The sun is shining on Celtic Park as the Easter weekend gets underway, while Celtic face Motherwell tomorrow, who look like they have discovered the limits of Stuart McCall’s managerial abilities this spring.
After some difficult news this week, here’s a ‘Happy Birthday CQN’ message from Wee Oscar, which he recorded last month; an even bigger ray of sunshine than the one beating down on Scotland.
Enjoy the break, if you’re getting one.
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Love Cosmic
Cosmic Love, all Christians should be very wary.
“Approach and Identify”?
The Cosmic Christ is the AntiChrist~~~~~~~~Unfortunately the Jews will believe the Antichrist to be God.
Stay Tuned.
NB
Bankie Tims rule Bankieland braw :)))
awfy braw …..and folk better start getting used to the good times … braw …tell me a story from North Elgin Street ………braw
Delaneys Dunky
02:05 on
19 April, 2014
Thanks,pal.
Great to hear your great affection for Pope Francis.
He certainly seems to be healing a few scars.
God willing he succeeds.
Thanks for your lovely Easter good wishes.
God Bless you and all yours.
Matte 24 – wow!
An Tearmann
02:02 on
19 April, 2014
Don`t recognise the lyrics,mate.
Probably on one of the Humblebums albums.
From memory ,there were two.
delaneys dunky and neustadt-braw,
Now you Bankie Bhoys are talking, have a great Easter weekend wherever you are.
AR
NB
Clydebank was awash wi the hoops and the gold in the sun away top. The zombie resistance was a Chelsea shirt at Yoker as I drove to 3pm mass. Their grandchildren shall be Tims. The bigoted grandkids will be Chelsea/Linfield fans. :))
winning captains
01:06 on
19 April, 2014
Meansong – that Strawberry Fields in Central Park that Yoko Ono paid for is similar to a patio set at B&Q. Very disappointing!
meansong
01:10 on
19 April, 2014
was there 10 years ago .
took us ages to find the patio.ma daft burd/wife at the time. after a fe@ck sake thats it.
IM AGAIN.
wa flowers.
still bring it up
ha ha
Cosmic Baby
Cosmic Baby
Luke Back?
The Story….
is
already written.
John the Revelator, over to you.
DD fae the bankieland (no yoker)…I say KTF and think always braw things …
……goodnight to all ,its been a braw day …..a few ticks …….and then a few “tocks” aye braw ……………………………
AR …..you are always in my thoughts …..been a crazy time for your wee part of the world …….braw
AR
Canny wait to buy you a Pint in Chandlers. Happy Easter. God bless bro.
Nae Dr Ugs consumed as well.
Happy people that have very little.
Neustadt-Braw
02:21 on
19 April, 2014
maryhill valley ya bass
good night
HH
all bankies know this ………..braw …..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2NcQo9xQIs
Where have we went wrong?
Apostacy.
butsybhoy
02:27 on
19 April, 2014
Neustadt-Braw
02:21 on
19 April, 2014
maryhill valley ya bass
good night
HH
……………………..
braw………….
petec
02:07 on 19 April, 2014
Love Cosmic
“Approach and Identify”?
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It’s a sample from the US Sci-Fi show ‘Logan’s Run’
An tearmann,
Song was from an album called cop yer wack.
Still got it in the loft i think,
Big yin album from the 70’s.
and another wee song for
AR
maks braw greet every time ….but a braw braw song and singer…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEqugr8FVXU
Hail Hail
Neustadt-Braw
02:28 on 19 April, 2014
all bankies know this ………..braw …..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2NcQo9xQIs
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Quality, ta for sharing.
Come on Brendan win it by playing Jock Stein Fitba, attacking relentlessly from the first whistle. You can do it.
TBhoy
Hail Hail sir!
Hope we all find our holy ground to settle on. Paradise!
MooooonTheHoops
02:32 on 19 April, 2014
petec
02:07 on 19 April, 2014
Love Cosmic
“Approach and Identify”?
———————————
It’s a sample from the US Sci-Fi show ‘Logan’s Run’
Sci Fi?
hehe, thanks for the information, superb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avP-8i_YEO8
VYT
HAIL HAIL
neustadt-braw
02:34 on 19 April, 2014
You are fae farfar
Eh was brought up in Dundee
Used te rake the skips in Kirriemuir
Magic
Travellerbhoy
02:34 on 19 April, 2014
Hail Hail
_____________________
Hail Hail Mr T.
Ah yer welcome…
http://youtu.be/BL4x3gpqMvM
its that time of year again ………….your indulgence is required ….my Dad remembers this as if it was tomorrow ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMf6IyJI0e4
Petec
Brendan is heavily linked to Glasgow.
I went to St Thomas Aquinas with his cousins from Knightswood and Scotstoun. I pray Liverpool are Champions and Everton 2nd :)
neustadt,
Braw on both counts, you’re a good mhan, I went to the Irish club in Perth to listen to us stop the ten in 1998, glad things have changed a bit since then.
DD, Chandlers is coming soon, just a few more jobs to do then back towards the end of July to see my Dad, my sis was 50 yesterday, they were having a big night so some sore heids on Saturday!
Macjay, enjoyed Billy and the ten guitars.
Off oot for the messages next!
AR
Butsybhoy
Hi Ho Temple Scurvy! :))
delaneys dunky
Hey mhan
Thanks I’m no a religious person
Remember when I was talking about my sister rose and you called her the flower of tayside
Brill mhan cos she was
Hail Hail
Macjay, track is called ‘Sergeant wheres mine’ on Billy connollys cop your whack album.good lyrics soz cant do youtube thingy yet
HH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO5GWJJP3FM
that wat are memories are made of
HH
Hootsman article on Sevco hits nail on head shockeroonie…….
IN ROBERT Bolt’s play and film, A Man For All Seasons, Sir Thomas More assembles his numerous domestic staff to break the bad news that he has fallen on irredeemably hard times.
“I am no longer a great man,” he begins. “And since I am no more a great man, I no longer need a great household. Nor can I afford one. You will have to go.”
Here was a practical demonstration of the kind of acute insight and quick wits that gave rise to the former Lord Chancellor’s reputation as one of 16th-century England’s most formidable intellects.
Of course, More would also have been quick to acknowledge that even the humblest peasant farmer, faced with financial catastrophe – a failed crop, say – would have been similarly aware instantly of the necessity of a protracted period of austerity, or even abandonment of his smallholding and relocation as an employee on a steady, if modest, income.
It is a grasp of elementary economics that seems somehow to have eluded anyone charged with executive duties at Rangers throughout the years since the instigator of the old club’s decline, David Murray, began the large-scale, reckless extravagance that led to calamity.
Since then, despite the onset of administration and liquidation and passing through the hands of a succession of regimes to the present board of directors, the Glasgow institution has existed in a constant state of financial vulnerability, with no-one among the numerous sets of “saviours” apparently willing to identify certain damaging truths and take appropriate remedial action.
This speaks of a culture problem at Ibrox, one that became entrenched during the 140 years that preceded liquidation in 2012 and has generally not even been acknowledged, far less addressed, despite the overwhelming evidence of the need to abandon principles that have been rendered wasteful by monetary imperatives.
Chief among these actions is to emulate Thomas More and concede that Rangers are no longer a great club. That is, “great” in the sense of magnitude, as opposed to their historic high achievement and the resultant command of the affections and allegiances of many thousands of followers.
An organisation whose annual turnover once was close to £60 million has now, according to the latest returns, shrunk to £19m – and even that amount is likely to be reduced again at the end of the current financial year. Yet, in the wake of liquidation of the old club and the birth of the new, the directors saw fit to sanction a yearly wage bill of around £7m for players charged with winning the fourth- and third-division championships.
Salaries of non-playing personnel make the total around £9m, while the general costs of running the operation drain the kitty of £1.4m per month. These ludicrously high outgoings having to be met entirely from the club’s working capital, since their history of leaving behind creditors owed millions when entering administration means they no longer have access to credit lines at the banks.
Despite the obviously perilous condition of their finances (a recent emergency loan of £1.5m from private individuals required simply to remain solvent until the end of the season), numerous supporters are immovable in their conviction that Rangers remain a “massive” club whose rightful place is at the head of Scottish football’s Premiership and competing creditably in the Champions League.
There is, of course, nothing intrinsically flawed about aiming for the stars, but the problem with too many Rangers followers is that they want it to happen yesterday. Their ideal is the instant cure of a wealthy benefactor taking control and providing an unconditional minimum £50m of funding with which the team could be transformed from lower-league capabilities to national champions in the blink of an eye.
And yet, curiously, there appears to be a substantial number of fans willing to rally to the banner of Dave King, the South Africa-based entrepreneur who, astonishingly, has publicly declared his unwillingness to invest in the club. So far, he has offered only words, primarily to blacken the names of the current directors.
King has also shown himself to be as inconsistent as many who have become involved in the propaganda war at Ibrox, at first encouraging supporters not to renew their season tickets, then changing tack by saying that the chief executive, Graham Wallace, should be allowed to complete his 120-day review of the business, before returning this week with another fusillade in the direction of the board. King, convicted on more than 40 counts of tax evasion in South Africa, accused the opposition of a lack of integrity and honesty.
But, among the array of head-turning schemes associated with disenchanted fans and the directors, the most preposterous is surely the demand by the former to be handed security over Ibrox Stadium and Murray Park as part of their renewing season tickets. This is like insisting that M&S give customers security over their flagship Oxford Street store in exchange for a pledge to buy more merchandise.
The entire season-ticket phenomenon, in fact, has been warped into a grotesque caricature of its traditional place in the game and led to the utterly meaningless and misleading question: “What happened to the fans’ money?” This clearly ignores the fact that, when a ticket is bought, the money becomes the seller’s while the buyer gets the ticket. It’s not complicated. At the core of the Ibrox morass, however, there ought to be a warning that the fans should be careful what they wish for.
Institutional investors collectively make up a large majority of shareholders, but each has actually spent a comparatively tiny amount on acquiring their equity. If they continue to be harassed, they could consider the venture not to be worth the bother, sell off the assets and close down the business.
Traveller bhoy you still writing?
Hope all is good with you
HH