What exactly went wrong at yesterday’s Scottish Cup draw? Plastic balls can break open, that wasn’t the problem. The rule which insists that when a ball breaks open the draw must be started again isn’t the problem either. It’s a perfectly reasonable rule, but the event still can the SFA in a dreadful light.
Imagine for a moment that you had a Cup draw to arrange live on international television. You would surely acquire the materials necessary (8 balls and a bowl), and test their effectiveness (mix the balls, pull them out, open), until you were satisfied the process was robust and not likely to embarrass the organisation.
Appropriate preparations were evidently not followed for the Scottish Cup quarter final draw.
Having got to the stage that the draw went wrong, the TV masses were then treated to the most cringe-worthy pregnant pause, as SFA president, Alan McRae completely failed to communicate, either to the watching TV audience, or to the event broadcaster SKY, why he pulled a ball out of the bowl and instead of announcing the tie, declared the draw invalid.
McRae knew the ball was opened before it was drawn, and that this invalidated the draw, but clearly the glaikit-looking TV presenter had no idea what was going on when McRae halted mid-process, neither did the TV audience. A simple explanation:
“This ball is open. Rules state the draw is invalid. We will need to start again.”
….was surely what any person possessing even remote people-awareness or communication skills would have said?
No explanation was given. We were treated instead to the site of a TV presenter trying in vain to figure out why a cup draw was scratched halfway through.
The role of SFA president requires a degree of communication skills, which Mr McRae was hugely bereft of yesterday.
As for the SFA itself, I went to their official site this morning to check the spelling of McRae’s name, only to find they still list Campbell Ogilvie as president, despite McRae’s appointment 8 months ago.
It beggars belief. They just don’t care enough to get the easy things right.
As for getting Morton at Celtic Park! Ooft. After Ross County repeating their Hampden trick on us, Morton will fancy the same.
I know many of you have previously supported the fantastic efforts of Bundoran Bhoy. This year he is doing four runs for Solving Kids’ Cancer, in memory of Oscar Knox. His first is the Great Edinburgh (misnomer?) Run in April, the Edinburgh Marathon in May, Glasgow Men’s 10k in June and the Great Scottish Run Half Marathon in October.
He has just launched his 2016 fundraising efforts, so you can nip in here and encourage him along.
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hamiltontim
Was that not at Inverness?
HH
Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession….
An excellent summation of the media/political manufacture of socialism as extremist.
It’s really sad to see people on here unable or unwilling to separate communism and socialism and to characterise both as extremist.
/p
TBJ says Wee Oscar Knox is in heaven with the angels on 10th February 2016 9:03 am
Reading that the rumenigge led eca are looking at a revisal of the champs league format
They want 20 teams from the top 5 leagues ( Spain Germany Italy France England )
Also talking about automatic qualification for the ” big ” clubs without domestic league position qualifying
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Where’d you read this?
Thanks
HH
p8ddy
being blunt and citing reality I find washes over folk who live their lives believing in fairy stories
Bernie Sanders is a tim who else can overcome such adverse criticism from the establishment huns :)
Poor mate of mine, not long out of hospital following abdominal surgery, taken back in a couple of weeks ago with a pulmonary embolism, probably caused by the nasty cocktail of drugs he’s been taking since the op.
Back home again, fine, apart from the side -effects of the new nasty cocktail of drugs he’s on, and, of course the daily stomach injections for the next couple of months.
Going to give him a call to cheer him up.
Maybe ask him what he’s doing for Lent this year.
To answer my own question…. It was Inverness May 2011
“Balls to 6pm kick offs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P9nOe8soWO0&autoplay=1
HH
MURDOCHAULDANDHAY & WEE OSCAR on 9TH FEBRUARY 2016 10:03 PM
Sad day when another Celtic blog has had enough
http://thecelticnetwork.com/blog/2016/02/09/its-been-a-blast/
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good spot,MAH. Sad day indeed. Some very good articles on it down the years
Davidopoulos on 10th February 2016 9:16 am
Jeez, this morning’s posts have me scratching my head…
How DO you put bold font in your posts? What is the correct way to worship the God of WordPress to allow me to achieve this?
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If its important enough it appears in bold automatically.
Thanks be to WordPress.
HH
DAVIDOPOULOS
Try this,bud.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_b.asp
So it looks like Tom Boyd has the potential of being big Peters most influential signing to date.
traditionalist88
now THAT is funny…
Praise be to Bobby :)
And just for the record Tom Boyd and David Hay are two of my all time Celtic Greats.
Bobby
I’ve also now learned how to do italic and underlined.
I promise to use this power responsibly
Canamalar – No dis-respect, however ye are like a dog chasing it’s own tail – ya keep going round in circles.
I respect your opinions, genuinely.
We are never going to agree though.
It’s an incredible thing that you have faith in Jesus, that’s always going to stand you in good stead as you make your way through this life, onto the next life.
James Connolly was a socialist and a Christian legend.
Peace be with you.
HH.
Underlined does not work.
My faith has been destroyed.
It’s incredible how people can view things differently.
There was me convinced that the BBC,New York Times, CNN,Fox, the Guardian, Reuters,AP, War Street Journal,AFP were all Marxists/Zionist propaganda outlets.
Then a poster claims them to be the opposite of what I know they are.
Amazing.
HH.
Árd Macha on 10th February 2016 9:33 am – See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/sfa-not-caring-enough-morton-ooft/comment-page-14/#comments
Don’t worry mate it will not last too long……………..can think of a few missing characters who once on-line will kick something off……
p8ddy on 10th February 2016 8:57 am
Stalin IS Hitler. He just had a higher body count.
Revisionist lies. I’m making no case for Stalin, but the idea that his body count was up with Hitlers is an invention. Again, not justifying Stalin, but that myth is up there with ‘Gerry Adams is a baby killer!!!” et al.
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No myth.No lies.
That fact comes from the Kremlin and is verified by other reliable sources and is generally accepted by those who have an interest in the truth and are not blinded by their ideology.
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How about this for a hypothesis? The far left IS the far right.
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What comes next? War is peace? Freedom is slavery?
No. But Stalin was every bit as much of a fascist dictator as Hitler.
He just had far more time than Hitler did to slaughter his millions.
Good news this morning, attendance on Saturday confirmed, I’m away to Germany for a week or so from Sunday, so Mrs Doc is coming to the game:-)
Compromise eh!
Makes life tick along nicely.
Anyhooos, off to paint a bathroom, what was I saying about compromise?
Laters.
MON/Keane dream team?
http://etims.net/?p=8631
Remember who you are!!!
The Wakes ~ Never Again (Antifa)
https://youtu.be/IJv1enfeAdU
HH
16 roads – Celtic über alles… on 10th February 2016 10:08 am
Relationsip between………………. media—governments—— wealthy press barons
This guy belows puts it all into truth and perspective for me
https://chomsky.info/
Davidopoulos on 10th February 2016 9:56 am
traditionalist88
now THAT is funny…
Praise be to Bobby :)
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haha
Paddy.
How many people were killed by Stalin?
Dyadkin estimated that the USSR suffered 56 to 62 million “unnatural deaths” during that period, with 34 to 49 million directly linked to Stalin. In “Europe A History,” British historian Norman Davies counted 50 million killed between 1924-53, excluding wartime casualties.
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Buenas noches.
16 roads – Celtic über alles…
James Connolly was a Marxist can you point me in the direction of something I can read on his legendary Christian status??
prestonpans bhoys,
:- )
Waiting with baited breath.
Árd Macha
Morning Celts
Good debate on the blog.
Id just like to add.
Political parties are only mechanisms of social control.
Western society is stuck in a time-warp, unable to move beyond nationalism.
Its not humanitarian concern that drives politics.
To free your mind is to free yourself from someone else’s political beliefs.
Think for yourself.
Mon the Hoops:)
HH
Sorry Ernie Lynch, just seen your contribution.
ERNIE LYNCH on 10TH FEBRUARY 2016 9:20 AM
16 ROADS – CELTIC ÜBER ALLES… on 10TH FEBRUARY 2016 8:29 AM
‘My response was that I don’t think that Brother Walfrid would be over the moon with the Communist/Marxist division of the support – ‘
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He probably wouldn’t be too happy about the number of supporters who are divorced, or who are living in sin or who practice homosexuality.
And he’d probably think the players’ shorts are a bit well, too short.
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‘Communism being the antithesis of Christianity’
Only if you think it is. I’d have thought ‘from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs’ is compatible with most major religions.
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Yes,I agree – Brother Walfrid definitely wouldn’t approve any of what you have listed there – particularly so if any of those acts were taking place inside of Celtic Park.
He’d be livid with the Labour Party as well.
Ye keep reverting back to defending Communism again and again.
Let it go.
The Bolshevik Revolution began in Wall Street – I’ve told you that a million times – It’s a nonsense.
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lionroars67 – Thanks for the link chief – I’ll have a wee read of that now.
HH.
Starry Plough – I’ll get the information whenever I get a wee chance.
Definitely almost one million % certain that Connolly was a devoted Christian as well as a socialist.
HH.
16 roads – Celtic über alles…
Thank you but why you call him a socialist when he was a Marxist??
Seems you’re muddying your own waters there:))
HH
Got to shoot the messages won’t wait..
16 roads – Celtic über alles… on 10th February 2016 10:29 am
I would also recommend some neutral analysis of Marx, not those who attempted to follow
His analysis of the capitalist system, is beyond peer to many academic experts
Suffice it to say, Marx had a profound effect on the world. He is at times considered the father of the social sciences and his economic philosophy is still considered a brilliant and insightful analysis of the human condition.
Im sure James Connolly would have been highly amused at the analysis of his political legacy on CQN.
Hilarious.
HH
Lymmbhoy on 10TH FEBRUARY 2016 9:34 AM
It was definitely at Perth mate.
Starry Plough:
On the morning of May 12th 1916, with shrapnel in his chest and his ankle shattered by a bullet, Connolly was transported from a secure hospital in Dublin to Kilmainham Jail. He was carried on a stretcher from the ambulance to the courtyard, pausing briefly to allow him to meet with a priest. He is said to have confessed his sins to the priest and received communion; his first religious acts since his wedding in 1890. Famously, when the priest asked whether he could forgive the men who were about to shoot him, Connolly replied “I will pray for all men who do their duty according to their lights [conscience]“. He then smiled wickedly and whispered “Forgive them father, for they know not what they do”.
HH.
Isn’t Socialiam the truest reflection of Christianity?
It works for me.
Break over.
Hopefully there will be some positive news for us in 6-9 months following the review of the format of the Champions League and in particular regarding access to the competition.
HH
LIONROARS67
Spot on.
Marx was a brilliant political journalist.
Although, some of his ideas, were better than others.
Marx understood the forces of Capitalism.
But he could not change the underlying basis of class privilege, simply by offering his theory of Capital.
I dont think Marx, would have recognised Lenin, Trotsky, or Stalin as Communists.
Just a few random thoughts.
HH