It has been another busy news day but for now we’ll concentrate on the two most important matters.
10 SPL clubs, excluding Celtic and Rangers, have arranged to meet next week. This is the most significant news since Craig Whyte bought Rangers in May last year. One SPL chairman told the BBC:
“With the Old Firm having talked in the past about leaving Scottish football, we have had to think about a future without them.
“Part of that situation could be about to come true, so we have had time to think about how we would get on without them.”
The smaller 10 SPL clubs have a once-only opportunity to redraw the power and financial map in Scottish football. They want more of your money and this is their chance to get it. They also want to be able to vote crazy ideas into the league that benefit teams without many fans or good players.
This is perfectly understandable and expected. The distribution of TV income currently favours successful clubs, who are invariably featured most often. Smaller clubs want to change this into a more equitable distribution model. You and I will still buy the overwhelming majority of subscriptions, but our club will receive less cash from the TV deal.
“Part of that situation” refers to an SPL without Rangers. This meeting is likely to end Newco Rangers hopes of getting straight back into the SPL in their tracks. Without knowing the numbers in favour of a change, this looks like the killer blow, delivered before any proposition from Craig Whyte reaches the agenda.
We have discussed the need for Whyte to present a fait-accompli in order to get his wish. Having been unable to do that, others had the opportunity to organise and make alternative plans.
The other important occurrence today was the attendance at the Rolls Building courts in London today by HMRC lawyers, keen to secure any monies seized from Collyer Bristows’ client account last week. HMRC have made it perfectly clear they are all over Duff and Phelps and will seek court intervention to secure their rights.
This is significant.
You can make what you like about a more even distribution of SPL TV money, or the possibility of being held to ransom in future by bad teams who want to vote themselves out of relegation, but the only thing we know for sure is that this has been a profoundly bad day for Craig Whyte and anyone else hoping to phoenix a Newco Rangers.
In light of today‘s developments, Mr Whyte and the administrators have some thinking to do before announcing any plans tomorrow.
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Morning………………………………………………………………………..
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Clear sky’s on daaaaaaaaaaaa costa Blanca
Have the huns gone bust yet………………………….
BigJoeinDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhouse
Reading between the lines of this mornings chip wrappers, i would hazard a guess that Paul Murray and ‘The Blue Knights’ either do not have the required poppy to dig them out the hole or they have told D&P to do one after being informed of what they are ‘buying’ into.
SKY Business news!!
Craig Whyte buys Greece for a pound.!
sixtaeseven on 9 March, 2012 at 07:16 said:
Mornin all CQNrs from a grey Glasgow, overcast and cloudy near Murray (sic) Park !
Sixtaeseven I realise you may have lost the art of the olifactory cells, yu living wi all they perfumes and that high quality sewerage system in Paree, but here in the north we still know how to identify bullshit, its by sniffing it out and there is a real stink over here.
HH
Having read what the media has to say on the latest situation in hun land I’m now in no doubt that the nation’s mission to rescue rangers will be accomplished with much fanfare over the coming days and weeks, who would have thunk it, wee scots eh, whit are we like.
Oh well our mistake,,,the Huns only have to pay back around 4.9 million to the Taxman,,,also there are 7 possible buyers who are interested in buying them!!
Silly us eh thinking they were Fu**ed!!!
What is going on?????????
Hail hail
ItaliaBhoy@ 7.17am
Well stated. This is such an obvious PR story with our impartial media helping it along. Truth and justice will emerge. They are whistling in the wind.
Stay focused Celts. Neil will deliver on the pitch and our board are playing a blinder.
Paddy Gallagher on 9 March, 2012 at 08:09
Deals off
Greek finance minister said our hero cant be trusted with other peoples money
Morning all,
As Han Solo once said ‘I have a bad feeling about this’
I hope I’m wrong, very wrong!!
Che :-))
On realising the extent of Greek Dept wee Craig just rolled his eyes and said ‘ shit, not again)
Paddy Gallagher on 9 March, 2012 at 08:18
at least the greeks will hold onto some of their silverware, unlike his recent acquisition
Estadio Nacional:
They could make a move trilogy out of this that would be less believable than the Lord of the Rings. (Orcs and slimely thingies excluded)
Wow ….how long have I been asleep for ??
I could have sworn when I went to bed last night that the Huns were still in deep doo doo , and that was after watching SSN yesterday and reading this and other blogs until late last night.
Now , I wake up to find the MSM are practically telling us it’s all over , it was really just a bad dream (for them). HMRC are now looking to deal Rankers (in administration) in with a 10p in the £ package , which could mean a paltry payment of as little as £4.9m. Ticketus are going to be shafted and find their contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on , dozens of proper billionaires , undoubtedly with wealth off the radar, are lining up for this once in a lifetime deal to buy a Scoatish Institooshun…….so am I the new Rip Van Winkle ????
Phew , seems not , just checked the date and turns out the MSM talk a lot of p*sh !
twists n turns:
somebody on RTC, a couple of weeks ago, might have been Barcabhoy (might have) but they had the accumulated debt nudging 130. Bloody higher than my blood pressure.
mightywhite @ 08.05
Excellent idea – apply for Portsmouth’s place in the Championship. I hope our board are actively pursuing this. Get out of the cesspit!
northbhoy … \o/ on 9 March, 2012 at 08:10
Hi NB you’re up early :o)
Ah, yes, “bullshit”!
I have invented a new term for it: “merde de taureau”.
Don’t worry I can smell it from here, and I think the folk in neighbouring Nyon can as well.
Paul67:
Do you think that if a club applied for an SPL, or an SFL, licence to play in the Scottish league in 2012-2013 and in support of their application they supplied un-audited books would they be granted a licence within the written rules as they stand today?
I would hereby like to launch a campaign to have Walter Myth removed from the SFA Hall of Fame.
Butcher is there too. Doesn’t he have a criminal record?
Hall of Shame.
Morning,
It appears all is grand in the land of dob now that the administrators have caved in and granted the players the clauses in their contracts they demanded.
There are DOZENS of billionaire out there ready to buy rangers.
Deluded or what?
Best laugh so far, GAIS taking rangers to FIFA for their £240,000 in respect of Celik, who is not even a rangers player anymore.
HH
So two INJURED Huns accept a wage cut (or you get bumped on Friday)
And now they’re close to agreeing a deal with all players. Really!
I reckon non injured players might not be so keen. McGregor to go today anyone?
Morning CQN. I havent read the MSM today but hace got the strong feeling they will get an underhand deal and get out of this. Any other club in any other country would be gone. But not the huns dark arts will prevail im now getting myself ready for the bad news they have been saved.
so the two Steven’s are on ssp now.
I am majorly pissed off that these rats might get away with this,,,,can anyone shed any light here,,,are the media at it,,or are the Huns going to make a deal with HMRC????
Hail hail
saltires en sevilla on 9 March, 2012 at 07:26 said:
Good Morning fellow Celts from the 0631 to Waterloo
Enjoy your daily update confirming the ongoing punctuality of the British Rail service to Waterloo – Reggie Perrin would be delighted! Laptop Loyal have surpassed themself today – I feel (yet) another dose of Schadenfreude for us all on the way. It really is the best medicine:)
Paul67/anybody.
How would it work if Celtic were to buy Portsmouth?
TT
If HMRC are willing to make a deal with the Huns then im afraid the game is up,,,we have no future in this country,,no point in trying to play the game,because we play by the rules and they dont,and they get away with it!!!
I want out of here,,they can have it!!
So pissed off!!
Hail hail
Morning All,
Amid all the hyped up ‘nothing to see here’ news this morning I spotted this little nugget….
RANGERS have failed to pay the final £150,000 instalment of the fee they owe Swedish outfit Orebro for American star Alejandro Bedoya.
And with Rapid Vienna still owed cash for Nikica Jelavic,GAIS Gothenburg awaiting payment for Mervan Celik and Hearts £800,000 for Lee Wallace, Gers now £1.6m in transfer fees.
Orebro sporting director Magnus Skoldmark said: “We’re told that we are a preferred creditor.
“But Alejandro was great with us and we would look at taking him back if that is an option.”
Mac
The Spirit of Arthur Lee on 9 March, 2012 at 08:32 said:
so the two Steven’s are on ssp now.
Like it SOA, treated just like the rest of us !!!
HH
The media seem to be implying that Celtic have cancelled today’s media conference out of respect to what is happening across the city.
What utter bullshit!
I don’t know why the conference was cancelled, but I think it is much more significant than any of us realise. Something is going on behind the scenes at Celtic Park and I’d love to know what.
Any clues Paul?
SFA Hall of Shame
Willie Woodburn – Rangers player who was banned for life
Bill Struth – Rangers manager who for 34 years practised a policy of religious discrimination
Terry Butcher – Rangers player convicted of disorderly conduct and breach of the peace
Andy Goram – Rangers player who was (is?) a friend of terrorists
Walter Smith – Rangers manager complicit in financial cheating over many years
Why should the memory of Jock Stein, Jimmy Johnstone, Denis Law, Bill Shankly, Matt Busby, John White, etc. etc. be defiled by having such company in the Hall of Fame?
don’t beleive a single word of it, no deals to be done, they are trying to flush out a buyer, if minty could’nt sell for 3 years, how do you expect anybody to buy them now. they are a busted flush and they know it,
TinyTim –
Could be they have already started moves in that direction mate.
CW’s career in 30 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOgmqWUAE8I
ibleedgreenandwhite1 –
You are letting media lies upset you. Don’t fall for it.
Morning guys, sorry if this has been covered already, but do we not face sanctions if we do not comply with media obligations? I see our pre-match conference has been cancelled…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17308565
HH
Giggs
TinyTim:
I don’t think Celtic would really want to be associated with Portsmouth. Their fan base could teach the huns a wee bit about being uncouth and violent.
IBLEEDGREENANDWHITE
You sound just like my sister did after reading PAUL67’s previous article.
I put her mind at rest,allow me to do the same for you.
They are right-royally screwed,and despite every option being tried-as any cornered rat will do in such circumstances-it is not only delaying the inevitable,but hastening their realisation of their fate.
The lifeboats are gone,the widow’s son’s clarion calls ignored,political interference brushed aside,and the MSM shown up for the ineffectual arses they are.
Short of an idiot millionaire prepared to cough £150m into a moneypit as a prelude to losing a lot more,they are gone.
For good.
Morning all.
Will Friday be a day of clarity or a(nother) day of bewilderment?
I suspect the latter. Either way, I’m looking forward to it :-)