We’re in the last week of November and one point separates Celtic, Inverness and Dundee United at the top of the table, with Hamilton a point behind. Dundee, who put on a credible performance yesterday, sit alongside seventh placed Kilmarnock, nine points of the pace. That’s more than half the league within nine points of the top.
Remember the day Accies relegated Hibs, and we were told how the Championship would be vastly more competitive than the Premiership this season? There’s a nine point gap at the top of the Championship, which is the least competitive senior league in Britain.
If you were an investor in a Championship team located anywhere outside Gorgie, you might be running the numbers this morning on what another season of lower league football is going to cost to fund. With ever-diminishing income I know one club who could need £30m investment to get them through another 18 months of Championship football.
The chances of than kind of money materialising are zero, no matter if they flog their properties. There will also be a structural deficit, even with Premiership football, of having a massive infrastructure to support, without European revenue, of around £10m per season.
If you are a football club in Scotland with a large infrastructure to operate, maintain, police and insure, you need significant and regular European income. The cost of funding the job to overcome domestic and European competition (all of the latter would be seeded), runs into many tens of millions.
No one has even pretended they have a viable plan to overcome such obstacles. Hope you can find the fun in financial fundamentals.
Thanks for the feedback on Caesar & the Assassin, which is available here on CQNBookstore, but… if you go here, for an extra £1.01 you can get the book and a DVD (from Cesar (sic.), 6-2 game, Road to Seville, Birthday Bhoys Beating Barca).
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Micktt
Tell her the lights were low at the hootenanny and I’d been drinking heavily.
My beer goggles telt me you were too young to be 40!
I mean BMCUW is only 34!
HH jamesgang
Board game for zombies has to be RISK. They played it for years and died. Any hun lurkers GIRUY
Tom McLauchan
Reading back you mentioned Danny McGranaghan who played for Blantyre and Glasgow Celtic, his name is Willie McGranaghan, and I was at School with him, he left Glasgow Celtic for Albion Rovers, and his first game for the Wee Rovers was a Scottish Cup Tie against Celtic at Paradise, a great wee left winger, maybe Bt Can help you out regarding where he is now.
Keven Jungle
I also worked in Blantyre Co-op late Sixtes early Seventys, which butchers Central,No 1 or No 2
Forster Flat Foored
FF sells the goal 1-0 Villa
Never rated forster☺☺☺
Footed
Malorbhoy
You will certainly KevJ and his family…
Big Fraser bad for villa goal. Rushing out of his area..
Correct score down.Villa score as big Wall decides to come off his line for first time in yonks and makes a right fist of it ! Hope Villa win.
BT
What is his initials?
http://listverse.com/2012/11/28/10-sinister-origins-of-nursery-rhymes/
FF not used to coming off his line, that’s what caught him out
Malorbhoy
Sent you a text..
Big FF coming off his line, must have thought it was HT :0)
Atmosphere at Villa is shocking
marrakesh express
19:27 on 24 November, 2014
Notthebus
Over the years Keevins has been quick to call for the heads of Venglos Barnes Mowbray and Lennon, and umpteen other Scottish managers working with washers to spend.
McCoist is their worst manager ever, including the 1872 club, with the second highest budget and highest wage, but old Hugh still cant bring himself to say it, even with 75% of huns wanting him out.
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Are you worried that Keevins isn’t calling for McCoist’s head? Maybe he wants Pep McCoist to stay put ……………. like millions of Tims worldwide.
Evening,
Looking for a wee help. My bhoy just back from Milan, trying to explain McCullochs dive on Saturday morning, but cant find it anywhere.Someone posted a link to it on you tube, but cant find it. Anyone help?
lilys
MSM continue to do a sterling job defending McCoist
Leave them to it
BT
Thank’s Text back to you
The DR has eight pages, yes eight or nine if you count the comments page, on the hertz v deidco game!
leftclick
The Bbc imo have set their agenda.they align themselves the criminality currently under police investagation.
they are a wretch if an organisation,comprimised as to why Mark Daly docs are NOT on our news nightly as to what is going on at ibrox since Duped Murray took over,
instead they are subjected to a ban from them
and still they refuse to lead and investigate with their reporting might and muscle.shameful!
nope our taxpayer funded BBC,they kack it and cover every game possible,a curious mix indeed..
ach soz for bleat lefti :-)
ah wiz feelin a bit demoted
a good tea relegated that feelin
squintnodnspeakCsc
Anyone explain to ssb that the “super ally” chants were by 15k hertz fans and not the huns trying to shout down their own fans (as media tried to rell us)?
jamesgang
20:01 on 24 November, 2014
Sips
Cheers mhate.
Would never put you through that!
I know you know all about it.
It’s partly why I witter mince on here. Cathartic!
Hope your bubonic plague is easing. You’re a hero. Fighting and winning with only lemsip and mentholyptus!
HH jamesgang
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Sounds like a case on Manflu. No known cure! Hail Mary, full of grace …………….
An Tearmann
How are you big fella, I hear we will be dining together in the near future
Ok ghuys and ghals, mrs got an early medical the mo, so, still aff the fags, nae drink tonight, you know what, I think I’d rather dee at 70 than live this miserable till I’m 80. Decisions……Decisions. :-))) Night Night Timland. KTF.
Surprised to read folks on here complaining press are lenient on Fat Sally.
Long may their leniency continue.
For years they praised Murray, and for a short time Whyte, Green et al, and look where that ended up.
Fat Sally’s biggest problem is he needs to manage his resources, by either trying to improve individual players, improve the overall team, or both.
For a Rankers manager, that’s actually a new challenge, and one he is not used to or prepared for.
Gone are the days of dumping dud signings, and bringing in replacements.
He now needs to manage what he has, and face consequences of spending his wage budget on Daly, Boyd, Templeton etc, who won’t be in a hurry to leave.
Shame
Or worse still, 90. Don’t fink so. Hahaha. Cot now.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
theoriginalsadiesbhoy,
It’s like Blackhawks down here, my bhoy sent home from school as was my daughter from college… Off to my crib. Knackered and work tomorrow.HH
Evening Timland from a warmish hun free mountain valley.
lilys grandpa
Just for you >}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raOiPRBidUM
HH
Put the Villa game on, you can hear the russell of sweetie papers from the crowd
Night night Weefra…
Night Weefra!
Kids are down.
Time for some weights to try to reshape the slump that is my body!
HH jamesgang
malor bhoy
indeedi :-) 5th.
hopin b.v thurs for pint prior to salzburg.will be in bout 5pm
last we spoke you had a tour of my fav county?hope all enjoyed
:-)
hh
Jobo
We have just been told we have a new Bishop for Galloway , Fr Bill Nolan from your’e parts ,do you know him?
Still feel a bit ruff from Saturday!!
Sips
Do you mean you and your all have manflu (even your daughter who should be more concerned about burd flu) or are you saying you were travelling in a helicopter that got shot down by Somali militia?
Anything can happen in the Drum!
HH jamesgang
AT
Tour of you’re fav and mine was cancelled due to lack of interest , watch out when you book with Caledonia Tours ,Bandits
Can I make a suggestion? In January : We secure Guidetti – we go after Hooper – we go after Ikechi Anya – and we offload : Tonev / Boerrigter and Scepovic. Thoughts?