Pacific Quay Musings?

[buster. 5,198]

In Sportsound Podland, Kilmarnock are top of the league.

 

There was no programme to cover the Rangers game which you could say (politics aside) given they don't have anyone there is to a degree, understandable. There is of course, a pod dedicated to the Hibs v Celtic match. However, the more standard approach would have been not to release a pod until the second game of the day had concluded. Not just any game, but a game that could and did see a change in the leadership of the top flight.

 

Did the employees and contracted of PQ need to go Xmas shopping yesterday afternoon and couldn't stick around ?

 

 

Context is that 'every' single top flight game, eg. Livingston v Hearts on a Friday night or a Dundee v Motherwell on a wet and windy Tuesday night in January get their subsequent PQ podcast coverage.

 

 

 

[pete 2,499]

56 minutes ago, buster. said:

In Sportsound Podland, Kilmarnock are top of the league.

 

There was no programme to cover the Rangers game which you could say (politics aside) given they don't have anyone there is to a degree, understandable. There is of course, a pod dedicated to the Hibs v Celtic match. However, the more standard approach would have been not to release a pod until the second game of the day had concluded. Not just any game, but a game that could and did see a change in the leadership of the top flight.

 

Did the employees and contracted of PQ need to go Xmas shopping yesterday afternoon and couldn't stick around ?

 

 

Context is that 'every' single top flight game, eg. Livingston v Hearts on a Friday night or a Dundee v Motherwell on a wet and windy Tuesday night in January get their subsequent PQ podcast coverage.

 

 

 

Of course the whole of Scotland were glued to their radio's for the Newcastle Facons v Edinburgh. I guess that is rugby but it is a guess.

[buster. 5,198]

1 minute ago, pete said:

Of course the whole of Scotland were glued to their radio's for the Newcastle Facons v Edinburgh. I guess that is rugby but it is a guess.

I can actually understand them covering the rugby instead of a game they decide not to send employees to (the later is less understandable) but I can't understand why they finalise content on a podcast before the days football was complete.

[pete 2,499]

It is now a case of nobody wanting to lose face and try to repair the damage.

[buster. 5,198]

4 minutes ago, pete said:

It is now a case of nobody wanting to lose face and try to repair the damage.

It appears moreso that over at PQ, they decided a few weeks ago that it's time to rip the Colin Nish on a more consistent basis.

 

Edited December 17, 2018 by buster.

[der Berliner 3,745]

It was noted yesterday that their commentary had us up 2-0 early in the game ... and I noted it too, watching RTV (they willed Lafferty's goal into the net). You wonder whether that was a con attempt for the BBC chaps to check what they were watching (and it worked, obviously), or simply an error by the RTV guy.

[stewarty 2,025]

4 minutes ago, der Berliner said:

It was noted yesterday that their commentary had us up 2-0 early in the game ... and I noted it too, watching RTV (they willed Lafferty's goal into the net). You wonder whether that was a con attempt for the BBC chaps to check what they were watching (and it worked, obviously), or simply an error by the RTV guy.

Good shout - I too was very confused by this and noted that the BBC had copied the error. It would be pretty crazy for them to get caught out like that though, given they surely have access to the live feeds for the purposes of putting together highlights.

[Gaffer 1,665]

It WASN'T a case of the BBC copying RTV as far as I could tell though.  The BBC was showing 2-0 from the fourth minute.  RTV didn't start showing the wrong score until the 7th minute.  That suggests that RTV copied the BBC, and not the other way around.  It was bizarre because I would have understood if it had been BBC taking their erroneous feed from RTV.

[Gonzo79 15,294]

The anti-Rangers 'journalists' at PQ will be delighted that anyone noticed their deliberate error.

 

I'm just glad I don't bother listening to or watching their crap.

[26th of foot 6,082]

Swiftian Times.

 

I attended Sunday School as a child, we all did then. I endured endless hours of parables followed by Bible study. Sometimes, it was in the form of a quiz; the Minister asked for an new testament character beginning with 'N', I would answer, "Nicodemus" and be rewarded with a sweetie. I suspect Sunday School was sponsored by Dentists? Nicodemus, now there's a name that would benefit all at PQ, he told the Sanhedrin that a man should be heard before being judged. Every week, they tell us they want to hear from Rangers supporters, which seems a pointless exercise, since we are already judged.

 

Attending Sunday School was rewarding, well constant or 'good attendance' meant an improving book was handed over; in my case, 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathon Swift. I read it first as an eight year old and have reread the tome on a dozen occasions since. The genius of the book is that it works on a number of levels, from a pacey narrative to the biting satire of the human condition. Society trumps the individual, differences between religions are petty, are men corrupt or are they corrupted, .......................... etc. It's all there and the hook is that it means differing things to different people.

 

Three hundred years past, Swift was taking on the persona of modern, liberal society and examining the cost on such a society which embraces and celebrates policies pursuing scientific progress. I wonder if the then recent case of Galileo's excommunication at the hands of the inquisition was uppermost in Swift's mind? Galileo's crime was to claim the earth orbited the sun as opposed to vice-versa.  The RC church lifted that excommunication only twenty-five years ago. 

 

We accept travel broadens the mind. Gulliver is large is shipwrecked, then abandoned, attacked by both strangers and crew. He reaches Lilliput and encounters small folks who are constantly politicking, unscrupulous, and vicious. These last several years, you can see an easy analogy there between Rangers and BBC Scotland. Our very existence antagonises PQ, as a grouping we are perceived to be bad, but individuals may be good. Their constant cry to hear from us, will never succeed(they don't want it to) and because of the constant marginalisation and demonisation, they have in part created a support that don't want to talk to them. Those individuals perceived to be good are Billy Dodds and Steven Thomson, both paying penance for toting EBTs. Our excommunication will supersede poor Galileo's? 

 

Last Thursday, we played a final Europa Cup game in Vienna, ra Sellik played a Champions League fixture in a Champions League grouping of the Europa Cup. The Irish and Australians championing the Champions cause, told us so, repeatedly. Liam McLeod and Billy Dodds were in Vienna, because they did NOT have to travel on the team charter. Other, cheaper air travel options were available. It was a relief to PQ that after fourteen Euro games, Rangers exited the competition. Of course, ra Sellik qualified for the last 32, and the show ran on for a further forty-five minutes to celebrate. It was a usual Hippo and Oxpecker production. The ever annoying Jonathon Sutherland doing pitch side and interviews fitted right-in, he can tongue arse and chew shit with the best of them.

 

Sunday was quite different. Before events at Easter Road, Killie's rise to the top of the pile again, was being eulogised. Sellik were expected to replace Killie as Premiership leaders. Paul Hartley and Kenny Miller(in dispute with Rangers) told Big Dick the green'n'grey would establish themselves and kick-on, creating a cushion before the winter break. After ninety minutes, everyone agreed, a deserved Hibs victory. Neil Lennon came to Brian McLaughlin's microphone post match. The first time the Depressed One has participated in three weeks, his Deputy had been doing the gig. Big Dick celebrated Lenny's return, enthusiastically wondering what became of the Lennycopter? Paul Hartley expressed a hope of seeing it again, "this coming Wednesday"!

 

At 14.45 hours, Big Dick gave the Rangers team, then announced he was handing over to fellow Dandy Don, Jeff Webster who was presenting live coverage and commentary of Newcastle against Edinburgh. Euro rugby union had displaced, 'being right across events at Ibrox'. Again, a relief, allowing Billy and Steven to get off the naughty step and conduct some Christmas shopping. License fee paying Rangers supporters can fcuk right-off, although to be fair, they still want to hear from us. Of course, we will hear them hearing from us, on the day they tell all about Leigh Griffith's 'illness' and suggest three former Chairs of Sellik's boys' club being convicted of child rape and molestation in six weeks, might constitute a paedophile ring? Are Rangers top of the league?

 

Gulliver's travels conclude when he is rescued by Captain Pedro de Mendez. Bad news for license fee paying Bears, at PQ he sounds a lot like that h-u-n and typical orange wanker that used to play for Rangers, no need to look any further.  

Edited December 18, 2018 by 26th of foot