Celtic Quick News fully supports the decision by the Supporters’ Association Executive Committee to ask an Emergency Delegates Meeting to vote on whether to selectively boycott clubs which vote for a Newco to be admitted directly into the SPL next season.
We discussed the idea of a boycott on this basis towards the end of last season. It appears the only appropriate action if our ‘sport’ can be subjugated for financial ends.
I am sure Celtic fans will not be the only ones considering a boycott. If Newco gains access to the SPL next season there is likely to be a schism between supporters of clubs who opposed the move and those clubs who vote for Newco, despite the wishes of their own supporters.
Kilmarnock might be able to look forward to lower costs for stewarding and turnstile operators, from their own support as well as others. Still, they would be able to open more than one stand when Newco visit.
What a great five days Walter Smith had. His attempts to buy assets from Rangers administrators failed, sigh, but he managed to undermine the guys trying to sell tickets to Ibrox next season, so it wasn’t a complete waste of time. Legned.
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Got to laugh at all these ‘True rangers men’ stepping in now the debt has all gone.
That will be that dignity thing again…
Anybody watched the bbc spl skills of the season?
In over 6 mins of footage a Celtic player features once whilst aluko n davis feature at least 6/7 times.
According to Roddy Forsyth on Radio .5, people are going off the idea of TRFC in SFL 3.
Sorry, that should read “peepil”.
Morning all from gay Paree, thundery today: is Lenny in town (24C max.)
SFA doing mental tumble yur wulkies to find a solution to have SevCo playing in SPL/SFL1 in 6 weeks time.
Just apply the rules: SevCo can apply for admission to SFL, if they can satisfy requirements for joining.
It’s simple: Just apply the rules!
I think it might be nearing the point that Celtic make a comment on procedings. Even if it’s only to remind everyone that there already exists a procedure whereby any football club wishing to join the proffesional ranks, must apply for membership of the SFL and the SFA. This situation requires no rule changes and no league re-construction, If people are saying that it’s right for the CSA to exert pressure on clubs who vote yes, wouldn’t it also be prudent at this time for our board to reassure ST holders that they are on the case?
Kayal33
Aside from all that, the vote on July 4th is illegal under their own regulations anyway!
My last hope is that what with the player issues and Green not having the requisite funds, they have no option other than to start in SFL3
The thought of them being in the SPL on August 4th would be too horrific to contemplate. Scottish football would then officially be a laughing stock across the football world
The article in the Herald about players possible taking action mentions that some might not report back for training ‘on Thursday’.
Does that mean today or next Thursday?
Roddy ought to be made to declare an interest if he’s being asked, professionally, to comment on Hunageddon.
He’s a four figure creditor, noted in the CVA report. Something to do with a being a debenture holder.
Wasn’t that the club deck malarkey when Minty put a new tin roof on the ‘Brox?
Hardly in accord with the BBC’s Charter to have a comment piece, nominally neutral, from an employee ( he still commentates for R5 on games from Hootsmonland I understand) who was a season ticket/debenture holder at a club which is beginning to make Enron look a paragon of corporate virtue.
Never mind Billy Dodds. At least he has a New Cumnock education to balme for knowing nothing about anything.
Roddy’s one of the chaps. He really ought to know much better,
Morning CQNer’s
Just dropped in to say
The sentiment’s from the Lady below are
echoed by _ Kev’s Jungle.
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Margaret McGill on 20 June, 2012 at 23:06 said:
hamiltontim on 20 June, 2012 at 22:56 said:
I admire your stance. You are correct of course.
The problem is the scum that is Scottish football is based on chasing
the Green pound. The Tim pound. The Celtic pound. All SPL clubs are Celtic parasites. So much so that 140 years of old firmmanship has resulted in the cheats of cheats cheating themselves out of existence and good riddance. It’s a bit more complicated than that but I think that is a good summary. The last thing I want to see in my lifetime is any Newfirmmanship with a complicit Celtic bored. That would be an Anathema to my existence and also of that of most Celtic supporters.The newfirm oxygen must be cut off at source and the time has come this summer! Else we will be burdned with filth for the rest of our lifetimes and beyond.
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Well said
Maggie!!!
Hail Hail
back to lurking – CSC
Victor staying.
http://www.supersport.com/football/kenya/news/120621/Wanyama_staying_put_at_Celtic
Searching for 5 teams to say no to newco, probably
Celtic
Hibs?
Aberdeen?
I’m not sure about the others but if rangers had attempted to buy the buddies and then fold their club to be rebranded as the huns version 2, you might imagine that there would be some bad feeling towards them in Paisley.
Now the huns oldco are apparently entitled to a vote on this matter since they are still alive (theoretically at least) but since the subject of the vote is the plan to replace oldco with newco, I don’t see how we can have a vote for newco when oldco are still in existence
The vote for newco shouldn’t even go ahead until oldco resign or handover their share
The vote for newco shouldn’t even go ahead if newco are also posturing to go to England
Some might say no to newco, I say, no to a newco VOTE at all.
Chucky (ar la) Green
Chuck wants out and has made no secret of it, in less than 1 season preferably he says
Del Bhoy and Rodders
Todays latest new dream team, under bomber brown, who are looking at a 2 year stay. So by the time that they can expect to be promoted from the bottom division to the SPL they can expect to be sold twice. Stability and newco are not related
Who can remember the bad old days when we used to sing “Things can get better”?
I cant seem to get it out of my head for some reason
Morning fellow Tims.
I wonder what the amazing world of ‘fantasy takeover’ will have in store for us today: Celtic supporters buying sevco 5088 right under the cardigans nose; Green becoming Shakespearean in his sound bites- ‘I came to Bury rangers not to but them!’
The BBC’s poor Chris McLauchlin is getting pelters from RTC on facebook for the content of his tweets. RTC making the point that he/she hears all these myths and ignores them be cause they have little credibility. Poor ‘Chrisy boy’ is defending himself by saying he is just reporting facts (rumours) told to him and he is not saying they are going to happen. That ‘s MSM journalisms at it best. I suppose he at least is putting out stuff that others have made up and not made up by him like Jabba.
Anyway McLauchlan seems an open guy so just tweeted him that ‘Elvis has just been spotted leaving the ‘big hoose’ in a Union Jack jump suit – bid expected soon’.Which is a story probably more likely to happen than mince the MSM are peddling on this.
Blindlemonchitlin
You mean there’s such a thing as “a New Cumnock education”… ?
;-)
Would it be out of place to say that Victor staying is like a new signing … ?
from The Scotsman
The new body would be in charge of a league with 12 teams in the top division and ten in each of the three below, as at present. There would be automatic promotion and relegation between the divisions for the top and bottom clubs, with play-offs between the second-bottom Scottish Premier League team and the clubs placed second, third and fourth in the Scottish Football League First Division.
So the brave new world of Scottish football is eh, the same as just now!! Same sh**, different packaging
Test
morning all,
it’s absolutely lashing rain here on mid summer’s day!!!!! ah well at least the huns are dead!!!!
not that you would think it though as every article about a newco is referring to them DROPPING down to division 1 or 3!!!! how can a NEW CLUB drop down to any division????
surely a NEW CLUB will have to start in some division
stupid huns (ex huns)!!!!!
Bury Rangers? Now that sounds like an appropriate idea. They died last week you know.
The Battered Bunnet on 21 June, 2012 at 09:18 said:
Yep and there stinking the place up now. Not that they didn’t do that before they died mind.
Sky Breaking News
Jimmy Carr issues statement apologising for ‘terrible error of judgement’ in using tax avoidance scheme.
If only a now defunct organisation had did the same when they were exposed as tax cheats it could have been all so different.
gorbalstam on 21 June, 2012 at 08:45 said
Whats the chances of having season ticket money refunded if the league set up is changed?
Starting to get seriously p***** off with the MSM’s continual use of the now dead teams name when talking about NEWCO .
What’s hard to understand , their clubs dead , someone bought their ground /training facilities and car park and are now TRYING to start up a NEW club with no history / accounts / players ( at the moment ) or fan base . Am I missing something .????????
A consortium led by Walter Smith have announced they will go ahead with their plan to buy Jimmy Carr..
This Bury nonsense. FA have to approve and there is no way it would happen. Remember when the Irish wanted to buy Wimbledon and move it to Dublin.
Anyhoo, I had a very interesting conversation with an ex-prawn sandwich hun. He told me, that he believes from the chats he has had, that Club12 will get a ban from the Scottish Cup and a 12 month license suspension, suspened for 6 months. SFA will then relegate them to Dvision 1 for going to court. No vote for the SPL, No comebacks from fans.
He is said he is more worried about EBT case as SPL were leaving it until UEFA got in touch with SFA and said as it affected european games, if SPL did not know who to hold accountable, they did and would take up the investigation. Cue SPL announcement there was a case to answer.
Finished conversation on a sour note right enough, asked him if he would be switching allegiance to Newclub. I was informed that as much as Celtic fans would like to fantasise it was still rangers. I stirred my coffee and said “You had shares in rangers didn’t you?” “Aye” was the reply. I said “So, you still have those shares then, seeing as it is still rangers.” He went scarlet and just walked away…
ASonOfDan on 21 June, 2012 at 09:33 said:“You had shares in rangers didn’t you?” “Aye” was the reply. I said “So, you still have those shares then, seeing as it is still rangers.” He went scarlet and just walked away…
Great put down mate .
SAY NO TO NEWCO
Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Champions. C’mon Wee Oscar. on 21 June, 2012 at 09:10 said:
Test
Dear Mister Moonbeams, I am pleased to tell you you passed.
SSN-Bury tell Green to GTF,investment welcome but not entertaining the joke bid.
bhoywithseethrougheyes on 21 June, 2012 at 09:27 said:
Zero to none is my guess. I just want Celtic to advocate sticking to the existing rules. If league reconstruction is required (and it probably is), a period of research and consultation has to take place. If something is rushed through for the sake of Sevco and the fans it might attract, it will almost certainly fail.
I wonder if the lapdogs will investigate one of the 2 alleged new investors for Newclub.They would need to check his money under a scanner, and maybe a change of surname too.
Is this the Stephen McKenna who wants to buy Sevco?
I find it hilarious that they roll out the sectarian dinosaur John Brown to front their bid. I wonder howe many times he shouted ‘No Surrender’ during his press conference…
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous New Hillbillies the day?
When do they formally become liquidated ?
Alan Pattullo: Altogether now – ‘Follow follow we will follow Club 12’
Published on Tuesday 19 June 2012 03:00
BY MIDDAY yesterday, they had a Twitter account, an official club badge and some natty pink ‘third kits’. Now all that is needed is a manager and some players and then Club 12 will be sorted. Ready, certainly for a tricky-looking away encounter at Club Killie’s Rugby Park, in what promises to be an entertaining edition of Surprise Surprise, Scottish football-style.
Draw back the tunnel screens, and it’s … Rangers. No, it’s The Rangers. No, hang on, it’s a deeper, darker shade of blue. It’s Dundee! Help, maybe that’s the new Dunfermline away strip. Or perhaps Club 12 might be willed into existence, becoming a nomadic side of out-of-contract drifters and outcasts gathered together each match day by Jimmy Calderwood, attracted back to football by the thought of a re-introduced winter break.
Club 12 have already being linked to players. Chic Charnley was yesterday said to be considering an offer to come out of retirement, wielding a Samurai sword. Robbie Keane was described as having had his head turned by mention of “Club 12”, the team he had supported all his life. And there is already a club motto: “Football by numbers”.
You couldn’t make it up. No, you could. And the Scottish Premier League did, conjuring up the name Club 12 from the air and inserting them in the fixture list for 2012-13. There was little by way of explanation. Visitors to the SPL’s own website were met by the sight of a league table, where Club 12 are already handily placed in third position.
They will host St Mirren on the second weekend of the season. Where? Area 51, someone suggested on Twitter.
The most recent addition to Scottish football’s landscape since Annan Athletic joined the happy gang, Club 12 quickly built up a presence yesterday. By the end of the day, they had more than 900 Twitter followers. Annan themselves would be glad of such ferociously loyal support. Inevitably, Club 12 have attracted the haters too. “F*cking scumbags”, wrote one visitor to their Twitter site. Rivalries have already been born. It fair warms the heart. Not everyone has taken an instant dislike to these interlopers, however.
The pop-up club’s existence quickly caught the eye of the great and the good. Danny Baker, the Radio 5 live DJ, was attracted by the cryptic-looking fixture list, publishing a link to it on his own Twitter feed. Popular terrace songs were being hastily re-written: “Bring on the Hearts, the Hibs, the Cluuuuub 12”.
Many noted that the newly-formed club have been handed a plum fixture against Celtic on Boxing Day – when an Old Firm derby is due to be staged. Conspiracy!
If Dundee do take the place of Rangers, there will need to be some cross-street negotiations with their neighbours, who are due to play at home on the same day as ‘Club 12’ on numerous occasions. What a mess.
“All fixtures and kick-off times are subject to change,” ran the usual disclaimer, though the SPL might have thought to include an additional caveat – “and teams”. For the time being, Club 12 will have to do, though, as time draws on, and issues are fudged further, who would bet against Club 12 taking the field in Kilmarnock, roared on by their legions of Twitter followers? Come on you Dozens!
So what exactly is Club 12? Judging by a quick trawl through the internet, it is an alcohol recovery centre in San Antonio, Texas, and a rather exotic looking club night in Florida, where Tuesday nights are “amateur nights” and “the ladies drink free all night long”. Confusingly, Club 12 are also a football team in Paraguay’s Segunda Division.
“I don’t think we’ve ever played a team from Paraguay before,” one Kilmarnock supporter informed me yesterday. Club 12 de Octubre (to give them their Sunday name) were formed in 1914, on 14 August strangely enough, and play in blue and white stripes. This means they will need to don their away strip if required to relocate to balmy Ayrshire on 4 August for the big kick off. Away trips to Itaugua in deepest South America certainly place a journey to Dingwall in perspective.
Of course, everything is due to become a bit clearer on 4 July, when the SPL chairmen and chief executives finally sit down to vote on Rangers’ future, the hand of history resting on their shoulder. Club 12’s short history will likely be expunged, unless they decide to come back as a newco, and make life really difficult.
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Big Mike
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 06:45 AM
Sorry but like many if club 12 are permitted straight back into the SPL I will never return to the Scottish game at any level. My money will go to an English club.
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RobNox
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 01:18 PM
Problem for the SPL is that they draw up the fixture list on the basis of what they think the most likely post-split scenario will look like. When a club finishes in a different half of the league than they expected, that’s when you get the farcical scenario of where one club can end up playing 3 home games against another. Now, it looks like they have assumed club 12 will finish in the top 6 – on what basis would they make that assumption?
Hey DBBIA.
I trust they gave you a shot of the ole Olympic torch as it made its way through the Badlands this morning – you could have used it to light up some of the Quacks’ gold plated braziers!!
Ole Johnny Clash- I’m boycottin’ the Olympics ’til they sort out my ole pension.
Asonofdan
I was informed that as much as Celtic fans would like to fantasise it was still rangers. I stirred my coffee and said “You had shares in rangers didn’t you?” “Aye” was the reply. I said “So, you still have those shares then, seeing as it is still rangers.” He went scarlet and just walked away…
Fantastic riposte. Hope you don’t mind if I use that in the future.
Mort
gorbalstam on 21 June, 2012 at 09:39 said:
They really will do anything to save their mighty gers and I want no part of it.
The obvious on field assistance they recieve on a regular basis is being mirrored off the field as well.
Game not worth watching unless “new club” is treated exactly as a new club.
Apply with all other interested parties to take the vacant space created by the demise of rangers, and join at the lowest point available in Scottish Professional Football.
Anything else then scottish football has hit rock bottom and will lose supporters for ever more.