It’s heartening to see Celtic linked with a raft of players over the weekend and encouraging for many but I’d ignore everything you read about a Celtic target this far out from the transfer window opening. All an agent needs to do is post a DVD to Lennoxtown to be able to legitimately link his player to Celtic. The club will also scout up to 100 players a season, enough to keep you busy on the stats sites for hours, but even Ronny doesn’t know who he will be signing at this stage of the season.
After 11 wins in 13 league games Aberdeen’s title challenge inevitably slipped. They’ve won once since February, coming from behind against Motherwell at Pittodrie, as Celtic, Dundee and Partick Thistle have taken points from them. We are at the stage of the season when injuries, suspensions and fatigue kick in. Whereas Celtic were able to add quality to their squad in January, Aberdeen have to work on a tighter budget. That the gap at the top is only seven points, with Celtic having a game in hand, says a lot for the direction of travel at Aberdeen.
If Ronny gets his treble wish, this season’s title will be a lot tighter than the last treble, won at a canter by Martin O’Neill. It was a weaker league back then, Aberdeen were rubbish.
Talking about direction of travel, have you been watching the ebay auction for Hospitality for four for a day at this year’s Open Golf Championship at St Andrews? This is a unique prize and has attracted some incredible support.
The auction is in aid of the Celtic Quick News appeal to build a fourth school kitchen in Malawi for Mary’s Meals. Shuttle transport for the five minute journey to and from the golf course as needed, with beer, Gin and Whisky tastings throughout the day with the master distiller.
You also have the chance to create a unique CQN single malt whisky cask worth potentially £5000 for future CQN charities, and you will receive a bottle of this very special single malt whisky to commemorate the great day when it is bottled in several years.
Eden Mill is Scotland’s newest and most innovative distillery and brewery incorporated in February 2012! Located just 2 miles from the famous Old Course itself it provides a perfect base for hospitality for yourself and 3 friends on a day of your choosing at the forthcoming open golf championship on July 16th to 19th.
But this is so much more than just a day’s hospitality at the home of golf. Before taking to the course to watch, you will enjoy a breakfast roll or two and discuss your perfect single malt whisky with the master distiller.
Whilst you and your friends are enjoying the golf he will seek to surpass your favourite whisky by using the best barley to create the right wash and recommending the right type of barrels for our very own unique CQN 1/4 cask of single malt. A cask which will mature and provide over £5000 of future funding for our charities in a few years’ time.
You will return to the distillery by shuttle bus for lunch and an optional beer tasting and then for afternoon tea with a tutored gin and whisky tasting with the owner capping off a memorable, unique and very special day for your group and for CQN.
My thanks to Eden Mill for their incredible support. You can bid on the auction here.
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Another good day for The Rangers King is fit and proper to become a Director at Ibrokes.Well he will need to find the cash now or the Bears will not be happy it is amazing how there path has been smoothed out for them to get to the SPL a.s.a.p. H.H.
No problem BS. Perhaps I should have specified but I just assumed the discussion was about the ‘normal’ food and not about hospitality.
You are right to highlight the improvements but getting a good coffee and food at a decent price is what I would like next.
Is King not admitting in that statement, it’s a new club?
Captain Beefheart
There is ‘one’ coffee specialist retailer for a stadium of 60,000 outside in the main concourse.
For some smaller games he doesn’t turn up, – I rest your case.
Bada Bing –
That is exactly what I was thinking as I read it.
Good Evening Timland.
DerbyshireBhoy Rest In Peace.
“The previous Board had raised a little known legal provision stating that because I was a Director of Rangers Oldco within 12 months of its liquidation that I must obtain Court sanction before becoming a Director of RIFC because the word “Rangers” is in both company names.
“A Court would not grant leave to an applicant unless it is satisfied that the circumstances warrant such approval. Any affected party, eg the liquidator or an aggrieved creditor of the previous company, has the right to be heard at such a hearing.
“The liquidation of Rangers Oldco and the formation of Rangers Newco were not conducted clandestinely but in the full glare of publicity. However, being aware of the provision I sought leave of the Court to accept my Board appointment.
New Club Dave,thanks for clearing that up for us……
Old Kingy may be a fit and proper person to run the hunbigots, but is he fit to run a football club I ask?
KINGLuBO
Bada/Tom..
Good ammo for tomorrow from the GSL..;))
Bada
All good, this means his weans inheritance will be in the Sevco bank for Friday morning.
The sevco shuffle .. In / out / in / out Shake it all about
sipsini-that’s how I read it? Maybe the legal bhoys on here might see it differently. HH
Awe Naw No. The Rangers are a special case for and have been for the last four seasons they have been treated as Scottish footballs premier club should be.Now if anyone else thinks they can climb on the band wagon and go to court and get similar results they should wake up and smell the coffee.They will take there rightful place in the SPL next season and will thrill Scottish football grounds with we are the peepil chants and there entertaining songs.C.Q.N. continue to delude themselves that they will go bust well it aint going to happen.The best thing Celtic can do is to ensure we are as strong as possible for the new season as there will be plenty of poor refereeing and they will be challenging us before we know it. H.H.
“Any particular reason DCKing was given the all clear?”
“No, just CoS…”
Evening all.
Was supposed to receive a reply from SFA today. Didn’t arrive. Wonder if they’ve spent the day trying to come up with a plausible reason for ignoring the passing of the late lamented Turnbull Hutton, who so well highlighted their corruption.
sixtaeseven. It is not your place to know why the court made there decision but to accept the decision as fair and amicable. H.H.
Woolman has recognised the difference between Rangers Football Club and Rangers International Football Club.
Bada…
The hun nuggets in my work have been brow beaten that much with me and my mate, that they just accept what we tell them…they know our sites are years ahead ;))
parkheadcumsalford-they will be too busy dealing with the UVF banner at Poundland a couple of weeks ago mate………
BB bhoy – viaraggio is a great seaside town, we had a week there (it was in June) 3 years ago – great food and wine, we found an incredible coffee shop, and a great vino place, there was a decent park for the kids.
It has had some money pumped into it recently – we loved it and would go back.
I guess it is all about opinions…
The main problem is that the beach was “owned” so it cost a quite a few euro every day, unless you stay at an hotel that has beach access – just up the road was Forte de Marni (or something) – It was the Russian town – incredibly expensive.
Joe Filippis Haircut
18:31 on
7 April, 2015
Great post pal,your spot on the money,we need to be ready
too many on here are kidding themselves on that the hun will
be gone for good.
The hun are the corrupt establishment club,always have been,
always will be.
montherebelsCSC.
Nye Bevans. Thanks fell its really shocking but that is our great wee Country for you. H.H.
if it was Celtic in that position they would never have passed him-corrupt B******s
fell = fella.
Club captain Gary Caldwell has been named the new manager of Championship strugglers Wigan.
The Latics have moved quickly to name a replacememt for Malky Mackay, who was fired on Monday evening after a 2-0 loss at home to Derby left 23rd-place Wigan eight points from safety, with just five games remaining.
And the DW Stadium outfit have decided to turn to the 32-year-old Caldwell, who lifted the FA Cup after Wigan famously upset Manchester City in the 2013 final and has now signed what the club are descibing as a ‘permanent contract’.
Sips
Those Hun monkeys in your place of employment might not be around as long as sevco
JFH
I disagree (surprised ?????? LOL)
Here is what happened (my take)
The three bears and the SFA got together with a plan when the three bears managed to cough up the money in a hope to oust Ashley. Early Dec 2014.
Only problem was (wishful thinking on my part ?? you decide) was that the newest member of the SFA board said Non
(g) he has been disqualified as a director pursuant to the Company Directors’ Disqualification Act 1986 within the previous five years;
(h) he has been convicted within the last 10 years of (i) an offence liable to imprisonment of two years or more, (ii) corruption or (iii) fraud;
(j) he has been a director of a club in membership of any National Association within the 5-year period preceding such club having undergone an insolvency event;
The SFA get humpy with said new board member and hammer one of his clubs players on a trumped up racist charge.
New Board member still says Non
The SFA get humpy and charge one of his clubs players for singing a wee song on dutch TV
New SFA Board member still says Non
His Glibness manages to buy sevco and wins an EGM. Ashley knows he hasn´t the money and that he wants to delist. Ashley gets shot of the Nomad pronto and delays His Glibness’s coronation difficult by requesting today’s court of session passion play in Edinburgh.
Now his Glibness and the paptalk loyal will be claiming that the law of the land has cleared him of being a fit and proper person and hope that the SFA will acquiesce. It will be convenient for the SFA to chose to be below the law of the land in this particular case
I suspect that he will be bestowed some kind of preliminary provisional acceptance as has has been already done with Murray. It is all about timescales.
Where that leaves the new SFA board member is all too clear , he will have to resign or be seen to back it up.
HH
By BBC media and art correspondent David Sillito
The Telegraph describes it as astonishing. They are not alone.
Amongst responses from journalists and news executives it’s described as “eye-popping”, “stunning”, “explosive” and from professor Jay Rosen at New York University “one of the most important things a journalist has written about journalism lately”.
The Daily Telegraph is accused of a “sinister” betrayal of its readers.
Stories about HSBC, Tesco and China are said to be placed or sidelined for commercial reasons.
But this is not just a parting swipe at an employer by a disgruntled member of staff, it’s an explosion of anger about an issue that is worrying journalists across the industry.
Newspapers are in a state of crisis. The Telegraph has seen its print sales drop by around half over the last 10 years.
The less we spend on papers, the more our news will have to be paid for by companies.
And in the online world, the clear boundaries between news and adverts do not feel quite so clear anymore. Many adverts are looking more and more like news stories.
But Peter Oborne has gone further, saying that “shadowy” executives are interfering on an “industrial scale” with basic news coverage.
This is strong stuff and the Telegraph denies it all – saying it’s all unfounded and full of inaccuracy.
Of course, these are turbulent times. The Telegraph is, like almost every other paper, having to reinvent itself.
People are going to get upset. But whatever the truth of these particular allegations – there are issues here not limited to just one newspaper.
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He said he had intended to “leave quietly” until he saw the paper’s coverage of HSBC and its Swiss banking arm.
In comparison to the coverage of the story in other national newspapers, “you needed a microscope to find the Telegraph coverage”, Mr Oborne said.
Mr Oborne said “after a lot of agony” he had come to the conclusion he had a “duty” to comment publicly, saying the Telegraph was a “significant part of Britain’s civic architecture”.
He said he had been told HSBC was an “extremely valuable” advertiser by what he called a “well-informed insider”.
“A free press is essential to a healthy democracy,” Mr Oborne said.
“There is a purpose to journalism, and it is not just to entertain. It is not to pander to political power, big corporations and rich men.
“Newspapers have what amounts in the end to a constitutional duty to tell their readers the truth.”
Mr Oborne later told Channel 4 News he believed he spoke “for the vast majority of Telegraph staff” in saying he had no confidence in Murdoch McLennan, the paper’s chief executive, and the Barclay brothers who own the paper.
A Telegraph spokesman said the “distinction between advertising and our award-winning editorial operation has always been fundamental to our business”.
They added: “We utterly refute any allegation to the contrary.
“It is a matter of huge regret that Peter Oborne, for nearly five years a contributor to the Telegraph, should have launched such an astonishing and unfounded attack, full of inaccuracy and innuendo, on his own paper
Evening Timland from a cold hun free mountain valley.
Feliz Cumpleanos Mini BT and Pog.
HH
Awe Naw
There could be a fair bit of truth in your scenario, time will tell what his next move will be, but if there is any truth in what you say, and I’m inclined to think there is, they have done him up like a kipper.
HH
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
Ye’ll no be far away with that scenario…
A was advocating a boycott of the semi final. Don’t think it will happen. What about after wrapping up the league boycott what away games r left but pack out park head. Need 2 hit the sfa where it hurts. Ps. Dave king has less credibility than Jimmy saville.
Awe Naw No. Who knows you may well be correct but lets look at todays court decision it would be interesting to see how many criminals in the past have been approved as fit to be company directors ? Now I do believe they wanted shot of aim (excuse the pun ) as if they had been a listed company it would have made todays court decision much harder also not being listed means much can be done out of sight. The S.F.A, new board member in my opinion would be delighted if they get back into the SPL as he will be counting the gate monies and I believe you are kidding yourself if you think otherwise just my opinion mind. H.H.
TBJ…
Yank back over next week…could be Terminator 2.
Josiebee
Cowiebhoy already boycotts all sfa matches so he will volunteer to lead the campaign
A bhoy who sticks to his principles
Sips
Is his first name Arnold ?
Joe Filippis Haircut
18:31 on
7 April, 2015
Joe, I wish I had a tenner for every time that I have warned the CQN deluded that nothing, absolutely nothing will take place that will interfere with THEM being in top League next season. THEY were not dead, are not dead and with the collusion of many, including Celtic will not be allowed to die.
Just in, and reading back,it seems to me that the court of session are simply saying that an individual who paid circa £40m to the SA Taxman to avoid going to jail for circa 80 years for tax offences is ok to become a Director of a British Company ……. this decision, although disgusting, has nothing to do with the decision that needs to be taken by the SFA …… ming and murray cannot become directors of newco rankers, since they were directors of oldco rankers within 2 years of oldco liquidation …. this should be interesting, since the SFA need to also consider ming’s convictions…!!
qonno. We are singing from the same page fella. H.H.