I remember some disparaging comment from sections of the Scottish sporting media regarding Mikael Lustig’s performances for Sweden at Euro 2012. Mikael had only recently joined Celtic and was still finding his feet in Scotland. In short, we didn’t have enough information to make an informed judgement before the Euros. We do now.
His energy levels, speed, height, crossing and general levels of performance has been remarkably high and consistent. Sweden handed him the job of subduing one of the world’s top three players at their recent World Cup qualifier in Portugal, Ronaldo was shackled, scoring only when he left Mikael’s area of the field.
There is a notion that this type of player, who can perform solidly at Champions League and international level, but who we can convince to renew his contract, is more important than the more stellar performers, who have an eye on the exit door.
Adam Matthews timely return from injury will compensate for Mikael’s absence as he recuperates post-op, but we’ve never looked as effective on the right since both of them were fully fit.
The reaction to yesterday’s AGM at Ibrox has been surprising, mostly as it surprised anyone. The outcome has been a forgone conclusion for weeks (if not months), while the realisation of what the future is going to look like for Newco has finally dawned on a few.
A generation brought up to believe in sugar daddies will have to learn: expenditure must equal or be less than income over any given business cycle.
In this respect, I cannot figure why fans are so unhappy with the Newco board, whose central failing has been to spend far too much money on wages for a manager and players. From what I hear, no one at the AGM demanded football budget is cut to an appropriate level.
As their new chairman said, costs will be cut; doing so is a financial imperative. The current Rangers might play in the same colours as its liquidated predecessor, but things will never – eeeeeeeever – be the same again.
This afternoon is the final pre-Christmas posting time if you want your CQN Annual before the day:
Willie Wallace, Heart of a Lion:
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Hoopy do-Season’s Greetings from Stewartfield :)
soukous….but they also gave us Una Stubbs.0-;)
Due to current investigations……………. possibly suspenderless!
So f Tunis – sometimes it’s better not to know…
I don’t mind talentless f#ckwits like Glitter or DLT being done but Roy did write’ When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease’.
Soukous, The Trumpton riots?
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy…
!!Bada Bing!!
Upper or Lower Stewartfield?
I wouldnt mingle with those goat herders and yodellers from the Lower
For girls who grow plump in the night and
If I could do it all over again, I’d do it all over you
by Caravan
not saying I like them, mind
I was always under the impression that Trafford Park was a business park in Trafford. Anyway, Old Trafford might be in Greater Manchester but then so is Salford, which was a City long before Manchester. It’s like saying Rutherglen is in Greater Glasgow.
…and One of those days in England
Hoopy -upper mate,that’s east Mains :)
ASonOfDan
14:53 on
20 December, 2013
Or they’ve carried out the investigation, decided they can’t justifiably continue the suspension (to give it the correct term) and lifted it.
Big Nan
Question, Are you a mason ?
Answer , It depends on who is asking and where the question is asked.
Maybe they could wink for a yes or make some other vague type of gesture to affirm the positive
Album titles: Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins by Sparks.
Talking of the boul’ wee pastor…………….
I remember when the Pope visited Bellahouston, coverage showed the Popemobile sweeping out the Park and the Big Man busily offering his blessings to the crowds –
– the boul’ pastor an, his cohorts were waiting angrily to berate him as he swept passed ‘majestically’……….and blessed them all.
Priceless.
Is a mason allowed to tell you that he is a mason? Kind of defeats the point of being a secret society doesn’t it?
A new years ago when I was working mainly in London I was in a pub in Holburn with an Irish friend. In the middle of the evening about 20 men in dark suits and ties carrying brief cases walked in. Turned out the biggest Masonic temple in England was just around the corner …
Sarah Palin is a mason
I thought it was 111 that were being relocated, not the punters formally known as the banned.
Old Trafford resides in the Municipal Borough of Trafford, not Salford or Manchester. Trafford os one of 10 Boroughs that make up the Greater Manchester Regional Area. So Man United are not within the Borough of Manchester but are within the Greater Manchester Regional Area.
So like St Mirren is to Glasgow, Man Utd is to Manchester
HH
Following Kerem Canatan on twitter during the trial of the Amsterdam 6 was all well and good, but if he doesn’t stop tweeting in Dutch, he’s going to find himself gettin’ unfollowed, unsuspensded or some such. Just sayin’.
Was in a pub in Dennistoun surrounded by huns one Thursday night ,guy walks in suit ,lapel badge,ring and matching tie,wi the wee wooden case.I said “he must be food he’s got his own cue…..”
Afternoon all- supposed to be getting a shout to go on the Baker & Kelly’s VSPO @ 6-7.00pm on BTSport1 tonight.
Subject – have you ever pretended to support another team?
Guess who I picked?
Not sure if they will phone me but will drop in references to a team being dead if I can.
HH
Thindimebhoy
15:30 on 20 December, 2013
Big Nan
Question, Are you a mason ?
Answer , It depends on who is asking and where the question is asked.
Maybe they could wink for a yes or make some other vague type of gesture to affirm the positive
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I suppose the question to ask would be have you ever taken an oath in a fraternal organisation?
Or have you ever taken the oath of Entered Appentice in freemasonry?
The late David McLetchie highlighted the problem of getting Masons to admit membership when he sat with IDS on the 6 O’clock Scottish News and mocked the tv interviewer who asked him if he were one.
He and IDS laughed, hitched up trouser leg etc. but he was later forced to admit he had (past tense) been a member of a Mussleburgh lodge but didn’t consider himself to be one now as he hadn’t attended, paid fees etc for years, so hadn’t lied.
Semantics eh. But the Sun had him set up for this as a disgruntled ex brother of the lodge had it in for McLetchie and had told them so he had to climb down.
Grand Lodge stepped in and said once a Mason, always a Mason.
Masons are duty bound to divert the discourse.
The thing is this taboo (don’t mention the Masons) needs to be challenged as any secret society is the very antithesis of meritocracy.
Bada Bing proving cannibalism is alive in denistoun ;)
Big Nan
Totally bizarre response from one of Scotland’s top cops.
The mad hatter cannot be far away.
Gordon j.
I think I was in the same pub to meet crc. I can’t remember if he was carrying a briefcase or wearing a suit.
One to watch.
Celtic Mac
15:49 on 20 December, 2013
Big Nan
Totally bizarre response from one of Scotland’s top cops.
The mad hatter cannot be far away.
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No this is bizarre from one of Scotland’s top cops and the man who said he would smash the Green Brigade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsgKS2CJueU
He certainly wasn’t smashing the keyboard was he?
Over a million hits in various videos.
Stewartfield is right bang in the middle of the northerly periphery of East Kilbride. Until 20 years ago it was just some fields, undistinguished but for a public toilet at the Markethill Road end.
The clever marketeers at Stewart Milne homes reckoned WC Fields wasn’t a winner though.
The rest is housing history.
Is it true that a Roman Catholic if invited to join the Masonic Order would be asked to denounce his religion?
I’d like to apply the ole medieval test of Masonry.
10 minute dunk in the river. If he lives he’s not a mason. If he dies he was. That should work in most cases.
HH
I think the masonic secrecy thing is quite funny at times. My cousin’s brother in law is was desperate to join the masons. His father in law (who no longer attends because he says it’s full of trumpets and neds) got him in. Whenever he’s heading for the ludge he posts it on Facebook! Clearly he wants everyone to know. My view is that he has very low self-esteem and is looking for some kind of kudos from people who would otherwise completely ignore him. Or maybe he’s just a trumpet.
Burgas Hoops
15:55 on 20 December, 2013
Is it true that a Roman Catholic if invited to join the Masonic Order would be asked to denounce his religion?
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The common type of freemasonry admits people of any religion and I think the ban is from the RC Church which at various times has issued edicts forbidding Masonic membership.
RC Church also forbids contraception etc. so no big deal for most cherry-picking RCs the likes of whom I have known many.
wrong bloody thing
Willie Haughey and James Mortimer done a feature on BBC The One Show about 9 months ago,the handshake at the end of the article……….is Tiny Wharton/John Greig proportions.
…you have to scroll down a bit….
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon 15:39 on 20 December, 2013
“A new years ago when I was working mainly in London I was in a pub in Holburn with an Irish friend. In the middle of the evening about 20 men in dark suits and ties carrying brief cases walked in. Turned out the biggest Masonic temple in England was just around the corner …”
That’s in Covent Garden. There is a shop across the road which sells all the regalia as well.
The main purpose of Freemasonry is to help inadequate people get on in life.
!!Bada Bing!!
16:04 on 20 December, 2013
Willie Haughey and James Mortimer done a feature on BBC The One Show about 9 months ago,the handshake at the end of the article……….is Tiny Wharton/John Greig proportions.
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I could never understand the handshake thing as I had a lad working with me who was the nicest bloke you could ever meet, a big gentleman.
Every year before Christmas break-up I would shake hands with him and every year he would give me the Master Mason one (he was Master of an overseas lodge in Africa) and every year I didn’t reciprocate. It was embarrassing for me but not him apparently.
Could never figure that out unless of course he assumed that being in business and getting work at BP Refinery that I had to be in the Masons.
Steinreignedsupreme
16:06 on 20 December, 2013
The main purpose of Freemasonry is to help inadequate people get on in life.
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Mostly but in Scotland there is a sectarian element too.