There’s a gentleman that’s going round
Turning the joint upside down
Stool Pigeon – ha-cha-cha-cha
He’s an old ex-con that’s been away
Now he’s back, no one’s safe
It’s quite likely that David Grier and Craig Whyte had many conversations they didn’t want replayed on BBC Reporting Scotland. Their deal to acquire Rangers from Sir David Murray and Lloyds Banking Group would have required many scenarios to be considered, some of which would certainly be unpalatable. So with this in mind, Grier may have been comfortable discussing strategy with Whyte when the latter recorded their conversation in May this year. They had been in the proverbial trenches together before and at one time would have had a bond of trust.
What frankly beggars belief is that either party would consider this bond to be still in place a month after Duff and Phelps sued Craig Whyte’s company for £25m. It’s even more surprising that Mr Grier and Mr Whyte were on such convivial terms – chatting liberally in a restaurant about such a serious matter – while they were supposed to be on opposite sides of a £25m legal action.
We now know that Rangers administration went miles off track soon after it started. Whyte, as we predicted back in October last year, hoped to present creditors and Scottish football with a fait accompli. Duff and Phelps were to complete the task within days for a fixed fee of a fraction of what they eventually raised.
Instead Duff and Phelps fee increased by a factor of six, Whyte lost control of events and inherited a great deal of litigation, not to mention a police inquiry. Duff and Phelps must now prepare to tell the truth to Lord Hodge next week. There are millions of pounds at play here and anything short of the truth could land them in heaps of trouble.
Credit to Mark Daly and Reporting Scotland for landing the recording. The BBC are taking a pounding this month but this was a stunning item for an evening news bulletin to present.
Craig Whyte, you will remember, threatened to sue Daly last year and managed to convince the hard of thinking that Daly, and the BBC, were victimising Rangers by dishing the dirt on Whyte. Some still adhere to this belief, despite now realising their Messiah was just a naughty boy, it’s a cognitive dissonance thing. Another lesson that football fans are fools for bombast.
After all the talk then they wired him
And he took a walk with his crooked friends
And they joked about the good old days
And he recorded it on a reel of tape
He caught the mug who did in the forgery
And the babe in charge of larceny
We have to wonder what liquidators BDO will make of Duff and Phelps actions when they take over next week. Ha-cha-cha-cha.
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Right, pledges for a Craig Whyte statue on the Gallowgate.
ASonOfDan £50.00
Wanyama is going to be a Top Top Player,capable to play for any team.If he wants to go ,start the bidding at 15m,plus add ons.This guy is going to be a superstar.
How good is it to see the huns mired in such scandal broadcast on the news!?
ASONOFDAN
I’d pledge a quid,but I might not like what I end up with!
Why not offer Victor an improved contract with a cut of any future transfer fee. That we the more we get, the more he gets. And the longer he signs for the more we get.
I wonder if Lord Hodge has contacted Mark Daly requesting the information he has, or indeed of Mark Daly has forwarded the info to Alford Hodge, squeaky bum time for ole MCR.
http://harryhood67.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/breaking-records-and-making-up-numbers/
I am sure that the current misunderstanding regarding D&P will be sorted out with His Lordship with a (funny) handshake.
Re that Vandalgrease link above
Is legal action for misleading potential investors really a possibility?
Does inflating the gate land them with a bigger tax bill based on gate receipts or do they get round it by saying that all the phantoms were on freebies?
Vandalgrease
and they’re probably giving Hector a different set of numbers.
On that theme I wonder if you can get a FOI statement from HMRC as to whether they are meeting their current tax liabilities
Can anyone explain to me why I am having the Mark Daly audio played back to me everytime I open a new page on CQN .
I opened the link earlier but it now seems to have embedded itself somewhere on my Mac or CQN.
Gene’s a Bhoys name –
HMRC do not and will not provide any information on individual customers. A FOI request for such information would fail.
setting free the bears 20:17:
They can explain to me as well…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Paul mcconvile new blog about mark dalys outings.
If 1 of the wizards of cqn would care to post the link.hh
sandman
19:50 on
25 October, 2012
£20 million for those two players is more than enough to buy the Huns outright and shut them down for good.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Lots and lots of LLLLOOOOLLLL ………!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jobo Baldie
thanks – just a thought
Given they are a newco they should be settling monthly
sftb,
I am getting the same problem. What is causing it???
TET
those two towrags are the kinda people that will lead you ashtray :)
SFTB
Me too – thought I was hearing voices from the other side!
sipsini 20:20:
Here you go:
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Looking increasingly like the plan was to get D&P to cleanse RFC of its debt, hand it back to Whyte, and continue playing in the SPL as if nothing had happened, as Paul outlined last year.
For this plan to have worked, the SPL and the SFA had to have been in on it. That explains the mystifying decision not to sell players immediately, or to cut costs to any significant degree.
Where did it go wrong?
Did D&P do the dirty on Our Hero, and decide they could sit tight and rake in millions? Or did the whole SPL/SFA stitch up come apart, leaving them all high and dry and desperate for someone – anyone- to rescue them? Step forward Mr Green…
It certainly looks like Our Hero has covered his bases with D&P. One wonders who else he secretly taped?
Paul McConville blog…
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/mark-daly-lands-more-blows-on-duff-phelps-alleged-mr-grier-tried-to-get-mr-whyte-to-lie/
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/
Parkheadcumsalford
20:22 on
25 October, 2012
sftb,
I am getting the same problem. What is causing it???
Spooky and its not even halloween <)
Lennybhoy.
setting free the bears
Just having a little fun. Myself and Paul thought we’d set the video in the magazine to play automatically. I will change for you now. Pleasure meeting you at St. Mirren at the weekend.
Anyone wanting to watch the Reporting Scotland news item can do so within the magazine graphic. You can now watch our embedded videos on full screen.
CQN TV will be filming at the game on Saturday – 1pm to 3pm outside the ground.
TBJ
They did, but I gave as good as I got :>)
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I thought it was my computer playing the link again, so I restarted it, didn’t stop it.
Choob commentating on Liverpool game got his figures wrong with E’eto’s wages,then says he got i wrong,and apologised for giving him a 500% wage cut.
I don’t think you can cut anything by more than 100%…….
Lennybhoy.
Sorry about that,on my phone.hail hail
BMCUW
Pedant – next you will be telling us that its impossible to hold 54 league titles when you have not been in existance 54 weeks :)
winning captains
You should come up more often if Celtic produce that quality for your visit.
But you should play carefully with the voices in my head trick. I’ve just got my paranoia down to manageable levels.
Sftb and parkheadcumsalford
You’ve probably got a TGEF keystroke logger in your laptops Be afraid,be very afraid,he may be recording everything,if you’ve got webcams he could be watching your every move :-)
TET
Just be careful – follow (follow ) the Craig Whyte example and dont be fooled by the shabby clothes and googly eyes :)
Watching Lpool – I can see why they may be after Hooper
THE BOY JINKY
LOL.
Re titles,
I want my title back from Ernie….
setting free the bears
Mark Daly link audio and video has appeared at the top of the page beside the CQN mag.
cv
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
20:27 on 25 October, 2012
Choob commentating on Liverpool game got his figures wrong with E’eto’s wages,then says he got i wrong,and apologised for giving him a 500% wage cut.
I don’t think you can cut anything by more than 100%…….
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I think Wonga charge 4000% Apr
sipsini 20:25:
You are welcome mate…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!