It has to be recognised that many of us in the West of Scotland have an insatiable appetite for “news” about football. It is way out of proprtion. We end up getting fed trash comments by clowns like McAvennie and Hateley – banal stereotypes taking up a page each. I don’t read them but many others can’t do without them and also tune into juvenile phone-ins to get angry again.

CelticQuickNews shows there’s a better way and is committed to empowering the punters. Full credit to Paul Brennan.

But symbiosis?

I don’t think so.

As a Liverpool fan with Celtic leanings I can tell you that Celtic need Rangers like a fish needs a bicycle.

I am old enough to remember Rangers fans rioting in Newcastle & Leeds in the 60′s, Birmingham in the 70′s, Chesterfield in the 80′s, Tranmere in the 90′s and Manchester in 2008.

The death of Rangers might well be the catalyst for a bigger change in football in the UK and beyond. Lots of teams in the Premiership are living beyond their means and if Sky were to look for a new product and a big team from another league would freshen things up.

Celtic would be welcome. But not Rangers,

It just needs those fields in which the best of ideas/causes can flourish and that requires focus. Whatever, and only that which, we focus on takes life and grows.

We need sowers of ideas/causes and transplanters of the good ones, but we need sites to sow them in and harvesters to separate the weeds from the wheat and transplant the wheat to where it will grow.

I’m guessing that in the RTC blog they have not only a range of professional skills but a range of experience and a range of ages.

Ideas can come from any range but the ones that flourish wil be those exposed to the twin focuses of experience and age. In a way it is how the young and old can work togther to ensure that the best of ideas are carried into the next generation.

I hope I live to 100 to see what it is like in 35 years time

I agree entirely.

James Doleman and the anonymous RTC, amongst others, are blazing a trail which traditional media either cannot or will not follow.

For reasons of space, a newspaper could not print the extended coverage which James was able to do, but none of them tried to do so on the web. The Sheridan Trial Blog is ideally how all importnat trials should be covered, and it should not be left to “enthusiastic amateurs” to show up the professionals!

Similarly with the RTC blog, it has raised , and answered, many questions the old faithfuls have refused to ask. Along with only one or two other sources it has provided data about the position, allowing readers to draw their own conclsuions if they wish, rather than repeating the parroted line of “nothing to see here – please move along” which can be read in the mainstream.

And clearly the RTC site has got under the skin of the new Rangers’ owner, by way of his reference to a website which is “99% wrong”. So far it looks to have been 99% right!