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I’m told by a broadcast journalist friend that Jim Traynor, of PR company Level5, started Newco Rangers broadcast media conference yesterday with a warning to journalists that discussion about title stripping was off limits.

The law was that if manager Mark Warburton was asked about the proposed sanction for Oldco Rangers financial doping the conference would be stopped.

Say what you like about journalists, but they regard being told what to ask, or not to ask, as a line in the sand issue. Traynor, a journalist for decades, should have known better than to make such a rookie mistake.

He was told that attempts to subvert discussion about Oldco being stripped of titles is not something that would be accommodated. By the broadcast media, anyway.

Warburton was subsequently asked about title stripping and although he was happy to answer, I’m told, this angered the would-be news-denier, whereupon he “lost his temper”.

Post-conference there was a bit of chat about how they would be able to appropriately report on less-partisan issues, like the Level5 PR-controlled Ladbrokes SPFL, although there was a consensus that “He’ll fall out with everyone soon enough. He always does”.

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  1. the_huddle on

    BIG-CUP-WINNERS on 7th November 2015 10:47 pm

     

     

    You have the rights of it. Get two guys up front, not others with a dual purpose, it’s not only wanted it’s required when, as we face here teams who want us in front of them.

     

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    Ronny lamented weeks ago that we had 5 players up front and still couldn’t score, are you guys watching a different game to the rest of us??

  2. sid on

    Super Villains

     

     

    1 David Murray

     

    2 Campbell Ogilvie

     

    3 Dave King

     

     

    I will be gobsmacked if the top two get the Craigybhoy treatment.

     

    Dave king I feel will be punished in a token RRM way as he lives in SA.

  3. THE EXILED TIM on

    DD

     

    Aye it’s no bad is the ol sol :-)

     

    It will be a while before I get the woodstove fired up, another month prob, have all the free wood in, so well prepared, still warm enough, just, for a dip in the pool, tho it’s getting colder by the day.

     

    Glad you enjoyed your break.

     

    HH

  4. Gordon64 on

    And we’re going to where the grass is always green to the mystic isle that no one else has seen. Na na na na na na na na. Uncle Nobbys steamboat.

  9. praecepta on

    The Earl Haig Fund:

     

     

    I would imagine a number of our Parents/Grandparents would have had a tale to tell of their bitter experiences with the ‘Fund’ post-war.

     

     

    My Father-in-law was an HLI teenager (a boy-soldier) captured at Dunkirk. Having survived the rear-guard pummeling and near fight to the death he was captured and shipped to Poland. As a PoW he was made to work as a farm-labourer – he spoke well of the Poles who kept him alive by feeding him vegetables and providing him with clothing (warmth was often thanks to sacking).

     

     

    The winters – working in wet and freezing conditions took its toll and when he was repatriated to the UK he was suffering from chronic bronchitis (which plagued him the rest of his life). He met his wife at an ex-Serviceman’s dance in Glasgow – she thought he looked quite dashing in his apparel (he had relieved a German officer of his grey-coat and leather boots).

     

     

    Like many returning PoWs he got his 5/- and a demob suit but no job. Within the year (of coming home) he had married and the first child was on the way. With no accommodation and no job he approached the EHF for help.

     

     

    Their help came at a price. He had to sign-on as regular with the HLI and was stationed at Maryhill Barracks. Too ill to take part in routine manoeuvres – he was not considered for a trade – instead he was reduced to performing janitorial duties to keep a roof over his head.

     

     

    Fortunately his family were eventually able to buy him out and got him a job with a Jewish Clothing manufacturer – where he remained all his life as a maintenance man till his retirement. He was a good man and died too young (early 60’s) – he never forgave the EHF for his treatment and wouldn’t allow a poppy in the house.

     

     

    Bill was a great Tim – he often referred to our forward lines of the 70’s as the ‘jelly-tots’. Him and I attended many matches together along with my Dad who had been a Japanese PoW (and who likewise received no help but was shipped to family in the USA to recuperate after 4 years in the camps).

     

     

    I sometimes wonder what they would have made of today’s poppy hysteria?

  12. Hamiltontim on

    Cowiebhoy

     

     

    I share many of your concerns about Ronny. Like you I struggle to see this attacking, fluid football and in my opinion we’ve gone backwards in Europe.

     

     

    I live in hope though that he can be a huge success at Celtic.

  13. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Delaney’s, Gal is still as enthusiastic about Celtic and music as he was when I first met him.

     

     

    He stayed along the road from us in Kings Park before we moved.

     

     

    When I spoke to him last night, he was still scunnered from Thursday’s game

  15. sipsini on

    Dixiedeans…

     

     

    They obviously know something is in the wind, I’d hold your bet but check the small print if the Huns go tits up.

  16. dennytim on

    The Huddle

     

    Yes spot on people talking about one up that’s the the problem we have two fullbacks as wingers and two attacking centre backs no wonder we ship goals

  18. croppybhoy on

    BGX

     

     

    yes you are correct many teams now favour 4-2-3-1

     

    However they play with 2 real holding players who are told to protect the back 4

     

    Most will use a big strong physical forward as the 1.

     

    Ronnie knows the talk but fails to walk the walk!

     

    3 transfer windows – not one holding player signed- not even on loan!

     

    That’s Ronnie’s choice – if he’s not happy with those recruited- he’s kept it to himself!

     

     

    HH

  21. the_huddle on

    croppybhoy on 7th November 2015 11:02 pm

     

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    How best paid player, Brown is our holding player

  23. Delaneys Dunky on

    TET

     

     

    Thanks pal. My week in the sun recharged the batteries.

     

    Your air con bill must be high? Like my heating bill.

  25. BIG-CUP-WINNERS on

    The Huddle

     

     

    We must be watching different games indeed. The invisble 5 forwards are they called Armstrong Jamesie, Broonie Fefan, Nir them ?

     

     

    I regularly see Celtic face a bank of 4 defenders (surounding our one forward) and a deep lying bank of 5 midfielders.

     

     

    Meanwhile we (and you’ll have noticed this) slowly and ponderously shuttle the ball left to right;right to left.

     

    We play the game in front of 9 defenders. It’s what they want.

     

     

    Get two guys in the mix, not having to run 2-,30 or 40 yards to get into the danger area.

  26. quonno on

    Mr Pastry on 7th November 2015 10:42 pm

     

     

    A few years ago, I was told in a phone conversation by an employee of that the PR department was very much the Celtic Park poor relation.

  29. thetimreaper on

    Celtic’s League record this season….

     

     

    Played 13, won 10, drawn 2, lost 1

     

     

    At home: Played 7, won 6, drawn 1, Goals For 23, Goals Against 4

     

     

    1 man up front CSC

  30. Gordon64 on

    My generation has fought against war and so will my children but they will not forget the unbearable sacrifices made by those who had to go to war.

  34. the_huddle on

    BIG-CUP-WINNERS on 7th November 2015 11:06 pm

     

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    And you think if we played 2 strikers then the opposition will come out of their 8 behind the ball and say there you go score a goal?

     

     

    Our formation has zero effect on how we play teams in the SPL, the put 10 behind the ball and we throw everyone forward and hope not to get hit on the break.

     

     

    Formation has no baring on that game, you can see that right?

  36. THE EXILED TIM on

    DD

     

    No air con, no need for it, the cave is pretty constant heat all year round, i’m sitting here just now, all the windows open, the back door wide open so the dugs can get in and out to the patio, just have a T shirt on, it’s 20+ inside, it’s the same in the summer when it’s over 40 outside, the temp stays roughly the same all year round inside, the stove it only to take the chill out of the air in the winter, or so the Mrs tells me, I could do without it, I would just put a jumper on, but the wood is for free, just have to go and collect it before they burn it, and it does cozy the place up :-)

     

    HH

  41. Mr Pastry on

    Look at any successful side who push their wing-backs on to the extent that we do – they all play THREE at the back – why doesn’t Ronny get it?

     

     

    Two up-front, let’s try Griff and Cole – with Charlie fit again, he becomes one of the back three, with the ability to play out from defence.

     

     

    Gordon (Baily)

     

    Lustig (Janko)

     

    Boyata (Ambrose)

     

    Mulgrew (???????)

     

    Simonivic (??????)

     

    Izzy (Tierney)

     

    Brown (Johansen)

     

    Biton (Armstrong)

     

    Commons (Allen)

     

    Cole (Forrest)

     

    Griffiths (GMS)

     

     

    ..also Stokes, Christie, Cifti, Henderson, McGregor

     

     

    I suggest we sign an EXPERIENCED centre-back and sitting midfielder….and with the RIGHT manager and RIGHT tactics, we maybe not look be so fragile and, score a few more into the bargain.

     

     

    That’s a squad of TWENTY-SEVEN that should be good enough to win the treble and with a bit of ‘tweaking’ COULD give us a chance in Europe.

  42. BIG-CUP-WINNERS on

    the_huddle

     

     

    Simply put, two guys in the box, twice as likely to score ? Yes or No ?

     

     

    How often do you watch Celtic cross into the box with only Griffiths in there, often, never….

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