Delighted to see Brendan Rodgers is down to business at Lennoxtown, three weeks before the players return for preseason training. It’s interesting that he arranged an early opportunity to meet Scott Brown over a meal, and that this was made public.
Getting buy-in from senior players was one aspect of the job Ronny Deila allegedly didn’t achieve. The rights and wrongs of this can wait for Ronny’s autobiography, although you may wish to express an outsider’s opinion. All that matters to Brendan is that no one is able to speculate about the same issue on his watch.
There’s not much a manager can do three weeks before training starts than eat dinner with the captain, scout players and watch videos. I expect Brendan to have seen every minute of every Celtic game last season by the time players get back; there is lots to learn. In particular, what went wrong at the back to a team which broke defensive records in each of the previous two campaigns. You may wish to express an outsider’s opinion.
Those in the know warned us that blue collar crime is particularly difficult to prosecute, and so it’s transpired. Only Craig Whyte now faces trial in the Rangers fraud case, which saw remaining charges against Duff and Phelps’ administrators David Whitehouse and Paul Clark dropped at the High Court in Glasgow this morning. It’s far from a satisfactory outcome.
Good to hear the losing Scottish Cup final manager, who was left with some bears in Japanese forest for seven days by his parents, has been found safe and well, even if he has nothing to say for himself.
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Pink strip .. Jaysus
Love to see stats for how many home , away and 3rd strips we sell each season.
3rd strip couldn’t be that many… Think they are a waste of Time and complete money racket.
Petec, Come on time for you to keep the blog alive.
3rd strips are for wearing in pubs and clubs anyway.
Pink izny ma colour though
HUNDERBIRDSAREGONE
Nonsense,old bean.
It matches your eyes in the morning.
BMCUW
I gave two pints of blood the last time he blood transfusion van was in town………
………….one from each eye :)))
He = the
HUNDERBIRDSAREGONE
Good man!
Must do similar again soon. I’ve not donated for a while now-there never seems to be a centre handy for me.
Found an old Carling strip last week, any (non rude) suggestions what I should do with it?
Good morning friends from EK where today’s gorgeous morning starts with mostly skies of blue peppered with the odd wee puffy light cloud. Wonderful.
http://www.socceroos.com.au/article/peter-raskopoulos-tom-rogic-can-emulate-mark-viduka-and-harry-kewell/rmj4aj65aomw188j8c7gdd4wn?
“Blue is the colour…………..
winning is the game…….
……we’re all in this together……
if Football is to gain”
(Think : what would Darryl do?)
Reeeeee-zistTheSFA CSC
What’s the deal with the incessant Turkish Airlines…………….ad?
It’s a nice wee film but I’ve now seen the opening seconds a gazillion times…………………….
Why The Frequency!?
http://youtu.be/etqsi2817BY
Coupon busters
HH
EK cracking this morning Jobo.
Magic!
KLV
Morning all
6iar
Pouring a rain here in Bogot, fine start to ramadan
“Bogor” not Bogot. It’s in Indonesia if you’re wondering
Judging from the photos of the ticket office queue and the wait to get online for season ticket sales. We may be heading for high 40s-low 50k STs.
Everybody aboard the Brendan Bus.
Que for tickets
https://twitter.com/celticfc/status/739726990715015168
With no chores list left scrawled on the blackboard by the Beauty of Burnside and with this continuing untypical Glasgow weather Roger is meeting at a pre-arranged rendezvous with the fat ageing, dyslexic, Scottish 1990’s carp legned……………E. Ashley –Pitt
Firstly this fat one needs nourished and I’m saving the savaloy sarnies lovingly pre prepared by Christina Untergruppenfuhrer, earlier this very morro.
Cornflakes n’ Banana god’s own food. According to the B.O.B nobody except school teachers,will leave the two wee nobbily bits you get on both ends of a regular banana? She reckons school teachers eat anything, and waste nothing.
Not for this rotund one, nobbily bits safely binned, empty cornflakes (Kellog’s only) into a basin sized bowl, then copy wee Mary Berry style chopping a banana straight into the recepticle of choice.
Milk is cheaper than water in Rutherglen, probably thus outwith the centre of the universe , so fill yer boots. Never trust anybody that would pour the milk before the cornflakes.
As ever CSC
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
I assume from your post that your significant other has left you “an empty”
Might I suggest putting whisky on your cornflakes and saving the banana for a wee daiquiri later?
MondayclubCSC
I think we are going to need a bigger stadium by the looks of the crowds gathering outside the Celtic ticket office . Full houses sold out games next season
https://twitter.com/celticfc/status/739731128043606016
Morning breakfast reports from Lower EK. That could catch on.
Morning Bhoys from a Sunny Hot Central Scotland. H.H.
The charm offensive set on bringing about the rehabilition of McCoist now seems to be getting into ‘full swing’. Every Scottish paper and news website is full of it.
It of course coincides with “Rangers’ becoming a Scottish Premiership club – suppose he can ‘dress-up’ his CV with that fact.
But, who in God’s name would employ him? – he did well in the bottom two divisions I suppose – so perhaps some club from there may take him on – my money is on Cowdenbeath.
Do we really need his “who are these people” bile returning to Scottish Football?
Super Salary and Bombast Brown – a management dream team.
Looking at the queues outside the ticket office-again-and reports of a huge upswing in sales,I wonder whether our recent policy of downsizing in anticipation of reduced ST sales might just have been a self-fulfilling prophecy.
We pay people a fortune to come up wi bright ideas like that,btw…
Sevco in for Steven Taylor apparently. Played 7 matches last season and has a paltry 220 career appearances at the age of 30. Would imagine he would cost a few quid too. The Daily Radar are claiming he rejected a one year deal when the facts are he was released. Talk about throwing money down the toilet.
Business Plan CSC
Extremely happy to report that I’ve just got my season ticket and looking forward to the new season.
Hail Hail
SFTB,
I’m intrigued to know why you took only the last line of my post thus taking it out of context, then argue a point that was neither meant or implied by my post.
Why not take the first part or any other part of my post ?
You state that dislike is not the same as hate however I never said it was, I said and tried to use examples, it is on the same side of neutral rather than being on the opposite side.
I’ll give another wee example of how I perceive the sides look, see if it helps clear up my understanding, using the words already in play including those you introduce and some I will introduce to help make my point.
Intolerance, hate, dislike, oppose, NEUTRAL, agree, like, love, promote.
To clarify my position, I do not consider tolerance to be the opposite of intolerance, I consider tolerance to be a neutral position within the terms of this discussion, to tolerate something is to neither support or oppose it.
I am not trying too hard to conflate anything, I’m simply following a logical path, without cherry picking and misrepresenting your argument whilst trying to use easy to understand examples.
Nor have I tried to conflate bigoted and sectarian, that honour is yours alone, I was very clear on my misunderstanding. They are in fact very clearly different, the problem is that they’d age been made synonymous and that appears to be enough for most to think they are the same. They are quite distinct in their meanings. Being a bigot is not always a bad thing, there are many views and arguments that we should be intolerant towards, paedophilia for example. But displaying anti-sectarian behaviour is rarely a good thing, specifically dealing with sects, whether religious, political or cults. IMO the meaning of word sectarianism has suffered more than most due its misuse through ignorance and deliberate misrepresentation to the point where we are now having this discussion and so far neither of us have got it right. Bigotry is a catch all under which anti-sectarian behaviour is only a small (once long ago) clearly defined subsection.
The actual meanings are,
Sectarianism-rigid adherence to a particular sect, party or denomination.
Bigotry-intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself.
I am as guilty as anyone of misusing the word to mean anti-sectarian behaviour, more so probably. Now that I have corrected myself (I sit down corrected), we need to start referring to it as religious bigotry to try and remove the conflation and deliberate misrepresentation.
There is a law against anti-sectarian behaviour, there is no law against sectarianism or bigotry. Though I expect its on the way and the OBAF is the foot in the door.
The next time anyone calls me sectarian my answer will be, ‘so what, it’s no a crime’, and enjoy the confusion on their face and their scramble to make the same uninformed stupid arguments I was previously guilty of myself :)
But my argument I will continue to support since IMO, oppose and intolerance, are varying degrees of one and the same side of neutral. The difference is the degree of opposition and the sensitivities of those you oppose. You have said you not consider Scientology a religion, do you consider it a cult ? If so such a demotion from religion to cult, I would expect in the eyes of those who follow, consider your views as religious bigotry.
Discussion like this are good for me, I like learning and being challenged on my pre-misconceptions, it stops me making a James Hunt of myself in future discussions :)
I will take that pint and return the favour if and when I get back to Glasgow.
HH
I’ve still to have monies taken from bank for my 2 ST renewals
Are they giving them away for free☘
Morning all from a sunny South Ayrshire coast.
Great night at the SSE Hydro last night to see Neil Young.
He was on top form and was on stage for two and a half hours.
No bad for a seventy year old.
Great backing band – Promise of the Real – as Crazy Horse are semi-retired!
Rock n roll!
HH!!
Neil Young was being bullied at school by a boy. He put up his hand and asked the teacher for the big dictionary she kept on her desk. He picked it up, walked over to the bully, and hit him over the head with it.
COOLMORE MAFIA
He should have waited for baseball lessons!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS o
brill boaby.
Demand is high on the On-line renewals too. System takes nearly an hour to get onto appropriate pages.
I really shouldn’t post this but as it doesn’t deserve an audience but it’s a belter from our ” Tribe” author Ruth Fudley Edwards.Don’t laugh as reading this may cause great hilarity our disgust
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/ruth-dudley-edwards/success-on-the-pitch-would-be-the-perfect-way-for-resurgent-rangers-to-confound-those-who-choose-to-demonise-club-34774268.html
My friends in Celtic,
It’s heartening to read and see photographs of the queues for ST’s.
However as long as Celtic remember that there must always be a place for those for one reason or another don’t or can’t get one.
By no means a complaint, only an happy observation.
Hail, Hail.
MURDOCHAULDANDHAY
Ruth Dudley Edwards is a learned and respected historian,with a known predilection for deep research on her subject matter.
Consider the following,particularly the last sentence.
“Following the Cannes prize announcement, for The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Ruth Dudley Edwards wrote in the Daily Mail on 30 May 2006 that Loach’s political viewpoint “requires the portrayal of the British as sadists and the Irish as romantic, idealistic resistance fighters who take to violence only because there is no other self-respecting course,”[8] and attacked his career in an article.[9] The following week, Edwards continued her attack in The Guardian, admitting that her first article was written without seeing the film (which at that stage had only been shown at Cannes), and asserting that she would never see it “because I can’t stand its sheer predictability.”[10]”
Silly cow. Also an opinion formed from little research,but likely to be more accurate than any of hers.