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  1. Humza comes across as a very bitter individual. If he was on the fringes of Scottish politics, it'd be a bit embarrassing but he's a high ranking government minister, who doesn't know what an apostrophe is for, so it's a matter of extreme embarrassment for us all. His bitterness and pretend victimhood is enshrined in the Hate Crime Bill. Remember when Scots had thick skins.
    4 points
  2. So keen they are on resolving the issue that Sportsound, on the weekend after Rangers won their first title in a decade and "stopped the 10"..... their flagship show was over 40 minutes deep and still hadn't made ONE SINGLE mention of Rangers winning the title. They have zero desire to resolve the issue - they are drip-feeding that story such that they can blame Rangers for it not happening. Fuck em.
    4 points
  3. Nothing will change with the BBC in general until the licence fee is scrapped and they are forced to go out into the real commercial world for their revenue like all other broadcasters have to do. That revenue will be dependent on audience figures so puerile broadcasts such as Sportsound & Sportscene with their agendas & opinionated presenters will be binned before long. Regards this ongoing ‘dispute’ all that’s required is for the BBC to send someone other than McLaughlin. The club must not give an inch on this.
    3 points
  4. Some of those who immediately responded wouldn't have barely had enough time to even read the report, let alone digest it. I think we handled this well. Calm, measured, hit the right spots, had the right tone.
    3 points
  5. Well they won't be doing that with Openreach if they gain independence as their focus will be the UK. Might be a blessing for them as well as many areas of rural Scotland is damned expensive to fibre.
    2 points
  6. Walter is a legend and what feels like a family member to several generations of supporters. Let's hope that he makes a full recovery. Get well soon Gaffer!
    2 points
  7. Best watch it on youtube as there is 3 parts to it.
    2 points
  8. Villa must be kicking themselves at that. Brighton v Newcastle next week is massive. Its the loser of this game that goes down for me. I think Fulham will leapfrog at least one of them.
    2 points
  9. I wouldn't have imprisoned her either I would shoot her
    2 points
  10. RANGERS CHARITY FOUNDATION Rangers Charity Foundation, with the support of Rangers Football Club, intends to create the ability for anyone who has suffered sexual abuse in Scottish Football to access specialist confidential counselling services. This will be offered via the Foundation’s new appointment of a Trauma Counsellor who will also offer holistic counselling, advice and one-to-one support across a range of life-enhancing Foundation community programmes and activities to augment the Foundation’s service delivery and outcomes for young people and adults who may have experienced trauma and challenge." I expect the media will be all over this, hailing (ahem) this initiative. But in case they are not.... the full announcement is here: https://www.rangerscharity.org.uk/news/trauma-counselling-service-to-be-available-for-scottish-football-abuse-victims
    2 points
  11. Poor Kevin Clancy. Involved at last with nothing at stake.
    2 points
  12. Saturday the 2019/20 final is played. Portsmouth v Salford. The winners will get to hold the trophy for a full day before Sundays 2020/21 final between Sunderland v Tranmere.
    2 points
  13. This, Prestwick, the Ferguson ferries shambles, Bi-Fab etc were never business decisions they were pure political grandstanding.
    2 points
  14. The only thing the BBC can kiss is my hairy old arse
    2 points
  15. John Ferry writing for The Spectator Online today. “The Scottish Government's foray into high finance looks set to be the latest in a line of industrial debacles. Earlier this week, finance company Greensill Capital filed for administration. Greensill specialised in supply-chain finance, which involves acting as an intermediary to raise money on the back of payment commitments between companies and their suppliers. Greensill's innovative financing arrangements were instrumental in metals tycoon Sanjeev Gupta's rapid expansion of his business empire, including his 2016 acquisition of an aluminium smelter at Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands, plus two nearby hydroelectric dams. Companies within Gupta's GFG Alliance group bought the industrial assets from Rio Tinto for £330 million, but the deal was achieved on the back of the Scottish Government providing a 25-year guarantee on purchasing power from one of the hydroelectric sites if the smelter shut down. The key to unlocking finance came from understanding the value in this type of asset – not the industrial assets, but the guarantee of a string of payments long into the future. Greensill was able to take that guarantee and sell bonds worth hundreds of millions of pounds on the back of it. Estimates put the value of the guarantee at over half a billion pounds. But despite all that money raised, the new wave of jobs promised with the deal have failed to materialise. In March 2017, Scottish Government rural economy secretary Fergus Ewing said the deal would create up to 1,000 direct and 1,000 indirect jobs, bring a billion pounds into the local economy and spark 'an economic revival in these Highland communities'. That has not happened. A proposal to build an alloy wheels factory has been ditched, and there is now talk of far less ambitious plans for aluminium recycling and water canning. With a key player in the deal now in administration, questions are being asked as to why the Scottish Government allowed itself to be used as a catalyst in a highly complex structured finance deal that raised a pile of cash for third parties, but has so far failed to deliver on re-industrialisation promises. There are big questions as to what any potential future liability for the taxpayer might be. This is not the first troubled SNP industrial project. In December, the Scottish engineering firm BiFab went into administration. The company, which has steel fabrication yards in Fife and the Isle of Lewis, had over £50 million of taxpayer's money pumped into it after being ‘rescued’ by the Scottish Government three years ago with plans for it to fully participate in the market for manufacturing offshore wind turbines. Alex Salmond had, after all, once described Scotland as potentially the 'Saudi Arabia of renewables'. Last month it was announced that InfraStrata, which owns the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, had bought BiFab out of administration in an £850,000 deal, agreeing to take over two of its three yards. Quite the return on investment for the Scottish Government. But perhaps the most damning industrialisation failure is the fiasco of the SNP government's attempts to get two ferries built to operate on Scotland's west coast. The Scottish Government had stepped in to stop the Ferguson shipyard on the Clyde going under in 2014, with Scottish billionaire Jim McColl’s Clyde Blowers Capital persuaded to take it on. Scotland's publicly owned ferry firm Caledonian MacBrayne subsequently placed a £97 million order for two passenger ferries. The cost of the project, which has been beset by technical difficulties, has skyrocketed to over £200 million, with speculation that the final bill will be considerably higher. That is if the ships ever get finished, for they are nowhere to be seen. Actually, that's not entirely accurate. One of the boats, the Glen Sannox, was brought out for an official 'launch' event attended by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in November 2017. Farcically, the unfinished boat had painted on windows. Will the ships ever make it to sea? Who knows. To say that Scotland has an industrial policy would be wrong. It has a government ready to throw money at projects that produce the right optics (reindustrialisation and green jobs) but with little appetite or ability for the hard graft of getting beyond a publicity event and a press release. The Scottish Government's foray into high finance looks set to be the latest in a line of industrial debacles”
    1 point
  16. Thankfully today's rumours don't appear to be true. Get well soon, Walter ?
    1 point
  17. I have Ollie Watkins in my Fantasy League team. He was awarded the goal, then it was switched to an OG. The only consolation is, I get points for an Assist.
    1 point
  18. celtc have been distancing themselves from the events at Ibrox and George Square all season.
    1 point
  19. Adrian Goldberg's film 'The Celtic Boys' Club Scandal' now released
    1 point
  20. All this crap from Mr Humza he would be better investigating the legal system that sentenced a woman at kilmarnock to 250 of community service for child cruelty keeping a child in a cage and starving another so bad the hospital thought the child had cancer
    1 point
  21. Children will be taught to tell tales on parents.
    1 point
  22. Next on the agenda will be the compensation lawyers
    1 point
  23. That's fine, will just make the 5-1 pumping we give them look more respectable.
    1 point
  24. No surprise at the 2 names coming up time and again, hard to split them. Both had excellent games, with a few others working hard and worthy of plus marks, Patterson, Goldson, Morelos, Hagi for me all had good games, while Aribo had a 15 minute spell where he almost won us the game and was a real threat, then he got taken off?? Absolutely delighted at the score draw, about 15-20 minutes in I was hoping to just keep in the tie as Slavia started brilliantly with real energy, physical power and pace, and really closed us down all over the park. But as can happen with a team putting so much into the early stages, they burn themselves out and we were certainly the better side in the second half and got a draw which we deserved in the end. I rate our chances of progression at 50/50 as if this side come out at Ibrox and repeat the dominant performance of the first half hour, we may find ourselves up against it. This is a tie we can certainly progress in, but would be no disgrace to come up just short.
    1 point
  25. Empires don’t build themselves
    1 point
  26. Their leadership are floundering. I reckon they'll try and suggest that they're even handed by threatening to postpone a match that affects both halves of the Old Firm. I doubt anyone will be persuaded though. It surely just serves to infuriate their own supporters as well as those less inclined to their persuasion, whose votes they are presumably keen to win.
    1 point
  27. The BBC has confirmed that BBC3 is to return as a linear channel in January next year. The BBC’s Annual Plan 2020/21 published last year, outlined research which confirmed there remains an available audience on broadcast television for BBC Three. So that's what they are doing with the money scrapped off the over 75s. A channel aimed at 16-25s which was one of the first to be scrapped as it had a minute audience (not as small as the Asian channel mind you, which was obviously kept) as the 16-25s preferred and still prefer to stream.
    1 point
  28. Maybe because instead an immediate knee jerk reaction of an apology we instead formulated ,correctly,the apology now issued.
    1 point
  29. Rangers cannot and will not be punished for events that happen(ed) outwith our own stadium footprint. And even then, severe punishment is unlikely given the SFA do not use strict liability. Do not buy into daft media narratives.
    1 point
  30. I know we're an incredible support but I don't think we've invented a time machine yet.
    1 point
  31. Does the hate crime bill apply to the likes of AUOB marches ? plenty anti-British hatred there. Or is that not covered?
    1 point
  32. Better to put people's lives at risk than accept help from the British Army.
    1 point
  33. there is no dispute. they can come along anytime they want. only 1 of them has lost press privileges.
    1 point
  34. I tend to refrain but will vote tactically this time because the Scottish Nationalists are a real blight, an embarrassment and are ruining education, courts, the press etc. at an alarming rate.
    1 point
  35. Everyone should be doing this.
    1 point


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