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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stpatricksbhoy
18:20 on
19 March, 2013
southside ,
Treat SSB as pure comedy and have a laugh.
Hail Hail.
….or treat it as having gone off air and don`t listen at all.
spot om JJ
KLV
Jungle Jim, good to see you made it back from the bike run. Good on you and the rest of the guys, must have been tough.
Can you email me a contact number. Have you sorted out a new moby yet?
HH ACGR
P.S. A buddy of mine in Montrose has sorted me out with a ticket for the Gable Endies v Huns game in two weeks, can I borrow yer crash helmet:-)
That deid mob are hemorrhaging £1M per month in the fourth tier and have the second highest wage bill in the country..ibroke is crumbling..how the fek are they going to run any kind of challene or buisness is beyond beleif
A Ceiler…..take some ear-plugs too!
I’ll tell you how bad SSB is. I’ve just switched to Radio Scotland and Bomber Brown is talking more sense.
Serenity
Good to see you back..
Hail Hail..
SSB PUNDITS HAVE ‘LOST THE PLOT’……… PURE PANIC….DESPERATE…….
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Eat your heart out …….. Your favoured club reaped what they sowed ……… For 20 years the zombies shafted Scottish Football, and they were caught out BIGTIME ……..
There is no way anyone can fastrack them, partly due to the fact that the pathetic efforts of the misguided media etc to PRETEND they were still alive have resulted in the complete loss of credibility for the lot of them ……..and, see if sevco ever DID manage to survive / get into the SPL, it would take them many years to compete with a good few of the current teams……
Every time someone challenges them, and tells the truth, the pundits get agressive / angry …hilariously pathetic………they say “It’s for the good of Scottish Football” …….pathetic little liars…….LOL……….dooooooooo dooooooooooooo
Dontpat
I dont like (i) coming into someone’s home (in this case, Paul’s) and being rude to a fellow guest, or (ii) fighting with a fellow Celt, but….I just read that ESPN article.
I have to say that in all my years of reading CQN, I have never read anything as peurile and mean spiritied as that article.
When Celtic is under attack from outside forces (and it is -make no mistake about that), we should be trying to find ways to come together, not doing the LL”s dirty work for them.
for those of you in the GB who are on here…. that article does NOT represent the way that I – or indeed a good many of us on here – view you and your activities.
HH
Jobo
Too far
BBC Shortbread got piece on GB kettling coming on now
Not that i give a forinstance..just sayin like..
Any footage of the oscar cyclists..saw the pic earlier with MWD and his amazing 11 year old..he must be made of stearn stuff..outstanding efforts all round h.h
Alex says…”i think we should bring them straight back up to the SPL……and, while we’re at it, we should just give them the title toooo”………..completely ‘floored’ the SSB Pundits……. Straight to the adverts ……Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Shock horror – John Brown coming across quite well on shortbread.
Radio aff in this house,i used to put it on when they got beat but they just make excuses for them so i don’t even do that, Waste of time and bad for the ole Blood Pressure listening to them stutter and pander. Cowards, Thieves and Liars the lot of them.
KLV
jungle jim
18:24 on
19 March, 2013
You deny yourself this first class entertainment if you want.
The sound of sevconians so desperate that they only speak in squeaky voices has my vote. Go on. You know you want to.
Beef with Rooney? Okay. Joke. Got it.
Fair enuff.
It may be his agents but to blackmail yer club intae gie’in ye £268,000 a week is criminal.
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Just saw the film of the polis v The GB.
Beginning to understand the blog’s mood.
Had been very very busy @ w/end knew nothing og theses events.
I am speechless.
Andy manurehead..somedy has just shat in yer kettle!!!
Sorry for anyone in midfeed at that point…oooops
danso_1888
16:20 on 19 March, 2013
With greengo’s panic, it’s obvious he knows anything other than fastrack is going to scupper his pension plans……. They will be liquidated in my estimation
Southside
Guilty pleasures
But im in jjs camp… my blood boils and I get road rage when not even in the car
Slowly but surely reality for Chuckles is creeping in, contradiction after contradiction. Outright bribery and no shame shows the panic. He is set to increase ST prices at the midden as part of the business plan ( I’d call it survival plan) and is clutching now at forced promotions to allow him to to that.
I think we may have the sequel to last years show coming up entitled Deidclub 2
Miki 67. Keep up the good fight.hail hail
Just so there is no misunderstanding.
I’m an old-timer as a Celtic man. I may no longer have my finger on the pulse.
No matter.
I am 100% behind the young warriors of the Green Brigade.
I am PROUD of them.
Kk
Im in your camp too
Was gonna say in your klan …. but ;)
BFDJ -NL should go to Blackburn ffs…..nurse
Evening bhoys from a very wet hun free mountain valley.
FFS, just give them the spl title and be done with it.
Mort
Glad to meet your aquaintance on Saturday night ,told you to get back posting more;)
Tomtheleedstim left a message for you behind the desk at the weekend hope you managed to pick it up
Mort
Glad to meet your aquaintance on Saturday night ,told you to get back posting more;)
Tomtheleedstim left a message for you behind the desk at the weekend hope you managed to pick it up?
SSB…..”rankers in the bottm tier next season will be BAAAD BAAAD news”….. The SFL clubs won’t like that, eh..!!!!!! ……..silly SSB pundits…hahahahahahaha
OOps double post error message ;))))
Murdochauldandhay – forgot to collect it mate. Mort v kindly picking it up for me.
Thanks very much. Appreciated.
!!bada bing!!
18:44 on 19 March, 2013
He would love Neil to go ANYWHERE……….Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha….SSB IS HILARIOUS TONIGHT……”someone needs to come forward and beat their heads together” ….. The shoite they will spout to get people to phone in…..
Mike in Toronto
18:31 on 19 March, 2013
“I have to say that in all my years of reading CQN, I have never read anything as peurile and mean spiritied as that article. ”
Really ?
As for the article itself it is just one mans opinion. Stopped reading it myself when he declared no love for the GB and had not put his name to the article. Tweeted him about it he got back to me andinformed me his name was now on it. Read it.and was not convinced.
Put it up for others to read and form their own opinion.
Let me add I will back any Celtic supporters word against that of a policeman’s.
!!Bada Bing!!
Should he not be called Big Fat Stupid Derek Johnstone..
BFSDJ…
Unless of course he is a celtic supporting policeman :))
I don’t buy the rags and don’t listen to the phoen ins any more……and as for Andy Muirheads post, utter bollix, a complete and utter piece of reporting that would shame the MSM.
I too like KK have been supporting us for 50+ years and I am glad to see the GB at Celtic Park……
Support for the Hoops means support for the GB…they are us…..mibbee younger…
Kikinthenakas
dontpatmadug
17:47 on 19 March, 2013
I have just read your piece for Scotzine.
I have been to every competitive game at Celtic Park this year bar one.
I have not seen any aggressive behaviour from the GB, I sit in section 209, not far from the group. They sing songs, none of them could be construed as sectarian. In the ground they add atmosphere, a positive one, a sense of fun and enthusiasm. I don’t know any of them nor do I know what they do outside the ground.
They jump around and I can see why the club has a problem with this, I do not see how that could be used to justify the level of policing, never mind the manner of the policing used.
They are being targeted for no good reason other than they are an identifiable group and there are politicians who want figure evened up.
Just another opinion.
BFDJ………… You have brought talking shoite to a new level…….
Tommysbhoy
” scotzine..as far as i was aware the gb raised all the funds for the barca tifo?”
Nobody has said otherwise TB.