Pleased to see the Club recognised for CelticLive, the stadium WiFi and content imitative by the European Club Association. Anything which builds our profile at the ECA is welcome.
Today’s Telegraph assures us Newco Rangers chief executive, Graham Wallace, is set to leave the club with his plans to raise £4m at a pending share issue still in the balance. The newspaper further asserts the club is a “toxic brand” and is trying to secure an emergency loan from Newcastle United owner, Mike Ashley.
The club, which informed the Court of Session on Friday that it had only £1.2m cash left, and last night informed the Telegraph it was losing £1m per month, requires vastly more money than the £4m they are struggling to raise in order to finish the season.
Some credit is due to the Daily Record for their splash with photo and leader, “Rangers director Sandy Easdale and a criminal wanted by Interpol tried to negotiate an Ibrox bailout yesterday”. They are reporting two years after Paul McConville’s blog initially broke the news of said Interpol-interested character, Rafat Rizvi.
Rizvi, who can take refuge in the UK as we don’t have an extradition treaty with Indonesia, is allegedly wanted for corruption, money laundering and banking crime, denies the charges, which he has already been convicted of. He should fit in quite well.
As we said at the weekend, irrespective of short-term events, the long-term fundamentals remain unchanged. The only thing to be decided is which of the characters hovering around the carcase will get to pick on the bones.
All credit to Sir David Murray.
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Ohits 08.55
I wouldn’t have Johansen anywhere near the team……..full stop.
We need to rest McGregor who was extremely poor against Dundee, as were quite a few admittedly.
Wakasu will probably start.
People worry too much.
Worrying is pointless.
http://www.nationaldebtclock.co.uk
HH.
topkat
Don’t know if you’ve read this, but you might enjoy it.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goshawk-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590172493
Holidays tomorrow! Checked Celtic bars for Scarborough and delighted to see one listed. Anyone been in it?
LB
My vote had been posted lads. No need for anymore chat on the referendum until Friday. Cheers
I know Guidtti had an injury scare but is ok. VVD was an unused sub for Holland and Charlie Mulgrew played almost 90 minutes for Scotland. Any news of our other international bhoys?
Jeromek67
Agree Mcgregor was poor at Dens but he has had 2 weeks rest . Nice to talk about football though I,m sure you are thinking the same.
johnbud78 08:40 & 9.12
Excellent posts Sir.
Like you I lived in England for a while. I love the English people as a whole.
I just think that rule from Edinburgh would be more beneficial and that the time is right.
I’ll still cheer every jimmy Anderson wicket and jess ennis gold.
HH jamesgang
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
Asked the same question about an hour ago no response , wasting your time here trying to get some football chat now .
HH
Celtic Champs Elect
08:52 on 11 September, 2014
Kitkatalba and the rest of the traitors. You have no say on how we scots should vote you deserted our country to live somewhere else so keep your opinions to your self
Us true scots who stay here and work hard pay our taxes spend our money are sick to the back teeth of outsiders especially you Aussie traitors telling us what to do. So run along and play with your sharks and koala bears because your opinions mean nothing to us. Thanks
I will be voting YES
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PMSL! That’s one of the funniest tings I’ve read on the indyref for a few days! What was the name of that character McGlashan from the TV prog “Absolutely!” The only thing you missed was calling all the English “poofs”!
Can we talk about the game at the weekend ??
I have been informed by the debate on Independence but its getting repetitive now!!
I support Scottish people looking after Scottish interests. The makeup at westminister in no way represents them.
Having said that, the No vote were always predicted to win. At the start it would be a landslide , then more recently it was realised the vote would be a lot closer.
Bottom line is the No vote will prevail ! (alas!)
Gordon J .
I watched a download of Norway 0——–Italy 2 , yesterday morning .
Norway were very poor / Italy were a big improvement on the shambles that was the World Cup . You put a shift in for Conte -or else .
Johansen spent the game giving the ball away .
Lionroars 67
Re British Army.
I’m sure I read somewhere recently that the said army consists of 43% Scots. Yeah we have been cannon fodder for centuries now and your assumption that they take us for granted is well founded,time to get out of the Union.
How much pressure do you is being applied to large institutions like RBS (82% owned by the Uk government) to scare us.
As I say, time to get out
KINGLuBO
bawsman
09:18 on 11 September, 2014
Cowiebhoy
09:07 on
11 September, 2014
bawsman
09:03 on 11 September, 2014
I really need to get to work
But
In Free market, which the Tories drive, it needs to go out to tender – Yes
Best bid wins – yes
Why could this not be a Scottish shipyard ? Where the skills are, will they sabotage this
Right off to work ( just as well I’m the boss :-) )
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As you well know :-) the building of military hardware is as much political decision as it is industrial.
eg. the home of the 2 massive carriers being built should be Rosyth but the southern English ports need the work hence they will be based down there.
They are having to do a massive amount of building and dredging to house these monsters but that’s the quid quo pro for them being built/assembled in Scotland.
No way in the world would any English MP consider for a second building their warships in Scotland if the vote is yes.
The double whammy would be that the very skilled folk who design and build these ships will move to where the work is.
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Ah the blessed carriers!
In the 60s and 70s the uk had a carrier force with several types of aircraft. By the 80s they’d downgraded to a one size just about fits all with harriers.
Now?
Well now they have nothing!
And they’re building 2 carriers. Would like to have cancelled the second but penalty clauses too prohibitive. So will build both and mothball or flog one of them. And the planes intended for them are getting so heavy and expensive that they’re like to end with a mere handful of the fat puddings perched on deck!
You’ll get more air cover from Topkat’s hawk!
Mod procurement is an exercise in ineptitude. UK plc emptied it’s coffers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Criticising a future based significantly on oil revenues while offering Future uk defence orders as the basis of economic security is IMHO a fallacy.
A Scottish state should have a new range of fishery protection and coastguard vessels. And if we’re not granted immediate entry into the EU then get the orders placed ASAP here at home while eu competition rules don’t apply.
HH jamesgang
well this place should be unionist free on saturday as their march is in edinburgh have a good day with your oo chums.
Ronny better get his defence sorted out on saturday. aberdeen will expliot our weakness down our left flank, hoping he goes with 3 cm, looking forward to seeing wee mubarak has the pace we have been missing.
KTF
Until reading some posts this morning I was a supporter of the yes campaign.
However,I have reconsidered.
I think it’s only right and proper that the people of Scotland should forget any aspirations of independence and conform to what big business tells them to do and the thinly veiled threats towards them if they don’t.
C’mon now folks,forget all this independence malarkey just do what those bastions of truth,honesty and morality like RBS,BP and Standard Life tell you what you had BETTER do.
Oh and don’t forget the great advice from Lord Leech telling you you are “better together”.Being the chairman of BUPA he has absolutely no vested interest in keeping NHS Scotland as part of any privatisation plans for health.Oh no,lordy lordy,no way.
He only has Scotland’s interests at heart…..honest.
Be afraid Scotland…..be very afraid!
South Of Tunis,
Johansen has been erratic recently. He has looked good at times but his passing is often poor.
Mike Ashley is looking to sell Newcastle United apparently.
HH.
Morning Bhoys It will be interesting to see what team Rony puts out on Saturday he has now got plenty of scope for change.Aberdeen should be a good test for us. H.H.
The NO. Vote will win, but the better together got a scare, they thought it was a shoe in, and then they found out people where starting to believe the myths the SNP where putting out there. So they had to make some noise, any one can come in and peddle lies, Sevco is a prime example.
Sanity is back in the driving seat now, because we where heading for a mine field there.
johnbud78
09:12 on
11 September, 2014
Bawsman, as I stated, I’m not pro SNP I am pro Scotland/ Scottish!
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I’m exactly that too.
I fail to be convinced that Salmond is correct when he blusters that the rest of the country will ‘dae as they’re telt’ with regards to the pound, you therefore cannot have independence without currency independence.
If Scotland was going to turn into the Promise Land post yes, do you not think we would/should be already on that road after years of a Scottish government?
Why did the Scottish government not raise taxes to do some of the stuff they are spinning to us now ?
Who/where are we hiding these great politicians that are going to drive us forward?
Who would you see as Scottish PM material?
16 roads – celtic über alles…
09:53 on 11 September, 2014
Mike Ashley is looking to sell Newcastle United apparently.
HH.
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Must be true , that’s what’s in the DR this AM.
The artist Taxi driver reacts to the ramping up of the fear –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpWEbM7ShBs
Plus what RBS have actually said –
The vote on independence is a matter for the Scottish people. Scotland has been RBS’s home since 1727. RBS intends to retain a significant level of its operations and employment in Scotland to support its customers there and the activities of the whole Bank.
http://www.rbs.com/news/2014/09/statement-in-response-to-press-speculation-on-re-domicile.html
Cheers jamesgang :-)
Genuinely don’t understand why anyone would not want the change?
Been quite disgusted with the overall coverage/commentary regarding the whole thing TBH, BBC STV & most msm media have been abysmal?
Talk above about where or who gets military contracts shows mindsets are fixed, not looking at opportunities just what scraps are taken away??
Anyway’ pretty sure the recent surge in yes momentum will continue and we’ll get over the line :-)
HH
South Of Tunis
It’s Johansen’s suicide passes that annoy me, when he does pass to one of his own players more often than not they are surround by the opposition.
16 roads – Celtic über alles…
09:53 on
11 September, 2014
He has been for years, it’s not a new thing.
Carrigan
09:49 on
11 September, 2014
well this place should be unionist free on saturday as their march is in edinburgh have a good day with your oo chums.
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You are another great advert for the yes campaign.
tonydonnelly67
09:57 on 11 September, 2014
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Read it there in the Telegraph online.
Speculation that he is going to takeover the zombies club.
Hopefully they are just clutching at straws.
HH.
there must be thousand sof mirrors broken in thousands of Labour party supporters houses this morning as they sneak past daring not to look themselves in the eye in case they see the other face of their Capitalist big business FEAR and Bullying love in.
You must be so so so proud!!!
Corporate gain fear and bullying wins the day over democracy.
No shame!
MWD says AYE
From today’s Scotsman, looks at the main issue’s and decides…
With exactly a week to go before our historic referendum on Scottish independence The Scotsman gives its verdict on the choice before us
We have been given a historic opportunity. We have a say in a decision that will have a fundamental and far-reaching impact on all our lives, our country and its future. We will all make that decision on where we believe the best interests of Scotland and the Scottish people lie. We will make that decision from a position of pride in our country and belief in ourselves.
One of the questions at the heart of the referendum debate has been: “Could Scotland be a successful independent country?” There is only one answer to that: of course it could. We are a nation of innovative and hard-working people, with a culture of altruism and egalitarianism. We can stand alongside any country in the world, large or small, and hold our own.
Scotland could be a successful independent country, but next week’s question is: “Should Scotland be an independent country?” What we then have to look at is whether this is where the greatest success will lie.
As we approach this pivotal moment in our history, there are issues to be weighed and measured. There are some areas where straight answers are not clear, and they are not only worthy of examination but it is absolutely crucial that examination takes place.
The debate has seen strong arguments on both sides and throughout we have endeavoured to air all arguments fairly and give a voice to as many shades of opinion as possible. That will continue regardless of the position we take on the referendum today.
Perhaps the first area to be examined is currency. The Scottish Government’s preferred option is a formal currency union between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK (rUK). The Scottish Government has accepted that our best economic interests lie with the pound. The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, said in a speech in Edinburgh that, for a formal currency union to be possible, an independent Scotland would have to cede some sovereignty.
He said this week that a currency union between rUK and an independent Scotland would be “incompatible with sovereignty” and both statements probably amount to the same thing; that some political power over factors that would have an impact on the currency would have to sit with the remainder of the UK. We don’t know exactly how much sovereignty we would have to cede yet.
There are other problems with a formal currency union that would allow Scotland to continue operating under the UK economic mantle. The three main Westminster political parties have declared against it, saying they will not enter in to one. The First Minister has dismissed this as “bluff and bluster”, saying that position will change after a Yes vote. To add pressure to bring about that change, the First Minister has said that if rUK won’t share the Bank of England in a formal currency union then Scotland would not pay any share of the UK’s accumulated £1.6 trillion of debt. It is argued that Scotland would have no legal or moral obligation to pay that debt. What English politician would lay his people open to that financial cost, goes the argument.
And although this rejection of formal currency union may be political posturing, because that’s what politicians do, and of course pledges have been broken in the past, underlying a formal currency union is a political decision that would seem to be difficult to thole if you were an rUK politician.
You would be asking the people of your country, with their savings and assets and taxes, to be the ultimate backing for a foreign country. A foreign country that has just decided to leave a union with you and set out on its own. And all this when the very real banking collapse is still a vivid memory with the effects still being felt. Those taxpayers are already unwittingly large stakeholders in the Royal Bank of Scotland. That has to be a difficult ask. And it may well be right, under the law, following a Treasury statement to reassure money markets, that Scotland has no legal responsibility for the UK’s debts and the UK has taken full responsibility for them, but the assertion that Scotland has no moral obligation for part of that debt will sit awkwardly with a lot of Scots; Scotland had a part in running up that debt. Is it fair and right to walk away from that? Is it the best way to start a new relationship with a country that is still going to be your closest partner and ally?
Should the politicians all act as they have said they will, and refuse a formal currency union, the most likely fall-back position is sterlingisation – an informal currency union where we just keep the pound. But there are significant problems with an informal currency union without any political union. There are arguments over the effects of this and the cost of this, but regardless of them, political power over decisions that could affect Scotland’s currency would sit in London with no input from Scotland.
It is clear that any currency union would leave some power residing outside Scotland. But we don’t know how much. We also do not know what impact Scotland walking away from the UK debt would have – some say the markets would welcome a debt-free country which had the nous to get itself in to that position and it could then borrow at really good rates, others that we would be regarded as untrustworthy defaulters. We just don’t know. And in the event of Scotland going its own way on a new currency, that would also probably have an impact on borrowing costs and interest rates. What can we take from all that? It seems highly likely that there will be a cost implication here, but we don’t know what it is.
The issue with EU membership and what that brings is also a difficult one. It seems clear now that Scotland will not be automatically and immediately accepted as a member of the EU and that there will be some admission procedure to be gone through. We do currently fulfil many of the convergence criteria, but what we would have to do for membership is unclear. It may well be the case that common sense on the rest of Europe’s part would be to accept Scotland in, and that we would be welcomed as a valuable member, but there is no certainty of that. Possibly of greater consequence is doubt over some of the special agreements the UK has negotiated and enjoys over the euro, borders and rebates.
This whole issue is, of course, complicated by the doubt over the UK’s position in Europe, with the referendum on membership promised by David Cameron. But it is probably wise not to let that form a part in Scotland’s decision, given there are fairly fundamental questions, not least whether Mr Cameron will still be in power in 2017 to deliver on his promise.
So, in tick-list terms then: Europe is generally seen as a good thing for Scotland, but the future for an independent Scotland in Europe is unclear. We just don’t know what the terms of that would be.
Defence is another major issue. It is said that the primary responsibility of the state is the safety of its citizens. Some people will vote for independence just because it will come with a pledge to clear nuclear weapons from our country. Weapons of mass destruction are an emotive subject, there are deep and fundamental issues about their morality. There surely must be huge doubts about whether our society now would mandate their use in any circumstances, there are questions over their military value given the changing nature of the threats to our security, and there is the far more pragmatic question of their cost for their perceived benefit. But those issues should be separated from Scotland’s constitutional future. The proposal, as things stand, is that an independent Scotland would become nuclear-free but would still be a member of Nato. How we can take the principled stance to free ourselves of nuclear weapons and then shelter under Nato’s nuclear umbrella is difficult to reconcile. The bottom line is that, as a Nato member, we would be part of an organisation whose back-stop is nuclear strikes. All this assuming we were to be accepted as a Nato member on the terms we outline. Again, opinion is divided on the subject but we don’t know for certain. It stands to reason we would be more secure as a member of a larger alliance, especially when it comes to intelligence sharing.
There are many other unknowns in many other fields, not least the actual cost of creating a separate Scotland and how that Scotland would be represented around the world and what relationships it would have with other countries.
But unknowns are a part of all life, we all have to deal with them and plan for them as best we can.
The benefits for an independent Scotland are posited as bringing decision-making vital to our creation of the society we want to see to the people best-suited to make them – the Scots. And that by doing so we will improve social justice in our society, making us fairer and more equal and reflecting and retaining our cultural values and sense of identity.
But we are already holders of many of the levers that allow us to create a society that reflects our desires and values. And more are on the way in the Scotland Act 2012, including greater control over taxes.
And that’s without any more powers which have been promised as part of this referendum battle.
We are in complete control of education, which must be the surest way of shaping the future we want, we are in charge of health, which is the very practical delivery of how we care for people. The NHS has become an emotive topic in this debate, because it is close to us all for very practical reasons but also because it is the embodiment of the altruism and egalitarianism that forms a large part of our collective identity. But we can shape the NHS in Scotland as we choose.
We have our own unique legal system and we are predominantly in charge of the policing of our society.
All these policies are formulated by the people we Scots vote for, with the decisions taken by our parliament in Scotland.
We have already gone our own way and created a different country in many big areas, including no tuition fees, free care for the elderly and free prescriptions.
The biggest factor in creating a prosperous and equal nation is the economy, and an independent Scotland would, of course, be able to stand on its own two feet, but under current proposals some of the levers needed would lie elsewhere and stability is under threat and that could come at a cost.
Next week, for many people, it will be independence at any cost. Others will weigh cost against benefits, risks against potential gains and losses.
There are significant uncertainties with the proposals before us. There are some major parts of life that will be changed and we do not know what those changes are or what impact they will have, and at a cost we cannot calculate at present. It is clear there will be some constraints on what an independent Scotland can do.
The political Union has helped to provide security and stability. And over the centuries Scots have played a large part in shaping that Union. Many, many Scots have benefited from opportunities it has afforded. We are a part of the fabric of the United Kingdom. We are a significant part of its history.
Does the Union cast a dark shadow over us? It does not seem that way, Scotland is a prosperous, peaceful, successful country. We are confident in our national identity with our own distinctive society. We have our history and heritage.
So, with the choices before us, the conclusion is that we are better together, that Scotland’s best interests lie not in creating division but in continuing in the Union and using its strengths to help us continue in our success.
That is not a view taken because of fear, or lack of confidence, or lack of patriotism. It is the very opposite.
It is not a view that simply does not want to take risk. It is a measured view that assesses risk against possible benefit and loss. It is seeing where the best interests of the Scottish people lie, understanding the benefits of working with the people in these islands in collaboration and partnership and seeing the opportunity to shape the strongest, most secure, fair and just society that we all want.
HH
Jeromek67
09:25 on 11 September, 2014
Ohits 08.55
I wouldn’t have Johansen anywhere near the team……..full stop.
We need to rest McGregor who was extremely poor against Dundee, as were quite a few admittedly.
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Correct. Johansen was awful.
In fact, he was only marginally worse than Berget….
weeminger
10:01 on 11 September, 2014
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True enough.
HH.
Morning Timland from a very warm hun free mountain valley.
I posted the other night that the kids would decide the outcome of the vote, and they will.
The banking industry can scaremonger till the cows come home, it will be to no avail, cos the people who matter don’t care about them.
The kids are not that daft tho, they see the deprevation all around them, the drugs, the lack of jobs, they see the hookers who sell themselfs to get their daily fix, or to feed their familys, they know who are to blame.
State sponsered addiction, state sponsered poverty, and the banking industry, are raking in sqillions,
Do you really believe the oil industry give a toss who they pay their tax to ?
More scaremongering shite from them.
vote for the status quo, only a selfish man or woman, who care not for their familys future would do that IMO.
The status quo will have scotland governed by tory and ukip, I wonder what delights they will have for them uppity jocks.
Off oot with a few of the dogs.
HH
Snake Plissken
09:58 on 11 September, 2014
The artist Taxi driver reacts to the ramping up of the fear –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpWEbM7ShBs
Plus what RBS have actually said –
The vote on independence is a matter for the Scottish people. Scotland has been RBS’s home since 1727. RBS intends to retain a significant level of its operations and employment in Scotland to support its customers there and the activities of the whole Bank.
http://www.rbs.com/news/2014/09/statement-in-response-to-press-speculation-on-re-domicile.html
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Was having a similar discussion with weeminger yesterday. Businesses are not threatening to pull out of Scotland in order to bolster the Better Together campaign – they make rational decisions based on their bottom line and responsibility to shareholders etc. They will be making preparations in case the new economic conditions (in the even of a Yes vote) are less favourable than they are currently. Of course the economic landscape might actually be more favourable – for example the SNP have a policy of cutting Corporation Tax for big business. But we don’t know anything for sure – and it may be some time before we would. It would therefore be remiss for a business not to make contingecy plans in case things go moobs up in the New World Order.
prestonpans bhoys @ 09.59.
The super intense Conte has a football brain . Play for him and you put in a shift whilst sticking to the tactical plan he wants implemented ..
Norway relied on Johansen to do the playmaking .Italy simply pressed the midfield and let him display his imaginative capacity re giving the ball away ..
NatKnow
10:09 on
11 September, 2014
I think what’s was particularly winding people up about this was the media suggestion that the jobs would be going too. Hence all the statements now being put out to re-assure people that jobs by and large wouldn’t be affected.
TET
Do you live in this country? :-))))
I’m oopen to discussion from everyone and anyone. Just not happy for someone to one day during one debate relating to Englandshire and Westminster say they reside close to London then a few months later appeal to the masses that they reside in Scotchland due to the nature of the debate.
Ernie. Are you out there?
You are a funny wee man.
MWD says AYE
16 roads
Yes I was being faecious , I did see it in the DR this AM, that’s what I meant.