If you were in any doubt about what we’re up against when it comes to developing Scottish football, former St Mirren chairman, Stewart Gilmour’s incoherent rant in one of today’s newspapers, that Peter Lawwell is running Scottish football, paints a clear picture for you.
Peter Lawwell’s club, your club, PAYS for Scottish football. Fans of this club pour millions into the bank accounts of others from Dingwall to Kilmarnock. Those same clubs earn TV money and trackside advertising to viewers who tune in to see that very same club play football.
Each SPFL and SFA member club has only one vote, and Peter Lawwell is out-voted and frustrated on many issues. What he brings to the table is experience of the game, business, commercial contracts, risk and strategy that no one else in our game has ever enjoyed.
He will be the person who brings evidence-based insight into the value of our game’s commercial properties. This is not because Peter Lawwell is some unassailable guru, he simply has experience of running a business which is greater in depth and scope than anyone else in the history of Scottish football. The fair-minded acknowledge this and are thankful for it.
If your skillset is more suited to a bowling club committee than a business turning over tens of millions of pounds, and you have an unfortunate attitude towards Celtic representatives, all this might rub you up the wrong way.
You may think the last person you want illuminating Scottish football is some educated ******. Believe me, these attitudes persist in our game.
Gilmour, you will remember, was in charge of St Mirren when Charles Green (then the darling of Ibrox), was invited to New St Mirren Park for a Celtic game. They all wanted a piece of Peter then, but there was no courtesy offered from the Celtic contingent on the day.
This is a call to arms by those who want to encourage clubs to obstruct Celtic in every way possible. Peter Lawwell is their bogeyman. They are still sore that they didn’t turnover Celtic (and the rest of Scottish football) in 2012, and they blame Peter for not getting what they wanted.
Now there is a fresh reality to worry about: Celtic making their own way in the world, with the consent of Scottish football. Others will find their place in the game, while one club would wither on the vine without Celtic to feed off.
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THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD
It was Blondie/Television at the Apollo canny mind who Penetration played with..
A wee while ago now!
HH
anybody know which rare disease martin mcguinness has
16 Roads
Barney the Purple Dinosaur for me.
Trump’s quiff is far too bigly to be real.
I demand a recount:)
Neo-Bolsheviks….The mind boggles,….Bolsheviks in this day and age, are you sure its not Trotskyists?
HH
MARGARET MCGILL on 19TH JANUARY 2017 7:40 PM
I think that’s true. Phineas T Barnum.
Starry Plough
Sure they were touring together, however as you say, many moons ago now, in fact Marquee Moons.
Great track.
HH
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD
That album is never far away from my decks, great to see one of their tunes turn up in Mr Robot:))
I don’t remember seeing Television more than once tho’ great double at the Apollo with Blondie..
BSR
Thanks for the BR press conference. Brendan polished, polite and in complete control as ever. They actually sound timid and insecure when asking him questions. Which I like.
16 ROADS – CELTIC ÜBER ALLES… on 19TH JANUARY 2017 8:22 PM
‘The people have spoken,’
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Yeah, explain just how that worked again.
Could have been with the Buzzcocks the time before they played with Joy Division??
Formed in Ferryhill as The Points under which name they played their first gig at the Rock Garden pub in Middlesbrough in October 1976,[8][9] they changed the band’s name after a 1973 song by Iggy & The Stooges. Their second gig was supporting The Stranglers at Newcastle City Hall.[10] Significantly, the band also played at the now-legendary punk club The Roxy during its first 100 days. On 9 April 1977, the band appeared on the same bill as Generation X.[11] Early in their career, the band also supported The Vibrators and toured with the Buzzcocks.[10]
I saw Penetration at the Potterrow Students Union in Edinburgh around 1977 or 1978 but can’t remember who they were supporting, might have been The Ramones, but the state I was in it might have been Danny Kaye for all I know.
TGM – Same old Leftists in all their various guises – the disciples of Karl Marx never went away, and were never defeated, they simply continue to reinvent themselves.
The professors and lecturers in the universities and colleges – the people who gave us today’s social justice warriors – young folk with purple hair whom won’t eat eggs because they are “baby chicks”, yet fight for abortion on demand because unborn children are “just a bunch of cells.”
I eagerly await the latest BBC Trump story :
“Donald Trump Ate My Hamster! ”
Politician put live pet in Sandwich.
Give us peace for God’s sake.
HH.
Starry Plough
Marquee Moon…Adventure….and the come back album
Still listen to them.
Call Mr Lee on the comeback album….serious guitar work.
Earphones on…Full Blast.
Love Television, Brilliant they are.
HH
What?
We have misogynistic tax evading racist admirers on a Celtic blog
Ah Old Firm blog
I gettit
16 Roads
Im joking of course.
Im above all that silly ideology.
Its all total nonsense.
Left, Right, Center….Political slavery.
HH
Ernie Lynch – I believe that same nefarious elements murdered John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the Coup d’état of November 1963.
You see the Leftist chameleons are now championing the CIA and other so-called intelligence agencies.
Yes.
Communists/Marxists are defending the CIA.
That was the final straw – beyond parody and hypocrisy they are.
Agitate.
Agitate is the most important word in the Marxist dictionary – we have witnessed it on this blog, all week – agitate and disrupt.
HH.
Fantastic day for Shay today and his family, as Hoopy came visiting to their house
https://www.facebook.com/walkwithshay/posts/1119121964863641?notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic¬if_id=1484856889531574
This all came about after Hoopy saw a picture on Twitter of Shay in hospital over Christmas cuddling his own little hoopy for company, and asked if he could visit Shay.
HH
CRC
16 Roads
Id guillotine them all. In a democratic manner of course.
But be rest assured, there will be no favorites when the Surrealist/Anarchists(Me) take over:)
They will all get it fairly:)
HH
Heaven’s tae Betsy next we’ll be seeing stories about Donald Trump cutting off old Scottish ladies water, oh hold on….
TGM – It’s Logical :
https://youtu.be/4YxTa1AUqps
HH.
I’VEHADTOCHANGEMYNAME
There are various rumours circulating here on what ails Martin Mc G none of which I want to repeat here.
If he had wanted them made public then we would all know for sure.
But as we dont then this is obviously a private matter and not proper material for a public forum.
HH
TGM
Tom Verlaine could play.
Just stuck Television on loud.
Hope you are well buddy. Gimme a shout when Pat is up and I will join you on Byres Road for a coffee.
HH
We also have misogynistic tax evading, murdering, lying, theivin, racist admirers on a Celtic blog
DD
How’s it going bud.
Will do.
Tom Verlaine&Richard LLoyd guitar interplay…brilliant
HH
SFTB
Very good
Did you do that on the cuff?
If so I’m very impressed
TURD
Total Utter Racist Richard
MWD
respect his space – get it clinko, will pray for him anyway
16 Roads
“No amount of gurning on here is going to change that, same as thon Brexit thing – It’s over,done, finished. The people have spoken, accept the result of the plebiscite,move on and give us all peace.”
Aye, terrible so it is?
Remind me again who was that liberal elitist Marxist who was complaining about the election process all through the campaign and, on the eve of the election itself, threatened to go to the Supreme Court to get the result overturned?
That’s the trouble with the milksops in the modern alt-right. The master race is full of cry babies who cannot even thole an observation about the miniscule size of his money and pussy grabbing paws.
The master race is in trouble – too much in-breeding and not enough miscegenation. They all end up as chinless wonders with erectile dysfunction.
This is why the huns are in the state they are in, haven’t laughed as much for a while
Kieran Tierney and Barrie McKay
With copious paper talk about Kieran Tierney and a stunning ten million quid move to Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United in the last few days there has to be an increasing sense that England’s big clubs are beginning to see Scotland as a talent pool worth dipping into.
Here’s the thing: Tierney, good player though he undoubtedly is, isn’t the big Tuna, the most exciting player in this wee pond of ours.
That title belongs to Rangers Barrie McKay.
Let’s put Tierney’s qualities into context. Scotland has had a decent record of producing full-backs over the years, he isn’t even the best we have in that slot with Hull’s Andrew Robertson the best of the current crop. In short, he’s just another from the shelf.
Rangers’ Barrie McKay skips past Celtic’s Mikael Lustig
McKay on the other hand is a ‘tanner ba’ player of the type we rarely see anymore.
Technically he’s the best young player Rangers have produced since Barry Ferguson and the best I’ve seen in the Scottish game this season. He glides with the ball, moving past players effortlessly with his low centre of gravity and agility key attributes. He has a wonderful range of passing, his first touch is exquisite and his slight frame masks an explosive shot as Craig Gordon will testify.
Primarily used by Warburton as in inverted winger, the notion persists that over time he will develop into a fully formed and deadly number 10 for club and country.
With only a year and a half left on his deal, it would be tantamount to dereliction of duty for the Rangers board to allow the lad to wind down his contract. A new deal an absolute must, both in a playing and business sense.
For Rangers to close the gap with Celtic the must be able to realise the full potential of their playing assets.
With Celtic in a position where they can sit tight and rebuff anything that isn’t top dollar, Rangers must not allow themselves to become an exploited feeder club to the English market being caught hook, line and sinker.
Kieran Tierney at Lennoxtown on Monday morning
Regardless of whom you believe is the bigger talent, the case of Tierney and McKay is one of accidental heroes and that should be the biggest wake-up call for Scottish football.
There was no grand plan for these two to emerge as they have. Tierney came through under conditions of necessity after transfer moves failed to reach fruition and McKay was on the road to nowhere after a series of unsuccessful loan moves when Mark Warburton arrived to save the day.
Theirs is a tale of what can happen when coaches are brave enough to expose talented young Scottish players to first team football. Surely their story stands as testament to the best way to reel in the big English bucks to the small pond of Scottish football.
Maggie
Fraid so- quickly knocked off- did not bother too much with rhyme or scansion. I leave that to the talented guys like Matt Stewart.
16 Roads
Seriously though.
American Marxists?
Id be surprised if there any Bolsheviks or Trotskyists still alive….1917 was quite a long time ago.
But…they must be a good age by now.
HH
Donald Trump being sworn in,could not give a toss.If we can live through two of the richest,dumbest,took the world into two Mid East wars,presidents,then I am sure we can all survive DTs presidency.
Celtic are back on Sunday,that is more important to me.I have no influence on how America votes,or has voted,so why would I get hot and bothered by who they want as their President.Its called democracy.Their choice.
We have got a beauty in Theresa May.Should be more current to the social thinkers on here than whats happening in America.”Brexit”anyone?.
As I said,Sunday cant come quick enough,and I have,against my better judgement,a large wager on Motherwell on Saturday.Win or draw.
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD
American Marxists did they no support Red Menance at the Star Club:))
THE EXILED TIM,
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2 hours ago, TheLoudenTavernier said:
People that think we’d get £5m for him are delusional.
Don’t even get me started on the people quoting higher figures than that.
We’ll get £1m- £2m for him at the most and our board won’t think twice about accepting it.
£2m isn’t actually a bad deal for a player that only turns up a handful of games each season though.
Why talk him down? Talk him up!! He’s worth £5-7m in the current market.
Young, Scottish international, fantastic ability.
There you have it.The dumbest most moronic,gullible cretins ever put on this earth.
From Trumpet to Brexit to Broxit
TGM
Working hard but relaxing now wi my late 70’s guitar hero in my cans. Catchye soon mi amigo.
TV
Turkeybhoy
Us Anarchists loved Brexit and Trump.
Chaos r us.
Ive got at least three thousand custard flans at the ready, anybody comes near me is getting flanned to within an inch of their lives.
Im just waiting to strike:)
HH
DD
Catch up soon bud
HH
TURKEYBHOY on 19TH JANUARY 2017 9:07 PM
There you have it.The dumbest most moronic,gullible cretins ever put on this earth
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So you’ve never visited the USA then?