave to a system set up for the rich. Look at the proportions of Scots yes voters who are working class- it is enormous. It’s time. It’s coming yet. It’s coming today.
Am curious,
Wat WM done for me?
Left school, work for engineer, after 3 ye
ars, soz, economy on 1990.
Everythings fine till
2008, fuck sakes, am subject ( lol ) to 2 economic meltdouns, ( English boom & bust ) dirctly related to house prices
20 years from no
w, guss wat, fuk u ;-((
Easy on the language there….
Good morning on this famous day.
Vote NO
How cheap is Scottish Education really….often the biggest lies of all are never spoken.
Severin Carrell, The Guardian.
Scottish ministers urged to reverse student grant cuts as debts soar
Analysis of Student Loan Company figures shows overall student debt rising far more sharply in Scotland than elsewhere in UKScottish ministers are being urged to reverse cuts in student grants after the debts taken out by Scottish students to meet their living costs soared by £160m last year.
New analysis of the latest figures from the Student Loan Company shows that overall student debt rose far more sharply in Scotland than anywhere else in the UK in 2013-14. It jumped by a record 58% to £436m for the year.
Lucy Hunter Blackburn, a former Scottish government civil servant who helped devise the graduate endowment levy on post-university earnings that was scrapped by Alex Salmond in 2007, said her analysis showed this was the highest annual rise in total student debt in any part of the UK since the mid-1990s.
Loans taken out to cover daily living costs, the category over which Scottish ministers have direct control, jumped by 64% to £409m after the government in Edinburgh slashed maintenance grants to fund other policies in 2012.
Hunter Blackburn said her analysis showed that while Scottish students had the lowest average debt in the UK, at £5,344 per head against £8,924 in England, £6,191 in Wales and £6,214 in Northern Ireland, most did four year degrees. That implied their total debts at graduation would be more than £20,000.
Announcing the new funding scheme in 2012, Mike Russell, Scotland’s education secretary, played down the greater use of loans by arguing the new package would give Scottish students the most generous deal in the UK, entitling them to a minimum of £7,250 overall.
The National Union of Students said it wanted ministers to increase student grant funding significantly in next year’s budget, without reducing the loans available to those who needed them and without changing the free tuition fees policy, which it heartily supports.
Gordon Maloney, the president of NUS Scotland, said: “We will be working with the Scottish parliament to push for increased grants for the poorest students, not instead of these student loan increases, but in addition.”
Scottish Labour said the surge in debts raised serious questions about the government’s overall funding of education. The Scottish National party won power in 2007 in part by pledging to abolish all student debt, but had since slashed college funding and then cut grants, putting greater pressure on poor students.
Neil Bibby, Scottish Labour’s deputy education spokesman, said: “The SNP has already reduced grants which means many Scots from poorer backgrounds are less able to access university education.
“The drastic rise in student loans being taken out it is clear that the SNP need to think again about how to support students and they could start that by reversing the cuts to bursaries for the poorest students.”
Hunter Blackburn said overall Scottish debt levels would increase further once extra loans taken out during the full academic year following the 2012 reforms were counted. Student Loan Council data was for the financial year, and the full academic year figures are due out in October, after the Scottish independence referendum.
Hunter Blackburn said that by comparison, student debt rates in England, where loans also cover tuition fees of up to £9,000 a year, increased by 26%. In Wales and Northern Ireland, which have more generous student support policies, the rises were 15% and 8% respectively.
Student debt rates have been rising consistently faster in Scotland since 2011, increasing by 85%, compared with 51% in England over those two years.
The Scottish government did not dispute Hunter Blackburn’s analysis, but said it was clear that Scottish students still had lower debts on average than others in the UK. A spokesman said the loans offered students more flexibility in how they supported themselves. In addition, 12,175 college students received educational maintenance allowances worth £8.3m in 2011-12.
YES SCOTLAND
Tryin 2day, hav been through 2 market crashes already……..its a fuk me, or its a fuk u ;-))
Hail Hail
Good morning CQNers,
Tomorrow Scotland could be a nation once again!
2day csc murdochbhoy
TheLurkinTim
06:45 on
18 September, 2014
Language rules of the site require you to cut out the sweary bits
We are are a tide, wind & oil renawables cimpany
bite me
Hail Hail
One of the very rare opportunities to bring central government CLOSER to its electorate. It doesn’t happen very often. We have a penalty kick to get a real government in Edinburgh I hope we take the opportunity as the rest of the world will be baffled if we don’t.
And on matter of real importance. Surely a victory in Austria tonight?
All those boasts about how rich a country Scotland is (could become) are all based on its GDP from within the union. It is also a plastic projection. It could tumble quickly post a pro-independence vote. It could tumble that drasticly that Scotland could possibly find itself at the other end of the financial spectrum, then welcome to McAnimal Farm.
Today is the day you bet not just your future, but that of the children of Scotland, for maybe ever. Big punt.
Why do I keep thinking about Meg Ryan?
http://giphy.com/gifs/1h0WRTSC97l4s
HH
Mick1888
wars your team
H.H.
Good morning friends. A dry but foggy start to the last day of EK as part of UK.
Because This is The Day. We will rejoice and be glad in it!
Be brave. Vote YES!
Oh aye, and Celtic to play their part with a surprising (to some) away win at 6.00pm tonight,
Arghhhhhhh, left my work bag on the platform this morning. Scotrail not to helpful but at least I have Independence to look forward to.
Yes