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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I want Celtic to spend Celtics money.
Not someone else’s money, it’s called running a business, others have tried doing things differently, see how that worked out.
Timbhoy2
The reason our billionaires are still billionaires is that they know how to run sound businesses without the need to rip off the tax payer. Celtic is run on sound financial principles and long may it continue.
Gerry Braiden @GerryBraiden
Fans Against Criminalisation demo planned for Glasgow’s George Square on April 6. Not a parade but notifying authorities a sensible idea.
tim malone will tell
15:37 on
19 March, 2013
you missed out jungle in their user name;-0)))))
timbhoy2 keep snorting the white stuff …..it will make you brain freeze ….so does the snow
celtic are working on bringing in young players to develope and sell on
stokes was bought for under £1 million pounds and scored 20 goals a season most away from home ….value for money imho
foster was under £2 million and is now in the england squad ……and has champions league experiance ….will get a minimum £4 million if sold today
as for beating barca and nearly getting a draw at the camp nou …give me them sort of performances every year and celtic will reach the last 16 the next 2 years
as for our neil
celtic to the core ,a winner as a player,a winner as a manager……GBNFL
the celtic plc board should start backing the supporters who pay their wages
them again if they loved celtic that much they would pay to be there
jam67
Paul67
Your use of the word bribery is spot on -a clear demonstration that newco like their deceased former club feel that they are above the rules of football or have any sense of sporting integratory.
Timbuk2 is comedy gold, the CQN equivalent of Corporal Jones!
i can just picture him running about shouting “don’t panic,don’t panic”
Crisis at Celtic indeed, Bah Humbug!
has up to now anyone from celtic leadership challened or called out anyone from the governing bodies on all this farce and rule breaking /bending to insert a new club in to scottish football if not why not , in my opinion its not an unreasonable question
Meanwhile, back at the ranch
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We should think of a few usernames for Follow Follow.
Do you think if I posted as “The Billy 2012” they would rumble me?
ernie lynch
14:49 on
19 March, 2013
Think Leeds stagnated..!?…….. We can only ‘live in hope and pray’…LOL
Any good Tims on here live in Belfast and are able to do me a favour, let me know. cheers
Remember- anyone concerned at the actions of the police in Kettling a section of the Celtic support on Saturday can complain online via the Strathclyde Police web site- make your views known
again in my opinion celtic not challenging what has been done and obviously still being done lends credence to the opinion they are either involved or turning the blind eye as they have men involved on these so called governing bodies, as far as i can see its only supporters who are challenging these corrupt men, it used to be these cabal are full of rangers men, well we have some of our own men involved now and its same as usual
as far as i can make out.
danso_1888
16:06 on 19 March, 2013
That is certainly not an unreasonable question…….I think our Board know what direction sevco and greengo are heading in, and the strategy is ‘don’t disturb the enemy when they are heading for the cliff’ ……..?
…..and the LL would LOVE our Board to start making waves
BIIOYS I Dads Army loved it.still do.one thing i do on here is no nobody listens to what i have say.so goodbye ,im going to cancel my account,hail hail
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timbhoy2 is a refreshing addition to the blog. Especially as it is some years since new episodes of Father Ted gave us the enlightened views of young Dougal.
Timbhoy2 (or should it be timbuk2?) is a worthy replacement. These billionaieres are small, but these ones are far away.
A comic genius.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors ,
yes i can see that point of view [to be honest i think its cowardly just my opinion] but what if they do not head over the cliff and even if they do they will just do the same thing again as no one bar the supporters seem to have anything to say about it.
Timbhoy2
2? There are more than one?
2nd man in the double-act then?
Have a few ideas on the identity of straight man –
What a hoot!
Keep the gags coming ….China
And hi back to Johann Murdoch. It was indeed a splendid weekend in the company of like-minded individuals and our resident philosopher.
tomtheleedstim
Don’t live too far away and can pop into town if you need something.
Mort
Danso
Chuckles is kite flying – Celtic saying anything at this stage would only put credibility to green’s proposal.
Don’t disturb your enemy etc.
Timbhoy2
Blog gets up to 30,000 unique users a day. Small proportion post – most posts don’t get a direct answer unless a topic gathers steam. No reason to walk away…
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors,
are our board so afraid of what the LL that it negates the courage to stand up for whats right?
timbhoy2
Asked who you would buy and who do you think should be Celtic manager?
Dont go you are a cult hero.
Tim Malone Will Tell
16:08 on
19 March, 2013
We should think of a few usernames for Follow Follow.
Do you think if I posted as “The Billy 2012″ they would rumble me?
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How about The Billybhoy?
Sack Neil Lennon, sell all the first team, play the youngsters, sell all the youngsters when they lose their first match, sack the new manager as well.. That’ll keep the fans happy…
Glassford – it would work. They would just assume that you cant spell..pretty much the Zombie Zombie core demographic.
Lunch was good – Ballotine of partridge, roasted fennel mousse quinnels, popcorn dauphinoise, petit filous …………….
and a Snickers CSC
Mort – good man, thanks. How can I contact you?
Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio
Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio-ho
Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio
Cheerio-ho, chee-ree-oh
tomtheleedstim
Send me an email to martceltic@hotmail.com
Mort
Listening to ” Radio Kaos ” by Roger Waters.
Buzzin’.
b11oys
think u may have upset timbhoy2……8-0)))))
never mind the stench level will decrease….pmsl at his first post
another hurtin hun with the mindset that a division 3 ttitle can be added to the history of a died club
the best year ever …..aye for sevco…..next stop….liquidation
jam67
Cardiff want to bring Joe Ledley ‘home’ from Celtic – if they clinch promotion to the Premier League.
Ledley is still under contract at Celtic but a fee of around £3million may tempt Neil Lennon’s club to sell – and Cardiff’s owners will have funds to make that happen and match his wages.
I like Joe Ledley and do not want to see him go. Would want more than £3m for him if he was to go.
Googybhoy
I like joe as well but i think kojo would be happy
bournesouprecipe 16:27 on 19 March, 2013
“Lunch was good – Ballotine of partridge, roasted fennel mousse quinnels, popcorn dauphinoise, petit filous …………….
What – no HP sauce? Philistine…
Tomtheleedstim
Sorry I missed you on Saturday
Came out at 7.00 to come up to Blackburn and had a flat tyre.
Had to wait to get fixed at 8.00 before setting off for the game.
Well done to you and all the Bhoys. The weather was atrocious for you.
Hope you all enjoyed a good night in Belfast.
Well done