It took until 5th October but Celtic are top of the Scottish Premiership for the first time. The valiant stand by the Highlanders went the way of Culloden but whereas the competition for first place us over for the season, the league has a promising look to it.
The SPL suffered for many years not exclusively because Celtic and Rangers dominated but because those teams who should have been snapping at their heels – the city clubs – were hugely underachieving.
Motherwell have done enormously well finishing ‘best of the rest’ for three years but they are inhibited by being the third best supported team in Motherwell (population 30,311). Their coaching and scouting infrastructure would provide a completely different platform if they were one of the top-flight clubs from Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen.
Below Celtic sit Motherwell, and the other very well run SPFL club, Inverness, but behind them are Aberdeen and Dundee United, who for once sit above the detritus (sorry, Kilmarnock, but you are a terribly run football club) and plucky upstarts (Ross County, from Dingwall, population 5,026). Even Hibs are rallying. They will return to the top half of the table if they beat Partick Thistle tonight.
Of the big city clubs, only Hearts (in Administration) are off the pace, and even their league status is bound to be rescued when Kilmarnock’s name is inevitably written with the accompanying parenthesis.
As we’ve noted here often before, when the Daily Record finally acknowledges the reality Celtic websites have long explained about the Rangers group of clubs, you know it’s too late to do anything about it. Today’s piece in the newspaper confirms what we’ve known for a long time, the white flag has been raised. If they were more circumspect before declaring the unquestionable business acumen of the Ibrox key-holder, at any point over the last 15 years, the spivs would have been unable to fill their boots.
All those fawning pieces simply enabled the misdeeds.
While we are on the topic of enablers, what is the price of loyalty? £825k, apparently.
Congratulations to all who participated in the Great Scottish Run for 1254125. It turned into a great Celtic day with participants ranging from the dedicated athletes to those on the high side of 20st who grabbed the chance to make a different to their own lives, as well as others.
It’s happening again next year, so you have plenty time to get ready. The sooner you start preparing the better.
My sincere thanks to the many people who contributed to the 1254125 MyDonate page I put up on Friday. It now sits at an incredible £935, I’ll leave it up for a few days more to see if we can break into four figures.
Thanks for all your help.
Order Sean Fallon, Celtic’s Iron Man, below.
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Meant to add….aff oot tae collect the wee ghuy fae karate, will check back when back in
HH PC67
PC
My wife has a kindle.
Lives it. Saves a few kilos when flying..
The Big Debate!
Host Jonathan Dimbleby, Richard Dawkins, Prince Philip, Hugh Keevins, and Nacho Novo debate:
“Who will heavyweight (825lb) shareholder (1 000 000 free shares) Ally McOist vote for at the fothcoming RIFC AGM: the disgruntled requisitioners (aka the true blue Rankers men) or the current directors and investors (aka his paymasters) ?”
Loves it too..
Doc is supporting Oscar and McKenzie.20:02:
Cheers mate…thought so.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Wee Hill Billy the Donkey
BSR – that wee donkey needs to lay off the ole Woodbine.
I wonder what the Fife Huns think of Sevco cancelling the live TV game on Saturday.The game is now scheduled for the same night as we play Ajax,I think there is a ban on any live TV games,other than CL games.Karma?
BSR –
Just fantastic, but how on earth do you (regularly) come across these things. I mean, what do you actually search for??
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
From the sidebar,huns discovering that they’ve been duped.
Again.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PpccpglnNf0
Garcia Lorca- the origins of WW1, like most things in life, will turn out to be complicated.
It certainly led to events that would go on to dominate the rest of the 20th century.
Whitecraigs Tim- I emailed Christine Graeme twice and no answer yet- I will follow it up though
!!Bada Bing!! 20:18:
When I pointed this out to somebody today, they wondered if there crowd would be affecred.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
!!Bada Bing!! 20:18:
Who was covering the game?
Brnobhoy
If you have exhausted the courses at Albufera try those at nearby Vilamoura….Pinhal, Millenium and especially Vilasol are all very good. If you are really flush then there is the Victoria where the Portugese Masters is being held this weekend.
Dear Winning Captains,please put my big muckers name on new CQN annual
as he is the shy retiring type who only posts at the weekend when he has had his one
drink of the week……..his name ?? Gordon64
I thank you……haud oan I bought his annual last year ,fekim
The lack of condemnation from CFC re Lasley’s tackle is unacceptable
Our player was assaulted in a vicious tackle and is now sidelined until the New Year
What do we gain from this approach ?
Bad news about Adam Matthews injury.
Lasley is a thug!
Obviously has Sevconian tendencies.
PFayr
Well, it aint friends that’s for sure.
prestonpans bhoys- Lennybhoy-BT Sport were covering the zombies game on Saturday i’m sure,not sure what they would get maybe 20k a Club? A lot of money for Dunfermline to drop,come to think of it……….:}
Jobo
You can find anything whilst Fartick Phistle are on the telly.
BMCUW
I hee hawed
Tet
Seriously why do we behave in this compliant fashion
Id rather we treated the bassas with the contempt they are due
jeromek67
20:29 on 7 October, 2013
Brnobhoy
If you have exhausted the courses at Albufera try those at nearby Vilamoura….Pinhal, Millenium and especially Vilasol are all very good. If you are really flush then there is the Victoria where the Portugese Masters is being held this weekend.
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Thanks I will have a look at those
Cheers
Brnobhoy
VP-Seemingly i have a chapter in the up coming Seville Special,do you want me to sign it,just like you got Willie Wallace to do……..oh wait…..:}
Stairheid/whitecraigs..,
I’ve found the best way to get a response from officinado is to copy in other officinado, so next time you write, include all correspondence and copy in MP/MSP/MEP and anyone else you think might be interested, you are mot obligated to keep the correspondence private even reporters and other watchdogs should be copied in, then watch the replies and justifications for their lack of concern pour in.
Partick Thistle Nil …
The Big Yin knew what he was talking about !
winning captains
19:09 on
7 October, 2013
Going to start compiling the names to run at the bottom of the pages on the CQN Annual. This was very popular last year. So if you want to be included post on CQN at some point over the next few nights – lots of people lurk so why not post instead?
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Winning Captains – please put up Wee BGFC’s name – he will never shut up about it!
No football for a fortnight.
Need to review my collection of Bournesouprecipe clips and Willie Callow videos.
Back for the Hibs game.
Got to love the ole defunct Setanta right enough. It’s only when you are deid that you are able to tell a deid club that they are deid coz the zombies can do anything to you coz you’re already deid.
EC67
….PFayr-I agree with earlier suggestion,sort him out on the park.
Bada
That would be great coming from a hero like yourself….haud oan,big weet
says you only drove the fire engine,,,big charlatan :O)hh
Perhaps the SFA compliance officer can issue a retrospective yellow card against Adam Matthews for leaving the field of play :-(
Ombudsman now theres a copy in, who is the Scottish ombudsman ? Is there one ?
If not them it has to go to London for questions to be answered, aye there is some devolution but in the end they still have to answer to the authority of London as the city police have shown us :o)
PF
I wish I could answer you, I am bemused by their silence on matters like this.
I can understand re the hun debacle, at a stretch, I can understand re the sfa.
But when our players are assaulted with impunity, I can’t understand, there is no rhyme nor reason to it, we gain nothing, and could lose everything.
HH
Lennybhoy,
you have mail pal
Bada
HT still has my book,says he will hand it over when I supply wedding present.
sleekitasweesally C.S.C
” Eurochamps67 ate my Cadbury’s Flake ”
FreddieStarr CSC
That was easy for Gary McAllister to say
BT
Does mrs bt know you posted a comment about her
” loves it too ”
The mind boggles gerry :)