Neil Lennon’s suggestion that fostering Fraser Forster from a lower-league loaner to an England international is “one of the best things [he’s] been involved with as a manager” is difficult to dispute, despite his various trophies and Champions League exploits.
Owen Hargreaves earned an England cap before he made an appearance in either of England’s top two divisions, although he was playing with European champions, Bayern Munich at the time. Hargreaves and Lanarkshire’s Joe Baker are the only two to have been capped for England without playing in any of the country’s four leagues. I’ve no idea if there are any others to have earned a cap without having played in the top two division but there must be precious few.
In short, Fraser’s appearance between the sticks on Friday was exceptional. We can now help fulfil the international ambitions of English players, just as long as we continue to compete in the Champions League.
Playing to the galleries
There’s a great line in the movie, Wall St, when Martin Sheen says, “If you live long enough you get to see everything”. Today we got to see the incredible sight of Craig Whyte’s former PR, who represented him before and during his Outstanding Contribution to Scotland, who in fact, represented him well before this, when Whyte was stalking STV as they teetered on the brink of oblivion, use Twitter to turn on another member of the Whyte coterie, for being a part of the Whyte coterie.
It reads like playing to the gallery, which the Daily Record, is a particularly useful punch bag for. No one cares what you say about the Daily Record, so exploit a common enemy and pile on. Tub thumping like this is embarrassing.
Puppet master
It will be interesting to see if the Record investigate who first suggested Whyte turned his attention to Rangers, after his STV ambitions ended….
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Whit’s happening?
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
The sense of panic is almost palpable :-)
Test.
Ah, I get it, it’s a new episode of Dr Who. :)
Weefra HH Supporting Wee Oscar.
Phew! Everything’s alright….the boss is in.
Honestly! Six months of smooth blogging and we’ve all forgotten how it used to be!
Have nothing at all to say just thought I’d make a post to see if its awaiting moderation as I’ve never before had such an honour.
Paul67
Test yersell Dr. :)
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Paul67
Good luck wi that one. :)
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Too much gin and black pudding
Charlotte in fine form again :-)
have you finished your dinners yet?
corkcelt
I’ve had three moderations, don’t know if i’m proud or insulted. Hahaha
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/184955632
http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/185060576
Right to get the blog back on track, who’s voting for Indy?
Your comment is awaiting moderation :o)
No moderation at all for me, I’m exempt. Just as well, was at the doc today as I had a constant headache for 3 weeks. Bloomin blood pressure off the Richter Scale. Awaiting a 24 hour monitor to be fitted, in the meantime I’m just to sit down and do absolutely nothing and defo no alcohol. boredoutofmypantscsc
All things in moderation.
Except the CQN blog surely!!
twists n turns
18:52 on 18 November, 2013
Haha brilliant
Looks like we are back again.
Winning Captains
Still no seen Spain on any of your lists for the annual <{
And welcome to all the new hun posters on the blog.
HH
twists n turns
19:04 on 18 November, 2013
Charlotte in fine form again :-)
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Do you have her moniker pal?
would kids be allowed go to the cqn dinner ?
Oldtim
Sent text to P67 on receiving your voice mail.
Going back to the last thread, with the time difference here plus my youngest came over with some Christmas presents for her weans which we planked in the basement plus an English vanilla fae Tim Horton’s catching up was hard to do, but here goes:
jo monston, why do we bother about him, he is/was an irrelevance, cast your minds back to the time when Davie Hay signed him, he who “would walk over broken glass tae play for ra sellick” walked out of the marathon negotiations 5 times, he is/was a wee mercenary and only interested in himself. He had less than 3 seasons here and scored a few goals that’s it.
Prior tae him coming back I recall a wee piece in the gossip section of the English version of the Sunday People which said that the assistant manager of the deid team had been over in France trying tae persuade him tae sign for them, so it may have been set up back then.
As for his signing being a catalyst for the Joe Miller cup victory, don’t forget that on the day we unveiled him wee Joe scored from the striker position that day at Love Street. Big Billy may have been better off keeping Joe in that position.
Bobby Jeffrey only played 8 games for us scoring 1 goal in his 2 years with the club, never really set the heather on fire and was dispatched to Airdrie. Was he a hun, I don’t know but I did hear that used tae show up for training wearing a deid teams scarf Is that true, I would think highly unlikely but being a schoolboy when I heard it I did believe it back then.
Greens v Whites was basically a game for management to determine players’ development including trialists, I was there one midweek night and one player stood out a mile, he made his debut and scored the opener against the jambos on the Saturday. Rumour had it that he only got a game because Johnny Divers had left his boots in the hoose )))). BTW I may be wrong but weren’t the gates open for free entry with the “Little Sisters of the Poor” standing inside with their collection boxes.
Going back a bit but when the 1st team was struggling the reserves, probably under big Jock, were scintillating. During this period we had a wee diminutive player on amateur terms who we got from Leads United, his name was Tommy Henderson, at the end of his only season with us he turned pro with the jambos. He came fae larkhaw (as the locals call it) so mibbees that’s why.
Lastly, Alan Gordon was a player big Jock coveted as was John Duncan; he never got either of them. He also fancied Drew Jarvie, Airdrie to no one’s surprise said no, so on a Saturday night we signed wee Dixie who was serving a 6 match ban at the time. Both Dixie and us won out on that deal.
a 13 year old
Exiled Tim 19.07
New poster from yesterday
Thank you for the welcome sir, I do enjoy reading your views,
Peace be with you
Great to see Matthew Lindsay hurting along with his pal Chris Jack as they slaber about their ibrox heroes
Hopefully the Evening Times rag is off the Tic fans buy list
Through the years the Evening Times has given us Darryl King, Darryl BRoadfoot , Alan Davidson, Lindsay Herron, Derek Johnstone, Matthew Lindsay , Chris Jack and too many others.
We have seen the Herald open up and be inclusive , the ET is different.
Would be good to see this rag go the way of the ibrox club it’s journos follow.
ron bacardi
16:54 on 18 November, 2013
Re Black Pudding.
I was dining in a posh Edinburgh hotel. One of the special starters was a black pudding and haggis stack with a drambuie sauce! A couple of visiting american matrons at next table asked the waitress what that was. Instead of trying to ‘sell’ it as a Scottish delicacy the waitress just blurted out that they probably would not like it as the black pudding was made from pigs blood and the haggis was made from sheeps stomach! I had it, and it was great, so made a point of announcing that in the Americans’ earshot
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Ron, posts like that are a waste of the blogs time.
Can we have your views in our strikers, or the living wage, or res. 12?
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Only joking mate, couldn’t resist after your post a few weeks back denegrating my magnificent ( and only to date) podium victory!!
Hail Hail
CQN annual landed today.
Looks great, will get stuck in tonight
Corkcelt
I can empathise with your blood pressure issues. I was running at 220/140 continually. Docs made me phone in my readings 3 times a day. Told me I was just gonna drop. Wouldn’t even let me drive home one day. I tended to ignore the threat for years until a few months ago when I decided it was gonna be too late if I didn’t size up. ( or size down in this case)
Stopped the fags after 40 years, I’m down to 84 kg from 100 kg, and I’m now hillwalking and running 30 miles a week plus. Within 1 week of changing, my BP returned to normal for the first time in 20 odd years.
I’m down to 25 mg Losartan from 100mg. Hopefully get off them completely soon.
Obviously not sure how your lifestyle is , but if it’s any of my vices, it can be done.
Not preaching to you my friend, just trying to add a bit of support. It’s a scary situation the old high BP.
Is our friend Charlotte still on Twitter?
McClair No1
I saw you getting a bit of stick yesterday.
Stick to yer guns, it’s what makes for a good blog.
He is an insult to a shitebag btw >}
HH
For every fiver ……….. banter
Roary Bremner………..obsessed
Now we have proved we are not paranoid they say we are obsessed!
tnt you are amazing
Richie
Apologies, just seen your request. I’m afraid they keep suspending his account. His last name was Charlie chuckles, but as I say, been suspended.
Monster Munch, dearie me Gordon, what are you thinking about ?
HH
They’re heading for extinction within 18 months, it’s a pity really , i’m enjoying it better than The Simpsons.
YNWA !!!
Exiled Tim 19.18
Thank you sir, I did indeed take some stick but was just giving my opinions on my early memories of supporting Celtic, tho Brian McClair was my favourite player ha
And i take on board your opinion on Johnston ha ha
Again looking for advice from car experts, my clutch has decided to go this morning, looking to see what bill I would be looking at to get it sorted.
Peace be with you all
Just read that ET article by Lindsay. Don’t give them any hits. Just read this extract:
They may not say so publicly, but the Light Blues would love to go through the 2013/14 league campaign without dropping a single point. Rangers are no strangers to making history.
They have, after all, got a world record 54 national titles to their name. No other football club has won as many domestic Trebles – seven to be precise – as they have.
A “Perfect Season” would sit very well alongside the many other accomplishments they have achieved since they were founded back in 1872.
Rangers will win SPFL League One at a canter. They are already 11 points clear of their nearest contenders Dunfermline. Given their full-time status and the quality of their squad that is to be expected.
The only way they will gain any respect for the league success is to record an achievement that will resound around the world. So do not be surprised if they defy expectation and do exactly that.