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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The Traders the pub on the gallowgate next to the meat market ,is that what its always been called.such a vibrint place when i was a boy more than 50 yrs ago now no more
HT
No worries ,you’re a good ghuy and I am far too young
for grand kids.
Bada
Judith, Cat………………and ol Bill, now that’s just wrong!!!!!!!!!!!! :-))
voguepunter cheers mate 6 each no more promised the wife I would take her for a run to some island tomorrow.
HH
mighty tim
Enjoy fond memories with your drink.
HH
timbhoy2 on 13 April, 2012 at 19:20 said:
The Trader’s Tavern is on the corner of Kent St and West Stevenson St in the middle of the Barras. Now I know I was rather peeashed last Saturday night but as far as I can recall it was definitely open for business!!
ps The Kent Star CSC ran from there and it was the first CSC to run a motorised bus to Celtic away games.
TriviaCSC
good evening cqn
Laurie on RC if he is a so called Celtic fan,any fans I have spoken to want the sons of William finished, Kaput,
end of story,he is in a Majority of 1.heard him on a few times not impressed
Delahunt just confirmed that Alex Thompson is indeed appearing on Radio Clyde!!
Hail hail
Why did the bad man grass? Why the flipping flup does it matter you cretin!?
Everyone seen the rangers supporters trust Tweet regarding child abuse on the CelticHub site.
Absolutely disgusting!
What is the huns fascination with child abuse?
HH
Hun in Div 3 as Newco. !!!!! As much chance as getting butter up a porcupines backside with a hot needle sadly. It ain’t gonna happen, They have too many mates who will go to ANY lengths to ensure that will not happen.
Maybe a three legged horse will win the National tomorrow as well!!
Hail Hail
and Hail again
KINGLuBO
In the same sentence we had a can of worms and a bag of snakes being opened up on Clyde.
Neganon2
I don’t think we should be surprised that clubs down south have noticed Neil Lennon’s achievements in his short time as manager of the club and the way he has transformed the careers of some of the players since he took over the reins at Celtic.
mightytim,
I for one will raise a glass tonight in memory of your Dad.
Great story and a man who,I am sure,is deserving of your pride.
I too,am proud of my dear departed father and one day might share a tale or two with yourself and others on here.
Is it not great that we can share this new found medium to share fond memories with other,like minded people?
yon interwebs malarkey can be used for good as well
2months ago i suggested that these crazy mechanisms might have been created over a decade ago when rangers -without needing a crystal ball-knew the s*** would hit the fan about this time-this goes back a long way
A Son of Dan- hope hun poster boy Mingwall gets done fo it
Fortunes favour Mibbes
Re the Jabba stance.
What you are seeing now is a complex negotiation and lobbying campaign , with lots of what they call in negotiation’extreme positions’.
Jabba is undoubtedly part of the lobbying campaign , and given his history and readership , he will be trying to influence his readers, his non readers and of course the decision makers.
Ultimately , his efforts are futile , as what we are seeing is a slow painful decline, which gets murkierby the day , instead of the quick solution he wants…..long may this continue
Bhoys Judith is just back after giving birth to twins that are still being feed the way nature intended. She is therefore still understandably tired. Her dress sense has gone a bit askew but that whippersnapper Cubie often looks like she has dressed in the dark whilst wearing a blindfold.
I am positive la Ralston will return to form shortly.
On the point of Judith looking like a school mistress I she looks like a school mistress we would all have liked to have been taught by. No doggin it if she had been my French teacher instead of Mr. Mulaney. Lol.
medtim cheers mate. I would love to sit down and have a few while we remember the good old days. Indeed this new fangle contraption is indeed a wonderous machine. Does that mean we are internet bampots.
FFB Cheers mate. TAL
HH
in an age of increasing unemployment i think we could safely sack the whole clyde panel and easily get a more balanced prog-i predict alexthomch4 will get as little airtime as poss and all the callers will be fixed
All these sports media guys on why ra gers have got to be in the spl.
Because if they are not then Celtic will win the league by 40 points for the next 10 seasons.
And it will become boring ?
It will not be boring for me watching the hoops win ….never.
And I hope they are right with the 10 iar prediction
How many times have the league been won by 40 points ?
Oh god these guys don’t half lay it on thick
I was nearly beginning to believe every word they said
Nowaynewco csc
I better watch it Mr Mulaney might post on here. Remember meeting him in Heraghtys a few times after I left school and Paisley. Good guy it was my fault I was merde at French.
Clashcitybhoy
Cheers. Interesting.
When referreing to Jabba though I tend to associate him with not so much “complex negotiation” as “constant constipation….and jobbying campaigns rather than lobbying campaigns :)
Apols for the crudeness, but that thoroughly unpleasant individual brings it out in me.
Murky is indeed the correct choice of word to describe his relationship with Murky Land Steals Minty.
Hankray – its not about that. Of course he should be recognised for his achievements and he will be. But what odds would you give me on him walking away at the end of this season? The only thing that may be that is the harrassment he has had.
The point is you never hear all this stuff when its the huns doing well – do you?
I have supported Celtic for over 35 years – it has always been the case.
Does anyone, anymore, have the temerity to call Celtic fans paranoid about the SFA, referees, the scottish media or indeed generally scottish society any more?
Answers on a postcard please!
NA
whats the name of that pub on the the corner of graham square and the gallowgate is that not called the traders as well the pub in kent street i know the 1 you mention, all my mothers cousins the mcnamaras who all worked in the stalls drank in there, im sure they were not celtic supporters .
mighty tim
Sounds like you have good memories, keep it lit!
Re internet bampots.
I consider myself one as I am posting here using my Smith Corona Silent-Super Typewriter plugged into the BT landline, and it seems to work fine. This must surely make be the Daddy of internet bampots.
Fortunes
lol
Evening bhoys,
regarding the threats of violence made to an English reporter – nobody knows who it was for sure; however, there is a strong rumour that they just might scribble for a certain comic that serves the Glasgow populace of an Evening.
I see, Judith is being discussed. Oh, I could tell you stories…but that would be an infamata.
Regards,
Amadeus
Evening bhoys from a damp, warm hun free mountain range.
Judith, Cat.
Vickie Gommersal makes me go weak at the knees, she would be baaad to you.
timbhoy2 on 13 April, 2012 at 19:39 said:
whats the name of that pub on the the corner of graham square and the gallowgate is that not called the traders as well the pub in kent street i know the 1 you mention, all my mothers cousins the mcnamaras who all worked in the stalls drank in there, im sure they were not celtic supporters .
Is it The Drovers.
mighty tim on 13 April, 2012 at 19:14 said:
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Who did your Dad play for?
And by the way 6 of each? And that’s ‘all’???? That’d be me hungover for a fortnight!
Two bottles of Real Ale and a half of Uisce Beatha (excuse my spelling Gaels) is about my limit.
But Let me join you in toasting absent friends. There are a few too many these days for my liking.
Good Health and long life……..
timbhoy2 on 13 April, 2012 at 19:39 said:
I think you’re talking about The Drover??
Trader’s Tavern in the Barras was owned for many, many years by the Quinn family. It was always a Celtic pub but was often frequented by market traders from the Barras, hence the name.
Reading v Southampton to-night on SKY. Interesting to see how the central defender who never made it at Celtic and is heading for the EPL with the seasiders performs.
timbhoy2 on 13 April, 2012 at 19:39 said:
I am pretty sure the name of that pub is The Squirrel
Some of you bhoys need a cold shower this evening. Impure thoughts all over the place. I’m away to google some of these women……. (the verb to Google, you have to love it)
listening to Clyde and shouting at the radio I,am to old for this away to watch Corrie
TET
Too……..nice :-)