Our man on the inside, Charlie Green, seems to have upset a few people over the weekend. Charlie was playing to the gallery with his “bigotry” comment; it is not credible that the 35 clubs who voted against providing Sevco access to an elevated league are demographic significantly different from those of Rangers (1872/3). Although, there is a good chance that each of those 35 clubs will have a more mixed profile than the former club.
Green is still fending off interest from people with far greater pull with the Rangers (1872/3) support than he has (genuinely hope he succeeds here). He needs to sell tens of thousands of tickets to prevent his new club slipping into the hands of one of the other consortiums still trying to buy a piece of the action. I always caution Celtic from playing to the gallery, it delivers short term populism but is surely the alternative to a strategic plan. I am sure several clubs will express their alarm at these comments to the SFA.
Unfortunately, since the SFA failed to take action on either of Ally McCoist’s earlier inflammatory outbursts so they can expect more of the same from Green and others.
Attempts are being made to convince thousands of people a bigoted bogeyman has been out to get them. 99% of the target population will do no more than complain loudly but it’s the unpredictable >1% who exist in every community we should be concerned about.
To the best of my knowledge no Scottish club has ever accused others of bigotry, not even during ‘that’ 80 year period. If this is the new acceptable standard, the SFA are welcome to it, but it will be better for all if we go elsewhere to play our football. Our game has been potent for a century but it has now become dangerously unstable.
Let us go now, before this is whipped up any more. Anyone wanting to hold Scottish football together in its current form has a lot of explaining to do.
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Could Sevco afford to play a game at Ipox?
So the spl share is to be transferred on Friday, doesnt leave a lot of time for the paperwork does it,
The investigation is full on and to be faced when the findings are published, and no even that concerned.
ernie lynch on 30 July, 2012 at 13:48 said:
We’ll agree to differ on that one, young mhan …. I feel the Board have been ‘spot on’ in all of this ……we dont distractions …….sevco will also liquidate shortly, if bomber gets his way on ST sales ….LOL.
seems we are also looking at our ‘options’ for the future……HH
garygillespieshamstring on 30 July, 2012 at 15:11 said:
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Aye…we did the same thing a couple of weeks ago,thanks to advice on this site,and got a much better deal than we’d had,plus free ‘tivo’ box….which is fun, in a ‘bread and circuses’ kinda way.
Already said it,but worth repeating,many thanks to all who came up with such good advice.
CQN…..the best advice centre on the web!
HH!
garygillespieshamstring on 30 July, 2012 at 15:11 said:
Any virgin users
I’m finding it more difficult to find them as the years roll-on -))))
proudbhoy on 30 July, 2012 at 15:12
Got the bus about 08:00 in the morning from BKK, then back early afternoon. Pretty easy to find, the bus stops in the village near the school, then just get a taxi up to the school from there. Hope your pal gets the chance to go. The school will have changed a lot from when I visited.
Indio
miki67 on 30 July, 2012 at 15:14 said:
Can forgive him then, if that’s the case!!
Why are SKY messing about with our kick-off times when they have no deal with the SPL?
Saturday’s SPL opener between Celtic and Aberdeen has been switched to a 12.45 kick off. The match will be televised live by Sky Sports.
Calum Murray will referee the match.
Indio on 30 July, 2012 at 15:19 said:
proudbhoy on 30 July, 2012 at 15:12
Got the bus about 08:00 in the morning from BKK, then back early afternoon. Pretty easy to find, the bus stops in the village near the school, then just get a taxi up to the school from there. Hope your pal gets the chance to go. The school will have changed a lot from when I visited.
Yeah I’m sure he will. Cheers for info.
Hopefully the school has gone from strength to strength . Can u make donation when there ?
mrob1967 on 30 July, 2012 at 15:01 said:
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What can you do ? Our biggest msm outlet stunned into stupidity by a wee 3rd. Divi ‘team’.
Beggars belief. But there you have it….for all to see. Propaganda as ‘news’….but that’s okay,cos it’s the huns. I imagine the intimidation squads have been hard at work getting their favoured churnos on message keepin’ the old orange flame burning brightly in Scotia.
No change there,then.
Falkirk v Sevco in the Ramsden’s Cup?
Used to think Pressley was a chip off the old block, but he’ll have them up for it. I hope they batter Sevco. They better watch out for Black – he’ll get done for a salt.
Oh, Ramsden’s the pawnbroker? Darn it.
ASonOfDan on 30 July, 2012 at 15:22 said:
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No change there,either!
La plus ça change……
Pretentious?Moi? CSC
Seriously if you have not cancelled SKY Sports then please do so. Offering us £3 Million a year withour rangers and paying the English £6.6 Million A GAME!
Last month BT emerged as the new secondary broadcasting powerhouse in England changing the landscape of British broadcasting after they secured the rights to telecast live English Premier League games for the first time boosting BPL’s next TV deal to staggering value of £3bn over three years.
Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB which has forged an ‘empire’ over 20 years on the backdrop of the live telecast of top flight football, retained majority of the rights and will telecast 116 matches per season paying £760m a year.
As it stands out, a total of 154 Premier League matches will be broadcasted, 16 more than last season with a sales increase of £1.25bn on the current package that shares rights between Sky and ESPN.
Premier League clubs will receive at least £14m more yearly from this point on while broadcasters will pay £6.6m for each televised match.
The newcomer BT which replaced ESPN from the market will be paying £736m for 38 games per season over the course of three years.
Bayern Munich President Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has issued a stinging rebuke to Paris Saint Germain (PSG), saying that the salary they are paying new signing Zlatan Ibrahimović “makes me sick”.
Rummenigge also hit out at Chelsea and Manchester City for their excessive spending in recent times.
“Last year Manchester City recorded a loss of €200 million (£156 million/$246 million) and Chelsea €80 million (£63 million/$98 million) – despite the Financial Fair Play rules,” Rummenigge told Bild.
“What is happening at Paris St Germain, I find that incomprehensible.
“When you see the salary of Ibrahimović [pictured top], with €14.5 million (£12 million/$18 million) a year, that makes me sick.”
Rummenigge’s comments are particularly significant as he is the acting chairman of the European Club Association (ECA), representing the same teams he has rebuked.
With a nod towards the new Financial Fair Play initiative brought in by UEFA President Michel Platini in an attempt to force teams to balance their books, the former German international said: “It is now the decisive test…financial fair play is his baby.”
paulsatim is neil lennon on 30 July, 2012 at 15:20 said:
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I’m only guessing/hoping……..I’m just an ordinary bod,privy to nuthin’…..all I can do is piece together things on an evidentiary basis and reach a conclusion.
That is when I’m no bein’ just daft for a laugh.
HH!
THE EXILED TIM, 15:08
Massive uptake – but only relative to the other Div 3 teams. So that’s fair enough then
test
Paul67 et al:
Finance industry source fairly close to the rfc takeover has confirmed that C Whyte still owns both Ibrox and Murry Park. Green’s consortium has no ownership of either.
Worth following up on? (looks like a very good source).
“The Binman has reacted angrily today to the fact that his fish-supper came with mushy peas at lunchtime, the grizzled third division has-been, blamed bigotry for the culinary affront.”
Whilst he or she seldom gets it right, and it was an easy call to make, Quonno got it in one this time. What he or she could never have forecast was Green openly pandering to the Larkhall Loyal brigade.
Unless there is a massive upsurge in season ticket sales, it will be case of administration by the autumn or dignified vultures like Wattie and Bomber picking up the whole thing for buttons.
quonno on 29 July, 2012 at 10:08 said:
Can the leopard ever change its spots?
I doubt it.
Today’s playing birth of Sevco will almost certainly be signalled in the same fashion as the playing death of Oldco was.
The citizenry of Brechin will almost certainly find themselvs regaled with a selection of defiance based ‘Ould Numbers’.
After all THEIR travails since St. Valentine’s Day, perhaps the cruellest cut of all was reserved for yesterday’s Herald.
An article discussing SECOND DIVISION Brechin’s new boy Alan Trouten, carried the headline ‘TROUTEN LOOKS FORWARD TO HIS COMPETITIVE DEBUT AGAINST TEAM FROM THE LOWER LEAGUES’.
Brazil v Germany just starting sky ch 463. Just a wee heads up!
ASonOfDan on 30 July, 2012 at 15:31 said:
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The so-called ‘elite’ levels of football are becoming like the art market.
Art used as as currency,or a bet against turbulent financial markets.
Expensive football players hawked around by billionaires and bizness men,like currency. It’s not whether they’re actually any good or not; just what they’re valued at. Just like artwork.
Sooner or later it’ll slump,then off we go again. Just like boom’n’bust capitalism.
The problem this time though is that the market is global. There are no local fluctuations that can move ‘stuff’ around,wave-like.
This time,when it finally implodes,is it…the last time. And that’s no bad thing.
Perhaps we’ll see a more equitable system in place.
And the same applies to the football world.
Henry Clarkson : nice one.
Paul – I agree with you completely on this. As you have mentioned this idea of going elsewhere a few times now, 2 quick questions – do you believe Celtic are actively pursuing such a move? Do you believe it will happen within a 1-3 year time frame?
I appreciate Celtic would be unlikely to comment on the matter until they had to, so just asking for your own opinion.
Cheers and congrats on a great site.
Is it broke?
Uly- yes.
TET,
your right, how do the greene brigade know BDO will take over in September, who did they get that information from
The time limit for D&P to issue their report to the courts has passed are they saying the courts judgement on conflicting interests will take till September.
Its all begining to look like political influence is being exerted
Uly
Naw
Yes is the new Naw :>)
Charlie Green and the Wormsley Common Gang………..
TBM
…….no as broke as sevco…………!
*Bdm-Tishhh*
Miki67
One of Green’s investors away back stated the plan was to bring in players they owned, let them play at rangers and get a bit of value and then flog them.
Money not going to club but the investors.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 30 July, 2012 at 15:51 said:
TET,
your right, how do the greene brigade know BDO will take over in September, who did they get that information from
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Tommy from Glasgow interviewing sevco director Imran Ahmed, http://soundcloud.com/tommy-gold1/sevco-director-imran-ahmed
garygillespieshamstring on 30 July, 2012 at 15:42 said:
Henry Clarkson : nice one.
I’m lurking all week mate -))))
paulsatim,
thats what I was referring to, how does he know when BGO will take over, who told him
and BDO
SAINTS fans have responded to chairman Stewart Gilmour’s call to snap up season tickets . . . but the figures are still down on this time last year.
Worried club chief Gilmour revealed at a meeting with supporters earlier this month that sales had slumped by 300 – costing the club a five-figure sum.
That, along with worries that TV broadcasters Sky and ESPN would pull the plug on Scottish football following the newco Rangers fiasco, led to fears that St Mirren could slump into administration.
But, following Gilmour’s appeal for support, season ticket sales have shot up.
Saints general manager Brian Caldwell revealed: “We are still slightly down on last year’s figures but the good news is that a good number of fans have responded to the call to buy season tickets and we hope more will follow suit.”
GIRUY Green!!!
canamalar
I remember when the dougie dougie gate started, I posted that things would get political, one of the promminent posters on the blog laughed at the very thought that politicos would get involved.
And that was only about the cheating and corruption from by the sfa.
We have scaled quite a few rungs since then, and the political influence alligned with the masonic have taken over.
What really perturbs me is the lack of comment from the other clubs in scotland, the sfa/spl are breaking every rule in their book, all to the sound of deafening silence.
Why would that be then ?
Worrying times, who knows, just don’t have a good feeling about things.