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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I put a wrong address in the cc part of an email and the “Unable to Send” box, concerning that wrong address, comes up every time I click on Send/Receive. How do I get rid of this?
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ernie lynch
15:59 on
16 April, 2013
Barcabhoy
15:55 on 16 April, 2013
Chuckles could always claim that someone forged his signature and that he never appointed Whyte as a director.
Desperate perhaps, but that would depend on the alternative.
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I read today that a guy in the States is sueing Gordon Ramsey and demanding a sample of his sweat so it can be compared to the sweat remains left on a legal document that Ramsay claims he never signed or even saw in fact.
With a name like this and hailing from Coatbridge – this guy’s surely got to be related to oor Declan?
https://www.duedil.com/director/915830544/francis-declan-finbar-tempany-mccormack
praecepta
16:10 on
16 April, 2013
>>>>>>>
No job on ‘The Sunday Post’ for him!:-)
gordybhoy64
15:25 on 16 April, 2013
As far as I know you can get it in any joint.
Best consult a physician.
Did greengo hoodwink (dupe) the st midden chairbam into voting ‘no’, in the deluded hope that it would damage Scottish Football to the extent that sevco would be fastracked…?
….if so, he is one deluded / corrupt / sad individual……..
Barcabhoy – keep up the good work!!
SENGA
That reply has pit the perra us in tears then!
Eight,bloody hell,I can barely afford two……
You’ve been through it,though. Keep that chin up.
My family give me great pleasure-more than I give them-and I’ll see them next week. I am forever grateful for their health and wellbeing.
Lippy bunch,mind……..
IanBhoy929 – allopurinol is only good for avoiding future attacks. If gordy is in pain right now he needs diclofenac.
Just back from meetings in Paisley. The feeling of the St Mirren fans I talked to is pretty much behind Gilmore. They see the proposed structure as a mess and worse than what we have right now.
They seem to believe that Gilmore acted in the directors’ interests as it will apparently be easier to sell the club under the current set up. Not sure I can see the logic of this. But they don’t suspect any input from Green at all.
Paul 67.
you have mail.
Barcabhoy 15:55
Thank you for post.
How long can he/they get away with this with all the info that is now starting to come out?
Anybody else would have been pulled already surley.
Can’t stop laughing @corsica1968 Protected account 2h So, at the moment Chuckles’ shares are worth £3m. If sacked, company buys back. How much to buy SMFC?
GORDON J
Sell it to whom?
No-one in their right mind would buy a Scottish club.
How much have Vlad,Milne,Thomson,etc,lost keeping clubs afloat?
Masterson? Moffat? Boyle?
The list is endless.
The only club which is solvent in the long-term and able to play in the big time is Celtic,and possibly Hibs-though they seem to have run out of players to sell.
The rest of them exist as drains on the resources of their directors,or as cottage industries.
I fear for the future of the game up here-as do many of us-and genuinely believe that most of the clubs should be in a pyramid below two leagues of 10 or 12.
We can’t support 42 teams in a country of 5 million,we would struggle to justify half of that.
St Mirren telling everyone else that they have decided what is going to happen is a manifestation of the lunatics taking over the asylum.
As to their motives,I neither know nor care-as nothing will ever be proven-but I hope they do not live to regret it.
BMCUWP
It can’t be easy for you being away from them but I know what you mean, can’t imagine what life would be like without them, oh wait a minute, a healthy bank balance and less grey hair! My lot are all grown up now, 2 have got their own wee ones and the ones who didn’t leave this country as tots are dyed in the wool Tims, pwoud so very pwoud. Just spoke to my sis and he’s in recovery doing just fine. I’m not needed tonight so away to put my face on and offsky to the pub for a few wee drinks to celebrate, any excuse really. Your a real mensch BMCUWP, thanks again and all the very best to you and yours
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS,
They are still hoping for some sort of fan buy out to come together
Celtic History @CelticHistory 4h (2/2) to narrow the gap to 1 point. Celtic went on to win the title against all odds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBZ7NMfsjZg …
Celtic History @CelticHistory 4h (1/2) On This Day (16th April 2008) With Rangers 4 points ahead at the top of the league and with 2 games in hand, Celtic beat Rangers 2-1
Is a Nemesis not one of those super broomsticks that the Seekers used while playing Quidditch in the Harry Potter books and films?
El Maestro,
I’ll say one thing for you. You’ve managed to generate an overwhelming consensus about the Sevco status, without P67 setting up a poll. If PL reads this site, which I think he does, then you’ve done us all a favour. Just in case he was even thinking of them coming back early as being to our benefit, he wont be going there now.
You say that you miss the vibe of beating them and we cant afford to live without them. Are you actually saying you want them back asap, despite bumping us for millions?
I have heard the odd young guy in the pub say this, but your the only one I’ve seen put it in writing.
The @splofficial and @ScottishFA must regret ever appointing PL on board, it’s scary to think what that lot could do if he wasn’t in there.
Gordon,
Any mention why it was a secret until last week?
TGSC,
Sailing On….
SENGA
Go and let that grey hair down,lass-you deserve it!
Me,I’m laying my grey hair on a pillow-nightshifts…
Been a pleasure,so mind and keep us posted.
Delighted at the news from your sis.
Raise a glass for me-as usual,I’m not buying!
I have a horrible feeling that Green will simply deny being in cahoots with Whyte and a complicit media will sweep it all under the carpet.
GORDON J
A fan buy-out?
Good luck with that,respectfully.
Hamiltontim agree 100%
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
“St Mirren telling everyone else that they have decided what is going to happen is a manifestation of the lunatics taking over the asylum.
As to their motives,I neither know nor care-as nothing will ever be proven-but I hope they do not live to regret it”.
NAIL HEAD ,
Till later all
The fans not Gilmour
:))
istanbulcelt
16:47 on
16 April, 2013
It’s possible. Only they could have been seen to spend £49m they didn’t have and not to have gleaned a sporting advantage from it.
Give me more European nights, I do not miss the Huns in the least. Scottish society will be all the better if the SFA do what they should have done last year.
Put them out of business.
Lets get this straight, Charles Green attends an SPL game at home to St.Midden and its the only game he’s ever attended and he didn’t need to be there, I find that really strange but I know the succulent lamb boys won’t ask that ?
Stewart Gilmour was all for change and then for no reason he changes his mind and that’s not a coincidence
When the Maracana [est capacity 200,000] was built for the 1950 WC there were no toilet facilities.
A bit off topic but would anyone be able to tell if you can buy water inside CP. taking wee man to his first game on Sunday and they only thing he drinks, like his father, is water. Or I need a plan to get some in!!!
Dontbrattbakkinanger
16:56 on
16 April, 2013
When the Maracana [est capacity 200,000] was built for the 1950 WC there were no toilet facilities.
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Just like Manchester city centre.
You can buy water
CAHROTCLIC- any juice you can buy in the ground is pretty watered down.
I expect the stewards would give you the full kettle if you tried to get in with a full kettle.
Can I Have Raspberry On That Champions League Ice Cream
16:56 on
16 April, 2013
Yes, you can buy bottles of water in the ground
Hamiltontim
It stinks from top to bottom, it put me right off Scottish football and even coming on this site for a wee while. The disappointment of them, in my view getting away with years of cheating was just stunning. Then after a few days of thinking about it, I thought, no way am I going to let them win, and thank god I’m not 1 of them.
Anywhere licensed to sell alcohol must serve tap water free of charge.