Amid the sea of angst, from some, at Rangers punishment, some perspective is required. Ban any other SPL club from signing players for 12 months and fine them £160k and they will be modesty inconvenienced.
Most clubs only add one or two key players (all going well) to their squad each season and a fine of less than half a percentage point of turnover is hardly punishment at all. Some clubs currently owed money by Rangers could have a de facto ban on transfers as a result – and they’ve done nothing wrong.
For bringing the game into disrepute and breaking a myriad of rules, this is a mild censure.
This only becomes problematic if the club is not paying its bills. Pay your bills, or at the very least, agree a deal with creditors to forgive a portion of debts, and Rangers will be able to retain their current staff and could continue to perform strongly in next season’s Scottish Premier League.
The fantasy that this is a possibility is still being entertained by Duff and Phelps so I see no reason why the rest of us should not point out the inconvenient irony of their position.
The SFA must impose a financial and sporting penalty for bringing the game into disrepute, in this, they have no choice whatsoever. The penalty must be substantial and act as a deterrent against criminal or disreputable elements becoming involved in Scottish football in future. Pay your bills or conjure up the mythical CVA and you’ll cope just fine.
One additional point on the financial penalty. £160k is less than 1% of the debt Sir David Murray was released from when he failed to sufficiently investigate the suitability of Craig Whyte as an owner of Rangers – despite the warnings from others around the Rangers boardroom table.
In light of his failure to take heed of warnings from the then Rangers chairman and his connected financial gain, perhaps Sir David would offer to pay Rangers fine? £18m, David. Don’t tell me that’s enough money to drown out Alastair Johnston’s warning and any feelings of remorse. Paying the fine is the least you owe Rangers fans.
Was it worth it?
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james Forrest
a personal one for me.
seeing the tears of laughter on my 82 year old fathers face as he played pass the parcel at Celtic Park against killie.
Tiny Tim
sorry to hear of your loss. Thoughts with you and your family.
Hail Hail
I see that LaFarty has been punished and banned by the hun. Maybe it’s part of their sneaky cunning plan to raise cash,eh? LaFarty was caught sha##ing the billy goat and has been fined so maybe hun can fine all their players to get needed cash. What a cunning plan,clever I say.
Hail Hail
KINGLuBO
The 8 stones Ally Mccoist has put on over the course of the season, as he comfort ate his way out of the crisis.
And of course the return to form of the #9 Enigma, who showed his critics how well he can play.
I wonder if the ‘supporter’ who publicly criticised him at the AGM ever apologised?
Declan,
welcome back you have been missed.
Hail Hail
RogueLeader on 24 April, 2012 at 12:17,
Tell me you made that up? They didn’t really say that did they?
The SFA is shaming Scottish football? Pull players out of Scotland squads (is that only McGregor?), boycott a few sponsors and blame Neil Lennon. Brilliant!
TET
Think Dundee might have been in SFL so their rules might be different.
Suppose if Rangers end up having to play in SFL they could exploit this loophole, but whi in their right mind would want to play for them as a trialist for any serious length of time.
Mort
TET
Just saw the flaw in your idea posted but even if trialists were a possibility they would not be competitive in the SPL, Div 3 maybe and I’m ok with that.
I admire the tenacity that you cling to your world view but the world is in a constant state of change.
Duff & Phelps and by extension Rangers must be hit with a disrepute order after their latest statement.
Can anyone tell me if the players residual asset value has not been affected by the contract changes ?
Hail Hail
Further information is being made available about the cancellation of laughertys two hernia ops, story now goes it was not mcoist who actioned this, it was in fact NHS Scotland, they have taken all surgeons off regular duties as its feared they will be needed to assist in the operation to get jim traynors head out of david murrays backside
as yet this is unconfirmed
Gordon_J – Has Awe_Naw being doing the press release for the RST?
I think we should be told
John Macmillan, The secretary of the Rangers Supporters Association on John Beattie’s programme on Radio Scotland just now:
JB: “John Rangers have brought shame on Scottish Football haven’t they?”
JM: “No-one has brought more shame on Scottish Football than Neil Lennon”
Fortunately to save him any more blushes the interview was then sharply concluded.
So RFC fans reaction to SFA punishment? “It’s all Neil Lennon’s fault”
beyond parody.
CELTIC midfielder, Ki Sung Yueng, has been ruled out for four to five weeks with a hamstring injury picked up in the weekend’s 3-0 victory over Motherwell.
Ki was substituted in the first half at Fir Park and the injury means that his season is now effectively over, with just four competitive matches remaining.
It has also been confirmed that Filip Twardzik will be out for around a fortnight following his injury in the SFA Youth Cup final on Monday night.
The Czech midfielder was hurt in an accidental collision in the first half and suffered a stud puncture in his foot which required stitches
Apart from Super Sammy the other players who deserve a lot of credit for turning the season round are Fraser Forster and Scott Brown
Snake Plissken on 24 April, 2012 at 12:23 said:
Have you guys seen this?
What is “impartial punishment”?
ha ha. stupid hun just booted off of radio scotland after john beattie asked if rangers had brought shame on scottish football?
“nobody’s brought more shame on scottish football than neil lennon!”
bye bye numpty.
James Forrest is Neil Lennon! We are ALL Neil Lennon! on 24 April, 2012 at 12:04 said:
Lol sponsorship boycotts now is it?
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Any boycott, whatever its nature, has to have a goal worth supporting. A boycott of sponsors is of itself not a bad idea as a means of exerting pressure (its all about publicity of the cause) but it is the cause that matters.
What cause could the Rangers support have? To let them keep cheating? :)
Is Partial Punishment better?
Or Impartial?
Not guilty !!!
Rogue yer a Rogue
I have been getting inundated with emails asking me to resurrect a certain Deaglán character.
LetemDangleCSC
I was over the other blog talking to myself, jeese oh, so many new threads.
Anyone know if the new East End Regeneration Route road phase 2 has opened ?
So their having a protest march against mass or did I read it wrong
A protest on cup final day?
Seems like a bunch of huns are going to dress up and go for a Saturday morning walk through Glasgow. Don’t they do that most weekends anyway?
Now we have the general Secretary of the Rangers Supporters Association being kicked off a Radio broadcast for having a dig at our manager.
Their hatred and intolerance plumbs new depths.
Whilst their beloved club literally dies they hit out at the poster boy for all of their character flaws.
And we are led to believe we need them?
It’s all Neil Lennon’s fault?
So Neil Lennon used EBTs, didn’t pay PAYE and VAT, bought players from other clubs with no intention to pay them in full?
Jeez – o
They must be right.
Neil Lennon reacting to bad refereeing in the same way as umpteen other managers brings shame.
Deary me.
TimJim
I think they just wrote it wrongly.
The irony is that Scotland’s Shame have no shame !
They have for years been spending money that was not theirs.
They purchased players with said money. They won titles as a result.
Now they owe millions, from debts to other teams who struggle to pay their own players as a consequence through to public debt in the form of taxes which might have paid for more nurses or helped lift some from poverty.
As a consequence of such shameful behaviour over a prolonged period of time, from the halycon days of “for every £5” through to the arrival of the ‘billionaire’ saviour, their club is fined a paltry £160,000 and banned from the transfer market for 12 months.
And you know what? Its everyone else’s fault. The fine like the existing debts won’t be paid. As for the transfer embargo? For a club that acquired players knowing full well that it could not pay for them (Jelavic; Wallace), they should count themselves lucky that it is only 12 months.
Scotland’s biggest club? No.
Scotland’s biggest corporate failure? Yes
Scotland’s shame? We told you that a long time ago.
I literally cannot believe what I’m reading.
He actually said that? On live radio? Jesus H. These people are on another planet.
Well done John Beattie for kicking him off. That is appalling.
James Forrest: 8 moments that won us the title:
Surely the day Craig Whyte completed his takeover? :)
Dont for a minute think this is the end of it for the hun, They still have the question of 10 years plus of illegal contracts to answer for, and if the assembly et all think they have been well shafted now, let me say they havent even had the first kiss in this particular romance. Gretna and Airdrie both went bust, both got relegated, the creditors of both will be lining their lawsuits up if the same doesnt happen to the boys from the brox. Then we have the financial mess and lets be honest whether they win or lose the tax case is almost immaterial, they have no money so whether they are liquidated for 50 million or 140 million makes no difference, Deid is Deid is Deid
The Only man who can help the hun is the Agent Whyte, he owns the brox, the Training ground and the supermarket site formerly known as a car park, given the vitriol being heaped in his direction from the loyalist fans in football I’m thinking there is more chance of Maggie Thatcher running naked down sauchihall street tomorrow than a deal being done.
I am begining to think we better enjoy Sunday, it may very well be the last time we ever play those clowns, sad isnt it ?
Ming
James F , I cant claim full credit for the neck brace idea, Eddie and Harry Brady on the CU Podcast mentioned it originally.
So the hunblameometer swings from Craig Whyte via Stewart Regan, the SFA and the Vatican to Neil Lennon.
Where’s John Snow when you need him?
Ranglers supporter spokes man McMillan on shortbread just now ,asking for a level playing field . “How can the sfa let Neil Lennon off with a slap on the wrist when they treat us like this?” John Beattie intervenes ” But ranglers has shamed to whole of scottish football!”
Mac Millan replies “No-one has shamed scottish football as much as Neil Lennon!” Hes quickly bombed out the programme with a “well emotions are clearly running high”
I used to think MacMillan was one of the slightly more respectable rfc fans . It just shows that when you scratch the surface their all huns.
Just seen the Rangers banner which says “sink us and we’ll sink you”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17825207
The cream buns are not taking this very well are they? And they wonder why no one likes them??? Sink us and we’ll sink you…..sounds like they want a square go!
You reap what you sow, ya muppets!
Anyway, just opened a Willie Hill’s account, and going to specsavers for my next set of gregs…..
HAPPY DAYS!!!!
HH
CTTC
James Forrest – these are the guys at the top. The guys representing the rest. The guys showing the public face of Rangers FC.
No wonder they are in the state they are in
did anyone else just hear the chairperson of the some rangers fan group on radio scotland….new tactic being deployed: blame Neil Lennon!!..stunning leveks of denial on show.
kitalba last article – who appointed dumb and dumber ??- I am certain that this was a calculated plan. My one big question is whether the whyte knight is just a sir minty pawn. calculated gamble from the tax dodgers. If so it will end in tears but that may well have been the worst case scenario before it all kicked off as Paul has ben telling for years.
I worked with John McMillan for a longtime.
Decent enough guy, never any hassles over the football, straight enough, but wouldnt get into any debates with you.
The comment from him on RS just now was very unlike him.
The pressure is telling