We’ll all be supporting Mikael Lustig and Georgios Samaras as Sweden and Greece attempt to qualify for the World Cup tonight but the prospect of Lustig, Samaras, Izaguirre, Ambrose, Forster and possibly van Dijk not having a break until July, days before the Champions League bandwagon starts rolling again, is unappetising.
Celtic contributed more players to the 1998 World Cup than any other team. Perhaps as a consequence, we started the new season in third gear, unable to string two league wins together until thumping five goals past a now defunct outfit. A Perfect Day.
Georgios, Mikael, Emilio and Efe are hugely important players to Celtic. They are also players we have an excellent chance of retaining, which in some respects makes it even more important that they are ready for action early than those like Fraser, who until he signs his new contract we can be less sure of retaining.
Best of luck to Greece and Sweden tonight, but if your guys return home disappointed there will be compensations.
Ross County have won the respect of many, and rightly so, for building a successful football club from little more than sticky backed tape and empty washing up bottles, but one of their key achievers, manager Derek Adams, has to be one of the most ungracious people in the top fight game, a fact now being picked up in the wider media.
It is unfathomable if this trait is a fundamental aspect of the club’s success. The clichéd football manager is an unapproachable tyrant but surely there’s more to it than that?
I’ve heard a good few footballers tell their tales of drama, they all have them, even the quiet ones, but it is an objective fact that Frank McAvennie has more stunning stories than anyone in the game. I’ve heard him tell some publicly, and then listened to the really incredible stuff privately.
The Untold Truth with Frank McAvennie, is at Victoria’s Night Club this Saturday 23rd. Doors open at 7pm for a three course meal, entertainment and Frankie recounting his stories. There will also be a sporting auction and a Q&A session. Book at www.franktalks.co.uk
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Tom McGlaughlin, stop being such a drama queen. FFS. I answered a specific post where the poster whinged about our collective ability to force change. I used the resolution to illustrate how the movement for change can be initiated.
You should go to drama school and stop turning everything you read into a personal assault on yourself.
Also, don’t you own £65, and please don’t take take this badly bruv, I’m simply illustrating how easy it would have been for our disconnected worldwide fan base to have got involved. I know at least one of our antipodean posters made a huge effort.
Were you impressed by 167 people supporting the combined efforts of Canamalar, Morrissey 23rd, Auldheid and BRTH? I wasn’t, I would have expected thousands but apathy is the easy way out. So shut your whining Tom and do something positive.
HH
Rangers have appointed Graham Wallace at
their new Chief Executive.
The club made the announcement to the
London Stock Exchange on Wednesday
morning.
The 52-year-old spent four years at
Manchester City, leaving his role as the chief
operating officer in January.
His appointment comes after Craig Mather
resigned from the role last month.
Mr Wallace will take up his position
immediately but will have to be re-appointed
at the AGM next month.
In a statement released by the club, he said: “I
am honoured to have been selected as CEO of
Rangers. I am looking forward to meeting the
challenges and leading the club to ensure that
its off-pitch success matches the performance
of the team.”
David Somers, who was recently appointed as
Rangers acting Chairman, said Mr Wallace’s
appointment is the result of “a thorough and
independent selection process”.
He said: “We are delighted to welcome
Graham to the Board. Graham’s previous
success and his strong financial background
in football will be beneficial to lead Rangers to
continued future success.”
Cold Guinness,
If about drop a note to HCPT77@hotmail.co.uk, daughter will pick up and respond.
I am currently on Hols, and she is trying to arrange
Thanks
Ps, Paddy, picked up note last night, he was a few years older than me, not well respected in village, by younger generation, although kept friends with many his age group
Hail Hail
ACGR –
So now you presume to tell me I should have bought shares.
Great. Is there no limit to your arrogance?
Also formerly Senior Vice President and
CFO for IMG Sport Agency. Follow that trail…
Sevco chicken and egg analogy
@BhoyEddie: In case you haven’t seen the Chicken/Egg Sevco analogy yet, prepare to be dumbfounded http://t.co/MFJXXW4gty
Possible new Sevco badge???
@cartujakds: #UIBvol1 New Cluck… http://t.co/tU8EQsoKDk
HH
Tom McLaughlin
07:51 on
20 November, 2013
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Tom,
I tend not to jump down peoples throats for anything written on a blog…..as you will ken, it’s sometimes taken out of the intended context…..
I’m sure that’s the case here…..so better to mellow and move on.
Take me as an example, I’m more of a lurker who enjoys the fitba comments, the jakesters & even the Stornaway Black Puddin chancers…….I deeply detest the politics posting which, for me, is outrageous….but other than skipping past, what can be done….
I ken some posters like to meet up, which for them is fine…..not my thing….I prefer anonimity, although I have met Philbhoy by arrangement to take him to some games…..as he is a transported weegie he has difficuly with the local geography in understanding where he actually resides……that may be the reasoning for my preference for not attending “meet-ups”(hee hee)
Should the opperchancity of a meet-up in Oz be forthcoming c/w flight & accomm arrangement….please advise & I’ll check out if the Stornaway B/P travels well.
Paddy T (awaiting Philbhoys response)
Good morning CQNers,
Intriguing the NI attorney general wants to stop criminal cases being pursued for crimes committed prior to the Good Friday Agreement.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/roseann-mallon-murder-ruc-pairs-noshow-at-inquest-detrimental-to-case-court-told-29768475.html
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/mcgurks-bar-massacre-families-to-get-het-report-in-two-weeks-29768484.html
The following is taken from an Amnesty International Report
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR45/004/2013/en/067171bf-e295-4ec5-82d3-0452769b572f/eur450042013en.pdf
DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL TO CORONERS’ INQUESTS
Amnesty International continues to be concerned by the failure of the PSNI to deliver full and timely disclosure of material containing “sensitive” information for inquest proceedings. Refusing access to information about human rights violations can never be justified, including on grounds of national security. The concern arises particularly with respect to the inquests into the deaths of six men shot dead in so-called ‘shoot-to-kill’ incidents in 1982, which remain incomplete over thirty years since they were killed.169 A key part of this sensitive material relates to reports by then Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester John Stalker, who was called in to investigate the shootings in 1984, and subsequently Sir Colin Sampson of the West Yorkshire Police, who completed the report in 1987.170 Their full findings, known as the Stalker/Sampson reports, have never been made public. In 2010, the PSNI lost a protracted legal challenge aimed at preventing disclosure of the reports on national security grounds to the next-of-kin and their lawyers. As Justice Gillen commented: “If inquests are to maintain public confidence, put minds at rest and answer the questions of the families who are bereaved, it is vital to ensure that the interested parties/next of kin can participate in an informed, open and transparent fashion on an equal footing with all other parties throughout the various stages of the inquest including, at the outset of the process, the very scope of the inquest. This can only be achieved where appropriate disclosure has been made of potentially relevant material.”
However, serious delays continue as the PSNI carries out a process of redacting sensitive material contained in the reports and the underlying intelligence material on which it is based, and determines whether to recommend that the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland issue Public Interest Immunity (PII) certificates in order to prevent disclosure of some of the material on national security grounds. Serious concerns have also emerged about how the PSNI is undertaking this process of review. In October 2012, it emerged that personnel carrying out the redaction process for the PSNI were four former Special Branch officers and one former RUC intelligence officer.173 Subsequently, in May 2013 it was revealed that these former Special Branch and RUC officers had served directly with 92 serving and former police officers who could potentially be called as witnesses at the inquests, which compromises the independence of the process.174 One of the lawyers representing some of the families involved in the inquest stated in response that: “It is totally and utterly callous and unacceptable to allow former Special Branch officers, who have worked side by side with no less than 92 potential police witnesses in this case, to decide what intelligence is withheld from this inquest […] It is nothing less than Alice in Wonderland and makes a mockery of our entire justice system.”Upon finding out that at least some of these same officers were also involved in the disclosure process in connection with the inquest into the death of Pearse Jordan (see page 36), his family have issued high court proceedings to challenge the Chief Constable’s decision to recruit the former Special Branch officers to oversee the evidence disclosure process in the inquest. Lawyers for the family claim that these officers played a key role in either deliberately or negligently withholding from the coroner information relevant to Pearse Jordan’s death, including details of one officer who was involved in a separate fatal shooting. This information could have been relevant to the investigation of the broader circumstances of Pearse Jordan’s death and whether he was a victim of an alleged shoot-to-kill policy.
THE RE-HIRING OF FORMER RUC OFFICERS
The revelation that former Special Branch and RUC officers were involved in the process of determining what intelligence material should be disclosed to inquests reflects a wider concern of the re-hiring of former RUC officers back into the PSNI. In the aftermath of the 1998 Agreement, which provided for a new police service, a redundancy scheme was established to encourage RUC officers to leave the police force in order to make way for new recruits. An Audit Office report published in October 2012, however, revealed that more than 1,000 former RUC officers who availed themselves of the redundancy scheme were later rehired as civilian staff on temporary contracts.177 According to the report, one of the highest concentration of re-hires was within the Crime Operations Department, which investigates serious crime and terrorism – including cases referred by the HET (see page 28) – and handles all intelligence material for the PSNI. This department also handles the investigation of historical cases, and intelligence material related to those cases. Amnesty International is concerned that PSNI investigations into historical cases may be compromised if those involved in investigations are not hierarchically, institutionally and practically independent from those implicated in the incident.178 Furthermore, the role of re-hired officers in the intelligence unit, acting effectively as “gatekeepers” for the intelligence provided to some of the other mechanisms, without independent safeguards, undermines confidence in the PSNI’s willingness to cooperate fully with historical investigations. As civilian staff, the re-hired former RUC officers are also not accountable to the Police Ombudsman, despite its recommendation that any civilian operating directly in conjunction with police officers in the course of their policing functions be brought under the remit of the OPONI.179 Amnesty International calls for the swift implementation of this proposed change.
Hmmmm
Cowiebhoy
07:59 on
20 November, 2013
Ps, Paddy, picked up note last night, he was a few years older than me, not well respected in village, by younger generation, although kept friends with many his age group
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At the time he was “winching” the wifes best friend & we used to do a bit of socialising with them….
He played in the Dryburgh Cup Final for Hibs V Celtic….which they won…….and turned up at my front door that night with a case of Dryburgh’s lager..he kent a didnae drink lager anaw……the wife let him in……..a strained weekend.
They split up months later………….and it was her that emigrated to Oz (not him as you rightly said)
Enjoy your hols…….
Paddy T
Tom McLaughlin 08:00 on 20 November, 2013
ACGR –
So now you presume to tell me I should have bought shares.
…………….
No Tom, I’m simply pointing out how you could have made a real difference instead of whining your life away on this blog. Your beginning to sound like out ex neighbours who stood by, done nothing, heads planted firmly up their own arses and blamed everything on everyone but themselves instead of focussing on the issue.
I’ll leave your arrogance point to the side that at the moment is simply your opinion of me and I care not a jot about that.
HH Bruv
Morning all. Bright and cold down here.
I see another seat has been added on the ole Titanic.
In the STV clip , it quotes:
“He went on trial with a club in Holland and he liked it there. But he liked it here. ”
What the guy actually said was: ” But he liked it here MORE.” ie at Celtic .
Why would STV get a transcript wrong?
JJ
estadio nacional
05:09 on 20 November, 2013
Not good at asset management?
Could you tell me when the last (1st team) player left without us getting a fee??
Ki, hooper, wanyama = 24m there, and the last 3 to leave would suggest the opposite of what you stated.
All for folk not likeing the board if that’s your thing, but not for things that are just not right.
CrabbitCSC
I’m afraid I’m going to have to burst a bubble here: Stornaway black pudding quality is a myth – it is simply Scottish traditional butcher’s black pudding which can be bought in any traditional butcher’s shop in any town in Scotland. Good, but not that much better than any other butcher.
Fair play to Charlie Barley for creating a brilliant marketing myth, but the truth must out.
I find Charlie’s black pudding too salty and too fine. My favourite recipe is the one used by Harrald’s the butcher in Wick. Chunky cut onions, heavier on the grain content and not so salty.
An award-winning black pudding is the one from Fraser’s the butcher in Dingwall – but I still prefer the Caithness variety. It’s a personal thing.
On the food subject, however, a little known and under-marketed product is Harris lamb. These lean wee black-faces live on the rocky hills of Harris and are unique in that the lean meat is flavoured by what they eat: young heather and sea-side vegetation. Comes out like a cross between lamb and venison. For any entrepreneurs reading, it’s a vastly under-marketed and unique product.
New Sevco CEO has went from a club that kept bank notes in the toilet to wipe their erses to one that keeps cut up newspaper.
Sevco last night officially filed a letter of complaint to the SFA demanding they take action against Peter Lawwell.
Using the chicken & egg as evidence…
ASonOfDan,
Good to see you’re sticking to topic…..
Alasdair
Firstly, congratulations for recommencing the BP debate. It`s what makes CQN great.
You can`t have it both ways. Either “Stornoway BP …. is simply Scottish traditional butcher’s black pudding : or, too salty and too fine.” ie different from other BP.
On a personal level, I hardly ever ate BP but on discovering the Stornoway version ( by accident so I wasn`t influenced by pre-conceived ideas of what to expect), I am now a regular consumer of this great chieftain o` the puddin` race.
JJ
PS Can I buy Harris lamb on the mainland?
I see Sevco Scotland have officially complained to Vincent Lunny regarding PL’s Rory Bremner joke.
Hope the SFA now grow a pair and put this nonsense to bed once and for all, something they should have done prior to them getting their licence to play in the 4th tier last summer.
I think the absurd analogy of comparing RIFC to an egg is the way to end the circuitous debate of new club old club/ club and holding company debate.
From henceforth they should just be callled RIFE which of course stands for Rangers International Football Egg.
You get good eggs and bad eggs in life by the dozen.
At present their scrambled thinking, willingness to poach players using fees they cannot afford fries our brains and boils our blood but an egg is an egg.
Going on about their zombiehood only eggs them on and I think we should leave them alone with our blessing a sort of eggs benedict If you like. :)
Maybe we should now just call them the Free Rangers!!!
Alasdair Maclean,
Don’t mention the Black Pudding! Don’t you know that’s what started the Time War?!
Anyway, Tiree lamb is jbetter than yer cheucchhh Harris stuff.
BMCUW………… See yon Alasdair MacLean @ 08:26 has (unwittingly) proposed an extra for the venture (Thanks Alasdair!)…….. Harris lamb and Stornoway black pudding washed down with S.E.Asian vodka…. All we need now is a gourmet type critic/consultant to advise…………….. Do you know of anybody???? :-)
TBM
Auldheid,
On the Ball (or is it ovoid) as usual!
Alasdair Maclean.
I am not a fan of black pudding but one day in UllapoolI venison and black pudding was on the menu.
I like a bit of venison and asked if I could have it without the black stuff.
I was urged to try as the black stuff was of the Stornoway variety and I have been a big fan ever since. It is of course a matter of individual taste but I found other varieties to spicy compared to the Stornoway product.
I also like lamb so next time I’m up north I could have the best of all worlds thanks to your info on Harris lamb ( although it has me struggling to get tweed into my reply) .
I’ll give the other versions of black pudding a go too.
Cheers.
Can scarcely believe the Huns have had the nerve to formally complain about PL’s quip. How I would love to see that letter and their reasons fir again taking offence.
Convinced PL set out to make the quip at the AGM and they’ve fallen hook, line and sinker for it.
The SFA response will tell us a lot if we ever hear the contents if either, of course.
Winning Captains – and all who contributed,
Congrats on CQN Annual. A great read. Many thanks
ACGR –
BMCUW came on and accused me of being disingenuous by reading your comment as an attack on all Celtic supporters and not just shareholders.
You then tell me it would only have cost me 65 pounds to buy shares and become a signatory. So in fact you admitted you were indeed aiming your comments at the entire support.
No need to apologise BMCUW.
Hail Hail
This is our lucky day. They have swallowed the bait. What grounds can they have to compain. It might just result in the SFA having to tell it like it really is.
The Sevconian Madness continues. I posted last week (ignored as usual, still paranoid!) that their new CEO will take home in excess of £330,000 before bonuses.
Add Sally’s £880,000 and you have fiscal ruin.
Here we go again…..we’re on the road again…..
Stornoway Black Pudding – the only type used on CalMac ferries – ’nuff said.
On the ferry on which I occasionally travel there is an almighty scramble for the breakfasts as well as the seats and that’s because they serve the Stornoway Black Pudding.
As most posters probably know I think in the main our Board are doing a good job, and like everything in life now and again get it wrong (the living wage ). I did not support resolution 12 as I felt it would split opinion as I was sure for business reasons there was only so much the Board could divulge.I also support the right of the 167 who supported the resolution to put it to the Board. In my opinion we have not learned anything new as the reolution was withdrawn and at some future time a meeting or meetings is to be held to discuss the matter with a few CQNrs .I think the situation of the new Rangers is very complex and also very fluid so I expect our Boards reaction to also be very fluid and I am sure there will be matters that they respond to that they dont want to let all and sundry know about.In my time supporting Celtic including 1967 this is one of the better periods for our great club and the Board are playing therel part in that. H.H.
Haven’t read back, so someone might have beat me to this.
Graham Wallace…..Sevco newly appointed CEO.
Notice in his long list of directorships,one jumps out:
Tiger Films (Tosspot) Ltd………seriously!!
Let battle commence…..Bampots V Tosspots
jimmci –
I really hope they do complain, then it will all have to come out in the open, as in did he say anything that wasn’t actually true?
I suspect the SFA will bury it for that reason alone.
Kayal33 been an eggcelent read the last few pages but that one will have me laughing in my sleep. They’re clucked and they know they are.Night all. Canny wait to see how the SFA deal with the chooks and crooks. John Goodman to play the newest CE in the movie.
Bawsman
I really don’t care if you don’t like me or others that bring politics to this site. The site has a very broad spectrum
of points of views and the Independence Vote will be the most important political action to happen I’m Scotland for 300 years. Therefore I or others are entitled to air our points.
Regarding your thoughts on borders tell that to the folks of of over 50 countries that has already succeeded in getting free of the English Yoke.
Ps
I put a few things onto the site tonight re Bertie
TBM/BMCUW…. tam cowan!!