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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I suspect Green will offer the reported 8.5m for physical assets (Park, MP and Albion) in either a CV or Newco, either way the creditors will get a pence in the pound deal but they might get a bit more from the players firesale as IMO they are not included in the Green bid.
D&P shoul dbe able t osell them off for maybe another 10M to add to teh 8.5m so more for the creditors if liquidated.
IMO creditirs will go for liquidation as the better option
Apologies for the atrocious spelling !
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Chris McLaughlin @BBCchrismclaug
Charles Green’s meeting with the football authorities not in response to last night. Meeting had been planned a few days ago
Phil MacGiollaBhain @Pmacgiollabhain
@BBCchrismclaug it was definitely him?
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So to recap….
The Chairmen have a decision to make, vote for financial reasons and suffer the wrath of the home support or vote to expel the newclub and retain a modicum of pretend integrity.
Meanwhile the hordes of Hades have hatched a cunning protest to boycott Scotland,The SPL, Tesco, Vauxhall, the laundrettes, Currys, Dixons and Woolworths, so nobody is going to games anyway.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Celtic have bumped up prices for next year.
Rikki Fulton, ya blurt, we need ya!
listening to Andy kerr the rangers spokesman, Hope he is not doing the walk on saturday in high heels
JackGlasgow
it’s the wee keyborard’s flaut
Kayal33
Thanks for posting the comments of Andy Kerr but Andy Pandy had more brains. As for
‘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.”
Talk about being economic with reality … try looking at the real reasons York mankie mob was done for Mr Kerr !
Michael Owen…. I’d rather play Tony Watt
No wonder they’re in a mess with Mingwall and Kerr fighting their corner.
Attention gers fans and journos http://dlvr.it/1ZjzFc
In Longboat Key, Florida.
Just had a few days with son, his wife and two grandchildren.
Kids ( aged 5 & 2.5) were full on for 5 days and Mrs RWE and I were loving it.
Son and wife got to put feet up for a few days.
On Sunday, grandson, son and I all danced round the room as Gary Hooper scored for fun.
Wee man now sings “come on you bhoys in green” and “Glasgow’s green and white”
HH
So after today’s meeting between Charles (copyright Alistair McCoist) (agent Green to you and I) and the SFA and SPL does anyone think we will be hearing Craig David’s hit on the radio? “I’m walking away….from the troubles in my life….I’m walking away”
There is no doubt much sage nodding of heads and murmurings of approval within the Greek chorus of board commentators.
Good old RIA – they don’t do taking it on the chin.
Now why can’t we be more like them.
HH
TLK
It annoys me to hear people call Mark Dingwall “Mingwall”, it’s so childish and immature.
He prefers to be known as “Fatwall”. (thumbsup)
Quickly follow followed by U2 classic
“If you Walk Away, Walk Away, Walk Away, Walk Away….I will follow”
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Andy wan kerr ragers fan’s big cheese,with more misinformation.
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.
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That’s not what you got punished for you flippin fool.
Chris Mc Laughlin spots Gatusso at Glasgow Airport. He’lucky it wasnt big J J !!
yorkbhoy
I think all talk of Michael Owen is spurious. Unfortunately Mark Owen is a goer and I don’t think I could Take That.
Thursday aftewrnoon teabreakcsc.
theweegreenman on 17 May, 2012 at 14:21 said:
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Aye….well put.
I think Philvis is I.D. Smith in disguise.
Ignore the reactionary old duffer…he speak with hun tongue.
I’ll probably get pelters from his pals,but hey,guess what?…..I don’t give a monkey’s.
HH!
Jaredey Betleblox 1 an unfortunately orange coloured humanoid intergalactic tourist from Mars decides to take a short weekend break and visit the wee blue planet he knows as Terra. After a few minutes travelling at hyperspeed Jaredey duely arrives on Earth. However due to a computer glich his space craft rather than landing in a remote Amazonian location lands in the graveyard behind Paradise. Jaredey being an adventurous ET decides to make the best of the situation and heads of towards a large structure he can see close to where he has landed. He notes that the indigenous primary species favour emerald green attire and seem to like to stare and point while shouting ‘ check that fecking eejit’. Anyway Jaredey decides he will try and establish 1st contact with the natives and after turning on this universal translator heads off to the closet green clad local. “Hello my name is Jaredey and i am a Martian” he says as a way of introduction. “Is that fecking right pal, your no fecking marchin’ around here yer orange dobber” came the reply – —–boom boom
Billy’s Bhoy funnily enough the Huns were tring to sign Jason Orange….
Mark Dingwall,
Such an unfortunate association for the Ross-shire market town………….
Andy kerr is the dignified side of ra berrs, he was only 3 times the limit when intending to drive from Kilmarnock to Harrogate, pesky polis eh?
Rangers fans’ president caught drink-driving after match
Published on Thursday 23 February 2012 00:04
A RANGERS supporters leader was caught drink-driving on the way home from the club’s first game since plunging into administration.
Andy Kerr, president of the Rangers Supporters Assembly, was stopped on the M74 after attending his team’s 1-0 defeat to Kilmarnock on Saturday.
He was breathalysed by police and found to be more than three times the legal limit.
Kerr, 54, spent two nights in police custody before admitting the offence at Lanark Sheriff Court on Monday. He had been travelling back to his home in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, when he was stopped on the motorway near Coalburn in Lanarkshire.
Kerr, a first offender, was banned from driving for two years and fined £670.
philvisreturns on 17 May, 2012 at 15:32 said:
LoL
FF again:
I have it on good authority that Regan in his big office up in SFA HQ has a direct hotline to the Vatican- a green phone straight to the Popes big house. There are dark shadowy forces lurking everywhere, the long hidden Fenian hand is especially orchestrating behind those corrupt b******s at the SFA and their kangaroo court. The micks have infiltrated all our great institutions, they’ve even taken our women, its a f***ing disgrace. Lord Carloway is a Taig. Cowan is a Taig lover. Graham is married to a taig. We must latch onto any tenuous link, no matter how desperate or pathetic. We must be READY to boycott everything and everybody, anything & nothing. We need a leader for the WAR against the fenians: we need a a leader, a fuhrer, a high wizard with some of that 1066, 1690, 1972 spirit in the trenches with us up to our knees…we will remember all those who kicked up when we were down like an insane elephant. For there was a time when all those c***s were terrified to speak out against us. Those were the days. Now we are being victimized. But We will be back with our big blue warchest next season…it will be like the trunk in that film Rope and we’ll bury all our enemies in it. We will romp the SPL next season with our eleven Proddy (including Soni Aluko) players- it will be better than Helicopter Sunday by a factor of a million. We will march all year round. January to January. From Cumnock to John O’ Groats. No Surrender. We don’t do walking away ( even with my disability crutches). No surrender. We are the People I will wear my new XXXL Rangers top with Pride ( even if we go bust- which won’t happen anyway). I will wear it all the time. No matter what the wife says. I will wear it on the beach. I will wear it in the bed. I will even wear it when I take a bath. They will not keep us down. No surrender. We are the people…yadayadayada…
Andy Kerr has appealled his fine for DD. Apparenlty Craig Whyte poured bevvy down his throat.
Another twist in the Commercial Considerations v. Sporting Integrity debate?
If the other 10 clubs are now facing not only a boycott from Celtic fans if they vote for a newclub,but also a boycott from rangers fans unhappy with the decision of the SFA,then surely the debate is now over.There can be no commercial benefit accrued if both celtic and rangers fans don’t turn up.
I really really hope they continue on their current beligerent path
Wonkyradar
I was believing that all the way down ands then I realised it was a spoof.
A Ranagers fan and baths? They don’t do baths! They are a shower
Afternoon bhoys.
Talk of THG coming back if FF stays with Newcastle.
I’d prefer to get FF because of his age/height but would be nice to have him back.
Bid gone in for Rhodes but I can’t see us getting him. Would love to be proved wrong.
Anyone got any other news?
wonkyradar,
Who wrote that?
It looks like the work of a certain fanzine writer from Dundee….
Thanks very much, Agent Green. Have just spat water all over my keyboard ffs!
Monteblanco said:
“Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Celtic have bumped up prices for next year”.
By how much did they go up? I can`t remember what I paid last year.
JJ
Wonkyradar
‘it will be like the trunk in that film Rope and we’ll bury all our enemies in it.’
There’s still an elephant in the room!
hen1rik – I’m super serial.
It’s not fair to pick on Fatwall for his questionable personal hygiene. That’s elitist and exclusionary against people who eat their own earwax.
(thumbsup)
Estadio Nacional tweeted from Qatar earlier to say it was so hot he was sweating like a Rangers fan on the way to the paper shop.
Andy Kerr, president of the Rangers Supporters Assembly, told Press Association Sport today: “There is a feeling here that the whole spirit of dealing with this within the SFA and through the appeals process has been ’let’s hammer Rangers’.
“That’s the way it has felt. I think an independent set of eyes and an independent consideration would be something we would welcome.”
An independent set of eyes…. sounds like a good idea.. Waaaiiit a minute!
Kayal33 @ 14:39,
”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.”
My guess is the reason why RFFF paid for the appeal’s brief was that D&P’s Counsel advised their chances of success were minimal.
Civil Court action would put them down the Sion path – ruination.
I’m not sure of the powers of CAS but the potential outcome must look like this.
Vindicate R@ngers – *Highly unlikely
Uphold the decision – Probable
Assert that the SFA impose the prescribed Sanctions (i.e. Expulsion, Suspension) – **Possible
Unless RFFF recklessly force their hand and pony up again I can’t see them going down this route.
*[Craig Whyte has described the Tribunal as a Kangaroo Court, this will not be upheld, none of the other Directors past or present have defended themselves by providing justification, the closest to this was the Raging SDM (according to the DR) he said – “ “The report is not 100 per cent accurate. ……………. “In terms of legal action, I will consider my options.”
Surely Sir David had the chance to put his case to the original panel, if not then he certainly could at the appellation tribunal, I believe the SEETHING SDM did not take this opportunity to clear his name and is still in contemplation in terms of legal action.]
** [As D&P are not contesting the “controlling mind” they are accepting Corporate Responsibility lay with RFC, their challenge as stated is
“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 and should not have been imposed and it is the intention of the club to challenge the determination.”,
Then surely the stated sanctions of Expulsion or Suspension must be applied.]
As usual I await wiser heads to set me right!
Sweatin’ like a hun doin the 2 times table.