Malcolm Murray, the newly appointed chairman of the Newco club Charles Green hopes to establish, yesterday entertained us with his comments on punishments served on a football team suspected of cheating you for over a decade. He said:
“We’ve had giant punishments already – a European ban, a 10-point deduction, the emotional trauma everyone has suffered. I think, for the good of Scottish football, it’s much better Rangers in the SPL.”
There has been no European ban. Newco will not be eligible for European competition because it is a Newco and Uefa requires three years accounts from participating clubs. They are simply not eligible, they have not and will not achieve the qualification criteria for European football for three years.
The 10-point penalty imposed on Rangers last season for seeking protection from creditors by going into administration is hardly a “giant” punishment. It changed nothing. Rangers were second in the league when it was imposed and remained so. They released no players and went on to defeat Motherwell twice, ensuring they finished the league in second place, earning £900k in additional prize money.
As a punishment, it is the equivalent of banning Ally McCoist from this year’s 100m Olympic competition. Pointless.
Which leaves us with “the emotional trauma everyone has suffered”. Compared to the emotional trauma suffered by Dundee, Motherwell, Gretna, Third Lanark fans, recent events have been nothing more than a focus for some robust rallying calls.
Don’t even start me on the emotional cost of losing the league in 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011, all to a team of cheats. How do you measure that? Think back to each day we lost those titles and tell me how you felt about them then and how you feel now, knowing you were cheated.
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Celtic 67Live @the_eriugena
Hugo Rodallega to Celtic apparently close but not a done deal
I know, he’s here now but can’t speak ;-)))
Sabre67 on 16 June, 2012 at 23:29 said:
McCoist to be charged by SFA over his “I want to know who these men are” Oscar performance
is that true or a wind up
CT
Winners?
Could do with that just now!
bjmac
Don’t you start he’s been saying for 20 years that I only get into trouble when he’s no there!!
bjmac,
Brill:-))
hamiltontim on 16 June, 2012 at 23:36 said:,
Obviously convictions don’t count in your world!
Are you a HUN?
TotesCSC
Evolution of the Hun to Sevco Fan
MWD
CT
Careful what you say!!
Totes sorted this week been busy fightin’ the bad guys :-))
hamiltontim on 16 June, 2012 at 23:40 said:
CT
Careful what you say!!
Totes sorted this week been busy fightin’ the bad guys :-))
______
See, when I not there???
@liamrossyoung: apparently “The Rangers” have less than 100 days to change their name, they arent allowed to have anything with rangers in it…
MWD
Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Champions. C’mon Wee Oscar. on 16 June, 2012 at 23:43 said:
Oh I would love to believe that’s true.
100 days is a lot though?
Huns FC would be nice
MWD
Now that would be the sprinkles on top of the cake, it would be the ultimate ignominy and I believe would take 1000’s off their support and attendances.
Sparkleghirl
I believe it is mince. Unfortunately.
Gretna FC are now Gretna FC 2008
MWD
Burnt ma finger last nite. He-ho I’m an adult I know the consequences of Tomfooolery.
However, the Huns also knew the penalty. They chose to ignore it!
They are now a Newco and choose to ignore the rules again, they don’t apply to them.
God bless all youse second class citizens!
@liamrossyoung tweet :
I would be inclined to take any statement from someone in 5th year, secondary school, with a tablespoonful of salt. But hey what do I know!
Watching the highlights on ITV+1 – Sammi is class
Magnificentseven,
True.
…from same source that prompted my post last Monday night.
Good Evening CQN, not been on since the ‘Death’ my mind. liver and kidneys have been on overtime. Thankyou to you all.
‘The Channel Highlander’
Evening all, just wanted to join in the celebratations,when all said and done and we look back at this mess that they have made,something came to mind today at work when an orc was going on about the myth back in to save them,when they come back in goodness knows what form,i would like to see how they will get on without a cheque book and just about every other team going at them with avengance. Oh if anyone is in doubt about the huns fate i think the wee coroner in the wizard of oz pretty much sums it up(wish i could post the link thingy maybe someone could) HAIL HAIL GOD BLESS CQN .
Dick Advocaat at the press conference:
“We were the better team, dominated all over the game, played very good technical football. We were attacking team but after one of our attacks the Greece scored the goal after counter attack. It’s very hard to score the goal against the team whose style is defensive. Why we lost? This is football.”
When the journalist said : we have a saying in Russia that we remember people for what they did last and asked the question: what are his expectations , Dick Advocat answered: – I don’ care what people in Russia think and say about me. Me and and a coaching stuff worked very hard and did good job.
prt
Coroner Munchkin in Wizard of Oz
MWD
Oh I’d rather be a Doctor than a Dick!
Could Berwick line up against their poorer cousins, The, on the first day of the new season?
Munchkin FC ably supported by the Friends of Dorothy
MWD Thanks.
Just on before I hit the sack to congratulate Georgios on a brilliant personal performance for Greece tonight and to congratulate his team mates on a great team performance to take them through to the Eoro quarter finals. Big Sammi was immense and fought for every ball. He covered every blade of grass and gave the Russians a huge headache.
I thought the BBC panel and commentators damned the Big Man with faint praise. It was as if, ” He doesn’t play in the Premiership so we can’t praise him too much.”
You were brilliant Sammi.
Hail! Hail!
I felt so sorry for Poland in going out of the tournament which they have put a huge effort into making a great success. Their brilliant supporters who gave their team tremendous support throughout the tournament really deserved better.
Charles Green, now CEO of “The Rangers Football Club” said on Thursday, “Today we are out of the SPL. Today we are not in the SFA. These are problems that we have to deal with to get this football club back playing football here.”
Is he right?
I do not think so. In a detailed analysis, considering the SPL Articles and Rules and the Articles of the SFA, I have concluded that Rangers FC does have a separate identity from that of Rangers Football Club PLC (In Administration). It is this separate entity that Charles Green has bought. However, Mr Green’s comments suggest that, despite having the opportunity to state unequivocally that Rangers FC remains in existence, he has declined this. Instead, he is setting up his new club, which will seek to parachute its way into a league that it is already entitled to take part in, subject to regulatory and disciplinary issues.
On one hand Mr Green talks of protecting the history. On the other his actions are consistent only with the football club he owns being a new creation. One hundred and forty years eliminated because Mr Green and his allies see that there are three separate risks factors for Rangers, any of which on its own could have destroyed the Sevco investment, and with the combination of all three present, Mr Green feels he has to stack the deck in his favour. He is playing for high stakes, and cannot afford to lose.
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/06/17/why-rangers-fc-continues-even-in-newco-and-why-this-is-no-use-to-ceo-green/
By the way, CEO Green is not related to Cee-lo Green, though there might be some people singing “Forget You”
Mort @ 2252
Well said:
Incorporation provides huge advantages but brings with it responsibilites in terms of what financial information must be disclosed and what rules it must follow. As The Rangers Football Club Plc is about to be liquidated and eventually dissolved, you can’t just say, that was the company, the football club survives. It doesn’t. It dies with the company.
Paddy Gallagher on 17 June, 2012 at 00:15 said:
I’d rather be a Doc than a Dock!
Paddy Gallagher on 17 June, 2012 at 00:15 said:
I’d rather be a Doc than a Dick.
Second tries are never as good.
Doc is Neil Lennon
No worries amigo, new what you meant :-)
Ofski bhoys, may their embarrassment be long and painful, goodnight and thanks.
new=knew :-))
Aw come on!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VdqdmXDPVs
hamiltontim on
Sorry sir :-)
Paddy G
Always here to help :-)