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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I coulda played for the hoops btw… number 7
After 8 …. is a chocolate mint cream… not a murray
So… the famous cqn … with worldwide Bloggers 24/7 … is a sham.
Might go onto RM for a giggle
TEN is a number…. not an achievement. ..
Right me… im off now… night you :)
fanadpatriot
22:36 on 5 July, 2013
Never played tennis in my life, never will.
Will be watching every minute of the final willing Murray to victory.
No interest in the sport unless he’s playing. Seems like a genuinely nice fella with a hunger and desire to win that’s sadly missing in this country. In ln all aspects of life.
So what if Wimbledon is the gentlemans club, in fact all the more reason to cheer andy as they will be distraught if he wins.
For a guy from his background to be there is immense and I’m delighted for him.
Watch the documentary on him.
Hope he goes on to win on Sunday and win many more.
Talking about tennis!! Dear God, Can’t wait till the Celtic are back playing!!!
Goanae sumdae post
Really stupid irish coont on talk sport just now talking about Wayne Rooney listen in and make your own minds up
Right.
Intervention time here.
Some people are angry at tennis.
WTF!
It’s a game, not a class system.
In what was once dubbed the fourth poorest town in Britain, tennis is free in Whitecrook Clydebank.
And the courts were mobbed when Wimbledon was on, almost everyone poor grandchildren of Irish immigrants, loving their tennis.
If you are angry about Wimbledon, you are probably just angry in general.
Everyone else seems to love it.
fanadpatriot (23:05 on 5 July, 2013): “? ,how many people ,watching or going to Wimbledon have ever played the game.”
I have. I wasn’t any good at it though. I was much better at the table variety, but there’s no money in that.
:o(
Incidentally, when was the last time two Englishmen contested the Wimbledon Final?
On Sunday two Jocks will be vying for one of the biggest prizes in tennis. At one end there will be Andy Murray, and at the other end Jock O’Vitch, of Scottish-Irish lineage…
Unfortunately for you, or maybe not….
A lot of minds have arrived!
INIQUITOUS IV
Long time no see,bud!
Have a listen to a slightly sacreligious version of
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube%2frolling+stones&docid=4846858748364175&mid=6B12C7030D6FD762013D6B12C7030D6FD762013D&view=detail&FORM=VIRE5
Hopefully you will also get a similar sidebar to the one I got,so hours of listening via a different browser!
Aye, while I’m on about it…
When I was young I had never even met middle class folk, or not so I noticed.
But everyone I knew played golf.
With yer dad’s clubs over the park, sneaking on at the second at Dalmuir.
Even paying on was cheap.
I realise now that everyone didn’t play and that I generally hung about with a sporty crowd.
But tennis and golf were very popular.
And it was years before we got angsty about class or any pish like that.
Twas better thus.
The B(h)oy Jinky
You have the record for consecutive posts.
Your prize is a golden thimble for exclusive use on F5 Fridays.
No sevconians hereabouts. They’re all abed dreaming about a big bus.
Oh I liked the OG crack too.
Night Night
On vac.
Watched an old movie called the Bridal Path made in`59 about a lad who leaves the Hebrides in search of a bride, with instructions as to the type of woman to look for and the type of woman to avoid.
3.15 minutes in,a surreal moment which will let our younger supporters understand the “culture ” prevalent in those times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voeGhM–Kkk&list=PL94D2FB3BDE815ABB
Macjay
Bill Travers is the actor. He later married Virginia McKenna and made the Born Free movie.
I’m sure it was like it is portrayed in the movie for the Wee Free or Presbyterians. However, I remember my Dad asking my sister if her boyfriend was a Catholic. It was how it was for both sides I’m afraid. Marrying outside your faith was how it was put, and it caused ructions if your intended kicked with a different foot.
Ludicrous to us now, but then it was how it was.
Enjoy the vacation
HH
ralphwaldoellison remembers als victims jimmy jonstone & john cushley
Hence the reason for my moniker!
BMCUW
How could I forget that. Remember you referencing it a few months back.
What are you doing up at this ungodly hour?
I know Wiltshire might be out in the boonies but it surely doesn’t have a different time zone :0)
Night shift or can’t sleep?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9KvlZWQzRA
For those who might be struggling to sleep because of the demands of their children, here’s a wee song to help out.
For those on the nightshift, take a coffee break & have a listen.
“Will you be a Moma’s bhoy or a Daddy’s little ghirl?”
HH
That song always makes me think back & forward at the same time.
“In some old and distant town..”
KTF (whatever that means to Tims everywhere)
HH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmfN_mov0pw
Hope someone listens to the songs as they are beautiful.
This last one makes me think of my parents & how it must have so tough for them.
They were always just so broke, and living from wage packet to wage packet. When y dad died he had about 400 quid and an old beat up car to his name.
I realize that this will four posts on the spin…so I’m gone after this.
Had a beautiful meal tonight with my young bride.
Seared Tuna starter, Great salad, then entrée of Halibut with a truly fine Pinot Blanc from Alsace to go with it. Anniversary present from son & his wife. In January 2014 it’ll be the forty year anniversary for us.
Just call me Ruby :0)
HH & Babwbaws
RalphWaldoEllison remembers ALS victims Jimmy Jonstone & John Cushley
03:46 on
6 July, 2013
I take your point,however,personal and family preferences in relation to the religion of a marriage partner are perfectly reasonable.My family were ,in that regard, the same as yours.
This is a very public rejection by a community of people of a different religious persuasion.
I still find it an extraordinary window into shameless sectarianism.
Just imagine if the line had been:’No Campbells ,no Jews…..”
I would guess that there would have been a huge uproar.Quite rightly.
Thanks for your good wishes.
hey whits the matter wi the Campbells :)
i had to get the number 666 of CQN… this is post #667
jimmybhoyCAMPBELL
in Cambodia
Jimmybhoy
Absolutely nothing.
See movie 3.00
haha…. yes i had a look at the movie earlier, outrageous.
Crikey, didn’t look at my watch and thought it was about 07.30 …..that’s a ‘first’ …. Hahahaha serves me right for going to bed so early last night….
Morning has broken, it looks like another warm summers day in the Chilterns…
Well done Andy Murray, superb stuff.
Thought the big Polish lads gamesmanship was over the top, so loved the fact the last set went so quickly.
Noticed a wee Faith debate here yesterday, I know Celtic_1st like myself, likes to listen to the more discerning BBC output. There was a Programme by John McCarthy on the World Service, where the good folk of several faiths discuss life after death.
Heart & Soul – In Gods Waiting Room
Might be worth a listen if you’re into that sort of thing.
Hail! Hail!
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G’Day CQN Fae a Absolouter Dullish Down-Under..
Hope You all have..Just another Saturday..
Hope My Wee Mum can go her ‘Walk’ that she does every Morning at 6:30am..Her house is 25 Meters from the Chapel door..
However..
50 Meters down the Street..One of the High Heid Yins (Don’t know the Official name)..Gets picked Up at the same Time..Seemingly by Full Marching band and Police Escort..l think the Make extra Noise because of the Street he Lives in..”-)
Is this True..? The done thing..?
As l Said..Just Another Saturday..
Summa
Ps..Lets Hope we have a Sunday we will All Never Forget..a JKF Moment on St Andrews Day..
.
Wow..Did Not realise it was 6:30 back Home..
Come on My Wee Mam..
March past them..
Summa of StGerradsCSC
Morning.
Piper Alpha, twenty five years ago.Dear god, remember it as if it was yesterday.
rest in peace, guys
lilys granpa
Good morning from a bright and breezy West Lothian.
Good morning Timland.
Happy sma’ shot day tae awe the Paisley
buddies.
The mills have gone
but the weavers spirit
lives on.
Ps a wid post a like if I knew how.
like=link
Where ur wae noo, where ur we noo?
Refreshments are taken as we walk back down the hill to the low lying tee. On our left the Firth of Forth laps the shore, our target arcing around the bay and climbing back up the hill to a green, sloping back to front and right to left with a back stop of heavy rough. At over 400 yards long, out of bounds all along the left with a fairway that pitches your ball in that direction, and all uphill, crossing a burn and one big tree guarding the left side approach, this is no easy hole.
The ideal tee shot is a high fade left to right landing softly on the right side of the fairway, giving you a chance of reaching the green in two, with a monumental long iron or even a wood. I draw my tee shot down the centre of the fairway but the camber causes my ball to settle down in the first cut of rough. Going for the green is out of the question, the lie is poor and the big tree is doing its job magnificently. BJMac asks “what are going to do?” The only thing I can do is settle for a seven iron up the right hand side to give me a wedge in. I nail my seven iron, carrying too far for my wedge third shot.
74 yards says the GPS device, a decent sand wedge all carry? No a wee chip and run up the slope with my 7 iron, punched into 15 feet below the pin. The Battered Bunnet has to putt first and I watch his ball move 6 feet from right to left off his intended line. Safe play is to lag my putt up, cosy to the hole, as if I go past the hole the one back downhill is a killer. However TBB insists I take the putt on. Strong and firm on the left edge, straight in she goes.
A par 4 feels like an eagle, onwards to the next.
I love this game. Li lo golf is brilliant.
Kalimera,
EC67
Iniquitous IV thanks for info, will give it a try.
Hail Hail
Eurochamps67
Kalimera, te kanis?
lilys granpa
valentinesday
06:55 on 6 July, 2013
How’s this one..?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwBmALw2U8E&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Morning all.
Looking forward to the game tonight – expecting Neil to put out a stronger line-up, but would also like to see some of the young bhoys given more game time; Paul George for example.
Bring on the Cluj!
HH!!
Good morning all.
To all those Sevconians and Jambos taking part in the bigotfest today, the old stage phrase springs to mind,
‘ break a leg ‘
Quite literally.
Hail Hail