The SFA put on a show yesterday, providing boxing and snooker promoter, Barry Hearn, with a stage to take aim at the SPFL. I would urge caution when digesting Hearn’s words. He took aim at some easy sounding targets, for example, the league not having a sponsor, but the league don’t have a sponsor by choice.
The alternative choice would be to sell the rights for a value considerably less than the old SPL’s rights. The league took the view that they would rather maintain their asking price, and go to market when the league is in a more competitive position. This may, or may not, be a wise decision, we don’t know, and neither does Barry Hearn.
He also talked about making money by selling fights between low-quality but committed boxers at £150 per ticket. Good for him. This kind of sport, and his auditorium-filled darts, may well have a bright future, but it’s not the direction Scottish football should be heading.
The backdrop to all of this is what’s going on at Hampden. There is a power-struggle between the SFA and the SPFL. The latter are more likely to deliver radical change, the former want to maintain control, privilege and the bowling committee-type structure which has lasted for over a century.
Can you imagine how inadequate the SFA would appear if the SPFL held a similar forum, with an invited guest there to poke fun at the SFA president’s EBT and “heavily conflicted” past? If the Association are trying to clip the league’s wings I suspect they will fail. It’s more likely the SPFL will redouble their efforts to bring structural reform to our game.
This has become a dirty battle.
Some great fun at Celtic Park last night, it was like the old days, you know, when John Greig was manager at Ibrox.
Remember, Joe Miller, tonight, at Waterstones, Stirling, from 5pm. Signing copies of Caesar and the Assassin, bring your camera.
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Jamesgang… Thoughts and prayers… TBM
Jamesgang
Heartfelt condolences.
Remember the good times mate.
Just catching up…….
Soal
Sharp as a tack mate.
Couple of crackers earlier :-)
jamesgang
Sad, sad news…… Thoughts and prayers for you and your family.
R.I.P Coleen
Jamesgang
Reading back…sorry to hear about your mother…
“beauty is momentary in the mind
the fitful tracing of a portal
but in the flesh it is immortal.”
Music Maestro
Real Support, Most Definitely.
I’m delighted Efe is back in that first team, he is a real Talented fitba player and we are very Lucky to have him.
Bigstrongman.csc
Never heard of the Petrofied cup till yesterday
Margaret McGill
02:22 on 5 December, 2014
Never heard of the Petrofied cup till yesterday
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Your~~~You’re History, no good for me.
I mean last kuppla years it has been some fish supper cup and now its some petrified canny take a beatin cup. I mean who are these people? I want to know who these people are.
The Prodigy really dislike the Establishment, that ? will never be answered if they are living a life style that is very comfortable.
och I think we all know the TRUE influenza.
I remember that The Prodigy were Headlining the Big All Dayer for Ravers in Edinburgh, The first Ever EVENT but it coincided with a crackdown on illegal raves that was happening earlier.
The Prodigy played 1 song and left the stage, I’ve always respected them for doing that, Something that they Believed in, I’m always looking for reasons why Influential people Influence people.
Voices in the Wilderness are way better listening to, IMO.
Jamesgang – So sorry to hear about your Mum. It’s a tough one to deal with. Keep your loved ones close and remember there’s lot’s of people here thinking of you at this sad time
All the best bud.
Mouldy67 and MWD doing their bit for the needy-and for purveyors of haemorrhoid treatments…
You can help too.
https://www.justgiving.com/cyclingsantaspaulmuldoon/
Good concert in glasgow this march
The wakes and damien dempsey
Great line up
Jamesgang,
Nothing I can contribute can even disturb but one grain of sand in the desert of your loss.
All I can say is that when you think of your mother she is alive and with you. Memories do not die. Memories are what we are here to provide as a legacy……make the memories bigger, better, louder and even more brilliant as you recall and recount them.
You may laugh and cry.
If you didn’t you wouldn’t be the soul your mum moulded nor is proud of.
I only know any of the above because each morning for the last 22 years my mum and I have a good old laugh together and it isn’t in my imagination……it’s here and now.
You know? I think it’s her typing these words.
Take care
Hail hail
Estadio
The Sevco board was called to an emergency meeting by the clubs doctor.
He said, I have some bad news and some very, very bad news.
Oh no! said the board. We’ve had so much very, very bad news recently, maybe best if we heard the bad news first.
I’ve had results back on Ally’s health check and it says he has only days to live.
What’s the very, very bad news then?
My staff mixed up the blood samples. Ally’s gonna be fine.
Call the accuser and let’s hear the evidence:
Accuser:
“He called me a pink fud.”
Call the defendant and let’s hear his rebuttal:
Defendant:
“No I did not.”
Any other evidence? None? We will break for a two weeks all expenses paid luxury recess to consider this mountain of evidence.
A decision to be made, three ‘valid’ judgements up for grabs:
Guilty
Not Guilty
Not Proven
And people wonder why Scottish football is FUBAR.
And who exactly is paying all those expenses? Chocolate digestives are not ten a penny, but mugs are.
Morning/evening Kit.
Not all mugs are 10 a penny….some are very expensive….see.this is ungrammatical, abusive intemperate rant from a year or so ago…..author? A very hacked off “me”.
http://etims.net/?p=2174
hail hail
Estadio
Estadio:
Morning for me mate, last Friday at work, and shortly, when the troops decide to turn up, and the chefs have worked their magic… it’ll be my Last Breakfast, here, (for 2014 anyway).
I read your thoughts and nothing much has changed, not that I can see anyway.
I had a wee exchange with Auldheid through the week and in it I stated Scottish football was – Chernobyled – and as long as we have/allow the like of Campbell Ogilvie to despot over us, then it always will be.
If you e-mail me your number I’ll call you next Sunday.
From TSFM;
In the Scotsman today, Andrew Smith is inviting the police to pop in to give him some security advice with his piece
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl-lower-divisions/ally-mccoist-a-good-man-but-not-a-good-manager-1-3625732
Which includes such lines as
“Perhaps most damning of all is that the result and performance served up at the Indodrill Stadium could have come at any juncture since the liquidation of the old Rangers in 2012 forced a reincarnated version to start again at the lowest tier of the senior game.”
and
“Rangers, two-and-a-half years, two dozen signings, and a shedload of spondulicks on from their Third Division start-out,”
or
“When Queen of the South, at Ibrox, ended the club’s first tilt at the Challenge Cup, it was dismissed as teething problems for the new, reduced Rangers.”
Is the fear finally disappearing from the MSM?
Nowt has changed Estadio. Sincere Condolences Jamesgang.
Kit
Email sent.
Hail hail
Estadio
To quickly create comment 667 after Estadio’s No 666 comment…
Latest from Phil Mac on the unsackable Salary
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/the-unsackable-ally/
Cowiebhoy
23:00 on
4 December, 2014
Big Jamesgang
Just catching up with the blog, Jamesgang condolences for your loss, Colleen will be very proud of the gentle giant who intelligently and wittily entertains us on CQN
Cowiebhoy fine words indeed
Jamesgang sorry to hear of your loss.
Anyone know what the tonev verdict was?
The orcs have finally lost it, there calling for the dinosaur in the cardie (smith ) to replace salary mcmoist and that will Definetly win them the league.
Delusion delusion delusion HH
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday from a dry, clear skied, chilly-ish East Kilbride.
archdeaconsbench
Someone predicted yesterday on here that the we would see the knives coming out for Sally now and the press paving the way for his departure…
Cynical old me reads that not as an absence of fear more like working toward a goal, an own goal unfortunately for The Pieman.
They have to get rid of him but not pay the price like they never actually pay for anything:)))
SP
Winning Captains,
I gratefully received a hard copy of TG’s book in the post yesterday morning.
I’d usually email this to you but as you are used to receiving moans and groans from the auld bassas on CQN, I want to thank you for receiving a book above and beyond what I’d ordered.
The reason for this error is entrely my fault, as you will see when you look at it, and my punishment has been to receive an extra signed copy.
Your customer service is clearly priority.
I’ll sort this out by emailing you directly, but seeing as you have to endure untold abuse on the CQN Facebook page for any post that someone thinks unworthy, and a CQN post for every failed transaction or delayed delivery, please consider this a complimentary post on the excellent work you at CQN are doing behind the scenes to deliver books we all want to read, by-passing unsavoury publishers, and doing it with a great personal service.
Like I said, I owe you now for the price of another book. I might push you for a deal though with one of those DVDs.
HH, and all my thanks.
Jamesgang,
Was saddened to read the news about you mum yesterday.
I’d say you do her proud reading your posts here. You always come across as someone with a very good nature and a great laugh.
If you can do that with the seriousness of the job which I think you have, all the better.
Thoughts and prayers with you and all your family amigo.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30339699
Vatican finds millions ‘tucked away’, says Cardinal Pell
kit @ 06:33,
The speech by Hearne(sp) seems to have opened up a can of worms long overdue; it’s even causing division in the Celtic camp by the looks of things.
I trust Paul67 immensely, but I like that this is confusing everyone. It suggests that someone somewhere is kicking someone’s arse for change.
GGHCeltic winger Aleksandar Tonev must wait to learn if his appeal against a seven-match suspension on a racism charge will be successful.
The 24-year-old Bulgarian was found guilty of abusing Aberdeen’s Shay Logan by a Scottish FA judiciary panel.
An appellate tribunal gathered at Hampden on Thursday evening to hear submissions on the player’s behalf.
Following the adjournment of the meeting, a statement promised a ruling “within the next two weeks”.
Tonev, on loan from Aston Villa, attended the hearing and is free to continue playing until a verdict is reached.
The “excessive misconduct” charge Tonev is disputing is for using “offensive, insulting and abusive language of a racist nature” towards Logan when Aberdeen visited Celtic Park in September.
“We have to be sure about the things that have actually been said,” was the opinion of Celtic manager Ronny Deila just hours before the tribunal met.
“If not, then it’s a very hard penalty to get when we don’t know what is right or wrong. It could be a misunderstanding.”
Aberdeen boss Derek McInnes declined to comment on the case during his Thursday media conference.
Celtic have suggested they could involve the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) if they are unhappy with the SFA tribunal’s decision.
When asked earlier this week if Celtic would involve Cas, Deila said: “We’ll see, this is a very serious accusation.
Tonev was found guilty of abusing Logan during a match at Celtic Park on 13 September
Tonev was found guilty of abusing Logan during a match at Celtic Park on 13 September
“We will have to do everything in our power to get this away from Alex, we believe him.
“It’s been word against word and they are thinking the other guy is telling the truth and Tonev is lying, and for me that’s not how a court should be. For me it should be real proof.
“We don’t believe Aleksandar is a racist.”
Cas is an independent international body with its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, established to settle disputes related to sport.
Tonev made his first start for Celtic since 2 October in Wednesday’s 1-0 win over Partick Thistle.
I’m surprised that there has been so little comment in here on the release of the FAC report on the Gallowgate incident. The report identifies the cause as incompetent, aggressive policing and highlights the subsequent police exaggeration in trying to justify their actions. Only two convictions from an action that involved over 150 police, accompanied by helicopters, dogs and horses. Both convictions involved people responding to being kettled and threatened with batons. What a waste of taxpayers money.
Jamesgang
I add my condolences. You are a fine , sensitive man and will be feeling your loss greatly. As I am sure you will know, time IS a healer and you will feel better after some has passed.
JJ
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30339699
Positive Changes to Vatican Finances – Vatican finances “much healthier than it seemed”, by cardinal in charge of financial reform.
A light insanity/Kit
Bear with me for a while. But I disagree that ‘nothing’ or ‘little’ has changed.
There has been a vast shift in the axis of power in football beginning with Heysal which was the first domino leading to Murray decanting to Glasgow after failing at Ayr with Ally McCleod stating that he (DM) wuld only get his foot in the door over his (AM’s) body.
Without going into this too much at the moment – I need to get ready for tonight – instead of going down a route where Scottish football developed or even created its own unique character and lived within its means, we chased a gadarene rush to swim in the pigswill of TV’s desperation to sell dishes.
EPL, MONEY, TV, EPL, MONEY, TV……..clubs hit the barrier of reality that EPL was a mirage, MONEY dried up, and TV couldn’t give a monkeys other than to keep the whole unsightly mess bubbling with puss until they can once again join in ill begotten and short sighted union the brothers Grimm of Celtic PLC and You know who.
We are not only worse of administratively, financially and ethically, but the promise of having a voice via an independent internet presence has been chopped and chiselled at.
Who visits here for NEWS now. There is none.
Where is the influence of KDS or Keep the Faith.
Culturally and commercially it is clear to me at least, that this once unique site has decided to go for the nostalgia pound and survive by feeding us with tales of yore but treating with kid gloves anything that may adversely impact that ‘new’ raison d’etre.
Where is the real vision for a constructive future to be found? The mantra of EPL, MONEY, and TV still resounds loud and clear here.
I say these things with regret, but it is along time since I enjoyed a real exchange of hope and ambition for the future of Celtic and Scottish Football.
Many will not agree, many will not give a toss about Scottish Football,
In both cases that is a prerogative justly held. But I do care for Scottish football and I also think that what was once a seminal outlet for considered constructive criticism of where club and game is and where club and game goes, has become a……well I’m not sure what it has become.
There is a way forward for both club and the game in Scotland. But it will not emerge from the primordial sludge that we have slunk back into without us shedding many of the petty and divisive armours that prevent the most important people in the game – the fans- working together to reinvent itself.
It is a unique venture Sport in general, and football specifically. It is tribal, gutteral, emotive, and at times psychologically damaging (trust me I know about that bit). But it’s uniqueness lies in the fact that we don’t just shift allegiances; we need competition; we need entertainment. Not for today. Not for next year or the next decade, but for as far as the eye can see. If we lose that……and much of football has already sloughed any pretence at the centrality of competition, then the game is finished.
Rollerball here we come.
Are there answers. Oh yes there are always answers. But what started as a quick note has taken on the proportions of a full rant….and I really do need to get changed for tonight.
Take care everyone and sorry for letting my fingers run riot on the keyboard.
Hail Hail
Estadio
Stairheedrammy,
I agreed, but am not surprised.
But to be fair, I think those who would be most vocal in their concerns about these issues here are actually involved in doing something about it.
This leaves CQN open to a blanket of posts from people who think their fellow Celtic supporters are being manipulated by a left wing agenda which threatens their personal wealth, or to unintelligent 50+ year old men who think that their old age justifies their selfish politics.
It’s a difficult one indeed when we have to tolerate such attitudes, but tolerate them we must as we are open to all. (It’s always worth reminding them of this).
garygillespieshamstring
Scottish FA @ScottishFA 6s7 seconds agoAppellate Tribunal have adjourned Aleksandar Tonev appeal for consideration before reaching a determination within the next two weeks