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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James Doleman @jamesdoleman Reply Retweeted Favorite · Open
James Traynor claims he has been “ahead of the game” on the Rangers Tax story #bbcsportsound
Retweeted by gerri mclaughlin
Hahahahahahahahaha
Jabba you shameless fool…
contact this alliance:
Tax Payers Alliance
55 Tufton st
london
Sw1p 3ql.
They have a strong voice and publicise
any tax dodging deals through the media
playfusbal4dguilders on 9 March, 2012 at 09:36 said:
Is it not Paul Mc Brides funeral today. Hence cancelled press conference.
The funeral is on Monday at St Aloysius’ Church my friend. I would imagine there will be a big contingent from the club in attendance, but I think the cancellation could be out of respect.
Also imagine the team will be wearing black armbands this wekend.
HH
/Bishop B
Mort, from what’s being filtered through the press, the ‘high wage earners’ are an elite bunch, namely Davis, McGreggor, Whittaker and Naismith, ie, all those that signed bumper contracts when Whyte took over.
I’d imagine Elbows is on a decent wage, given he came from EPL, but he’s not – according to well placed sources – a ‘high wage earner’.
If your leaden-footed right back is earning more than your flying left back, you can be sure that the equilibrium in the team will be shaky.
The ‘high wage earners’ will become isolated and will look after their own needs. The rest will form their own cliques depending on who their mates are, nationalities (ie, the Yanks will stick together)…
Rangers will be in Civil War in the boardroom and dressingroom before the end of the season.
starry plough on 9 March, 2012 at 09:48 said:
James Doleman @jamesdoleman Reply Retweeted Favorite · Open
James Traynor claims he has been “ahead of the game” on the Rangers Tax story #bbcsportsound
Retweeted by gerri mclaughlin
Hahahahahahahahaha
Jabba you shameless fool…
I don’t think my sides can take much more of this!!
Cue action
Sally (FPLG) walks into bathroom and opens shower door
“Ooh Walter it’s all been a horrible dream!”
Cue Jelly and ice cream
Could you bhoys who are advocating buying out
a distressed club ln England just stop and really
think this through properly.
These clubs have their own history and
their own fans who love their club every bit as much
as we do the Hoops.
Would you buy a house with a family on their uppers
as tenants and dump them out on their erse.
Could you do that
Emdae want to buy an IPad wae an attitude problem?
Bloomin predictive text
Abbot = aboot
Shoot = aboot
CLINKO 0951
I can think of one club I could do it to!
cavansam \o/ on 9 March, 2012 at 09:50 said:
Poor Jabba he couldn’t say anything about the biggest story ever in Scottish fitbaw cos he’s a real journalist dontcha know, he’s has a very strict code of honour to follow.
It’s all right for us Internet Bampots dontcha know!!!
I feel for him I really do, he’s so far removed from reality it must hurt just waking up in the morning and realising you missed the biggest story ever!!
Keep telling it like it is Jabba, I just can’t get enough..
SP
jock steins celtic
You might be onto something there. It’s a pity UEFA haven’t published these rules so that we aren’t forced to guess what they are.
Perhaps thats the reason they haven’t.
Mort
Celtic have cancelled today’s press conference because all the, err, press are outside murray pig farm waiting on the axe falling.
Plus the Celtic management team will be glued to CQN all day.
Is it not obvious?
Clink\o/ is Neil Lennon on 9 March, 2012 at 09:51
If somebody doesn’t buy them then they (all the employees) will be turfed out.
Ask those who are about to be made redundant if they care who owns the club.
Think it through mate, all the way.
celticrollercoaster said:
Cue action
Sally (FPLG) walks into bathroom and opens shower door
“Ooh Walter it’s all been a horrible dream!”
Cue Jelly and ice cream
CRC –
That really made me laugh out loud and my missus made me read it out to her.
The funniest thing I have read so far on the huns story.
:-)
Clink\o/ is Neil Lennon on 9 March, 2012 at 09:51 said:
I’m not advocating throwing the family out, more along the lines of saving the club (i.e. Portsmouth) but getting some benefits from this, e.g. Profits if it can be turned into a profit making entity, or player development.
Mort
Mort
aye but thankfully we have the Scottish sports media to keep us reliably informed.
Yee Haw got a ticket for the LC Final….ok it’s row BBB in the Rankers End, but it’s a ticket for the first leg of Lenny’s historic treble!
Dancer!
TTTT
Celticrollercoaster
I had to have that one explained to me.
I must watch more tv.
contact:
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com
On a Friday before a funeral of one you held/hold dear… do you want to get on with your day in private grief and reflection or do you want to respond to very public and often disrespectful questions?
D&P are not some tin-pot back street business. hey’re part of a large, international organisation. This case is or has become much higher profile than they perhaps anticipated.
Surely they must be seen to be acting in the best interest of creditors or in future cases, creditors will object to having them assigned to the case?
I still can’t help thinking that they in on it in some way.
Philboy
It was a programme based on the life and times of a ruthless individual who ruined the lives of all of those who came into contact with him.
It was called (Hugh) Dallas.
jock steins celtic
And what a great job they do.
God bless ’em
Mort
an alternative :
The other Tax Payers Alliance
inspector@taxpayersalliance.org
best to get both on the case
hail hail
kitalba on 9 March, 2012 at 10:02 said:
That sounds a much more realistic reason why no press conference today. If true and any media outlets suggest otherwise, they should hang their heads in shame.
Mort
According to the Daily Mail there is a glimmer of hope this morning. The players will agree to the wages deal, Whyte owes the club money and not the other way around, the Ticketus deal will be cancelled, HMRC will accept a CVA and new buyers are queueing up to take over Whyte’s shares, which he will be forced to sell.
In other news, David Cameron discovered a cheque for £500B he had forgotten to cash so the deficit has been wiped out, Al Qaeda and the Taliban have surrendered to British forces and we will all live happily ever after.
hoopeddreams
Cheers!
sparkleghirl on 9 March, 2012 at 10:02 said:
If D&P are somehow “in on this” in such a high profile case they might be running the risk of seeing the inside of the Real Big House!!
I think they are well versed in doublespeak and technical jargon purely designed to buy time.
The busted flush lies on the table for all the players to see!!
SP
Folly Folly on 9 March, 2012 at 09:25 said:
reilly1926 at 09:08 said
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Not far away from the truth there FF. She nearly hit the roof when she caught me on a spying mission on Rankers Media. Enough’s enough.
Gordon_J
Why so cynical, when have the Scottish press ever lied before?
Mort
Clink\o/ – Doesn’t he own that stand? Once Scottish football realise what he did for them they’ll name it after him too.
Mort – have they not changed the format of the CL matches after Xmas, they used to only play on alternative weeks now you have Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays with European Football every week – the alternative is that we negotiated a crap TV deal, not likely eh!
IF the Administrators briefed the Press yesterday is going to be hunky dory, but on the same day told a Court that all was bleak, who were they telling fibs to?
Why don’t Celtic just say why the press conference has been cancelled?
Makes sense tae me.
tommytwiststommyturns on 9 March, 2012 at 10:00 said:
Row BBB…..I think your seats in lesser Hampden :-)
HH
CRC
What a fairy tale in The Sun, hilarious stuff!
HMRC rejected a settlement from RFC last year but will take less now? Aye right!
Its the tickets on sale at the moment only available to unsuccessful ST holders, or can ST holders who have already got a cup final ticket buy for other people?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17311003
Live bbc feed on today’s events at rangers.
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Prozac & Jellies when Ranjurs Survive..
Nurse..
Summa
PS.. Drop Sammi = Drop Points or Out of Cup ( Moscow)