This should be a happy time for the Ibrox klanbase.
It is almost obligatory that the basket of assets will lift the Close Season Cup.
Like elusive success on the pitch, it is a team effort, and the local media chaps are crucial.
With none of those pesky competitive matches to get in the way, the intrepid churnlaists in the Stenography Corps can go at it full pelt.
They’re practised at gushing about how some new player from Armenia or Kazakhstan has instantly got it.
The unsurpassed dignity, the profound cultural meaning of those ceramics and the quintessentially British significance of that old bike.
All new arrivals immediately contract Rangersitis, and everyone is giddy.
What the Fitba Fourth Estate must NOT do is to look at the facts.
In the two-horse race of Scottish Football, one is a financial thoroughbred, and the other is a tragically hobbled nag.
Celtic are heading to the USA today for a brand-enhancing exercise in the heart of Irish America.
This has been a long time coming, and your humble correspondent has been gently advising several people at Celtic for over a decade that this is the way to go.
The featured image gives me a reason to smile.
Like the Irish diaspora who established themselves in that new country after An Gorta Mór we knew we had to play a long game given the odds that we faced back home.
Meanwhile, No Fixed Abode FC will play a friendly against Manchester United this weekend as part of their indentured servitude after pulling out of the Sydney Super Cup.
The Copland Stand debacle should be impossible for the local media to ignore.
Especially as the coordinated offerings at Statement O’clock yesterday are all lacking one thing:
A completion date.
If the REAL reason for the delay in finishing the project at Ibrox is the late arrival of “materials from Asia,” then some timescale should be attached to that.
If this has put six weeks onto the project, then say so.
Whatever the reason for the delay, it is ipso facto finite; there will be an endpoint in the future.
Even if it is imprecise, like between six weeks and, on the outside, twelve weeks.
What makes such an announcement currently impossible?
This from the Sevco High Command yesterday says very little indeed.
Of course, that should be concentrating on the collective brain power of the Fitba Fourth Estate; please, please, no laughing at the back there!
Instead, the copy-and-paste commandoes on the sports desks are only obeying orders.
I reiterate my question:
Why is there no completion date- even an approximate one- for the Copland Stand project?
Consequently, speculation fills the void in the absence of any answer on why the project has no end date.
Therefore my perfectly reasonable theory that the excavation work has uncovered and awakened an extraterrestrial remains a possibility.
Perhaps the Ibrox klanbase should start singing to ET to go home.
Maybe uncovered the corpse of the old Club buried and now need forensics in as someone’s been using its identity, thought to be robbery as the motive as the corpse was missing 54 league titles and various cups
Wondering how silent sevco will be when other Club’s supporters take the opportunity to rework the zombies’s beloved Sloop John B into ‘no home of your own, no home of your own’?
maybe like the second world war the residents of Ibrox should have a rally around and gather up on the garden steel fences, they all all out for a walk this time of year anyway.
If it really was like WW2 they would all be in reserved occupations, loyally fighting for their
King and country in Harland and Wolff’s.
I am reliably informed that they have discovered a box containing ‘the deeds’ while excavating that 1970s aerated concrete.
No fixed abode fc
Rangersitis
And my favourite churnalists 👏
This all in the plan to appease their follow followers and be able to put in their annual report that they made it to Hampden this season.
Maybe they will move to Hampden and then claim ‘squatters rights’ !….never get rid of them !
🤣 don’t give them ideas
You have to wonder if the so called “Big Hoose” (which in Glasgow has always been Barlinnie Prison) will ever be open for business again.
Most of the time in any situation, the most obvious answer is usually the correct one.
The cheque bounced!
There’s a fella with a green drone has clearly shown there is no work happening at all, inside or out. The only hold up is literaly the big orange cran for the stand.
I’m surprised Murray International Metals hasn’t offered to help them out.
Anyway, does “everyone ……… is working tirelessly on the project” mean that the wheels have come off the jalopy?
Phil Mac Giolla Bhain: a great wordsmith!
(Especially the final sentence of this article!)
Aliens? Perhaps. But I have it on good authority that it’s a doorway into an alternative reality where they are not the peepul, not the world’s most successful club, not challenging for titles, but for second place, not going for 56, but going broke, not 152 years old but 12. It’s just a mirror and it freaks them out because, like the walking dead, they are so insubstantial that they cast no shadow.
That nearly made me spill my tea, Paddy, funny and spot on.
They already had a visitation from a little Green man that undermined the foundations in 2012.
Excellent !
Did it have BIG hands ?
The just-in-time strategy supply of Steel from the other side of the World is remarkably stupid (go figure). There is a Steel Company a mile from Ibrox that I’m sure would have been happy to supply/store the material so work could begin a minute after the final home game of last season. My own theory is they uncovered more side letters pertaining to Maurice Johnston, Gascogne and Butcher
lol…you can get any amount of top quality steel within 48 hours from a large number of steel providers in the UK…and yet they choose to get it from China (allegedly)…I wonder what quality that will turn out to be…lets hope they don’t end up with the wrong type of steel or an inferior quality of steel that requires a further delay…or have I just blown open the story of their next PR delay release…LOL?
Might have found an architecturally important monastery or other Romish place and need an exorcist of the non Popish variety which will take some finding.
I still maintain that Dundee FC have won this year’s Preseason Cup.
Has all the makings of a top quality Monty Python sketch…lol…suddenly steel fixtures in the city of Glasgow start to disappear overnight…lol