The Rangers International share prospectus contained references about league reconstruction possibly expediting the club’s ascent to the Scottish Premier League for the first time. This was never on anyone else’s agenda and was merely the latest manifestation of the train of thought that Scottish football could not, and would not, consider life without ‘Rangers’ in the top flight, or perhaps one division below. We can only hope that the company’s budgeting was not dependent on this aspiration.
Even the most ardent advocates of the belief structure that a ‘Rangers’ branded company is wanted and needed by the rest of the game must now accept ample evidence exists that their flat earth claims are folly. For the record, Scottish football no more needs Celtic than it did Rangers, we are a lumbering albatross around their necks.
The Rangers chief executive, Charles Green, makes a valid point about the remainder of his club’s season, “If this [12-12-18 reconstruction] does happen, what is the point of us finishing the season?
“We might as well have a winter break from now until August. I can’t see any point in carrying on with meaningless matches.”
Crap club
As many have pointed out, his is the same purpose as the teams in each division who are free of relegation threats and already out of title/promotion contention – it’s called sport, but all teams in the SFL Third Division are effectively now playing for the joy of the game itself, which is pretty much what most of the do anyway. Let’s hope Mr Green’s comments are not widely reported to those he is trying to sell tickets to. It was astutely reported that Green has the makings of a PT Barnum about him, but rubbishing your own product is more Gerald Ratner than Barnum.
Roll up, roll up
By contrast, PT Lawwell’s comments on the proposed reorganisation, “To be fair, it is one of the very infrequent times when the greater good of the game has been taken into account”, could be taken straight from the consensus-builder’s manual. It remains to be seen how best to serve the greater good, but any solution has to work for every club, not just one or two.
Delighted Terry Butcher is staying in the Highlands. Great news for Inverness and the SPL. I’m enjoying this season; more please.
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Bobbyrussell, I nick all my best jokes from my wee bruv pedroccarav……67, so not a problem.
My moniker is a mystery even to me.
RRC,
Weekend world.
Ha ha Petec, I liked that. Some fine filleys’ there too.
Randomness is so predictable though:-)
ACGR = A Celier Gone Of Rust = Carnoustie Golfer.
Have you never read any Dan Brown novels?
Enigmamachine.com
HH:-)
oops………………………..extra “e” that foxxxed em.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
I was out there the night the puma fell into the water as it lifted off the Cormorant A. March 92
That was a bad night.
Knew a few of the guys, working in the galley you feed everyone yeah,
The name Jimmy Jinx doesn’t ring a bell though
I was out there when the OILC was being born, interesting times
The strike in 1990, you must been out there then
RRC:
01:23 on 11 January, 2013
petec
20 years ago this year I became a believer, I have been learning ever since
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What a moment we had that day
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And then I ran into MIGHTY TIM…… FFS__________
That is precisely why This Club is is helping it’s Supporters as much as the Supporters helping the Club.
;))))
zimmerman
Hmmm…
Looking like I will get the new car sometime after 21st
Fancy a visitor at the end of the month?
petec
That day at Celtic Park will remain with me forever
It was quite a humbling experience
I had an awesome time in Scotland following it as well
This is the first video I ever posted on youtube..;
Grace & Danger…
RRC, I remember ovetime being chopped and working to rule, that might have been a result of thebegining of the OILC action (what was the name of the guy who started that, not the one who you see in the news these days, although I think he was there at the begining).
My last trip was the one during the spar incident. We were kept on for three, maybe four days while they decided if the problem was with the SK 61 or pilot error. They blamed the pilot. The finding was that it was down to the pilot to decide if landing on the spar was safe or not as the spar was tight for a 61 to land. The inquirey said there was fog that day but I remember it like it was yesterday watching the rescue unfold and we were about half a mile away. It was a sad day and I watched a lot of bears cry that day.
I think the normal protocol was to land on one of the brents and then shuttle the spar crew over in a bell, but the pilots were a law unto themselves and were regarded as gods. They made the wrong choice that day and the rest unfortunately is sad.
HH Bruv
Jimmy Jinx was on the Charlie for years. Instrument supervisor a big bull of a guy with a heart of gold. An alkie and a gentleman, and also my journeyman when I started my apprenticeship aty Ciba Geigy in Paisley.
A Ceiler….,
Was in ciba geigy with Scott’s a few times
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
I don’t remember a shortage of alkies offshore
I worked with a chef, his first three days on you could stand him the corner with a knife in each hand and throw onions at him, the shakes he had chopped them :-)
Slight exaggeration, but ye get me..
Pilot got blamed for the 92 crash as well
The chopper should never have been in the air that night
The pipes on just about all the Brents were frozen solid that’s how cold it was and wind chill -32 and blizzards
Not a great night
Is the OILC guy you’re thinking of, Ronnie MacDonald?
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Canamalr..
You will know ‘Shint’..
Summa
Summa…,
It was a long long time ago, they were a funny clique out there
RRC, happy days for the most part but some sore and painful ones too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW3xDZrlBQs
A wee bit of Zeppelin to change the subject.
HH Bruv, We Are Celtic.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
01:29 on 11 January, 2013
I like the bit where LANGDON solves the cryptex with APPLE and awe the huns go
“awe naw Magners” “we’re no longer the in ciders” and then it ends up in Roslyn where
they sell maps tae paedophiles. Gunge that paedo. Pure dead brilliant so it
I hope someone is asking these ?’s as we speak.
@TaxLawPlebeian
If league reconstruction is ratified by 41 clubs & SPL is dissolved, will there be a provision in the new league rules to sanction oldco …
… under the SPL disciplinary rules should Nimmo-Smith rule against oldco?
After all, the 5-way agreement was to accept SPL punishment!
ACGR
One of favourite subjects, Bud
God willing, in May/June I could be…
Going To California…
RRC aye R MacD, but he stood down and I cant remember the guy who took over. It’s not OILC anymore but he’s still the leader of the union that was born from it.
Neil Canamalar, I was there from Sept 1980 till sept 1987. It was a manky shithole of a place but I got a brilliant apprenticeship and never looked back after leaving. I have very fond memories of the place apart from the clothes that got ruined…………………ha ha.
I still keep in touch with one of my ex ciba instrument buddies and get the occaisional round of golf and bevy with him. He’s long left too and now looks after the maintenance of the herriot watt uni buildings.
He’s a hun fannie too and is hurting big time these days :-)
When where you there?
RRC,
Nae probs for visit…ur Xmas present is still under the tree…just need to suss wot shift I’ll be..
I’m nightshift as I.post…hence the delay in answering you.
Ps..weekend world wrong? :(
Maggie, I knew you’d solve the puzzle. You never got back to me on my proposal of marraige. To be honest this current mrs acgr is getting a bit dated. Bobby M C U W P sent me a copy of that picture you posted of youself in the surf.
So if you’ve not had another sex change since then, how’s about it gal / guy?
I’m an open minded sort of blokee wi some spare tickets to paradise.
I know you dont like the bored but I promise not to bore you on our first date.
Love ACGR xxx
Softmusicandlights.com
A Ceiler…,
Aye I’d have been there around that time, only a couple of months each time, Scott’s was choc a block with stupid huns so it was the shitty jobs.
Getting the dye out yer skin never mind clothes was a nightmare.
RRC, great vid. Like an early version of “unplugged”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv1KIbORQGI
Neil Finn, Roddy Frame and Graham (crap, cant rember his second name) from 10cc.
I’m not in love (with maggie) so dont forget it…….dee dum dee dumm….:-)
Just to bring things back to fitba for a moment. Heres a vid I posted a couple of times that show the great victory over Barca from the viewpoint of the Barca fans. Man, those guy’s love us more than I love my newish bride.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plhcTycP9QE&NR=1
Thecryinggame.com
zimmerman
No, Weekend World it is, but you knew that :-)
ACGR
zimmerman and me were in the audience that night
Time for bed, working in 4 hours
Nitol
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
02:44 on 11 January, 2013
Ah that picture was taken a long time and a few operations ago…ye’d be disappointed. Trust me.
Guidi on snyde last night,
“i take my hat off to sevco fans that turn out in such numbers to watch that football..it’s a punishment..it’s close to appalling”.
zimmerman
03:13 on 11 January, 2013
I dunno. A few opposition reds and a few penalties every week. Howzit different than before? You are assuming huns have a discerning eye somehow on the attributes of football.
Neil Canamalar, you must be just about as old a bassa as me then, FFS I had a birthday yesterday too so that makes me even older, ……………………awe naw:-((
Manky skin and manky clothes were the order of the day in that place but I loved every minute of it. The people (apart from the blindingly brutal huns), the friendship, the training, the nights out, and the fact that they gave me a skill to GTF and pursue a career where I didnt develope skin or bladder cancer.
Them wuz thi dayz..
Swiss Chemicals I salute you. Better just check my baws huvnay drapped aff. I might need them, or at least one if maggie and me get our fledgling romance off the ground.
Wake up maggie I think I’ve got to tell you I’ve lost one of my balls……….in a rod stuart sort of melody.
Hail Hail Celtic men and wummin, We are all Neil Lennon
Know what you mean ,
It’s hilarious though to hear the reaction of the orcs to those types of statements
;)
Summa of Sammi….
02:06 on 11 January, 2013
Canamalr..
You will know ‘Shint’..
Summa
HH Summa….would that be Shint (QH) from ML4?? worked with James Scott / Malcolm Allan? If so, Shint and I grew up almost next door to each other and shared some good times offshore. Followed different teams however!
We the judiciary being of sound mind and cash do hereby transcend all interpretations of legal gobbledygook to find on behalf of the plaintiff that pays me the most that i hereby decree that Taco Bell being of 4th grade meat no better than dog food and have thus been found guilty of exposing 3.2 million of its customers to health problems on the scale of Fukushima are fined five hundred American dollars and may your god be with you. Of course the discriminatory use of the word dog allows recourse to appeal.
wee paradigm there to illustrate the worthlessness of resorting to the judiciary..in any land.
I got a brilliant birthday card yesterday from my older brother with a couple of japs eyes on it. Guess who’s they were?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVLXW7-IscQ
Those were the days my friends…………………………….:we need them back.
League reconstruction might leave Sevco free from sanctions (title stripping) for the sins of the club that cheated to win the trophies (Rangers RIP), unless such powers were expressly given to the SFA by the old regime as part of the new set up.
When I hear a lot of gratuitous noise coming from the likes of Jabba and Challs I look to see what discourse is being diverted and it could be the title stripping prospect. It certainly ain’t about what they protest too much about.
When one fights against oppression like the IRA against British imperialism or the Cubans against American imperialism it is going to get murderous and ugly. Che Guevera and Michael Collins are heroes in my book. Dont forget Cuba was no more than any other cess pit in America’s back yard. What’s that about cardinal Romero?
Oh yeah and dont believe the Venezuelan “ex-pats” either that tell you Chavez is a criminal.
jimmci
21:48 on
10 January, 2013
Jobo Balde, went to Rome last year at Easter. Stayed in the Termini area; amazingly arffordable for a capital city in Europe. People were so nice. We stayed in Star Metropole for a week. Was fabulous. Btw. The Papal address, if interested, on a we’d at 11. Forget the tourist guides and, even better, get a slip from your parish priest to get you into St Peters and skip the queues before you leave home. Also buy a ticket for Vatican museum, ignore time given. You want every moment there. Hope this helps; have a great time and remember to take trainers or comfy shoes. A wonderful city! Fabulous memories.
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Magnificent hotel mate,a little bit of luxury.My girl and i were only there for four days though,you would nearly need at least four months in that city to see everything!!
Of all the places that i have ever been to,Rome is easily the best.
I intend to return there very soon.