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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The Bhoys of the Auld Brigade? Where do i sign ,and do you get a wee gallus badge?
KevJungle
The fat lady is still singing on both issues but it only reinforces my point about what we are up against. It was EXACTLY the point I was making.
This is why I think all Celtic supporters should put aside irreconcilable disagreements and start pissin oot from inside the tent rather than vice versa.
SFTB
I agree with your reading of the narrative
Ten Men Won The League
08:43 on
20 March, 2013
Alloa, Clyde + Stirling Albion all saying this morning they will vote for 12-12-18.
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Any of the teams below Sevco (currently playing in the 4th tier of Scotish football) will of course vote for the 12-12-18; so gauranteeing another year where they get at least one full house and possibly TV revenue.
This will also be true of the teams likely to drop down from the tier above, so passing this revenue source on the way up. It’s really the only way to vote for the majority of clubs in the current third and fourth divisions. As it provides the best oportunity for them to make friends with sevco fans cash.
GreenMaestro
There is an assumption in there that The Rangers will be able to stay the course.
Just saying like.
BURGAS HOOPS
Waiting for it?
Surely you jest….
Don’t you read anything by Mickybhoy1888?
Auldheid
10:28 on 20 March, 2013
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Aye – that sounds well n good but, wance ye pay to get inside
you’ll find that you’ve just been HAD by the bored who it seems
are rolling around in bed with the all the devils in hell. imo
HH
mickbhoy
No problem. I appreciate the clarification.
Now when the decent Celtic fans march against the Bill, will you be joining us?
MOVIE chiefs were last night “thrilled” after it emerged screen idol Daniel Day-Lewis could star as Celtic founder Brother Walfrid.
The Oscar-winning actor is expected to be sounded out for the role by director Peter Mullan.
And film insiders reckon Lincoln star Day-Lewis, 55, would be the perfect choice to play the Parkhead pioneer in a big-budget flick about the Hoops.
And in a move to allay fears of Celtic bias
Chuckles Green is rumoured to be also sounding out DDL to play Moses Mc Neil in the forthcoming old Rangers epic
The Fall of the Rangers Empire
Sftb
I’m addressing this to you as you are following events more closely than I have been, but anyone can answer.
The folk charged as a result of Saturday’ s events- were the charged under the OB law or BoP or some other charges?
My point being that if not under the OB why is it needed?
Might be a red herring but thought I’d ask.
Kevjungle
Boring now.
FRED C DOBBS
I’m back in
The Rangers Movie
Ibrox Brokabic.
The Celtic Movie
The Green Smile.
Thindimebhoy
Lots of Celtic supporting actors out there. Could be a cracking cast. I would hope the film would be used to raise some money for charity.
If it’s going to be done it should be done right and Daniel Day Lewis would be massive in this project.
LB
SFTB
Nope more interested protesting in the price of a pint and the price of diesel
There again if we get Bishop Devine Big PL Henrik and 45,000 other season ticket holders attending I might consider it until then I think I will leave it to a more and appropriate age group to run about playing chases with the polis
Auldheid
I don’t know the answer to your question but I am sure there are a few who do know. I am off out now.
Test
The Undergrowth
Exposed by a moonbeam shaft
The undergrowth started to crawl
I thought I heard a chuckle
In a deep North Yorkshire drawl
Everywhere there was movement
As the undergrowth erupted in strife
The passage of the moonbeam
Had brought back some kind of life
However, the new growth was corrupted
Twisted branch and razor sharp thorn
Out of the depth of the undergrowth
Emerged a team, crippled when born
TKV67 would just like to thank Chuckles Green for the photograph at Glasgow airport this morning!!!
I asked him if its ok for a photograph…
He said yes…
So I handed him my fone and posed for
Him to take it!!
I also asked if the rumour is true…
“What rumour”? he replied in that stupid Yorkshire accent….
I said “the Frankie boy Sandaza leaving the 4th tier minnows chuckles”
He left….
GIRFUY
Horrible corrupt inbred crook!
Oh and furthermore the creep had a daily record under his arm!!
More reasons not to buy that toilet paper!!
FRED C DOBBS
I’m back in Kilwinning from 20/4 to 4/5 if you fancy a wee quiet sesh of an evening-preferably the first week-at a venue of your choice.
If so,contact me please on
bmcuwp@gmail.com
Cheers,hic……..
The Good, The Bad and Serenity
Where you been hidin?
mickbhoy
What? Even if I promise there will be no chasing.
I have managed to attend football matches for a long time now and despite police treating me as though I am a criminal, I have managed to avoid being lifted until now.
Mind you there was one copper at Ibrox a few years back who tried to provoke a violent response – think he was a PC Gray- seems to have left him frustrated that I did not respond :-)
LiviBhoy
Indeed DDL would be some scoop
The guys is quite publicity shy though no direct website or email adress but he can be contacted through his agent
Fan Mail Address:
Daniel Day-Lewis
Parseghian Planco Management
388 Second Avenue
Suite 506
New York, NY 10010
USA
Where you been hidin?
The Undergrowth!
Daniel Day Lewis is about the same age group as Walfrids time in Glasgow for a younger version of the man I would suggest James McAvoy
Auldheid
10:43 on 20 March, 2013
Kevjungle
Boring now
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Aye – bit like yerself – eh ?
Auldheid @10.41
I’m not up on the OBF Bill, but I would have thought that you couldn’t get done under that legislation if you’re about a mile from a football stadium!
Someone will no doubt keep me right on that one.
HH
Rangers: The Movie. What a thought. Do they still have XX certificates – for the look of some of those involved as much as the extreme language, sectarianism and general all round bad behaviour.
Mind you, it would be a bit like watching Titanic. We all know how it ends …
Thindimebhoy
I wouldn’t hassle the guy to be honest. I would love him to sign up to this project though and many other well known actors and waive their fee or do it for a slice of what they usually demand. I think that in line with what the film is about and the man who started the club it should be a film that generates money for charity.
A lot will depend on the quality of the script and the locations secured for filming. I would imagine that this will make the minds up of many of the actors who may have been asked already. I would be delighted but surprised if DDL accepted this movie. He is picking and choosing his films very carefully these days.
LB
http://m.scotsman.com/news/brian-wilson-salmond-hoist-by-his-own-petard-1-2846257?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
Hope that link works.
Brian Wilson gets tore into Alex Salmond on Leveson and press regulation then The OB bill.
There is much poltical capital to be made out of this.
…….in saying that, there’s probably a 300 mile boundary around Parkhead, inside which, anyone wearing a Celtic scarf/top/hat can be justifiably arrested and charged!
HH
mickbhoy1888
I thought McAvoy would be excellent in the James Kelly role. I would like to see Neeson is Willy Maley.
Getting a bit carried away but if DDL signs up then I don’t see why other big names wouldn’t and I think the diector done Rob Roy which Neeson was in.
LB
!!Bada Bing!!
10:28 on
20 March, 2013
The Bhoys of the Auld Brigade? Where do i sign ,and do you get a wee gallus badge?
Just catching up on the previous pages but that comment was brill…….
Kevjungle
Scroll by mate. I thought you were being a bit different today and switched off my Kevjungle Offoot system guard.
It is back on.
Don’t get too excited about the Daniel Day-Lewis story. This is an old trick in the movie world. You post the scipt to the star’s agent and then you call the MSM and declare that Oscar winning actor is seriously considering a starring role in my new movie. Peter Mullan knows this trick.
Auldheid……….C&P’d from KDS dated 18th
Gerry Braiden @GerryBraiden
No court appearance today for any of 13 arrested for public order offences at Celtic ‘ultras’ rally in Glasgow. Later date. All released.
Brian Wilson – Is that the ‘Lion that roars’ in the boredroom ?
What’s his contribution to the Cellic again…..?
Oh, aye…he wrote an ass-licking book for the bored during the
centenary year 1988.
Hugh Keevins n Gerry McNee wrote hunners a books for the Cellic
…so….how come those two urny oan the bored ? :o)))
HH
Auldheid
11:02 on 20 March, 2013
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Whit….ye mean ye actually notice ? :o)
Peace n Love
HH