St Mirren chairman, Stewart Gilmour, last week suggested the SPL’s 11-1 protected voting rule, which in the past enabled Celtic and Rangers to block changes against their interests, was a reason for him to oppose Scottish football’s league reorganisation plan.
Today, with Rangers consigned to history, Celtic chief executive, Peter Lawwell, proposed a change in voting rules, replacing the requirement to have an 11-1 majority with a 9-3 majority, which Aberdeen chairman, Stuart Milne, called a “major concession”.
This was not linked to the league reorganisation vote, but Stewart Gilmour voted against this change, despite using this voting rule as an excuse for his reluctance to allow reorganisation. So we now know St Mirren’s objection is nothing to do with voting rules, the brought Aberdeen’s Milne to say on his way out of Hampden, “You need to ask what [St Mirren’s] agenda is”.
After the SFL’s chef exec, David Longmuir, came under pressure from First Division clubs for opposing reorganisation plans, Newco Rangers’ chief executive, Charles Green, was a guest of Gilmour’s at St Mirren’s recent game against Celtic. Green has been a vocal opponent of the league reconstruction proposals and right on cue, Newco released a statement offering support to Gilmour and Ross County, the other objectors.
For those who like their irony straight from the mouths of the stupid, Newco even suggested St Mirren and Ross County “should not be singled out for criticism. They stood up for what they and their fans believe”. Just like all those clubs who were criticised bitterly by Newco for voting as their fans wanted a year ago.
Milne added, “St Mirren FC have really got to pose themselves the question qhy are they prepared to put Scottish football in jeopardy for their own selfish interests, which they have been unable to do today.”
Some people have a belief that there will now be an invitation-only SPL II with Newco being invited. I can tell you with absolute certainty this will not happen. There will be no Newco in the second tier of Scottish football next season.
Instead what has happened is attitudes have hardened against such moves. It would not be at all surprising if 10 SPL clubs declined tickets for their visits to St Mirren Park next season – the anger is that serious. The status quo will be maintained, St Mirren have lost enormous goodwill above and below them, First Division clubs have failed to secure a significant boost in income and the SPL will get on with business.
All of which brings us back to Stuart Milne’s question, what is St Mirren’s real agenda? I know fine well what it is, but they have not damaged Celtic, they have not assisted Newco in any way and the poor St Mirren fans will inherit the collateral damage.
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Ernie I am of the belief that some SPL chairmen think disagreeing with them is the course of the criminally deranged.
Domestic ?
ernie lynch
23:50 on 15 April, 2013
Fully agree ….. This will backfire on both of them……as it should ….you reap what you sow
ernie lynch 23:50 on 15 April, 2013
Gilmour might have pulled it off had he not been so stupid to allow Green to turn up for their game with Celtic.
Charlatan was looking very smug with his black and white tie – a look we are not likely to see him sporting in the future.
He and Sevco are finished – and the Buddies may be following them in the not too distant future. The anger was clear from Milne and Thompson – and thanks to Gilmour, the voting structure remains the same.
Best be off, my sheltered existence doesn’t allow me to stay up after midnight.
traditionalist88
23:26 on
15 April, 2013
I think you will find that in the majority of cases of someone getting chibbed in Glasgow has more to do with what side of the scheme you came from or what bird you tried to chat up
The other major factor in getting a doing in Glasgow was a having a big mooth and the inability to back it up with actions
Now I have been attending the pineapple in the west of Scotland for nigh on 50 years and not once have I felt the need to leave the house under the cover of darkness to attend a mass
As for wearing the hoops in Glasgow today I think I will give it a miss,not for fearing for my safety, but its not very flattering displayed on a 40” beer belly no matter how good your sniggering weans and wife say you look
PronoiaCSC
Buy the book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1556438184
macjay1 my point about the IT sector is that people in Scotland are too backward looking and spend too much time dwelling on the past.
Carpe diem, neque heri.
the long wait is over
23:56 on 15 April, 2013
‘Seems one of the Boston victim is an 8 year old child.
Barbarous.’
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Agreed.
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List of children killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen
Compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports
PAKISTAN
Name | Age | Gender
Noor Aziz | 8 | male
Abdul Wasit | 17 | male
Noor Syed | 8 | male
Wajid Noor | 9 | male
Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male
Ayeesha | 3 | female
Qari Alamzeb | 14| male
Shoaib | 8 | male
Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 | male
Tariq Aziz | 16 | male
Sanaullah Jan | 17 | male
Maezol Khan | 8 | female
Nasir Khan | male
Naeem Khan | male
Naeemullah | male
Mohammad Tahir | 16 | male
Azizul Wahab | 15 | male
Fazal Wahab | 16 | male
Ziauddin | 16 | male
Mohammad Yunus | 16 | male
Fazal Hakim | 19 | male
Ilyas | 13 | male
Sohail | 7 | male
Asadullah | 9 | male
khalilullah | 9 | male
Noor Mohammad | 8 | male
Khalid | 12 | male
Saifullah | 9 | male
Mashooq Jan | 15 | male
Nawab | 17 | male
Sultanat Khan | 16 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 13 | male
Noor Mohammad | 15 | male
Mohammad Yaas Khan | 16 | male
Qari Alamzeb | 14 | male
Ziaur Rahman | 17 | male
Abdullah | 18 | male
Ikramullah Zada | 17 | male
Inayatur Rehman | 16 | male
Shahbuddin | 15 | male
Yahya Khan | 16 |male
Rahatullah |17 | male
Mohammad Salim | 11 | male
Shahjehan | 15 | male
Gul Sher Khan | 15 | male
Bakht Muneer | 14 | male
Numair | 14 | male
Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
Ihsanullah | 16 | male
Luqman | 12 | male
Jannatullah | 13 | male
Ismail | 12 | male
Taseel Khan | 18 | male
Zaheeruddin | 16 | male
Qari Ishaq | 19 | male
Jamshed Khan | 14 | male
Alam Nabi | 11 | male
Qari Abdul Karim | 19 | male
Rahmatullah | 14 | male
Abdus Samad | 17 | male
Siraj | 16 | male
Saeedullah | 17 | male
Abdul Waris | 16 | male
Darvesh | 13 | male
Ameer Said | 15 | male
Shaukat | 14 | male
Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
Salman | 12 | male
Fazal Wahab | 18 | male
Baacha Rahman | 13 | male
Wali-ur-Rahman | 17 | male
Iftikhar | 17 | male
Inayatullah | 15 | male
Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
Ihsanullah | 16 | male
Luqman | 12 | male
Jannatullah | 13 | male
Ismail | 12 | male
Abdul Waris | 16 | male
Darvesh | 13 | male
Ameer Said | 15 | male
Shaukat | 14 | male
Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
Adnan | 16 | male
Najibullah | 13 | male
Naeemullah | 17 | male
Hizbullah | 10 | male
Kitab Gul | 12 | male
Wilayat Khan | 11 | male
Zabihullah | 16 | male
Shehzad Gul | 11 | male
Shabir | 15 | male
Qari Sharifullah | 17 | male
Shafiullah | 16 | male
Nimatullah | 14 | male
Shakirullah | 16 | male
Talha | 8 | male
YEMEN
Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser | 9 | female
Zayda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 7 | female
Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 5 | female
Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser | 4 | female
Ibrahim Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 13 | male
Asmaa Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 9 | male
Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | female
Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 3 | female
Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye | 1 | female
Hanaa Ali Mokbel Louqye | 6 | female
Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | male
Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye | 15 | female
Maryam Hussein Abdullah Awad | 2 | female
Shafiq Hussein Abdullah Awad | 1 | female
Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh | 3 | female
Maha Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 12 | male
Soumaya Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 9 | female
Shafika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 4 | female
Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 2 | male
Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari | 13 | male
Daolah Nasser 10 years | 10 | female
AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout | 12 | male
Abdel- Rahman Anwar al Awlaki | 16 | male
Abdel-Rahman al-Awlaki | 17 | male
Nasser Salim | 19
http://www.policymic.com/articles/24164/a-list-of-children-killed-by-drone-strikes-in-pakistan-and-yemen
weeminger
23:43 on 15 April, 2013
It wisnae me… It was Mhark 67 ….LOL ……
Why did SG have to meet chuckles and fatty last year in person to tell them that they would not be voting sevco into the SPL.
This seems strange to me, must have had other things to discuss.
I am beginning to think that SG is a sleeper, only problem is, he is called into play in injury time.
I can only copy and paste wee bit from Times website:
Papers show Whyte was boss at company in Rangers takeover
A new document emerged last night suggesting that Craig Whyte, the controversial former owner of Rangers, was a director of the company used to facilitate the £5.5 million takeover of the club last year.
Ah’m Aff.
Kojo
Still.. Laughin’ ,though.
Ernie why do you juxtapose the deaths of children?
http://t.co/OaDmFhGm86
Our Hero
HH
Ntassoolla
00:09 on 16 April, 2013
‘Ernie why do you juxtapose the deaths of children?’
Because no one else was going to do it.
Dead and Loving it @00:08
Yip
All too obvious
Oh Motherwell is wonderful, it produced Craig Whyte and Sevco!
did anyone notice the news coverage of the drone attack last week from a remote village in Pakistan that killed a dozen children?
the boston bombs sure have more coverage. might be just me but there’s a much greater sense of grief at life lost in the latter.
so much for us all being God’s children.
God help all the innocent victims not just the white ones.
ernie @00:11 your answer is evasive.
Why do you think no-ne else did it?
Why did you think it necessary to do so?
Foxy 1888
Well said.
Ntassoolla
00:09 on
16 April, 2013
Perhaps to demonstrate the appalling lack of coverage that state sponsored terrorism gets? To show that we’ve participated in the destruction of lives for generations to come to gain what?
If you want an indication of how much blight we’ve left on those poor people you could start by googling ‘depleted uranium legacy Iraq’. Not if you have a sensitive stomach though.
Weeminger waging war on terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan will result in civilian casualties. Not doing so will result in even more.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22150379
We are not at war in Pakistan.
did anyone notice the news coverage of the drone attack last week from a remote village in Pakistan that killed a dozen children?
the boston bombs sure have more coverage. might be just me but there’s a much greater sense of grief at life lost in the latter.
so much for us all being God’s children.
God help all the innocent victims not just the white ones.
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In Scotland we have the same problem as the rest of the world.
We dont control the media.
The media are controlled by a very small number of corporations that publicize what they deem is newsworthy.
A great deal (as we know from our current football experience) is deemed not newsworthy.
Or to put a finer point on it not deemed to tow party line.
Its why the internet worldwide is leading the exposure of corruption.
It is also why it will be shut down as we are slowly seeing (UK ISP’s blocking torrent sites)
Al Qaeda and their allies the Taleban hide amongst civilians in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
While the Zombies are having a rare chuckle – the Whyte Knight is laughing louder…
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/article3740255.ece
Foxy… Honest answer, I did, but I was travelling in the Middle East.
My honest assessment is that it’s a cultural west, thing that we seem to pay more attention to what happens in the US. By and large the news in that part of the world reflects their cultural cousins.
Point is that loss of innocent life is horrific no matter where it happens
Duke (in peace)
ntassoolla @ 00:18
You are beginning to annoy people.
You are incapable of logical argument.
Were you born daft or have you gone through a training programme?
Ernie Lynch….
These Drone Strikes Are Authorised By The Muslim-Marxist Obama….
With The Help Of His ‘Baseball Cards’…
The Whole CIA Armed Drone Operation Is Overseen And Directed By A Muslim Convert …(Codename ‘Roger’ )…..
Just Makes You Hope….
That They’re Getting The REAL Bad Guys….
( And D’Ye Reckon They’re Headed For The Big Burny Fire….?? )
Still….Laughin’
Ntassoolla
You can just imagine someone somewhere sitting watching the footage of murdered children from a remote village saying to himself/herself…”if I dont do something they’ll just keep doing it”.
Ntassoolla
00:09 on
16 April, 2013
Just in case you’re not clear, when I say ‘poor people’ I’m referring to all those we help democratise.
You realise that when the West fully withdraws from Afghanistan we’re likely to leave behind a country in a worse social state than when we arrived with an even more extremist Taliban likely to take over. But you know we got OBL, and that’s the main thing.
If the USA did not take the utmost care to avoid civilian casualties then we would have death on the scale of Dresden.
Terrorist bombs kill more people in Pakistan than all the rest of the world put together.
ntassoolla.
Do you not think that and the atrocities the drones are committing every other week in these places is part of the reason this sort of attack happens in the West?
ernie lynch
00:11 on
16 April, 2013
Ntassoolla
00:09 on 16 April, 2013
‘Ernie why do you juxtapose the deaths of children?’
Because no one else was going to do it.
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Powerful info Ernie. Certainly made me think, I wasn’t aware of the scale of the US ‘activity’.
There is no balance however, just tragedy upon mounting tragedy. How awfully sad these events are.
The lunatics are taking over the asylum.
Best leave him to it.
My there are a few Bluenoses on the blog tonight. You know the type, that’ll tell you black is white, the earth is flat or Deadco are the same club as Newco.
Imagine having the gall to state that bigotry was not a major fact of life for a Roman Catholic in this backwater ! Barr and Stroud, Weir Pumps ring any bells ? Fairfield’s ? Tennents ? I could go on.
Traditionalist88, you are right about the latent threat of sectarian violence. It’s there simply for having Celtic colours on and being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
My earliest memory of the bigots was being spat on as an 11 year old in Duke St whilst waiting for the bus home. My crime ? A Celtic scarf. As an adult I’ve had to fight with some of the pot-bellied morons on two occasions, just for being a Tim with colours on.
As a parent my two sons have been warned to beware of the cowering jackals.
To the clowns denying the truth, next time they are out on a march, would you care to wear a green jumper in their vicinity ?
I’ve said this before, and will say it again.
I would wager that 90% of the population had never heard of Al Qaeda prior to the 9/11 thing.
As if by magic they were the bogey men, how very conveniant.
Look closer to home.