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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bournesouprecipe
19:26 on 19 March, 2013
It means pic n mix and a KIA ORA
It’s classical Greek for a public viewing type of building.
CQN=SSB
Think I’ll phone in the morra night…….really
give you all something talk aboot.
What has bought Macaskill some time and got him off the hook today was the rules for marches of 28 days notice, if it could be established that the march to hampden by supporters of sevco did not give this notice then why was it allowed and Policed the way it was? Macaskill and his senior cops back on the hook
They’re good but they’re not right – Keep them coming
RoyWalker CSC
ernie lynch
Mrs Starry asking me whit I’m laughing at!!
That’s funny Ernie…
Joe B. ” Sloe Gin ”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46UFXQVSnKs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
bournesouprecipe
19:31 on
19 March, 2013
Its something about Germany but that’s all I can remember.
Failedquizkid.csc
McCaskill also mentioned the GB march on saturday was unlicensed.
Was the hun march on hampden licenced?
Was the hun march on the BBC HQ when they protested about the Mark Daly program licenced?
starry plough @ 19:27
Are you too young to remember John Grieg’s tenure? The greatest ever Ranger (manager) in my view.
I suppose McCoist is sevco’s best manager.
prestonpans
Close!
ZZTop like you’ve NEVER heard them : ” Asleep at The Wheel ” ……..instrumental,slow,acoustic beautiful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBYpv8MmtY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Dont pat
Like Doc, I read your intial comment to mean that you had written that piece. I usually enjoy your contributions… so was glad to see that I had misunderstood…. now, where’s that Muirhead character?
And, yes…. as somone else put it… bollox.
Hail hail.
Michael
19:34 on
19 March, 2013
Don’t forget the Boy David
I really hope that the club did not use Andy Muirhead as a front for disinformation.
Any positive effect that Andy may have produced by giving us a balanced view of the benefits and the dangers of having a lively, colourful group who are actively uncooperative with the stadium authorities, was undermined by Andy’s pet rants.
The “IRA are all bad terrorists but the poppy is ok” is a spin that will not play with any significant base of our fans outwith the Ntassoola/mickbhoy88 demographic.
If our club wants to influence our fans to be aware of any perceived potential danger in the GB approach, then let them be honest and direct about it.
Andy Muirhead’s article just massively increased the support for the GB.
Michael
I wish I was Michael I was in my late teens when he took over, my memory is not that sharp any more, how bad was he, did he get horsed out of every cup he played in??
If the current caller on SSB is a Celtic fan, then I’m Santa Clause…..what an erse….. “We need rankers back” …….
bournesouprecipe
19:35 on
19 March, 2013
prestonpans
Close!
Sorry but had to google it was annoying me. Close, as you say , but no cigar for me :-(
I was about to post that I had just heard the call on SSB that truly summed up Sevco’s remarkable sense of entitlement. The caller basically said that as a condition of being fast tracked, ‘Rangers’ should demand that the transfer embargo be lifted.
But you know what. This sort of view is becoming increasingly mainstream. Let’s stop the pretence that this is about ‘Scottish football needs ‘Rangers”. The real agenda is that ‘Scottish football needs ‘Rangers’ challenging (ideally winning) the SPL’.
BSR
Odeon……? A Kiss and a Feel in the back row
Odeon…….ancient Greek for “picture hoose”
now showing carry on up the Parthenon.
According to STV (I know…) no “colts” proposal will be tabled for a vote in April.
There will also be no reference to Sevco jumping up the leagues like a debt-laden salmon…
starry plough
19:27 on 19 March, 2013
ItaliaBhoy
Every possibility of that happening he is without a doubt the worst hun manager I have seen in my lifetime, he’s really special, I would even go as far to say “A Once In A Lifetime” offer!!
Long may his reign continue
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That sort of talk could lead to fat sally being sacked, please desist.
:-)
Quiz entry from David leggate
ODEON is an offensive acronym aimed at antagonising the glorious Glasgae Ranjurs.
Every fule knows that it stands for Overall Deid Extinct Obsolete and No more
Mike in Toronto
19:36 on 19 March, 2013
:)
Oscar Duetch (?) Enteratins Our Nation
Googlefree!
bournesouprice… what a loss the Odeon is. Hope they replace it with a decent building.
setting free the bears
19:37 on 19 March, 2013
My feeling is that there is a propaganda war going. But who is Goebbels.
I dont know why people on here continue to think they will not be eased up nearer the top tier , do any of you think all the dirty tricks performed will go unsuccessful . No chance .
Jimtim
Challs-good luck with next year’s Share Issue.
BSR
don’t know about the odeon but I was in the Pott Still this afternoon..
that is a money maker…
John Mason (SNP), Celtic’s local MSP had this to say about the police harassment of Celtic fans.
“Many of my constituents want a stronger level of policing around football matches. They are fed up with their driveways being obstructed, they are fed up with alcohol being drunk in the streets and they are fed up with people urinating in public.”
Dontpatmadug
I have no doubt that there is misinformation on all sides. Your average Celtic fan is not likely to be persuaded by a dripping of selective slanted perspectives.
Glasgow Road came across as more honest in his presentation because he was so obviously conflicted by his position. He was reluctant to wash our dirty linen in public but his commitment to a perceived injustice outweighed that.
Andy Muirhead was just too eager to shoehorn a couple of his pet views into an article where they sat uncomfortably. He blew his commission.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
The Hampden march was licensed by GCC, following a hastily convened Friday meeting.
The copper in charge also felt the need to opine “We understand that passions are running high at the moment and appreciate that people feel the need to demonstrate their feelings”.
Listening to Clyde SSB. Find myself shouting at the radio! Fast tracking TRFC back is gaining momentum.
Kilmarnock win League Cup for first time last season and now St Mirren achieve their first League Cup win. Can anyone tell me how this is Armageddon for Scottish football?
I hope that the league reconstruction plans are watertight!
I blame liewell for Charles’ bribe
Monteblanco
I probably should keep my mouth closed the other night when had occasion to do so. None fans of any club would be treated in the same way if behaved well, even if they did not ask/get permission. Different situation if caused troubles.
On another note. All football fans of different clubs stand together today. One of the buses with Lechia Gdansk fans travelling from south to north from the game against Piast crashed at 4 am. Two fans died, about fifty injured, fifteen of them seriously. Supporters give blood for injured. Lecha Gdansk wear white and green.
According to Davud Liegate, the “O’Deon” is an Irish cinema chain, which the ProvoLuvinCityCooncil allows to pump out anti-Rangers propaganda.
Funded by major Celtic shareholder “Dermot” Desmond, a man who once owned a downmarket care home, an airport from which terrorist flights to the Pakistani Tribal Areas took off, and who may now own a hotel in Barbados, which he is in the process of turning into a Rhepublican drinking den.