Old Lumley-troubled used a classic rhetorical technique yesterday. Give your target audience lots of points to consider which you know they will agree with; build empathy, get heads nodding, fists banging on tables, then slip in the line you are trying to sell. As a piece of prose, you have to respect the statement. This guy, or his writer, has not only read the Greeks, he’s understood their importance.
If Sir David is right, Rangers issued no side contracts, all non-discretionary payments to players in connection to football were registered, if the redacted contract which appeared in The Sun in March was a piece of fiction, if the prima facie evidence presented by Duff and Phelps was an error, he and his soon to be liquidated former club have nothing to worry about.
Cicero CSC.
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up_over…,
aye, thats the team for me too
Bloke
Reconstruction is their fantasy that will be MSM driven every minute they are in fourth tier ( as you reminded the Blog ).
They are taking their first steps towards administration again and depending on which CQN expert you listen to could be as soon as Christmas.
The crock quality they are signing is rib-ticklingly funny for Celtic fans ;-)
up_over_goal on 7 August, 2012 at 15:55 said:
Forrest for McCourt and that’ll be the team (injuries permitting)
I find all this focus on a Division 3 team odd, to be honest.
Whoever our rivals are this season, they will not be it. Whoever the threat to us is this season, it will not be them.
Media interest in them is still high. That’s a carryover from Bygone Days of Yore. Will it stay high? Who knows? I do know this.
That club is now, and for a long time to come, a shadow of what it was. That shadow still looms over a lot of Scottish football, but in time it will recede, and my prediction is that it won’t take too long. They have a certain novelty value right now, like that dog on That’s Life that used to say “sausages”, or used to make a sound like it was saying that … you know what I mean.
Those who have been following the spectacular start to Season 5 of Breaking Bad (and only on a show that good could moments of human drama generate electric tensions and justify the word spectacular) will recognise the following line, as uttered by a main character recently ….
“Just because you kill Jessie James, it don’t make you Jessie James.”
As Four Fishes said to me recently, he heard that line and thought about NewCo. Just because they play at Ibrox in blue, it don’t make them Rangers.
Kevin Kyle? Sandaza? And these are great signings? On what planet? At what level? I would stipulate Kyle isn’t even a good signing for a lower league club, with that injury record. And can you really rely on a Spanish wannabee who last year talked about hitting the big time in Europe, to run himself into the ground at Brechin and Berwick on wet Wednesday nights?
Please … They are a lower league club with lower case “ambition.”
We are preparing for the Champions League.
This is who we are, and who they are. They are getting a lot of ink. Freak shows do. But time passes. This Frankenstein’s Football Club is a talking dog.
It does not influence or affect us at all. It is irrelevant.
Where’s Mort these days?
up_over
Forster?
tradionalist
Cheers!
Team for tomo
Forster
Matthews rogne mulgrew Emilio
Kayal wanyama ledley
Forrest. Commons
Samaras
My comments on here are nearly as frequent as the blooming pattern of the Titan Arum but I just find the whole signing policy of Servco very strange.
You would think they would sign players on lower wages who will get them out of the league and not on players on higher wages, who might not have the hunger for the fight or who spend more of their time on the treatment table.
When it goes wrong do they come back as ‘The The Rangers?’
James F…
I will put money on, they will be drawn against us in one of the cups
Afternoon all from a sunny and sparkling Gorbals.
I was allowed out on my own today so I took the chance of taking a quick snap or two of the shenanigans being enacted up and down the mean streets of what a famous Red Clydesider dubbed “Earth’s nearest suburb to hell’ and yet had been previously praised by no less a personage than England’s favourite spy at the time of the union sell-out, Daniel Defoe, as “The cleanest and beautifullest and best built city in Britain, London excepted”.
So since everyone is bored with talking about ‘you know ex-who’, here’s a wee teaser.
On top of the world
I’ll be back to check and if necessary give the answer later….Cycling calls.
Hail Hail
Estadio
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire:
That would fulfill one of the great fantasies of my footballing supporting life; to watch us go to Ibrox and, to paraphrase Bunk Moreland, “beat on them like they were a rented mule.”
The thought actually thrills me mate.
Paul 67 –
Ole Moonbeams is not himself these days.
Sure the usual bluster and bravado were there – he was never llkely to learn from the Lumley knock-back – but it was what he didn’t say that was most telling.
What was missing was the claim that he was confident of winning the appeal. With Moonbeams and McLeash both making statements on the subject yesterday it seems the bad news has been delivered. Only a few more days before the rest of us find out.
The stolen titles will follow on soon enough.
James F
Unlike you to be complacent. Thems are being fully assisted to come back asap. That could well be as little as twelve months.
I do not trust what is happening.
hh
My dear,dear,dear,friend.. Up over Goal @15.55
Hiya, Pally?
Ah like yer team selection.. Nonetheless..
Ma Mid-Field wid be..
FORREST, Brown, Wayama, COMMONS,SAMARAS,
wi.. Hoops, as the Lonely Linwood Striker.
Kojo
yer pal. who likes ye aloater
Stil, Laughin’..
up_over
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Forster ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Matthews ::::::::::: Rogne :::::::::::::::: Mulgrew :::::::::::::::::::: Izzy
Commons:::::::::::::::: Kayal :::::::::::::Wanyama :::::::::::::::: Ledley
:::::::::::::::::Sammi
Hooper::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
4 -4 – 1- 1
If Scott Brown was fit he’d replace Kayal and if Sammi doesn’t make
it, Forrest to replace him.
If Neil Francis doesn’t pick the team, big Johann should check the Blog.
James F..,
I’d prefer it to be flogging a dead horse if its animal cruelty :o)
ROW Z – Let Celtic Flourish by the Cleansing of the ‘den!:
Normally I would agree with you mate. But you know what ? I don’t think it is complacent at all. I think they’re finished as a force that will trouble us for many, many, many, many years.
Financial doping has kept that club competitive for the last 15 years or more. Without a bank to lend them money, without a rich sugar daddy to guarantee the debt, without any visible means of paying the bills, that club is going to flirt with administration on and off like a drunk best man trying it on with the bridesmaids.
We will not be troubled by that club for at least ten years.
RowZ
They’ll be in SPL in twelve months? Are you serious?
We will draw Sevco in the Scottish Cup – that’s a competition Sky cover.
I doubt I’ll even watch it. Games against Third Division teams are rubbish.
Estadio
The Carrick??
Row Z @ 16.07
What is happening?
Estadio – a ship called Dignity?
James
I would’ve thought “shoot the shit” would’ve been more appropriate.
James F..,
cant agree there, as long as theres hope for them, our players will be crippled, it will get worse the longer the same administration thinks it is doing its job protecting the old guard.
From where I’m sitting the sfa have and are getting away with corruption, and the board are compliant.
Hi guys
BSR and I looking for a suitable venue to watch tomorrow’s match.
Is Parkville showing the game? Looking for somewhere between upper Hamilton and douche Burnside.
Any suggestions?
Ta
HH
EC67
Hamiltontim and DBBIA :-)
No cigar! (is that a clue?)
Hail Hail
Estadio
Estadio -the Hamlet?
James – I will ignore them when I see those tainted titles and trophies stripped.
Eurochamps- douche or douce?
Estadio
Top of the nautical college.
Weefra HH
DBBIA
Obviously a pretty useless clue!
Hail Hail
Estadio
Let’s clear something up.
What has happened to NewCo is not the miracle of Dunkirk. This is not a club which avoided death by a hair, dropped three division in order to rebuild and has begun its long, slow climb back to the top.
This is a club killed by hubris, greed and ego. Now restructured, behaving in the same way, and I predict with a similar result.
This is an organisation which has been ROUTED. Do not allow the press or anyone else to spin stories of the Great Rangers Adventure Through the Leagues.
There is a REASON we fought for this outcome.
This outcome is a DISASTER on every level for them. An appalling catastrophic nightmare scenario from which there is no prospect – none – of a quick escape or an easy exit. Financially hammered, their entire first team squad annihilated, their reputation in shreds, their image destroyed ….
We won. The war is over. A new version of them WILL rise. It will take years. Along the way they will lose the fair weather fans and perhaps even some of the bigots … although I am not holding my breath.
But the days of financial doping are over. The financial consequences will be with them for at least a decade, and we will grow stronger with every year.
I repeat; I do not believe they will trouble us for ten years at least.
Is there any possibility of a probe in goings on at Rangers pre 1998?
HH
Eurochamps67
Fin75 from CQN is checking out some pubs in Hamilton tonight and will post if that’s any use to you both?
If they’re unsuitable I’ll probably take the car to Parkhead if you need a lift?
In Ma Opinion…
The Former, Guy.. Known as,Izzy,Hiz bin replaced by a
An Anaemic and Ineffective.. Clone!
and.. the Finns . are very much aware of it.
Joe Ledley..is oor best Bet. fur the Left Back Position.. oan Wed.
If Izzy, plays..
Our Chance of Preventing a Finnish Goal.. which could.. well. Finish.. Us..
Wull be much Diminished.
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
Douce.
What a misspell that is.
Hamiltontim.
Thanks.
I will keep an eye on the blog.
Right back to sunbathed garden.
Bud anyone?
EC67