After they hatched their plan to blackmail Scottish Football League clubs into voting Newco into the First Division, Stewart Regan, Neil Doncaster and David Longmuir might have paused to wonder what reaction they would receive.
You better believe they didn’t anticipate the reaction today from Clyde and Raith Rovers. Rovers chairman, Turnbull Hutton, told BBC Scotland’s Jim Spence, “If we are at the stage of bending rules and accommodating, threatening and blackmailing, we want to give it up.”
“Bending rules… threatening… blackmailing…we want to give it up”.
Hutton went on to suggest heads should roll at the SFL, SFA and SPL. He’s the first from within the football establishment to call for sackings but he’ll not be the last.
An extensive statement by Clyde FC concluded, “The papers include a proposal to allow a Newco to enter the 1st Division. This is contrary to the rules of the SFL and nothing within the papers justifies this proposal.”
Regan, Doncaster and Longmuir will now be contemplating that their bully-boy tactics will fail. SLF clubs will vote against their recommendations and SPL clubs will not stop promotion from the lower leagues based on merit. It looks like abject failure of leadership.
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kitalba on 1 July, 2012 at 08:11 said:
lionroars67:
I know it has been said a few times, but can you imagine the feeding frenzy the Scottish hacks would be in if it were Celtic – as opposed Rangers – who cheated Scotland’s teams out of so much and brought global shame down on our nation.
They would most likely by now be calling for capital punishment to be brought back.
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Not to mention how much they stole from the Scottish economy
Lubo on 1 July, 2012 at 08:14 said:
I was just trying to post that thanks Mate, what a great article that and TBB post yesterday are classic pieces of Internet Bampottery…
I think we have reached the stage now that to let any form of Sevco/Newco in to any league before the investigations are complete would be an affront to Scottish Football and indeed to the society which Alex Salmond so richly defends.
What’s the matter Alex cat got your tongue..
Aaaah,Walter.
A man of the people.
A cleanskin.
An honest broker.
Nothing in it for him.
But for circumstances,he and the good chaps could have returned Rangers to the sunny,warm uplands of the future.
Stymied by circumstances,nasty chaps and bad fortune,
OR
Smith.
Saw the writing on the wall and scuttled off before the poo hit the fan in favour of
Swally Mc. ,the fall guy,who knew what it meant,but he went.
Either way,
Good night ,sweet princes.
The gemme`s a bogey.
kitalba on 1 July, 2012 at 08:11 said:
lionroars67:
I know it has been said a few times, but can you imagine the feeding frenzy the Scottish hacks would be in if it were Celtic
Funeral hearse outside Celtic park on a daily basis courtesy of the MSM
If Ogilvie, Regan and Doncaster were to be bending rules, using coercion and bribery as they are now for Sevco was transferred to saving Celtic the frenzy that would be surrounding them this weekend would leave them requiring the entire armed forces to protect them.
Phil Macgiollabhain has left the building
Lubo on 1 July, 2012 at 08:14 said:
http://henryclarson.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/when-theres-no-room-left-in-hell/
The above is well worth a read.
Lubo.
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Cheers for that brilliant article, really spells it out, great stuff.
Good morning friends from a wet yet bright (I knw, strange one) East Kilbride. I have a golf time for 12.36. Hoping for a big and quick turnaround in the weather!
Paidraig Marley:
How do we now sell our national game, league and cups, to sponsors? Which company will be the first to step forward and risk the wrath of delinquent zombies or have their name associated with a competition that – until Rangers are dealt with proportionately – will be cloaked in a shroud of stigma?
Rangers, the collective entity, have done untold damage to our game. Like a bad oil spill, it could be a decade before the full ramifications of their negligence is known.
“We have a crucial week coming up,” McLeish told Scotland on Sunday, “and, if the clubs can’t resolve this issue soon and find a home for Rangers, then we are facing massive fallout and it could set back Scottish football for a very, very long time and that at a time when our game is already in a poor condition.”
Why Henry? What is it that is crucial? Is it money? Is it the mere presence of The Rangers? Is it just that we need a team in their place?
This kind of hyperbole leads me to the conclusion that what we are seeing is the modus operandi of the SFA and those the run Scottish football. You only got the blazer if you had a leaning to give rangers the benefit of the doubt at every decision involving them.
Still no mention of the unmentionable EBT cheating. What people are forgetting is that not only have Rabidgers taken the SFA to court they have also cheated and cheated for years. The SFA are complicit. At least the SFL clubs who have made statements are marking them out for what they are.
kitalba on 1 July, 2012 at 08:37 said:
Paidraig Marley:
How do we now sell our national game, league and cups, to sponsors? Which company will be the first to step forward and risk the wrath of delinquent zombies or have their name associated with a competition that – until Rangers are dealt with proportionately – will be cloaked in a shroud of stigma?
Rangers, the collective entity, have done untold damage to our game. Like a bad oil spill, it could be a decade before the full ramifications of their negligence is known.
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I agree entierly and untill the full truth of the lies, deceit and corruption comes out, we may never know how much destruction it has really caused.
I see Dick Wilson (Herald) is putting his boot into the Charlie Green consortium, nothing happening with the games governing bodies dick
West Wales Celt @ 7.22
I cant do the link, however interesting that the 23 SFL votes needed for the newco in Div 1 appears to have now dropped to them only needing 16 votes.
These clowns are just making the rules up as they go along.
The Rabid-Dog-Abortion-Urukai-BoilontheSphincter-Brigade, clearly still have friend in high places.
Brian McNally
Scotland’s football power brokers today stand accused of bullying, bribery, blackmail & rule-bending by clubs & fans they are paid to represent.
The shameful plot hatched by Stewart Regan of the SFA, the SPL’s Neil Doncaster and David Longmuir of the SFL to trade the sporting soul of Scottish football in exchange for favours & advantage for a newco Rangers has rightly garnered massive opposition throughout the land.
Fierce condemnation from fans of every hue has ensured that the plotters Plan A to allow the newco to walk straight into the SPL will be decisively rejected on Wednesday.
The conspirators Plan B- sweetened with a £1million TV inducement- to parachute the newco into SFL Division 1- is also in big trouble.
Already six SFL have declared their opposition before all 30 clubs meet on Tuesday and some are demanding heads roll over the fiasco.
Raith Rovers Turnbull Hutton summed up the mood of defiance- “If we are at the stage of bending rules and accommodating, threatening and blackmailing, we want to give it up.”
Messrs Regan,Doncaster. & Longmuir look to have totally misjudged the will of of most of Scotland’s fans & many of the clubs to place justice & integrity above financial advantage.
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The Official history of Celtic Football Club
HECTOR AVOCADO
Nae offence,bud,as I’m glad you noticed my tongue-in-cheek (TIC for short) jibe about your moniker yesterday,but……..
I think BOURNESOUPRECIPE might just mibbes have reasonable cause to be miffed at your plagiarism of his gift to SPARKLEGHIRL!
Only saying that cos I’m jealous of your dexterity with a keyboard,haha,I can barely get mine to complete a post without a blinkin’ typo.
How’s the diet plan coming along,btw? Have you costed the price of a new wardrobe to clothe the sooperdooper slimmed-down Mr A?
Blacks of Greenock are very reasonable,I hear.
PS,all the above with my TIC head on,honest.
Celtic Legend Jock Stein – You’re Immortal
Morning everyone from a bright and sunny wembley.
Plan for today?
Get some work done. CQN . bite to eat. CQN. Watch euro final. CQN. bed.
Mmmmm . Tough day ahead
When the membership or shareholders of an organization are at odds with the executive management, this is an unhealthy situation for the business.
When the members are almost universally in disagreement with a fundamental element of business strategy as proposed by the CEO, that often results in his departure.
When the customers are even more opposed to the strategy being proposed by the CEO, the future of the CEO becomes untenable
We don’t just have one of the above scenarios in play just now at the SPL, we have all three of them and we have them in spades. Scottish Football needs unified, it needs leadership and it needs to regain respectability.
Doncaster completely lacks the trust of the Scottish Football world, and as such is the last person to lead us out of this mess. Once an executive finds himself in that position , the decent thing to do is resign. Doncaster is having his Newco for the SPL plan overwhelmingly rejected. That alone should make his position untenable.
However to add certainty to his unsuitability , he then delivers a shameful proposal to SFL Clubs. He has been quoted many many times as being there to uphold the rules without fear or favour . How shameless do these words appear today. Doncaster is completely unfit as a unifying figure, and that is what is needed more than anything else just now.
Doncaster must resign or be removed . He has dropped the ball, not once but twice, with his ill thought out blueprint for recovery. He is not in sync with the sports customers, and clearly not in sync either with the member clubs.
Were he to apply for his own job now, he wouldn’t even be granted an interview, so bad is his reputation and track record. He must be removed before we can move forward.
KITALBA
You post some amazing stuff,sir!
However,I’ve noticed that some of the recent links you provide come with a banner of other offerings from my4everscotland which obscure half of the screen.
Is this just my laptop being a p-i-t-a,and if so,do you have any idea how to remove it?
Normally there would be an”x” in the corner to click on,but not so,it seems.
No great problem-I still have many of your previous delights saved to my favourites.
Got a feeling they are gonna take a tanking during the imminent fallow season….
Apologies if already posted….
How long till Newhun go into admin??? Tick tock….
Revealed: how Rangers newco was shunned by major banksEXCLUSIVE: RBS refused to underwrite direct debit ticket sales debacle by Steven Vass and Richard Wilson
Scotland’s biggest banks have washed their hands of Rangers newco, forcing it to abandon its controversial bid to collect direct debit season ticket payments from fans and to sign up with a small bank with no branches in Scotland.
inShare0 Charles Green faces numerous obstacles to establish the ‘newco Rangers’
Custom byline text:
EXCLUSIVE: RBS refused to underwrite direct debit ticket sales debacle by Steven Vass and Richard Wilson
The Sunday Herald can reveal that the Royal Bank of Scotland refused to underwrite the agreement between Rangers newco and FastPay, a Manchester-based direct debit company, to run the handling of payments by the club’s 40,000 season ticket holders.
It is understood departments within the banks refused to sanction an overdraft facility for FastPay and advised that the bank has no dealings with the current owners of Rangers assets, Charles Green’s consortium. The bank is understood to be concerned at the current uncertainty about the club’s future and its backers.
As part of the deal, FastPay needed the overdraft to pay £2.6 million to Rangers newco upfront, which it would have recouped from season ticket holders’ direct debit payments. Season tickets, which cost between £400 and £500 each, have raised close to £20m for the club each year in recent seasons.
Without the overdraft FastPay can’t give money to Rangers newco, which is registered as Sevco. This could potentially cause cash flow problems for the company and undermine Green’s efforts to find more investors for the club.
It emerged yesterday that Rangers has hired Metro Bank as its new corporate bank. Metro is a new arrival on the British banking scene, having launched two years ago. It currently has no presence in Scotland.
The Sunday Herald understands that bigger banks shared the opinion of RBS and would not enter into an arrangement with Rangers newco.
Andy Kerr of the Rangers Supporters Assembly said: “You can understand RBS’s position. If they haven’t been involved with the club previously, they are going to say it looks like a big risk. It’s worrying that we cannot even get a stable financial arrangement up and running.”
He said it was surprising that Rangers were banking with Metro. “You would have thought a club the size of Rangers would start by asking the major banks, except [former bank] Lloyds, of course.”
Rangers’ arrangements for season ticket renewal payments made headlines last week after supporters complained that the previously unheard of FastPay was trying to debit their accounts, despite the fact that they had already told the club that they wanted to cancel their season tickets.
Former Rangers player John Brown had called on fans to boycott season tickets as part of a push to force Green to sell the club to them.
After complaints about the direct debit arrangements, the club’s owners first tried to assure fans that no payments would be deducted until July 6.
The Sunday Herald can reveal that FastPay had become involved with Rangers newco when approached by Metro Bank on the club’s behalf to ask if it would become the club’s direct debit handler. Insiders suggest FastPay was initially willing to consider involvement but later shared the RBS view and said it was no longer interested. It later changed its mind after heavy pressure from Rangers newco.
The deal hit more trouble when FastPay tried to get it signed-off from a different part of RBS, but personnel within the bank refused after discovering that the proposal had already been rejected.
There are fears this may hit season ticket sales, adding to the financial problems of Rangers newco.
A Rangers spokesman said: “The club has reviewed arrangements for direct debit collection primarily because of confusion and concern among supporters – surrounding the new arrangements.
“This in turn caused issues for supporters and service providers and following feedback and discussions we have decided not to accept direct debits for the forthcoming season.”
RBS declined to comment. FastPay was unavailable for comment.
The Hunday Mail has a story about the SFL bringing in Solicitors over this weekend to pour over their rules in order to determine whether they require a 75%, 66% or 50% majority vote to allow The Rangers Tribute Team into the SFL as they dont know their rules.
Sounds more to me like the SFL are seeking to find a loophole.
Do they really think the football supporting public or their club membership will fall for this?
SO LETS LOOK AT SOME HISTORICAL FACTS.
In 1994 ICT and Ross County were elected to join the SFL after league reconstruction.
In 2000 Elgin and Peterhead were elected to join the SFL after SPL reconstructed increasing its league from 10 to 12.
In 2002 Gretna were elected to join the SFL after Airdrieonians went bust.
In 2008 Annan Athletic were elected to join the SFL after Gretna went bust.
Given the above additions to the SFL in the last 20 years do they really believe that their paying public and their club membership will believe bringing in their solicitors to pour over their rules and constitution is anything more than another attempt to gerrymander The Rangers Tribute Team back into the Scottish Football Association and one of its league structures.
MWD
Summa of Sammi.
Good news on your lucky charms season ticket purchase. Take it he enjoyed the game?
I’ll get the contents of your envelope banked this week and donate it to Wee Oscar in your name.
MWD
Good morning from a damp ML3.
Golf on the east coast beckons with some excellent true Celtic men.
We will not even notice the weather conditions, just enjoy each company and revel in pure timmery.
Life is good for the true Celtic men.
EC 67
Awe Naw.
Just caught your reply. I’m sure you know I was only pulling your leg.
Loved the sarcastic humour in your reply though. Brilliant. :-))
MWD
archdeaconsbench on 1 July, 2012 at 09:10 said:
A shameful article spinning on behalf of Charlie Greens enemies
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS:
Mate, what you should have said is I copy and paste, or link ‘good’ stuff.
Regards your problem, that sounds to me like a local problem, I experience it. It also sounds a bit like the dreaded ‘green screen’ syndrome, which is caused by ‘javascrpt’ being enabled. I can’t remember the sequence to disable it but you right click on the obscuring entity and reset your switches. Be careful though, because I’m no expert.
The man who would most likely be able to talk you through a fix would be my ol’ amigo, Awe_Naw.
Good luck. Oh! And that Jock Stein video is worth watching.
I shamelessly plagiarised SparkleGs thingy – she knows. I like it.
I have decided to join the huns and shed a few pounds. Starting the morra.
Inside every avocado – soft and hard – resides a big nut.
Morning all from a fresh North Ayrshire. Sun is out but it is cool and the rain isn’t far away.
Are Ogilvie and co still in charge? I’m sure there won’t be any outcry from the msm (why honour these reprobates with capitals?). Hingin’s too good for them(s).
Lynott 67:
The brazeness of it all must be bad; its even upset the odd jorno!
‘A hunnish establishment for a hunnish peepl’
MWD
Great to see you on here again over the past few weeks,posting in your time-honoured inimitable style.
Though many of us aspire to it,you are the master of getting your point across without the possibility of offence.
Gaunie tell us yir secret?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
That should have read: I – don’t – experience it.
Hector:
Two minor points if I may be so bold.
1) Aesthetically your sparkly banner would look more balanced if the right wing mirrored, rather than repeated, the left.
2) I view CQN on a Samsung Galaxy Note, not smallest of mobiles, and your banner stretches over 2 lines largely spoiling the effect. Maybe lose the odd star or dash?
Other than that your handle is looking right sexy…
KITALBA
Thanks,JAVASCRIPT sounds about right-I enabled that fairly recently,and forgot to switch it off.
Me,numptie-you,star!
As for AWE NAW,he has been very helpful in the past,and is also a star. That is why I have been making spurious excuses for giving his LIQUIDATION BARBEQUE a body.
Petrified of the bill I’m due for his services!
•-:¦:-•** -:¦:- ♫ Hector Avocado ♫•-:¦:-•** -:¦:-
As I said,it was TIC,and a bow to our superior knowledge!
Jealous as hell,btw…..
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD 0927
Hingin’?
My local vernacular-makes me homesick!
Also reminds me of the recently-absent JHILDAY from our area,well,Beith to precise.
He always referred to them as the hingmies.
If you’re lurking,JHILDAY,get back on here. Yer missed!
G’mornin’ from a windswept and interesting Rebel County…………
….Just to check – nothin’ yet from….
– Bawface
– McCrummoch
-Chic
???
That’s a surprise.
In a similar vein we could do with hearing a lot less from “Alex” McLeish….aye…
What a dissapointment that chap is.
BMWC-UWP
It’s the way I tell’em.
MWD