Like many of you, I struggled to get logged on with my Pass to Paradise for the Ross County game yesterday. On the one hand, I was frustrated, but on the other, I had a bit of sympathy for the IT guys, who would have been in the eye of the storm.
Before you deploy a new system, IT will want a trial run to prove that the concept works in the environment. Most commonly, for systems that are a bit leading edge like the one Celtic bought during lockdown to broadcast games, you are likely to stress the infrastructure in ways that the dozen-or -so earlier adopters did not. During the trial, the vendor, not just the customer, will often discover things they did not know.
I’ve been there. Irate customers waiting to buy, while the issue gradually escalates up the customer’s chain of command, with each level of the food chain one telling you how much money this downtime is costing them. “Today is supposed to be the trial” is what you want to say, and it’s the truth, but you bite your tongue, block the noise out and get on with finding the fix. All this happens while you communicate tersely the vendor, without going overboard, because at this moment, you need them more than they need you. Software is not a business for the anxious.
I know it was frustrating, but I thought IT did well to stick the stream onto YouTube and get the login process working before halftime. If only every workaround I’ve been involved with went that smoothly.
Live updates of Celtic v Hibernian will appear below – Pass to Paradise permitting!
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Radio Clyde teaser tonight was to name 10 players who scored for Celtic in and “Old Firm” game.
They forgot the 11th – Terry Butcher
That should be 10 English players
GM- trying to protect the ST Holders possibly?
The pricing surely can’t be cheaper than what ST holders are paying.
TB
one would hope not
To be honest, as a ST holder, I wouldn’t be bothered if games were available on a PPV basis for reasonable cost,say £10 a game. In my opinion, it will only be for a couple of months, not a full season, not everyone can afford a season ticket, or buy one .
Celtic fc twitter “We’ll be running a final test event between the hours of 6pm and 9pm CPT on thursday 30th July.
It’s important that you login during this period to ensure everthing is working before the Hoops season opener on Sunday
By the way I thought we got the best out of wee Dembelle when he played in the middle behind the strikers..not out wide……we saw his genuine match skill and vision..the wee bhoy is going all the way for me.
LENNYBHOY on 27TH JULY 2020 5:45 PM
Thanks D, we are fine. Also thanks for the info.
Do you think the Couponeers will reassemble soon?😉
From Pie and Bovril … PPV Latest By Club
Motherwell £12.00
Dundee Utd £12.50
Kilmarnock £12.50
St.Mirren £12.50
St.Johnstone £17.50
Livingston £20.00
Hibernian £Game by Game
Aberdeen £TBA
Ross County £TBA
Hamilton No update yet
Celtic No update yet
Rangers No update yet
‘re Fraser Forster.
thanks for your contribution to our 9IAR season as a loan player.never to be forgotten.
I wish you had stayed on,extended loan or signed.alas not to be.i wish you every success on your continued career at Southampton
:-)
HH
There’s a gallusness about Connell I like. We need a “ maverick” type in the team that can encourage players to try the unorthodox, rather than the preplanned game plan. Connell reminds me of Jack Grealish of AV…which is no bad thing
Bada @8:51
That’s stress testing, although they should have gauged the high water mark from the county game.
PB- could be unveiling a couple of new players….
Hrvatski jim
Top of my head
Commons
Hooper
Payton
Sutton
Mowbray
Thomson
Elliot
Naylor
https://thecelticstar.com/video-all-of-henrik-larssons-242-celtic-goals/
Coneybhoy
Stuart Slater and Scott Sinclair were the others as far as I can remember.
Hrvatski Jim
Thanks, can’t believe I forgot Sinclair!!
I liked Slater but was convinced Goram saved all his great curlers from the edge of the box. Must have got one in the end. Bet we got beat tbough😎
What we should be looking @ is strengthening our Defence cause that’s our achiles heel
what’s wrong with our defence , name names
Anthony Joseph@AnthonyRJoseph ·17m
Celtic are set to sign Albian Ajeti on a season-long loan from West Ham, after the clubs agreed a deal today.
@SkySportsNews understands the deal includes an option to buy, for a fee of around £5m.
Ajeti is due to have his medical at Celtic on Wednesday.
Alan Stubbs for the list…..scoring for hoops v them.
At 92k a week Fraser is set for life. Nearly 10 million.
Southampton have maybe made an arse of it rather than Fraser
We will see if they have any other takers
I would never be quick to criticise the most Loaned Celtic player Ever.
Ta Big Man.
Yer ambitions are Lofty.
We have the maist Amazing Goalie coach. ;)
Connor started shakey but did well, very well in fact.
GreenDoor.csc
Hey Luca @ me.
Very impressed. Shouting at team’s too was good.
I cannae wait for Celtic to start going for the 10.
Wow Karamoko came Alive, when moved, inside.
I hate predictive text.
team m8s was excellent as well.
Right here Right now I’m listening to the book of Nephemiah.
Audio book.
Not sure I can handle HISTORY.
Wan class I liked apart frae PE is Doigs History at St Pats. He took no shit. Shocking our class made a dude stop teaching.
I went tae high school as the belt was outlawed.
Never Forget Love is the Dave.🤓
Nehemiah.
So sorry.
Soro Lucas Guod.
The Bhoys under the hood, first half didnae dae it for Moi.
2nd half……. excited.
Go get the CrossMaGlen Lenny Bhoy.
I see Genius in Everything he does.
Ten and a European Trophy.
Let’s Go.
Respect to Gerrard as he has got the new Rangers punching above their weight.
I heard it through the grapevine that Neil has his Number Howevaaaaah.
Dinnae Kung Fu Panda to the lowest elements Stevie in yer next Job.
Xpansions.csc
Highest Hopes for this Season.
Good morning cqn from a dry but windy Garngad
That was a good we run out yesterday for the bhoys.
It would be good if we managed to sign a few players before Sunday but the next few weeks will do.
HH
D :)
Hello again all you young rebels.
Very pleased with our bhoys last night, big standout for me was
young Luca, very exited to see him again.
Karamoko when he moved inside, Griff back and looking sharp
and Polish Paddy scoring goals, and I’m a happy aul Tim.
Bring on the flag day curtain raiser 8-))
H.H. Mick
Good morning, friends from a windy but dry East Kilbride; can’t be any rain left after the amount that fell yesterday!
With just 5 sleeps to go until our first competitive game I’m still debating whether there’s enough interest on here for a Player Of The Year thing for the coming season. And whether to stick to the same format as last season. If you think it’d be worthwhile could you drop me a wee email to cqnpoty@gmail.com . Particularly so if you are only a ‘lurker’ on here and so would rather not post on the blog.
Off to my real job for now….
PÓGMATHONYAHUN AKA LAIRD OF THE SMILES on 27TH JULY 2020 9:08 PM
I hope the Couponeers can return soon.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Good morning all from Mail Centre, Springburn. 6 hours of chaos shall ensue. 😂😂
The Irish Times.
Conor Pope
I Useta Love Her: How the song that rhymed Mass and ass became an Irish anthem
The Saw Doctors song, released 30 years ago, went on to conquer all before it
When I was young and stupid I hated the Saw Doctors. For the briefest of spells in the late 1980s we were even rivals on Galway’s music scene. I say rivals but that would suggest they knew who I was. They almost certainly didn’t.
I was the drummer in – what I thought was – an effortlessly cool indie band that played our own impenetrable material with the odd cover from carefully curated bands such as the Velvet Underground and Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers in dingy venues to shuffling shoe gazing crowds of rarely more than 100.
The Saw Doctors, by contrast, played much larger Galway venues to much larger crowds and had much more craic than my band. But they were not, by any measure, cool. Not like us.
I remember they released their first single in the spring of 1990. It was called N17, after the road from Tuam to Galway of all things. “Ridiculous,” I probably thought as I flicked through the pages of NME and Melody Maker judgingly while wearing my not-at-all ridiculous uniform of outsized woolly jumper, 10-hole Docs with red laces and black trousers which may or may not have been tucked into the boots for added coolness.
I was definitely certain that The Saw Doctors were going nowhere, save perhaps, back up the N17 from whence they came.
I went off on my J1 that summer and shared a lovely studio apartment overlooking Boston’s Fenway Park with 14 other Galway students and didn’t give The Saw Doctors much thought – sure why would I? There was no internet back then and virtually no way to keep in touch with home, although my dad did send me copies of The Irish Times and recording of Eamon Dunphy famously throwing a pencil in a TV studio during Italia ’90, so I wasn’t completely out of the loop.
Fast forward to the end of September of that year when my dad picked me up from Shannon in the early morning. Driving home in the gloom of an Irish autumn he turned on the radio.
“I have fallen for another she can make her own way home,” someone sang in a thick west of Ireland accent.
“It’s The Saw Doctors,” my dad exclaimed. “This is brilliant!”
Sorry, what?
How does my dad know who The Saw Doctors are? Why are they on the radio? Why is he saying they are brilliant? What are they singing? Why is my dad singing along? What number are they in the charts? One? WHAT IS HAPPENING?
All these questions raced silently through my head as the band played on. It was the first time I heard the song. And I hated it. Or so I told myself. But with each further listen in the months that followed I found myself at first humming along and latterly singing along. In secret obviously – I couldn’t let any of my cool spliff-smoking friends know I was developing uncool tendencies.
The more I listened to it the more I loved it and everything about it from the infectiously joyous music to the lyrics which were in equal measure irreverent, edgy, funny, creepy and beguilingly smart. You could also sing and dance to it in a pub – but I was far too cool to let my hair – which I had loads of – down in such a unseemly fashion.
I didn’t realise it then but The Saw Doctors were on the road that would see them writing songs which captured like a Polaroid what it was like to live in the west of Ireland in the 1980s and early 1990s.
It was an almost uniquely homogenous society back then, a place where being Protestant was as exotic and multicultured as it got. We all knew the people who had done the 48-hour fast for Concern and we all knew what it was like to be hormonally charged and eying up the objects of our desire to alleviate the endless boredom of a Sunday mass. But it was only The Saw Doctors who had the wit and the balls to picture a woman going up to communion and then rhyme Sunday mass with “the glory off her ass” in a fashion which would have enraged the one time Bishop of Galway Michael Brown, if not necessarily the other time Bishop of Galway Eamon Casey.
There was more.
“I walked right up and made an ostentatious contribution. And I winked at her to tell her I’d seduce her in the future. When she’s feelin’ looser” – not perhaps a lyric that would sit comfortably on a Hozier album but all the better for that.
And in case you’ve forgotten, why the singer fell out of love so swiftly and perhaps brutally with his “obsession”, was because even though the “thoughts and dreams I had of her would take six months in confession” he’d simply moved on.
He “met this young one Thursday night” – in the Warwick, I’m guessing – “and she’s inta free expression. And her mission is to rid the world of this sinful repression. Then we had a session.”
Never would I have guessed back then that the song would be as timeless as it has turned out to be and I would be singing its praises in The Irish Times 30 years later or that I would still be able to sing it without missing a word or a beat much to the, um, delight (?) of my wife.
But I Useta Love Her was no one-hit wonder in the wilderness of rock’n’roll – to steal a jingle from the peerless Larry Gogan – and The Saw Doctors were no flash in the pan. They were able to write funny songs and sad songs and deadly serious songs and songs full of heart – Clare Island and To Win Just Once, to name just two.
A year after I Useta Love her was released, I blagged my way into the Féile rock festival in Thurles with Toasted Heretic – another Galway band who were chalk to The Saw Doctors cheese but not necessarily any better for that, just different. The drummer Neil Farrell secured me an access all areas artists pass. I thought I was the business, at least until I was thrown out by security with the band’s lead singer Julian Gough for reasons which are properly lost in the mists of time.
Hours before that unpleasantness, I saw The Saw Doctors play to what was most likely their largest crowd to that point. I wanted to hate them but it was impossible. How can you hate a band who write a song that has tens of thousands of people shouting “Bale em, bale em, hay, hay” as they wildly mosh in the summer sun scatting haystacks to the four winds?
You can’t. Or at least I can’t.
But that’s all beside the point really and it’s moving away from the Birthday Song. It’s 30 years today that The Saw Doctors really began to play and I Useta Love Her is still an Irish classic and one of the biggest selling records in Irish music history. It deserves all the birthday cake and Buckfast it can stomach today. I useta love it once. I still do. I probably always will.
Anto Stokes to EKFC? WTAF!