Stewart Gilmour was angry a year ago when Scottish Football League clubs offered Newco Rangers a place in the Third Division, rejecting a proposal to parachute them into the First Division, saying “This is horrific news for St Mirren Football Club. The consequences are terrible, catastrophic even.
“The St Mirren board will meet in the days after that SPL meeting and decide what is the best way forward but we are already looking at major redundancies [no they weren’t].
“Unfortunately, the people in the SFL have not bought into that [proposal to put Newco in the First Division]. I just hope they realise the damage they have done to Scottish football.”
I. Just. Hope. They. Realise. What. Damage. They. Have. Done. To. Scottish. Football.
Few could understand his anger at the time. Gilmour voted against parachuting Newco into the SPL, perhaps left with little choice by their fans and his fellow directors, so it was bizarre he felt comfortable criticising others for doing exactly what he did.
Nothing has changed. Gilmour wanted Newco in the second tier of Scottish football a year ago and he wants exactly the same now. This is the Great Blue Hope.
Newco prophesised the failure of Scottish football without them at the head. Now, with Gilmour’s assistance, their projections look less foolish.
I make no personal judgement on Gilmour. If I was an SPL club chairman and Celtic needed me to vote one way to enable their financial survival, I would do it without question. We are football people and this is how we are wired. The club of the heart comes first.
It’s too late to salvage Newco. Invitations to a newly formed second tier are a fantasy, but you can set your watch on a forthcoming media campaign backing the idea. We shall not be moved.
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Doc is Neil Lennon
12:39 on 16 April, 2013
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You take care M8.
Keep yer Impressive banners flying high.
Hail Hail n God Bless
Return, return of Declan.
But to be fair I thought he’d retired!!
Mort,
Paul answered above. Sir David!!
It’s going to be a good week….
EmeraldBee
Didn’t know it was public knowledge.
Betting when it makes the papers, it will be a Daily record “exclusive”.
Mort
Was there a vote taken on here abt the new set up?
Mort
By Keith Jackson of course..
See that goes to prove, you should be careful what you wish for, sometimes you get it!
HT that was like watching the kid at school who never passed the ball, just kept dribbling, going nowhere! Congrats on the podium mate:-)
Declan Is Neil Lennon 1888 Hates being 2nd
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Aye !
Ye seem like a poster who was on here before
I think his name was sumfin like
‘KevJungles Nemesis’ ?!?!
Then again – I might be wrong.
HH
Paul 67. I take it you dont think Sevco are going to survive ? H.H.
hamliltnotim no retyred at all. cops been givin me grief for playin the rebs too loud and they took my laptop off me because i had that plugged into the tv for the blastin of the rebs. naybors dont like it. awe of them huns. 2 big hun polis came in. were ragin when they saw ma wall. henke on the left jinky on the right and some scarves up. were rippin me a bit cos there is a poster of that boy fae jordy shore up but the missus likes him and she burst my mooth last time when i tried to take it doon. her names on the tenancy so i have to take it on the chins
hail hail
As Sitting Bull said. “white man post with forked mouse”. He didnt but you get my drift?
Hi Paul67,
“It’s too late to salvage Newco”
Wait…
What if we…
Give them Government support and subsides
Let the officials give them a helping hand with the odd decision
Get some serious Bank and Industry backing
Get a massive defiant fanbase behind them
Shift around the fixture list to ensure a smooth passages through competitions
Turn a blind eye to their wee fiobles
Surely with all that help there bound to succeed and Scotland would have the strong Sevco we need.
Hail! Hail!
Makes you wonder why guys come on here every single day and purport to support Celtic,and put the club down at every opportunity?
kevjungel na mate a have only ever had wan name here. declan. whits a nemesis. is that wan of they new tablet things the weans are all into
declan is neil lennon 1888 hates being 2nd
12:42 on
16 April, 2013
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we are all doomed i tell yee
still tickets left for sunday
looking like it may be a sell out
great price to watch live football
come on bhoys and ghirls smash them piggy banks open
glasgow CELTIC…………..onwards and upwards
hali hail
jam67
Declan Is Neil Lennon 1888 Hates being 2nd
12:42 on 16 April, 2013
Can you tell me what you are on,must be some new substance unknown to us Bhoys.
Hail Hail.
starry plough
Well who other than Journalist of the Year could handle such a story.
Where would we be without Kieth.
Mort
Declan’s gonna need a bigger net……
Declan is back!
Your nuggets of wisdom have been sadly missed.
Declan!!!
There goes my hero, watch him as he goes!
jungle jam76 u might want to be an oxster and bury ur head in the sand but i have seen this all before. kevjungel is bang on. he should be gettin lisened to and bummed up and no ridiculised. we need the huns. we all need the huns. ther is nae atmosfear at all anymore. nae exsitement. i hardly hear any noise on my laptop at the games. we need to be vigil and keep an eye on the bored and make sure they are doin what they should be with our ticket dosh.
hail hail
Is it fair to say that Peter Lawwell’s nose is well out of joint with what happened yesterday?
DECLAN
Marvellous to have you back.
Absolutely impossible for any of us to indulge in our usual petty arguments when we’re too busy enjoying your posts.
Well,speaking for myself anyway….
got to go for a while pot noodel is ready and big beano wants a loan of my laptop he says he has found a stream of the pandas and wants to see if they have a podger or not
mon the pandas
declan is neil lennon 1888 hates being 2nd
12:56 on
16 April, 2013
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off out to work
see you later
got some bear baiting to do
JCGE
jam67
Declan, I salute your indefatigability!
Mort
I have all his articles cut out and saved for my posterior!!
Declan
Glad to see you back,KevJ’s been keeping us entertained whilst you were in the pokey.
Lets talk Celtic, been a while.
Looking forward to next season and hopefully having Rogic, Watt and Twarzdik in the team every week.
Declan you are magnificant, thank you for the laughs!
Sevco share price going up every time there is a sell?
!!bada bing!!
12:51 on
16 April, 2013
Absolutely……..declan the bhun keeps us laughing, though……..
KevJungle
You see ‘corrupt’ is the bit that is different, and it’s what makes Celtic unique.
Dwindling crowds *worldwide* doesn’t mean there is no Celtic, or that Celtic fans don’t
fight, or resent what has happened since the Murray ‘revolution’
I support Celtic becuase I know it’s corrupt, my brother and father knew it was corrupt, but supporting an ‘ordinary football team’ would not be Celtic.
LNS confirmed it was corrupt and found them guilty on 10 from 11 charges, the sso called punishment was irrelevant.
So we all stop supporting Celtic? – I don’t think so, even although I know ‘the cheating’ won’t
stop in my lifetime.
Let the crowd dwindle, then watch them asking to get tickets when we play Barca whilst we’re still cleaning up with a so be it, smaller fan base.
I rather play inside Celtic Park with 200 and a Fox, than 60,000 against the cheats, who should have been banned by our board in 2008.
But that’s another story.
Afternoon All,
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Should you be able to get around a course and fancy catching up face to face with fellow internet bampots drop me an email to cqngolfclub@gmail.com
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asonofdan
13:01 on
16 April, 2013…
Agreed, but who will be our’keeper?
Declan 12:49
Don’t ever change ha ha
EmeraldBee\o/ proud to be an internet bampot
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