Scottish football has gone through months of drama and uncertainty to rescue ‘Rangers’. Only weeks ago we were told a CVA was likely. Once this failed the question of today’s SPL vote crystallised.
The SPL met several times to discuss this matter, even doing so before Rangers CVA failed. Sentiment was firmly behind Newco, to the extent that some were worried they would be allowed into the league without any sanction (if one Ayrshire club had their way). All this changed when Charles Green and Duff and Phelps agreed to challenge the SFA at the Court of Session. At the SPL meeting following this decision the mood changed dramatically.
I then had several friends in the media rubbish my suggestion that Newco were far from certain of being voted into the SPL. To be fair to them, my information was not coming from Neil Doncaster, whereas theirs was. If Doncaster was so assured when speaking to the media, day after day, we can only imagine what he was saying to Green. His influence has not been helpful to the cause he championed.
Clubs, who were previously weighing up the argument, suddenly had a convincing point to consider. Rangers going to court was the biggest own goal in their 140 year history. Terry Butcher, eat your heart out.
After this Green was at the mercy of fortune, and the growing influence of the hawk(s) in the SPL who saw no need to create space for Newco. In many respects, John Brown is correct. Having gambled and failed, Green did whatever he could to accommodate but there was no way back. Underestimate John Brown at your peril, he has his club’s interests at heart and has the fortitude to raise a phoenix from the ruins of Ibrox. His unconventional style is easy to mock but it is just what needed (I truly believe this).
Where now for the Newco-Sevco-Rangers? I don’t see a solution. Sooner or later Mr Green will let his friends know they only way forward is for him to acquire an existing Scottish Football League club, rename it to something like Rangers United, and move it to Ibrox.
The toxic history would be set free and it would be game-on. Keep your eye on Cowdenbeath.
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Can we now get back to the business of the two very important (sidelined) issues?
Big Tax Case
and
SFA punishment for huns taking them to court and overturning transfer embargo
bt
Easy for you to say.
No huns is brilliant ,no Ibrox would be even better. Dynamite and wrecking balls.
bomber, “cos thats the way it is ” brown…..geuzzz yer pies yah bam…
67Heaven
It was his comments at the end of the cowdenbeath no to sevco statement.
http://www.cowdenbeathfc.com/index.php?act=viewNews&id=1075
sorry for delay went a wee walk in the rain wae the dug trying to get smile off my face :)))
FAILED MISERABLEY met two orcs though who seem to have lost all interest in fitba :)))))
James, I hope and now believe the SFL clubs will follow where the sporting integrity of the SPL clubs have led.
If not, then I would hope Celtic will work to ensure they are forced to.
“lemme see those padlocks……..ah reely wanna see those padlocks……”
James Forrest is Neil Lennon! We are ALL Neil Lennon! on 4 July, 2012 at 22:23 said:
“Saying that we have NO INTEREST in joining the new league set up”
That is the nuclear option, I`m up for it, UEFA all over it and we give them 24 months to sort it out. It will be fixed sooner.
The old firm no longer exists.
What a relief.
Arty, 22:18
What they hate most about Celtic isn’t that they are a bunch of upstart Fenians – as if there is any other sort – it’s that Celtic are, and always have been, open to all. The list is legion, and how that eats away at their every essence of superiority.
They have destroyed themselves
starry plough on 4 July, 2012 at 21:51 said:
Well done SP i’ve been in there for many years. a new life for an old
Im proud of you
tonight is like one of those nights when a country actually wins something – the euros, the world cup, whatever
wonder of the Celtic population will increase coz of it ?
:)
OTB now another another dollar 2 morro!!
And this is how the story ends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaQhxcQCbfY
hail hail Jock Stein, 25th May 1967
O.G.Rafferty on 4 July, 2012 at 22:23 said:
Regan and Doncaster are only symptoms of a much deeper malaise, they are the acceptable face of the dark arts being practiced behind the scenes to make sure that the Gravy Train does not get totally de-railed but I think it’s too little too late even for the masters of deception..
From willypedia
Full name Rangers Football Club
Nickname(s) The Gers, Teddy Bears, Blues
Founded 1872[1]
Ground Ibrox Stadium
Glasgow, Scotland
(Capacity: 51,082[2])
Owner Craig Whyte[3]
2011–12 Scottish Premier League, 2nd
Website Club home page
BrianBoru
Airdrie would find themseleves promoted to Div 1 if Dundee (Sky’s favourites) or Dunfermline got into the SPL.
Oh the irony.
I for one remember the great day Kilmarnock gave us on 7th April. Calls for boycotts are totaly unwanted. Every Celtic fan who was at that match should return to Rugby Park the next time we play down there.
Tonight should be about celebrating a big day for Scottish Football nothing else.
Tomorrow will bring what if will bring. Just don’t expect to get everything you ever wanted. Today will come at a cost.#
Next season will see the true Celtic fan.
leftclicktic on 4 July, 2012 at 22:26 said
never thoughtI would agree with the QC , but there you are and I was referring to that matter in my earlier post.
Hector Avocado
re gettin back to business
the No1 hose-pipe priority business item is…
OPERATION CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGES !!!
lets up the pressure, if possible
Wee break from watching ‘Boardwalk Empire’…..just thinking every time they show iPox it looks that bit shabbier. No one there to maintain it properly. It’s bound to start crumbling soon. A ruin for people to wonder at what the hell went on in such a dark place.
:-)
O.G.Rafferty on 4 July, 2012 at 22:23 said:
Who was puting pressure on the clubs to say yes?
CRC
Full text of tonight’s statement from Cowdenbeath:
http://www.cowdenbeathfc.com/index.php?act=viewNews&id=1075
Club Statement
Posted July 4, 2012
Due to speculation surrounding the issue of “Rangers” and its possible admission to the SFL, the Board of Cowdenbeath FC wishes to clarify the following.
At the regular monthly Board Meeting held on Monday 2nd July 2012, the Board of Cowdenbeath resolved that it would support any application made by “Rangers” to join the SFL. It would not support any attempt to admit “Rangers” into the First Division of the SFL.
Today, “Rangers” have been excluded from the SPL.
At an Emergency Board Meeting held at Central Park tonight (4th July 2012) the Board again considered the matter.
The Board decided that it would support any application by “Rangers” to join the SFL but would vote against the present proposal which, amongst other matters, would admit “Rangers” directly into the First Division of the SFL.
This decision has been taken in the interests of football and the best interests of Cowdenbeath FC.
A Board spokesman said “If integrity in our game is to survive, then Rangers must start off SFL life in the Third Division. This is an SPL problem but the Clubs of that league have taken their decision for reasons which they must explain to all Scottish football supporters. The SPL and SFA should have resolved this long before now. They have tried to pass the buck to the SFL clubs and have tried to force them to accept “Rangers” into the First Division – to provide the greatest benefit to the SPL. This lacks any integrity and casts a dark shadow over our game. Cowdenbeath FC condemns this approach. The Board is in no doubt that our stance is consistent with integrity and the long term financial future of our Club. We ask all supporters of what ever Club, who share our views, to rally round and back us in the Season ahead”.
Chairman Donald Findlay added – “Speaking for myself, and myself alone, it is clear to me that people at the highest levels of our game have tried to hold a gun to my head and the heads of my colleagues. That will never work. But I have a long memory and will not forget what they tried to do and the way they tried to bend me, and this Club, to their will. That will never be allowed to happen”
Kevtic on 4 July, 2012 at 22:32 said
I echo your comments about Rugby Park in April, even down to the wee “champions empire biscuits” they were selling us.
The Killie chairman has enormous debts and will have had huge bank pressure applied.
No truth whatsoever in the rumour that Peter Lawwells Car Registration plate leaving Hampden today read,- GIRUY 10-1
Very helpful statement there from Regan.
All you guys that think this is over……….. read it and weep.
Regan cannot countenance anything but Div 1 for 1 season!
A ‘transfer of membership’ being proposed. Not an issuing of a new membership NOTE.
Punished yes. But, clearly that can’t involve suspension or expulsion because that would not have them in Div 1 for a year NOTE.
Appelate Tribunal. Why not reconvened? see above.
If SFL vote Div 3 Regan says SFA will go for SPL 2.
This is where Celtic (and others of like mind if there are really any) need to step in. The executive officers can only plot and hatch this IF THEIR MASTERS ARE IN AGREEMENT.
This my friends will be the BIGGY.
If we end up with Huns in Div 1 or an SPL 2 in tact with stadium, identity, titles, no debt, players, licenses etc etc then we will have LOST and so will football.
Take a drink tonight, but get ready for a much bigger battle in the coming weeks……………..
My friends, I think they all still want to eat of the corpse of RFC whether it is decomposing or not.
HH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY
“In the 80s when we had Davie Cooper and Ally McCoist in the team we couldnt fill the stadium every week
In the 90s when we had Brian Laudrup and Paul gascoigne in the team we couldnt fill the stadium every week.
In the 00s when we had Ronald de Boer and Lorenzo Amoruso in the team we couldnt fill the team every week.
In the 2012 when we were on the brink of extinction we couldnt fill the stadium every week.
Why do folk think we will fill it in the 3rd division every week against Anna and East Striling when we have Salim Kerkar and Kirk broadfoot (or worse) in the team? ”
The above was posted by a hurting Hun on FF regarding them filling Ibrox in Div 3.
I think he makes a wee “freudian” slip in the 00’s as he says they couldn’t fill the TEAM …..I believe he was thinking about 2012-2013 in that moment.
So it’s now the whole of Scottish society as we know it that will crumble into post apocalyptic anarchy if Sevco aren’t allowed back in. We will all devolve into hacking each others brains out with rusty pick axes if such a thing as sporting integrity is followed.
What effin’ planet do these guys live on?
It kinda reminds me of that Simpsons episode when Homer sets up a vigilante group after Springfield is hit by a crime wave and Kent Brockman asks: ”
Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it’s time for our viewers to crack each other’s heads open and feast on the goo inside?”
Professor: “Yes I would, Kent.”
Beyond crazy
Another hour, another attempt to turn up the heat on the SFL clubs. Absolutely relentless. Let them decide with facts, not threats.
@STVGrant
O.G.
he’s Gary HOOOOOOOOOOPER and he comes with a guarantee of goals
MayoD on 4 July, 2012 at 22:09 said:
>>>
Raygun = megafud.
Sometimes ‘big’ clubs go down. Sometimes they come back ; sometimes they don’t . No need to threaten us with ‘social unrest’. Who do you think Sevco5088 represent? The Yorkshire wing of the udf..?..another anagram of fud.
And who does Raygun think HE is ? Nostradamus ?
Ally: “i demand to know who voted YES”
Chaz: “shut it, Ally”
:)
How much has it cost us to support Scottish Football these last 15 years which has failed as every competition was crooked ?
Now for whatever reason it was crooked I dont care right now. I am more concerned that the bodies that were meant to govern our game correctly are the same people who are trying to rescue the situation.
The intimidation will continue until the SFA do something. They have not completed anything yet. It is time those that voted no made a joint statement.
Possibly asking for UEFA intervention.
If the SFA pull the police card I dont think the Scottish public will buy it.
HH
Regan’s carer should be sacked. It is scandalous that his words are published without someone checking for insanity. Do they not realise that such a plea would save him from the gallows? Does he not realise he is doomed by his own utterances? He may have Ogilvie E.B.T. on his side but Finley Q.C. is absolutely agin’ him. If it wasn’t in the Scottish press you would think it was unbelievable.
H H
leftclicktic on 4 July, 2012 at 22:29 said:
Thanks LCT I appreciate that, what a great time to change!!
Good riddance newco
and good night
I officially withdraw my short lived Boycott Kilmarnock call.
You see, I listen.
Unlike Reneging, Doomcaster and Longshanks.