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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Guys, need some help regarding my sky dish. Number 1 son was playing football outback when a wayward shot hit my lnb and broke the bracket. I’ve searched ebay and found some but how do I know I’m buying the correct one as there seems to be different types.
HH
… just heard that ex Dr Feelgood, Wilko Johnson has been diagnosed with terminal, pancreatic cancer. Sad. Sad.
Canny Youtube here at work, but for those of you who missed the great man in his prime with the Feelgoods, check out any of the clips (a personal favourite being “I’m a Hog for you, Baby. Probably because my 3yr old mimics all Wilko’s guitar parts)
White knuckle, Telecaster abuse at it’s best !
Daily Record
Mon fri 45p x 5 £2:25p
sat x 1 70p
sunday mail £1:10p (I think)
= £4:05p x52
= £210:60p per year
THINK ABOUT IT £210:60p in your pocket :))
boredwhilewaitingtogooutcsc
Rioskorrie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7OCbeXy_5w
Just for you :))
till later all
SKY are desperate to keep the hoardes happy and will spin the news to retain the interest – lets face it there’s nothing on the field in the 4th tier
kevinlasvegas 18:16 on 10 January, 2013
“Good read there with regards to cg saying that his latest guff is to take the shine off the magners deal and its worked tbh”
On the surface it may look like it has worked but in reality it makes no difference at all.
Celtic do not need any plaudits from the media regarding the Magners sponsorship for that deal to be successful. Sevco’s desperate attempt to hog the limelight does not result in Celtic receiving one penny less from our new sponsors.
But Sevco’s public proclamation could have an adverse effect on that club’s attempts to attract a decent sponsorship deal.
What brand is going to pay decent money to be associated with a club that seek to lash out at everyone through the media?
Has Nevada moved to California?
Sky – I think we know what media house have been up to
Leftclicktic,
18 cans Magners at £12 per case at Morrisons.
£ 210.60 saving from not buying rags
= 17 cases of Magners per year for your troubles a few quid left over for the ice :))) ( or 326 cans of Magners for not reading the crap ).
SadgitCSC
Bad Year For Amateur Astronomers…
First,The Irreplaceable Patrick Moore…
Now,Wilko Johnson….
Watch Out..! Brian May…
Saw Ol’ Wilko In ‘The Cricketers”,Kennington Oval…
Back In The Day….
He Wiz LOUDER Than T.S. McPhee & The Groundhogs…..
The Week Afore……
Still…..Stone Deaf, Wi’ Tinnitus…
Before I go I have a mental picture of the league reconstuction meeting a nd vote going on,
With sleekit sally and chuckles wae thier faces pressed up against the outside of the window peekin in saying “SSSHHHHHH whit ur they sayin”
LeftClicktic
Thanks for posting that.
God Bless you Wilko
Jimbo
gourockemeraldbhoy
18:42 on 10 January, 2013
Guys, need some help regarding my sky dish. Number 1 son was playing football outback when a wayward shot hit my lnb and broke the bracket. I’ve searched ebay and found some but how do I know I’m buying the correct one as there seems to be different types.
HH
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Look on it as a sign and do what the rest of the Enlightened have done.
Ditch Sky.
Great to see the Magners deal going ahead, nothing against Tennents but they are a local brand – unless you count the consumers of their Super concoction.
Magners sponsor the W.A.S.P.s you can quaff a chilled cider during the match, also they have a marquee outside Adam’s Park with a live band and a bar…
Could be an interesting addition to the Car Park.
Paul67.
The interview with one or our Polish supporters was brilliant! Thanks to all who wrote in the magazine.
Peatthebeat
Palm Trees, Pier, Sunset- it can only be Rothesay
anybody just hear the last caller on SSB was it CG pretending not to be from yorkshire with the broadest yorkshire accent out
Seriously I think it was him ,it has to be heard to be believed
Chairbhoy
Just a brief visit…..you know why (and forget the later rewriting of their history) why they are called the WASPS!
White Anglo…..you can guess the rest. Trust me.
Hail hail
Estadio
Good evening friends, I hope we are all well.
Big Silver Wedding year for me and Mrs Baldie so what’s the best (in July) – Maldives or Seychelles?
And as we also have a cheeky wee 3 day trip to Rome in April any advice on hotels or even areas to stay would be greatly appreciated.
I know CQN won’t let me down.
Jobo
Rioskorrie @ 18.43,
Sad news, I’ve seen Dr Feelgood not with Wilko unfortunately, though I caught him with the solid senders a few times.
Hope your health issues are sorted.
Steinreignedsupreme re, I was meaning me personally, not the club, It has taken the shine off for me as all ive heard all day is that nugget bumping his gums and little or any about us and Magners, I have no doubt that Celtic keep their own counsel as like us they know they can’t win in a bent msm.
KLV
If Sevco are “where it’s at”, I’m glad I’m not.
Interesting…..
http://cybertims.net/index.php/component/k2/item/294-why-celtic-are-worried-about-the-green-brigade
Gordon DL on Clyde;
“…..The Chairmens of the Montroses”
“I totally agree 100% with Charles Green…”
Jeez!!
Estadio @ 19:10,
Yes I thought so, I’m not really aware of the history and not a fan myself but my youngest played the game so I used to take him, when you have one of the best teams in Europe playing on your doorstep what do you do?
I was visualizing a marquee outside the stadium with the Wolfe Tones banging out the choones, Magners in hand.
Hail! Hail!
I too cancelled sky sports. I’m with Virgin so all I got was the automated cancel process.
Never got the chance to tell anyone why.
Saw the perfect solution for Chuckles this morning on BBC London breakfast show.
They have a series of reports on how to redevelop run down areas etc…
They had a report from a disused shopping centre in Reading (I think) being reused as a Zombie dwelling/entertainment area. Get in there Charlie!
Also noteable was an article in the Daily Mail about business problems at Greggs entitled “Who ate all the pies?”
I guess Chuckles can answer that one too!
cg is an idiot, i could think of nothing worse than having a clown like that acting as the face of celtic, the man has no class. i dont think for a minute pl would get away with half the stuff cg says and does, he reminds me of a second hand car salesman in a shaddy garage.
that said i do wish football chairmen throughout scotland could be more positive about their club and their league rather than the all to often doom lingering after every positive sentance.
hail hail
estorilbhoy
17:15 on
10 January, 2013
……or does it constitute ‘insider dealing’ to artificially push up the share price….??
GourockEmeraldBhoy
A bracket is just that…a bracket, any bracket will do if it holds the Dish. You don’t need a special sky bracket £££££ to make your sky work.
Loved ThomtheTims reply though ;)
JD
AULDHIED.ok pat you saying that guy with the long hair and pitch fork should mark PIRLO.
thomthethim
19:01 on
10 January, 2013
gourockemeraldbhoy
Cheers, seems everybody’s ditched it already. Oh well, plan B then
HH
Any fellow German Bhoys found any Magners in their local Getränkemarkt?
the legend johnny doyle
19:30 on
10 January, 2013
GourockEmeraldBhoy
It’s not for the dish, it’s for the lnb which is attached to the arm. Cheers anyway…
Now I have to talk to the missus cause she ain’t got any soaps to watch, think ill hit the pub.
HH
GOUROCK EMERALD BHOY
A bit of gaffer tape around the bracket is likely to hold it in place. The ball hitting it may have moved the dish off the signal,though.
Also,if you know anyone locally who has cancelled their Sky,ask for their LNB,inc bracket.
Or stop an engineer if you see one.
Re Pirlo
& how to stop him dictating
I think we may have a tactic to stop him from receiving the ball in deep positions were he can spray passes. That tactic would be
Gary Hooper!
He plays in a slightly more withdrawn role lately, can harry opponents into losing possession and start counter attacks for us.
Just a thought.
HH
Seriously I tend to avoid anything that has little to do with Celtic, but as I sat here in Sharkeys the following wee scenario struck me as apt!
The land lay barren, flat, colourless and if mud, rock and bleaching skeletons could ever be classed as sad – then this one was in the depths of chronic depression.
The world had been deserted by the universe to spin lifelessly through the biosphere.
What could possibly be more lonely than a world without purpose, without direction, without soul and without hope.
Welcome to the land of mordor where the only sign of a smile was the the noise of flatulence
Of course things weren’t all bad for outside the immediate environs of Edmiston drive and the Copeland road the sounds of laughter, singing, jollification and colours abounded as mother nature discovered that autumn, summer,spring and winter belonged to the spring of hope that was rooted in dreams ambition and justice.
Meanwhile back in that fifth season of the year where lurk the missing reflections of vampires, nothing of anything stirred, less of any importance evolved and the creatures who once had ventured beyond the tide decided that life (but not as we know it Billy) as unreconstructed ribonucleic acid was preferable to being conscious.
Hail Hail
Estadio
PeteTheBeat
18:29 on
10 January, 2013
Where is that pier by the palm trees in the sunset in the picture at the head of the CQN page?
It looks like somewhere I’ve been in California.
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its definately kelburn beach, oporto del glasgow, between the yards and parklea timber ponds, i do admit the sunset gives it a certain romance –
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3103/2907161553_c9eb3af0c3_z.jpg