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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Paul,
Assuming he hasn’t deleted himself please remove Darwin’s juvenile and very offensive post at 14.11
philvisreturns
Congratulations on the nipper, my wee one was the reason I stumbled into CQN seeking sanctuary!!
I would like to know Miss Hendriks viewpoint on the whole thing.
political opinions are like having a big boaby,
great if you have one but you should keep it to yourself.
if someone wants you to share it with them and you want to share it with them, then fine
however you shouldn’t go about ramming it down peoples’ throats.
Wee @ 14.47
That looks very much like blackmail to me.
No matter the situation with the currency we are morally bound to take on our share of the national debt.
The Indy mob want to split from the UK.
The currency belongs to the UK — we cannot force a currency union on 58mill people.
What would you need to get to accept this — a referendum?
Would democracy be enough for you?
Catman
15:02 on
10 September, 2014
Time to change the direction of the blog?
C. Gordon YES
M. Lustig YES
V. Van Dijk YES
J. Denayer YES
E. Izaguirre YES
N. Bitton YES
K. Commons YES
S. Johansen YES
C. McGregor YES
S. Scepovic YES
J. Guidetti YES
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L. Zaluska YES
A. Matthews YES
C. Mulgrew YES
B. Kayal YES
M. Wakaso YES
A. Stokes YES
L. Griffiths YES
COYBIG
YES YES YES YES YES YES
monteblanco
15:09 on 10 September, 2014
Cheers for the glib reply Ernie
:)))))))
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It was tart, slightly nasty, didn’t need to be said and funny….. so very ‘Ernie’!
I’m glad you took in good part my fellow thickie Yes voter!
HH jamesgang
In an independent scotland, if the rangers players pay back the EBT’s will we not need the oil anymore,
or am i getting two things mixed up
ernie lynch
14:59 on
10 September, 2014
traditionalist88
14:55 on 10 September, 2014
‘Given this, would it not be better for all concerned if we governed ourselves meaning that our politicians would be answerable to us ONLY and not able to hide behind a cloak of secrecy over 300 miles away?’
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Having observed the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 make its passage through Holyrood I would say NO.
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The reaction to which has spooked the SNP but which would not have raised a tremor in London. I rest my case;)
In any case, if you don’t like what they’re doing they can still be voted out post independence whereas Scotland has not returned a Tory majority in recent times yet here we are…
HH
darwinsbeautifulidea 14:45 on 10 September, 2014
“voting for the fat granny shagger is out of order”
Are you willfully stupid?
Catman,
I don’t like posting lineups but I don’t mind commenting on others.;)
Stokes in for guidetti……for now
And either wakaso in for callum and callum in for kc or straight swap kayal for kc.
Regardless……….CANNY WAIT!!!!
Alex Salmond accused of hypocrisy by former Scottish Tory leader
Annabel Goldie says Salmond enjoyed 2007-11 coalition with Tories but now criticises parties for uniting for no campaign
Alex Salmond has been accused of total hypocrisy by the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Annabel Goldie, for forgetting he enjoyed a long informal coalition with the Conservatives before his landslide election victory.
Goldie, who forged a close working relationship with Salmond as Scottish Tory leader between 2007 and 2011, said the first minister was guilty of double standards for repeatedly attacking Labour’s coalition with the Tories in the anti-independence campaign.
Goldie said: “When his political fate depended on us, he didn’t think twice before seeking and taking our support. It is quite extraordinary that he’s now doing a complete volte-face and now proclaims that the Tories are the worst things on the earth.
“To hear him now dismissing the Tories as the pariah of politics, as the name that dare not be spoken, is to me just utterly incredible and utterly hypocritical.”
Salmond has repeatedly attacked Labour for “getting into bed with the Tories” in their pro-UK coalition, focusing on significant levels of anger and resentment among Labour voters over austerity policies.
Those attacks are in part behind the sharp surge in support for independence among Labour voters, which has forced a panicked the UK Labour leader, Ed Miliband, to return to Scotland on Wednesday to mount an emergency effort to stem the flow of Labour votes towards yes.
Salmond ran a minority government from 2007 to 2011, but relied heavily on the Tories to pass all four of his annual budgets – including his budget in the first year of the Tory-led government at Westminster in 2011, with total spending over that time worth about £120bn.
In return for that support, he agreed with the Tories to introduce some of the most popular policies of his first term, helping him to a landslide victory in the 2011 Scottish elections.
The Tories enjoyed the deal because it helped them prove their support for the devolved parliament, after their popularity was heavily hit by their vigorous opposition to devolution until 1997.
The SNP is also in coalition with the Tories in at least one Scottish council, South Ayrshire, and has been in multi-party coalitions with the Conservatives and other parties several times since taking power in 2007.
The unofficial coalition with Goldie’s party in the Scottish parliament allowed the SNP, which then had only one seat more than Labour, to outvote Labour and the Lib Dems; after the Scottish Green party provoked a brief crisis by refusing to endorse one budget package, only the Tories kept Salmond’s budget package afloat.
“The bottom line is that when Alex Salmond needed the Tories he couldn’t get enough of our help. When he was in a minority and found it difficult to negotiate anything constructively with Labour, we were able to define areas of policy which appeared in both of our manifestos, where we had a joint approach,” Goldie said………….
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/10/alex-salmond-hypocrisy-former-scottish-tories-leader-annabel-goldie
I’ve so missed the football.
Can’t wait to see the new Bhoys at Paradise.
COYBIG
HH jamesgang
Very busy at work, so not keeping up …….. can’t believe they’ve got an interpol evader trying to buy them now ….. Hahahahahahahahahaha ….. You could NOT make this up….
Philvusreturns.
Hah. So yer a daddy now?
Gibran says our children are Life longing for itself.
Sometimes though they can seem like God’s revenge for leaving him on his todd, but all in all, over the piece the ride is exhilarating. Enjoy.
On to proving a negative. It has put the No on the back foot from the start and gave the Yes and advantage it is pushing relentlesly.
We told Ol Saddam. ” Prove you do not have weapons of mass destruction.” After a lot of rushing about pointing at nothing we said you have proved nothing , so it’s bombs away son. He was never going to win.
Where the No should have gone was admit that fact a referendum was needed at all was a sign many thought what was there was nothing.
So they should have said we will do this or that to give you something that you will view as better.
But that would have taken imagination and effort that now has to be expended anyway.
As the old advert said It’s Good To Talk. Pity it was forgotten.
weeminger – As it stands some treatments aren’t available due to lack of cost effectiveness.
Yes. This is what putting some NHS work out to tender is intended to address – get more health care from limited budgets.
Do you think that kind of fiscal discrimination will increase or decrease where the company providing care is trying to make a profit from a fixed budget?
There’s no reason why it should make things worse. It works well enough in other countries. If a private company pulled a Liverpool Care Pathway or a Mid Staffs NHS, it’d be sued into oblivion. (thumbsup)
starry plough – thank you :) (thumbsup)
dr ramesh and the love potion – :) (thumbsup)
No one has mentioned the obese. What will happen to these people under independence?
Will they be protected or will enforced liposuction be used to fuel new fat burning reactors to power the nation when all the wind runs out?
Ernie
Why post the article and the hyperlink?
Is it academic rigour with your footnotes. Or are hoping some of us favourite then and read them again and again and again and again till we see the light?
SardonicSmileyThingCSC
HH jamesgang
I will be voting YES next week. The chance for self determination will not come along again. The next Prime Minister will either be Cameron or Milliband, after that it will be Milliband, Ed Balls or Gideon or Boris Johnston. The thought quite frankly makes me want to vomit. I am not a huge fan of Alex Salmond but given the choices I would have him leading an independent Scotland any day of the week than receiving scraps off the table from any of the previously mentioned posh boys.
Ernie Ernie Ernie
We are Scotland. You knwo that country you pretend to live in to suite your argument when you stay doon soof. Our wee country is not called Alex or SNP.
In an Independent Scotland (not and Independent Alex or Independent SNP) we will have these cARAZY kinda ideas were we will have elections. It’s all new stuff. We are sooooo excited. Even Alex and the SNP (not the countries the person and the party respectively).
It’s not about the effin Tories “apparently”
Bananas man. your just plain bendy bananas.
MWD says AYE and can hear your squeky bum from 500 miles away. Squeak Squeak
I reckon Better Together will play their trump card next week when the send the Middle East ‘Peace Envoy’ up to Scotland to convince the electorate to make their choice.
Jamesgang @1523
Ernies campaign manager insisted he backed up all his future claims after the ‘voting is not compulsory in Australia’ gaff of 2014 :)
Traditionalist88
“In any case, if you don’t like what they’re doing they can still be voted out post independence whereas Scotland has not returned a Tory majority in recent times yet here we are”
All the Tories are voting SNP.
Abhoysabhoy & Gerodie Munro
Thanks for your input, I would not mind if there are a few changes from my suggested line up but would just like some more Celtic chat given that we have our first home game in weeks on Saturday
Auldheid
15:05 on 10 September, 2014
Davidopolous
You appear to have switched your worship from banana to jam jars.
Some God’s you can see right through.
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As my Bonne Maman used to say, a deity a day keeps the jovies away.
Nae offence to any jovies, always found them to be the loveliest people.
BoscoBhoy02
15:23 on
10 September, 2014
I will be voting YES next week. The chance for self determination will not come along again. The next Prime Minister will either be Cameron or Milliband, after that it will be Milliband, Ed Balls or Gideon or Boris Johnston. The thought quite frankly makes me want to vomit. I am not a huge fan of Alex Salmond but given the choices I would have him leading an independent Scotland any day of the week than receiving scraps off the table from any of the previously mentioned posh boys.
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Who would be Scottish Prime Minister of your choice?
T88 @ 15.14
You seem to understand nothing regarding Wee Eck and his efforts to deal with sectarianism.
JMcC did all the hard work getting the issue onto the agenda and trying to get all sides inboard to make slow but steady progress.
Wee Eck ignored the issue, patronised the issue, lost statistics along the way andvotherwise gave the impression he had bigger things to worry about — like pandas.
so we had 4 years of nothing and then he only got on board after the “Shame Game” and the public reaction to it. Text book example of a populist in action — there goes a crowd, I must lead it.
And what did we get from all this Wee Eck leadership?
Any thoughts on what he has put forward to end sectarianism?
http://www.sundaypost.com/news-views/politics/tories-blocked-oil-boom-in-the-clyde-heseltine-admits-1.446273
Any thoughts on this Ernie , Phil ?
Oops, wrong blog….
Bawsman
15:29 on
10 September, 2014
Actually it’s the Lib Dem voters that swung in the last General Election. They were the only party to lose a % of the vote. SNP, Lab and Con all gained.
Bawsman
Nicola Sturgeon or Scott Brown.
MWD @ 15.24
I am sorry to disappoint you but “Independence” is not on offer.
The best you can hope for is the independence of the granny flat or student digs.
It is all a lie and a poor quality one at that.
It is an ego trip to give two tiddlers a puddle to lord over.
Catman,
I’m really looking forward to the game and seeing some new faces.
The dons have been a banana skin and a half for us recently. Max effort needed methinks.
Paul67
Can you produce an Ernie doll. i think we would all love one. they be as popular as the Meercat thingimybobbies. think of the possibilities.
Ernie morning shift doll
Ernie back shift doll
Ernie night shift doll
then baby Ernie dolls for each.
We could have Mr’s Ernie’s
Grandpa and Granny Ernie’s
it’s unlimited
Could even have an Alex Ernie or a SNP Ernie or a Union Ernie or an Ed Ernie or a David Ernie or a Nick Ernie…
It’s a money spinner. Who needs Oil Tax revenue
MWD says AYE
MWD and Geordie Munro,
I will not stand for both of you taking the banana’s name in vain. And if I, in fact, do stand for it then Auldheid will be having none of it. Well, he might have some of it…
MWD
MadMitch
I’ll take this baby step to FREEDOM and carry on with sights set on my republic of Alex.
See you on the other side.
Squeaky bum time MadMitch.
Wow! That arguement nearly had me change my whole big fat mind there for, ermmmmm, na never.
MWD says AYE
Moonbeams WD. Wee Oscar’s our Bhoy and Kano’s our mhan. 15:36 on 10 September, 2014
Celebrity Death Match: Ernie Doll v Mary Doll
I imagine none of these darn Unionists have ever watched Braveheart?!
that’s what this is awe aboot. Painted faces kilts and shortbread. Oh aye. And the love of my life Alex.
Go Alex!
Go Alex!
Go Alex!
MWd says AYE