Congratulations to who originally penned: “We shall not be move, not by the Hearts, the Hibs or The Rangers, erm, we’ll not be moved, OK?” Celtic stand alone, our historic rivals, those who half a century ago denied our grandparents, are gone. Do we have a perfect season ahead? Maybe not, but it will be a unique historical joy nonetheless.
Some of the chat yesterday was that the Premiership would be poorer without Hibernian next season, but anyone who watched Hamilton out-pass and out-play them on Sunday wouldn’t think so. Hibs have offered nothing of note to league football for years. Terry Butcher has got practically everything wrong since arriving at Easter Road but his post-match comment, that perhaps his team needed relegation to thoroughly clear the decks.
Whatever Hibs are they are not competition to Celtic. Our domestic competition next season will come from Aberdeen, Dundee United and Motherwell. United and Aberdeen both finished the season poorly after showing considerable promise early on. Expect Jackie McNamara and Derek McInnes to build on their work over the last year.
If you were an aspiring Championship club you will not have welcomed the Accies result on Sunday. Now clear of their administration travails Hearts have the strongest squad in next season’s Championship. They will also be solvent, able to build on their squad and are likely to sell more season tickets than anyone else in the league.
Hibs’ newly recruited chief exec, Leann Dempster, is potentially the clubs most important recruit in 10 years. She will surely attempt to fit her successful Motherwell template onto the Edinburgh club – and may even have more resources at her disposal.
Queens and Falkirk know they are up against it in their bid for promotion next season but they are two well-run clubs who will have an influence on who does go up. I’m not even prepared to consider anyone else for the promotion spots, some just don’t have the players, some don’t have the management, some don’t have the money to end the season. Some are afflicted by all three ailments.
With the potential of a rejuvenated Hibs making next season’s play-offs, Premiership clubs will spend the next 11 months anticipating the very real possibility that it’s odds on that two clubs will go down next season. Accies and Dundee look more than a match for St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Ross County and Partick Thistle. While Celtic will win the league comfortably, we’re likely to see intense competition between Motherwell, Aberdeen and United for the ‘Best of the Rest’ badge, and between the other eight clubs to stay up.
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Anyone agree that not getting promoted will be like a new signing for the Huns
Can’t help thinking butcher got what he deserved
So – a manager to put bums on seats or one to maintain the status quo or one to make progress????? 2 from 3 quite cheap if it’s the first 2. Getting 1 and 3 a different matter probably
Thing is – how many bums on seats in another year if no progress gets made? Not putting myself in that cat but it won’t be glory hunting it will be lethargy
Henke would get my vote for what it’s worth
I also think del piero would have been a shoe in had we pushed hard enough to get him last year
I remember Andy Payton , our top class striker from Burnley scoring against them as well. Was at the arbroath game when he scored four I think, against our Danny’s mob
!!bada bing!!
14:21 on 27 May, 2014
“The incompetent Doncaster proved again last week,he doesn’t know the rules,he is very fond of quoting……He is a clown.”
I don’t know if you’ve seen these minutes (http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28862.aspx?r=5945&mode=pdf) of PE01319: Improving youth football in Scotland from 11th January 2011.
Trish Goldman had said she had notes that Neil Doncaster had said that there was a 28 day opt out for parents who signed their child up for youth football run by the professional clubs.
Trish Godman:
“First, there seems to be a question mark over the 28-day opt out. I am sure that when I met you, Neil, you told me that there is a 28-day opt out, so someone who signs the registration form has 28 days to change their mind. I did not make that up, right? There is a school of thought that says yes, there is such an opt out, but there is another school of thought that says no, that is not the case, so it seems to me that, right at the beginning, something is not right.”
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Neil Doncaster:
“I will respond to the first of those two good points. I read the papers and saw my name associated with a 28-day opt out, but that is not something that I am familiar with. I have spoken to my colleagues and I do not think that the SFA has any awareness of it either.”
Trish Godman:
“Then I need to be certified, because I have it written in my notes. When I visited you initially to talk about the issue, I wrote down, “28-day opt out.” I remember thinking, “Jeez—I‟ve never read that before.” We had better agree to differ on that, but you can clarify whether there is a 28-day opt out.”
Neil Doncaster:
“There is not”
Personally, I don’t think Trish Goldman needs to be certified. She took contemporaneous notes of her meeting with Neil Doncaster. Strange that he thought her published notes were wrong but didn’t say anything until he was before the committee.
I’ve a feeling Neil likes to fly by the seat of his pants. He says whatever he fancies to get the immediate heat off of him. If it comes back to bite him later then he will deal with that problem when it occurs. Some would conclude that he is a liar.
Gary67,
Is that no what tbb said?
Is el kadouri the last to do so???
Joe Craig
Braw
Jammy Cant
If we ever meet over a beer I’ll let you know why that is funny as…..
HH jamesgang
I remember ole Andy Payton’s mullet.
Darn the hair did we care then CSC
well done Andy Murray …a tricky opponent ….but he has a braw serve the lad …
Ole Wayne Biggins failed to score against anybody never mind Ragers.
AnotherMullet CSC
Tom M- thanks for reply,pretty sure Doncaster’s main remit,is to attract sponsors ,clearly a failure.The Hibs v Hamilton play offs ,resulted in no TV money for either club, another failure. Quick to defend giving Sevco 725k though,again wrongly quoting his own rules.Not fit for purpose.HH
setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox
16:54 on 27 May, 2014
weeman67
Usual made up pish from Tea Party nutters:-
Just trying to wake up the BEARS, they have been quiet lately,but they will be jumping when it gets near election time..??
jamesgang
17:09 on
27 May, 2014
Braw
Jammy Cant
If we ever meet over a beer I’ll let you know why that is funny as…..
HH jamesgang
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:) ……….I have been known to take a beer noo and then ….if fact I ,ve been called a drunken jammycant when playing pool ! braw
Ole green jersey
Other than a stand out goal v Rangers in autumn 1976, did Joe Craig score again against them?
now that’s what you call an ole gazebo..
Just readin about Paul McGowans release from St Mirren….
Strange one, no??
weeman67
“Just trying to wake up the BEARS, they have been quiet lately,but they will be jumping when it gets near election time..??”
No idea what any of that means.
Did you never think of fact-checking?
These guys lie quicker and more readily than Dave King.
BTW Which conflict are you a veteran of? :-)
timbhoy2
16:46 on 27 May, 2014
Dooooh……those 3 teams are not good enough to play in the SPFL …… What part of that do you not understand ….? …. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Can think of someone who can fill a green jersey better than that…..
archdeaconsbench
17:22 on 27 May, 2014
Think it might be ‘money’…??
Surely we can use the same argument against Sky/BT.This is not what we signed up for no Hibs Hearts Sevco we demand a reduction on our monthly payments just as they appear to be doing to the SFPL. Hail Hail Hebcelt
barrowbhoy
I was waiting for Joe Craig, ibrox on a Monday night I think, curled one by Stewart (incredible hulk lookalike ) Kennedy into the top corner. 77 Double winning season ?
archdeaconsbench
17:22 on 27 May, 2014
“Just readin about Paul McGowans release from St Mirren….
Strange one, no??”
I don’t think so. He hasn’t kicked a ball all season, thinks he is great and has got into bovver.
A wasted talent. One of many.
Hey Jammy
Can’t think how I get that one :-)
Hail Hail
twentyfirstofmaynineteenseventynine
I am sure it was the same night John greig broke wee buzzbombs
leg
Police looking into fixing of result of Scotland v Nigeria tomorrow night.
Apparently Scotland will win.
Barrowbhoy
Exactly!
Was it not a “tackle” in the box, no foul – never mind penalty!
You just been Gazebo’ed
sixtaeseven
correct, I am sure it was at the celtic end .
twentyfirstofmaynineteenseventynine 17:29 – Correct. Game played on a Wednesday night, Greig broke B Lennox’s leg that night
tom molach 17:30 – I was just thinking the same, PMcG received considerable local publicity for a second conviction for police assault, I recall the local rag the Paisley Daily Express covered the story by referring to “ex-Celtic striker Paul McGowan”.
barrowbhoy
can remember wee Bobby being asked when he knew his leg was broken, as soon as i knew it was Greig that tackled me. If Im right he gave a penalty then after ‘consultation’ with the linesman ruled it offside. Well, some things never change
Someone on here, can’t remember who, mentioned renting out a property during a sporting event – possibly the upcoming Ryder Cup in Gleneagles.
The (British) Open returns to Troon in 2016.
Now…
…does anyone fancy renting a three-bedroom house in the town which is a five minute walk from the cross and 100 yards from the esplanade with views of Arran and Ailsa Craig, and a fifteen minute stroll to the golf course?!
Need to talk to the wife first ‘tho!
HH!!
AyrshiretimsgolfletsCSC
twentyfirstofmaynineteenseventynine
Stewart Kennedy?
was he not also employed as a body double for Troy Tempest?
squire danaher
cheers mate, dont know where I got a Monday night from, memories not as good as it was though I remember JCs goal like yesterday
HH
squire danaher
17:44 on 27 May, 2014
One of the cops he attacked was Sergeant Tony Fitzpatrick, and I’m not kidding (http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/452731/St-Mirren-footballer-Paul-McGowan-spared-jail-for-police-assault)
Joe Craig and Ronnie Glavin suffered in the 77/78 season as we lost Kenny to the Kop plusour other three other top players, Stanton, Conn & McGrain by the October of 1977. Alfier Conn was the final piece of the jigsaw in the previous season. He was on a similar wavelength to Danny & Kenny.
Pat Stanton, even though he only played for a season, was a very important player for us. I’m delighted he got to complete his full set of medals by winning the double after winning the League Cup in 1972.
Joe Craig never scored against the defunct club again but he helped set up Tom McAdam for our thrtd in a 3 1 win in September 1978. Joe had been clattererd by the cultured Jaws Forsyth but got up and passed to big Tom to finish the game off.
Tom McAdam was underrated by many particularly in defence.
3 times today I had the ‘championship is the most competetive league’ mantra rolled out at me, 2 in biz meeting FFS.
Swallowing the SMSM hurtin’ Hun mantra.
So I’ll tell you what I set them right about; I’ll tell you exactly why the Championship WILL be the most competitive league next season:
Because Hearts, Hibs, and the Walking Deid are PISH.
The Championship will be a pish-on-pish pishfest, no more. Like 3 homeless weatherbeaten, junked-up jaikies scrapping over sleeping space on a park bench. A new definition of ‘competitive’.
Glendalystonsils
Ha ha, he was employed as a body double for a few things, but a goalkeeper ! I remember him in 1-5 game at Wembley trying to kick the post after a penalty and nearly fracturing his shin.