I asked Archie Macpherson to speak about Jock Stein at CQN11, to mark the 50th anniversary of Jock’s appointment as Celtic manager, and then stayed quiet as he spoke. One of the points he made was that Jock would have a news plan ahead of a big game.
Good news would be held back until a few days before the game, giving fans and players a lift, to ensure maximum impact. Bad news could break at any time, but it would have to fight for column inches. As an operator, he is still worth studying. Celtic should plan to dominate this week’s news accordingly.
Apart from that horrible game away to Legia, Ronny Deila has not been to a sell-out Celtic game in a large stadium, and even that was only 30,000. It’s possible he’s never even played before a large sell-out crowd, so you can be sure he’ll not be short of people telling him what to expect, and how to prepare for Hampden on Sunday.
There are some obvious pitfalls for him to avoid, in particular to ensure his players are not provoked into retaliation, but taking too much advice would be a mistake (will not stop us offering plenty advice). He’s spent all season playing and preparing one way, anything which gets in the way of this will only put him off his game. The manager needs to employ a filter this week, tell everyone he’s got the situation covered and get on with the game.
Loving the way recipients of Rangers EBT loans have been asked about an advert dealing with the consequences of their loans, but are not actually asked about the loans themselves. These guys only agree speak on the understanding they are not asked about their loans, none of which are or will be repaid.
I accept that if the loan recipient is being asked about yesterday’s charity match, or some other football game, there’s no place to ask him about his loan, but these guys are regularly commenting on the consequences of their loans, without ever having to deal with the awkward question.
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I see Kenny Dalglish has said in the Sun (I didny buy it) that the ra88ers are the same club.
So get over it ya bampots!
Mibbes aye…………
Zbyszek
Of course we remember the victims . Remembering doesnt mean much when we(Poland UK US etc) are supporting Europes new fascists in the Ukraine. Its a sad and dangerous time.
TheLurkinTim
A draftee is a draughtsman. Didn’t you say you were an out of work draughtsman?
Bamboo 9:13
I answered your claim and said why Putin was not invited? He was not in invited because he did not want to come.
Auschwitz was not liberated by Russia. Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army , that means soldiers whose nationality was Russian, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Latvian etc…even Polish.
TheLurkinTim
09:42 on 27 January, 2015
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Yes.
A little bit of anarchy is required here…dont respect those folk who…would sell you out to the anti-Celtic establishment at the drop of a hat.
Withdraw all SB-money and let the directors run the club with their money ie: the billionaires…need a wee message that…the token-mugs…have found their cojones…and will no longer be…mugs!
Sack The Kow-towing Directors.
hoop hoop hooray
09:39 on 27 January, 2015
For anyone who ever doubted Alex Rae wasnt the sharpest tool in the box….
Alex Rae, who won the league with the club in 2006, said: “Listen, that’s just provoking things. If that’s what they get their kicks from on the day, maybe it will take away from their performance. Good luck to them.
“Rangers, over the years, have tried to conduct themselves in the right manner, with a bit of dignity, so it’s not important what they do. What is important is how we conduct ourselves.”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
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What a muppet.
I thought we won the title in 2006? More expert reporting from the Herald.
…oot.
KevJungle – MO’N the Celts
09:42 on 27 January, 2015
scullybhoy
09:40 on 27 January, 2015
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Again…it’s rather simple…be a mug…or don’
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I am with you Kev!!!! How do we vet these new Celtic members?
Do you have to be rebellious?
Do you have to be of an Irish gackground?
Do you have to be of a Catholic background?
Gosh it’s hard to determine Celtic minded Kev. We need more direction and we could get the revolution started before the weekend.
Murray in tie-break for 2nd set and is 1 set up.
kitalba
09:47 on 27 January, 2015
TheLurkinTim
A draftee is a draughtsman. Didn’t you say you were an out of work draughtsman?
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yep, nice catch lurker…..that wiz before CAD made all us artisans equal…..;-))
H.H.
Zybszek
the point I’m trying to make is that the lessons of Auschwitz have not been learned when we are now supporting the fascists in the Ukraine. And of course thats the real reason Putin is not invited.
Kevj,
are you a sticky…..don’t you know how businesses are run? You want to interrupt a good equity stream and give the bored another excuse to ” downsize ” ……genius…..gies a brek…..;-))
H.H.
Murray takes 2nd set. 2-0.
TheLurkinTim:
CAD has been the norm for more than 30 years, where have you been hiding :-) which platforms do you use, you might be able to help me out?
Tom,
And has serve in the third.
The Baw is in his court :)
Mike Ashley is showing that you don’t have to have too many shares to control a club, whatever the SFA says.
Increased loan, security over everything but Ibrox and a bigger share of the retail profits – looks like he has them over the proverbial barrel.
Interestingly the statement says that “The Company’s financial condition has been perilous for a number of months exacerbated by lower than expected match attendances” So it’s all the fans fault then.
Also, “The Facility is to be secured by (1) a floating charge over the Club’s assets … ”
So the assets belong to the club? Why, it almost sounds like the club and the company are the same thing.
Geordie Munro –
Two breathtaking lobs from Andy in tie-breaker, the second of which was the set-winning point.
Trying to figure out how much this ‘interest-free’ loan is gonna cost the huns,assuming it is not paid back until 20/21,as suggested in the statement.
Six years of losing 26% of the profit from their retail,and four years of shirt sponsorship given away. I’m none the wiser on how much that amounts to,but an interest-free loan it ain’t.
Time for my morning constitutional,Guinness awaits.
zbyszek et al,
today is a big day for so many people not just in Poland but across the world due to the impact Auschwitz and the other “camps” had on millions of innocents and their extended families. These camps remain an eternal reminder as to the depravities and horrors that mankind is capable of perpetrating on itself. As others have said before Never forget!
Have to admit that until i read Lauren Binet’s “HHhH” i had not really heard of Reinhard Heydrich, or his role as the architect of the “Final Solution”. Evil personified, not only because of the Jewish issue, but the atrocities he initiated and was responsible for in Czechoslovakia.
I would recommend that anyone reads HHhH. A fantastic book, although at times Binets little foibles can be a tad annoying. However the book is excellent.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
It is obvious that The Rangers are not in a position to issue a security against Ibrox.
So who really owns the stadium?
Zbyszek
Thoughts and prayers for all victims. I have never been to Auschwitz but have seen the horrific reality at Belsen, which lives forever in the mind. Hail Hail to you Sir.
The additional 26% on the retail, the shirt sponsorship, the fixed charges on Murray Park are all minutiae.
There is only one way to make money from the Sevco franchise, there has only ever been one way to make money from the Sevco franchise, a substantial annual rent to use Ibrox.
Watch the floating charge that is on ALL assets…….
TTT.
Noted.
hanks for the recommendation, I’ll give the book a look.
I visited Dachau and the experience was incredible.
HH.
kitalba
09:59 on 27 January, 2015
TheLurkinTim:
CAD has been the norm for more than 30 years, where have you been hiding :-) which platforms do you use, you might be able to help me out?
TheLurkinTim:
CAD has been the norm for more than 30 years, where have you been hiding :-) which platforms do you use, you might be able to help me out?
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if it’s 30 years, i must have been ten…..seriously, I’ve moved on…..last good job was with the MITIE Group….. usual & lone working out-of-hours running property services contract, security control room, BT cleaning contract, machine repairs…..& everything and everything…..;-))
H.H
needajobCSC
Tom,
Braw.
I had to leave it at half 9 so I’m now relying on mobile updates.
The ozzy looked good but clueless if you know what I mean. Bags of potential.
This reply to Andy devlin made me smile
https://twitter.com/AidsRegs/status/560015460436283393/photo/1
Oops soz for the repetition…..school boy error…..;-))
H.H.
Seen this documentary a while ago. Nazi propaganda film about Warsaw ghetto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYqgGzK4OLc
ohhh and
GOOOOOOOOOD Morning all.
Away to catch up :)))
3-2 Murray. Aussie to serve.
Tom McLaughlin
10:08 on
27 January, 2015
“It is obvious that The Rangers are not in a position to issue a security against Ibrox.
So who really owns the stadium?”
The plan was always to have it look like they had backed down from taking security over Ibrox and just took Murray Park instead, and it worked a treat. If they had said that they were going after Murray Park right away then that would have been the focus of those against it. To include Ibrox in the initial plan took away all the resistance to security over Murray Park as those against that were side roaded into thinking they had won. Ibrox is just another step, somewhere further down the line por cierto.
Morning all
I read the entries on Auschwitz with great interest. I have never been and nor have i been to any of the other camps. I remember as a child of 11 or 12 seeing footage of the liberation of the camps on the World at War and have never been quite as horrified by anything since.
I read Primo Levi’s If This Is A Man which is the Italian author’s memoir of his year in the camps which I would recommend to everybody.
More recently I read Falada’s alone in Berlin which is the fictionslised account of a minor act of resistance of two Berliners. Not about the Holocaust at all but as good an account of life in Nazi Germany as I have read. Not so much the banality of evil as the quiet creeping insanity of it.
Jimbo67
Just looked at BBC website and see the sevcovians are further emboiled with a load shark. And there’s that word “quantum” again! Oh, the laughs we’ve had over the past few years…! :-))))
QuantumOfSolaceCFC
Ziggydoc,
why would we watch a Nazi Propaganda film…..;-((
H.H.
Just on this Sevco deal this morning
In essence Big Mike has everything except Ipox for just £2mil?
Loaned £5mil today but repaid £3mil + £1.6mil in a dividend?
He’s no dummy lol
Perhaps this deal this morning gives him preferred creditor status as well?
I didn’t ask for your life story, I only asked which platforms used to draught on. :-)
but it seems you never did, so I don’t think you’d be able to help me.
Tom McLaughlin
“It is obvious that The Rangers are not in a position to issue a security against Ibrox.
So who really owns the stadium?”
Don’t worry bud, The Herald or The Scotsman will have top people on this very question any time now. Top people.
Good to see not one, but at least two “Celtics” shirts at the Aussie Open. Andy Murray doing well, two sets up and just broke opponent’s serve to go 4-2 up in third set.