Our man on the inside, Charlie Green, seems to have upset a few people over the weekend. Charlie was playing to the gallery with his “bigotry” comment; it is not credible that the 35 clubs who voted against providing Sevco access to an elevated league are demographic significantly different from those of Rangers (1872/3). Although, there is a good chance that each of those 35 clubs will have a more mixed profile than the former club.
Green is still fending off interest from people with far greater pull with the Rangers (1872/3) support than he has (genuinely hope he succeeds here). He needs to sell tens of thousands of tickets to prevent his new club slipping into the hands of one of the other consortiums still trying to buy a piece of the action. I always caution Celtic from playing to the gallery, it delivers short term populism but is surely the alternative to a strategic plan. I am sure several clubs will express their alarm at these comments to the SFA.
Unfortunately, since the SFA failed to take action on either of Ally McCoist’s earlier inflammatory outbursts so they can expect more of the same from Green and others.
Attempts are being made to convince thousands of people a bigoted bogeyman has been out to get them. 99% of the target population will do no more than complain loudly but it’s the unpredictable >1% who exist in every community we should be concerned about.
To the best of my knowledge no Scottish club has ever accused others of bigotry, not even during ‘that’ 80 year period. If this is the new acceptable standard, the SFA are welcome to it, but it will be better for all if we go elsewhere to play our football. Our game has been potent for a century but it has now become dangerously unstable.
Let us go now, before this is whipped up any more. Anyone wanting to hold Scottish football together in its current form has a lot of explaining to do.
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Two year grace that is. Never !!
HH
Mixed feelings re RTC’s retirement.
I believed his blog was the perfect complement to CQN and Phil MacG’s blogs.
The former, a declared Celtic supporter’s view,was more broad based and, perhaps, more forensic.
He obviously had access to information that was not being exposed to public scrutiny.
That he was able to draw on contributions from supporters of other clubs,and people with specialised knowledge, added to the quality of his blog.
The self policing of the blog was of the standard that this blog once had and any prolonged deviation from his main topic was quickly halted.
My underlying impression is that he/she is aware of the end game and that the blog has fullfilled it’s objective.
I hope that is the case, as, at face value, the MSM will be breathing a sigh of relief at being ” relieved of this troublesome blogger”.
Please stay vigilant, RTC, because it is not over till it’s over.
Paddy Gallagher on 30 July, 2012 at 23:23 said:
LOL………NIGHT ALL…,!!!
Bloke109 on 30 July, 2012 at 23:32 said:
Nae probs. There is only wan Aw Naw :)
Good evening fholks. im taking my dear old dad to the game on wed and he is a pensioner does he qualify for a concession ticket ? Thanks in advance. HH
Jude
Im no shrimp :p ive just Haddock enough ;-)
HH
I think sumdae shld tell whyte they invented bigotry!!
B B
Ah trout that!!?
Aw naw …hadn’t linked the Berlinger link at all ,no doubt there will be more I, has ole Albertz been quiet of late ?
The FTT findings will be provide so much but I have serious doubts about the reaction to it with impending SNP independence referendum and its implications outwith football,I have a feeling there will be a marked desire to bury it somehow ASAP ….however there is always the Internet bampots hh
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on 30 July, 2012 at 23:48 said:
So I’m grateful for the two year absence of unfairness not playing that mob will bring, but when they are back what is to stop them carrying on as normal?
Cant see that happening Auldheid.
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What bit? Being back or carrying on as normal?
If you mean they will not return to their former “strength” and will not have the same influence I would agree, but I’m not for taking any chances as long as Campbell Ogilve is there.
Even if he had no involvement integrity demands he goes.
sorry for short notice
totally forgot
triathlon tomorrow (Tues) morn 1130hrs
lasts about 1hr50mns
one of the best events of ye olde olympics
this year (not that i’m fussed) 2 english brothers goin for gold
one of them is world champ, i think
aside from all the gb nonsense, this truly is a smashin event
hope its a good one this time too
hawd the bus !!
triathlon is NEXT tuesday
woops
sorry about that
is this the calm before the storm or is the storm over, its funny how things seem to quiet down when AlexT is not on the case
Johan
Albertz has not been revealed as an EBT beneficary yet.
HH
Henrik was, is, and always will be world class in this or any known universe.
T4- Seen him at CP about ’91,unbelievable live.
Sad to see RTC pullin’ down the shutters.
Maybe The Big Tax Asteroid coming soon ?
reminds me of somethin…
David Wall @1DavidWall
Ranieri starts his new challenge @ Monaco with a 4-0 win. They spent 2.5 times more than the 19 other Ligue 2 sides put together this summer
Following on from Brogan’s earlier ‘O;ympic sex’ article, you might want to check this out…
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/29/sexiest_olympics_ever/?utm_hp_ref=women&ir=Women
Knobheid on Beeb comparing atmospheres at the swimming today to `other’ great sporting venues atmospheres. He said that Anfield on a European night was the best he has seen.
Take it hasnae crossed the border to Hoopland then?
narrowmindscsc
TopC…,
one small detail, Monaco is a tax free srate, so a bit different I think, innit geez
and state
I expect Fergus to win that Monaco argument any day now.
Just watched ‘Holding On’, a BBC drama series from 1997, on Virgin on-demand. One of the characters, played by David Morrissey, was called Sean Southern. And guess his job. HMRC official, probing a wealthy company. ‘A company that avoids tax and tells us about its charitable pusuits. Me, I prefer charities such as hospitals and schools.’
Hope the latterday, and real, Sean Southern has a bit to say this week or very soon. More to come on the whole story.
paddy gallagher, bundoran bhoy et al
Sorry to er, s-pike the fish related punmeistry, but I do like to knock people off their perch. The lesser trophy is not sponsored by Harry Ramsdens the chipper, but even more appropriately, Ramsdens the pawnbrokers.
http://www.scottishfootballleague.com/news/article/ramsdens-sponsor-the-challenge-cup/
Pawnbrokers, not prawnbrokers, by the way. No more codding about.
“Art of War on 31 July, 2012 at 00:21 said:
Knobheid on Beeb comparing atmospheres at the swimming today to `other’ great sporting venues atmospheres. He said that Anfield on a European night was the best he has seen.”
Maybe he was there the night we horsed them out of UEFA en route to Sevilla.
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 on 30 July, 2012 at 22:23 said:
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As always,brilliant.
HH!
Greene is here to make money, nothing else, and the Celtic board know this.
He is now playing the bigoted hand, which one would expect from someone who wants to attract the bigoted pound, so as a business man who can blame him, money is king in his eyes.
We as Celtic fans can chill, if I had to pick someone to follow our agent whyte to be in charge of the Phoenix club, it would be this man.
Sit back and think of how you would feel if he was in charge of our club……. Just think……. I get a really warm feeling that he is not, and that he is where he is, we couldn’t have planned it better…..think about it.
Art of War
Much prefer your description – it’s Oliver Holt of the Mirror, a regular on Sunday Supplement on Sky Sports. He’s also son of Emily Bishop from Corrie. I know. Fascinating :-)
Bhoys,
A few weeks ago on here I wrote about John McClelland and Michael Russell. One of you replied about Russell’s Lodge membership and, if memory serves, an interesting snippet about his admiration for the old Orange Walk as a ‘tradition’. If there is a link to a story about this, could somebody please post it as I am researching on that topic at the moment.
Cheers.
HH
The bould b`hoys….. Tá ár lá anois..!!! on 30 July, 2012 at 23:39
The games a bogey, I’ve just seen the photo of the pair of clowns who made the draw for the Ramsden Cup. Smith’s got a ping pong ball up his sleeve. “Remember Smudger; we’re last oot the bowl, we huvny goat the keys fur the big hoose yet.” – Nae bother Sandy, gie them a good rummle.”
Smoke and mirrors again?
from Finnish media
an article by Mixu Put A Line On
translated via Google Translate
gobildy gook but general gist of it is that big Mixu is giving HJK the low-down
as one might expect…
At the outset, it should be noted that the Celtic has left the club. The club is a great stadium and training center, and it meets the conditions and everything else, all the top external monitoring of standards. Stadium to draw 60 000 spectators and is in nearly every match full of spectators – and the fanatical ones. Most of the games that people would be much more, if only to fit into the auditorium.
Celtic gameplay is not the same as a number of years ago, Martin, O’Neill under Strachan and Gordon. The player is now a smaller budget and it shows in the fact that the very top names in the team does not currently exist. In such an attack is not Celtic which historically have been used. A few years ago, yet the team fought the Champions League playoffs, last season it was only through the back door lohkovaiheeseenkin Sion because of ambiguities. This describes the situation pretty well.
Celtic in crisis is of course not. It’s a good club, whose economy is in good condition. Now, in the summer, they are not invested in the new players virtually no as yet. Then it is due to the fact that the blood dropped into the enemy rangers triplet div? Celtic champions of Scotland can be quite a bit for granted, and now the club should invest specifically in Europe, because it wants to succeed there, and the success of the euro requires investments in airports. Perhaps the procurement is yet to come.
Nervousness?
Celtic pre-season has also gone much worse than anybody could have hoped. The team has won only one of six to their game, and it is something completely different than what is customary in the Celtic. In recent bout played for Celtic though equally and with Inter’s manager Neil Lennon after the match it was a very happy, and he saw in the right direction. Lennon also stressed that the team has trained hard and prepared for the season and the training games, the results are irrelevant. Yes they are, however, the importance of a clear and a little nervousness in the air.
If you think of the future, then a match, so if HJK to start well and is able to keep the ball – right from the start makes it clear that the couple is no match for Celtic ylikävelyjuttu nothing – so I think that the players and the spectators gallery on the ground pretty quickly start to get nervous. That’s a nervousness in the air still feeds this. And if that happens, it may have a big role in the outcome.
Own stable in my experience, against Celtic is not worth too much to leave peruuttelemaan. Particularly if they receive a Celtic Parkilla retracts and provides for the game management Celtic then ride on the board is cold and is often 3-0 -, or 4-0-end of the numbers match. Celtic on the other hand does not like it, that hold the ball to the opponent’s home board, even if it is downright good chances to score could not create. This is definitely something that HJK’s worth paying attention to.
Weak point of defense
Celtic weak links can be found today definitely defense. Stopper is not very fast in order for their ha ball can be played. Subscribe to the defense can be found otherwise, and may even keep the ball in the attacking zone bravely held. When you put the kits are still rising strongly, as the Celtic defense to create more holes in the sides.
Celtic midfield and attack are the subjects, rather than strong. Central Field in the center of Scott Brown and Victor Wanyama are very versatile box-to-box players. Both parts as well as to defend the attack. Right-hand side may be seen a young James Forrest, which is time-sided got a very fast. If you let him turn with the ball, gets busy. Pelannee Giorgios Samaras left, below which is a good Championship Greek shirt. He is a big, good heading players that will create places for themselves and finishes.
Tip of the first options are: Anthony Stokes and Gary Hooper. Hooper is a quick player and a good maalinedustalla when Stokes in turn, is more the recipient and distributor of the ball. Stokes was on the match on his ankle, however, the team and we’ll see if he can play. The same applies to Kris Commons, which also hurt ankle. If the Commons is a game in order, he could reach the edge of an opening bid.
All in all Celtic is in any case remains a big club and the team is good. The pouring of a hard task for anyone, but by no means impossible.
Mixu Paatelainen
http://yle.fi/urheilu/mixu_hjklla_iso_muttei_mahdoton_tehtava/6235089
TopCorner on 31 July, 2012 at 01:26 said:
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Reading that,I wondered if I might indeed be drunk without realising it…..
: > )
Top Corner
Brilliant. Mixu never was one for the insightful analysis, hence his appearances on Sportscene. Good find.
TopCorner
I think we should all type like that.
7th July – FC Inter Of Finland 2 HJK 0 (inter are top of table by 2pts after 19 games now) 10min vid…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5xAHms_Qg&feature=player_embedded
haha
i liked how Google Translate converted this bit…
“Then it is due to the fact that the blood dropped
into the enemy rangers triplet div”
weird !!
off to bed
evening all
:)
Morning from oz and its a rare sight here in perh..rain all morning.
Gutted I won’t see game on Wednesday night but can’t wait for Saturday.
No need for James Vaughan. Tony watt shall do