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Ally Macabre
More Than Words |
     
Breathnach,
as an embarrassed Scotsman I don't think you have anything to be embarrassed about...
We kept the Irish hanging on for months while we fannied about, will we, won't we, solo bid/joint bid, then expected you to jump in at the eleventh hour to save the bid.
Win or lose it's just a big PR exercise for McConnell and Ahern, and its only the likes of us that seem to care about the football.
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Total Posts: 1888 | Joined Sep. 2001 | Posted on: 8:03 am on Sep. 12, 2002 | IP
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Jacobite
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Nothing to be embarrassed about Breathnach,the more sceptical amongst us always felt that McConnell was setting Ireland up with an impossible deadline in the hope that the deal would collapse and he could blame the Irish.
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Here's tae the King sir,Ye ken who I mean Sir
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Total Posts: 521 | Joined Sep. 2001 | Posted on: 8:46 am on Sep. 12, 2002 | IP
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Bzzzz
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Aye, McConnell never wanted it to happen, purely for political reasons. He poo pooed the solo bid as us being FAR too independent and then went for the Joint bid as it was pretty much doomed from the start and then he could blame the Irish and take all the heat off him.
Wanker.
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Quia quamdiu Centum ex nobis viui remanserint, nuncquam Anglorum dominio aliquatenus volumus subiugari.
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markiejd
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Bzzzz, bang on. I've said it from day one of McConnell "Goverment". We had no chance and we'll have no chance. This is the first and lightly last time the big boys don't want it. Look at England after 96 they want the 06 world cup? Why? Because its a money maker, not for the goverment but for pub, hotels, trains, the list is endless, but Jacko boy cant see beyond, "lets not piss off Tony", in fact he has been more behind the bid than MCConnell.
Every thing good from the Scottish Exe has all been Lib Dem stuff
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You may be a king or a little street sweeper
But sooner or later you'll dance with the Reaper
YEAH!
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Bruce
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Quote: from markiejd on 9:31 am on Sep. 18, 2002
Every thing good from the Scottish Exe has all been Lib Dem stuff
Well, you all know what to do when the next election comes round then.....
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One Lion!!
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Total Posts: 257 | Joined July 2002 | Posted on: 12:49 pm on Sep. 18, 2002 | IP
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Tartan Sheep
GET A LIFE!!! |
Disnae do any good though Bruce - I've never voted for the party that have control over my country (the Tories then Labour from Westminster then Labour from Holyrood).
Let's hope that once Union Jack hears all the good things that UEFA are saying about our bid, he'll see that it wouldn't be such a bad thing after all and start to get enthusiastic about the whole damn thing.
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...if we join, we can win. if we win, well then we'll have something that we've never had...a country of our own
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Bruce
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Quote: from Tartan Sheep on 2:44 pm on Sep. 18, 2002
Disnae do any good though Bruce - I've never voted for the party that have control over my country (the Tories then Labour from Westminster then Labour from Holyrood).
I know how you feel but if more people actually opened their minds a little (and got off their erses of course) and considered the alternatives available at election time then we might get to see a few changes for the better. Too many people turn out and stick the cross in the same place everytime regardless of the candidates and the policies.
I grew up in Monklands and, Jeeeeeesus, but the Labour council there would have had to stalk the streets smeared in blood, shooting babies to have had any chance of failing to get elected.
Incidentally I have no party political agenda here - it doesn't matter which party it is that is f**king up at the time - it seems that much the same result comes around in Scotland every four years regardless of what has gone on in the intervening years. The lack of imagination/ courage to change things is disheartening.
McConnel and the likes need a good kick up the erse electorally to knock them into shape and remind them why they are there in the first place.
By the way, the only reason I said "you" in the original post is because I'm not in Scotland at the moment so I probably won't get a vote myself. Having said that I was a student the last time I was in Scotland during an election and I got two votes (a card was sent to my Uni address and to my parents address) so it's only fair I suppose. 
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Gemmills Goal
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I've just come back from a huge six-day pish-up in Dublin where I also wore my Euro 2008 t-shirt to meet the UEFA delegation at Croke Park (which is one of the best stadiums I've ever seen).
Reading the papers over there in the wake of Bertie's announcement, it is clear that the Irish - as Breathnach says - are very embarrassed by the fuq up and feel they are letting the Scots down.
Their over-riding view seems to be that Croke Park will not be opened up to football but that private finance may yet save the bid plans.
The people on the streets seem hopeful the GAA will relent and really back the bid.
I also got the impression that Bertie had no greater aim in mind than to hijack the FAIs original plan to build a national stadium to further his political career and popularity.
If the UEFA delegates were unimpressed by anything that happened to them in Ireland, then it would be the fact that the Irish government failed to make sure the parliament's gates were big enough to allow their coach through  They really looked like they had the hump.
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