It was Back to the Future on Saturday afternoon, listening to Aberdeen rescue a point against Dundee was more like 1985 than 2015. TV highlights suggest Aberdeen pounded Dundee, but three excellent goals were enough for the visitors to set the stage for Celtic to return to the top of the league against Motherwell on Wednesday.
Aberdeen have been imperious in recent months. Incredibly, apart from Dundee and Celtic, they have failed to keep a clean sheet only once (at drubbing at Hamilton) since September. That’s title challenging form in any language.
This run is unlikely to endure as the vagaries of form and fortune catch them up, but it appears our long wait for a notional title rival looks to be over. Which is good.
Any business with operating expenses in the region of £33m a year, which is £2.75m a month or just over £600k a week, that had to borrow £500k in the first week of the month in order to pay an unexpected tax bill of the same magnitude, will by now be in urgent need of funds to pay rates, other tax liabilities, electricity and gas (no matter how little they used on Friday), while wages day is approaching. And remember, those gardens don’t ‘duty’ themselves.
Newco Rangers will need a loan, or to sell a player for cash, to avoid imminently slipping into insolvency. If Dave King is confident about carrying shareholders at a March EGM, and has the resources, he should loan the club money to get them through the next two months, no strings attached. A bit like John Keane did for Celtic in 1994. With insolvency looming, Keane, currently a Celtic director, but at the time an agitator for boardroom change, wrote a seven figure cheque, no strings attached, to pay-down Celtic’s overdraft, as the Bank of Scotland threatened to call in administrators.
Anything less than this is playing into the hands of Mike Ashley.
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Bada
Haven’t heard anything, think he’s worth a look for the right of our 3
Kdc
Afternoon all.
People queuing up to receive a knighthood, or to be elevated to the peerage.
Lord Livingstone of Parkhead;
Lord (Willie) Haughey;
…
Whit next?
‘Arise Sir Peter.’
HH!!
Reason not to have Sky Sports No3287:
But it took a mega-money offer to convince Henry to join the team, with reports suggesting last month he would earn £4million-a-year – nearly three times as much as what Neville gets paid.
And those sky-high wage demands have been subject of a sly Twitter dig from Keys, who left Sky Sports in 2011 amid a sexism row.
Keys wrote: “Glenn Hoddle joins us all on BeIN Sports today. Good luck to Thierry Henry. Sorry we couldn’t make it work here but he just wanted too much
LB
fritzsong
14:25 on
19 January, 201
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Here here 100% – these YESNP zealots have had it their own way for too long on here – they no nothing resembling a fact – they spout only catchphrases fed to them by people who have catchphrases fed to them – ad infinitum.
LB
Thierry.. hardly the most exciting person to listen to .always seemed very dour. Hopefully his knowledge of football is worth 4m
And he is a cheat. That handball in paris is up there with losing in seville.
Alfie Noakes
You are stuck in a timewarp…..someone has erased your memory.
Could it be the same scenario Harry Palmer had to deal with, Albanian Communists.
Yeah…that’s it..
You sound like Winston Churchill and Bomber Harris after a whisky session.
Next, you will be telling us, that Tony Blair is a great man.
But carry on.
You are wearing out your welcome.
the battered bunnet
12:57 on 19 January, 2015,
More gerrymandering of the rules to suit. What was wrong with the old fit and proper test?
When viewed from the intended spirit both King and Murray fail a fit and proper assessment.
I can only concluded they are either:
a) Idiots.
Or
b) Have already been advised there is no issue.
Or
C) Have no intention of becoming directors but are using the suggestion as a negotiating position.
I wonder how many other rules have been updated recently to cover future scenarios.
proudbhoy
It sickens me to be honest. A former French footballer will make more from Sky than the Scottish champions will.
LB
Philbhoy
14:26 on
19 January, 2015
Alfie Noakes @ 14.22.
You should ask to get that post deleted.
You really are sick.
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Sick? – why Phil – dose it hit a ‘nerve’?
I take no steps back in the fight against ignorance and unfairness!!
I take no steps back in sticking-up for Celtic
the battered bunnet
12:57 on 19 January, 2015
But, there is something I n UK business Law which rules out a director of a failed Company from being a Director of ANY other company for a number of years ?
No one know the outcome of the national anthem debate?
Did they go for Ian Brown F.E.A.R. or maybe Ben Howard The Fear?
With the boul’ Darryl on point duty I’m sure the blazers have been suitably motivated to do everything possible for the guid o’ scoddish fooo’ball.
Oh aye.
Alfie etc. No one is denying Labour in it’s day was a force for good, raising the quality of life for all in the UK.
Labour’s socialist past (validated by the millions forced to fight and die in WW1 and WW2) brought hope to us when previously there had been only slaughter and poverty.
However, that was then, this is now.
New Labour is for example, in 1970s terms, now a hard right wing party- more right wing than the pre-Thatcher Conservative party. I would say more right wing than Thatcher’s Government; anyone believing otherwise should google ‘socialism’, then look at labour policies from Tony Blair onwards.
I was a Labour Party supporter and voter, but quit a long time ago. It’s heartbreaking but that is where we are now. There is no one left to defend the 99%’s interests, let alone the working class. I find labour’s betrayal of us criminal.
As billionaire Warren Buffett famously said; ‘there is a class war,all right, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning’.
Onwards to foodbanks and the race to the bottom. Near slavery awaits the next few generations.
Wur no still fight in’ over the referendum are we …..jeeeeeez…..
Dave King will have already sounded out the SFA before investing money.
The path has been cleared for the goat to walk up to the big house.
TT
livibhoy
14:44 on 19 January, 2015
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Never thought about it like that
Now im really depressed.
Ta mate :-)
The Green Man
14:41 on
19 January, 2015
Alfie Noakes
You are stuck in a timewarp…..someone has erased your memory.
Could it be the same scenario Harry Palmer had to deal with, Albanian Communists.
Yeah…that’s it..
You sound like Winston Churchill and Bomber Harris after a whisky session.
Next, you will be telling us, that Tony Blair is a great man.
But carry on.
You are wearing out your welcome.
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What welcome – I have as much right as you, or anyone else, to be on here – how dare you!!!!
I need NO approval from YOU – wouldn’t want one either.
Ellboy – I am Neil Lennon, YNWA.
14:05 on
19 January, 2015
‘Inflammatory’
How much more inflamed can presenting a penant make what will already be a hate filled atmosphere? I see no reason to treat this new club differently to any other club we have met for the first time. Celtic welcoming a new club into the fold should be seen as a positive only rabid Huns would see it differently.
Also far from me to defend Spiers but to make it clear this was not his idea just a contributor within the comments section.
geordie munro
13:55 on 19 January, 2015
Celtic often present pennants to clubs no matter how many times they have played them.
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Was under this impression too but if we were to present one, then just to make sure, it should state their new club name – Celtic FC v The Rangers FC
HH!
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Why don’t we just save everyone the bother by just conceding the match and give Sevco unfettered access to the final? Save a lot of time and trouble and allow more time to talk about Jim Murphy.
Spoilsport(s) shift change……………….
Laughing at “brick gate”
Cheers Monaghan
Alfie Noakes
Its a wee tradition of mine on CQN, that in times of left/right political spats.
The Green Man, having no party interests, reserves his right to roll the virtual guillotine onto the blog.
Being an Anarchist/Surrealist isn’t easy on CQN, but I insist on having the insurrectionary right, to virtually guillotine you.
Having said that, you are now subject to the said sentence.
The Anarchist/Surrealist Army will be watching….beware.
But, there is something I n UK business Law which rules out a director of a failed Company from being a Director of ANY other company for a number of years ? …. MEANT TO ADD ” according to Hebcelt” ……..
TT
If that is indeed the case, and experience suggests you might be right, placemen wil have cleared the way already.
Oh aye.
Alfie Noakes
Ah…you don’t like it when someone disagrees with your political discourse.
How very dare they disagree with you.
The sheer nerve of those Marxist Malcontents eh…shocking.
Are you a policeman by any chance?
14:51: Deila wants more Scots At the Celtic press conference, manager Ronny Deila also discussed the club buying more Scottish players following a deal to sign Gary Mackay-Steven in the summer from Dundee United.
The Norwegian boss said: “We have to build up Scottish football. Celtic is a big club in Scotland and players should go through Celtic before going further, or put Celtic in the position we want to be in Europe.
“They know the league and know what it’s about to play for Celtic. These things matter when you sign them.”
LB
TinyTim
14:47 on
19 January, 2015
Dave King will have already sounded out the SFA before investing money.
The path has been cleared for the goat to walk up to the big house.
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I’m sure I read they had a ‘meeting’ when MA suggested he was going to but 29% of the shares and the SFA said “but you promised us ye widnae buy more than 10% so ye did”
Of course MA didny actually turn up as this is a petty cash job for the underlings to mop up.
There’s another meeting next week when MA tells the SFA what to do.
Can anyone tell me whether there’s an election coming up this year? I think I might have heard something about it but don’t know for sure. Maybe if I stay tuned to CQN I’ll find out and possibly even be swayed as to which way to vote because this is the only place I’d come to for that kind of advice. Thanks.
Interesting, from one of Phil’s bloggers
” JimBhoy
January 15, 2015 at 5:34 pm
Anyone need a wee lift or a giggle tonight should check McMurdo’s latest… Ashley’s long term plan for the rangers, is that no as plain as the nose on your face…Loada Money…!!
Liquidated he gets the lot, stay afloat he gets some good rental options plus his many other onerous pieces ad finitum…
McMurdo goes onto surmise big Mike’s plan is to sell newcastle to concentrate on rangers for the good of rangers… I reckon big Mick will again pick up the wage bill this month, the carrot that will likely seal the £10m loan deal.
Big Mick knows the mentality of his mass customer base, he has them by the cajoneys. Much like McMurdo is trying to do in exploiting a rangers haters book on his site… I am sure that will be a literary masterpiece full of fact backed up by logic in an unbiased fashion..
An optimistic, amnesic bunch the rangers faithful. I thought Merlin could foresee the future…Maybe he can’t ‘bear’ to look..
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I fancy a job cleaning mirrors. Its just something I could really see myself doing.
angelgabriel
I suspect they were just plain old panicking, and thought it would be a good idea if their definitions mapped directly to those used by the SPL (at that time).
The problem they face is a linguistic one, bound up in the problems caused by the historical customs of football being brought into the modern commercial age.
The problem is the word “club”. For all that they desperately want (and need) a workable definition of it, they’re using the wrong word.
‘Clubs’ were originally unincorporated associations, people of like minds, drawn together – in this case – to play football. Each ‘club’ joined the SFA, and the SFA in turn recognised each with membership. A certificate of membership or other formal acknowledgement would be issued in the name of the ‘club’.
As commerce and contract law became more commonly part of the football environment, the clubs in turn incorporated into limited companies, typically transferring their assets and obligations into the new company, while the club members became shareholders in the new entity.
Meanwhile the SFA itself incorporated, but continued to refer to the relevant members as the original ‘clubs’.
At a point in time, it became apparent that the SFA had very few members that had a legal personality – they were all either unincorporated associations, or they had become incorporated but their membership was not adapted accordingly. As the era of TV money dawned, so it dawned on the administrators that there was a fundamental problem in the contractual status of its membership:
The members of the few remaining unincorporated associations were unlimitedly and personally liable for all obligations; While the noted members who had since incorporated did not legally exist and thus could not contract at all.
The SFA resolved by issuing a membership to the legal entity on the one hand, and limiting the level at which unincorporated members could play. New certificates of membership were issued, this time noting the legal entity.
This accelerated with the implementation of quality processes in football, such that for example for UEFA, a competing ‘club’ was and remains defined as the legal entity responsible for the competing football team.
At SFA, there were (and remain) a number of members which retain their original unincorporated status – the Scottish Football League was one for example, and my own ‘club’ East Kilbride FC is another – but for all members who incorporated their ‘club’ the membership of SFA was and is held by the legal entity.
The member of the SFA, permitted and licensed to field a team in competition, is the legal entity.
The error (in my view) is the decision to persist with the word ‘club’ to refer to member and team synonymously.
The simple solution is to define ‘club’ as the entity that is in membership of the SFA, and in all other circumstances, refer to ‘team’.
Thus would Celtic plc be a member club of the SFA, while the relevant competing team is Celtic FC, the team of the member club.
Seemed straightforward to my mind…
Alfie Noakes
It was your Je suis reference that hit a nerve.
Not the other pish you continually post.
TinyTim
14:47 on
19 January, 2015
Dave King will have already sounded out the SFA before investing money.
The path has been cleared for the goat to walk up to the big house.
Dave King today became a busted flush.Remember,you heard it on here first.
ALFIE NOAKES 1448
I think THE GREEN MAN is suggesting that you have to talk sense before you talk mince.
Make a valid point or six before you fire in wi controversy.
As I said earlier,I am of a similar mind to yourself,but you aren’t winning. And you won’t if you continue down the same line.
There is absolutely no point in alienating people when you are trying to convince them you are right.
Hebcelt / the Battered Bunnet
Just came across this …. according to silly billy mcmurdo, ….
“There may not be an EGM anytime soon – if at all – in the Ibrox boardroom battle raging at present.
Dave King’s call for an EGM to oust the existing board and replace them with himself, Paul Murray and John Gilligan might just have hit the buffers, I am informed.
The problem is apparently a filing mistake involving a rule in Company Law covering directorial changes via the mechanism of an EGM.”
Alfie Noakes
I say this with the greatest respect to a poster who I don’t always agree with.
You are no Ernie Lynch, that’s for sure
the green man,
Not a policeman, more of a trumpet! And one who doesn’t answer difficult questions either.
AR
Turkeybhoy.
Interesting.
Tell us what you think you know.
TT
Whilst have the greatest respect and affection for Martin O’Neil, I cannot for he life of me understand why intelligent and educated people cannot distinguish between punishment ann
consequence.
Fact – The only punishment that I am aware of handed down to Rangers, was that of a £250k fine and a transfer ban – please correct me if I am wrong.
Fact – Green bought the assets, set up a NEW club, and as such had to apply for membership of the SFA. When that was granted, that new club had to start at the bottom tier – in fact they were given preference over the next in line Spartans.
Martin, you studied law prior to going into football, why can’t you grasp the undeniable facts?
Whatever the effect of Rangers being missing from the top flight – they were NOT punished and they were NOT relegated.