The appointment of Neil Doncaster as chief executive of the newly formed Scottish Professional (sic) Football League was a forgone conclusion, No Surrender Longmuir was interviewed out of professional courtesy, and the clubs realised that the calibre of external candidates they would attract at the moment would be from the bottom of the corporate pile. Frankly, a heavy hitter would not apply.
Now that Doncaster is freed from his previous preoccupation – trying to parachute a new club into top flight football – he can worry about his key performance indicators, bringing commercial income into the league. If he can’t deliver a good deal, or scams a ‘Homecoming’-type deal, by pulling money already committed by a benefactor, like his pal along the corridor, we’re better off without him.
My thanks to Billy No’well for inviting me onto his podcast show, Desert Island Tims, available here. I had great fun choosing material for the show and even more fun talking about Celtic, and life, with Billy.
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Snake Plissken
18:30 on 5 July, 2013
There’s just too much stupidity, nonsense and general rubbish there for me to deal with.
Remember this though.
We’ve had more or less universal suffrage for about a century. Nobody has compelled the Scots to remain in the UK during that time. We could have left if we wanted to. We’re in the UK because we want to be.
Oiney Hoy
Yes Mate, just saw it on facebook, I like that..
Striker Billy Sharp allowed to leave as well. Were we not linked with him before?
Swinging Dick
you ain’t got any pals
Snake Plissken
Good analysis from earlier. It is no coincidence that some of the tactics being used by the No campaign, including both the Tory and Labour parties is to try and undermine the Scottish people, and that is working to a certain extent. Take the Falkirk fiasco, a local Labour Party that has delivered an MP for nearly eighty years will not be allowed to choose its’ own candidate. Now, I do not know all the details vis a vis the role of the local Union, but what I do know is that is that the success Labour has had over the years in that area was in part due to the efforts of local unions, and previously the local co-operative movements. New Labour has got form here, they denied Dennis Canavan the opportunity to stand as the Labour MSP candidate in 1999, despite steadfast victories as an MP dfrom 1974 to 1997. Canavan was elected twice to Edinburgh, both time as an Independent. And of course, it was New Labour who rubber stamped the candidacy of Eric Joyce, and looked how that turned out. Labour are playing a dangerous game here, they lost the MSP seat to the SNP just a couple of years back, and could conceivably lose Falkirk West in 2015 if the local electorate feels, as they did with Canavan, that their votes were being taken for granted.
Clinko,
I’m here for exactly the same reason, difference being I don’t pretend it’s because I chose to move, I had no options, well maybe I could have stayed and been paid less than I think I’m worth, I’ve spent more of my working life outside Scotland because I don’t get paid my worth, while I know incompetents who belong to the correct club don’t need to travel to make what I am looking for.
So I don’t have any sympathy for those who leave and declare their love for a society that made sure they had to leave to make a decent living because they are no in the club, it’s that simple, deal with it and stop the romantic claptrap.
Starry Plough
He’s not far wrong imo. Will continue my lurking.
HH
bournesouprecipe
18:51 on 5 July, 2013
Please tell me they are not serious??!
Paul67 et al
Murray back in it. Game on!
Just heard, from Sue Barker that you can watch this match in 3d. does that mean you have got to return serve from your living room?
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
19:43 on 5 July, 2013
Haw,Clink\O/….
Lay Aff Ma Pal ,Canamalar…..!
He Disnae Need Tae Be Here Organising Scrutiny Of The Bored…..
When He’s Got Two ‘Hot Dates’ Waitin’ For Him In The Car….
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VWQvFmtmXc8&desktop_uri=/watch?v=VWQvFmtmXc8
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That is funny. I think ole Canamalar will find it funny too. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at?
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Clink\o/
19:50 on 5 July, 2013
Swinging Dick
you ain’t got any pals
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Having pals is the be all and end all?
celtic mac
19:55 on 5 July, 2013
Will admit, I did put my hands up earlier to protect myself from a shot from del potro!! Felt like a right fud.
Haw,Starry….
Yer Diet….!
Ah’m Sure Wee Rascar & Petec Swear By A Regime Based Around Chocolate….
As Far As Ah Recall,It Was One Jumbo-Sized Toblerlone Bar Taken Whole, Daily..
PER RECTUM….
Good Luck….!
Oiney Hoy
Ole Ricky got you out of your lurking, no bad thing, you’re no a… naw of course yer no!!
Welcome…
petec @ 18:57
I’m not sure what Morrissey believes. I think he believes in a God. He often mentions God. He also digs religion often. I know, as every member of The Smiths, he went to Catholic schools. He often ends his concerts with references to God such as ‘God bless!’. What he believes is not important to me though. Set me aside. Scoop me from the group.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8YAixp1KTc
To explain the band T-shirts. Basically he is not a fan of Kate Middleton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQsC4OlYLlM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rN3xomFAng
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVNskUEBe28
http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_101204_01
http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_110501_01
petec @ 18:57
I’m not sure what Morrissey believes. I think he believes in a God. He often mentions God. He also digs religion often. I know, as every member of The Smiths, he went to Catholic schools. He often ends his concerts with references to God such as ‘God bless!’. What he believes is not important to me though.
ASonOfDan
19:47 on 5 July, 2013
Japanese striker Tadanari Lee been told he can leave Southampton. Worth a punt
Is he 6ft 4
First time i’ve been back in darkest Lanarkshire this time of year for 20 years. Was out painting window sills and wondered what the noise was, then realized the Orange crowd were practicing down in Burnbank , by the sound of it they could be going all night! Can’t understand why they would get permission to march in Coatbridge except for antagonism purposes, a bit like Garvaghy Road. One Scotland eh!!!
On the subject of the Referendum having lived in Dublin for as many years I see & fear in Salmond and others the DNA of Irish politicians who are among the highest paid, most inept and and corrupt I have seen anywhere and thats the reason why its in the mire. My tuppence worth.
Now now Singapore Sling, your sexual preferences are none of my concern as are your fantasies, now get back in your cot before I send Heidi round with a deep fried Toblerone for you my Boy…
corkcelt
20:01 on 5 July, 2013
ASonOfDan
19:47 on 5 July, 2013
Japanese striker Tadanari Lee been told he can leave Southampton. Worth a punt
Is he 6ft 4
Don’t you mean 4ft 6
TSD – is he olde Mad Cyril?
Morrissey the 23rd
20:00 on 5 July, 2013
That shines even more light on things. ;)
Cheers for the info.
Murray loses his serve in set 3 Its 1 each in sets and Murray 3-1 down in 3rd.
This Pole Is Most Definitely A HUN….
Go Get Him,Andy…!
Starry Plough
cheers for the welcome! Posted before I’d realised it. Tardy reply time was due to gathering the rotten eggs I will be lobbing, unseen, fae the high flats tomorrow.. I believe it’s called TUFH?
HH
The Pole is really pumped up. He is playing the better tennis. Andy got out of trouble a couple of times by serving a few aces when he really had to. When theres a rally the Pole is doing better.
Brilliant Andrew, just Brilliant.
Murray gets the break back, bloody good game.
Paul67 et al
Brilliant Murray, back in the set!
petec @ 20:13
‘That shines even more light on things. ;)
Cheers for the info.’
More info. His views on the royal family:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQsC4OlYLlM
the commentator says the crowd are exhausted after the first semi,normally so am I :-))
Re the manky marching mob…
A few years ago they used to march up Cadzow Street passed my house and St Mary’s Chapel…..they had stopped at the traffic lights which were right outside my house, banging the drums and shouting n effing and blinding and pointing at my big bay windaes which I thought were gonny get panned in…they were apoplectic….big rid faces….front door rang….polis…..aw aw….Sergeant Murphy…..”whit ur ye playin at, ffs, you trying ate start a riot?” “Eh?” Says me…..we go upstairs, my bhoy and his pal hanging out the window with a big Celtic Championees flag…..”oops” says I….Sergeant Murphy…”aye well, nae harm done”….never been prouder of my bhoy and his pal…I still embarras them with this tale…his dad is still mortified and well known to the blog!
Kikinthenakas
petec
19:55 on
5 July, 2013
Clink\o/
19:50 on 5 July, 2013
Swinging Dick
you ain’t got any pals
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Having pals is the be all and end all?
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Why would anyone want to be pals with a racist troll
I always thought pals were people whom you had an an affinity for
Canamalar1
Look the historical injustices I cite are to show people that Scotland and its people have had a raw deal as I see it from this union where we’re all supposed to be better together. We’ll I’m afraid for very many Scots that simply is not true, was not true and will not be true.
We’ve heard of promises from Westminster before about what they’ll do if we knock back separatism and just go with good old Labour. It’s tripe and it can be demonstrated very clearly and I have done and will continue to do so.
For the record I grew up a Labour man but a large number of events and shifts in policy have made me believe even stronger in independence. Labour has not been Labour since John Smith died as far as I’m concerned.
The SNP are not my champions but they are the only vehicle who could have and have brought us to this table. I was pally with SNP student members at Uni and joined them for 2 years. I know people in the current government and they are not bigots. Their thinking behind this stupid and quite frankly disgusting Football Bill is warped, moronic and falls into the typical trap of saying one is as bad as the other hence the even things up notion. That for me is it. It’s not a get Timmy thing, it’s the same crap the papers and genteel society pull regarding the two Glasgow football teams – Glasgow and their football antics need to be cracked down on. It is dumb and idiotic but I don’t think it is bigotry because it doesn’t simply attack one group, it looks albeit poorly for the false equivalence and eternal quest for balance.
I have criticized it, I denounce it and I will fight against it on here but what I will not do is sit around and act like some posters and blame all the ills of Scotland on the SNP, Alex Salmond or anyone else in the current government. You and I and everyone else knows that bigotry, institutional racism and sectarianism has gone on long before the SNP were even a political party and certainly long before they were a force in Scottish Politics. Though the way some people talk this is a new thing – that attitude verges on willful ignorance.
They are wrong on this issue and the criminalization of football fans is wrong and disgusting, hence fans against criminalization. It must be beaten.
I do not believe that the bill was motivated by a desire to attack a certain community, it was in my opinion motivated as something that sounded great around a meeting table – one size fits all anti-offensive bigotry law which DOES grab folk from the other side as well. Many CQNers pointed out the number of Sevco fans being arrested at 3rd Division matches throughout the season as evidence.
Wasn’t a junior player from Sevco arrested not so long ago because of this offense or something similar?
They DID and HAVE tried to even things up because like everything else you can’t have be one sided in legislation. The law so far has yielded no convictions and on review or with a different Scottish Government post Independence it will be quashed.
I spoke out very vocally with disgust at the treatment of the Green Brigade and will continue to do so and I will criticize the Kettling – that also was disgusting and as yet I haven’t seen the police do it to the other mob but that incident and those images have as far as I can see brought the issue to a head and eventually it will be resolved.
Other than this one area I think the SNP have done a lot for the people of Scotland and have policies I personally agree with – our young people don’t get the deplorable treatment in higher education their English counterparts do, there’s still an NHS in Scotland and we’ve seen record investment in the country from foreign firms in the last year. The SNP care about Scotland in a way none of the other main players do and won’t until after a YES vote when we might see the actual Labour party come back. Currently Labour follow London orders, the Lib Dems are hingers oan and the Tories are the Tories and no one listens to a thing they say. Labour for me are only interested in the Scottish vote at Uk level so they can win power, it isn’t about the country or the people who live in it and this constant B.S about “We believe you benefit Scotland by sharing the accumulative wealth of the Uk across the board” is just that total and utter B.S. They have shown us there are other ways and alternatives and it’s time for good people within Scottish politics to wake up and realize it’s time to stop being a puppet on a string or worrying about their bank balances.
I also do not believe that the SNP or any other party will abolish Catholic schools especially if we’re in the EU. Moreover if Scotland gets Independence then a Scottish Constitution will be drawn up – work hard to ensure freedom of religion and religious education continues within that constitution if you fear for it – I’m not there to make sure it happens but you are. I don’t because I don’t think it will ever happen. I care more about a good or better education than a religious one myself.
Ernie Lynch
Afraid not son. What I gave you are some rather startling realities and historical realities as well – along with a rather good literary quotation. Scotland IS different from Ireland and politically Scotland is different from England. The union was a political one first and foremost but within that union a great many injustices have been visited on Scotland because the system didn’t allow anything else nor did the options. Throw in 2 World Wars and you’ve got rather a lot to contend with.
Perhaps you’d like to comment on the removal of Scots History and Literature from the curriculum for many years? Ever read Neil Gunn’s Highland river? Might be illuminating.
I am not disputing that suffrage did not yield any major support for Independence. It wouldn’t after 200 years of identity, culture and Language being eroded or made into a funny wee Kailyard joke – awright fur funny stuff but no a serious langwij as Tom Leonard might have said.
What I’m saying now is that change takes time. Undoing 300 years of enforced union wrapped within a political system designed not to favour or ideals and beliefs doesn’t happen overnight but since Winnie Ewing won that Hamilton Bi-Election we’ve now got to here despite the entire state being against us voting YES and using their tools to do so from the media to the fake scare stories cooked up by politicians now being proved as lies.
We’ve never had a referendum on this issue but now we are having one and given what we know about the lengths Westminster have gone to to keep us (since the 70’s for the oil but before as an instrument of Empire) you don’t seriously think a majority SNP in Scotland vote would have been accepted do you? Look at the rigged 1979 Assembly vote.
If we lose, the fight goes on but I’d be fascinated to know what will happen if we win and moreover what will happen if we win and make a success of it?
Now not trying to be a Kev Jungle but I’m aff oot but with no alcohol – 6 weeks off the stuff you know.
Murray now 5-4 up with serve to come. Should be 2 to 1.
Morrissey the 23rd
20:26 on 5 July, 2013
petec @ 20:13
‘That shines even more light on things. ;)
Cheers for the info.’
More info. His views on the royal family:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQsC4OlYLlM
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As I said earlier, olde Morrissey is fascinating to me. I have an open mind about the guy but there is every chance he is a Gnostic with his pro God and anti Jesus comments, especially coming from a Catholic background.
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Superlative Andy Bhoy.
My apologies, but there has been a recount due to defective machinery at the count.
Whatfor is now the winner, since he actually got one right.
Jimbo67 is relegated to second place, subject to all appeals procedures.
Starry Plough
Ricky G. from Whitley in Reading, according to Oiney Hoy. :0)
HH
Clink\O/….
It’s Abundantly Clear That English Is NOT Your First Language….
Isn’t There Somewhere Else Ye Need Tae Be….
On A Friday Evening….?
Corkcelt
Nae mention of your new driver….is it in the river?
Starry
Bhoy here, just fed 5 of his pals now drinking with Mrs K and listening to Bob Marley oot the back….canny beat it….one love…
Kikinthenakas