There is a realisation that the information issued by Craig Whyte last week is only the beginning of what promises to be weeks of salacious details. Ownership of Ibrox, Murray Park and other assets purchased by Sevco 5088, a company which Charles Green signed a Companies House form for on 27 December 2012, but which Craig Whyte claims to be a significant interest holder in, is in doubt.
This matter could take weeks to play out and months, or longer, to settle. The evidence provided thus far is interesting but courts are notoriously more concerned by paperwork than recorded conversations. If Craig Whyte has paperwork to back his claims he will feel by far the more comfortable of the two parties.
Of more immediate concern will be what Cenkos Securities knew. Cenkos were the Nominated Advisors for Rangers International’s recent Initial Public Offering and Newco’s directors would have been required to inform them of any claim over assets, no matter how spurious or disputed.
City Regulators move quicker than the courts and will want early information on when Whyte’s claims were made, what was revealed to Cenkos and how the board minute-d these matters. Keep your eye on this one.
Having used David Longmuir to get at SFL clubs in an attempt to sink league reconstruction plans Charles Green, who has made no secret of his opposition to them, turned to St Mirren chairman Stuart Gilmour. Gilmour, who was incandescent with outrage last year when SFL clubs refused to make a space in their top flight for Newco, plans to acquiesce.
He should reconsider before the St Mirren board meet to discuss this on Wednesday.
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My heart says motherell at home but I suspect a trip to ross county.
Jackson settling old score per chance or jealous jabba got his dream job…?
larssonse7en
Apalling, top marks for brown nosing…
Ernie
I know his “business empire” is in the grubber, but he still seems to be exempt from any blame in these latest rounds of interhunine conflict.
How does he manage that?
Sky will insist we are home to Motherwell in the first game after the split,to make it look like we have beaten our nearest rivals to win it.If Motherwell played on the Saturday and drew/lost ,we would have won it before kicking off on the Sunday.Sevco are at home on Sat 20th April.
Apologies if been posted already but worth the read, especially for anyone with an interest of Sports Science
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/apr/07/ray-wilkins-injuries-milan-lab
Two scenes: both minor-key tragedies from London’s playhouses during the past week. First Ashley Cole’s hamstring twanging like a misplayed guitar chord during Chelsea’s FA Cup victory over Manchester United on Easter Monday. Then, three days later, Gareth Bale scooped on to an orange stretcher, arms crossed as if marking the spot, during Spurs’ Europa League game against Basel.
Star players crocked, headlines written, physios’ diagnoses followed up. And – in most cases – a dull acceptance: injuries are inevitable, shrug shoulders and move on. But are they? Few would dispute that raking an opponent’s knee with the kamikaze violence of a gardener uprooting Japanese knotweed will threaten the toughest of ligaments – but what about non-impact twists, tears and sprains? Injuries such as Cole’s?
Last Tuesday Ray Wilkins, one of football’s more engaging analysts, blamed Cole’s injury on Rafael Benítez’s decision to rest him against Southampton two days’ earlier. “I honestly feel he has to play all the time, Ashley,” Wilkins confided, and chided. “He is one of these machines. You have to keep it well-oiled and it will fly. Had he played on Saturday, he wouldn’t have done that.”
Everything about Wilkins’ response – language, imagery, and particularly the secondary school science diagnosis – could have come from Life on Mars. Teleport back 40 years and you could almost imagine a Brut 33-drenched Butch saying it at Chelsea, perhaps while handbrake-turning his Ford Capri into the King’s Road and sending the fuzzy dice in his rear-view mirror flapping like Peter Bonetti at a deep cross.
His view is rooted in the days when playing on Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Monday was the norm, and rotation was something practised only by arable farmers and gymnasts. Times have changed. Suspicion of tinkermen has given way to grudging acceptance: perhaps they are on to something after all.
But just how much science and data is altering how elite clubs anticipate and sometimes thwart certain injuries may surprise you. And two of Wilkins’ alma maters — Milan and Manchester United – are leading the way.
After the Argentina midfielder Fernando Redondo suffered a career-ending injury while jogging on a treadmill at Milan – having aced a rigorous medical – the club asked two simple questions: can we stop this happening again, and if so, how? And so the Milan Lab was born.
Under Jean-Pierre Messerman, players underwent a battery of tests for 45 minutes every 15 days. Computers compared and cross-referenced data and scientists worked on algorithms to predict injury. If anything appeared unusual, individual training programmes were altered.
Results were impressive. Non-impact injuries fell sharply. Paolo Maldini and Alessandro Costacurta were able to play into their 40s. Doctors and data danced in tandem. “I supervised it but it was the work of mathematicians and engineers really,” Messerman told me recently. “When we put the results of Redondo then into our system now, he comes out as a tremendously high risk.”
The original Milan Lab project was hugely expensive, but they will soon make it cheaper and more time-efficient. From next season players will be tested every day for six minutes before training, with computers immediately red-flagging anyone at risk. “It boils down to a few simple tests,” explains Messerman. “Anybody could buy the equipment for £30,000–40,000.”
Just over five years ago, United decided to model their approach to sports science on Milan’s. But quietly and impressively they have found their own way.
According to Tony Strudwick, United’s head of fitness and conditioning, they monitor 29 variables that may increase a player’s susceptibility to injury – ranging from cumulative minutes played and trained to heart-rate variability and metabolic power – across roughly 200 training sessions and 50 matches a season. “Sometimes two or three players will be pulled out just before training,” he told the Sports Analytics Innovation Summit, adding: “If we are not using the data it is pointless collecting it.”
Strudwick pointed out that for teams playing in the Champions League, peak injury incidence came between November and January, before positing that the lack of natural vitamin D in winter months was worth examining.
United have also noticed that certain players suffer not only an immediate post-game dip but also another two or three days later – which can pose difficulties when matches come along in, say, a Sunday-Wednesday-Saturday-Tuesday cycle. But everyone is different. “It’s now about micromanaging individuals,” explained Studwick. “The data lets you manage where everyone is at.”
This isn’t just about football. At Leicester Tigers for instance Andy Shelton – the head of sport science – is piloting a scheme, using three years of historical data and a control group, to predict injuries. “Ninety-four per cent of Leicester Tigers’ game days missed are down to injury,” he says. “This season when we have run our control group and not intervened we have predicted 50% of injuries.”
Tiredness is usually a significant factor. “Fatigue acts against the strength of the tissue,” says Shelton. “It’s like if you take a sheet of paper and micro-tear it repeatedly: it’s going to take a lot less force to rip it completely.”
Which brings us neatly back to Wilkins, who reckoned Cole’s injury was caused by not playing frequently enough. In more cases, however, the reverse is true.
LIVIBHOY
Only very very slightly.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive”
You’d’ve thought that some of these masters of the universe would’ve learned a thing or two before embarking on a campaign to deceive us all for decades.
When we were in our wilderness years we had to just knuckle down and do our damndest to save ourselves.
And we did it honestly and with transparency.
It was hard, but now we can see the results.
As has been so often mentioned, our achievement in ’67 sent those muppets into a tailspin of duplicity which has led them to being in the hands of one of football’s most dubious chancers.
They thought all their establishment arrogance, their knuckle stroking, their nigh-on criminal subversion of the game would not come undone. That really is insane thinking.
Oh well.
I wonder who we’ll have to contend with to get our foot in the door of next season’s CL?
I look forward to it all.
Celtic_First
10:16 on 8 April, 2013
He and his PR advisers and his lawyers probably have a lot of stuff on a lot of people.
What time is Salmond’s summit? Headbutts and pitch invasions l take it the courts are full this morning.
Well done the young hoops.
larssonse7en
10:08 on8 April, 2013
“The bigger half of the oldd firm”.does that clown duffy not realise there is no old firm?
That’s his seat secured on snyde for a while.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
I have no desire to click on the link to the Sun.
If NFL does not win MOTY and Barcelona win the CL and lose no more games in it then the Scottish media and his peers in this country will look very stupid.
A League & Cup double should secure the MOTY for Neil. It would in any other country in the world!
LB
So, St Mirren have ditched the rest of the SPL to get into bed with Sevco.
He’ll mend them!!
A SON OF DAN
Seems there is a board meeting on Wednesday night. Their voting intentions will be decided at that meeting.
Not sure if Green is the guest speaker…..
bobbycfc
09:26 on8 April, 2013
I’d re-post that later as someone on the blog might be able to help you out.
Is that Jim Duffy the Jim Duffy that used to play for us, managed Dundee, Hibs? Surely to God he has not fallen down that far!
Bhoycott St Mirren Park.
Ernie Lynch
Tales of Irvine’s “Black Museum” are legendary,however I sometimes wonder if his manipulation of the media in Scotland is based upon an urban myth,a self-fulfilling one.
Once the perception of him “having the goods” is out there,how many are likely to call his bluff? Few in positions of power have nothing whatsoever to hide-same goes for the rest of us!
!!Bada Bing!!
They not in the bottom 6?
LB
You do realise that if we win the league @ home , the trophy won’t be presented until the next home game ?
Sanna (grenade csc)
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Wonder when Paul Baxendale-Walker is Going to Release his New DVD..
True-Blue Movie..
A Black & Blue Comedy..
Summa of NaeMoneyBallPornCSC
Us at Home to Motherwell as the first game after the split would be the choice of a governing body interested in the welfare of Scottish Football. Such a fixture would attract well over 50,000. The same fixture after the title has been won could well attract 20,000 fewer to the game.
An away first fixture would attract around 40,000 fewer. The choice seems quite obvious, doesn`t it?
JJ
Livibhoy-next season mate,other fans will follow suit.
You can always rely on hunmedia to give you a laugh.
Delusional hun….
The fear of us never winning another title or hearing the champions league music at Ibrox again. Call me a glory hunter or whatever am just to used to my club winning so much, To take that away would be hard to take especially as its been a major part of the clubs history. Would you settle for The Rangers being a run of the mill side in England? Cause it could happen.Yes The Rangers are to big for Scotland but surely winning titles and cups should be enough to keep fans happy.Look at Man city, Man U, Chelsea arsenal and Livepool. There all to big for the EPL but will always stay due to Money.Surely Rangers moving to England isn’t all to do with the money?Our history made in Scotland should count for something, when these business men decide what’s best for the club? Sadly I don’t think it will have any baring on any decision made.Charles Green please say no to England and keep our status as a worldwide cub.
A wee bit hasty with the St Mirren suggestions are we not? Shouldn`t we wait until after Wednesday`s Board meeting?
JJ
JungleJim
St Mirren have already said they won’t back the proposal.
http://www.saintmirren.net/pages/?p=22463
Mort
Saint Mirren speaks for Green?
http://m.stv.tv/sport/football/clubs/st-mirren/220539-st-mirren-confirm-theyll-vote-against-12-12-18-league-reconstruction-plans/
A while back i turned the radio on in the car and heard a scottish voice defend the torys about another mishap . The part i heard all he said was ,what about labour they have done this that and the other . At the end of the interview the lady says thanks to jack Irvine for joining us , nearly crashed the car , first time i had ever heard him in action
Too much collusion between St Mirren and Sevco in the last 9 months,including a hun director caught being shown their financial records.Allegedly.If it’s all about the money,don’t give them any of ours,if other clubs follow ,they will be worse off than they are now.
JessieJcsc
SIPSINI
I know the huns are thick and illiterate,but……
You would think they would know how to spell bearing,particularly the first part.
Memo to St Mirren
If you get into the swamp with those that are trying to kill our game you have to be prepared to pay the price.
I will never step foot in their stadium again.
They must be tarred with the same brush as SEVCO,
Andrew Ellis in their boardroom looking at the books ason,
THIS IS NOT A DECISION JUST TAKEN BY GILMOUR,THIS DECISION WAS TAKEN A WHILE AGO FOR THE BENEFIT OF SEVCO.
HE IS UP TO HIS NECK IN SEVCOS PLANS and all decent minded St Mirren fans should be OUTRAGED
ason= last season
Good morning CQN
Sratred reading Duffys article, shocking, stopped reading at the “bigger half of the old firm”. Fud.
Weefra HH
Reconstruction of the leagues is a complete waste of time and money, there is no one at the SFA or the SPL who have any vision to take the game forward in Scotland, it’s all about getting as many noses in the ever decreasing trough as possible that and a moth like obsession with the idea that the huns are somehow relevant or a big club that deserve better..
Apart from Celtic what does SPL have to offer a Celt like me?? I’m sick to death of the whole Sevco/SFA circus distracting from the tragic fact that the said circus is slowly killing the game which is already on the ropes.
The huns have no shame and have already announced their intention to kill thew game if they are punished and anyone who stands with them at this time deserve all they get in the future when they realise the trough is shut sin die..
I hate Scottish Football, average diddy league run by diddies for diddies.
Celtic deserve a platform where a famous well run honest club can play and prosper or not depending on our teams performance not because we are shooting uphill at e very turn of the way..
bobby cfc,
don’t know anything about the V+ box thingummy, but surely it’s just a PC disk drive in a box?
Which is a modular, easily-swapped out item.
Pretty sure you can retrieve all the footage if you can keep/get hold of the old, not working V+ box…
HH
Unless it’s had a head crash on the disk, which makes things expensive…
leftclicktic
11:06 on
……. and all decent minded St Mirren fans should be OUTRAGED
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Well, Chic is delighted that his team are voting against.
Sorry that should read ‘one of his teams’.
The other one is not eligible to vote, of course.
!!bada bing!!
10:36 on
8 April, 2013
It is obvious that St Mirren have been ‘influenced’ by greengo, with promises of whatever…. There is no alternative other than to Bhoycott ……. at least Ross County SEEM to have come to their decision ‘on their own’, and for honest reasons…….
greengo will now be able to hike the SB prices, but that’s the only benefit ……he won’t be spending it on players, and ‘you can take that to the bank’…..(his bank…..LOL)
iki
**** Note****
“DECENT MINDED” :))