How not to stage a flashmob protest

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If you’re going to stage a protest it’s better to make sure that it registers where it counts.  Turning up at a Sports Direct till with a pile of tracksuits, then only offering £1 for their purchase, might echo the transaction Mike Ashley completed for the naming rights of Ibrox, but if the tycoon even gets to hear about the so-called flashmob protest he’s likely to pity the forsaken attempt to undermine him.

Ashley has invested around a couple of million in Newco Rangers but it’s pin money for him, which he can easily afford to gamble with.  He is also not afflicted with any emotional attachment to Newco, or pretty much anything else, it seems.  In short, this is a guy ‘Rangers’ fans can’t lay a glove on.  They would be far better to figure this out and start to deal with the reality than provoke an unwelcome response.

Neither Ashley nor the Easdale brothers strike me as people who will be easily cowed or bullied into forgoing the rights they have purchased, while others, including thousands of fans, kept their hands in their pockets.  The many genuine fans who are distraught at the humiliating mess Newco has become have been led up the garden path by would-be sages.

Africa

The world is paying a little more attention than usual to the many problems in Africa at the moment but I heard one authoritative voice last week suggest that ebloa is only around the third or fourth most severe problem the continent faces.

But, things are getting better in large swathes of the continent, thanks to improving governance in some areas, better infrastructure, more widely available healthcare, and more children, especially girls, given access to education.

20 people from Celtic Foundation are in Malawi building classrooms and toilets at the moment, while CQN’ers built three school kitchens there this year (more on the soon), but sometimes these many parallel developments conflict.

One such occasion is the John Bande Foundation School in Blantyre, Malawi, which through Mary’s Meals is supported by the Noreen Davies Hikers & Bikers, a group of people from Lanarkshire and Glasgow.  The Hikers and Bikers support a feeding programme at the school, which makes it possible for kids to attempt the school, instead of working for food.  It’s a mature project but the recent building of a motorway right on the edge of the school property has made the building dangerous; learning and feeding is no longer possible.

The Noreen Davies people are raising money to erect three new buildings.  You can read more of the story here, with pictures of the school and road.  If you can give them a £1 or two, do so here.

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  1. hamiltontim

     

     

    21:12 on 11 October, 2014

     

     

    What’s wrong with some of our fans these days, there is not one hun dead or alive fit enough to ware the hoops and there never will be , Naismith better than what we’ve got ffs I give up HH

  2. BGX,

     

    I used to do the Savoy on a Monday night to get all

     

    the Monday bookers that had it as their night out,

     

    plenty growlers about in those days

  3. Delaneys,

     

    how long have you been drinking in the HandB

     

    since Jim B ran it?

     

    do you know TCRs brother in law

  4. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    gordybhoy64

     

     

    23:58 on 11 October, 2014

     

    BGX,

     

    I used to do the Savoy on a Monday night to get all

     

    the Monday bookers that had it as their night out,

     

    plenty growlers about in those days

     

    …..

     

    Were the Clydebank lassies no good enough? ;-)

  5. Gordybhoy64..bet they said the same about you..(laughing)….ma uncle (RIP) used to say.”the ugly wans hiv gotta get it aswell’..

     

    Glad a that or id still be a ……

     

    Tryer lol

  6. TCR,

     

    No on a Monday,

     

    Friday ,Saturday aye,

     

    sunday was the Brazen head and the Maltings,

     

    Monday was the Savoy,

     

    me and Mr C,party animals

  7. The Original Sadie’s Bhoy..

     

     

    Hiya, Teach?

     

     

    Nice tae Greet ye..as alwiz.

     

     

    Popped in.. fur Ma usual.. Five Minuter.

     

     

    Thanks , Fur the Nod.. Much Appreciated.. Ah’m sure.

     

     

    Wan Week.. Tae go.. Near enuff.. Afore We See the Bhoys in Action.

     

     

    Ah hate.. Well.. Yes.. Ah HATE..

     

     

    These..Cockamamie International Breaks.. !!!

     

     

    So ..they tell me. that Broonie, gave Scotland.. A Man of the Performance

     

    in this Latest Confronto agin the Georgians.

     

     

    Well.. Whoop tae Dae!

     

     

    Ah hope he Manages tae Duplicate it.. Agin the Ross Countiers.

     

     

    But.. Ah fear that Ah wull be askin fur the.. IMPOSSIBLE.

     

     

    Fur.. We don’t Play in a Jersey that is Blue.

     

     

    Anyway, Ah wull vet his Performance fur us ..in that Upcoming Game..in the Highlands… n..gie ye

     

     

    a Report oan it.

     

     

    Yes.. if ye think that Ah dinnae Cotton too Much tae Broonie..

     

     

    Ye wull be Deid Right!

     

     

    Canny wait.. until his Contract runs oot.

     

     

    Nice Chatting.. Pal.. as evah

     

     

    Kojo

     

    Still ,Laughin

     

     

    Gotta , Run.. .Son

     

     

    See ya.

  8. BGX,

     

    easy tiger,the only hope was that you got the better looking one,

     

    seemed like every good looking lassie had an ugly pal

  9. We have 2 sets of supporters.

     

    Those who will cheer any old pish.

     

    And those who have watched the quality of football decline

     

    to the point that we are getting beat by Hamilton at CP.

     

    Unacceptable.

     

    Time for change.

  10. Tricoloured Ribbon

     

     

     

     

    00:02 on

     

     

    12 October, 2014

     

     

     

     

    gordybhoy64

     

     

    Were the Clydebank lassies no good enough? ;-)

     

     

    *as a former St Pats FP I truly loved the Notre Dame Bankie lassies.

  11. that is a really unfortunate name for a Cyclone…..HudHud….

     

     

    a hope they all stay safe …

     

     

    braw

  12. Gordybhoy ..

     

    ..thank the lord for ugly pals…god bless them all. And the ones to come…(in the best possible way).

  13. Just seen a clip from the rugby league,

     

    one guy lands 2 fierce punches to anothers face,

     

    one when he is lying on the ground,

     

    at what point does this stop being sport and become

     

    plain and simple assault

  14. Delaneys,

     

    just wondered if I might have bumped into you at any point,

     

    I went to Cyprus with Jim B for a ROI qualifier a few years ago,

     

    TCRs brother in law also went to a world cup with him

  15. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    tontine tim

     

     

    00:08 on 12 October, 2014

     

    Tricoloured Ribbon

     

     

    00:02 on

     

     

    12 October, 2014

     

     

    gordybhoy64

     

     

    Were the Clydebank lassies no good enough? ;-)

     

     

    *as a former St Pats FP I truly loved the Notre Dame Bankie lassies..

     

    ……….

     

    Was there a happy outcome there tt??

  16. This time has been coming for a long time.

     

    but we are we being lead by sheep.

     

    History will judge you.

  17. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    gordybhoy64

     

     

    00:22 on 12 October, 2014

     

    TCR you know Stevie,

     

    not much dancing getting done,unless it was on the way to the bar.

     

    ……or dancing wae a bottle in his mitt..

  18. George sq tomorrow….never letting go, never giving up….this is OUR city…this WILL be our COUNTRY….YES YES and YES…

  19. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    gordon64

     

     

    00:29 on 12 October, 2014

     

    Do our board have any cajones ?

     

    Or will they sit at the back of the bus..

     

    ………

     

    In what respect big fella?

  20. Carlsberg don’t do Timmish get togethers……but if they so much as even tried they’d be telt toGTF cos BMCUW does it best.

     

     

    HH Timdom. Peace and love

     

     

    Jamesgang

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