St Mirren are the whipping boys of Scottish football right now. The only points they’ve picked up in two months came in a win over mid-table free-wheeling Hamilton, leaving them four points adrift at the bottom of the pile. They are in as bad a shape as then-bottom Ross County were when they visited Celtic Park for the last game of 2014 and left with a well-deserved point. The reality is, if Celtic are running at 95% capacity they will struggle against anyone.
You and me are well beyond the stage that we are surprised that fantasists telling fantastic tales go largely unchallenged by their fanatics followers. It used to bother us, now we know what damage it does, it only adds sugar to the pie.
Sure, the 40 registered nomads in the UK all baulked at overseeing a company with a new, fit and proper board, who have a sound seven year plan to achieve enormous success. The nomads blamed the iniquities of the old board (who worked successfully with a nomad until it became evident who was going to replace them) for their refusal to work with the new board.
Crazy nomads work with lunatics, but as soon as good management move in, they realise what a bad idea it was to work with lunatics, then ditch the good management. It’s irrational, I know, but nomads are always out of their faces on God knows what. This happens all the time.
This is not Pyongyang, nor Moscow. You are living in one of the few places in Western Europe with so little oversight and scrutiny that people get away with this nonsense.
Mr King and Mr P Murray want to act as directors in a regulated public company which is a phoenix of a liquidated business they were directors of. Faced with this proposition, Mr King’s Glib and Shameless past is irrelevant.
The way forward for newco is simple. Appoint a board of experienced professionals, recognised in their fields. Allow those tainted by liquidations or criminal convictions to invest their cash and sit on the football club board, leaving the regulated company free to conduct its business in a proper way. Why they don’t do this is the most fascinating subplot of all.
Oldco was driven into liquidation by a combination of some rudimentary charm and the biggest ego in Edinburgh. My hunch is that newco is has found a leader equally adept at charming the media, but with perhaps a larger-still ego. Ego-zilla, if you like.
Why are they all falling for this? Are they really that stupid?
I was blown away by the response to yesterday’s article. Thank you to everyone who bid on the St Andrews’ Open Golf Hospitality auction. And thank you to a couple of people who decided to anonymously put £2000 towards our school kitchen appeal. We have some incredible people in our midst.
The auction runs until next week, so fill your boots:
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All day Hospitality for 4 based at the Eden Mill Distillery for the Open Golf Championship at St Andrews on any day to suit from 16 to 19 July 2015. Auction in aid of the Celtic Quick News (CQN) appeal to build a fourth school kitchen in Malawi for Mary’s Meals. Shuttle transport for the five minute journey to and from the golf course as needed Beer, Gin and Whisky tastings throughout the day with the master distiller. The chance to create a unique CQN single malt whisky cask worth potentially £5000 for future CQN charities. A bottle of this very special single malt whisky to commemorate the great day when it is bottled in several years. Eden Mill is Scotland’s newest and most innovative distillery and brewery incorporated in February 2012! Located just 2 miles from the famous Old Course itself it provides a perfect base for hospitality for yourself and 3 friends on a day of your choosing at the forthcoming open golf championship on July 16th to 19th. But this is so much more than just a day’s hospitality at the home of golf. Before taking to the course to watch the you will enjoy a breakfast roll or two and discuss your perfect single malt whisky with the master distiller. Whilst you and your friends are enjoying the golf he will seek to surpass your favourite whisky by using the best barley to create the right wash and recommending the right type of barrels for our very own unique CQN 1/4 cask of single malt. A cask which will mature and provide over £5000 of future funding for our charities in a few years time. You will return to the distillery by shuttle bus for lunch and an optional beer tasting and then for afternoon tea with a tutored gin and whisky tasting with the owner capping off a memorable, unique and very special day for your group and for CQN.
My thanks to Eden Mill for their incredible support. You can bid on the auction here. |
Have a good, Good Friday.
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Mr King buys shares and pays £1 a share (company unimportant). He sells then to someone else like Mr Park for 50p a share making a net loss. Mr Park re-sells at market value(£1) and now has Mr King’s money…… to apply?
Catching up – Happy birthday Doc!
Toor A Loo
I posted a couple of times late on last night, that I only retweeted a tweet from the bhoy who had found & handed in the wallet & tickets .
He is David Carson @carson_david and deserves all the credit ,I just seen his message and thought i would post it to get the message out.
I contacted him on twitter telling him they had been claimed and thanked him.
Till later all
getting excited about the game now.
Let the People Sing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&feature=related&v=zhkdy0AOpaM
Ha Ha, the Jaws theme can now be heard over at Amity Island, where the sharks are circling.
RT
Ok I’ll tell you it’s on BT
BT
Tbj and m42 no candles on Good Friday or holy water
Looks a lot like Che Guevara / Bada Bing
Yep. Next step = turn up on Sportsound. Say how you had had several offers of positions in England, but turned them down because you felt they “weren’t right for you”. Decided to go abroad for a different experience. Now ready for working back in the UK.
Oh, and when you get the inevitable question – “it would an incredible honour to go ‘back’ there, but Stuart is doing a great job and will take the club back to its rightful place.”
Bigger shcadenfreuid was it no ?
Tony Donnelly,
Condolences to you and your family
MT
Seems like my Chic Young Plan for seeing the game could be under threat.
Had even offered to take my former St Mirren supporting (now Man U!) Paisley residing nephew with me.
On my way to the BV for a wee pint.
Is the Wig and Pen still a mad Tim boozer in Paisley in case I get stranded ticketless. Failing that what other options are there?
Best laid plans of mice n men ……
HH jamesgang
Goan ten man Charlton! :)
Back from Church Services and now getting into game mode. The games will be coming thick & fast from now on 6 games in 19 days is a gruelling session and that’s only the Supporters, it will be tough on the players too. No surprises tonight lads, lets get this run in off to a good start.
geordie munro
13:53 on 3 April, 2015
“Agreed. Perhaps Paul means 95% of the 80% we are at”
Glasstwothirds,
Ha possibly.
Could someone (other than Ernie or Darwins) maybe work out what that actually is? :)
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Would 0.95 x 0.80 not give you the answer?
That would be 0.76 I think.
So still an A in a good old SCE Higher!
;-)
HH jamesgang
Should get one of the seventy percent to work it out.
He has a way with figures
JamesGang,
Whatever it is its a higher percentage than me getting a coupon up today.
Grrrrr csc
Turkeybhoy
16:10 on
3 April, 2015
Out of their own backyard = out of their element
Thick or ignorant only begins to describe some people and you wonder why they travel in the first place, obviously not for the cultural experience
HH
gsu
James gang
The Wig & Pen is closed now. Nearest pub to there that I would watch the game is Gabriel’s in Gauze Street near the cathedral and about ten minutes walk away. Mixed clientele in there. Celtic pubs are in the west end and south end of the town which are a long walk if you want to stay in the town centre !
Tony donnelly 67
Sorry for your loss in my thoughts n prayers HH
Some post from “TheNinjaman”from Hun Media.Seems to be too intelligent to be a Hun,
Good read,
By Ninjaman
Here we are, the 3rd of April. The day after Rangers International Football Club lost its right to trade its shares on the London Stock Exchange.
Predicted by yours truly and just about every other member of the RSL.
Weve had Merlin, From The Blue Room and countless others tell anyone who would listen that this was inevitable.
To start with lets get straight to our Interim Chairmans statement released yesyerday. He tells us its the lack of corporate governance by the previous board thats the reason for their failure to stop the delisting of the club.
That is utter garbage. Bullshit. You can dissect and dismantle that argument instantly. The previous board had a nomad. That nomad said they would resign if this lot of requisitioners won the right to run the club. Which they duly did.
Four weeks ago Dave King told us he had a nomad in waiting a matter of days he said. There was no issue and suspension from the AIM would be rectified . We would have no problems we were told.
A fortnight ago Dave King went back to South Africa and to my knowledge hasnt returned since. In case it has escaped the new regimes attention, the support is in meltdown today!
Thousands upon thousands of us have had the value of the shares we bought to help our club in its hours of need obliterated. Shares that were bought for seventy pence now trading at three pence. Cheers for that.
But its ok, its all the previous directors fault we are told. The directors that were working for Mike Ashley. How many of Mike Ashleys companies have been delisted?
You honestly couldnt make this shit up. This new board, full of Rangers Me , blame the previous board for their inability to stay on the stock exchange. And we are supposed to believe that, are we?
Ill suggest something here that Paul Murray hinted at it in his rant. He whispered something about Rangers being the most complained about PLC on the entire market over the last year!
Now heres a thing to chew on folks
I knew this. People that work in the City knew this. Merlin told me this himself months ago. He stated to me that the biggest single danger the club faced over the last year was the prospect of being delisted.
That was down solely to the incredible number of complaints to the AIM and FCA. You want to know where those complaints were coming from? Aye, you guessed it, from the people that were backing King Co. Trying to cause as much hindrance as possible to the board.
It worked really well didnt it? The new regime has caused the AIM so much grief that it thinks we are toxic. That is not down to the previous board that is solely down to this board and its backers actions when trying to gain control of the club.
If this had happened under Charles Green or Sandy Easdale there would be red cards waving, Spivs Out banners and demonstrations at the front doors of Ibrox. The double standards and hypocrisy here are quite spellbinding.
Dave King, the man a South African judge called a glib and shameless liar and a mendacious witness has told a big porky. He told the entire nation he had a nomad. What a load of cock! We know on here that he tried approximately ten nomads, kept getting told the same answer so then it became Dougie Parks turn to attempt in this impossible quest to find this miraculous nomad.
My guess is that they probably got one, after they stopped using Dave Kings name during the process. Still not enough though, for as long as King is associated with Rangers the market wont touch u ! The AIM was telling any nomad willing to do the job not to touch us with a barge pole cos they wouldnt be!
For these people to blame others for their mistakes and failings beggars belie . Its not working, either. Apart from those incredibly devout Kingites, nobody believes a single word of the pap they churned out yesterday .
We are now delisted. We have been in danger of alienating an entire religion because of a buffoons tweet.. No sign of Kings thirty million (stop laughing at the back !) and a board that are at each others throats in regard to investment. Im sure its the old boards fault though
Now heres the thing I cant get my head round. Dave says hes got thirty million, then that went down to ten, with other investors weighing in the rest. Sounds odd right away when you consider the total spend required to sort out out the wreckage that is Rangers.
Its not enough, not even close. So why did King say thirty million then backtrack to ten million the instant he got control?
Well he did say his preferred option was to delist from the AIM. Will that make it less costly for him? Youd think if he can now buy the shares of the Institutional Investors for buttons then, yes, obviously.
Will they sell to him? My instinct tells me n . Would they be more likely to sell to Sandy Easdale or even Mike Ashley if he was in a position to? I would think so. I know the Institutional Investors dont like or respect this lot one bit so doing a deal with them will stick in their throats Id imagine.
So what is Dave Kings endgame here? To gain complete control he has to delist in order to chase away the big gun investors already there. That might prove harder then he first figured. It was highly noticeable that almost immediately Sandy Easdale has hinted at possible legal action in regards to the delisting of the company.
Will others follow suit? Will Mike Ashley do likewise? There are some seriously heavy hitters that are going to be majorly peed off at this turn of events, obviously.
Could that be why so many of them abstained at the general meeting I wonder?. Was the abstinence a decision to not recognise the faux legal process?. Did they know what the Real Rangers Men were trying to do?
Its now common knowledge that the Financial Conduct Authority have been and are actively investigation the goings on at Rangers. Did the major shareholders know there was something likely to happen in the near future? Time will tell I suppose.
What isnt really common knowledge though is this: Dave King is in line to receive a small fortune from BDO, the liquidators of the old company that used to own Rangers.
Ticketus have been told by the Court to pursue Craig Whyte, not Rangers or the liquidators. HMRC will get their money theyre due also.
Dave King is a primary creditor; his claim is for the infamous twenty million he was supposed to have given Rangers years ago. So in effect Dave King is the top creditor in regard to oldco and trying to get into position to be top dawg in the club right now.
I wonder what Douglas Park makes of that. Id also be intrigued to know if Mike Ashley is aware of this little titbit.
Ashley has security on the Albion car park, Edmiston Club and Auchinhowie training complex.
Dave King (if he wanted to merge or amalgamate oldco and newco) needs those assets.
What is the endgame for Park and King? They need to find a way to rid the club of Ashley for them to get in a position to run things their way without opposition. Not easy and if Ashley doesnt want to play ball, he wont..
This is an asset grab by the looks of it. Stage one completed yesterday with the delisting. I got information that proves there have been lies told recently. Big whoppers at that but cant get too detailed right now.
Rangers fans need to wake up to whats going on here. If things dont improve very quickly we might not have a football team to support for much longer.
And there are a growing number of people who believe that might actually be the sinister end game here
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we might not have a football team to support for much longer .
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Tony Donnelly
Sorry for your loss. RIP Michael Donnelly.
Schadenfreude
Watching a vegetarian being told he just ate a steak
Watching a Sevconian on his way to Alloa to see his heroes
itscalledthemalvinas
Gabriel’s
Oh my life!
A blast from the past!
Still haunted from watching games in there when we’d have all the pressure, laudrup would break upfield and score and they’d win the league. Usually about Easter.
Mibbee I should go. Exorcise some old demons!
HH jamesgang
From BBC sport –
Rangers boss eyes European qualification next season
Stuart McCall says Rangers will be challenging for European qualification next season if they win promotion to the Scottish Premiership.
Hahahahahahahahahaha
bournesouprecipe
16:51 on 3 April, 2015
Schadenfreude
Watching a vegetarian being told he just ate a steak
Watching a Sevconian on his way to Alloa to see his heroes
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Goats think far more highly of vegetarians!
HH jamesgang
My wee sister has just confirmed the must be registered to buy doon n gloom.
Poor soul. To think I’ve made her stay in Paisley all these years for just such an eventuality!
HH jamesgang
Greensideup-GBWO
16:44 on
3 April, 2015
Turkeybhoy
16:10 on
3 April, 2015
Out of their own backyard = out of their element
Thick or ignorant only begins to describe some people and you wonder why they travel in the first place, obviously not for the cultural experience
HH
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MOST of the good folk i know in Turkiye & Bulgarski are there mostly for the decent weather and an easy life, the cultural experience comes automatically with living in a foreign land.
Your welcome btw
Well done Alex Neil Norwich great win
Schadenfreude (Avenue Q)
Tims:
Right now you are down and out and feeling really crappy
Huns:
I’ll say.
Tims:
And when I see how sad you are
It sort of makes me…
Happy!
Huns:
Happy?!
Tims:
Sorry, Sevco, human nature-
Nothing I can do!
It’s…
Schadenfreude!
Making me feel glad that I’m not you.
It’s certainly not a Good Friday for the orcs
Lenny sent a special message to wee Jay on his way to the game tonight
Jay with his kanofoundation scarf on
Magic
jamesgang
As its a Friday night, Gabriel’s will have the side attraction of ladies of a certain age dancing round their chibs in the lounge area. Beer goggles are issued when the clock strikes ten !
Frannyb,
I’ve a wee inkling they’ll go up with Boro
HH
pogmathonyahun aka laird of the smiles
You getting your pick in?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
LAST MAN STANDING
STATEMENT on FIT AND PROPER INVESTIGATION
Hello fholks
All of the week 3 picks are now securely registered and so this weekends competition goes ahead as planned.
However, as a number of alleged irregularities may have arisen, week 4 is now SUSPENDED – just for 1 week – whilst these allegations are being vigorously investigated. By an internal non-independent audit, obviously.
To ensure that both Jobo and CRC come out of this whiter than Whyte we have been told that we must be fast tracked through the Stewpot S(weet)FA nothing-to-see-here training course. CRC has already departed for his course in Benidorm whilst Jobo’s event is scheduled for next midweek in Puerta Pollensa. What a bummer, eh!
Please be assured that we will both leave no bar nor beach unvisited as we study for the qualification to find Fit (birds) and Proper (beer) status. Assuming that we both pass our end of course exams (the pass mark being that our better halves are still talking to us) then Week 4 will go ahead over the weekend of 18th April.
Please pray for our safe return :-)
In the meantime, the provisional fixtures for week 4 will be issued shortly
HH
CRC/Jobo
Celtic team update
Matthews comes in at right back
Gordon
Matthews
Denayer
VVD
Izzy
Bitton
Brown
Johansen
Armstrong
GMS
Griffiths
TD 67
Sorry to hear of your loss, condolences to you and your family
Leftclicktic
Cheers anyway and thanks to David Carson
Been off drink for lent so tonight could get messy
HH
Burgas Hoops
16:57 on
3 April, 2015
Not following that one.
I was referring to the ignorance of the American that Turkeybhoy had mentioned
HH
gsu
Bristol City ffs,210 quid…….:((