thebluedoo

Actually that's a decent point, set pieces are crucial for us here and atleast with Smith we have someone who can take them

mps list of questions to audit scotland regarding sale of lennoxtown and the scums sla
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1skc2ka?new_post=true

Yeah, Daly's a good shout and he's caused them problems at Hampden before but I'm not sure if he's mobile enough to play the lone striker role in a game like this.
That's what I think McDowall will choose, I'd play Templeton on the left and I'd play anyone over Foster.

If it is he is Sheringhams stunt double :-)

A lovely occasion. Well done for supporting one of our own, Bears, and to all of the players out there who can all count themselves as Bears for life too.
Great to see those old stars. Klos. Jeeso. He has the beginnings of man boobs, which I never expected from such a fit, professional character, but my-oh-my did he become the Klos of 15 years ago in a instant! Some of those saves were top class. And wee Rino. Never the most talented player, but you can see why he became such an important one for some great teams. Midfield terrier extraordinaire. So many heroes out there. Enjoy it while you can, folks, because the next generations of legends might be a little different.
But, anyway. It was an emotional day. I hope it helps the man to stay strong. And on a secondary note, many thanks to Fernando (and the organisers), because despite your illness you've managed to do what many have failed to do recently - you made it feel like Rangers again. And it was great to see so many kids there, being taught what it means. Once all of our problems are over, make sure you keep bringing them, Bears, and teaching them what it's all about. They are the key to a healthy future for this club.
No Surrender, Fernando!!!

Had to laugh at Rino running about kicking lumps out off everything in red. Duries finish was class and has still got a decent bit of pace on him.

Sad sad stuff, take a bow Bears, fantastic turnout.
No Surrender Fernando.

GB, you are a shining light on RM and I thank you for giving me something to raise my mood.
Sick of all the pish that surrounds the club just now, however your "timely" post, cheers me up and brings me back to reality!
Top man!

Its happening Inigo, I am strapping on the crampons, snow chains for the car for first 2Km, then I will be good to go on the salted asphalt
Country Bears dont take kindly to being called pussies

Pusssays!
Can they not use their donkeys or something, if the car isn't safe on the road.
I'm sure country folk have solutions to these kinds of things us city folk just wouldn't have access to.

Mon tae fuck Rangers!!! We deserve a display tonight.

Nah, I'm still going on Saturday. It will probably be rubbish as per, but it's my rubbish.

You know the answer then, turn up and support the team.

Ill be there on sat , supporting my team...as always

PZJ tweeted the other say that GCC won't give out info when asked by FOI. He also tweeted today that a MP still hasn't had a reply from the EU as to the reason why they kicked out the complaint

Good ole Coisty! Used the half-time break to good effect! Look much better. Brilliant management!

Such a pity that those who are so easy to moan about PZJ's efforts don't actually take up the call and do some of the work on this themselves. To have a dig at someone with to my knowledge has no legal training, but has been willing to take on the people involved in these scandals with their resources seems pretty poor fair to me. What next will they be posting there is no story here and that he's wasting his time and making it all up? Oh sorry, that's the mhedia and c****c's line isn't it.

Listen mate, PZJ has given sterling service. He may be distracted for a little and blowing off steam. When he regains focus he will give us some good stuff again.
On the other hand that other guy will always be an arsehole !!!

So Gerry Braiden sees fit to write two articles in two days regarding this. First we had the "it cost £280,000" yesterday and new we're getting "they do the political side of things better" line. Its easy to do the political side better when it's your own share holders who are voting on the decisions. Tbh, I think they're a tad worried that this I not going away and the next time they might not be so lucky hence the propaganda wave.

Found this post by PZJ on another site, he doesn't say who he sent it to
Dear Sirs,
I and several colleagues have, over several months, been supplying evidence in an attempt to prove that Celtic Football Club (CFC) have, on several occasions, been recipients of State Aid, from Glasgow City Council (GCC).
Herein, I set about to prove conclusively, that that has been the case.
Land purchased at Westhorn in Glasgow was valued at £4,190,000.00 by the GCC Senior Surveyor, as if 160No. units could be built on the land; each unit being valued at £26,187.50. Not all of the land was valued, however, as GCC have stated that a ‘blast zone’ exists, effectively sterilising 6.5 acres out of the 13.5 acres in total ‘transferred’ to CFC. The remainder of the land, some 7 acres was deemed fit for development. A large deduction in value was then applied, amounting to £3,515,000.00 for ‘abnormals’, thereby valuing the land at a mere £675,000.00. This ‘blast zone’ or ‘exclusion zone’ referred to by Peter Marsh was imposed by the Health and Safety Executive, around Dewars Whisky Bond. Please refer to correspondence between Peter Marsh of GCC and Jim Fraser – email of 27/01/2014. [ Appendix 1].
Please also refer to a letter from GCC to John Stevens dated 11th September, 2013 Ref. © Westhorn Recreational Park, confirming the method of evaluation of the purchase price of the land. [Appendix 2].
Several individuals have queried this with GCC, who also have stated on many occasions that a geotechnical report was carried out, which indicates abnormal ground conditions exist at Westhorn. I, personally, have requested sight of this geotechnical report, on eight occasions, to be informed at the eighth attempt, that my requests were unreasonable. Please refer to letter to John Stevens of 23/01/2014 from GCC . [Appendix 3].
GCC have also stated that CFC have undertaken an independent geotechnical survey. Again, evidence of such survey has not been produced.
Evidence collected over a period by myself and several colleagues strongly suggests that neither report exists, and that there are no valid reasons for GCC to have reduced the purchase price of the land at Westhorn. Please refer to a letter received by me from Richard Brown, Executive Director of GCC on 14th October, 2013 in response to my email dated 18th September, 2013 [Appendix 4].
Section 3© of the reply refers at line 12. ‘’Should Celtic Football Club ever wish to develop the land for residential use they would be responsible for all remediation costs, which, according to the geotechnical analysis, would be a minimum of £3,515,000.’’
I put it to you that, given the reluctance of GCC to produce a geotechnical analysis, that no such analysis exists. There is no evidence of any sort from any quarter, that remediation of the land is required at all. You will also have noted that there seems to be some uncertainty within GCC as to the apparent reasoning for required remediation. Is it due to land use sterilised by a blast zone or exclusion zone, or is it due to some other abnormality below ground level which has come to light via a geotechnical survey and report?
I shall further demonstrate, with sound evidence, that no such chemical contamination, no such geotechnical problems exist, nor do any problems associated with earlier mining, exist.
Evidence suggests that GCC may have ‘gifted’ CFC some 6.5 acres of land they deemed unfit for building upon as part of the land purchase deal. It is also important to note at this stage, that the land at Westhorn was not advertised, with a view to attracting a higher bidder, thereby raising more income to the benefit of the citizens of Glasgow.
Investigation of Contamination of the Land at Westhorn
The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) responded to a query from a colleague, Joe Canoe by way of a rely to his letter dated 10th February, 2014 [Appendix 5]. This letter clearly states that GCC have not provided notice to SEPA of any contaminated land at this site, and that SEPA are not aware of any contamination land with 250m of this site.
The evidence is further corroborated by a map produced by Clyde Gateway [Appendix 6], which indicates ‘occasional inorganic & organic contaminants’ exist. The description implies ‘low level’ contamination. The Westhorn site is indicated by the ‘L – Shaped’ area to the RHS below the key shaded yellow.
The letter referred to in Appendix 4 alludes to there being contaminated land at Westhorn. Refer to Section 3(a), lines 10-27.
Investigation of Geotechnical ‘Abnormals’
Despite several attempts by myself and others to obtain a geotechnical report said to exist, by GCC, with a further, independent report carried out by CFC, neither have been made available.
I again put it to you, that no such report(s) exist. Surely production of the report(s) would have resulted in no further correspondence, and would have avoided eight attempts at having them put into the public domain.
The letter referred to in [Appendix 2] dated 11/09/2013 states under Section © Westhorn Recreational Park, bullet point 3, that ‘The Council’s Geotechnical Team investigated the site to determine the extent of the abnormal ground conditions.’
Please find attached a series of logs from boreholes carried out between 1965 and 1987 within the confines of the Westhorn area of land sold by GCC to CFC [Appendix 7]. These have been sourced from the British Geological Society (BGS). A plan of the area is included which indicates the loci and density of the boreholes, some 39No. in total.
These boreholes are fairly dense in their coverage of the area. Careful inspection of the logs indicate fairly consistent strata, comprising layers of mudstones, gravels, sandstone, with occasional coal.
There is no evidence of any faulting or intrusions. Although not guaranteed, it could be fairly safely assumed the geotechnical problems do not exist below ground level at Westhorn. As can be seen most of the bores were taken to depths of 30+metres (many of them to 40m).
Please also refer to a ‘geological fault map’ and two borehole logs bored within the Westhorn area in 1965 and 1986 as further evidence [Appendix 8]
Investigation of Problems due to Mining
GCC also allude to there being restrictions to land development due to previous mining activities. Ref. letter in Appendix 4, Section 3(a) line 13. Please find attached in [Appendix 9], 2No. reports obtained from the Coal Authority. Both reports indicate quite clearly that the authority would not anticipate previous mining activity to be detrimental to construction on the land at Westhorn. They indicate that mining took place in the area at depths between 40m and 140m below ground level. The bore logs do indicate some potentially workable coal seams around 1.0m thick and slightly greater. The bores were mostly driven to around 40m. There is no evidence that these seams have been worked, or the bore logs would surely have produced indicators.
There is a further, more in depth report available, which is designed around providing information to potential buyers of land. However, it is fairly expensive to obtain. I felt that there was sufficient evidence to prove inconsistency, and State Aid was surely the case.
Investigation of the existence of a blast zone or exclusion zone around Dewars
GCC included some 6.5 acres of land (out of a total of 13.5 acres) within the sale of Westhorn, which was stated by Peter Marsh in his letter to Jim Fraser as being within an exclusion zone, also referred to as a blast zone imposed around Dewars Whisky Bond by the HSE. It was stated that only 7 acres of the 13.5 acres transferred to CFC could be developed. [Refer to Appendix 1]. This blast zone is referred to in the letter contained in Appendix 4 in Section 3(b) lines 4-7. It is also mentioned in the letter referred to in [Appendix 3] under Section © Westhorn Recreational Park, bullet point 5 ‘The original area for the site was 13.5 acres. After a previously unknown blast zone was identified, this was subsequently reduced to 7 acres.’
It appears to be very strange that such information would certainly be held within the Council’s own Planning Department.
My investigation commenced with reference to the ‘Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999 (COMAH) which explains that Dewars would have produced a Risk Assessment and a major accident prevention policy (MAPP) under the Regulations which would have been forwarded to the HSE.
PADHI (the HSE’s Land Use Planning Methodology) was then consulted for advice. A Consultation Zone (CD) can not be found anywhere on the HSE/PADHI Websites, nor on the GCC Planning Website.
As time is now of the essence, I feel it necessary to forward this evidence to you immediately, to try to ensure that a full and comprehensive investigation is carried out involving, in this case, GCC, CFC and Harper Macleod their solicitors.
I currently await a response from the HSE in the next few days, which I shall forward to you under separate cover.
I am of the considered opinion, that no such exclusion zone exists around John Dewar’s Whisky Bond, for two reasons; the first being via a document obtained from GCCs Planning website giving details of the property at 1700, London Road in Glasgow which indicates the Development Policy as being ‘Industry and Business’ (or DEV 3) [Appendix 10] and the second being the Minutes of Agreement for 1530, London Road (Page 10 of the GCC Executive Committee, City Plan 2) indicating a change to DEV 2 was granted for ‘Residential and Supporting Uses’ [Appendix 11]. No. 1530 London Road is a neighbouring property to Dewars, as is Westhorn. No. 1530 was granted a change of use from DEV 3 to DEV 2, with no mention of there being any sort of exclusion zone in place.
Summary
The evidence produced as above indicates clearly that there is no evidence that the land at Westhorn is or was contaminated.
Neither is there any evidence that the land is or was unsuitable for building over almost one moiety of its area due to geological conditions that exist below ground level, nor is there any evidence that there are or were any problems with building associated with previous mining activities within the area.
As far as my investigations to this date are concerned, there exists no restrictions to building on Westhorn land due to there being any Blast Zone or Exclusion Zone set up around the Dewar boundary. The development classification and reclassification referred to in Appendices 10 and 11 confirms that.
All supporting documents were submitted to the European Commission.
It is my understanding that from now, we take this fight right back into the European Commission, due to the fact they claim ‘we’ were not ‘accepted complainants’ which was patently untrue. We had asked the commission if they wanted to establish our ‘interest’ and they failed to reply, and ignored.

Good on the tax haven website and the intrepid PJZ for highlighting these slanderous and corupt dealing, under extreme provocation and ridicule they raised the bar on these shadowy goings on. If nothing else they lit a fire under these bastards, they will know how close they have sailed to disaster, bravo to all, your endeavour was appreciated greatly by this bear

Good on the tax haven website and the intrepid PJZ for highlighting these slanderous and corupt dealing, under extreme provocation and ridicule they raised the bar on these shadowy goings on. If nothing else they lit a fire under these bastards, they will know how close they have sailed to disaster, bravo to all, your endeavour was appreciated greatly by this bear

If your a bear ,my apologies but your just not living in the real world .The corruption and nepotism is all about us in Glasgow and there is just nothing being said or done .I believe there were many bears out there ,much cleverer than myself working tirelessly to expose the clear cheating ,corruption and downright scandalous treatment of the GCC favourite pastime .

Good on the tax haven website and the intrepid PJZ for highlighting these slanderous and corupt dealing, under extreme provocation and ridicule they raised the bar on these shadowy goings on. If nothing else they lit a fire under these bastards, they will know how close they have sailed to disaster, bravo to all, your endeavour was appreciated greatly by this bear

You are making a good argument for a yes vote with this kind of nonsense remark, if you take no pride in my national dress than you are sadly giving very little respect to the many men and woman who wore these fine garments into battle in the name of the brittish army, many great victories in many wars were regailed in tartan with many regiments having there own lone pipers.
The beauty of the Union is that although they may be cultural, religous and ethnical differences we all recognise the need for opinimindedness and fairness, many men and woman have died in order to maintain a democratically led free country, its the reason we stand up to terrorism, its the reason rightly or wrongly that we give each person the right to call there self brittish, as long as they obide by the rule of the land.
Also the SFA will be paying C****C rental for the stadium, just the same as they will pay Rangers to use Ibrox for the qualifier (do ye think we should refuse their money) it isnt dependant on ticket sales. one off agreed fee I would imagine