Can you believe these Duff and Phelps people? They can’t afford to pay Rangers taxes, or other SPL clubs monies due, but today they tried to increase their payroll today by asking the SPL to register Daniel Cousin. Can you imagine what the out-of-pocket creditors feel about this?
These people are in place to make sure the company trades long enough to repay creditors. They can trade perfectly well with the three dozen or so players they have, what kind of justification could they possibly give to the court for playing Football Manager with other people’s money? No wonder HM Revenue and Customs fought their appointment.
What an absolute shower. It’s almost as though that place is some kind of lightning rod for a special type of competency. It’s not your money you’re spending, pay the club’s bills and stop looking for football bling, that’s what got the last lot into trouble in the first place!
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Oglach,
great clip, there was a wee… ahem… argument on here a while back, cos I was sure that it was from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. My memory obviously has as much integrity as wee Whytie
crc
I assume they are referring to SPL games in the contract as the SPL does not control any other competition.
I have not seen the contract but Shug has been assuring us all week that the clause is there, he has seen it, and, therefore, Rangers must survive.
And Shug has never been wrong as our manager, Artur Jorge, will testify.
I’ve been thinking!
Promise I won’t do that again.
MWD
CRC
bad enough he has a blinking quiz, now he has broken the blog…… ;))
Aipple, some great footage, eh?
I’m a football romantic, love great skill, tanner ba players, this current Barca, well, they are the best team in 150 years of football. I am going to get another beer from the fridge then post some links
If you truly love football you might weep.
Worth staying up for.
tj
setting free the bears
A couple of nights ago, can’t remember exactly, think Duffy was on SSB.
They said that it wasn’t writen into the contract, the other was Hanna, but it was a given that there would be 4 derby games.
They don’t have a clue what the contract says.
They are pushing the agenda, nothing else.
Looking after their jobs.
Even the SFA/SPL are not that loco to have a writen contract that states that there must be certain game staking place, can’t believe it.
It’s just bullshit form the jurnos who know their time is up.
A real jurno would have seen the contract and reported on it.
Personally, the reasons I want to see rfc extinct are mostly non-football.
When I think of everything that club has stood for over the years, its an easy
opinion to make. Where do we start?
A non Catholic signing policy circa 1910-1989
A Bastion of Anti Irish Catholicism
A hub for the Orange Order
Shaming the nation with a history of hooliganism throughout Europe
Corrupting the SFA (inc refs)
Controlling the media
Murders of Celtic fans (even in victory)
Attacks and deaths threats of Celtic players and Neil Lennon
Nazi salutes
Racism
Bigotry
Sectarianism
Apartheid
Supremacist triumphalism
last but not least…A stain and strain on the social, cultural, political and economic wellbeing of Scotland.
Sure, Id miss the glory of beating them, but there are far too many negatives and they are of far greater
importance. On that note, I dont care if I never see that fixture again. We may have to downsize with crowds
of 30000 or whatever but we’ll benefit in the long term. Just to be rid of the OF tag would be something and
we would no longer be dragged into their cesspit.
Remember, this is a situation like very few others (Buenes Aires and Istanbul may be as bad).
Its not your Millwall-West Ham or Liverpool-Man Utd. I dont think these rivals can say they want the other buried
for any of the reasons I’ve listed. The hatred is there alright but its based on different matters.
The huns will survive in some form, we all realise that. Terry was spot on tonight, we just want them to receive
full punishment for their crimes. But for me, they will still be getting away with the criminal acts they have
been committing for 100 years. Tomorrow, Ibrox will witness a show of defiance. It’ll be a sea of angry faces
with the old hymn sheets handed out. If they morph as a newco, FC HATRED would be a suitable name.
Rangers are dead,deceased,they have shuffled off this mortal coil and have gone to meet their maker
Well maybe not yet,but you get my drift
Do we need Rangers ?
Of course we don’t.
The big but is
When we have been in the ascendency we have not
pushed on.
They have always been our been benchmark.
Without them we must succeed in Europe.
Anybody else think they two administration men appeared to be enjoying their two minutes of fame yesterday?
Gordon64 says:
17 February, 2012 at 23:38
Ticketus own all RFC season tickets for the next 4 years.
________________________
Not necessarily ALL season tickets – it is something like 25-27k per year for 4 years – so if they have 38k like this year then Rangers get that difference (broadly £400 x 12k) to run the club until the next season ticket influx. (Hint: not going to happen – requires re calibration of as yet unidentified Higgs-Bosun particles to compute).
38k is as champions and with the prospect of seeing Broadfoot, McCulloch, Lafferty and Healy every week. A feast of football.
If season ticket sales go below 25-27k then ….errr…
If “Rangers” don’t exist so there are no season tickets to sell then…….errrr…
Essentially the current “business model” (I am being kind) is broke. It is death then Newco (lawyers – Hoorah) or death as in dead type dead, like totally for ever. That’s pretty much it.
I like cookie dough dynamo myself.
HH
TLK
@Tommy Joad
Don’t worry I’m up, only 7pm here. 3 deep.
A big hello hello to all the bhoys and ghirls on CQN.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to have to work in Paris.
Ah well. Back now. Laissez les bons temps roulez.
Kit,
jeez, after what he went through last year, that man has nads of steel. He is showing real leadership now, getting more impressed with him by the day
Add FRAUD to that list.
and ugly… you forgot ugly
Can I just say – Auldheid – you picked a hell of a week to go on holiday. You don’t work for Duff and Phelps do you….
HH
TLK
Gordon64 –
I too remember them flashing their tenners at us.
Also, it is ironic now to think that in those days, they referred to us as ‘the beggars’.
TET
Incoming – check yo mail
Good Morning,
Bhoy what a week! ;0)
sTICks
Two weeks ago in their own midden when they had went behind 2-0 to Dundee united the first song the 17000 that thought of turning up sang, was a song about a young Irishman who starved himself to death just to be afforded the right to be treated as a political prisoner in his own country.
Let them die and rot
UC
Luke Kelly ” The Foggy Dew”
” and Britannia’s Huns with their long range guns sailed through the Foggy Dew”
Who are the beggars now?
Media starting already.
No mercy! Strip ‘financial dopers’ Rangers of their titles, says Lennon
By BRIAN MARJORIBANKS
Last updated at 11:26 PM on 17th February 2012
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Celtic boss Neil Lennon will call for Rangers to be retrospectively stripped of their ‘tainted titles and trophies’ should the crisis-stricken Ibrox club be found guilty of ‘financial doping’.
The Parkhead manager cited drug-cheat cyclist Alberto Contador as a sporting precedent, with the shamed Spaniard earlier this month having been stripped of his 2010 Tour de France and 2011 Giro D’Italia titles after testing positive for the banned substance clenbutorol.
Lennon is awaiting with interest the results of the tribunal into Rangers’ use of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) between 2001 and 2010, which could land the Ibrox club a £75million tax bill.
And the Northern Irishman warned if it is proved Rangers ‘cheated’ him out of titles as a player in 2003 and 2005 – as well as Gordon Strachan’s team in 2009 and Tony Mowbray’s side in 2010 – by spending money they could not afford, he will be pursuing the matter with vigour.
The title? I’ll believe it when I see it: Celtic manager Neil Lennon
‘A journalist recently used the expression ‘financial doping’ (in reference to Rangers) and, for me, doping is a sporting term for cheating,’ Lennon said.
‘And, in athletics, if you are caught doping, you are banned. Alberto Contador got stripped of his Tour de France win in 2010, so there are precedents there.
‘If it has had a direct effect on me in my playing days, I will come out and say something at that time.
‘As it is just now, it hasn’t been proved. But they (Rangers) are in administration for a reason and I am sure you guys (the media) will get to the bottom of it.
‘It’s not my business, not our club’s business, but it will be my business if it has affected me as a player or previous managers and has denied us titles and trophies in the past.
‘It’s all hearsay and hot air at the minute but, until the findings are out, we as a club won’t comment any more on it.’
Sympathetic ear: Lennon aware of the task Ally McCoist (above) faces
It was put to Lennon that stripping the Ibrox club of their titles and cup wins retrospectively will not give Celtic the elation that comes with winning the SPL at the time.
He said: ‘It wouldn’t but it doesn’t mean to say that we won’t be angry about it.
‘And if we do win the title this season and people want to say it has been undermined (by Rangers being deducted 10 points and going into administration), I will have plenty to say about devalued titles over the years. That’s if we win the SPL, by the way.
‘I have great sympathy for my counterpart (Ally McCoist), having to go through what he is going through at the minute when it has nothing to do with him.
‘I have sympathy for the players too, obviously. And it’s a really tough time for a lot of people at the club but, while I have sympathy for them, I have no sympathy for a lot of other people involved.’
Lennon admitted the club’s supporters were unhappy with both First Minister Alex Salmond and Prime Minister David Cameron’s pleas that HMRC should work with Rangers to help them out of their crisis.
He believes the Celtic fans are left wondering why there was not such a clamour to save their team when it was on the brink of going bust 18 years ago.
He said: ‘There is more disquiet among the supporters (than the club). I think their view on it is that there wasn’t much help coming our way in 1994, so why should other clubs be treated differently.’
Troubled times: Ibrox men have fallen 14 points behind Celtic
His comments came just 24 hours after Celtic issued a stinging rebuke to Salmond for claiming the Parkhead outfit could not prosper without Rangers.
If the Ibrox club do go bust, Lennon admits he would miss the rivalry and he claimed there was hypocrisy among people now claiming the Old Firm rivalry is good for Scottish football, with the first anniversary approaching of last March’s ‘Shame Game’ when he and McCoist famously clashed on the touchline.
Lennon said: ‘The club made its statement yesterday and I endorse that. We are talking hypothetically here because the administrator says there is a good chance liquidation will be unlikely.
‘But it (Rangers) would be a loss to football, that’s for sure.
‘The thing we would all miss (if Rangers die) are the games. World football would miss that because it is the ultimate derby game.
‘But the ironic thing is that last year we had the “shame game” and everyone was coming out and saying we don’t need the Old Firm. Now everyone’s saying we do need it. They can’t make up their minds.’
Marrakesh Express says:
18 February, 2012 at 00:00
Well said ya fundamentalist! Send them to confession
We never, ever begged. We have always paid our way and our dues.
Not like some I could think of.
The Bheggar Dome- How ironic!
The Lizard King
I spoke to him the other day, he is beelin :>)
Probably a good thing he’s no here, his BP prob couldn’t handle it, in saying that, his BP is prob out of control no being here.
Someone mentioned Bob Marley being a Tim
Maybe/Maybe not
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL9DXaXufh8
Marakesk Express……ABSOLUTELY SPOT ON
Neil Lennon.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
…………..
dirtymac
Still waiting :>)
Off to Rivendell – night y’all; a pleasure as always
:-)
Tom McLaughlin……SPOT ON
Ye just get the feeling things are wound up too tight at Mordor.
One wee thing, even a big screen going down…BOOM!!!
There May Be Trouble Ahead
Tom
Cheers pal.
I don’t here too many references to the old biscuit tin now.
We have run our club in the proper way and respect is due
to all concerned.
PL has played a blinder.
jtsTICks says:
18 February, 2012 at 00:05
I thought it was fitting that I stayed up tonight to catch you
Huns this is the end
HH
CRC
Is it time for the music?
setting free the bears
This has to be the strangest TV deal ever, especially when you factor in Celtic’s definitive stance that has only really been made public in the last few days.
IMO, Celtic, with their comment that they want to dominate Scottish Football, are playing everything behind the scenes and are currently Maximising the True potential of this football club.
Peter Lawwell would have been a lot more cautious if he thought Rangers had any sort of real power left IMO.