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I’ve read yesterday’s statement from prospective Rangers owner, Charles Green, a few times now, without really understanding what the point was.  When someone issues an unexpected statement the reason is usually obvious.  Not on this occasion.

Published on the official Rangers web site it once and for all confirmed that Duff and Phelps were acting with the approval of Green when they took the SFA to the Court of Session, thereby bringing the entire Scottish game into a potential disrepute situation with Fifa.

Mr Green will now be fully aware of the ramifications of Rangers court action.  They failed in their attempt to have the matter referred back for consideration to the Judicial Panel and, as Paul McConville pointed out yesterday, cannot be ejected from the Scottish Cup.  They are not currently participating in the Scottish Cup, and suspension from a future season’s Cup is not an available punishment.

His legal advice is now likely to conclude that his actions will soon lead to suspension from the Scottish FA.  There is, however, an interesting theme through Green’s short statement that might indicate why his statement was issued:

“I nor my investors wish to see an outcome that would be to the detriment of Scottish Football”.

“….suspension or termination of Rangers Football Club membership of the SFA. That in our view would be a disaster for Scottish football”.

“Expulsion from the Scottish Cup is itself a very serious punishment which would also have a severe impact on Scottish football”.

We are heartened to hear the interests of Scottish football are so core to Mr Green’s heart.  This being the case, he will possibly protect Scottish football by asking the SFA to impose the now-illegal player registration ban on Rangers and beg them not to refer the matter back to the Appellate Panel. The horse has bolted on this one but it’s possibly worth a punt.

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  1. Tom McLaughlin on

    smoke and mirrors –

     

     

    Kev Jungle used to come on here day after day singing the praises of Gerry McNee and telling us what a wonderful journalist he was and how much Scottish Football misses him since his retirement.

  4. Mort on

    KevJungle at 10:05 said:

     

     

    On a relative subject…..do you think it would be a good idea to promote either, Chris McCart or, Stevie Frail to Neil’s bench ?

     

     

    Personally speaking I don’t think so. Not because I don’t think either have the requisite qualities needed, I’m sure both are perfectly capable and if either were appointed I wouldn’t be overly dissapointed but I think we need something a little bit different.

     

     

    Perhaps a coach with European experience and who has a slighly different mindset to Neil Lennon when it comes to how the game should be played. Someone who will give an honest assessment of how things are progressing and enable Neil to bounce ideas off. Someone who can not only improve the coaching of the players but of the rest of the management team aswell.

     

     

    I don’t have any major preferences as my knowledge of the European coaching scene is limited but I think to take us to the next stage in our development, something a little different is called for.

     

     

    Chris McCart, Stevie Frail and John Kenndey are doing great things with the youth/development squad set ups and I’d be happy to see them remain doing that for a while.

     

     

    Mort

  5. kitalba on

    Tom:

     

     

    Tom, what I was told could well be rubbish but that is the first time I’ve been told it. I was told it by somebody I trust (who does not work for the tax office), that is all.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Tom McLaughlin

  7. Mort on

    Tom McLaughlin

     

     

    Got “The Book Thief” as a Christmas present last year. Wow, just wow.

     

     

    Superb writing and superb storytelling. I had no idea that it was a children’s book when I read such was the seriousness of the subject matter but the delicacy some of the topics were dealt with was just excellent.

     

     

    I don’t often shed a tear but there was a part during that book where I wept like a little girl.

     

     

    Mort

  9. Tom McLaughlin on

    kitalba –

     

     

    After I got the text this morning, I thought of posting the info on CQN in the morning, but decided against it as I thought there must be lots of rumours similar to that one virtually every day. It was only when I saw your post, I thought . . . well now I’m wondering.

  12. Tom McLaughlin on

    kitalba –

     

     

    I was up in the Albion area of North Brisbane yesterday for a job interview. Do you know the area? Would it be a decent area to work in?

  18. kitalba on

    Tom:

     

     

    It is industrial. Cafe food and only one good pub unless you want to go into the valley. As far as your comute goes you are only minutes to get onto the highway south. Nothing wrong with the area, nothing great about the area but it would not stop me from working their. As a matter of fact I am just a couple of K’s up the road at Springhill.

     

     

    If you take the job give me a shout and I’ll catch you for a beer.

  19. RalphWaldoEllison fights ALS on

    Morning to all CQNers

     

    (Its 6.00am here in Charlotte)

     

     

    Can anyone reliably confirm the opening day of the new season as August 4?

     

     

    SPL site is unhelpful (to say the least) and I’m trying arrange a trip to the game for two family members.

     

     

    Thanks for any replies.

     

    HH

     

    RWE

  20. South Of Tunis on

    Noon —— just in from the digging . Now too hot to work.

     

     

    The Book Thief ?

     

     

    An excellent book .

     

     

    Particularly good on the notion that there is more than one way to win .

     

     

     

    Particularly good on the possibility that ” winners ” are frequently losers.

     

     

    Particularly good on the absurdities of Moral Positivism and the dangers of rigid ideological certainty..

     

     

    Lunch time -hiding from the sun -way down south

  21. kitalba on

    Again from Celtic Paranoia…

     

     

    BALDE RACIALLY ABUSED AT IBROX – TABLOID SILENCE IS DEAFENING

     

     

    In the wake of the Old Firm game a pertinent observation is made by Graeme Spiers in the Herald which predictably is ignored by all of the tabloids –

     

     

    “The game wasn’t without uglier moments. It has become trite for sportswriters today to get off on vacuous protests about the Old Firm atmosphere: I think we all agree by now that it is unsavoury. The Rangers fans, though, at one point indulged in the most painful racist abuse of Bobo Balde, a mob of them over in a corner of the Copland Road stand whose ape-noises and imitations confronted the defender as he went for a throw-in.Witnessing this scene, the irony of just who were the animals and who was human here didn’t make it more palatable.”

     

     

    Depressingly, Speirs is not immune from the pressures of the “can’t have a go at one without the other” [this translates really as “can’t have a go at Rangers without having a go at Celtic” – see Gordon Waddell on Balde and Ricksen’s appeals against suspension as an illustration of how this doesn’t apply in reverse].

     

     

    Referring to Hartson’s disallowed goal Spiers writes –

     

     

    “In that split-second, of course, it would be almost impossible to glean that Hartson’s position had been valid, and Mr McBride was entirely innocent. This, though, will not stop inquiries among Celtic fans about which school the McBrides were educated at, and in which geographical Lodge they lay down their prayer-mats.”

     

     

    It is difficult to empathise with this view as the margin of error in the Hartson decision deals in yards not inches. In addition, it would not be necessary to inquire as to the education establishment McBride attended as it is widely known that this is the same McBride who, coincidentally of course, got an offside call against Jorge Cadete spectacularly wrong at Ibrox in 1997. It is also well known that this official has been a member of a Rangers supporters bus.

     

     

    As a balancing act, this poke at Celtic supporters is fairly inadequate in any case, when you reflect on the comparision here – sickening racist abuse perpetrated by a baying mob, as opposed to perceived paranoia regarding legitimate concerns surrounding events that unquestionably took place.

  22. Steinreignedsupreme on

    RalphWaldoEllison fights ALS on 5 June, 2012 at 11:12:

     

     

    “Can anyone reliably confirm the opening day of the new season as August 4?”

     

     

    The first leagues will be 4, 5 and 6 August.

  23. Som mes que un club on

    An interesting quote from Gulliver’s Travels that was referred to in The Times yesterday, that I felt we could draw our own conclusion…

     

     

    ‘I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth’.

     

     

    Boom!!

  26. Tom McLaughlin on

    kitalba –

     

     

    Thanks for that. I got the train from Gold Coast to Bowen Hill then another train from there to Albion, one stop. I have to wait till next week to hear if I get a second interview, but if I am offered the job and it suits me, I’ll certainly relocate to Brisbane. Couldn’t face that commute every day, whether driving or by train. So all being well I certainly will give you a shout.

     

     

    Cheers.

  29. thomthethim CQN (genuine) Badge Wearer on

    Mort,

     

    Thanks.

     

    I agree, it was a gratuitous paragraph.

     

     

    It reminded me of a poor attempt at Ian Archer, when he felt obliged, after his famous “Occasional, permanent” article, to inform his readers that he wS not a Catholic.

     

     

    At least the author, in this case, semi redeemed himself in the final para with the tax reference.

  31. Mort on

    thomthethim

     

     

    I just didn’t think there was any need for it. If anyone cared what the school was, it’s name gave it away. The implication the author made was that Celtic choose the school because it was a Catholic school.

     

     

    Mort

  32. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    H.T.

     

    Scotland(with a gale at their backs) 6

     

    Australia( menacingly) 3

  33. kitalba on

    Billy says…

     

     

    “When you are talking about someone’s career or livelihood and you look at what’s at stake, you cannot just accept injustice. You have to make sure things are done fair”.Fine words indeed and I am sure that all right minded people would agree. But whose fine words are these? Well I will not keep you in suspense any longer. These noble words are from the mouth of Peter Lawwell, the Chief Executive of Celtic Football Club. This was the Celtic supremo’s moral statement as Celtic began their battle with the Hampden beaks over disciplinary action dished out to boss Neil Lennon. In fact, the Celtic supremo felt so strongly about this injustice that he hired the QC Paul McBride to make a legal challenge. McBride successfully argued Lennon’s two separate bans should run concurrently and not consecutively, as the SFA rule book did not allow such a punishmentThe success of Rangers at the Court of Session in overturning the transfer embargo has ignited another fire storm that has engulfed Scottish football and sent the media, football authorities and the haters of the club into a predictable hysteria. Yet it is ignored that this is not the first legalchallenge to the SFA rule book.On the fight to reduce Lennon’s dugout ban, Lawwell continued: “We would have preferred not involving a lawyer but when we felt that our interpretation was not being understood or accepted then clearly you have to take it that next step”.

     

     

    The outcome of this legal spat was that in July 2011, Lawwell was named as part of the new SFA professional game board set up to rule over professional football in Scotland. You would think that after this very public put down and legal defeat, the last thing the SFA would want to do was make the same mistake again.

     

     

     

    —————————————————————–

     

     

    Okay here’s the keys, who wants to drive the bus?

  34. RalphWaldoEllison fights ALS on

    Steinreignedsupreme,

     

     

    Thanks.

     

     

    Can you source that for me, before I go ahead and book flights.

     

    I assume that we would play on Aug 4 at 3.00pm.

     

     

    HH

  35. miki67 on

    kitalba on 5 June, 2012 at 07:37 said:

     

    >>>

     

    Well said,that mhan!

     

    All those years that it was so clear to all of us that rankers(ia) were gaining unfair advantage all over the shop (not least the ‘refereeing’) , and their talk of

     

    casinos,Vegas style,their grandiose lunacy writ large,and the msm writing us off as paranoid while that lot sat sniggering at the cleverness of their duplicity while swaggering in bigoted self righteousness.

     

    And now…..well no wonder we’re furious as they try to wriggle out from under the boulders raining down on them. And still the msm act as their sympathetic apologists.

     

    I wish them a swift exit from football and a slow,lingering death.

  36. South Of Tunis on

    Ireland — Italy .

     

     

    Just heard a radio interview with Cesare Prandelli , The Manager of Italy .

     

     

    Heavy hint that Italy will play 4 – 3 -1 -2 .

     

     

    Heavy hint that the likely line up is–

     

     

    Buffon

     

     

    Maggio Barzagli Bonucci Chielini.

     

     

    De Rossi Pirlo Marchisio .

     

     

    Montolivo.

     

     

    Balotelli Cassano.

  37. Steinreignedsupreme on

    RalphWaldoEllison fights ALS on 5 June, 2012 at 11:35:

     

     

    Nothing certain at the minute – especially when it comes to a certain TV contract.

     

     

    But assuming nothing changes with that then as champions I think our match will be televised – either 12: 30 on Saturday or 2pm Sunday.

  38. Som mes que un club on

    RalphWaldoEllison fights ALS on 5 June, 2012 at 11:35 said:

     

    Steinreignedsupreme,

     

     

    Thanks.

     

     

    Can you source that for me, before I go ahead and book flights.

     

    I assume that we would play on Aug 4 at 3.00pm.

     

     

    *****************

     

     

    I don’t know if the actual kick off time alters your travel arrangements, but I don’t think it will be 1500.

     

     

    The match will almost certainly be televised, as PL will probably raise the Championship flag, therefore, most likely an early kick off of perhaps 1215/1245.

  40. RalphWaldoEllison fights ALS on

    Steinreignedsupreme and Som mes que un club

     

     

    Thanks for all your help.

     

     

    If either of you are going to Philly on Aug 11, be good to catch up.

     

    There’ll be a pint waiting for you.

     

     

    HH

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