St Mirren are the whipping boys of Scottish football right now. The only points they’ve picked up in two months came in a win over mid-table free-wheeling Hamilton, leaving them four points adrift at the bottom of the pile. They are in as bad a shape as then-bottom Ross County were when they visited Celtic Park for the last game of 2014 and left with a well-deserved point. The reality is, if Celtic are running at 95% capacity they will struggle against anyone.
You and me are well beyond the stage that we are surprised that fantasists telling fantastic tales go largely unchallenged by their fanatics followers. It used to bother us, now we know what damage it does, it only adds sugar to the pie.
Sure, the 40 registered nomads in the UK all baulked at overseeing a company with a new, fit and proper board, who have a sound seven year plan to achieve enormous success. The nomads blamed the iniquities of the old board (who worked successfully with a nomad until it became evident who was going to replace them) for their refusal to work with the new board.
Crazy nomads work with lunatics, but as soon as good management move in, they realise what a bad idea it was to work with lunatics, then ditch the good management. It’s irrational, I know, but nomads are always out of their faces on God knows what. This happens all the time.
This is not Pyongyang, nor Moscow. You are living in one of the few places in Western Europe with so little oversight and scrutiny that people get away with this nonsense.
Mr King and Mr P Murray want to act as directors in a regulated public company which is a phoenix of a liquidated business they were directors of. Faced with this proposition, Mr King’s Glib and Shameless past is irrelevant.
The way forward for newco is simple. Appoint a board of experienced professionals, recognised in their fields. Allow those tainted by liquidations or criminal convictions to invest their cash and sit on the football club board, leaving the regulated company free to conduct its business in a proper way. Why they don’t do this is the most fascinating subplot of all.
Oldco was driven into liquidation by a combination of some rudimentary charm and the biggest ego in Edinburgh. My hunch is that newco is has found a leader equally adept at charming the media, but with perhaps a larger-still ego. Ego-zilla, if you like.
Why are they all falling for this? Are they really that stupid?
I was blown away by the response to yesterday’s article. Thank you to everyone who bid on the St Andrews’ Open Golf Hospitality auction. And thank you to a couple of people who decided to anonymously put £2000 towards our school kitchen appeal. We have some incredible people in our midst.
The auction runs until next week, so fill your boots:
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All day Hospitality for 4 based at the Eden Mill Distillery for the Open Golf Championship at St Andrews on any day to suit from 16 to 19 July 2015. Auction in aid of the Celtic Quick News (CQN) appeal to build a fourth school kitchen in Malawi for Mary’s Meals. Shuttle transport for the five minute journey to and from the golf course as needed Beer, Gin and Whisky tastings throughout the day with the master distiller. The chance to create a unique CQN single malt whisky cask worth potentially £5000 for future CQN charities. A bottle of this very special single malt whisky to commemorate the great day when it is bottled in several years. Eden Mill is Scotland’s newest and most innovative distillery and brewery incorporated in February 2012! Located just 2 miles from the famous Old Course itself it provides a perfect base for hospitality for yourself and 3 friends on a day of your choosing at the forthcoming open golf championship on July 16th to 19th. But this is so much more than just a day’s hospitality at the home of golf. Before taking to the course to watch the you will enjoy a breakfast roll or two and discuss your perfect single malt whisky with the master distiller. Whilst you and your friends are enjoying the golf he will seek to surpass your favourite whisky by using the best barley to create the right wash and recommending the right type of barrels for our very own unique CQN 1/4 cask of single malt. A cask which will mature and provide over £5000 of future funding for our charities in a few years time. You will return to the distillery by shuttle bus for lunch and an optional beer tasting and then for afternoon tea with a tutored gin and whisky tasting with the owner capping off a memorable, unique and very special day for your group and for CQN.
My thanks to Eden Mill for their incredible support. You can bid on the auction here. |
Have a good, Good Friday.
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geordie munro
ok
Good Friday rumours are the best.
https://twitter.com/EdgarBlamm/status/583987487107899393
TD – Sorry to hear the sad news on your brothers passing. May he rest in peace
All the best to you and yours.
Dallas Dallas 14:42
McLeish is the perfect example of how being media-friendly is seemingly more important than your record.
Martim1980
15:07 on
3 April, 2015
None of that would surprise me at all, especially with that cast of characters, thanks for posting.
HH
gsu
Td … Condolences on your loss.
Martim198o … I think you may have just started a new CQN trend … Instead of the old Nike Friday’s, we now have new balance good Friday’s.
https://twitter.com/pmacgiollabhain/status/583981550351548416
67heaven,
what’s that they say “the gift that keeps on giving”, brilliant
HH
gsu
Greensideup-GBWO + mike in toronto
Only fare to share HH
Tony D
Sincere condolences to you with yours and you brothers loved ones.
glasstwothirdsfull
15:22 on 3 April, 2015Dallas Dallas 14:42McLeish is the perfect example of how being media-friendly is seemingly more important than your record.
he will take The Mullet’s microphone at Sevco’s weekly showings on BT Sport,hanging about like the bad smell that he is.
What channel for the game? Please tell me BT….
Tony D
Sorry to hear of your sad loss. Condolences to you and your loved ones.
NS
TD
Condolences pal.
RobertTressell
Yuuuuuuuuuuuup
:)))))))))))
TD67
Sincerest condolences on the sad passing of your brother Michael.
Does he miss his wife, or has he just heard about the de-listing, quite funny actually
https://ca.screen.yahoo.com/trending-husband-posts-miserable-vacation-190439781.html
HH
gsu
RobertTressell
15:42 on
3 April, 2015
What channel for the game? Please tell me BT….
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BT Sport 1 at 6.45pm
KO 7.45
RobertTressell
save this link that
Blantyretim put up a while ago
http://www.livefootballontv.com/
Burgas Hoops
thanks for the steer on Mulligans. Turns out that they are not showing the game, but they’ve put me onto Dylan’s who are showing the game
HH
Cheers lads….. Recorded and watched later for me…. Just been telt I’m going somewhere…..
glasstwothirdsfull
15:22 on 3 April, 2015
Dallas Dallas 14:42
It’s his position as former manager. Looks to me like he has a Media House type put out a PR statement. Nothing to do with him failing miserably and getting fired.
Lazy journalism, none of them asking Genk for their side. Irony is Scottish Media swallow it as do their readership. You can fool some of the people all the time cause they’ll believe anything!
Slabhoy – Duntocher is Green and White
As long as you are fixed up pal.
The Alamo – is in full swing
Channel 5
It’s not like a board at Ibrox to blame a mess on somebody else.
It’s not like the hordes that follow to believe them.
It’s not like the Scottish media to not question a board.
#historyrepeated
TD67 thoughts and prayers to you and your family on the passing of your brother its not much comfort to you now but remember the good times…….
my dads anniversary and my mums birthday (she doesnt celebrate it anymore)is on sunday and every year it gets that little bit easier to talk about him
keep your chin up sir
HH
Vacation complaints
THESE ARE ACTUAL COMPLAINTS
RECEIVED BY “THOMAS COOK VACATIONS” FROM DISSATISFIED CUSTOMERS:
1. “On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost
every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food.”
2. “They should not allow topless
sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who
just wanted to relax.”
3. “We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers
as they were all Spanish.”
4. “We booked an excursion to a water
park but no-one told us we had to bring our own swimsuits and towels.
We assumed it would be included in the price.”
5. “The beach was too sandy. We
had to clean everything when we returned to our room.”
6. “We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your
brochure shows the sand as white but it was more yellow.”
7. “It’s lazy of the local
shopkeepers in Puerto Vallartato close in the afternoons. I often
needed to buy things during ‘siesta’ time — this should be banned.”
8. “No-one told us there would be fish in the water. The children
were scared.”
9. “Although the brochure said that
there was a fully equipped kitchen, there was no egg-slicer in the
drawers.”
10. “I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local
convenience store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or
ginger nuts.”
11. “The roads were uneven and bumpy, so we could not read the local
guide book during the bus ride to the resort. Because of this, we
were unaware of many things that would have made our holiday more
fun.”
12. “It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England. It
took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair.”
13. “I compared the size of our
one-bedroom suite to our friends’ three-bedroom and ours was
significantly smaller.”
14. “The brochure stated: ‘No
hairdressers at the resort.’ We’re trainee hairdressers and we think
they knew and made us wait longer for service.”
15. “When we were in Spain, there were too many Spanish people there.
The receptionist spoke Spanish, the food was Spanish. No one told us
that there would be so many foreigners.”
16. “We had to line up outside to catch the boat and there was no
air-conditioning.”
17. “It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or
unruly guests before we travel.”
18. “I was bitten by a mosquito.
The brochure did not mention mosquitoes.”
19. “My fiancée and I requested
twin-beds when we booked, but instead we were placed in a room with a
king bed. We now hold you responsible and want to be re-reimbursed
for the fact that I became pregnant. This would not have happened if
you had put us in the room that we booked.”
HH
gsu
Sevco has died
Sevco has risen
Sevco will die againB-)
Leftclicktic
Don’t know if you saw posts I put on last night but big thanks from Knoxy who’s wallet you handed in yesterday
Good on you man
HH
Martim 1980,
Dont know how true the stories are with King getting his money out of SA,but they used to have very strict currency laws.My mate had a helluva time,and he was there for 10 years,a good,LAW ABIDING citizen.
Anyway,its good to gloat.
The only thing that Mike Ashley can do is gobble up Ibrox park. There is a good reason why he hasn’t so far.Either he asks for his cash back or publicises exactly why he cannot go near Ibrox park. He cannot own anymore of Sevco or the SFA will step in. So apart ftom fleecing them for years to come there is nothing left for him to do here. He will want to keep them going as a going concern
I hope he humiliates the SFA.
HH
According to good Friday rumouring and delistification we’re gonna need a bigger gloat.
TD67
Condolences on the loss of your Brother – may he rest in peace.
Greensideup-GBWO,
On your brilliant “Holiday complaints”.
Couple of years ago,me and Mrs TB were in a jewellers in Kusadasi.A few cruise ships in.An American and his wife,from one of the ships were in same time.He got talking to me.”You actually live here with all these Goddamn Arabs”he said.I said”They are not Arabs,they are Turks”.He said”Same thing,if I had known,I would not have got off the ship.I expected everyone to be Greek” !!!!!!!!!!!!!.
American view of the world.
Turkeybhoy
Indeed, the replies go into detail on what’s up. Could be rubbish but it might not be!
bournesouprecipe
16:07 on
3 April, 2015
According to good Friday rumouring and delistification we’re gonna need a bigger gloat.
Ye canny beat a right good gloat.
bournesouprecipe
LMFAO
My heartfelt condolences to Tony Donnelly and Family on the passing of his brother. May his soul RIP.