No, that’s not an outbreak of Tourettes across small patches in the west of Scotland, it is the long-suffering Newco fans realisation that their board have been breathtakingly incompetent in their attempts to recruit a manager.
In many respects, briefing the media ahead of their two games against Aberdeen and an AGM that Derek McInnes would be installed at Ibrox this week, had the desired effect. The players were sufficiently motivated to out-perform Aberdeen, while Dave King got through the AGM on a nod and a wink. The falsehood of the assertion, however, will surely come at a cost. King will hope that memories fade before he has to face fans again in 51 weeks.
My immediate reaction when I read the ridiculous statement from Newco last night was that their hilarious PR system was at the keyboard while jaked. They spend six weeks targeting McInnes, then, after he rejected them, claimed this was evidence he was not up to the job.
An obscure phrase was used, “concomitant risk”, instead of the more common “associated risk”. There’s a fair bit of research into why people unnecessarily use complex and obscure words instead of simpler alternatives. None of it is flattering.
I assumed the statement was the work of Newco’s shamlessly-brilliant PR operation, but a studious CQN’er emailed this clip of Dave King’s AGM speech last year.
4 minutes 29 seconds in he states they should: “run an operating deficit, without a concomitant event risk that could lead to a repeat of the last few years”. Last night’s statement has Dave’s tones all over it. Fewer and fewer people compliment the emperor on his new outfit.
A big thanks to teams two and three in the league, who have damaged their positions and/or humiliated themselves, while Celtic have extended their lead at the top of the table.
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HAPPY HOOOOPY BIRTHDAY to
CELTICROLLERCOASTER !!!!!!
Guys,
While the story of the biitz,s are tragic they are also fascinating.
One thing that may surprise CQN,ers is that Peterhead was the second most bombed district in Britain after London.
HH.
We now know……ye cannae use a sash as a lasso.
Follies bear-gerz-eez
BIG JIMMY on 8TH DECEMBER 2017 7:38 AM
You have had a fair number of blows in the last few years, but your indomitable spirit comes through on your posts.
We read contributions on here from different viewpoints, some we agree with, others, we don’t.
Sometimes we imagine what the poster’s lifestyles and experiences are like and form an opinion of that poster.
It is a foolish thing to do, as in reality, we don’t really know what is happening from day to day with each other.
Your posts are usually very open and honest and like today, revealing.
As someone very close to me often says, ” You never know where another’s shoes are nipping”.
I would enjoy sharing a half pint of ale with you.
BSR,
You are in particularly sparkling form today.
I am delighted that we have qualified for Europe after Christmas but I am concerned that we are falling further away from being a force in Europe. At the moment we are miles ahead in Scotland but struggle to complete 3-4 passes when playing football in European competition. If we buy in players that radically improve the team all we get is how short a time we will be able to hold onto them before they head off to a “bigger” league. Apart from moving to another league.
Tourettes ? Well %$^* me!
Raising a wee glass to all the fine gentlemen and ladies in The Blane Valley as they do their bit for the degentrification of The Merchant City.
Hope you all have a day to piece together in fragments.
CRC,
Happy birthday. Hope you have a great day.
yorkbhoy on 8th December 2017 2:17 pm
I am delighted that we have qualified for Europe after Christmas but I am concerned that we are falling further away from being a force in Europe. At the moment we are miles ahead in Scotland but struggle to complete 3-4 passes when playing football in European competition. If we buy in players that radically improve the team all we get is how short a time we will be able to hold onto them before they head off to a “bigger” league. Apart from moving to another league.
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I recommend Soccernomics
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617185-soccernomics
where the underlying dynamics that cause the ever widening gap are explained.
Until those change and football related income is more equitably distributed the trend will continue.
Celtic benefit domestically and we enjoy it but of course are unhappy when the same dynamic works against us outside Scotland.
That’s just about all of the signed copies of Jim Craig – Right Back to 67, The Lisbon Lion Diary posted and to all corners of the world too. All the copies to Britain and the 6 counties have an additional gift added.
Jim has around 20 copies to add personal dedications to and he will be doing this on Monday morning, so if you want a personal dedication added for a Christmas gift or whatever, order at cqnbookstore.co.uk then email david@cqnpublishing.co.uk with the message you’d like Jim to add.
These will be posted on Monday and will include a copy of That Season in Paradise so gives you a great Lisbon gift for someone or even yourself!
TOSB
The giggle that keeps on giving
As the unbeaten run and domestic dominance continues I find myself thinking more and more of Tommy Burns.
Across the city they are trying to appoint a manager to stop us winning ten and while the circumstances are entirely different, Tommy effectively took this challenge on his shoulders in ’95.
What a job he did for us, ably completed by Wim Jansen.
But the more I contemplate his legacy, the more I realise he is one of the greatest figures in the clubs history, perhaps only behind Brother Walfrid and Jock Stein ? Why is this ?
I have my own views and hope to write a few pieces on this blog about it in the lead up to Christmas. Not sure why he is dominating my thoughts when it comes Celtic at the moment but given the impact BR has confessed Tommy made on his own development it is a beautiful thing that his legacy and influence is living on in the day to day of the club. Bottom line is we should not be hesitating in renaming Lennoxtown after him.
TJ
JOBO @ 1.37
But we knew what he meant.
THOMTHETIM,
Just saw your kind post about me, thanks for your kind words .
Life’s been very tough at times since having my job taken from me in 2009, and the whole domino effect of that unfair dismissal, but like many others you have to soldier on.
Its another half pint of Lemsip I need right now, not ale sadly !
I won’t make the party today as I’m lying wrapped up on the sofa watching TV cis of this chest infection hoping I’ll be match fit for Sundays game v the Hibees.
I’d love to have been in the BV today, but I could have spread this infection to some cqnrs ?
Best not.
Cheers mate, and I’m sure the Buoys will have ” a rare tear” in the BV today.
HH
Wee Rachel
Big Jimmy
You keep missing any more of these things through injury or illness, and we are going to change your blog name form Big Jimmy to Wee Shaun Maloney.
Seriously, feel better pal!
ps … if you are infectious … maybe a little trip down to the Louden for pint?!
:)
Craig Whyte the man that put the quid in liquidation Dave King the man that put the con in concomitant.
Tom Joad
It is hard to pick one or two Celts out, without feeling like I am sort of disrespecting others .. but, like you, I would make an exception for Tommy Burns.
Silly question… but I have never been through all the inner workings of Celtic Park. Is there is chapel inside? If not, maybe there should be. The Tommy Burns Memorial Oratory (Chapel).
BSR@2:52 … brilliant! That’s a GB banner waiting to happen!
HAHAHAH BSR
HJ- the huns have the brassneck to ask McInnes to resign and do Milme over, they have no shame.
BIG JIMMY on 8TH DECEMBER 2017 7:24 AM
Re Huns statement in relation to McInnes…..
In years gone by whenever the best looking girl at a party or disco would knock back my advances, I would simply tell my mates ….,..” Doesn’t matter….she had Big Ears anyway” !
*reminds me of the ad or commercial as they call it over here in the early 70s with the wee lassie that was in Man About The House, she waits for a lad outside the pictures and when he disnae show up goes home quite upset and her mother makes her hot chocolate and she says the same statement.
HRVATSKI JIM on 8TH DECEMBER 2017 1:37 PM
Bada,
I expect to see CQN full of apologies for the slurs about Stuart Milne who was supposed to be complicit due his other business requirements.
*Yip felt like kirk broadfoot last night as I was totally convinced mcsleekit was heading there. Don’t think it was anything to do with milne but possibly naesurname and chauncey telling him tae stay where he is.
Paul67 et al
Just finished reading back reading the blog from before and after the Clydebank Blitz on BBC2 last night. CQN at its’ finest thanks no doubt to the local and family connections to the town itself. (eg the fact that Delaneys Dunky knew everyone interviewed on the programme). Learned a lot from the contributions of all. CQN sometimes takes off on its’ own, and it did last night. Special mention to the narrator, Shaun Dooley, originally from Barnsley who brought not only a bone fide Northern accent to the story, but a working class one at that, you could tell every time he referred to “The Bankies”, the empathy and the affection in his voice. Harrowing but great broadcasting.
(nb if you saw Shaun as Sir William Wade in Ronan Bennet’s ‘Gunpowder’ you will note he is not a man to be messed about with)
Big Jimmy,
Sorry to read that your laid up with that damn chest infection.
I have been fighting that, along with half the country, for months.
It came to ahead when we landed in Tenerife last month and developed into bronchial pneumonia.
The excellent doctor out there was going to hospitalise me, but decided to try me with antibiotic injections and the nebullisor.(sp)
Five days of that and three of oral antibiotics got me virtually cured.
There were still lingering symptoms though and this week my own doctor put me on another course of antibiotics and a short course of steroids.
I feel the best I have been in a long, long time.
I hope it is not just the steroids!!!
The moral of the story is, don’t neglect it as you don’t want to develop the “Old Man’s Friend”, i.e., Pneumonia.
Good afternoon fholks
Thanks for the birthday wishes, very much appreciated.
Up at Dundee Uni at mo, with oldest daughter who is being interviewed for medicine, which is one of her options, when she leaves school.
Keep her and indeed all other kids in your thoughts.
Big thank you to BMCUWP’s niece for valued support, encouragement and advice to date. It has really helped Caityrollercoaster.
Home in a couple of hours and then maybe a couple of birthday beers.
HH
CRC
Very hoopy birthday to the excellent CQN’r ole Celticrollercoaster
We can draw the following teams on Monday:
CSKA Moscow, Zenit St Petersburg, Lokomotiv Moscow (RUS)
Atletico Madrid, Villarreal, Athletic Bilbao (ESP)
AC Milan, Atalanta, Lazio (ITA)
Sporting CP, Braga (PRT)
RB Leipzig (GER)
Dynamo Kiev (UKR)
Viktoria Plzen (CZE) or Arsenal (ENG).
Word of the Deacade
Kleptocracy –
government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed; also : a particular government of this kind
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find a government anywhere that does not reek of this.
It also applies to some football clubs.
Deacade = Deekade
CRC – Happy birthday M, have a great day
The Grey Brigade in the BV – Sad to be missing out, party the day and night away ( I know Old Tim will) ;)))
HH
Concomitant
CELTICROLLERCOASTER SUPPORTING @WALKWITHSHAY
Happy Birthday CRC have a great day mate.
Some wonderful posts last night and some quality CQN humour around:))
Bring on the Hibs
MIT and THOM,
Cheers Bhoys.
If I’m still.unwell next week, I’ll need to see a Doc cos I’ve been like this for weeks on and off ?
Its playing havoc with my drinking habits, not to mention my usual pursuits of the fairer sex !
All the best Bhoys and Happy Birthday to CRC…have a great one mate !
HH
Cant wait til am old enough to join the grey brigade, ha, ha! :-)
Have a great day in the BV.
HH
CRC
MIKE IN TORONTO on8TH DECEMBER 2017 2:53 PM
Tom Joad
It is hard to pick one or two Celts out, without feeling like I am sort of disrespecting others .. but, like you, I would make an exception for Tommy Burns.
Silly question… but I have never been through all the inner workings of Celtic Park. Is there is chapel inside? If not, maybe there should be. The Tommy Burns Memorial Oratory (Chapel).
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I don’t think there is but about 18 months ago or so I put the idea of an oratory in the proposed museum to Tony Hamilton citing the internals of the wee shrine at Schoenstaat to Our Lady up at Campsie Glenn as a model.
I thought it could be a place to visit and remember the lives of those that had brought us to Celtic.
He was warm to the suggestion knowing the place personally and I’m a great believer in good ideas, once planted, blossom if cultivated…. :)