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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Top Corner
Cheers fella – he’s a diamond that Bhoy!!
HH
Giggs
giggsy
he is also a mad man… o))
mwd 14 April, 2012 at 09:55 said:
I’ve read that whole blog today as well as the one that follows it and some from October too. There are a lot of lessons to be learnt from the games blogs over that period. There were quite a few personal insults thrown.
I wonder what happened to ‘the juries out’ and slan abhaile and their ilk?
@SkyJimWhite: Text from Tanner, ‘Not only does Lennon think he can win the Champions League but he claims he is a natural strawberry blonde’ #smells???e
Never mind the derogatory context of the tweet. Note how LENNON used as a derogatory.
PAIR OF HUN BASSAS
MWD
You would have thought resident snyde’s tough man Guidi (dont talk to me like that) would have stepped up so to speak, he called out thomsons claim
I heard that the other day , is that who it was guidi . my word ,how brave of him to say that to anyone when he is tucked into a radio studio . Remember being up at the park one friday a few years ago ,with mrs jimtim and my grandson, i was looking to get some photo,s with my grandson and the players, anyway the laptop loyal were leaving after what i would imagine was the friday press conference , there was a good few of them .and i turned to mrs jimtim and said its surely not the twelfth of july is it . One clown must have heard me as he turned round gave me a glower and walked away uttering something or another . Couldn,t tell you who he was but obviously wasn,t one of the main brothers as he looked as if he would have benefitted from dining on succulent lamb
BT
Too true, too true. Are you frequenting the Ville today?
HH
Giggs
newco is a no go if the other clubs say so, and fans are already made their feelings known. truth is a yes vote basically kills the spl as a competition and rewards cheating, no price can be placed on that, no matter what they say!
the t.v deal is sh*te for most clubs and i think a fairer distribution of whatever income is there will see only a moderate drop in t.v income, with increase competition for CL/ EL place up for grabs and off course more challenge in domestic cups etc.. increasing other clubs sponsorship and gate money.
by the time newco are ready to return they will be doing so in a more competitive league and footballing environment.
Kit
I read that article frequently. This morning i read that article in one window while i had the Kilmarnock 0-0 Celtic live updates article open in another. That makes for a very interesting read together. Very interesting!
The anger is justifiable to an extent regarding the teams performances at the time. But in future I hope CQN’ers can reign their necks in a little when results and performances not going as well as we think they should. Especially re. the personal insults. One thing though – FINBAR67 take a bow.
MWD
knoxy2000 eating Jelly and Ice Cream and supporting Neil Lennon on 14 April, 2012 at 01:50 said:
Knoxy, hang in there. Wishing wee Oscar all the best.
not today giggsy.. tomorrow probably..
was in last night… ooooooft..
jimtim on 14 April, 2012 at 10:40 said:
I know Mark Guidi from his teenage years, i was poking fun at him
Mark is the proverbial couldn’t punch out a paper bag type of guy, his radio tough guy persona is hilarious
The discovery on RM that Stewart Regan’s brother Stephen is a professor of english with an interest in Irish literature is seen as the final piece in the jigsaw:
“Any press reading this board want a breaking story! do a bit of research on this sibling
‘a canny few miles since Prof Regan would catch Fulton’s bus from Crook to attend St Bede’s RC grammar school in Lanchester.
Stephen’s brother Stewart, former managing director of the Football League Championship, is now chief executive of Yorkshire County Cricket Club'”
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‘time we played the tims at their own game! I am sorry but this needs done! And anyone that says other, look at our club today! This man is more than a friend of liewell, his family member (sibling), has a very strong view! This must be taken into account. Can you imagine if it broke a few years back that hugh dallas has a brother in the committee of the ulster scots! We would have a press meltdown
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‘You know fine well that if this is his brother, well the position the o’regan has is open to public scrutiny. And the poster is right if it was someone from a British Protestant background then questions would be asked.’
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‘I suppose he never attended St Bede’s RC either. Now I know that just makes him an RC, but once you start putting the jigsaw together I know what I am starting to see!’
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‘Stewart Regan is the brother of Stephen Regan. I apologise for stating the facts to the Lundy’s Quisling’s and Uncle Tom’s! The apparent conflict of interest is there for all to see and now an additional layer of Regan, SFA has been exposed and its unevenhandedness and lack of empathy towards Rangers. It’s apparently steeped in one’s antecedents!
To all the Tom’s who wish to take an anodyne approach to the discrimination and sectarianism against Rangers Fc by Regan’s Master Liewell, wake up, wake up! No wonder the triumvirate and now I will include Lunny (all from the same sectarian background) have got away with so much and hence when presented with the opportunity now have a free rein – from the meantime! Still, there will always be people with integrity, morals and principles who can and will expose the bigots and cheats!’
Don’t you just love paranoia?
Kit
I meant Kilmarnock 0-6 Celtic obviously.
MWD rewrites history
Aye, I saw you as you were leaving, not that you’d remember… :-)
Had a pint, went to Darkhall to pick up the Mrs’ sister, then back to the Ville. 3 pints and ears bleeding with Old Giggsy (Hun version), then back up to the Mrs. All a great idea, but now working in here all day. :-(
HH
Giggs
Monaghan1900
I hear Paul Murray had an Auntie who’s uncles brothers dog’s neighbours dogs owner watched The Papal Christmas Mass on TV once.
Should Paul Murray be allowed to be part owner of Rangers?
Serious question!!! :-))) Maybe not.
MWD
I haven’t read back to see if this has been posted already. A really good article on the hun situation by a Motherwell supporter.
At least David Healy will get a run out for Rangers in Division Three
By Tam Cowan on Apr 14, 12 07:45 AM in
COME on, Rangers, make your mind up. For more years than I care to remember, both halves of the Old Firm have been desperate to quit the SPL and play in a different league.
Well, the Ibrox club now have the perfect opportunity to break away to the Scottish Third Division. So what the hell are they greetin’ about?
Liquidation now seems the most likely option for Rangers (just last night a bluenose pal was trying to convince me that the BIG Glasgow derby is actually Rangers v Queen’s Park) but I don’t know how the administrators can accuse the SPL of undermining their efforts to keep the club in business.
One quick glance at the Ibrox charge sheet tells you the prospect of docking Rangers 10 points for a couple couple of seasons is hardly Draconian.
What do they want exactly? Sent to their bed with no supper? Fifty lines? Sir Dave and wee Whytey to stand on the naughty step?
Let’s just forget about punishing Rangers. To help this Scottish institution bounce back next season, I say we give them a 10-point start in the SPL and 100 per cent of the TV money.
I also think we should nominate one player from every SPL club to sell a kidney with every penny of the proceeds going to the Rangers Fans’ Fighting Fund.
For the record, I don’t actually want to see Rangers sent down to Division Three – that only punishes the diehard Rangers fans and they weren’t the ones at the hey-didddle-diddle. But I appear to be part of a very small minority.
According to an online survey of supporters in the SPL, 93 percent say a Rangers newco shouldn’t be re-admitted to the SPL.
And, if that’s what happens, 55 per cent of fans say they would turn away from Scottish football and refuse to attend another SPL fixture. Have you got that, Mr Doncaster?
But listen, the Third Division wouldn’t be so bad for Rangers. For a start, they could finally give David Healy a proper run-out in the team.
And they’d probably be back in the SPL within three seasons. Unless, of course, their old League Cup foes Falkirk get the better of them yet again.
Seriously, though, Scottish football is now in grave danger of sending out the clear message that cheating will be tolerated.
If proper sanctions are not taken against Rangers, sporting integrity goes straight out the window.
Every club with debts (and there are quite a few in the SPL) could just go to the wall and then look to copy the Ibrox model by bouncing straight back. If Rangers are given special treatment, the baw is well and truly burst.
My fellow columnist Mark Hateley says the SPL and SFA have done little to support one of its biggest members. Well, apart from turning a blind eye for the past 20 years to all their dodgy shenanigans behind the scenes.
But it’s not the SPL or the SFA to blame for the current state of Rangers. It’s all down to Sir David Murray and, to a lesser extent, Craig Whyte.
Meanwhile, Andy Goram insists there should be more support shown to those clubs that are toiling badly.
What? Like the way Sir Dave supported Airdrie when they were toiling by issuing a winding-up order on the grounds that “business is business”?
The threat from Rangers fans to boycott away games next season is laughable. Listen, if Rangers have no chance of winning the league, I can assure you they’ll stay away from the games in their droves anyway. If you don’t believe me, just have a look at the pre-Souness attendances.
By the way, don’t bore me – again – with all that Eartha Kitt about the vast reduction in TV revenue if Rangers get kicked out of the SPL.
On the day when a Scottish Cup semi-final between a team from Edinburgh and one from Aberdeen kicks off in Glasgow at 12.15pm so the match can be screened on both Sky Sports and the BBC, I honestly couldn’t give a Daffy Duck about TV deals.
In fact, let’s take this perfect opportunity to put the fans first.
Kill the cameras, cut our cloth accordingly and, well, let’s just see what happens…
PS: Paul Murray and the Blue Knights? Sorry, but if I were a Rangers fan, I wouldn’t want a member of the “previous regime” anywhere near my club.
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Monaghan1900 on 14 April, 2012 at 10:48 said:
Hahaha, that is truly amazing stuff. Stewart Regan’s brother has an interest in Irish Literature = Vatican led SFA conspiracy against the Peepil.
Best yet.
BMCUWP
couldnt find soz,told mrs,take her oot wen win national(sayd nite in again.LOL)
membr reading best thing age,weight,form,gound.etc
ANY1 GOT A GOOD TIP 4 NATIONAL
been brill week just sobered up thursdy?
read last nite ghirl got warned 4 sayin hun on fb?
disgraceful.
c4e
HH
Monaghan1900 on 14 April, 2012 at 10:48 said:
2010 SFA President George Peat
SFA CEO Gordon Smith
SFA Vice President Campbell Ogilvie
2012 SFA President Campbell Ogilvie
SFA CEO Stewart Regan
SFA Vice President Allan McCrae (Cove Rangers)
Yep its overrun with timmys, all sellick men………………………………………..pmsl
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
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(“Can History be bought, sold or transferred?”)
Hopefully someone can find that elusive Grand National winner !
Alternatively, if you cannot access the previous article for any reason, then you can send me an email message with your selection to : fleagle1888 at yahoo.co.uk
All the best, fleagle1888
mullet & co
u got that tweet on a link ? I don’t do twitter but must get started
Any links bhoys to what alex thompson had to say .
jimtim
Monaghan1900 on 14 April, 2012 at 10:48 said:
jesus wept, its a timmy conspiracy that they owe 140 million, RC apparently = bigot and you cant hold a position of power in scottish football if you are a catholic or any of your family are catholic in 2012. don’t they realize that current rules would see no rangers if they are liquidated. the rules are being changed to allow them to re-enter no matter the circumstances. and this is the club and the fans the spl are clinging on to, if you did not laugh you’d cry.
So the huns have decided because Regan has a brother with catholic links there’s a story I’m that regarding a bias against them.
Can they explain the spl referee who’s brother is season ticket holder at the huns?
In
celtic should be in discussions with the other clubs about how to move forward without newco rangers for the next three years and pressing to them the damage they will cause to their own clubs if they allow rangers to walk into the spl.
why does no one discuss the economic benefits to every sfl club if they need to start in 3rd division.
spl clubs can negotiate a 3 year t.v deal and also a better slice of the t.v pie without rangers and in three years time they will be in the spl the t.v money will be re-negotiated and its onward and upwards for everyone, with fans faith restored.
and forever a better fairer distributions of the wealth within a larger and more competitive league.
Anyone else detecting a Sea Change in the general approach of the Scots Sporting press to the Rangers fiasco?
From the ‘We’re all doomed if we don’t Save Rangers’ of a few weeks ago, we seem to have an emerging consensus that any Newco’s place is at entry level in the SFL, assuming the SFL would accept their application.
We even have our old, discredited friend Jabba the Hack stating that a Newco represents a new start and an opportunity to leave the sectarian baggage of the old club behind.
Moreover, Graham Spiers and Tom English are pretty clear lately that if it is found that Rangers made undeclared payments to players over the EBT years, thus invalidating the registration of those players, they should be lobbed out the SPL summarily, thus somewhat compromising the club if an unlikely CVA is stiched together.
The reaction of the fans as reported by splsurvey.co.uk is indicative of the general feeling that a Newco parachuting into the SPL is contrary to the spirit of the game as fans understand it.
Meanwhile, interested bidders cannot proceed with their proposals to buy Rangers until they have clarity on which league their ‘Rangers’ will play in.
The SPLon the other hand cannot provide any such clarity until: a) The contentious Resolutions are adopted; and b) The investigation into Rangers’ contractual arrangements is concluded, reviewed and acted upon.
Our Legal Bhoys will be able to cite chapter and verse on the law regarding Contingent Obligations and Licensing, but you can be confident that no SPL Member, Director or Board can make a contractually binding agreement with the Rangers Adminstrators that provides any comfort to any bidder on these issues.
A CVA solution to Rangers’ problems runs the risk of the Club being thrown out for serial cheating since the inception of the SPL, should the investigation and subsequent decision follow natural justice.
If the Resolutions 2A and 2B are passed, at least those bidders with Liquidation in mind have some comfort on the procedural aspect of SPL membership, but if they are not adopted, a Newco has no right of entry, and any investment would be hostage to fortune. An uninvestable proposition.
Looked at from this perspective, the SPL Resolutions are the very best that the SPL can do to provide comfort to the bidders: No offer; no legally binding agreement; But a procedural mechanism by which Newco could/would obtain membership.
Only when these Resolutions are passed will bidders be in a position to properly value the Rangers business and assets, as the value of these assets is largely bound to the ‘market’ Rangers will trade in.
From the perspective of existing rules, natural justice, and football’s essential meritocracy, Rangers, whether Oldco or Newco, should be anticipating 3rd Division football next season.
The Press in Scotland seem to be slowly coming round to that idea. We’ll have to wait and see what the Gang of Ten make of it all.
TBB
reilly1926 on 14 April, 2012 at 10:54 said:
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Thats the most sensible thing I’ve ever heard from Cowan. Wonder if someone was holding his crayon for him……:-)
Moonbeams WD. Kano \o/ Neil Celtic FC. We are the Champions. Ignore the WARTS. on 14 April, 2012 at 09:55 said:
Never give up hope on Celtic!!!
Thanks for posting that. Just finished reading it. I hadn’t seen it before as I was abroad when it was ongoing but was getting texts on progress. I honestly had the same feelings as the posters about the team and its position. I assumed at half time that Lenny would walk at the end of the game. I assumed protests against the board etc. One of my friends though pointed out to me, there and then, that this was, more or less, the same team and strategy that won 92 points the previous season. I can’t say it changed my mind at all but I remembered his comment. I hope we remember our harshness particularly in the light of what was unfolding. So much of it was rooted in frustration that had been manufactured not, as it turns out clearly, by a poor manager or incompetent CEO and board but by cheating on a grand scale while we attempted to build a genuine team in the financial and social reality we inhabit.
Blindlemonchitlin on 14 April, 2012 at 07:52 said:
Timbhoy
what was your wee pal’s name?
You mean ma dug?
She was Gizzie & she hud a Celtic strip.I´ll try & upload a photo.
I need to go now.You´ve got me chokin.Miss her so much.
COME ON YOU BHOYS IN GREEN
CELTIC FOREVER
People are assuming the Newco would be back in the SPL within 3 years.
What players will be at the club if thats where they end up, they could be stuck in division 3 for a decade.
So we can’t have someone whose brother might be of a certain religion in a position of authority because he might be biased?
Does that therefore mean that only atheists who can prove that their whole family are atheists should be able to apply for the top jobs in Scottish football?
TBB
yeah a definite change in msm, some of it based on reality too
Knoxy2000 – keep strong mate. Glad to hear the young fella is holding up.
Enjoy guys,this guy is the dogs gonads.
Up th Celts.
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Good morning, Brian
First an important notice. Today is, for me, the last day of the National Hunt season and from this day forth, until after Champions Day, I will only be working on flat racing. I saw some results at Sedgefield yesterday that vindicate that decision! Secondly, I am taking three days off…no ratings Sunday, Monday or Tuesday, back on Wednesday for Newmarket.
Having checked the fixtures lists, the only meeting you will miss is Windsor on Monday so, it’ll be a good time to draw breath and reflect.
When I say I’m taking time off, I actually mean I’ll be spending my time working on other things to make the next six months a profitable one for you. I have had the ad prepared for Racing Ahead and the guys at gocre8 have done a superb job. It will hopefully attract the attention of 23000+ readers of the May edition and have them come look at what we do. In that case, I had better make sure the website is given a spring clean, tidied up and made ship shape.
That will keep me extremely busy.
I will also be looking at something I hope will enable me to produce the Ratings the evening before racing. This will give you time to check out the glitches of any layers regarding those I suggest might be worth looking at. I have given myself the rest of April to sort that out.
Over the rest of this month Paul and I will also be working on getting dates to attend race meetings throughout the season, promoting Post Racing and, in particular, the 500 Club and the Season Tickets. I honestly believe that Post Racing is the best, most original racing information website around, offering it’s members outstanding value for their money , whilst at the same time raising £1000’s for racing related charities. In that respect, this NH season about to finish, has been superb.
If anyone has any suggestions at all, about how we might make this better, please e-mail myself or Paul….we are all ears…..well, not literally, of course.
Yesterday was a very busy but enjoyable one. I had booked a package of breakfast, transport and evening meal with What’s Cooking at the Albert Dock in Liverpool and our day started when we left the house at just turned 9-00am yesterday morning. Absolutely superb value for money if you go down that route next year.
Full Monty breakfast, toast and coffee was served just after 10-00am, which would be needed as we’d not then eat until after 7-00pm. Coach to the track was an adventure and on the way we saw some incredible sights, including those orange ladies I had spoken of earlier this week. One lady in particular caused the same reaction on the coach as that you would normally only asscociate with a road traffic accident.
Imagine this….you witness the impact of two cars colliding and your facial expression would reflect the horror and surprise, that goes with that, followed by the relief when you see both drivers emerge unscathed. You would probably make a noise caused by a very sharp intake of breathe….we all did….
I can only describe what we saw as a spray tanned Bull Seal (three coats, at the very least)….squeezed into the skimiest of clothing, that was three times to small for the lady moving slowly along the pavement. That surely has to be illegal! The lady she was walking with can most certainly not have been a good friend….or scared to say anything for fear of attack.
That was my first real, close up experience, of the Ladies of Ladies day and all I can say is, I feel sorry for the vast majority who honestly believed their look was a good look. It seemed, for the most part, to be a competition to see who could wear the most ridiculous of shoes.
In What’s Cooking they have a cobble stone floor. I had the absolute pleasure of facing the toilet area, a full 20ft stretch of this cobbled floor before me. As some of our party were readying themselves to leave for Aintree, it was like watching tight rope walkers crossing the span of Niagara Falls…without a balancing pole. It was amongst the funniest scenes I have witnessed this year, watching these ladies try to negotiate this cobbled area in heels far to high for walking in,
At Aintree, Matalan knew what would happen. They have a stall set up selling flip flops. They must have made their balance sheet look incredibly rosy as they sold millions of pairs….despite the rain. Within an hour of arriving those ladies that had spent millions on clothes and shoes, were covered in what looked like cling film, (clear plastic bags with hoods) and wearing flip flops, the bags that had, seconds earlier, contained £3 flip flops, now containing £100+ shoes that are impossible to walk in.
Shall I crack on?
I will start with the Grand National.
AINTREE 4-15
SHAKALAKABOOMBOOM….+6
CHICAGO GREY….+5
SYNCHRONISED….+4
BALLABRIGGS….+/-0
WEST END ROCKER….-6
PLANET OF SOUND….-10
WEIRD AL….-19
JUNIOR….-24
ON HIS OWN….-25
MIDNIGHT HAZE….-25
NEPTUNE COLLONGES….-26
HELLO BUD….-28
SUNNYHILLBOY….-32
MON MOME….-35
POSTMASTER….-35
SWING BILL….-36
Everything else rates -40, my lowest possible rating.
As is usual, I will not be looking outside my top six for all bets. I am very happy with my top three and they will make up my dutch, I’ll set up 2 x 20/80’s SHAKALAKABOOMBOOM and CHICAGO GREY, with exotics the same three. It is a race that contains much guesswork and luck, given what can happen as they go round but I am happy with my figures so all being well, I’ll have a bit of luck and trouser a profit.
AINTREE 3-25
MARUFO….+/-0
CHAPOTURGEON….-5
BATTLE GROUP….-9
BRACKLOON HIGH….-11
BALLYVESEY….-13
SAINT ARE….-15
NOLAND….-16
ON BORROWED WINGS….-25
ACKERTAC….-30
THE HOLLINWELL….-36
CARRICKBOY….-40
MY BOY PADDY….-40
TULLAMORE DEW….-40
Again I will quite happily work with my top three….dutch, 20/80 MARUFO and exotics.
CHEPSTOW 4-50
RORY BOY….-23
DINARIUS….-27
UPTHEMSTEPS….-35
MALLUSK….-39
ROUND THE HORN….-40
COTTAGE ACRE….-40
ROMANESCO….-40
MON CHEVALIER….
All three rated races here will be nowt but October Rules races….simply bog awful racing.
CHEPSTOW 5-20
SPINNING WATERS….+12
GRANVILLE ISLAND….+12
MARCHAND D’ARGENT….+10
DON’T PANIC….-2
MUJAMEAD….-3
CADOUDALAS….-7
SALTAGIOO….-11
SACRILEGE….-15
FURROWS….-15
WALDEN PRINCE….-17
KALA PATTHAR….-22
QALINAS….-23
THENFORD FLYER….-30
HEADLY’S BRIDGE….-40
SAN MARINO….-40
SUTTON STORM….-40
CHEPSTOW 5-50
NOTABOTHERONME….+1
RATEABLE VALUE….-8
TARQUINIUS….-9
MIDNIGHT MACARENA….-14
ONE MORE DINAR….-15
TIMPO….-15
BRUNETTE’SONLY….-21
PANCAKE….-22
INTHEJUNGLE….-35
DERAWAR….-40
ROBOBAR….-40
MICHIGAN D’ISOP….-40
DR ROCK….-40
NEWCASTLE 2-10
VANILLA RUM….+22
CAMBORNE….+17
MISS BLINK….+10
JONNY LESTERS HAIR….+9
TRES CORONAS….+8
AILSA CRAIG….+3
ONEOFAPEAR….-1
KING KURT….-1
CALAF….-2
BLUE DESTINATION….-3
WEST END LAD….-4
LOOK LEFT….-5
SWITCHBACK….-11
EUSTON SQUARE….-15
SILVER GREY….-19
HARVEY’S HOPE….-23
TIGER WEBB….-29
Would it be sacriligious to say I’m looking forward to what happens here almost as much as I am at what happens at Aintree? NH is my absolute passion but we are now very much looking at the sun that is the flat season coming over the horizon and I’ll be watching these races like a hawk. Clues will abound and as I suggested recently, it’s more to do with those trainers whose horses are furthest foward, as it is about ability and Brian Ellison again fired in another winner yesterday. All three races here will played to October rules level of staking but I’ll be looking to see if I am reading them correctly….vital.
Here I’m thinking high will provide us with the winner. Rated horses 2, 4 and 6 are the horses I’ll work with…dutch, 20/80 CAMBORNE and exotics.
NEWCASTLE 2-45
DZESMIN….+10
MAGIC ECHO….-7
SILVER TIGRESS….-8
VITTACHI….-9
GREY COMMAND….-16
NEWPORT ARCH….-23
LIFETIME….-26
POKFULHAM….-29
GOODNESS….-33
MADRASA….-40
SRIMENANTI….-40
I’m not perceiving anything that should sway me away from my figures as they have fallen so, top three dutch, 20/80 DZESMIN and exotics.
NEWCASTLE 3-20
DUKE OF RAINFORD….+20
CHEYENNE RED….+13
BOUCHER GARCON….+7
FAIR BUNNY….+1
DOTTY DARROCH….+1
BESTY….-1
DRUMPELLIER….-4
SALLY’S SWANSONG….-10
SOOPACAL….-11
INDIAN ARROW….-18
BAILADEIRA….-21
SHAWKANTANGO….-22
COTTAM STELLA….-29
HARDROCK DIAMOND….-31
LADY IN RED….-31
Beware SOOPACAL! Low look best boxed, high looking positively crypt like….but that didn’t stop an Ellison winner yesterday. BOUCHER GARCON has a cracking good draw, is in monster like form and will be hard to stop. I will work a top three dutch to pay for a straight win bet the Carroll gelding and my exotics, same three.
NEWCASTLE 3-55
MATAAJIR….+11
CYFLYMDER….+4
FLORIO VINCITORE….-1
LABROC….-1
DOLLY ROYAL….-8
ALLURING STAR….-9
STEEL STOCKHOLDER….-11
BEACHWOOD BAY….-12
HELLBENDER….-14
RISE TO GLORY….-16
LADY GAR GAR….-21
KING PIN….-24
JUPITER FIDIUS….-25
Middle drawn are catching my eye muchly. High end of middle look set fair, too….rated horses 1, 2 and 4 will get my nod…dutch, 20/80 MATAAJIR and exotics.
LAY ADVICE
None today
OF INTEREST
The first two races at Aintree…the winners pick themselves. SIMONSIG and SPRINTER SACRE are simply different gravy. The 2-50 is more interesting. If OSCAR WHISKY had not been ridden to win the World Hurdle I would have seriously fancied him to win today. That race will have left a mark, for sure. I’m going to suggest ZARAKANDAR to prove better than his stable companion over the trip.
The last two races on the card don’t really appeal for punting purposes and I’ll just be watching.
HURRIYA (Newcastle 5-30) – straight win
Right, that’s me done until Wednesday when I’ll get back into the saddle and see if we cannot commence an assault on the layers!
Have a brilliant day and best of luck with the National.
Kindest regards
Ron
3 for the national.
ballabriggs, synchronised, and Neptune Collonges, who i have always fancied as a national type, gl all.
First weekend of the local cricket season – Just off out to umpire a Noth Staffs and South Cheshire Division, 2nd XI match – so glad the semi is tomorrow – have a good day everyone.
Notoutafter60plusyearsofsupportingthebhoys.CSC