I know what you are worried about after last night’s Scotland performance, “He’s going to throw James Forrest in now.” My feeling on the matter is that James, Callum and Kieran all need to ‘work on their fitness’ a bit.
Since managing Scotland for a few months in 2007, a period that included a 0-1 win in Paris, Alex McLeish has been found out in five subsequent appointments, ending ignominiously in North Africa. He has the look of what he is, a man earning enough to make good on a tax bill that recently came his way, and nothing else. Nice gig if you can get it. He also selects players who are banned for life from the national team.
Scotland have the players to beat the 94th team in the world but were not sufficiently competent to fix up a manager who already lives in the country but manages in Belfast, or conduct an adequate search for an alternative.
The result of this, is that fans stopped caring, as do many players, by the look of it. I don’t know a single person who was upset last night, the Scotland international football fascination is over. The once great endeavour of football as a self-contained unit in Scotland is over, everybody knows it. Send our players back to Lennoxtown as soon as possible, please.
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BP
I know your wife fae Liverpool might disagree. I think the best bands in England are from Greater Manchester.
YNWA
Celtic Mac at 7.47.
A few years ago Dundee United fans were on soccer am. That ‘cheeery cheeky cockney’ chap , Ray Winstone , was on it also.
Winstone , thinking he was funny asked the presenter what were all these sweaties doing on the show. The Dundee United fans were beelin at Winstone who was not brought to task for his ridiculous comment.
Anytime Winstone comes on the television now , the channel gets changed or volume turned down.
delaneys dunky https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=frankie+miller+youtube&view=detail&mid=8C53C6B01BD8D77188818C53C6B01BD8D7718881&FORM=VIRE
delaneys dunky, she loves oasis.hh.
TONTINE TIM,
4 Years later we were watching game against Italy on telly brought in by one of the teachers.
St Pat’s was a true education.
VP
Magical Frankie Miller.
Jinky tap worn in USA shows.
Brigton’s finest son ever.
Fenian Frankie Miller
YNWA
jimthetim53, you okay join in on the blog know your on your own.hh.
BSR – DD- MIT – BP1 and others.
Saw Tony Williams Lifetime in Glasgow 1970 with Jack Bruce, Larry Young on organ & John McLaughlin on guitar. After 20 minutes thought my heart had stopped- every breath sucked out of me. Nothing, nothing has come close to that gig for sheer power, emotion and mysticism.
BP1 – Evelyn Glennie is deaf, not blind
okay jim you are my age, favourite bands led zep/deep purple/then don’t laugh the marmalade, and a band I saw at st pats Coatbridge 1969 called teargas, then they changed their name come on what was it, cyber pint if you know it.hh.
scaniel, sincere apologies should have known that.hh.
In 1967 a lot of bands had a go at this song….this is the best…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb57HpieVB0
BP
It is probably his Glesca accent, but Frankie Miller is my favourite ever singer.
YNWA
Scaniel
Wish I was there. I was 4 though. ?
YNWA
DELANEYS DUNKY, garry you wont believe this but after Donny Osmond, frankie miller is joans fav singer.hh.
Remember seeing Frankie Miller at some club in Aberdeen early 70s, he was wonderful, faultless, sadly there was less than twenty people at the gig, still it never bothered yer man, he gave his all.
I was fortunate to have a job with a mob from Edinburgh in the mid 70s, a recording studio, anyways, they used to hire our PA equipment to bands who came to scotland, speakers and the like, I used to get to go and help set it up, saw a fair few decent bands, the best I saw for sound and production was ABBA, they were unbelievable, couldn’t believe what I was hearing, didn’t like what I was hearing but they were superb at it.
RON BACARDI on 12TH OCTOBER 2018 8:35 PM
TONTINE TIM, 4 Years later we were watching game against Italy on telly brought in by one of the teachers.
St Pat’s was a true education.
*I was working up Duntiglennan then, trains were mobbed going home early as the shipyards and factories emptied. as it was an afternoon ko in Naples. When my da came in he was beelin, “you lost hauf a shift watching that mob”, he had nae time for them.
Neither mind being called Jock, what pishes me off is when you introduce yourself as Jimmy, all of a sudden you are called Jim. And that’s here in Scotland?
Dallas Dallas
Ray playing up to his loveable London geezer image again!
SAINT STIVS-brilliant and how good was our Martins team?
BP
Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Pink Floyd were my bands till The Clash appeared. Life changer was White Man in Hammersmith Palais.
Clash City Rocker CSC
Wonder what the average, median, mean age of CQNers is.
BIG PACKY 1 on 12TH OCTOBER 2018 8:50 PM
okay jim you are my age, favourite bands led zep/deep purple/then don’t laugh the marmalade
*saw Marmalade in Balloch while I was still at school they were called the Gaylords then and their lead singer was Tommy Scott, only Junior Campbell and Pat Fairley went on tae Reflections of my Life fame.
I hated Scotty more than Jock, whenever anyone called me that I used tae reply “I’m not a character fae Star Treck (beam me up) or the coach of the Montreal Canadiens (Scotty Bowman).
Scaniel…I also saw Tony Williams’ Lifetime 1970 at the Royal Court Theatre in London…Atomic Rooster was the warm up band…managed to miss them :-) Tony Williams, the drummer, was the real reason I was there. My flatmate had been raving about him. When we entered I saw an enormous drum it on stage, two bass drums, loadsa tom-toms and cymbals…I thought, wow! Then some stage-hands came out and took it away, replacing it with a small bog-standard kit belonging to Tony Williams…but what a drummer-and what a band…I met John McLaughlin here in Glasgow, late 90s I think…I told him I had seen the 1970 gig…he said, “Oh really!’
Jock never bothered me when I was in england or Ireland, it bothers me here for some reason that I can’t fathom, a brit called me Jock a few weeks ago in a condesending tone, I called him a prick in the same tone, very quick to apologise so he was, it’s great when you have an audience :-)
Ron Bacardi
We had a ” what age are you ” confession night on here a few years back.
Mainly 50s, with a few 40s and plenty over 60 .so its a real hipster hangout
David Bowie, Queen, Mott the Hoople, Sweet, Slade, Elton John, Mud, Roxy Music.
Then I moved on a bit to punk rock. Esp. The Sex Pistols.
Went to see Deep Purple & Status Quo at the Appollo twice each. But really couldn’t be bothered. Only went because of pals.
This Croatia v England game is torturous.
A blessing that they are playing in an empty stadium.
Any poor fool paying money to watch this dross would really have felt cheated.
We know what the fighting is all about.
Haves v Have nots.
Worldwide
Peace and Love please
YNWA
Celtic mac, Winstone was in Glasgow a couple of years ago filming something with Robert Carlyle.
Whats the bets he was not brave enough to say Sweaty Socks here.
JTT5
Rick Parfitt must have been Glasgowtonight
YNWA
When I lived in Brum I used to get the occasional little Englander give me the ”alright Jock?” crap and they were immediately given short shrift when I replied “I might be a Jock but my name’s not Jock, right!”
The other one was “what you doing down here Jock?” My usual reply was “drinking your beer and shagging your women!” That pissed them off because it was true ??
RON BACARDI on 12TH OCTOBER 2018 9:02 PM
Wonder what the average, median, mean age of CQNers is.
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Ron Bacardi I will put my cards on the table here, I am 21….
D. :)
Delaneys
Haves v haves nots
Here is a man who knew which side was which
https://youtu.be/B0bezsMVU7c
DAVID66 on 12TH OCTOBER 2018 9:25 PM
RON BACARDI on 12TH OCTOBER 2018 9:02 PM
Wonder what the average, median, mean age of CQNers is.
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Ron Bacardi I will put my cards on the table here, I am 21….
D. :)
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You already told us you were born in 66.
WHAT IS THE STARS on 12TH OCTOBER 2018 9:26 PM
Delaneys Haves v haves nots
Here is a man who knew which side was which
*does a good version of Kevin Barry
https://youtu.be/B0bezsMVU7c
Bbj
Hope Brendans been gave some assurances, apologies if it does work or if it’s been posted already.
Somethings gotta give as we know .
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Up to about twenty years ago I used to come into Glasgow often on a Saturday afternoon. To hear the Bill Fanning swing band. About a sixteen piece band. They were tremendous. I could talk about them all night. But I wont. Just wanted to mention the drummer only played with 3 bits of kit. I think it was symbol, side (snare) drum and a bass drum. You would never know it. The guy was a genius, we all thought he sounded like a percussionist with 15 things in front of him.