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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Tommy Joad would that be KING KONG!! Big lump of a lad for sure!!
James Forrest
Positive his contract was until the summer.
HH
timmy7_noted and emusanorphan
The Celtic Bar has been closed for several years now. Apparently his missus gambled all the profits away.
Try the Metro Apartments (it’s actually a guest house and bar) on Soi LK Metro the L-shaped street that runs from Soi Diana In to Soi Buakhoa. The owner is Irish and usually has the Celtic games on.
Good evening friends, I hope we are all well.
Is anyone else, like me, still waiting on their paper version of the latest CQN Magazine? I ordered it on 18 December but then saw a post from Paul67 saying that the paper version would come out after the Rangers game so as to include a report on that match.
Jobo
The Van Beuren Bhoy
Well done mate, enjoy your cyber dinner, complete with hearty carrots and onions !!
Indeed, Luca Toni, 34 and a half years young. Stuck on the bench at Juve, although they look good for the Scudetto.
It’s good to dream though, imagine him in the Hoops, in the tunnel at Ibrox. Next to Bartley.
TJ
Jobo _ yeah, still waiting on copy.
Tommy Joad,
Jon Carew ?
Must remember CMD-R , must remember CMD-R , repeat until aborbed
tardy csc
Whittaker, Davis, Lafferty, Elbows all out for the trip to Arbroath for one reason or another, Broadhoof facing a fitness test and Jelavic’s groin is in talks with his agent.
Smokies for tea on Sunday. I’m telling you.
BLANTYRE KEV
Someone posted earlier it’s 6-1 the draw,which would suit Rangers bank balance.
Might be worth a punt,just for a laugh…..
Thanks for the info on Aluko guys. You might be right, and I’ll trust that you are. The CQNer’s are usually right haha.
So, Traynor is on Radio Scotland denying he’s going? Okay then … I guess those media watch sites have it all wrong.
We’ll see in 30 days time. If he’s been sacked, can we call it his last lie at the Record?
My dear,dear,dear,friend… Son O’ Dan..
Hiya, Pally?
Yep.. Some people.. mebbe. yer guid self?
Wid Class, Gary as a “Poacher”
But, No “Yours Respectfully”
Nor. Me .. Eethur!
Sure, Hoops,diz hiv his Share of Tap Ins. fae the Six Yerd Boax.. but..
He is Faur from being Ma IDEA of an Actual.. Rub a Dub.. “Poacher”
Noo.. if ye want a fine example a “Poacher”
Look no further than.. the No sae Popular..
RASMUSSEN..
If ye remember.. He did Score Wan or Two…
VERY CRITICAL GOALS FUR US.. during,his very few Appearances…
He wiz pretty .. Fitless.and Haunless.. like they say.. but
he did Hing aboot the Six Yard Line.. aloat.and he managed tae scramblie in a Coupla very important Goals ,fur Us
How soon , we furget~
Howevahhhhh..Like Ah say..
Celtic’s Team Tactics ,as of… this Time.. and It May Chinge..
Who Knows.. ??
Disnae Allow fur us tae Carry a “Poacher”..in oor Arsenal.
Na..
We are Mair of a High Punt, up the Middle.. and let oor
Striker.. Fight like Hell. . fur the Ba’…in a “Jumpin’ JacK”
Contest!
Poor, Gary has a Hellava Time.. in the kinda Competition…Ah Must Admit..
So wid Maist Strikers..
We wull need tae sooner or l ater.. Chinge those Damn Tactics.
In Ma Opinion.
Kojo
yer pal… who likes ye mair and mairer.
So wee nacho says he knows nowt about ragers wanting him back ,would he say that as to say otherwise he would leave Sally wide open for a tapping up charge .
Not that it has stopped them before
hail hail
Jobo aye, waiting on it popping through the letter box innaw, the added bonus is the Hun game and taking our place at the top o the league Yeeeeeeess cannae wait!
V
BlantyreKev at 18:25
It’s well known that bad weather and a poor pitch favours the weaker team.
I reckon that could be bad news for Arbroath… and yer smokies.
Jabba says rumours of his death have been greatly exaggerated…
I don’t think the rankers can afford tax and NI payments for the Nacho man….. Hey wait a minute though!
V
31003 says:
5 January, 2012 at 15:14
Did you sink the putt???
Mr Luca Toni
34.5 years old
Born 10 years and one day after Lisbon
6ft 5 inches
238 goals in 506 games
World Cup Winner
He could nod in wee Jamesy’s crosses.
I would be happy if Celtic bid silly money for a man of his age.
TJ
BSR and leebozbhoy says:
5 January, 2012 at 18:04
no problem! Here’s the cover!
http://tinypic.com/r/i5wys8/5
with the ragers beginning to suffer the loss of players in less numbers than Lenny had to deal with earlier on in the season .
Surely this shines a great BIG light on CW and the front loaded war chest ,they need bodies in when CW needs bodies out ,who will win only one way to find out ……….FIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT …….and fight they will if they exit the cup and fall any further behind us in the league .
Lenny just keep winning PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEASE .
hail hail
paulsatim is neil lennon says:
5 January, 2012 at 18:37
BSR and leebozbhoy says:
5 January, 2012 at 18:04
no problem! Here’s the cover!
http://tinypic.com/r/i5wys8/5
I have the same lp and my son used call it “my Da’s big CD”
Paul67,
I don’t quite agree with you – news can still be profitable, but it has to be reliable, authoritative, and well-presented. The Financial Times will always make money, for example, because people will pay the premium for its expertise.
The problem for the Record et al is the stinking standard of their product. The standard of writing and journalism is beyond bad. They could get away with this when all that mattered was access to ourselves and the Huns, and when they were the only source of news on Scottish football. But the proliferation of excellent sites like this, RTC etc, means that they have been completely sidelined.
I listened to a wee bit of Snide the other night, when a poster on here challenged Guidi about his latest wild assertions re: the Huns’ battle with HMRC. The derision with which the caller was treated, the aggressive disrespect, despite the flimsiness of Guidi’s argument, was atrocious.
These people think they have some God-given right to be the arbiters of debate and discussion in Scottish football. As they discover how wrong they are, they are panicking.
Jabba may or may not still be in a job. But that is almost irrelevant. Because his job – once the most powerful in Scottish football journalism – is itself no longer relevant…
So..
Mr. Traynor has issued a Denial.
Hmmmmmmmmm
That Figgers…
Fur..Ah am told .
There hiv..so Far… there hiv…
Been Nae Reports that there hiv been… A Blizzard in Hell.. or
any eyewitnessess tae a
Flight of Flying Pigs.. eethur!
Kojo
Gotta Split.. seeya….
happy birthday DBBIA…
Tommy Joad says:
5 January, 2012 at 18:37
Mr Luca Toni
34.5 years old
—
like your thinking tho’ would prefer we went for one 10 years younger from a less expensive (personal expectations wise) league
they have this type of player in Scandinavia/Central Europe
we need to pay the price and get them in pdq.
HH
M
I listened to Guidi on Snyde the other night- as he tried to defend his statement that HMRC would back down and negotiate an acceptable deal with the orcs. Listen to it if you get a chance- not to the words- listen to his voice. There is uncertainty there, and fear. It comes across as clear as day. What he said didnt match how he said it, and he knew it.
James Forrest is Lennon: 5 January, 2012 at 17:46
“Can someone confirm that Sone Aluko’s “pay your own money to play for us” contract was only for three months, that it expires at the end of January and that Rangers will have to recompensate him if he’s to sign a longer term deal?”
Aluko signed a six-month contract – at the end of which he discovers the Huns have taken him to the cleaners.
Happy Birthday Dontbrattbackinanger.
evening all 50 years of age and number 2 daughter just taught me how to copy paste
& send Emails. I feel sooooooooooo 21st century.
I may have to change my user name as i can now right click :)))))
Thank you to this site as i only attempted to come onto a computer to get away from the MSM.
offandrunningcsc HAIL HAIL
ItaliaBhoy:
You just summed it up brilliantly.
I was 25 when I went to University, where I was immediately issued a login, username and internet account. I was 26 before I opened my very first personal email account and started using the net on a regular basis.
A year later I started a website because the standard of student news at my university was truly awful. That was the same year I last bought a newspaper to read a story for informational purposes, rather than to pass time on the bus. When I got my first IPod I didn’t need a paper for that anymore.
Every piece of news I get these days comes from the internet. I love rumours and gossip as much as the next person, but the days when I’ll pay my money for rumour and gossip are gone, and I certainly will not pay it for propaganda or sycophancy and misinformation.
Quality journalism will get my wallet out every time. As I read Andrew Rawnsley in the Guardian religiously, for the quality of his sources, so too I bought his two books on New Labour “Servents of the People” and “The End of the Party”. When the straight press wants to it can be brilliant at what it does. It can also be spiteful, vindictive, egotistic and grossly wrong.
These days, more and more, I read bloggers. There are a dozen or so in the political sphere, which is where my main interest outside football lies, who are merciless in their condemnations of both left and right, who seek the truth and write it without fear or favour. Even the guys like Guido Fawkes, who is as right wing as they come, are not afraid to chase down Cameron and Osbourne … as his famous stories about their university drug habits prove; those guys are vastly better at breaking big political stories than their rivals in the “mainstream” press.
CQN has become the Go-To source for all information on Celtic. A number of other sites are doing brilliant work of their own. But more and more, this site and others have become the Go-To sources for all information on Rangers. Nothing like this exists anywhere else in the football world, as far as I am aware. We have here a situation where our fans are, by and large, better informed about issues affecting our rivals than their own supporters.
It gives us great power. It also utterly defeats the purpose of the Old Media, which is to seek, write and distribute facts. Sports journalism can be fearless and brilliant, as it is in England on the quality papers in particular. I cannot image a situation like the one at Rangers happening anywhere in England, and the idea that a senior club there, with enormous influence in the game, could go under, with calamitous effects for the whole national association whilst the media scarcely writes a word is just plainly unthinkable, even if such a club existed.
For years the over-riding sensory image of the Scottish sports media has not been visual or auditory, but olfactory. It stank of “fine wine and succulent lamb.” And for too long those smells combined with those of cheap gin and rank fear. If self-interest truly did have a scent, the workers at these papers, TV’s and radio stations would have had to wear face masks to work.
If they were even a little bit good at their jobs I would not have such contempt for them. But that contempt is deserved.
It’s the one thing they have earned.
James Forrest
Do you think the Main Stream Media in England do write enough about the debt in their game in the Premiership? por cierto
Italiabhoy/James Forrest
Excellent commentary.
MWD
So Jim Traynor has issued a Denial???
that means he must have threatened to let the cat out the bag to keep his job.
tictalker talking tic
Firstly Happy New Year to one and all. (when is it deemed acceptable for this to be not said ?)
Anyway, a wee question, it is claimed at the start of 2010 the Interest Figure on the rangers Big Case was £12,000,000. As we are now at the start of 2012, can anyone give an updated figure for the Interest Value? Has this been capped or does it accumulate until it is settled one way or another ? An annual cumulative 3% would add a further £730,800 to this debt….
HH
Por Cierto:
I actually don’t, although there are a couple of journalists down there who are the Cassandra’s of Debt, who believe it will kill the game. They are routinely ridiculed by people at the Premiership PR department who don’t believe it can happen.
I say looking at it dispassionately that it is certain to happen. If the banking system can almost collapse the EPL surely can, and for the same reasons. Unsustainability, a legacy of debt, no forward thinking … transfer deadline day on Sky Sports, with that big stupid “counter”; you are watching madness unfold, and madness can’t carry on indefinitely.
And it’s not just England. France now has two superclubs who spend outrageously. Spain has two. Russia has a couple. Now I hear China has become a global football market which can afford Nicolas Anelka’s … China.
The global football model is broken. Was it PSG who were going to pay Beckham a million a month? What is that? For a 34 year old playboy who’s been plying his trade in a backwater the last six years?
Insanity, and not confined to England. I would say there are six SPL clubs who will be in danger of going to the wall if Rangers are forced to start from the Third Division, and that’s not including Hearts.
Reporters can write about it all they want. Until it starts to crash, the people running it will not take a blind bit of notice.
The difference is, in England some of them do write about it.
Por Cierto
Good point.
MWD
Right, I’ve reached what I’m hoping is a very significant point in my life. I am just about to watch Episode 1, Series 1 of Breaking Bad, in the company of Mrs Baldie. After all the hype here on CQN this better be good! ;-)
Jobo