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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The fun continues over on real radio, IJCGE
Gaun yersel’ MWD !
It is a great day to be a Tim and that despicable lot can ram it!
HH!
rfc issue on talksport now
Evening all.
Happy news- I thought Chris McLaughlin was looking even more torn faced than usual as he discussed Armageddon. Hardy-har.
Oh and I am Peter Lawell and so is my wife.
H x 2
Alex Rae AKA the skull,,,is on real radio ,,cue belly laughs lol lol lol
Hail hail
mrob1967 on 4 July, 2012 at 19:09 said:
I listened to a bit of SSB on Clyde and I have to ask the question, Have the club formerly known as Rangers not got anyone that can act as a spokesman without coming across as aknuckle dragging neanderthal?
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I believe the answer to that particular question is NO!!
:-)
HH
37 years ago much to my dismay, our family left Bonnie Scotland for the vast expanse of Canada. At the time I was resentful as I felt I would never see the hallowed green space called Parkhead ever again.
51 weeks go I, along with my wife and 2 daughters left Canada for an amazing opportunity in the Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave.
On Valentine’s day this year we had a double celebration. We were advised that our US permanent resident cards we en route to us and CQN was on fire with the news of Rangers in Administration.
In the past 37 years I have been fortunate to travel all over the world. On every trip I take 2 Celtic strips with me. One for myself and one for anyone I may meet that has an idea of who Celtic Football Club are and gift them with a Celtic top. In the same 37 years of traveling to places like Paris, Nurenberg, Milan, Belgrade, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Sao Paolo, Sydney, all across Canada and the US I have been able to wear my Hoops openly with pride, without fear and without being referred to as a Proddy Taig as I was in Wishaw. Hopefully now that RFC in Liquidation have been eradicated from the SPL and on July 12th hopefully eradicated from Scottish Football I can at some point come back home and step off a plane with my Hoops on and not look over my shoulder. This may take a generation to happen and I may never see. It.
Tonight as myself, my wife and 2 girls celebrate the 4th of July in our new town I will watch fireworks exploding in awe. When I see the gold, white and green ones I will say a prayer for all those good Tim’s who did not live to see this day and when the red, white and blue ones explode I will silently be screaming inside GIRUY ya bunch of cheating, lying, thieving gits. You finally got what you deserved for the decades of hatred & violence towards everyone in the Celtic Family.
I will then come home, put my girls to bed and open a bottle of The Four Graces Pinot Noir that I have been saving for this occasion. I will drink it all.
God Bless all Celtic Fans around the world today and everyday.
FGF
Brilliant my friend, just brilliant!!!!
JAMES FORREST 1900
“I wonder … I wonder …. But if you’re asking me if I trust our board, the answer is yes, and I always believed we would vote No. The concern was that we might not stand with the clubs who are being bullied.”
I’m sure you could find some of your posts that confirm your stance here.
Equally,I’m sure I could find a few that don’t.
But life’s too short for such things.
On the back of today’s developments,off to work with a smile!
embdy got the Radio Clyde only an Excuse John Browns substance abuse special then can gie mi ?
Hail Hail
The campaign must now start to make sure they start where they should, the 3 rd division.
Lubos magic boots 18.54
Green must go hes no tellin the truth
the fans r ma backers ,regan & PL in this the gether,im goin tae the rfff meetin but might no git in coz plods there .canny tell ye whit green said as it would put his safety in doubt,
Got the best legal brains on his side(findlay ):)))))
And numerous other threats and accusations.
In other words hes a God send……………………………..FOR US :))))
HAIL HAIL
Anyone got a link to tonight’s Radio scotland with Jabba and co,,,and SSB with Bomber and co lol!!!
Hail hail
TimsinOhio on 4 July, 2012 at 19:13 said:
Lovely, emotional and heart warming.
Thanks for that.
Apparently the english queen was in Glasgow today, early suggestions that she was here to pick up a cheque from dodo fc for unpaid taxes has proven to be false.
hamiltontim
Did you miss BundoranBhoy :-))))))
if Sevco in Div 3 = panic then Mr Stimpson welcomes the panic.
Can’t believe the Bomber can get away with his poorly vieled threats on a commercial radio station.
When pushed on why he walked from Ipox, he said it was because Charles Green (And Whyte) told him what he woudl do to the club. When pushed on this he stated that he could not say as he would put C.G. in physical Danger…….
This is a red rag to a blue bull as far as I’m concerned. He knows the Hun fans, and their reactions to minor incidents (Broken TVs etc), and without giving a quote, makes the situation equally as bad for C.G by spouting this.
If he’d done this on the web, he’d maybe be ignored,but he’s looking at himself as the New Hun Spokesman.
so happy our club is run in no way like that mobs used to be run, nor are we ever likely to be represented by such thuggish idiots.
Mucker
J&IC CSC
Does anyone know the ins and outs of the Fleck move ,I heard on the news that Naiybalance had joined Everton and that Coventry had come to an agreement with ragers for Fleck .
Could it be that Fleck was not owned by ragers fc but a third party ,ie the four businessmen that minty sold the rights of the murky park conveyor belt to
TimsinOhio on 4 July, 2012 at 19:13 said:
Post more often mate !!! You are always a great read
Hail Hail
Dalziell ,alex rae , bumber broon ,andy goram ,Gordon Smith Hmmmmm
what a group to try and put your case across …….
THEY ARE DOOMED
TimsinOhio
Enjoy Mhate.
leftclicktic cheers. I think you probably made more sense there than he would have HH
Good shout from the Dandies
DST @DonsSupporters
Kilmarnock FC may have chosen to abstain in the vote but I’d urge you not to blame their fans who made their opposition to newco very clear
Killie fans outraged and tweeting “We’re no Huns”
FGF
Aye that’s what it was :-))
TimsinOhio.
Excellent post. Looking forward to sharing a pint on your next trip home. Us most excellent Proddy Taig. ;-)
MWD
TimsinOhio enjoy your Independance day in more ways that one mate.
HH
leftclicktic on 4 July, 2012 at 19:15 said:
WHAaaaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaa
stope it man yer killin me
hail hail
Bummer makes Vinny Jones look and sound like a poet Laureate. As a spokesman he is a suitable embarrassment to his extinct club.
TimsinOhio on 4 July, 2012 at 19:13 said:
The magic of Celtic….
Thank you..
Happy 4th of July..
Fergus slayed the blues.read on deadclub rumours
He went as a free and coventry agree to give them something if they sell him on.
They are celebrating that somebody thinks they exist to deal with coventrys slogan must be WE SEE DEAD PEOPLE
TimsinOhio
Excellent post and enjoy yer day
HH
Abmucker
I’m sure if Celtic so wished they would also have a claim for taking legal action against John Brown & Radio Clyde for allowing him the right to defame the club and in particular Peter Lawell.
MWD
I love Celtic and I always will.
This would have stood no matter what had happened today or any other day, Celtic is it all to me, I play football, follow football ,observe football but none of these occupations will ever stand of the unflinching support I have for Celtic.
I renewed my season ticket at the earliest possible date and stand by it
Well done the wee teams
I’ll be goin ta one o yer games
JX
Well, apart from the weather, it’s been a very pleasant day. Now for a nice white Burgundy and a packet of Pom Bears…
think that the sfl clubs will follow the spl clubs and send them to the third division which is the best they should hope for.
p.s. the JT is funny, rangers fans will all go along to games and when this is done they’ll have saved lots of money to spend on their return to the spl or maybe just maybe 44000 people will not go along to watch them in the third division and maybe just maybe greeny and co will, like most business men, give themselves good wages maybe a mill or so a year.
keep dreaming JT
TimsinOhio on 4 July, 2012 at 19:13 said:
nice one amigo!
RC tonight was disgraceful.
Giving Brown a platform to spew his bile and hate. He sums up what a hun is.
Keevins a craven coward for not challenging anything he said.
The callers were all hand picked Brownites, real lowlife.
Dalziel a clown worthy of place in Barnum’s circus.
What does it take for people in the media to stop using the phrase ‘drop down a division’? Are they all truly thick as mince? These people are meant to be educated to some degree. Do they not understand the concept of what newly formed club is?
SPF