Tomorrow’s Annual General Meeting of the Scottish Premier League is set to be the third great football meeting in the last two weeks. The Prophet of Armageddon, chief executive Neil Doncaster, will face his shareholders and either have to declare he was being truthful when he told them, and Scottish Football League clubs, the SPL would be unable to fulfil their contractual obligations if Sevco were denied a place in the First Division, or that this was a cunning ruse designed to manipulate clubs and fans alike.
Doncaster was surely encouraged by some in the SPL to adopt his confrontational stance but support from SPL clubs was certainly not universal. No representatives from Celtic participated in any meetings or conversations regarding the contents of the presentation made to SFL clubs, nor was the club informed or consulted on it.
Well done to the Aberdeen fans who kicked off the Sell-out Saturday initiative. They hope to sell-out Pittodrie for their 11 August game and want to as many fans as possible to buy season tickets. The idea has been picked up by clubs throughout the league.
I get the feeling that if supporters groups got together we could use this unique moment, when camaraderie among fans coincided with unparalleled fan power over the clubs, to define a framework for the game we wanted, not something a dreamt up by a Norfolk MBA.
Even if we couldn’t get every fan group pulling in the same direction, a few productive bilateral relationships is all it takes to establish an powerful pressure group.
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miki67 on 16 July, 2012 at 11:58 said:
Reading back on the blog;it’s uncanny how the msm,even as far-flung as San Francisco (!?), are all regurgitating the same message that must get magically beamed onto their collective hive imagination on an hourly basis,and is designed to repeat,ad nauseam,the same mantra of the lowest common denominator :”Ra Big Hoose Must Stay Open! Ra Old Firm! Wearrapeepil! Ragers! Ragers! Ragers!”
Crude propaganda of the most transparent kind…..yet they expect the gullible to buy this sewage?
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Therein lies the problem.
For over two years I tried to get the Observer Sports to seriously engage in the issue. Paul can verify.
I had e-mail contact with one of the journos, David Hills.
He tried to raise it at ecitorial meetings, but eventually admitted that reporters were basically lazy and just took their stories from the “wires”.
That is why the same line gets peddled from ocean to ocean; and demonstrates the power of media agencies.
Viva la bampots!
bbc:
First shock news of the day from Hampden – Messrs. Thompson and Gilmour arrived in the same car. Make of that what you will, we’re just glad they’re doing their bit for the environment.
There is one question I have not seen much analysis of…..can Sevco afford to run a football club from Division 3?
On average the cost of a Division 3 season ticket is £160 – £180.
Now somebody may be able to help me out with exact numbers on this next part but I cannot imagine it is cheap to open all 4 stands at a stadium like Ibrox for a matchday. The costs will be significant. Staff, Police, Stewards, electricity, insurance etc, not to mention the ongoing maintenance and cleaning costs.
Sevco have also inherited some very large contracts. Wallace, Alexander, McCulloch, Goian, Bocanegra etc will all be getting minimum of £10,000 per week each, which will be just over £500,000 per annum EACH.
Now let’s crunch some numbers. Let us be generous here, let us assume all the bears get right behind Chico. He shifts 30,000 season books. They are the people after all so let us assume he charges above average for the book. Let us say £220. His season book income, which will by far be his main source, would be £6.6m.
Not a great deal of money at all….
So he shifts the price point up to let’s say £350. Would you pay £350 for a season ticket for Division 3 football? Not many would. Let us again be generous and say he shifts 16,000 £350 season books. £5.6m.
Even if he is creative, get’s some sponsorship etc, no matter which way the cookie crumbles Green is looking at no more than an £8m – £9m turnover next year.
He will have large matchday costs if he does manage to sell a load of books, he likely cannot afford to price them in relative terms to make them attractive but if he doesn’t he will have no money. Classic Catch 22.
He has investors needing to be paid. Unspecified amounts, to unspecified people willing to break unspecified amounts of legs.
His wage bill is already at a minimum of £2.5m pa for playing staff.
It is obvious the numbers do not work and something drastic has to happen for them to work. He will have to sell assets. Any asset, perhaps even ALL assets.
A lot of people and things lie. Pure numbers never do.
Division 3 is a very very bad place for them indeed.
Kitalba
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Have been known in the past to have my opinion on who or who isn’t overrated in the Celtic team, I will say that Wanyama is the best player to have played in Scottish Football since Henrik Larsson retired.
He is easily a £10 million player now and will be a £20+ million player when he is next signed by AC Milan or Real Madrid, for me that’s how good he can become.
What’s taking those SPL chaps so long? They making sure it drags out until after lunch?
bbc:
Dundee and Dunfermline are the clubs in the frame, although some SFL clubs have expressed fears that the SPL could find a way to allow Rangers to rejoin the SPL.
Peter Lawwell just nutted Sally for eating the last pie.
new article posted.
leftclicktic on 16 July, 2012 at 12:06 said:
Good read sorry if already posted.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/16/rangers-lowest-league-victory-fans?CMP=twt_gu
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A great article. Probably the most accurate summary of the current situation I’ve read
EK bhoy12.05
Wanyama is a superstar in the making,he is going right to the top.IMHO it would be madness to let him go for anything lest than 10m HH
CBB
DD just booted him in the goolies pleading his drooling as mitigation.
Day off work,missus got me doing chores.
I tackle the shower room,2 questions.
1. When did we get the Old English Sheepdog?
2. Where’s the fekr hiding?
Why is Rabbit Green and Pork Sally at the meeting????????
Chinese whispers at Hampden suggest Du Wei is talking quietly to Zheng Zhi
PGTips
Victor is indeed a player of oustanding promise. He has occassional lapses but he is young. We really only got about half a season out of Victor given that Neil was cautious in bringing him through early on.
I would hate to see him leave before next season. I think he could be central to us having a good European run.
After which he would be worth goodness knows what. However if we are given silly money then it would be stupid for the Board not to take it.
If we can scout one Victor we can scout another.
Any way we shall see. We also still have Beram and Joe.
Got a text from an Orc saying AM & CG wont hand over the RFC share to give to dundee or dunfermline as a GIRUY.I replied with this that I seen on RTC earlier.
OK so let’s say dodoRFC refuse to hand over the SPL share today.
Easy solution –
Re-convene the AT tomorrow morning, by the afternoon there won’t be a dodoRFC in Scottish football.
Space free in the SPL, problem solved.
Of course it leaves sevco with a slight issue, how can you transfer SFA membership from a non club?
Move over Jon Daly.
Rabbitt & pork is neither here nor hare!! Ill get ma coat!! o)))