The statement released by Duff and Phelps last night revealed the substance to the lobbying that had taken place since the original punishment handed out by the SFA judicial panel:
“The decision by the appellate tribunal to uphold the sanction, namely the suspension of registration of players for one year, is not competent in the view of the club and its legal advisers.
“Such a sanction was not available to the tribunal”.
The suspension of player registrations was not one of the suggested punishments on the menu for the judicial panel but the rules allowed them to vary from guidance and choose whatever punishment they believed appropriate.
The appeal correctly found that the judicial panel were not were not subject to an exhaustive list of possible punishments. Duff and Phelps main hope was that the SFA rules were unclear and poorly constructed, as they were before an overhaul last year.
You don’t need to look too hard for the irony.
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theweegreenman – I’m sorry to hear that. I hope things turn out better for you both. (thumbsup)
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 17 May, 2012 at 13:40 said:
did we win anything with Keane or Bellamy, no sure who done who the favour on that score.
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Fair point, though one man doesn’t win or lose a league. Anyway, I do admit it would be a punt, but sometimes these things go in your favour. Sometimes they don’t.
Did a bit of lunchtime striker statto-ing just to see who stacks up against who.
Goals per Appearance
Hooper this season: 0.57 : 29 from 51 Appearances
Stokes this season: 0.45 21 from 47 Appearances
Keane 2010: 0.84 L 16 from 19 Appearances
Bellamy 2005: 0.67 10 from 15 Appearances
Owen (Career): 0.47 219 from 468 Appearances
philvisreturns :)
PAUL Jewell has not given up hope of signing Daryl Murphy just yet.
The Ipswich Town boss is keen to sign the versatile winger/forward permanently following his season-long loan spell from Celtic, while the Scottish champions are happy to let him go after he played no part in their championship winning campaign.
Jewell conceded recently that the Irishman may be out of Town’s price range, however, the EADT understands that all parties are still trying to thrash out a deal.
We understand that Ipswich have been quoted a £300,000 transfer fee, while the former Sunderland man – who still has another year left on his current deal – would also have to accept a significant pay cut to return to Portman Road.
Waterford-born Murphy fulfilled a ‘boyhood dream’ by joining the Hoops in the summer of 2010, however, he ended up making just nine starts in his debut season.
And with the prolific Gary Hooper, target man Anthony Stokes, promising teenager James Forrest and converted left-winger Georgios Samaras all ahead of him in the pecking order, Bhoys boss Neil Lennon will be keen to offload the nine-cap Republic of Ireland international from the wage bill.
Murphy started all but one of the Blues’ final 31 games of the season just gone, mainly playing on the left wing but also providing a different type of threat up front when Town switched tactics. He scored four goals and provided three assists.
Jewell said recently that he wants ‘big, strong and athletic’ players in his team next season. And it was Murphy’s physical presence which saw him given the nod over direct-running Josh Carson for much of the campaign just gone.
* Craig Whyte turns out to be two kids wearing a long coat
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ha ha Belter bud!
Whatever happened to all that not caring that no one liked them?
They really have this sussed though. They need the votes of every other club, so they plan to do their best to annoy them. Economic argument that clubs need their fans? Let’s boycott away games. SFA needs us? Let’s spoil the cup final.
Mind you there was mention of a mass streak at one point. Now that has to be their nuclear option. If they ever give the go ahead I think we should just surrender first. Some things are just too awful even to be contemplated.
Leftclicktic
You are a star.
One of the leading lights of CQN
I was always amazed how this MASSIVE story was buried and how UTTERLY DOCILE we were about it afterwards
HH
Ex ludo
A giant squid couldnae play that on a banjo !!!
HH
philvisreturns on 17 May, 2012 at 14:15:
Religious discrimination never held me back either after I left Scotland – but it certainly did when I was applying for jobs while I lived there.
It’s heartening to know you have not been held back by petty discrimination, but that’s hardly a barometer of employment practices in Scotland.
As an example I would confidently state that ‘left-footers’ employed in all sections of the Scottish media, from the shop floor to the broadcasters are a rare species.
Does the owner of Babbity Bowsters not have 2 surnames?
Crawford Fraser or Fraser Crawford.
Gordon J..,
a picture of the ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks’ football match flaashed into my head at the streak threat :oD))))
stupid huns
2 kids wearing a long coat. If the one with his head sticking out the top is the presentable face ,I shudder to think what the other one looks like.
Gordonj
Brilliant !! LOL
Totally agree
HH
From FF:
Went oot the urra day wae ra bint tae git ma wages fae the Bank a Traitors. Hid tae git ra bint tae go in fur iz so ah did. Canni believe it. Bin findin it right hard to see anyfin wae no wearin rame Specsavers gleseez. Then a hid tae send rat Vectra tae the crusher. Couldnae look at it anymare thru the windae. And the f***ing bints in a mood cause a cancelled the Thomsons package tae Torremolinos. Hivin’ tae wear a brass codpiece in the scratcher. Wee Aphrodite is spitting bulletz cause she canni wear ur Adidas gear/ wee Oliver canni go tae that 5-aside tourni at Lesser Hampden cauz itz sponsored wae rame Sports Scotland B******s. Then we hid tae go across ra urrer side a the toon tae Morrisons ( cause we canni shoap in Asda cauz a ra Green logo). Its mental so it iz. Am pure beelin so ah um. Am hivin tae go wiffoot mae twelve Big Mac mealz an awe…hivin tae eat Tennessee fried chicken insteed. Pure nightmare. Canni even pick up ma winnings fae rat Judas c*** bookies William Hill. A wiz even in the pub ra irra day in a wiz drinkin a pint a Carling cauz a couldnae see wiffoot ma gleseez…really don’t fink a kin keep it up anymer so a canni…
thought the prison population % was the best way to identify disenfranchisement
RANGERS fans’ chief Andy Kerr today urged the club to fight the legalities of the SFA’s transfer embargo to the ends of the earth.
And in a stark warning, Kerr also insisted that the Ibrox support will mobilise themselves to ensure the ramifications of the ban will be felt by ALL SPL clubs.
Kerr said: “There is widespread anger among the Rangers fans, as you can well imagine. We will take a stand now.”
Last night’s decision by a three-man appeal body to uphold the original punishment of a 12-month transfer embargo on players over the age of 18 has been met by a furious response from the Rangers support and Kerr has warned that they will not take the decision lying down.
Rangers’ administrators were today weighing up their options but look certain to take legal action against the SFA, possibly in civil courts or the Court or Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland.
Several first-team stars have cut-price get-out clauses in their contracts after agreeing to wage cuts and, should they activate them and leave, Gers would be unable to sign replacements. Already, Everton are eyeing a swoop for Steven Naismith, who has a £2million trigger release.
The Rangers Supporters’ Assembly will now:
*Lobby the club to withdraw from the Scottish Cup next season.
*Plan to boycott all away games.
*Put pressure on sponsors.
*Call for Rangers players to withdraw from the Scotland squad to face the USA in Florida later this month.
Kerr added: “We feel that while our circumstances are unique, they are not exceptional, yet the SFA seem to be focused on making some kind of an example here.
“There have been other clubs this season who have not been able to pay the wages of their players, yet there has been very little in the way of punishments handed out for that. Ultimately, we have to do what we think is the best course of action now.
“We met when the SFA first announced the transfer embargo and had preliminary discussions about what to do. But at the time we felt we were jumping into it too quickly, and we wanted to wait and see whether or not common sense would surface at an appeal.
“That hasn’t been the case and the club need to take this fight all the way. They have to challenge this tooth and nail.
“The body of opinion is definitely behind taking the players out of the national team, although personally I would have to say that I am cautious about pushing for such a thing because it isn’t particularly fair that the international career of a player is hampered because of this situation.
“But at the same time, if Allan McGregor or Lee Wallace or Steven Whittaker get injured when they are playing for Scotland, how do we replace them?”
Kerr also believes that the whole of Scottish football will be punished because of the embargo.
He added: “When Rangers signed Steven Naismith from Kilmarnock, the sale went a long way to ensuring that the Rugby Park club did not go into administration.
“There are lots of players in the SPL that I am sure Rangers will have been looking at, and the bottom line is that buying these guys from other Scottish clubs benefits the game.
“If you take that out for a year then I am sure there will be one or two clubs who will feel it.
“The Rangers support need to do everything within their power to make a stand now.
“We are bitterly disappointed at the decision to uphold the embargo … but it is not finished yet.”
The guys I feel sorry for are the ones who replace the seats and repair the toilets after the huns visit CP. Their poor weans will be starvin.
The Bribery Act 2010
I think we may be reading about that in the weeks ahead… ;)
wonkyradar 14:39
Got to be Declan… :0)
Kayal33 on 17 May, 2012 at 14:39 said:
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*Lobby the club to withdraw from the Scottish Cup next season.
*Plan to boycott all away games.
*Put pressure on sponsors.
>>>>
These guys have absolutely no idea just how irrelevant they already are, or are about to become. Their club has already been nuked – They have just not bothered to notice yet and are still trying to stop the button being pressed.
When the most favourable outcome is trying to get a CVA, watch all your decent players leave, and wait for a 12 month transfer ban to lift, is it not time someone has a quiet word in their shell-likes?
Jelly and….,
I like the thought of them in the bilges of the titanic passing the baling buckets:D)))
stupid huns
Awe Naw
Happy Fathers Day.
Gordon J
“mass streak” ? Surely not, that’s too Timmish.
HH
I am not surprised to see the threats from rangers fans individually and Andy Kerr to intimidate, boycott and riot on a grand scale. With plenty of practise from Wolverhampton to Birmingham , Newcastle to Barcelona not to mention the use of Manchester as a toilet , it is within their capabilities.
It really shows that society and Scottish football is better off without them. I have been. I have occasionally came across the hordes while travelling on business through the years. Animals behave better.
So Mr Kerr take up this war , watch the knuckle draggers follow you as did Ally on the original SFA independent committee. It will be a boomerang as Scotland is fed up of the antics of the watp brigade.
charles green quote “when we bought the club” ?
Kayal33 on 17 May, 2012 at 14:39 said:
RANGERS fans’ chief Andy Kerr said: “There is widespread anger among the Rangers fans”
They’re like that even when they’re winning things.
Memo to Andy Kerr:
The season’s over. Rangers are over. Boycott away.
danso_1888 on 17 May, 2012 at 15:04 said:
Noticed that as well. I thought he had ‘bought’ the club with the proviso that D&P could negotiate a CVA ?
Confusion reigns with all that is RFC(IA) !
I jut cant get enuff ! :)
“There are lots of players in the SPL that I am sure Rangers will have been looking at, and the bottom line is that buying these guys from other Scottish clubs benefits the game.
“If you take that out for a year then I am sure there will be one or two clubs who will feel it.”
Right on, the clubs who the huns already owe hundreds of thousands of pounds to must be reeling at this news.
All 3 members of the SFA appeal panel had sir names for first names:
ALLAN Cowan
LORD Carloway
CRAIG Graham
Didn’t sop them coming to the correct decision though.
Gordon J
On your point, they really are delusional and afflicted by cognitive dissonance.
Nobody likes us and we don’t care, but you can’t do without us.
You can’t do without our money
whit? oh aye that would be your money that we’re pretending to give back to you
We support the Crown, but reserve the right to refuse to pay our taxes, WATP.
We support the military cos it gives us a chance to play some fine loyal marching music.
Whit? Don’t be stupid. Pay taxes to really support them, aye that’ll be right.
This is the same hoorible mob that our SFA President tried to ensure got a “fair” chance of winning the SPL in 2003. When a beneficiary of the EBT was CE of the SFA, and when poor Mancunians didn’t know what was about to hit them.
Far from being essential to Scottish football, they corrupted it; they shamed it; they defrauded it. Then they have the gall to blame it all on a big boy who ran away.
Come on Hector, come on the SFA.
HH
Going back to 1965, how ****ing desperate!
Asked if the club would now go to court
to challenge the SFA’s ruling, the former
Sheffield United chief executive
responded: “We need to consider our
position and speak to the SPL and the
SFA.”
It is unclear whether the club is able to
take its case to the Court of Arbitration
for Sport in Switzerland, which is
dependent upon the SFA having an
arbitration agreement with the court to
deal with matters relating to
punishment of its members.
The club could also request a judicial
review at the Court of Session in
Edinburgh, which is the route St
Johnstone took in 1965 when they
contested a £25 fine they received for a
testimonial match from the SFA.
Hot on the heels of “Moneyball”, the Rangers takeover story has already been made into a feature length film:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91Y1YGMbikL._AA1500_.jpg (thumbsup)
has green got a deal already for the assets?
RetroRender.com @RetroRender
LOL! Rangers In Administration: the official cartoon! http://youtu.be/sa6E-CA4PVU
Talk of Michael Owen drives me to insanity. The guy has a flourishing horse-racing business based in Cheshire/North Wales I think and has young children. He will not uproot his family to Glasgow so would do the old Luigi commute. Lenny has a great team spirit at the moment made up of young, hungry players. Twitter reveals that ledley, matthews, commons, hooper, loovens, stokes are all good mates. bangura and victor seem to chum about together. This can only help things on the pitch (ref Walter’s fantastic 9 iar team….) Seriously, where does MO fit in?
The transcript of last night’s appeal hearing has just been released:
Richard Keen QC: “Ye cannae dae that!”
Lord Carloway: “Aye we can!”
Clark & Whitehouse (in unison): “We arra peepel”
So Andy kerr of the peoples front of judea, (is he as ugly as Dingwall , or is he the acceptable face of the huns fans ?)
“There are lots of players in the SPL that I am sure Rangers will have been looking at, and the bottom line is that buying these guys from other Scottish clubs benefits the game.
“If you take that out for a year then I am sure there will be one or two clubs who will feel it.”
So let us rephrase that.
We want to weaken our opponents by taking their players from them.
We will not however be able to pay them the agreed transfer fee.
You clubs better let us continue to take good players from your teams so we can improve our team, instead of using the youngsters from our much vaunted academy who are all rubbish.
We still wont be able to pay you for them, but you will go bust if you do not sell them to us.
JohnnyClash on 17 May, 2012 at 15:09 said:
lol