The Rangers chief executive, Charles Green, yesterday made an extraordinary bid to bribe his way up the Scottish Football League (SFL), saying, “I would … be prepared to guarantee other clubs the ticket revenue equivalent of 300 Rangers fans turning up for matches.”
The SFL will soon vote on reconstruction and amalgamation with the SPL with a 12-12-18 structure on the table. If this is rejected, no reconstruction will happen. Should they win successive promotions Green’s club are due to spend three years in lower league football but if successful his bribe could shorten this to two seasons.
In support of his claim Green cites Stranraer, who won Division Two in 1993 and were promoted to Division One the following season. The league structure changed that summer, from three to four leagues, resulting in more teams being relegated from Division One than was scheduled at the start of the season, but clubs were only promoted to the league they would have entered without reconstruction.
The Rangers are due to be promoted to the Second Division next season but are asking for direct access to the First Division. They have made no suggestion as to what should happen to the club who finish in second place in this season’s Third Division. Although Green’s statement references the Stranraer scenario, and an insistence that “the principle of promotion and relegation… should be enshrined”, he does not explain that Stranraer won the league and were promoted from Division Two to One, or that he wants promotion from Third to First.
It will surprise no one that Green believes “the SFL has shown real leadership in proposing” colts teams from the The Rangers and Celtic, although he has surprised me with the news that his club did not lobby for this suggestion.
I am sure the SFL lawyers would have reverted to the Fifa rule book, which is pretty clear that clubs can only be promoted on sporting merit, and explicitly prohibits clubs from paying for promotion. Which is a pity, as I am sure the financial security of Green’s embryonic club would be greatly enhanced by promotion straight to the knockout stages of the Champions League.
We have been here before.
Scottish Football League clubs will decide their only structure but now more than ever we have to stand together as a club. The direction and leadership of Celtic, and the supporters’ organisations, tested by often irreconcilable challenges at every turn, are exceptional. Fantasies that the World Order is controlled between Celtic Park, Glasgow City Council and the Vatican are just that. Running Celtic is like steering the Titanic away from the iceberg with a pizza box, although if you speak to any numpty who has never done it you’ll get a different view. Despite all this, for the first time in decades we have a successful and sustainable football model.
We recruit and develop exceptional players who achieved what few of us expected this season. The challenge for Celtic is to win the league and Cup and apply all energies on recruiting players for next season’s Champions League campaign.
Enjoy your football; Stand up for Celtic.
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HT, Che, 13 charged, gratuitous wearing of the Green.
Tommy is super tonight
THE EXILED TIM
20:57
I obviously can’t answer that, but so far the cabal have seen them survive what any other club could have not.
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Definitely correct. No other club would have survived it. But nor did they, in spite of the cabal. The cabal did a million times more to help them survive than would have happened for anybody. But it didn’t work.
Someone should tell Chuck that Rangers have had a colt team for years. It’s called Dunfermline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4wQgFpgvaM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Just watch it. “Band of Horses”
How on earth does Tommy get those numbers!??? lol
Winning Captains, I like that one, do you mind if I share that?
Tommy just made TET’s point about the cabal.
Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation
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Bournesoup
One of the bhoys got that. Hours ago.
Well they’ve got Neil going to Blackburn, Joe to Cardiff,Hoops to Norwich or Spurs, Big Vic to Arsenal , Lustig to some Russian mob, Forrest to Spurs/QPR, Matthews to Everton.
Good old MSM!
At least there’s no speculation about Paddy. Don’t sell McCourt, Paddy McCourt……….
MSM at their best, unsettle the Celts at every turn and promote the Hun agenda
Who / what is this Scotzine
And further to the article on the Scotzine site posted earlier.
The European Court of Human Rites may well have decided kettleing to be legal, that does not may it appropriate or necessary.
PF
I know buddy..
what suits you?
67Heaven, website that talks about Scottish football.
http://www.scotzine.com/
Claims to be impartial.
Newsnight Scotland @NewsnightScot
Tonight on Newsnight Scotland at 11: football fans and the police.
tomtheleedstim
21:03 on
19 March, 2013
Murdochauldandhay – from earlier. I spoke to reception today and they confirmed they still had it mate. Thanks again.
Glad to hear that Tom
Justice for the 13!
Bsr
Not according to the 100% factually correct……… Wikipedia.
thetimrieper
20:55 on
19 March, 2013
Charged with what exactly?
Who imposed the banning orders?
Celtic_First
And you are indeed correct, they are a newco, but the self same newco have aquired the oldco’s licence, play out of the same stadium, same strip, same support, same bile etc, etc.
They will have to go through a couple of years of pain, but well worth it to dump a quarter of billion of debt.
They still have the authorities on side, the media are their megaphone, in fact the scottish nation is on side.
We as a club are infighting, it’s what we are good at, they for all their hate and bile are at least all banding together, maybes we should learn a thing or two about sticking together.
Hamiltontim
Breach of the peace and polis imposed banning order , guilty till proven
innocent.
Geordie
What is ole wiki saying?
blantyretim
20:45 on 19 March, 2013
think the MSP may have been responding to yesterdays report on BBC regarding the Cllr for his area seeking answers re police behaviour..?
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Cheers BT it looks like Mr MacAskill has said he will not grant the inquiry I asked for, funny I asked his boss not him.
Thatcher hated the miners she used a compliant Police force to crush them, Mr Salmond hates working class football fans steamrollers a bill through parliament, he will now use his centralised police force to attack football fans.
The police are getting used, their bosses are showing off to their political masters.
F.A.O auld yins,I Claudius starting on bbc 4 tonight ,hopefully as good
as I remember it.
Having met so many cqn posters through wee oscars cycle, it’s great reading the posts and actually hearing the voice say it as I read.
Jungle Jim I could listen to you all day. A true gentleman.
BT
I’m away on holiday on Friday …. Guess where ??:-))
Away for a week …I’m free after that …although I have a night out on 5 th April in Glasgow but it’s nothing special
They are claiming it’s a bit of modern day publicist bluff.
Reasons being they were called ODEON in some European countries first.
I think I prefer your version
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Don’t sell McCourt
Don’t sell McCourt
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I just don’t think you understand
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VP
from the original or the TV programme?
Thanking you all for responses gents!!
I was told today by someone who I thought would know about this that all were released without charge on either Saturday night or Sunday.
Curious…..
BT
Text sent ya dumping!!
miki67
16:57 on
19 March, 2013
Miki….. genius as usual………………
Is Andy Muirhead (I believe in this instance Muir is pronounced as Dick) an alleged Celtic supporter? That article could have been take straight from the Rangers News. No objectivity whatsoever , summary – Green brigade bad, IRA bad. What an absolute waste of 2 minutes reading that drivel.
Had to pop out just before 7 and caught a few mins of ssb in the car.
Guidi…. we need someone to bump their ( the clubs etc) heads together to get rangers back in the spl… wont be the chairmen cos they are only interested in their own clubs !!!!!!
Think it will need to be sky … says mark
I thought that was a good call… in fact get murdoch and that rebbecca lassie to do it…. those two represent Integrity
Bournesouprecipe
Don’t sell McCourt , Paddy McCourt, just don’t think u understand, if u sell McCourt , Paddy McCourt your gonny have a riot on your hands!
Altogether now…….
Geordie
A guy that worked for Top Rank – told me that yesterday, I just don’t
think people understand, – how can I get to 39 years of age and not know what ODEON
stood for (allegedly)
Don’tSellAnybody CSC
bournesouprecipe
don’t sing the rest of the words, you’ll have 200 polis, a helicopter and 15 vans at your house.
Why do we need Sevco in the SPL ?