Tonight Aberdeen play the second of a run of three consecutive away games. After overcoming St Johnstone 3-4 in Perth a week ago they are on the road to face Inverness. The Highlanders have not lost in a month, and haven’t lost at home since the visit of Celtic in November, so John Hughes men will provide a stern test for Aberdeen.
Aberdeen are back on the road to Firhill on Friday night. Their season has been free of fixture congestion. This is a rare week with two games, and an even rarer one with two away games. It could be a pivotal period in the campaign.
Celtic won comfortably in the end against Ross County but confidence seemed at a low ebb until Leigh Griffiths opened the scoring. Sentiment may have swung in our favour before we take to the field at home to Inverness on Saturday.
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eddie
Try and keep up, he’s a PE teacher not a coach.
The Onlooker-
Sounds like logic straight out of the navy blazers boardroom.
Not sure if there’s a more unpredictable team in the league than Inverness. Failed to keep a clean sheet in the league from 11 September right through to 2 January when the beat Ross County 2-0. Needed a replay in the cup to beat Stirling, lost away to Killie who we know are rank and drew 0-0 with Partick Thistle before that late winner in the cup at Motherwell last week.
They are only 2 points above Killie, 3 from the play off spot, albeit games in hand.
They need the points, they score goals and they lose goals. If we are looking for Aberdeen to drop points then a turgid 1-1 is most likely, but they are not the team of the last few seasons without the players they have lost to Aberdeen and Celtic.
I saw Kojo being mentioned, jeez that guy could irritate and illuminate in more or less equal measure – either way he was entertaining and it seemed to me his opinions were genuinely held. Hopefully, somewhere, he’s
Still, laughin…
CULTSBHOY CAN NOT RELATE TO CELTIC BOARD AMBITIONS ON OR OFF THE PARK on 15TH FEBRUARY 2016 1:30 PM
I have some sympathy for Wenger. He is the longest serving manager in EPL and has reached CL something like 17 years in a row. Also Arsenal have competed well in EPL always finishing top4 without spending anything like their rivals and have built a new stadium etc along the way. Celtic appear to have common financial philosophy but nothing like the the footballing philosophy.
You could argue Arsenal are delivering on and off the pitch. It’s almost a different game given the transfers etc involved.
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Arsenal have the 4th’s biggest wage budget. He’s a good coach but make no mistake, he is VERY involved at Arsenal and is fully signed up to Kroenke.
Florida Bhoy
Hope you don’t mind me asking
Are you based in Dade or Broward?
PE Teacher?
Coach?
Here’s me thinking he was a consultant all along.
Bk,
Totally,
They are a shadow of the team from last season. In saying that, they lost all four games v the dons last season.
This year they’ve more than had the measure of the sheep.
Unpredictable?? You said it ;)
HH
CitiBhoy-
West Palm Beach, but navigate the suicidal traffic en route to the other two counties on a regular basis.
Macjay
I thought he must have been a good age from some of the things he described in his posts. My old man used to talk about similar things about celtic and he would be in his nineties if he were alive today.
Things could be a lot worse when you consider the poor souls that have got to go back and live in Aberdeen.
Interesting to note that Craig Whyte´s girlfriend goes by the name Charlotte Foley
Has William Stevenson appeared in court yet related to sevco ?
anyone know if he is even a witness ?
HH
BSR
You’re pushing you luck with that comment….
The most interesting item I learned from Kojo was his information on how George Soros and the Koch brothers were the “minders” of the respective US presidential candidates just before Obama won his first term.
After much digging on my part, he was bang on. Fascinating stuff.
I could see Kojo’s politics, and his look-at-me racism, far enough, and had a few ding-dongs with him as a result.
But I loved his posts on the live game updates blogs, when he was just a passionate fan.
Remember P67 telling him on more than one occasion to “stick to the football”.
When he did, his posts were a joy to read.
I hope he is OK and that his absence from the blog is for reasons other than medical.
Cults
Sorry, I remembered where you were as I pressed POST COMMENT
Nice up there CSC
From John James
La bête noire en Belgravia
I don’t read the Sunday Post, but I occasionally encounter a Tweet with a link to The Brigadoon Bugle. In a departure from their usual haggis, tatties and neeps fare, they ran a piece on Craig Whyte, who to many is the bête noire of Rangers. The fact that Mr Whyte was doing some shopping at his local Waitrose in Belgravia, where I occasionally pick up a sandwich for lunch , should not have been of any note. It was a lifestyle piece that we are now familiar with since CC King’s two hats performance at the Royal Courts of Justice where he claimed that his comments in regards to Sports Direct were not made ex cathedra. King would have us believe that Rangers fan Jim White had taken a Sky production team all the way to Johannesburg for a tour of the wine he had misappropriated from his Quoin Rock Winery prior to it going under the hammer to pay off his tax debts. King loves nothing more than an exercise in conspicuous consumption, especially when he does not pay for it as is the case with Rangers.
Mr Whyte is residing in a three bedroom apartment in Belgravia which is owned by a company in The British Virgin Islands (BVI). Mr Whyte has a company registered in Tortola. Could Mr Whyte be the owner of this property which would not leave much change out of £5m? If he is, how has this property escaped bankruptcy proceedings? The answer to this riddle is that Ticketus have not been able to pierce Whyte’s corporate veil. When King used a shell company in BVI to evade tax it was a conduit to an account in Guernsey which was tracked down by the Serious Fraud Office and the subject of a Mareva (freezing) injunction. King was so broke that he had to apply for Mareva Relief for his basic needs. Three years later this broke charlatan rolled up at Ibrox and blagged his way to being Rangers chairman. The career criminal is feted and loved, yet Whyte is despised. However Whyte is merely a younger version of King.
The enmity towards Whyte is misplaced. Those looking for individuals to blame should look to SDM , James Traynor (the unseen hand behind King) or Keith Jackson who went to print with his ‘off the radar’ Motherwell billionaire lies. How this individual, after this reportage farce, is allowed to pick up a generous stipend from The Daily Record is beyond my comprehension.
Charge 1: That between January 1, 2010, and February 16, 2012, Whyte, Withey and Grier, committed fraud by conspiring to obtain a total of £28,262,094 from Ticketus (£24.3m);The Jerome Pension Fund(£2.97m) and seed capital from Merchant House Group(£1m).
From my understanding of information in the public domain, Mr Whyte could have retained circa £8.8m of the funds raised. These funds were known to be in the control of Wavetwower, which was a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Capital in The British Virgin Islands. Did Mr Whyte put half of this sum into the acquisition of a three bedroom apartment in Belgravia? It would have been be a very astute acquisition as this area is recession proof and generates the highest buy to let yields in London. Mr Whyte is living with Charlotte Foley, who is a dental hygienist in Belgravia. He met her in December 2013. Did he drop by for a clean and polish at his local dentist and win her heart? Was it his toothy smile or ‘his’ £5m apartment that won her affection?
Her Majesty’s Advocate Depute has indicted Mr Whyte on charges of not disclosing his passwords to a number of electronic devices that were seized by Police Scotland. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), Part III, requires individuals to supply decrypted information by order of a court.Failure to disclose carries a maximum penalty of two years in jail. This provision was first used against animal rights activists in November 2007 and at least three people have been prosecuted and convicted for refusing to surrender their encryption keys with one of whom sentenced to 13 months’ imprisonment. Mr Whyte is due to appear at The Court of Session on Wednesday.The plaintiff is Her Majesty’s Advocate (HMA). I posit that Mr Whyte will be ordered to surrender his passwords. This is by far the most persuasive rationale for this hearing. The criminal proceedings, according to Mr Green’s counsel, are a long way off. To construct a cogent case against Whyte, does HMA require access to his data?
Mr Whyte has been known to shop in one or more of the three counter surveillance outlets which are a short walk from ‘his’ Belgravia apartment. At these stores, personal privacy products such as BestCrypt, FreeOTFE, and TrueCrypt have begun incorporating deniable encryption technology, which enable a single piece of encrypted data to be decrypted in two or more different ways, creating plausible deniability. Another alternative is steganography, which hides encrypted data inside of benign data so that it is more difficult to identify in the first place.
A problematic aspect of key disclosure is that it leads to a total compromise of all data encrypted using that key in the past or future. Charge 1 has a timeline of 1.1.10 to 16.2.12. How can any court order restrict the access of Police Scotland to this time frame? If during this time frame Mr Whyte’s data included evidence of his involvement in another crime, which had no connection to the criminal proceedings, would he be subject to charges? Orders under the RIPA Act are rare.Will the Lord Ordinary at Wednesday’s hearing be persuaded by the magnitude of the alleged fraud?
In some cases, it may be impossible to decrypt the data because the key has been lost, forgotten or revoked, or because the data is actually random data which cannot be effectively distinguished from encrypted data. Should Whyte’s data be incriminating, would he be prepared to be imprisoned for contempt of court to forego a much longer sentence at a later date?
It should be borne in mind that some of the charges against Mr Whyte have been struck out. HMA have axed six of the 15 charges.Only eight charges, in addition to the indictment to reveal Whyte’s passwords, are currently being determined in the preliminary hearings. An allegation that Whyte, former Rangers chief executive Charles Green, Whitehouse and Clark conspired in 2012 to buy the club for significantly less than its true market value has been dropped
Mr Whyte with co-defendants Gary Withey and David Grier, are charged with agreeing to actions that they may have known would have enabled a serious organised crime. Do the prosecutors require access to Whyte’s data to prove this and other charges? In other countries, counsel for Whyte could argue against disclosure under self-incrimination statutes. The RIPA Act is rarely invoked.
Will the charges against Whyte begin to unravel if he has conveniently forgotten these passwords? I’m confident that he has encrypted these devices. There are no indictments of this nature for his co-defendants. We therefore assume that the prosecutors have access to their data, but will this be sufficient to incriminate Whyte?
4 years and one day ago the mask slipped and Rangers entered administration
we were not paranoid.we and our fore fathers were correct.
They were at it.
They cheated.
They died.
Conceived and rolled out as a business plan,the man who brought it all on them for the rest of time.
David Murray.
GIRFUY
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belatedly happy St Valentines Day
Written by James connolly to his future wife Lillie Reynolds :-)
http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000622186
HH
Timaloy29
Id expect Arsenal wages to be St the level you highlight. Where they appear to be more frugal is in transfer market – certainly over a 10 year period.
I’m always amazed at how Wenger identifies players who can play to his template. The personnel changes but the style of play seems to be the same. Wenger has a great eye for a player imo.
I also hope Kojo is ok and like you said”Still Laughing”
HH
Florida Bhoy
Ah ok it’s very nice up there ….
I had an inkling we may have met on a construction project but I don’t think it was you :-)
BSR
Interesting times for Aberdeen as folk experience the effects of economic downturn that have been life for many other places for a long time. Unsure how long it will last.
Still we have mountains, beaches, excellent schools and of course the best NHS in the country :-:
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO on 15TH FEBRUARY 2016 2:29 PM
From John James
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He’s playing with fire with that post.
CitiBhoy-
Naw, it wisnae me!
Dismal failure at maths all my days, which would exclude me from any construction site.
I’m relatively new to Florida. It’s lovely here, and I’m loving it. My missus not so much unfortunately, to the point I may be changing my CQN moniker once again.
Valencias youngster who pulled off what appeared a shocking dive last week at CP…. is it true he was actually injured in the incident or is someone making excuses for him?
HH
I worry with John James that he’s trying to get case threatening info to as wide an audience as possible. I think with these things it’s not just a case of releasing it. It has to be shown that it was seen widely enough to perhaps have an influence.
Good Afternoon.
A little song to gladden your heart….
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/the-shite-talk/
For the avoidance of doubt, my main concern is that Celtic win the title this year. I don’t want anything or anyone to endanger that.
This will allow the club the space to review the season past and act accordingly.
That in itself creates its own problems, as sacking a manager who had delivered 2 in a row and possibly 4 out of 6 trophies available would be very odd.
As I say that’s for the Board to decide. Until then, the manager and the team deserve our support to win the double.
Travelling and watching Celtic in the 90s was difficult and I would really love for us to do 10 in a row if we can.
We shouldn’t squander this opportunity in my opinion.
Árd Macha
Can’t see anything other than an Aberdeen win tonight.
2 million hits John James has had. None from Afghanistan or Kazakhstan and very few from the West Coast of Scotland.
HH
Re KoJo
I had many a good ole blether with the man many times. He was a brilliant guy to have on this site as was the Singing Detective. Whether you agreed with him or not, the guy was a straight dealer and personally I miss him a whole lot. Just hope he’s in good fettle.
KOJo, if you’re out there,let us know you are ok, even if it’s t foxtrot Oscar
KINGLuBOo
Singing Detective was a racist and some of his posts were shocking, Kojo was entertaining and his insight into our youth players especially was great but he also had a few character flaws, as we all do.
I read in the catholic herald today that The Pope is planning a visit to st andrew’s in sept
I’VEHADTOCHANGEMYNAME on 15TH FEBRUARY 2016 3:22 PM
I read in the catholic herald today that The Pope is planning a visit to st andrew’s in sept
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Good if it comes off,maybe he’ll see Dermot as Sept is Dunhill Masters.
Song for the afternoon :-)
Barleycorn Freedom sons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcYwup-PJsM
HH
Cults
From earlier.
Sorry for the late reply, been to the hossi, burnt the feck out of my fingers and this typing with one finger is harder than it looks :-)
CKR, you obviously don’t have any time for him, me I am willing to give him time, you don’t get 40+ caps for the likes of Turkey unless you have something about you.
He may have a flawed personality, he may well come good as has the Griff, give him time then judge him, quite a few are eating their humble pie re the Griff.
HH
TET
Hope yer fingers heal quick.. What’s Spanish health system like?
CKR might prove a decent player but we need a striker.
Yes Griffiths is the real deal… But then only a fool could have believed otherwise given his record
Cults
Aye we do need a striker, I don’t think CKR is, he can be used as one, but we know it’s all about the money, and there was plenty of fools around when we signed him.
The health system here is second to none imo, far far superior to anything I have experienced in britland or Ireland.
HH