The momentum for a confederated regional league in Eastern Europe continues to gather pace with clubs from Belarus keen to join. With a population of around 10m, Belarus is sandwiched between Russia, Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states, but their league has been rendered uncompetitive by the domination of Bate Borisov, who are on their way to eight-in-a-row titles.
Bate, who are now Champions League regulars, have no opportunity to progress while the rest of the league do not have the resources to compete with them. A regional league would solve all their problems.
Russian and Ukrainian clubs are aiming to have a confederated league in place by the start of 2014, with sponsors thought to be keen to step forward and underwrite whatever is necessary to smooth the way, but the Ukrainian FA suggest 2016 is a more viable date.
Scottish football stands to gain more from regionalisation than anywhere else on the planet. We need to have this debate before blindly stumbling into another Management of Decline while legislators in Minsk leave us behind!
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i wonder if any bookmakers are taking bets on who gets more airtime & cred from the mainstream media when they win their respective league titles – celtic or rangers?
FourGreenFields
He quipped “im the only guy entering American who tried to change the colour of my Green Card”
Hey there shady! Lookin’ forward to the great escape?
HH!
Just as well Sevco have a big game tonight to take their minds off the share offer disaster.
Bwaaa Haaa Haaa Haaa
2012 – Everyday was Christmas!
notthebus
America is welcome to him .
Schalke beaten again, if the last 16 tie was next week
i would take them. Their form is atrocious just now.
HH
I live 93 miles from London, but I rarely go there. Once you get past Southampton, it’s a different, slower planet here.
I gotta go:
Chunkles doin’ a Nuremberg Rally tribute @ iPox. Enough for one day.
Still waiting on the nuclear.
Phtt…..
ASonOfDan 15:03 on 18 December, 2012
An investment of £20 Million will pay the bills and keep Sevco running till end of season, nothing more.
The highly-intelligent B. Dodds was on Shortbread earlier wondering why they didn’t wait 6 months before they did the issue. Em, let’s think now – why would that be?!!!
thetimrieper
There are strong rumours that Huntelaar + Holtby will announce contract extensions with the club after the game tonight
That would be a massive boost for Schalke
Conspiracy theory (lost count of the number):
Any Financial bhoys confirm that the London Stock Exchange closures over the holiday period will affect trading and settlement of small shareholders looking to off-load quickly?
Would this have anything to do with the timing of Chuckie’s issue?
gordybhoy64
19:48
Some illiterate zombie trying to compare Range Rover to sevco as they are owned by indian people now !! Worst thing about it was panel agreeing with him, that was my cue to hit off button.
HH.
thetimrieper @19:53 “Schalke beaten again, if the last 16 tie was next week
i would take them. Their form is atrocious just now.”
We weren’t exactly invincible in between Spartak, Barca and Benfica. :_)
Yep. We definitely had them fooled.
HH
Bt
Charlie wudnae tell fibs ;)
67heaven
I think a caller made that point … But was cut off and as usual they tried to make it sound like they defused him
The range rover gag was that they had been bought over by bmw .. But are still range rover.. Missed the bit about rover not being liquidised
Bonner on shortbread earlier giving it the ‘old firm’ line again. We’ve been trying to disassociate ourselves from the hun for years and Lawwell got that message loud and clear again at the last agm. It would seem that even to qualify for a token tim job with the Scottish msm, certain outdated terms must be kept so as not to offend.
Miki @ 17.53,
You’ve got that one quite wrong – UKIP have dropped the guy.
Compare that with the US Democrats who keep backing Prez Obama – the guy who rightly deplores the murder of 20 children on one day in Connecticut but supports the killing of 4000 children every day across the country by abortionists (& not even for a “reason” such as Downs Syndrome).
Ten Men Won The League
Think Huntelaars a great player, he was scoring for
fun a while back. Dont know much about Holbty.
Thought there was talk of huntelaar going to england,
although every player is supposed to be going to england.
HH
miki67
Very excited – nerves jangling like a Sevco PR guru trying to explain why a less than 50% take up of a low threshold is a major success.
S
I heard that when the sale of the shares ended Bomber was seen racing through George Square screaming…”Where’s Ra Deeds noo”..???
From what i’ve read here cause I don’t listen to that gaffe – In the analogy Range rover is like a player not a company – so RR Owned by Rover Group who were liquidated – the brand now owned by Indian company – RR still has it’s history but Rover Group dead – so the player has his history (including stripped titles) but RFC is dead
hopethismakessenseCSC
channelislandcelt,
cheers for the reply,its no surprise the panel agreed with him,
they aint known for their impartiality
invercelt
>>>>>
They only dropped him once the uproar hit…
….prior to that he was a rising star in their ranks.
shady20:07 on 18 December, 2012
>>>>>
Once you settle in, you’ll do fine. And you’ll end up loving it. Your first visit back home will cure all homesickness. Guaranteed.
Fish ‘n’ chips are callin’! ( That’s the kinda thing you miss, but you soon get over it.)
HH!
i use a similar analogy when explainin to huns why northern ireland is ireland & not brittian – i say; if you take the badge of a ford & place it on a BMW, does that BMW become a ford?
invercelt
>>>>
And his (obama) easy killing by drone of anything that moves, including playgrounds full, far from 24hr. emotional blackmail tv.
you hear nothing, or very little, of that.
but that’s okay.
they don’t know it’s Christmas.
miki67
cheers for that – I was in Southampton today. looks like a cool, laid back place to live.
Do you have a yacht ? seemed like everybody had one as we came in to land.
S
and if you put lipstick on a pig it’s still a pig
Ntassoolla
Thats true, although schalke have won two and lost five
in ten games, our form was never close to being that
bad , although you might have thought so at times
on here.
The tie being in feb makes current form irrelevant in any case.
Looking forward to the draw.
To think, after all of the roadshows, ppt presentations, media ads and PR guff promising a double-your-money deal and a one-way ticket to the world’s soccer super highway – they remain a busted flush.
A vauxhall cavalier just scored for sevco
HH.
Wednesday:
A clear breakdown of the share issue will be revealed when trading begins.
http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/stocks/new-and-recent-issues/new-recent-issue-details.html?issueId=8816
Thursday:
Draw for last 16 of the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=1905574.html#story+far+celtic+fc
2012 – Everyday is Christmas
I dont agree with those who think Schalke would be an ‘easier draw’ than the rest. They destroyed Arsenal in London with a similar display to Dortmund’s at Man City, but didnt get anything like the same credit.
My preference would be Malaga for a great away day on the costa del sol but from a purely football viewpoint it would be PSG. Yes they have the big man up front but they can be hot and cold. Paris also ticks the box as a good couple of days holiday for the hoops troops.
channelislandcelt
Sure it wasnt the ranger rover.
timrieper I like the presentation and convenience of the SKY league tables where you can click on any of the green/red/grey last six boxes to the right and then click again to look at a particular game.
http://www.skysports.com/football/league/0,,11780,00.html
Paul67 et al
Around two weeks ago, December 5 to be exact, the BBC website was predicting that Charlie Green’s new club would raise over £27 million via share placements and a public share issue. This would give the International a capitalisation of £50 million , or in other words greater than Celtic. It appears that the public share issue has not even come close to being realised, and unless Charlie and his cohorts underwrite it, those shares will lose value overnight. He only got one chance and this was it. Another world record!
Wee Dawwell said he got a nice text from Challs today,for pedaling the hun agenda no doubt.
thetimrieper
it was an ex mini hun
So how did Dawwell get a green card? What job is he going to do over there?