Yesterday’s Sunday Mail exposé on attempts by the SPFL to change the balance of power within the SFA in favour of the professional clubs, while changing their bowling club committee-approach to running the game, was worthy of some merit but clearly the result of an SFA leak designed to undermine the proposed changes.
Any organisation which has a built-in requirement for office-bearers to have enough spare time on their hands in the years before nomination to attend mind-numbingly boring committee meetings is set on a path for mediocrity. Only those not busy enough with real world issues and challenges will qualify, meaning your best talent is never eligible, which is why we end up with a president like Campbell Ogilvie, who met the mediocre standards and is kept there by equally able under-achievers.
The Sunday Mail try to make out that the proposed move is a grab for cash, although they also explain why this cannot really be the case. It’s not a grab for cash, it’s not a subversive plot by Premiership clubs, it is an acknowledgement by the professional clubs that the systems of governance and administration in the game is inept and that they do not currently have the control to change things.
Our game needs deliverance from the bowling club committee.
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David Moyes will get another EPL gig in the summer – there are bound to be changes. Spurs? West Ham? Newcastle?
Giggs set to get the gig.
Sevco brought in a legendary player and just look how well they’ve done?
Give me Neil Lennon any day…
BSR
Can’t see Martinez being even considered.
Big Name now required I think…( whatever that means)…….the fans, corporate investors meeja hoopla etc.
I honestly don’t knowwho/ where they will look to for a replacement. Tough times ahead…..
……………………mibbe Walter will come out of retirement (hidin’)
HH
MWD
I believe it was the Brendan Rodgers piece about watching Celtic as a kid.
A fairly public interview highlighted in The Sun but not deemed newsworthy elsewhere.
It was posted on here round about midnight (got my iPod on,so cue for a song!)
Man u are going to find it difficult now. They got lucky with Fergie and a crop of players which gave them success. Now there are 2 clubs with far more money than they have and they are about to start a manager merry go round with an ok team. We also have serious third and fourth place competition from Liverpool and Arsenal over the next couple of years. Their fans are about to find out how different the epl is now compared to when fergie started. What does the club do now- offer big money to a new manager, try to tempt a couple of barca’s peripheral players ? There’s no Ronaldo coming through the ranks. Spurs spent Bale’s money and discovered how much ok players cost.
Tuesday is a quiet day for me. No Golf, Mrs corkcelt does a few hours in a Charity Shop and I mooch around looking for things to justify not cutting the grass or not doing some other obvious chore. Thanks to paddybhoy problem solved today, had been forewarned that a personalised Golf Shirt was on its way but didn’t expect it to be accompanied by Willie Wallace & Seville Books plus a beanie. Will make my appreciation in a more tangible way via Mary’s Meals but would like to first of all sincerely thank paddybhoy, Winning Captains and anyone else involved, my day is sorted.
Chelsea went for big names time and again and only achieved success with a stop-gap. Still dunno how they won the EPL in 2010,but that counts too.
Point is,reputation is nothing nowadays. I think Man Utd are in deep deep trouble.
That squad needs torn to shreds and rebuilt. I said it a year ago and I repeated it yesterday.
And frequently inbetween.
To reshape a squad to that extent will probably destroy the culture and structure which made the club a success.
To be honest,they need Alex Ferguson. And that ship has sailed.
Thankyou very much for the Aintree irony
Thankyou very much
Thankyou very very much
DBBIA/ScaffoldCSC.
BMCUWP
I know about the interview and the post and read BR’s comments all over twitter.
I am just wondering what the actual experiment was that Winning Captain’s set up?
MWD say YIPPEEEE
I don’t give a flying flunkee about Man U, EPL.
Hope they rot in Hell.
Ok. I have a wee interest in Liverpool this season solely for the families of the 96 who perished 25 years ago.
WMD says YeeHaaa
Why do birds suddenly appear, every time, you are near.
Just like me, they long to be, close to you and that nest you call your hair.
MWD
My guess is…
Title favourite pays homage to a great Scottish team.
Not deemed worthy of coverage.
Haw, Ryecatcher, who do you think you are, posting about fitba’ last night on Crufts Quick News??
bankie
On a scale of 1 to Helicopter, just how fly does ole Fergie appear now?
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
Nope,that ain’t on my iPod,honest!
Morning all.
Yowwwzaaaah! Last night I had some time with The Ronettes on Youtube – Be my Baby and Shout sang live at a concert. Ronnie was smokin.
Yet, had I been given the choice, I would still rather have had a night out with our very own Ronnie… Faither.
Lisbon Lion 1 Sex Kitten(whatever that means) 0
Brendan Rodgers may be 1 for them to consider.
Dont let Ryecatcher know i said that though eh!
What about WGS for the man utd job . Posted on here before he got the Scotland job that he could replace ferguson . A proper football manager he knows the club and would steady the ship
BSR
aye…….
Sky’s…
….the limit tho’.
HH.
At the request of his solicitor, the principal hearing date relating to the notice of complaint issued to Leigh Griffiths on Wednesday, 9th April has been adjourned until Thursday, 22nd May to allow for the conclusion of the ongoing criminal investigation by Police Scotland.
Hutchybhoy T 10:25 on 22 April, 2014
Bhoys has anyone any details of this years CQN golf day? HH
I understand it’s on 4 July but that those making the final cut haven’t yet been informed. Or, if they have, it’s just the “unsuccessful.com” emails that have still to come out.
David Moyes.
Anyone who refers to himself in the third person is asking for trouble.
http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_fa_news.cfm?page=2566&newsCategoryID=1&newsID=13246
My friends in Celtic,
David Moyes will emerge a better manager from this and will no doubt learn from his undoubted mistakes. Battered, bruised and his ego damaged, yes; but after a period of reflection he will be back.
There is no doubt he will get another top notch appointment. And IMO there is absolutely no chance he will go the way of David O’Leary after “the Leeds” sacking, and in managerial terms fade into obscurity.
This was coming, his health was suffering, he had aged considerably over the 10 months in charge and every time he turned round the ” father figure” of SAF was looming.
His normally fine tuned sensible interviews were becoming increasingly incoherent rubbish.
No manager in British football would not, could not turn down Man Utd if the opportunity beckoned, no matter the difficulties and rocky road that would lie ahead. He was comfortable at Everton but it was an offer he could not refuse.
As well as being a Global brand and a sporting institution Manchester United are the worlds leaders in debt. His sacking is as much to do with the markets and creditably as it is to do with events on the park.
As for the interim appointment of Giggs, well I guess the PC police will be out in force. Maybe rightly so?
As we debate this on CQN its maybe just as well its from afar or the issue of a fit and proper person would dominate the dialogue.
HH.
Winning Captains,
one would think that the police should have better things to do. Let the witch hunt commence.
The standard tariff for a conviction under the OBAFTC Act is a fine, typically £300, and a football banning order of between 1 and 5 years.
If Leigh Griffiths is prosecuted (yet to be determined) and found guilty (a further variable) for his disreputable behaviour, we might have the absurd scenario of a professional footballer being banned from football grounds.
What then?
John O’neil
Beatbhoy disagrees with that last post of yours.
Well, last but one!!
The Battered Bunnet,
A case to the European Courts on the basis of unfair restraint of his trade??
Why do birds suddenly appear, every time, you are near
Is it because you always throw your pieces away?
Gordon
It’s no more unfair a restraint than the jail!
Although granted, it’s rather unlikely a sheriff would elect to deprive someone of their livelihood.
Someone (apols) pointed out the difficulties guys like Riordan, O’Connor and now Griffiths have had in combining a football career with a regular life and suggested that there may be an issue with the way in which Hibs manage their young players.
I rather think though that it’s more likely that Hibs are simply more prepared to take on wayward boys, provided the talent is there.
Nevertheless, there does seem to be a pattern.
beatbhoy, corkcelt agrees with you.
John O’Neil,
Greenpinata agrees. Imogen that.
HH
Heavily Conflicted?
From my experience Scotish football manages to cram an unfeasibly large number of absurd scenarios into ninety minutes.
The Battered Bunnet
Huge drinking culture at Hibernian. Their players socialise with the fans. The casuals protect them in the city and lead them astray to a certain extent.
Gary Caldwell said it took him 6 weeks to get fit at Celtic. He was out boozing too much at Hibs. John Collins tried to change it and the players led a revolt to oust him. The club is rotten when it comes to the social side of it. Hearts seem to have less of a problem. Their players do not have the protection of the thugs Hibs have in the city centre and the bars in the other areas of the town.
Hibernian have a great stadium and training ground but seem to have a problem controlling their players.
It’s a bit of a shame because of the field their business is probably run 2nd only to Celtic in Scotland. On the pitch they under achieve and don;t seem to have any fight in them. Ultimately the players have it too easy and don;t seem to care for the fans who give a lot for the club through some horrific results they have endured recently.
Mrs LB is going through a rough time watching her club just now. I feel for her. I expect Hearts to pile the misery on this weekend. Hibs are sliding into the play offs. I’m not sure they will survive them.
LB
In the unlikely event of a referee not booking a Celtic goalscorer for showing undue enjoyment, and this being deemed offensive under the act, could he too face losing his nice wee weekend earner in the event of a successful prosecution??