I am sure Neil Doncaster’s job is full of stresses and strains but this week will probably be a breeze. Fans of every club in the league appear to be in uproar at the resolutions for an Insolvency Transfer Event to be voted on later this month. Infuriating everyone is surely better than infuriating most but leaving one group happy.
Fans of 11 SPL clubs have reacted in horror that the league seek to introduce a facility to allow a liquidated club to phoenix straight back into the top tier of Scottish football. Fans of Rangers, while along with administrators and bidders for the club are publicly opposed to liquidation, are outraged that this new facility to allow a new club entry to the SPL should carry a sporting and financial inhibitor.
For clarification: the inhibitor is there to ensure clubs have a modicum of moral hazard against gaining an unfair advantage before ditching creditors and their old skins, and emerging in the SPL with player registrations from another club but without the debts or consequences of mismanagement.
Rangers US and Singapore based bidders seem unperturbed by the proposals. Paul Murray’s Blue Knights consortium has curiously lost its tongue. Maybe this helps explain all those years when the EBTs were unopposed by the former Rangers board. Silence, not even an utterance!
There remains three possible outcomes to this issue:
The proposed SPL resolutions will be passed, allowing a Newco straight entry to the League.
The resolutions will fail and the SPL board will vote a Newco into the league anyway.
The resolutions will fail and the SPL board will deny Newco a place in the league.
Celtic Quick News first flagged this scenario in October last year when we predicted Newco would be given a parachute into the SPL, opposed only by Celtic. As the key resolution (2A) requires only 8 votes I still expect this to happen, despite the ‘Bring it on’ view of many Rangers fans to the prospect of starting again from Division Three.
As the financial penalty resolution (2B) requires 11 votes I expect this to fail and no financial penalties to be imposed.
The question for Kilmarnock, Dunfermline, St Mirren, Inverness, Motherwell, St Johnstone, Hibs and Kilmarnock (don’t tell me they’ll not try to get two votes, they have a huge mountain of debt to service and have every right to demand two votes) is, will they listen to their fans or their bank manager?
Dundee United and Hearts, like North Korea, appear convinced of their own superior wisdom and, like a North Korean missile, could head off in any random direction to demonstrate their contempt for clubs scared of providing satirists with material. They could easily vote themselves into a Gorgie-Tannadice League, if they could agree on a Gorgie-Tannadice/Tannadice-Gorgie naming convention.
For now, if you care about any of this, participate in the online SPL Fan Survey. We’ll soon find out who runs Scottish football, fans or the Bank of Scotland! One additional point about democracy, it carries responsibility. In this instance, stopping Newco means fans of all remaining clubs have to step forward in increasing numbers to buy season tickets. This is the cost of sporting integrity.
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On the rebranding of the Teds….a thought….stripped of their past…..would we know them…..they could be like strangers…..et voila……I give you the new, cuddly and potentially ecumenically friendly ( for you know that deep down they always have wanted to be that )……St Rangers…..!
http://theweeproclaimer.wordpress.com
This guy seems to have a lot of info on Mingwall
sixtaeseven: No NewCo in SPL and it’s Non-Negotiable! on 13 April, 2012 at 17:32 said:
Any more?
If ,after they are dead will we be able to call them…
Ouija Rangers
( needs more work, I know)
Jaekit On
Onlooker
If there’s a newco are we bhoycottin’ the ole bounce/development games as well?
A forlorn but genuine question as I kill a few minutes til beer time…….
And in acknowledgement of the failure and poverty of their current leaders/spokesmonsters…..
Do the huns have any decent folk who could represent them ?
pigalle
Hamiltontim
Yes, Im surprised he never used a proxy for the web address no doubt thats where they got the details
Just popping-in to ask….did anyone hear sneaky sally’s aftermatch interview on snyde after the, THREE PENALTY v’s 10-man St.Mirren victory ?
I can’t remember word for word but, he said Sally” wee Wullie(Collum) had a ‘great’ game today!!!!”
Feck me man!!!
Hail Hail
Since their first game was a 0-0 draw with Clyde ( typical I think they parked the charabang) was at Flesher’s Haugh, I’m going with this locations medieval name for the new team:
Priest’s Haugh FC.
who could best do with a free sample of this cqn –
http://www.governance.co.uk/index.htm
I’l be on after snyde as I can’t bear the made up crap or even hearing about it.
Early Friday music offering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aljlKYesT4&feature=related
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 13 April, 2012 at 17:39
Exactly what I was thinking, who is on usually. And who no shows when Alex is on.
Granger-Banyard on 13 April, 2012 at 17:41 said:
That rangers site is quite funny.
He does seem to have it in for ole Mark … :0)
pigalle
Pirates of the Coplandroad?
Please lord let “dazzleballs” be on..hh
Another holding statement from D&P
Duff & Phelps, administrators of Rangers Football Club, issued the following statement today.
Paul Clark, joint administrator, said: “Following discussions with three parties bidding to purchase the football club, we can confirm that all three parties have informed us today they wish to remain in the sale process.
“However, following the information supplied by us to bidders in relation to proposed new rules on penalties for insolvent clubs within the SPL, there have been changes made to the conditions attached to bids.
“Among the new conditions are requests from parties who now, before committing further, wish access to the football authorities in order to seek greater clarity on the proposed rule changes. We hope to provide Rangers supporters with a further update next week and will continue to make every effort to reach the point where a preferred bidder can be announced.
“We are keen to conclude an offer as soon as possible and certainly we would hope that this does not mean that finalisation is delayed until April 30, 2012.”
On the latest D & P announcement above do the bidders expect that Rangers will walk into the SPL with no penalties? Are they looking for assurances of minimal punishment Will they in effect blackmail the SFA/SPL into applying penalties THE BIDDERS are prepared to live with?
Aye right. The SFA should tell the SPL to tell them to tell the bidders to f*** off as to meet them at all would compromise the SPL/SFA.
What planet are these guys on?
The Re-spawners ???
Pigalle
Ferrets in a sack come to mind. Looks like Mark might be strugling to pass a fat and proper person test.
Duff & Phelps, administrators of Rangers Football Club, issued the following statement today.
“This further delay while we seek clarification from the SPL will mean we will pick up another £1m in administration fees.
Thank you.”
Vnham supporting lennon
See what you’ve started?I’ve stopped listening to “The Rare Auld Times” and I’m onto “The Streets Of New York.”
D&P might want to conclude an offer…. But they are not the people making the offer. Once they have preferred bidder status, and get a proper look at the books, even the keenest bidder might just run away. Let’s hope so anyway…
theglasgowcelticway
Ah memories…’The Streets of New York’
3 of us were singing that on the way back from Kilmarnock on Saturday.
You hooked yet? :-)
Lifted from Twitter – Perhaps the best BBC News caption you will ever, ever see;
http://yfrog.com/ntrwojrj
Dick and Turpin are doing some job for the Ranjuurs so they are. Kaching!
Mingwall sounds like he could do with a wee visit from HMRC.
hamiltontim
Great memories!!I’m going through the entire Traders collection.
Just been emailed that Ive won a facebook of 2012 award….. Can you believe it, just need to provide a few details for …….
Save the rankers campaign… I’m kind that way….
googybhoy ♥ Celtic and Integrity on 13 April, 2012 at 18:00
It is like a lot of people picking over the carcass of an animal that has no chance to survive in its current form.
Everything is so contrived, even Traynor now saying Rangers MUST start in division 3.
I’m sick of these cheaters and there are a lot more outwith Rangers FC. The media in Scotland are the biggest scum, and unfortunately the ones that have the most influence.
Granger-Banyard on 13 April, 2012 at 17:41:
“This guy seems to have a lot of info on Mingwall”
The most disturbing thing about his April 14 blog is the one about Huns getting their photographs taken with our league trophy.
Champions Elect – err what am I apologising for????
theglasgowcelticway
Ah memories…’The Streets of New York’
3 of us were singing that on the way back from Kilmarnock on Saturday.
You hooked yet? :-)
………
Ha!
One wis the taxi driver
One the young lad who became a NY polis and
The other was the auld man fur the brother had already passed… It’s an auld Greenock Celtic fav
I prefer Bannastrand or the uruaguay song cha cha cha!
V
NegAnon2,
Hi m8,
Did you enjoy the game last week?
What team/formation would you go for on Sunday?
HH
Petec
The media can construe according to it’s wits,HMRC must construe according to the law.
Get onto Aldis Liebfraumilch Reinhassen 2009 at £3:about 20 pence a bottle…. It’s as good as vino at £8-£10 bottle only 10.5% but buy loads…. Hic!
V
Some good, others better:
– Clyde Rowers / Clyde Rangers
– Taxus Rangers / Texas Rangers / Texas Bandits / Taxes Dodgers
– Govanside Dodgers
– Govan Amateurs
– Caledonian Stealers
– Casino Royale (colors black and red)
– NG Billies / NG Cheetahs / NG Orient
– Perfidious Albion
– Saint Rangers
– Ouija Rangers / Wraith Rovers (back from the deid)
– Priest’s Haugh FC
– Pirates of the Coplandroad
– Re-spawners
– Her Majestys RCs
TheGCway…. The media construe according to their halfwit audience IMO
V
Paul
We need to keep things simple so that the huns can understand what should happen
1. BTC records huns guilty- massive tax debt
2. Huns liquidate – no other option possible
3. SPL/SFA need to punish dead huns for cheating with ineligible players
4. If huns want a newco – they need to start at the bottom of SFL structure if SFL accept them
5. No further punishment needed as long as they really are a newco – no history etc
Anything else will destroy Scottish football in the long term
If SPL clubs cannot do without the huns for 3 years – then the game is a bogey
HH
The Gallant Disappears FC