Pacific Quay Musings?

[Bill 13,717]

Come on BoJo, make the BBC self-funding. Give them five years to prepare, then bring the licence fee to an end and let the bastards find an audience that will pay for their bullshit.

[26th of foot 6,084]

Brian talks to Mr Mediocre.

 

It's been a long week, Brian McLauchlin has hung in there, doing the Beau Geste thing. Three interviews with various representatives of, "the Scottish Champions". We saw Aberdeen players milling around Glasgow Airport and an Emirates plane taking off. On Thursday, Steven Gerrard received the Manager of the Month for December award, no footage of the presentation, no mention on Radio or TV. Beau Geste slung the Toerags a rubber.

 

Brian is on the BBC Scotland website and it received radio coverage throughout the day, talking to Mr Mediocre about the need for Scottish football to be saved. Derek is firm, "Scottish football does not need to be saved". I am confused at this point, I am wondering if an evangelical crusade is wandering across the dessert? BBC Scotland did NOT cover the Rangers warm weather training camp(a mile done the road in Dubai), on receiving his Manager of the Month award, Gerrard answered a question on Scottish teams participating in English competitions. He thought it was a good idea and could possibly save Scottish football in providing necessary variety.

 

"Our product is good" bellows Derek. He reinforces it with, "Rangers and Celtic are doing well in Europe". Another continuity problem for PQ there; of Rangers 28 Euro' games over the last two seasons, BBC Scotland have refused to cover 14 of them, because they were played at Ibrox. It's just another PQ Gang Hut production, masters of the intermittent broadcast. I hope it's not because Michael Stewart does not like the way Rangers do things as a club?

 

Next season, may I suggest spends a week talking to Chris McLaughlin, it will be the same effect and cost a helluva lot less.

 

 

[26th of foot 6,084]

"it gets tiresome, Rangers supporters saying Stuart is a Rangers hater".

 

The above was said last Saturday by Tam Cowan. It's January 11th, and we are midway through the show when a contrived link is utilised to prove DrStu' does not hate Rangers. Rene Guttuso's name is raised and we are informed both Tam and DrStu' met Rene in the Hilton after signing for Rangers. DrStu' remembers getting Guttuso to hold up his St Johnstone scarf, having fun, and liking the young lad! In it's twenty-sixth year, Off the Ball is indulging in some revisionism.

 

Gennaro played for Rangers for eighteen months in 1997 and '98, he made thirty-odd appearances, scoring three goals. He was a popular figure among the Rangers support. Off the Ball had been going for 3-4 years at that period and habitually referred to both Rangers and Rangers supporters as "H-u-ns". It was the common currency of the show then. They commissioned weekly sketches from BBC Scotland's Comedy Unit, and Gattuso appeared regularly as, "the little hairy monkey". He was portrayed as a stupid monkey continually at odds with modern life. No hesitation in BBC Scotland exercising an already existing stereotype.

 

DrStu' gets excited and when he does he becomes garrulous. He cannot help himself, and in particular he offered, "if Gattuso was in any way a decent prospect as a player, he wouldn't be at Rangers". You can file that one under knowing three separate Rangers supporting season ticket holders who no longer attend Ibrox because they do not believe it's the same club. Gattuso in his career won 73 caps for Italy, securing both the World Cup and Euro championship. Further, at club level he won the Champions League twice and several domestic honours.

 

I can only imagine this latest piece of theatrical revisionism has came about because DrStu' has come into contact with Gennaro's Glasgow born wife, Monica? 

 

 

 

Keep up the Scare!

 

The beginning of last week's football broadcast from the PQ Gang Hut was DrStu' and Tam reminding the listenership of events from a fortnight before. The first words were, "does Scottish football need saved by Steven Gerrard"? We had five minutes describing the gesticulations of Morelos and Kent at ra Sellik Park. Both DrStu' and Tam pleaded for Rangers supporters to consider these players reactions in reverse, what if Sellik supporters had cut their throats and shot off imaginary guns in front of Rangers supporters? Remember, Lennon was demanding a scrapping of Liam Christie's two match ban and a full apology. Why was this not discussed; as opposed to a number of PQ employees questioning Derek McInnes, Ian McCall, and Robbie Neilson as to their need for saving?

 

Knowing what we know today, I am becoming more convinced DrStu' knew what was coming to both Kent and Morelos last week, and it was all about preparation, a fortnight after the event. DrStu' enjoys being on the establishment side.

 

 

 

The Man in the Know.

 

The other man in the know by proxy inside PQ these days, is Michael Stewart. Regularly, he is indulged and allowed to batter Craig Levein. More regularly, he has a waiting expectant audience enjoying his, "I don't like the way Rangers do things as a club". He spent fifteen minutes demanding answers to Ryan Christie's citing by the Compliance Officer. He wanted to know who, why, and when cited. No answer from both Daryll Broadfoot and a recently retired Ref'(didn't catch his name) was enough. He talked, then shouted over both adversaries; even pulling both up short for their usage of English. Given his own power of communication is such, I was surprised with his concluding, "if Ryan Christies grabbing out for balance is a red, then the game is a bogey". 

 

 

To bring this up to date, today we have heard nothing of Morelos or Kent. No one is being saved and the Gattuso guff was just a big lie. There is a price to pay for defeating the favoured establishment club in their own midden. The Gang Hut will take as long as it takes to collect the toll. 

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1 hour ago, 26th of foot said:

To bring this up to date, today we have heard nothing of Morelos or Kent. No one is being saved and the Gattuso guff was just a big lie. There is a price to pay for defeating the favoured establishment club in their own midden. The Gang Hut will take as long as it takes to collect the toll. 

What price a league title?

 

I can't wait to find out.

[compo 7,049]

23 hours ago, ranger_syntax said:

What price a league title?

 

I can't wait to find out.

Mass suicides 

[Bill 13,717]

31 minutes ago, compo said:

Mass suicides 

What, suicides at mass?

[Gonzo79 15,294]

Cosgrove on telling us about Irish clubs featuring in the Scottish Cup just now.

 

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[ian1964 10,724]

I noticed there Clancy allowing the thug Porteous to walk off the pitch from his own penalty are to the half way line!!, he made Davis go off behind the goals!.

OOPS! wrong thread.

Edited January 19, 2020 by ian1964

[26th of foot 6,084]

On 19/01/2020 at 15:59, Gonzo79 said:

Cosgrove on telling us about Irish clubs featuring in the Scottish Cup just now.

 

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DrStu' has spent a while traveling this road, his username on the RTC Blog was his maternal grandmother, 'Sarah Leyden'; he will take any opportunity to boast of her Donegal birth. In his piece on Irish clubs in Scottish football, he states he would be supporting Erin Rovers over his beloved St Johnstone in the clubs' first final because Erin Rovers player, 'Cosgrove' had struck a strong shot towards goal. He tells us that Cosgrove is a Galway name. DrStu' is striving for purity, it's important in his preferred rebel nationalistic projection of himself. The Warren Cummings accent test is so last year.

 

The other thing, and this takes us closer to the real truth; the Producer of Sportscene is Eamonn Donohue, and DrStu' likes to be seen toadying up to those in authority. There is a growing colony of Irish folk at PQ, and they can keep DrStu' in work, supporting his extensive lifestyle in his 68th year. 

 

In the last couple of years, he has seamlessly switched horses mid stream to maintain his standard of life. He welcomed the then new female BBC Scotland Director General, Donalda MacKinnon to PQ by stating on the media review, "I've met her on a couple of occasions, I like her, I like her a lot". Similarly, a guy who boasted of being on Alex Salmond advisory and advice teams, took the time on the media review to announce the current FM had not put a foot wrong in dealing with the current sexual accusations; however, "I don't want to be seen as a Bute House sook".

 

DrStu' has a considerable property portfolio to support.

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Yesterday, during the weekly Media Review, DrStu' launched into a pre-prepared speech about 'infallibility'.

 

The Media Review chose to spend the first 15 minutes talking about the Prince Harry/ Princess Meghan debacle. Personally, I thought we had all heard enough, and since DrStu' regularly tells us, "Ah cannae stand them" on any issue Royal, you would think the Coronavirus would take precedence? However, we know DrStu' enjoys the last word.

 

We were told infallibility was a roman catholic concept and the pope's infallibility was a major tenet of faith. DrStu' further informed the listenership that Royal watchers had long proclaimed the Queen is never wrong. The Queen is infallible? DrStu' wants us to wait and see, he suspects her decisions won't end well? 

 

I am nonplussed, I know DrStu' is RC, I know the Queen is head of the Anglican Church, and I know the Church of England split from the RC Church 500 years past because of .................... King Henry xiii's constant concerns on producing a legitimate heir. Why is DrStu' so intent on proclaiming the Queen to be infallible, when her families history for five centuries is denying infallibility? Seriously, it's very IllPhil, tell a BigLie because it suits your current thought process better. It's like his Daily Record column of a dozen years past, where he stated Rangers supporters had ransacked Barca cathedral in 1972. 

 

I am beginning to think that the only infallible character in the whole episode is DrStu'?