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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Certainly a strong bench.H.H.
!!Bada Bing!!
18:26 on
3 April, 2015
VP-Will text score, don’t reply as will cost you probably
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Good mhan Bada…must remember to turn down phone :)
Denmark ,78.4% Church of Denmark..ALL shops shut Holy Thursday and Good Friday.
See those Papist Protestants they take it too far.
Yes Paddy, Stokes,
Hopefully wee Forrest will rise to the challenge RD has put in front of him with Mackay-Steven…it can on,y make us stronger.
bsr
King st Ruglen…if you don’t mind.hh
https://youtu.be/owzZ7aT7qxM
Highlights wee hoops today
Very surprised at the line up
Bada
The taxi drivers over ere….all I can say is ” I would be ashamed” :O)
Will be interesting to see is Broony plays whole game as he will be suspended for Wednesday’s match v Jags.
Also surprised that Stokes gets lone striker role ahead of Griffiths and Guidetti, and Forrest in ahead of GMS.May be down to G3 surface?
Still should be enough against Buddies especially with that bench.
In Ronny we trust ….
All these comments about a strong bench
Earlier this season sevco had a bench that held mccoist .. Mcdowell .. Boyd had daly .
Now that’s a strong bench
iPaddy McCourt
18:51 on
3 April, 2015
Stokes :-(
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Strange one (X-Files tune playing atm) -)
Long weekend
You must love that new job
TBJ:-)
Now that was funny.
Bobby Petta in the CTV studio the night.
Let’s hope our players do their jobs tonight and we should win.
In the past 5 or six years, most of our victories at the new St Mirren Park have been by one or two goals,, if we work harder and play better than Saint Mirren hopefully we will have a comfortable win.
Let’s do it bhoys.
embramike,
Concur, re Griffiths and GMS…still we have a strong pool of players and maybe RD is wanting to see who does make an impact when given the opportunity.
First question in ssb quiz …. How many caps does VVD have for Holland ? ……. Bless them…!!!
Stokes?
St Mirren only scored 8 goals in 15 home games with only 1 win and 2 draws.
Reckon 2 goals ought to do it tonight. May be a bit slow off the mark after the International break so 1 any time in first half should do.
C’mon Anthony score 2 please:))))
St Mirren are crap.
Hello this is WEE BGFC. YYYYEEEEEEEHHHHAAAAAAAAA
TWO TICKETS FROM THE EDDIE DUFFY BUS. ME AND DAD ARE GOING TO THE GAME!!!!!!!
Cheers
HH
WEE BGFC
Cork celt
I think ronny will be exposed as the amateur charlatan that he is tonight
I think St mirren will win comfortably and I expect ronny to resign after the game.
He will be appointed as arsenal manager tomorrow
Trust me
My guess is both Guidetti and Griffiths are both less than 100%.
WITS,
Didn’t know you wrote for the Daily Ranger?
Stokes playing as striker, :-) his correct position, watch the goals flow HH
LIVE UPDATES UP
C.O.Y.B.I.G.
Sorry for posting about the GSL before our game…he’s been kicked out of his house and taken off the boards of his family trusts.
Any back to the Celtic.
Captain Beefheart
so were Hamilton, ross co, murderwell & st Johnstone and we took our eye off the ball.
just do yer best & win Celtic
till later all
Just Cant Get Enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OivanArrBEE
what is the stars
19:09 on 3 April, 2015
Drugs are for mugs ……..
Captain
Oh you can laugh at me now
But after the game you will acknowledge my foresight
Don’t think stokes will be a lone striker,KC will be alongside him
Happy with that team selection …players need to be rested for the challenges ahead….
There’s a new articles Fholks.
Live updates.
Hello this is WEE BGFC. YYYYEEEEEEEHHHHAAAAAAAAA
Love it
P
WITS, you jolly japester you.
Further to your posts about the Drookit Duck pub in Falkirk.
It was handily placed for Grahamston Station and Brockville. We drunk in there prior to games at Brockville.
The owner of it in the early nineties was a Celtic fan who was very friendly with the late Brian McLaughlin, our best prospect in the seventies.
big georges fan club – hail, hail, wee oscar
18:04 on 3 April, 2015
Hello this is WEE BGFC. Great day so far, met Johnny Collins!!!!!!! Been to Celtic Paradise!!!!!!! Went to Mass!!!!!!! Got a present off John Paul Taylor!!!!!!! Dad is awesome!!!!!!! We’re on our way to Paisley now and just checking to see if anyone has a spare ticket.
Cheers Guys!!!!!!!
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Post of the month for me! Sitting here in Malones, Edinburgh with a grin reading that! :-)))