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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It’s brilliant really.
Back in ’94 we staged public debate, orchestrated considered protests and ultimately put our hands in our pockets to save our Club.
They on the other hand are threatening to buy fewer Vauxhalls, gamble less often and drink less Carlsberg.
Really, you couldn’t make this up.
The sun’ll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There’ll be no hun
Just thinkin’ about
Tomorrow
Clears away the currants,
And the sorrow
‘Til there’s none!
When I’m stuck in a day
That’s gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh
Liquidation Liquidation will come
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
‘Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
I love ya
Tomorrow!
Liquidation is only a day away
On a mountain in Virginia, stands a lonesome pine.
Just below is the cabin home of a little girl of mine.
Her name is June and very, very soon, she’ll belong to me.
For I know she’s waiting there for me, ‘Neath that lone pine tree.
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
In the pale moonshine, our hearts entwine,
Where she carved her name and I carved mine,
Oh June, like the mountains I’m blue.
Like the pine, I am lonesome for you.
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,
On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
is no a BUSINESS and am OOT
Songs for Sunday?
Style Council – Walls come tumbling down
(been singing it all day)
:-)
StevieS
cmon OG, stop being such a tease……..
Paul67 et al
“Well we’ll leave it there John it sounds like you’re flying a Spitfire in the background!”
Radio 5 winding up a phonecall from John McMillan re SFA sanctions.
Monty Python – The Money Song
There is nothing quite as wonderful as money
There is nothing quite as beautiful as cash
Some people say it’s folly
But I’d rather have the lolly
With money you can make a splash
Memories – Elvis
row-z..,
would be interesting to know the max penalty for each offence for comparison.
As you point out, the sectarian football association are still trying to insulate their masters.
Are compliance offences and information shared with uefa,
Wonder if appealing a compliance decision requires further sanction if appeal fails
The Temptations – Don’t Let the Jonses Get You Down
I hope Thomson is at the top of his game on Sunday as molly weir wont be around to make his decisions for him!!
The Clash – Straight to Hell
Half time request:
ABBA. Money money money
Always look on the bright side of life……with Monty Python on the big screens!
Don’t look back in anger – Oasis
I see that yet again my good name is being trashed across the internets without let or hindrance – this must be what it feels like to be Craig Whyte.
Anyway, I can’t see what difference a 12 months transfer embargo will make – as I understand it Walter Smith went 3 years without signing any players whatsoever.
Song for Sunday has to be….Penny Arcade. Irony?
Been told miserere mei each way in wolves 2 20. 7/1. Take it or leave it folks.
spirit of arthur lee –
do you think any of them will be drinking like Richard Burton, dance like John Travolta??
The taxman’s taken all my dough
and left me with no place to go
lazing on a sunny (saturday lol) afternoon
Kinks – Sunny Afternoon !
Why don’t we just really annoy them and play simply the best. Can you imagine their little orc faces live on the tv
Queen – Another one bites the dust
Oh the time will come up
When the winds will stop
And the breeze will cease to be breathin’
Like the stillness in the wind
‘Fore the hurricane begins
The hours when the ship comes in.
And the seas will split
And the ship will hit
And the sands on the shoreline will be shaking
Then the tide will sound
And the wind will pound
And the morning will be breaking.
Oh the fishes will laugh
As they swim out of the path
And the seagulls they’ll be smiling
And the rocks on the sand
Will proudly stand
The hour that the ship comes in.
And the words that are used
For to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they’re spoken
For the chains of the sea
Will have busted in the night
And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean.
A song will lift
As the mainsail shifts
And the boat drifts on to the shoreline
And the sun will respect
Every face on the deck
The hour that the ship comes in.
Then the sands will roll
Out a carpet of gold
For your weary toes to be a-touchin’
And the ship’s wise men
Will remind you once again
That the whole wide world is watchin’.
Oh the foes will rise
With the sleep in their eyes
And they’ll jerk from their beds and think they’re dreamin’
But they’ll pinch themselves and squeal
And know that it’s for real
The hour that the ship comes in.
Then they’ll raise their hands
Sayin’ we’ll meet all your demands
But we’ll shout from the bow your days are numbered
And like Pharaoh’s tribe
They’ll be drownded in the tide
And like Goliath, they’ll be conquered.
BobDylan When The Ship comes in
or preferably The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem csc
O.G.Rafferty on 24 April, 2012 at 13:43 said:
Might be some interesting developments later this afternoon too…
Awww come on O.G. , my boss isn’t going to be pleased with you if I need to keep checking on here every 5 mins as opposed to my usual 15.
Alex Thomson fails to undertstand the hun
And whatever happens, in the end hundreds of thousands of folk will still want to support a team based in Govan, wearing blue. That is not going away. And one day they might find themselves playing in a far better-run game than they have known in the past. Today might just be Day One of setting off down this path.
They are like the paupers who voted for Thatcher so that they can say they voted for the winner. That is the kind of people that the hun delivers. I genuinely believe that without the silver spoon in the mouth , without the guarantee that the Gers have a more than better chance of winning
by;
Spending hundreds of millions far more than anybody else
stealing hundreds of millions from the HMRC and St. John Ambulance service
multi million pound debt absorptions from guys like Joe Lewis, Dave King, SIr David Murray
A football association who´s sole aim is to be run for their benefit
A refereeing fraternity that will come to the rescue if all of the above fails.
If the hun is not provided with these safety nets … he will walk away.
The retarded thought process is imbued with fantasies about race supreme ism.
The huns are glory hunters intertwined with being anti catholic they do not care about football or sport or taking part.
It is all about identity. They are Scottish football etc.
I dont see them returning unless they are pandered too and LETS BE HONEST HERE THEY ARE STILL VERY MUCH BEING PANDERED TOO ESPECIALLY BY
ALEX THOMSON…………………….. YUP !!!!
Hail Hail
Paul67
Moments that turned the season round…..
The match in Rennes after the dreadful OG from Cha. The team seemed to bind and battle like they hadn’t done before. There seemed to be more belief and they got a good result away from home in Europe which was a huge monkey off their back.
Moments that almost cost us the league (Before admin)
Izzy leg break
Kayal injury
Shocking referee decisions
3-0 down at half time at Killie
LB
I never even mentioned the laptop loyal
Hail Hail
How about one from Mr Ray Charles,
My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I’m busted
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound, but I’m busted
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won’t lay
A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
The county’s gonna haul my belongings away cause I’m busted.
I went to my brother to ask for a loan cause I was busted
I hate to beg like a dog without his bone, but I’m busted
My brother said there ain’t a thing I can do,
My wife and my kids are all down with the flu,
And I was just thinking about calling on you ’cause I’m busted.
Well, I am no thief, but a man can go wrong when he’s busted
The food that we canned last summer is gone and I’m busted
The fields are all bare and the cotton won’t grow,
Me and my family got to pack up and go,
But I’ll make a living, just where I don’t know cause I’m busted.
I’m broke, no bread, I mean like nothing,
Bustedcsc
Bournesoup….,
We know what turned our season around,don’t we?
Thehuns are not dead yet,so cool the jets for a while.
Don’t cast a cloot, til May’s oot !
Craig Whyte, the man who put the quid in liquidation.
serge,
I like that :o)
maybe play it at 78rpm
Just noticed rangers breach of rule 14 brought a fine of £50000, judicial panel protocol dictates it should be £50000 And termination of membership.
So in two instances ie rule 14 and rule 66 were the sanction is termination the judicial panel have not applied their protocol.
Does not say maybe termination could be termination
It says And termination
got this of rtc, anyone still think the sfa done a good job?cowards to the end
thomthethim
Dandelions springing up everywhere, weeding whilst baltic here in Burnside.
Aye, we know what turned the tide.
HH
I don’t think I want them to totally die!
I understand this is controversial and the thought only occurred to me this morning when speaking to a friend. After it being explained to me in detail there is a very real possibility of no huns at ibrox next year, it made me think there is only 3 things that make up the huns, their history, Ibrox and their fans. Now if the 1st 2 of those things disappear next season the fans will also follow follow.
This resulted in me saying those words in the 1st line. I couldn’t quite believe I’d said it and the surprised look on my friend’s face also suggested he couldn’t believe it, whilst listing the many reasons how our society would be better without them. We all know the reasons and I agree. So why did I say that I don’t want them to die, totally die…. maybe I want some for of them to remain to serve as a reminder, maybe I want their suffering to continue – can they not just go into a coma rather than die. What will replace them? Is it a fear of the unknown?
I don’t know, what I do know is, it isn’t out of compassion for their plight.
Just logging on and reading what Mr Macmillan, a spokesperson for rfc(ia) supporters said, demonstrates clearly, exactly what they’re about as a group. A usually normal guy resorting to spouting hatred on national radio. They are ALL huns.
I hope their actions over the past 20 plus years (from a financial perspective) are fully punished.
Their club WILL cease to exist, their history WILL stop at some point in the next few weeks, it should also be amended with the removal of all tainted trophies, paid for with money that wasn’t theirs to use.
I understand this will never happen, I think what I want is for them to accept their wrongdoings (not just financial), accept their punishment for these and fully apologise for them.
I could forgive them, the problem is they don’t believe they have done anything wrong!!! They are scratching and scraping at trying to find a solution which involves them getting away with cheating. A solution which ensures they retain all the benefits enjoyed by rfc (stadium, history, league license) while shedding the toxic debt built up over years of financial mismanagement and cheating.
The biggest toxic element of the existing rfc(ia) they should be trying to get rid of is the “No Surrender” element in their support, unfortunately as was so “eloquently” demonstrated by Mr Macmillan on the radio & by Mr Johnston in the boardroom, this isn’t an “element” of their support – IT IS their support. It is this I want to die more than rfc(ia), the attitudes we’ve all faced, the arrogance, the hatred – it may be that the death of rfc(ia) will be start of the change I think i want…
Sorry for the ramble…
hh
bjmac
I liked this comment from RangersMedia:
” We saw Dumfermline fail to pay wages after failing to ge the money for 1 game!”
Dunfermline FAILED! Not ” Rangers FAILED to pay.” !!
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pheersy on 24 April, 2012 at 12:19 said:
Re RST.. statement….
its all Neil lennons fault….
Stupid Huns !
You forgot the Kafflick Schools.