I was disappointed for St Johnstone at their exit from the Europa League last night but not for Scottish football, or our coefficient points. Saints are a provincial club in a very rural part of Scotland. You only have to travel through the hills to Perth to realise that pocket of Scotland, with its tractors, knitwear and wellie boot shops, has no God given right to beat a team from any municipality anywhere.
They have done very well for the last couple of seasons, from a tiny catchment area, but managed to reach Europe by pipping Dundee United, who ironically were good enough to have key players poached midseason.
St Johnstone don’t have potential superstars, they are also the oldest team in the league, which gets you through a long campaign but they are never going to sparkle. Or earn Scottish football a hatful of coefficient points.
Dundee United were decimated by the loss of those two players midseason, and were done no favours with the shadow of uncertainty which enveloped backroom and boardroom for months, but they, Aberdeen and Celtic are the only Scottish clubs capable of getting their act together to the extent required to reach European group stages. For everyone else, Europe is strictly a July pursuit, so don’t stress about it, and Tommy Wright is well within his rights to talk up his own club.
If Scottish football wants to get all introspective about last night, we should concern ourselves with concentrating resources on clubs who are independently financially viable: Dundee United, Aberdeen, Hearts, Celtic, Hibs and maybe Dundee. If more of our sponsorship and TV money went to Aberdeen and United and less to the thirty-or-so hangers on, they would be better placed to consolidate their development work and compete in Europe.
Celtic are five days away from their opening competitive game of the season, so I would think tonight’s friendly against Davie Moyes’ Real Sociedad will be the last strenuous exercise the players go through after what will have been a taxing first few weeks of preseason. After this workout it should all be about recovery before the visit of Stjarnan on Wednesday. The usual caveats apply to Nadir Ciftci, if he looks like he couldn’t run upstairs, he’s about where I’d expect him to be right now.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORMUqhofLGw&list=RDORMUqhofLGw
Do not remember who posted this but it is class.
https://youtu.be/7vhpa1CAkNs?list=PLkRCUW2WRADssB7m1a5ALPmZUOfnXSWJE
Thousands are Sailing
neverforgetheGlasgowIrishCSC
Another song in support of our people this weekend.
HH,
Clogher.
http://youtu.be/tHgq77B8N1Y
https://youtu.be/Os4Vf8TalLk?list=PLkRCUW2WRADssB7m1a5ALPmZUOfnXSWJE
Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham 6
HH
Take it Celtic beat the Spaniards tonight .. Tried to follow the updates on here .. Getting nagged at because I was taking her oot .. ” Get yer face oot that phone .. Geeze attention ..
Makes me more confident for the qualifiers ..
Mon the hoops :)
Cliftonville Celt,
Fair play.
A clipe in BBC words is someone, who tells on you.
Another word might be a grass..
There are a number of others.
For using must of those words my mother would have given me a belt. They look to me to be slang.
Thanks anyway,
Clogher
Sorry most of those words.
Well Done tonight Roy.
Thanks.
Wheesht ………..Be quiet.
Haud yer wheesht.
CaltonTongues
The hip is the berries…played golf 3 times this week..took a couple of tumbles on the gargle but no real problems.
What about yirsel?
Kikinthenakas
We had a few of them on my progress through primary school.
The Scots word ‘clipe’ is one of those curious elements of the Caledonian tongue which is both a noun and a verb at the same time. To clipe on someone means to ‘tell on them’, or ‘grass them up’ – usually to the teacher. Those who indulge in the act of cliping on someone are often referred to simply as a ‘clipe’.
The word itself hasn’t always had such negative scholastic connotations – Clipe was originally used to describe a storyteller, or simple tale, and even gossip in some cases.
The origins of ‘clipe’ are believed to lie with the Old English word ‘Clype’ which means to name, or to call, and the Scots word itself can be spelled with either an ‘i’ or a ‘y’
Surely the most important word in ulstr skots should be ‘raj’ given that in one part of the world it means , ‘talking someone else’s country for the British crown’….. while in another part of the world it means ‘unreasonable, unwarranted, inexplicable anger by those of an unsound mind’
Just askin’ like!
HH jamesgang
Just hame fae the game. Friday night spent in Paisley was magic.
Foxbar provos were good hosts.
Welcome Nadir. He wants it. Love his enthusiasim for Celtic. Saidy and Dedryck looking the part.
Happy Days Ahoy for the good ship Celtica.
https://youtu.be/azghP1daq6s
Willie Maley
HH
DD .. You’ve no lived until you’ve hud a sausage supper oot eh Marco’s ..
:)
macas.
old scots, from the gaelic, ma cas.
a person who defected from the tribe such as
a
Mac annas
a neil, left the tribe to come back and celebrate in their faces, holding the hands up for the nine
or
a verb
that
macanas jay
is a tit, or another flying weasel,
or other such tittery.
Fair play jamesgang,
I have spent a lot of time this week looking at Ulstur Scotch.
This is all verified by the BBC, Learn Ulster Scots website.
Mouth…Mooth or gub.
Aviary…bird hoose.
Stately home…BIG HOOSE?
Restaurant…attin hoose.
And they want this accredited as language.
Clogher
Roy Croppie Clogher
Thank you for wonderful tunes and photos of our heroes, good end to a good day for the hoops. H H
clogher celt
They need certified more like!
A lady in the north heard my Scottish accent and started trying to tell me how linguistically connected we were.
That’s nice…..said I….in my best Mrs Brown don’t fekin think so voice!
Night
HH jamesgang
saint stivs
01:08 on 11 July, 2015
……
History lesson ..
Where did the Scotti tribe first settle on these islands ?
Anyone ?
:)
Jamesgang,
Talk soon.
HH
Boot 200 BC ..
No ring a bell ..
:)
Sir.Sir.
Dalriada
Roy Croppie
Your classic photos reminded me of a story from when I was younger 10 or 11. I’m the youngest of 5 my middle brother 10 years older than me signed for East Fife and were drawn against Clyde in the Cup, excited to find out how they got on as he got home. Disappointed when he said they lost 5-0 but he played against a great player, what was his name I asked, Harry Hood he replied who went on to be a legend. H H
Careful with the tax,
I don’t know.
Where did the Vikings first land in Ireland?
After that no more questions, it will become worse than than the history Channel here.
Clogher
Uch well .. Blabber about your heritage, what bloods running through your vain’s ..
you’re like Americans ..
Beddy bawz
Pappajoe55,
Great to see you back here again tonight.
I hope you are feeling well.
Clogher
Clogher
Where was moses when the lights went out
Wits,
No idea.
Clogher
In the dark
CC .. Scots from Ireland ..
First settlement was on the Isle of Bute ..
Google, Saint Blane ..
Nite dude
careful with that tax, moonbeams Argyle land of the Gaels , Fergus Mor had a hill fort called Dunadd. Took mrs T and the girls there and they still remember it. Cool Pictish carving of a boar near the bottom of the hill and a place that the kings of Dalraida were confirmed. The stone of scone supposedly came from here as the Scotti expanded out. Worth a visit.
Clogher
Yes thanks not too bad , spent some time on you tube and for the 1st time heard the pogues with the sick bed of cuchiallinn fantastic.
Flicked over from the Yankees Red Sox, Yankees winning 4-0 middle of 4th.
It’s Shark Week on Discovery Channel. Scary teeth on show.
One of the sharks THE TASSELLED WOEBEGONG, I kid you not, reminded me that there is a walk on in Motherwell tomorrow.
So those headed for Hamilton races or needing to be in and around Motherwell, please stay safe and try not to show too much contempt for the Tasselled Woebegones.
I think the point which “Tax” is making is that Scotland is named after the Scottii who came from Ireland and settled in today`s Argyle.
Papajoe,
According to legend Cuchulainn, spent a good bit of time in Scotland.
One of, or perhaps his main county is here in County Louth.
I will tell you more when I see you.
Wits,
You are reducing the tone.
HH
Clogher
Clogher
Saint Patrick was born 1 mile along Dumbarton Road from me in Kilpatrick.
Hail Glorious Saint Patrick!
Clogher
That’s what I do
Delaney
None of that aul nonsense St Patrick was Welsh
John knox. Now he was Scottish