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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deniabhoy
Less a couple of million in costs.
Just told my daughter that her dinner was on – “It’s O.K. Dad i”m goin out and I’ll get a Hoagie”
WTF CSC
Doc is Neil Lennon @ 17.06.
Doc, the first four words of your post made me laugh.
Geez anither wan:-)
The Onlooker
Agreed. If a stranger were to threaten you with an artificial firearm, would you be any less terrified if it turned out afterwards that it wasn’t real and just meant to be a big joke?
Those guys are terrorists and should remain locked up.
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Silver plated,bashed, baptism present, strainer mind you.
We’ll know for definite by 8.30 am tomorrow when their shares in issue will be listed. We know how many shares they had before today so a quick bit of subtraction will let us know.
The fact that the issue was undersold means there’s unlikely to be any demand and short-term peaks first thing. It’s all down hill.
Oh and Delahunt et al must be making it up. If they’re not they’re being leaked info before it’s being released to the market and that’s a touch dodgy.
Hoagie is chips,cheese and doner meat in a wrap. Diet coke optional :))
Does anyone remember the scenes at paradise when the shares were available to buy? Queues up and down London Road. I didn’t quite see this footage for the Sevco share issue. Was it postal only? Looks like it has flopped big time.
There was a non runner at Lingfield today called Proper Charlie, Looks like Chuck Green had a non runner of his own today.
LB
A wee sweepstake on the closing price of their shares at the end of the week? Do I hear 60, 50, 40, 30 . . .
So, Who owns the deeds now?
Radio Clyde
“Challs, – can we say it’s 5million and can we say it’s massive?”
Challs
“O.K. as long as you’ve checked with Jabba?”
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estoril
Thanks for that, – do you know what a Onesie is?
Lost CSC
Now for my 500K promised Sevco shares….
Whats that Chuckles?…
Its too late??…
FFS
I suspect there is currently a bit of negociation with some of the institutional investors, whose initial offer will probably have been based on full uptake.
If they only take up at the same rate as the public we’re down at around £12-13M total, and that’s a big old drop from the hoped for £27M.
bsr
Lassies eh?!
Nae respect for their auld dads who have spent hours slavin’ over a hot stove(?!), to prepare them a succulent, and healthy, meal!
HH!!
bsr
Lassies eh?!
Nae respect for their auld dads who have spent hours slavin’ over a hot stove(?!), to prepare them a succulent, and healthy, meal!
HH!!
chips cheese & donar meat with the irony of a diet coke!
What the hell happened there?!
I’m repeating myself!
dodderyauldbassaCSC
HH!!
Chips, cheese and donar meat – God, why did I never think of that for the long walks home in the 80s. Chilli sauce on top?
a ceiler gonof rust
If Chuckles is right, Sevco International will conquer Europe next year as the SPL will be forced to apologise for relegating them, they will then take our place in the last 16, because it should have been them anyway.
For any lurking Sevcovians, that is a joke okay.
bournesouprecipe, Glendalystonsils
Tea.
Loose every time, the only bags worth a damn are Yorkshire and M&S Extra Fort, don’t know if you can even get them any more.
Every time I go home I have pleas from mates here in Norway to bring back supplies of Yorkshire tea.
To date, about 50% of my contraband tea has been impounded. Usually by the absolute ******s at Liverpool airport security, but occasionally by the casual jobsworths at the Oslo end of the operation.
But 50% gets through. Strangely, most of that has been packets of loose tea. Maybe they don’t know that loose tea is still tea. Their eyes get red when they see teabags, and your bloody number’s up.
Cocaine would be easier.
And don’t get me started on cheese.
Jim Delahunt @JimDelahunt
@GrahamSpiers My understanding £17m from institutions and nearly £5m from fans
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That “nearly” sticks in the throat a bit.
soup – a onesie is going to the toilet lite, whereas a twosie is going to the toilet completely, if you catch my drift…? :)
Naw, just kiddin, a onesie is a baby-gro for big fowk, as ma big grown-up 12 year auld tells me. Still naen the wiser tae be honest!
winningcaptains
Some exotic locations in your latest list of destinations of the, undoubtedly, best-selling CQN annual!
HH!!
Doc at 17.30 – no’ in their world it’s no!
If the subscription is under subscribed by the fans, a fair few institutional investors will walk away.
Still zero reporting of Celtic replacing stolen presents at Great Ormond St Hospital,a good news story on their own doorstep………no surprise.
With the forbearance of Paul, I would direct anyone in search of additional holiday cheer to the fine article by Monty Burns on ETims Online: “The future is bright, the future isn’t orange. Humourous and 180 degrees from the MSM “on message” drivel.
notthebus
17:31 on 18 December, 2012
Would that mean their share issue made nearly half of the Celtic one did, not taking inflation into account.
even if rangers actually raised £30 million; would it be sustainable? considering they have spent £3 million in the first quarter.
I’m with weeminger, wouldn’t believe daylight from the Huns or their pals in the media. I will wait till the shares start trading and even then would be wary of the smoke & mirrors antics of the cabal who are running the show.
malc
If Chuckles is right it is their world.
Corkcelt – the one thing that can’t be lied about is the number of shares in issue.
My response to Jim Delahunt on Twitter-
So,2M from fans leaked Monday, 5M today turns a 50% uptake from a failure into a success in news management terms
Celtic will earn more money from the CL last 16 tickets sales than the Sevconian fans share issue.