Predicting what is about to happen in Scottish football is a bit of an art. We all realise that just about everyone has an agenda, so the first thing most of us do is ignore whatever overt line is being promoted by one or two sources of ill-repute, especially when they suggest that Sevco will definitely play football in the SFL First Division next season.
So far around 11 clubs have intimated they will vote against this proposal while only Stenhousmuir, the very club that stepped forward to give former SFA president George Peat a seat of the board after he completed his work with Airdrieoneans, have offered the Loyal support.
Apart from Stenhousmuir, only Stewart Regan and Neil Doncaster seem keen on the idea of allowing Sevco to start their sporting life in two levels up from the bottom.
Ally McCoist spoke some wise words to online channel, Rangers TV (current ownership model unclear). Having gained some first-hand managerial experience against Falkirk last season, McCoist knows that First Division football would give Sevco no guarantee of promotion. He complained that he has only six first team players at the moment, although didn’t add “and they are rubbish”.
There is also the suspicion that Sevco are not shifting a lot of season tickets, income levels could be acutely low, and their potential fans appear to have no more appetite for a grubby accommodation than anyone else. Apart from Stenhousmuir, Regan and Doncaster, of course.
McCoist addressed the prospect of additional punishments to be handed to Sevco for the misdemeanours of Rangers as a further reason to go straight to the bottom of the pile, however, he didn’t touch on the obvious point.
The only way Sevco are going to avoid penalties for Rangers EBT behaviour is if the former club is found to have acted correctly, or if Sevco make no claims to inherit Rangers club licence, name, badge or other unique identifiers.
Anyway, we have Inter Milan, Real Madrid and the Champions League qualifiers to look forward to. Bring them on!
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I dont have any thoughts on Jim Traynor good or bad he is paid to get people to listen to his show and phone in I am sure he must be cleverer than how he comes across on radio surely? The loss of Rangers and newco in the lower divisions or having to take a year out may well reduce his audience. I hope the decent people in Scottish society keep pushing forward there point of view that football must have integrity without it the game in Scotland is finished so no newco.in Division 1.H.H.
eddieinkirkmichael on 7 July, 2012 at 14:58 said:
Don’t think that will be true….will find out ……… Tell you one thing,….if it IS true, then it will prove to have been his biggest mistake to date……
Pressley on Shortbread talks more sense than the rest of them put together.
excellent summary of Falkirk being a healthy , in profit club, after facing the challenges two years ago.
The Comfortable Collective on 7 July, 2012 at 15:00 said:
i pray for a no
Reading Paul McC’s posting, it is obvious to even the most one-eyed person that the ownership of the assets of RFC (ia) is far from settled.
The financial requirements for member clubs is to ensure primarily that they can complete their financial obligations for the season.
ie Specifically avoid this farcical situation Scottish football has been plunged into.
Given the considerable doubt about the propriety of the deal done with CG, it is extrememely questionable that Sevco will survive to the start of the season, let alone the end of it.
I would say that the response by the SFL and SFA for that matter, should be:
Mr Green, when you can convince us that your club can complete all your financial obligations, bearing in mind all the likely legal issues and various investigations into the various dealings associated with RFC (ia), yet to be resolved; when you can provide credible evidence that you are financially sound, only then will your application be considered. Until then, we will not consider your application.
Steven Pressley speaking a lot of sense.
My experience of life is that the very thing I feared most, painful as it was, was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Traynor and co is driven by fear my message comes from a book with the title feel the fear and do it anyway.
setting free the bears on 7 July, 2012 at 14:09 said:
ST
You can catch the service here
Memorial service
SFTB
Thanks for that, very much appreciated
Afternoon Celts, que pasa? Any Celtic news.
HH
test only
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