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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If Celtic left the SPL why do we all seem to presume it will be to our bloated neighbour, whose members ambition seems to be top 4 top8 or not being relegated
They can do all they want.
They can meet all they want.
They can try all they want.
Lets see what pot of TV money they will have a larger share in and in front of what cameras after the Celtic fans have boycotted their grounds leaving them 75% empty.
Thats a helluva ‘product’ !
How much cash are we actually talking about here? What is the total pot and how much will we take this season?
are the other 10 teams meeting to see who gets the huns fans? That is a scarey prospect for some poor Scotish community
seanbhoy69 on 8 March, 2012 at 20:03 said:
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Well said that man!!!! ;))))))
Dave King on Paul Murray.”He holds all that is sacred and traditional at Rangers close to his heart”
Dont tell me they are going back to thems no Catholics policy?
The `rumour mill` was going into overdrive in and around Glasgow today.
What is good news for some maybe bad news for others.
Isn`t that correct Mr Murray?
crushed nuts
:)
Re the rest having a consultation on the Future of the Game,there’s only one conclusion, all the decision’s will be made, at there Masonic Meetings on Thursday Night’s.
Furgoat where’s ma NAIL BAG.
Awerabest PJ
Asked earlier. Hows the pledges thing going?
‘crushed nuts?’ ‘Naw, Layringitis!’ on 8 March, 2012 at 19:51 said:
“Dee-ell’s head explodes like a melon in a microwave”
When and why did you put a melon in a microwave mate??
home bhoys…
why did the hoops need to score when I was in a pub in Cambuslang?
I’ve no problem really with the other clubs meeting to discuss a fairer distribution of tv money, after all, the only way we can improve as a club is to play in a competitive league so we were always going to have to make some sort of sacrifice. If it means seeing the financial gap closed then fair enough, after all we should have guaranteed European money for the forseeable future
I dont think for one minute we should entertain any madcap ideas about 50-50 splits of ticket money, how can it be fair to us? For example, I remember the last game of last season when Motherwell brought barely 100 fans to Celtic Park; yet we would be expected to split a 60,000 gate with them?? No chance!!
Plus, whats to say they arent considering playing us off against NewCo?
Estadio Nacional on 8 March, 2012 at 19:58 said:
I hope the number of hun chairmen ratio is better then the SPL hun manager ratio, very hard to predict how these folk would vote.
If Stuart McCall or Terry Butcher are representative of how, it doesnt bode well!
St johnstone bulldozing a stand!
The sky tv deal!
Dunfermline closing a stand!
The sky tv deal!
Hearts are owed money!
The sky tv deal!
Ad nauseum!
If they say it enough eventually we’ll give in and let them back in!
Dundee united are owed money!
The sky tv deal!
‘They Deserve Butter’.
As Duff and Phelps spread it all over rangers, jostling continues for the Brando role between Hector/Whyte/EUFA/SFA/SFL/Boabby the windae cleaner etc.etc.etc.
LastTangoInGovan.CSC
bigphil47 on 8 March, 2012 at 20:05 said:
Very good
The huns took the glory when they cheated to win trophys so lets not let them wriggle out and say it was nothing to do with them and a big boy done it and ran away.
10 SPL clubs invite top 6 SFL clubs to join new 16 team league,
SFA/SFL/SPL become one entity and reshape Scottish football, 2 leagues of 16 and regional pyramid leagues below that, Rangers newco take over Cowdenbeath and parachute into second tier of 16 thus only out of top league for one year,
Celtic apply/are invited for bottom tier of English league after refusing financial pre-conditions to join new 16 team league.
Win, win for everyone
Fernando Torres
is now averaging 1.6 goals a manager at Chelsea.
Paul67,
I’m not sure about this being a good thing. could they not be meeting to make the huns an offer they can’t refuse – back into the SPL on the other 10 clubs’ terms.
Árd Macha
SSN…………. Gang of ten meet next week where they will draw lots to see who gets the Ragers Supporters?
Paul67
Without 4 old firm games there is no tv deal.
If muppets whose average attendance is a few thousand, who return cup final tickets, who knock down stands and who close stands think they are the equal of Celtic…
Well F*** em!
We can become the Scottish equivalent of Swansea.
HH
macha
can you refer me back?
Bilbao, they not the team who showed in huge numbers for a friendly against us?
Their fans have been magnificent so far at Old Trafford.
blantyretim on 8 March, 2012 at 20:17 said:
macha
can you refer me back?
Not to Cambuslang I can’t.
Árd Macha
A Son Of Dan
We played them over there in a friendly not so long ago.
I always seem to see a set of hoops on someone standing behind the goals in their home games.
SPF
Yes, it’s a funny country we live in where the Scotland Manager has every sympathy for Ally McCoist, but no comment on Neil Lennon last year?
touche..
Eyes Wide Open 20:10
Managers:
Brown
Butcher
Lomas
McCall
Sheilds
DUFCs SFA man
Broon Aberdeen
Chairmen?
KFC man with questionable views on away tickets.
DAFC Twat who would vote for relegation of his club in vote for huns to stay up
mfc who are mfc
EN
Bilbao playin well.
Live footage from the Detroit CSC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doYePD4yeMM&feature=player_embedded
See yous there.
If and it’s a big if, Celtic got into the English leagues, I do not think we would be allowed to represent England in European competitions.
Or am I totally wrong here?
England?
They are not interested. Not one little bit.
Think of our anger at a parachuted RFC 2012; it would be as nothing compared to a parachuted Celtic FC
blantyretim,
Page 17 previous article.
Árd Macha
BTW
My father is from Halfway…
just you remember that next time he is over in the 6 counties… 0))
sorry, occupied 6 counties…
re Dave King asking the SFA to declare him ‘fit and proper’, I expect he hopes they say no, then he can go on about how much zillions he would have brought to Rangers (in a Whtyesque way) but alas not allowed to