There has been an enormous amount of guff said and written during the last five months but last night’s statement by Inverness Caledonian Thistle chairman, Kenny Cameron, is surely is up there with the most bizarre.
“All clubs will now have to live with the repercussions of this decision. Scottish football was at a cross roads today in terms of what was on the table for all clubs regarding reorganisation, financial distribution and a road map that would have taken the game forward.
“But this has now been thrown in to disarray by this decision. This is a sad day for all clubs in Scotland.
“Certain clubs in the SFL have perceived the financial information they were receiving as a ‘big stick’ to beat them into accepting Newco in the First Division. This was definitely not the case, as far as I am concerned. What they were being told was the reality of the situation.
“We will be convening an emergency board meeting over the weekend to discuss the very serious financial implications for us as a club going forward.”
Instead of explaining to the people of Inverness that buying season tickets will prevent the club making non-football staff redundant he seems to be preparing the ground for significant cutbacks.
This is the reality for every club in the SPL and several in the SFL. Fans, including Inverness fans, demanded that a sporting element was retained in their game. Now they’ve gotten their way, Inverness and the rest should be putting out the clarion call for fans to buy tickets.
As football fans, this is our responsibility. 35 out of 42 clubs voted to reject Sevco into anything other than the bottom level of Scottish football. Now we must step forward.
P.S. You don’t really need me to tell you, but buy a season ticket now!
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Totally off topic :},i hope we get the finger out soon and get a couple of guys in before the CL qualifiers,as IMO the squad we have won’t get us there.
Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC until I die
Yes the auld jambos said tim to move on as well.
Going out with the Lioness round a few pubs tonight in Gourock…There will be a few Sevco supporters in them so I might join you in having a few drinks
EDB we were in Gran Canaria top end of Purto Rico. Really good time.
Bhun supporter tells me one of his friends, “a VERY good accountant”, showed him what Clubs could lose because of ranker’s demise …..
I wondered, if he was THAT good an accountant, why he didn’t highlight what they had been up to for 20+ years…..and….pity he didn’t get himself a job at grey skull ……..end of that conversation……LLLLOOOOLLLL
Hail hail the huns are up shit creek with no
paddle………………….God is great.
67 heaven,
I think all avenues should be explored, but given the success, or lack of, of our digital media strategy to date, I don’t see Celtic being able to carry off any meaningful and profitable version of their own TV channel .
( for clarity, my criticism of their media strategy is based around key indicators such as the relatively low twitter followers, and the way that sites like this one have produced e-magazines which significantly outshine any official productions)
Dino,
I have often wondered if , perhaps the SPL should simply give away the broadcasting rights , and look at them as an advertising media.
For example, if we gave the rights to the BBC (national) on the basis that they screened 1 game / month on BBC1 national TV, plus other games on BBC3 and showed highlights, every week on BBC1 , could the clubs then make more cash via stadium advertising , shirt sponsorship etc ?
Last year, one of the f1 teams tried something like this, where they gave away the principal team name rights to a credible company, and used this to get more cash out of the medium sponsors who came on board because of the ‘anchor sponsor’.
Well – it all seems to be coming to a head.
Can we assume that Donkey will be gone this time next week and that the process to get rid of Regan will have started.
How to get rid of Ogilvie? Maybe we need to wait for the legal cases in the coming months, but if anyone is compromised enough in this shameful debacle to effectively be on gardening leave then it says to me that fact alone is circumstantial enough for dismissal. How much does CO make per year at the the SFA for making the sounds of silence during Scottish footballs darkest hour? Honestly, its beyond parody…
Incidentally – I reckon that only two men in football have the experience and credentials to take us forward.
We should be looking towards Gordon Smith to run the SPL and ask Walter to step into the breach at the SFA. That will work….
VP-You just in fae the ole Armchair in The Vogue?
GL2
Stayed in the Marina Suites in that resort a couple of times. Down at the harbour/marina. Maybe something to do with the name.
Beautiful views from our balcony and no hills to climb.
VP
Mind your language old chap.
Unlike the angry orc on the 267.
St michaels Bhoy.
Pro sevco and anti sevco factions are what the msm will let you believe. The actual factions are pro money and pro integrity. Let’s be careful.
Any club that announces it can’t survive without Newco should be put on notice to resign from the SPL as they can’t be trusted to beat them in a match which might relegate Newco.
!!Bada Bing!! on 14 July, 2012 at 18:28 said:
That’s what I said earlier……great minds…….LOL
Greenlion 2
I was checking the Olympic Volleyball site for the GB team and I noted that the Coach to the GB Men’s Beach Volleyball Team is a guy from Greenock- Imorfe “Morph” Bowes- a good player that I played against when he was up here.
How is the Beach Volleyball scene in Greenock doing these days?
bada/g64
You two heathens trying to say God is not great?
neil south uist
Condolences at this sad time.
balhambhoy on 14 July, 2012 at 18:47 said:
Ding ……!!!!!!
10,121 at the Dundee derby today. I would love it if we had record attendances in the SPL this season.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on 14 July, 2012 at 18:14:
“That Hearts, and other club, statements say it all……….usual MSM crap just to sell papers…..they have no conscience at all, and have been a major contributing factor the the bhun demise ( God, that sounds good …… LOL”
It is desperate stuff from the MSM. The tabloids in particular are in for a tough time now that Sevco have failed in their bold attempts to avoid the traditional route for new football clubs. Their proposed fan base normally favour more traditional routes as well…
But it will be hard for the daily papers to maintain current staffing levels in their sports departments now that one of Scotland’s biggest clubs no longer exists.
Their circulation figures are dropping at alarming rates as things stand, and people who supported the Huns don’t want to read bad news stories about their disgraced club. There is no justification for blanket coverage of Third Division football – especially when the new club is unlikely to play in front of a couple of thousand people at best … and that’s if they play at all.
If Doncaster & Regan are so out of touch with the chairmen of the SPL clubs that they push hard for something that the Chairmen rejected, then they deserve what comes their way.
They are not alone though, & to quote Narrowboat Tim, we have a series of unknown unknowns here.
How far does the virus go?
Rod Petrie, Campbelll Ogilvie, Kenny Cameron, Jim Ballantyne, any others.
balhambhoy on 14 July, 2012 at 18:47 said:
Cracking point.
Clashcitybhoy on 14 July, 2012 at 18:41 said:
Interesting thinking again Ccb and one possibly worth investigating. It would obviously depend on viewership numbers but it could possibly work.
My main beef is that the current deal is seriously undervalued and the men responsible for this should be answerable. Another problem with more or less giving away the rights to SS for the terms of the current deal is if someone gets something for nothing they don’t value it and therefore SS are not liable to advertise the product or put it on prime time tv either. If they paid more for it there would be more games on prime slots and therefore SPL clubs could increase advertising revenue and also the SPL itself could attract bigger sponsorship deals allowing for more money for league placings and parachute payments for clubs that get relegated.
I do really believe though that the revenue should be split a lot more evenly between the clubs also. This should be TV revenue only not gate money as this model has shown to work down sarf. It would mean Celtic getting less in the short term but as the product improves so should TV revenue and sponsorship revenue which would leave Celtic better off long term.
HH
setting free the bears
The old I was on the mens beach volleyball site aye right or do they also wear the tight shorts and cut off tops……
As you know in Gods town we focus on manly sports and have no time for ‘big lassies’ games….
Dino,
Agree, that product is Seriously undervalued, and IMHO we effectively subsidise the EPL.
neil south uist
Thoughts and prayers with you and yours at this difficult time.
RWE
D&R are out of touch with reality.
A complete clear out is required.
Nothing else will do.
balhambhoy on 14 July, 2012 at 18:47 said:
Any club that announces it can’t survive without Newco should be put on notice to resign from the SPL as they can’t be trusted to beat them in a match which might relegate Newco.
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Excellent point,I wish I had said that,Whistler.
Heard chic young’s analogy today in making a special case for rangers tribute act saying that if you owned a restaurant that was fully booked you wouldnt find a table for joe bloggs but you would still find one for rod stewart. ????????
What if rod stewart had refused to pay you the previous times he had eaten there or if he had cheated you out of money and been bad for business? What if he had given your restaurant a bad name? Would you still make a special case for him?
Na didnt think so?
Your a drowning man chico clutching at a straw.
BMCUWP
Agree. The core is rotten.
Time to start afresh.
Even if it means doing it without Rupert’s money.
Until we meet again…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Drove past one of the biggest cemeteries in Manchester today, Southern Cemetery.
Lots of gravestones with national flags on them. The most prevalent was the tricolour. Great to see.
Doubt they would last long in a Scottish Cemetery.
Sad that. Scotland has a long way to go. Independence???? No way.
GB
Disagree.
HH
I’ve a great deal of respect for the RTC blog but sadly it’s not free from hun halfwits polluting the site.
They really do not get it as has been said so often.
Thick disnae do them justice. Shame to whoever deprived their schools of pencils and jotters.
Howdy
Different topic, but wanted to speak about it, there was a show called “The 20 Transfers That Shook The World” on itv4….firstly i hate the overblown titles that they have to make up to try and attract viewers, i found this programme half way through, was trying to think of one genuine transfer that “shook the world” and drew a blank. Anyway, the next bit started, and it was mojo
Now the reason i mention this, is because the broadcast opinion over the years is that he was the first catholic in 18 million yrs to sign for an anti catholic team…..which in turn annoyed supporters from both sides
BS
BS
I watched this guy signing from Nantes and celebrated his return to where he (i felt) belonged, i was a kid at the time and this was a tremendous moment……
Then the betrayal……had nothing to do with religion in any shape or form, except for the Judas tag.
He Betrayed us, let us down, stabbed us in the back, i learned a valuable lesson :)
my dislike of him has nothing to do with religious bs, just the fact that he is not a genuine man and has no integrity
sorry for my rant :) may the force be with u
balhambhoy on 14 July, 2012 at 18:47 said:
Any club that announces it can’t survive without Newco should be put on notice to resign from the SPL as they can’t be trusted to beat them in a match which might relegate Newco.
Well said that man.
BTW. Used to work in Balham many moons ago and stayed in Tooting, you live in Balham now?
Steinreignedsupreme on 14 July, 2012 at 18:49 said:
What a bonus the demise of some of our pundits would be…..
GORDON64
There are very intelligent people running clubs in Scottish football.
The problem is that they are not in charge of the game overall.
We overlooked,tbh,the fact that the smaller clubs-who were entitled to vote-were not run by the local blazers,but by local people who were doing it on a part-time basis while being successful in their own right.
Imagine the pressure of operating your own business,PLUS the local community club,and still turning a profit!
I think I might not have been the only person to have overlooked the fact that many of those smaller teams have big hitters in business amongst them.
And I am very grateful that the chairmen without that background voted with steel,strength and morals too.
It’s not about integrity,nor that word that the huns managed,disgracefully,to steal from the dictionary and virtually make their own.
Dignity,pwaah.
Geezabrek.
It’s about doing what they KNEW was right,and had to be done.
And clenching their balls as they did it,because they can see what is coming.
Brave men,every one.