At the start of the week our man in Poland sent me a link to the Croatian outlet who interviewed Nikica Jelavic. I mentioned the player in an article yesterday and recalled his earlier comments, which I referenced as background information. This ‘news’ was subsequently carried by today’s radio and print outlets in Scotland.
It’s maybe a low blow to bring out the ‘Lazy journalism’ point on the day Scotland’s formerly-largest newspaper shed journalists, although the point is perfectly illustrated, but lazy journalism always found its place in the past. The real problem has little to do with the standard of journalism on offer, it’s about business models in the old media. News doesn’t pay unless you can tax consumers or bundle it with paid-for football channels, which is not a good thing.
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Evening bhoys, cool and as ever hun free.
How thick are them huns, they are getting told that swally won’t get any money, and still they are talking about bringing xyz in, they are worse than deluded fools.
Jobo
It cannot possibly be as good as the representation depicted on here.
I’m scared to watch it in case their is a drop in the respect I hold for one or two of our esteemed posters.
My copy brought to me by Santa is still sealed.
MWD :-)))
tictalker says:
5 January, 2012 at 19:23
aye -technically he is right of course and surprised this is in the public domain-seeing as it’s supposed to be confidential between him and his employer
until the consultation is over it’s only the job ‘at risk’
after 30 days (sometimes less) it will be a different story
unless he is displacing ‘just joan’- after all he has a guid pedigree for writing pure fanatsy pash
then again maybe this is a non-story ;-)
tic tok
HH
M
Jobo Baldie:
You are in for a treat. One word of advice; stick with it even if it seems slow to start. Every single moment, every single plot point, pays off in spades later.
I envy anyone watching it over for the first time.
It’s another demonstration of TV as art.
James Forrest is Lennon says:
5 January, 2012 at 19:31
Breaking Bad – what time channel please?
HH
M
Television: The drug Of A Nation…
saltires en sevilla says:
I have a couple of internet links to the entire show, if you want them.
Ask Paul for my email address.
Por Cierto / James Forrest,
Brian Glanville doesn’t refer to the Premiership, for years he has simply called it the greed is good league.
It is also interesting that some of the better writers for English newspapers are actually Scotsmen especially Patrick Barclay. I would also include, and I know some will disagree with this, Graham Spiers, Kevin McCarra and Graham Hunter.
Other guys like Sid Lowe and Gabriel Marcotti are a credit to their profession and although the latter occassionally fawns over Swalex the standard of their writing is so far superior to what we have rejected up here.
TJ
Yes James Forrest, but look what happened to the Banks….
The same thing will happen to all the Big Football Clubs, it happened in Spain to Real Madrid, with the property agreement, it will happen here with them and it will be sorted out in England and Russia and anywhere else where millions of pounds are involved and would be such a vote loser to any party who did not assist in the regeneration of Football.
Then Sky will again pump millions into the “New Game” which will have stringent monetary policies enforced on them only to be by passed with some Etihad solutions! por cierto.
Kojo, if Bangura is such a good poacher, I would start him against Them in the next game and instruct to run up to Broadfoot and say “I’m. a poacher, how would you like your eggs? ”
gsu
Jobo Baldie
5 January, 2012 at 19:27
Breaking Bad is fantastic ,just watched the very last episode recently,enjoy.
5live now. The story of Ovett and Coe from 1980.
I remember those days well as a boy. Was there ever a better time for British athletics?
Fantastic days, fantastic athletes, brilliant memories.
Thomtheleedstim,
They were sensational.
Heading to see Mo Farah at the Kelvin Hall at the end of this month.
He may end up in the same category come the summer, albeit over bigger distances.
TJ
cant believe i got 5/1 for Espanyol -1 goal win against a lower league team.
1-0 Espanyol at half time.
wish we Naka was still playing it might come up :O)
tictalker talking tic
Ah Breaking Bad…… As James Forrest has just said “I envy anyone who is watching this for the first time” How true, how true…….
What a show, simple as that.
SffS
James and others,
The problem with Scottish football journalism has been that it has become entirely reliant on access to The Huns. Once access to one powerful institution becomes the lodestar of journalism, well, you may as well pack up and call yourself a PR guy.
It has simply been impossible to criticise RFC to any sustained degree. Graham Spiers tried it, and was removed from post. Traynor – who was once a fine journalist at the Herald – realised that to keep his job he needed to position the Record as the mouthpiece of the Murray regime at Ibrox. This gave us some of the most execrable journalism I have ever read (it’s really worth hunting out a full copy of the “succulent lamb” article to appreciate just how creepily North Korean in tone it is).
This would never have happened in England because the press there is bigger, broader, and not overshadowed by one establishment team as it is in Scotland. And no team in England reflects the cultural baggage of the nation the way RFC reflects the darker side of Scottish history and society.
It is a really sad tale. That a nation that produced Hugh McIlvanney has to rely now on Keith Jackson.
I don’t know what the end game will be, though I suspect the days of the tabloids breaking the main sports news stories are effectively at an end, and the days when to get a spot on the Record sports desk was a passport to 60k per annum and lots of drinking with footballers, are over for good.
Ultimately, Traynor will be fine. he as been paid well enough for long enough to be able to afford a good retirement. But he is the last of the all-powerful editors, to whom we all once had to turn to be told what to think about the game in this country…
With Laffatme injured,
Fleck over rated,
Naibalance injured,
Healy finished,
Bendikksen departed,
Jellylegs agitated,
What chance Sneaky Coisty pulling a wee light blue crop top on and making a few appearances?
And do you think he would score at Fir Park?
TJ
nooooooo keeper sent off and penalty
tictalker talking tic
James F
cheers- sent a note to Paul and will follow on to you
HH
M
I gave mrs 40me breaking bad for her christmas after the glowing recommendations from if and others on cqn, only got as far as episode 2 so far but loving it so far.
Regards being jealous of someone who hasn’t watched a series, the mrs lent her friend series one of the sopranos over Christmas and she brought it back a couple of days later, saying she didn’t like it. It’s no wonder we’ve never really got on.
Should read recommendations from jf and others
Italiabhoy
The popular sports press in England is only slightly better than what you have in Scotland. A different shade of rubbish but rubbish nonetheless.
If only all clubs were as caring as Rankers in these hard times.
All kits are being reduced to half price tomorrow with additional bonus of
if you buy a top with a name on it you get a free ticket for game
against Aberdeen
hot off FF
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Re: Kits half price tomorrow.
——————————————————————————–
“breaking news!! Buy a home top with printing from on line, the megastore,argyle st or s/hall st jjb`s and get a free ticket to the dons game”
Saltires, once you start watcing BB you will be hooked. 1st series is only 7 episodes then 13 for next 3 but every episode is relevant, brilliant acted and directed.
Bryan Cranston who plays Walter White won 3 straight emmys for this show.
SffS
celtic40me:
The first time I ever truly envied someone for starting afresh on something I had already finished was when I gave my sister’s boss a loan of Murder One.
Since then I’ve had the same reaction to Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Shield, The Sopranos, Prison Break, The West Wing, 24 and, last year, when I found out my mate had no seen Cracker I gave him the box-set and then regretted it because I immediately wanted to start from the begining again and watch it all myself!
The good lady and I are watching True Blood right now, and this is my third time through that show from the start and her first. I love watching her reactions to all the twists and turns.
celtic40me,
I am always impressed by Patrick Barclay, Kevin McCarra, Simon Barnes, David Lacey, Gabreille Marcotti and Hugh McIlvanney. Only Spiers in Scotland comes remotely close in terms of craft and authority.
I accept that the red tops in England are poor, but they are not, I believe, as influential as our red tops in terms of settingan agenda (or promoting the agenda of one club).
James,
I have just bought the first series of Breaking Bad. It sits, unopened, but highly anticipated, on the shelf.
Really looking forward to getting into it.
Paulsatim is neil lennon.
Thankyou for that download. I will enjoy that piece of nostalgia.
Macanbheatha.
It is indeed a very big cd.
hh tae you both. lbb
SFFS
aye -have been watching you guys raving about it for the last few years :-)
looking forward to it thanks
HH
M
Lights on again on Bute – just as my last candles were spluttering – a big thanks to all the Public Service workers who ensured no-one in need went without hot food and a warm place to go.
Hail hail
ItaliaBhoy:
The show is as addictive as the meth Walter cooks in it!
There’s a great Springsteen song called “Glory Days”, which is about the people who never quite made it, the people who, to use a familiar expression, have “a great future behind them.” It starts with a guy in a bar who meets his old mate, who was the high school baseball whiz back in the day. As they sit down to drink the narrator discovers that his former friend is haunted by what he once was.
When Breaking Bad starts, that’s Walter White. A guy who coulda-woulda-shoulda been a lot more than he was. A guy who is the living proof of that old wisdom that says “life is what happens whilst we’re making plans.” Everyone who was once a peer has moved past him, beyond him, away from him ….
Then he gets his diagnosis and finds out the person he thought he was, the person he could have been, none of it is who he was meant to be.
Amazing, amazing television.
James 20.29, superb and how true!
WalterWhiteCSC
SffS
hen1rik says:
5 January, 2012 at 15:00
though they are applying it to politics, in this country, politics, religion and sport are all in my opinion, very strange bedfellows
strange,uncomfortable and potentially dangerous.
James F
great song
well they pass you by Glory Days,
In the wink of a young girl’s eye
glory days..gloooory days
great stuff, but you are teasing now..;-)
Jinkyredstar
Do you drink in the Galatea?
Daz & Bailie on snyde tonight. “If an offer came in for Bangura he’d be off”. Naw he widnae!!!
Weegreenman – yes
Come to think of it – do you think there’s time for the Gala to open tonight – haven’t had a pint since the Dund game