Rangers administrators, Duff and Phelps, were as recently as yesterday briefing media that they hoped to conclude the sale of Rangers before the end of the season – which is their game against St Johnstone on Sunday.
Late Friday morning this seems unlikely but it is an important deadline. If Rangers morph into a Newco and are given permission by the SFA and SPL to take the field against St Johnstone on Sunday, any player who participates will have transferred his employment to Newco. Newco would then be able to retain his services for the length of his Rangers contract or would be able to sell him to fund a trading shortfall.
If a Newco is formed after Sunday, players have two months to decide if they want to join the company or remain Rangers employees until redundancy or until Rangers fail to pay wages.
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Do you enjoy your job Neil?
“I love it, I absolutely love it”
I think as a general rule jurists should be in the public domain. I find it surprising that the SFA agreed to anonymity when these procedures were put in place. However I do understand why anonymity would be attractive to those who sought to serve, pro bono, on these tribunals. I think that as all the parties to the proceedings were fully aware of their identities (and I assume backgrounds of the members) then this would be sufficient to satisfy natural justice. Indeed ,as I understand ,it all member clubs, including Rangers agreed to anonymity. There can only be one reason why McCoist demanded revelation and that reason was duly demonstrated after the tribunal made its findings.
£1.1M a month saved by not paying folk!
They’re gonna appeal?!!!!!!!!!
Dear Granda, thank you for my dad being a Celtic fan.
The term ‘stupid huns’ is not enough! I need to think of something better.
brimmer
Monaghan1900 on 11 May, 2012 at 12:16 said:
oglach on 11 May, 2012 at 12:09 said:
Anyone donned a bio hazard suit and undertaken a quick sortie into FF land to ascertain how the Orcs are taking the news that were indeed very very naughty boys and got off exceedingly lightly.
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They have decided that the original decision is a disgrace and that they will win the appeal. After all, the statement of reasons tells us that other club directors and employees “must have known” what was going on. Pure speculation. Where’s the proof? Kangaroo court. Best of all – “what happened to innocent until proven guilty?”
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Ah the oul’ “the big hoose must stay open & Weara’ pepil” defense. The Classic Perry Mason (name pun intended!!) gambit
Andy Grey “Are you feeling under pressure for next year neil?”
Hunbelievable
paul67, the SFA and SPL can’t ‘allow’ a Newco to play at St Johnstone. By their own admission the vote to allow any Newco in is to be held on 30th May, and it’s the SPL clubs who will vote.
SFA Appeals Committee decision in…..
You’re F****D
Thank you M’Lud
Paul67
So, whilst admittedly unlikely, someone thinks it possible that a Newco can morph overnight and slip into the skin of an Oldco and that all the football authorities would support this from an employment law and football rules, regs, compliance and licensing perspective? I read from your note that someone thinks this is all perfectly feasible were it not for the shortage of time?
Maybe this fantastic nonsense is your window into the soul of Duff & Phelps and you are merely shining the moon on the idiocy of it all.
(And I am supposed to stop worrying and fretting like a teenage ghirl?)
I’llscreamandscreamuntili’msick.csc
HH
TLK
Keys ” Are you looking to come and work in England?”
NL “No I have a lot to do here”
Kittoch on 11 May, 2012 at 12:28 said:
Keys ” Are you looking to come and work in England?”
NL “No I have a lot to do here”
Unless the club gets into the English League…….
Keys “How are Rangers problems affecting you”
NL “Chairmen from a commercial point of view would like them back in, but if you have broken rules!!”
How many deadlines have I missed this morning??? Damn deadlines >:(
Richard Keys is a grade A fud
b2k on 11 May, 2012 at 12:19 said:
Having looked a bit further through your source site, I persoanlly wouldn’t trust it as reliable.
Put it this way if any of the stuff suggested in there was actually the case and widely know I suspect Aamar Anwar (mentioned within it) would have been very vocal about it by now.
Paul67
I listened to your piece last night, well done , a credit to yourself and the club.
Keep up the great work. No Newco in the SPL , not for me.
AGENT CRAIG 1149
Blinkin’ flip.
I wish lawyers would be a wee bit more clear when they draw up rules and regulations.
It’s true what they say-anything written by a lawyer is designed to be challenged by a lawyer.
Neil off talksport now
He is in great form, loving the job, loving the atmosphere between the fans and the players.
Lustig and Sammi going to Euros and Cha and Ki going for qualifiers and some of the african bhoys away for qualifiers and back on the 2nd of July.
Wouldnt Newco have to be voted in first in order to play in the SPL?
Information………..
……….. overload.
Can’t keep………
… up.
SFA Disciplinary……….
…Tribunal
Grey says “many at Rangers except that they will be punished,” maybe he could phone the SPL and the SFA and bring them up to speed.
awe naw….
maybe his one also:
Goodbye cruel world,
I’m leaving you today.
Goodbye,
Goodbye,
Goodbye.
here’s hoping.
A Scottish Football Association tribunal gave consideration to terminating Rangers’ membership during a case against the club on five breaches of the governing body’s rules.
The club were handed a 12-month registration embargo in late April by an independent inquiry, as well as receiving fines of £160,000, having been found guilty of breaking four regulations.
In its deliberations, the judicial panel concluded Rangers’ actions meant that “only match fixing in its various forms might be a more serious breach” of the Scottish FA’s rules.
In a 100-page document published on Friday, which gave the full reasoning for the panel’s decisions, it is stated: “Having regard to its view on the undoubted gravity of the breaches, the Tribunal considered whether it should terminate Rangers FC membership of the Scottish FA and concluded that punishment was too severe.
“It considered whether suspension of membership was a less serious but an appropriately severe punishment, but concluded that too was too severe.”
Explaining the severity of the punishment handed down to the club, which was heavily influenced by their failure to pay taxes, it is said the tribunal felt that “the registration prohibition struck a balance which was relevant to the mischief and proportionate to the breach.”
The document continues: “It appeared to the Tribunal that in a case such as this the punishment should relate in some meaningful way to the unpaid taxes arising from high wages and salaries amongst certain players.
“It appeared to the Tribunal that a temporary prohibition on registering any new players during a period of twelve months was a suitable, relevant and proportionate sanction.
“The Tribunal recognised that it would place pressures on Rangers FC and accordingly limited the period and specifically excluded from the prohibition the registration of persons under eighteen.
“The Tribunal was of the view that whilst the sanction was severe it was not excessive and that the period covered only two signing windows.
“It was, of course, unknown what capacity Rangers FC may have during that twelve month period for signing and registering new players in any event.”
The report was severely critical of owner Craig Whyte and described him as the “directing mind and will” of Rangers between May 2011 and February 2012.
However, it explained the decision to punish the club was based on legal precedent, which allows a company to be held liable for the behaviour of a director.
“The Tribunal took into account the extraordinary circumstances of the offences and the extent to which Rangers FC through its directors had been apparently misled and deceived by Mr Craig Whyte,” it is said.
“Against that it took the view that whatever their position a number of individual directors and employees must have known that what was happening within Rangers FC was entirely wrong and illegitimate but they chose to do nothing to bring it to the attention of the public.
“That may be matter for their long term reflection but it does reduce the mitigatory impact of the suggestion that Rangers FC were innocent victims.”
Rangers’ appeal against the decisions will be held by a three-man tribunal on May 16. The panel will consist of Lord Carloway (chair), Craig Graham and Allan Cowan.
The tribunal has the power to either increase, decrease or amend the original punishment, as well as uphold Rangers’ appeal either in part or in full.
Breaking News
The Blue Knights have pulled out AGAIN
Snake
you are joking!
It would have been interesting to see how long the huns would’ve lasted before administration came if Whyte hadve paid the bills whilst trying to satisfy the hordes bloodlust to see Neil Lennon fail.
Blue Knight has walked away…
The appeals tribunal will reduce the transfer embargo of one year to a suspended transfer embargo of one year. No chance embargo will stand or be increased.
Afternoon Celts whits happening?
Any ideas about Sundays game, will we play the young Lions or let our 1st team get their and our revenge for the semi final game?
I want to go out and stuff them so I’ll be happy with a mix of 1st team regulars and young lions.
In out in out shake it all about oh hokey kokey. H.H.
Why doesn’t someone in the Scottish media conduct a similar piece of work – after all it will prove Celtic fans are all paranoid – won’t it?
Impact of “honest mistakes”
HH
TLK
Che
If I were joking I’d have said a Horse walks into a bar……….
Snake Plissken on 11 May, 2012 at 12:38 said:
Breaking News
The Blue Knights have pulled out AGAIN
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Snake they’ve been putting in and pulling out for a while now, its rythmic!
:¬)
Put one bid in, take one bid out, put a deadline here and shake it all about, you do the paul murray and walk away, thats whats its all about,
ohhhh your dead in the water….oooooh your dead in the water
In …out…they shake it all about!!!
Paul67 on 11 May, 2012 at 12:33
Information………..
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hence why we need the swingometer. :-) At a guess I’d put it curr(a)ntly somewhere between ‘pining for the fjords’ and ‘do not resuscitate’.
So let me get this right, the SFA say the only worse sanction would’ve been match fixing ?
What about player registrations and cheating every team in Scotland, is that not worse.
Just asking like.
FF has crashed
Gordon J…
I remember listening to Gordon Smith at the beginning of the season on Radio Scotland, in fact it was in the middle of the David Goodwillie fiasco. ( I wonder what they going to pay Dundee Utd with?)
Anyway, I was actually embarrassed for the guy. It was cringe worthy stuff. Maybe he thought he was going to get an easy ride from his old pals. But he struggled big time.
He was still trying to peddle the ‘front loaded warchest’ line and that Mr Whyte had everything under control. In reality he didn’t know who to believe and rabbled his way through the probing questions from Richard Gordon and Traynor.
Like I said it was embarrassing.
Maybe he didn’t know anything? Maybe he was duped. (is duped the right word?)
Either way, how he ever got a job in any capacity at the SFA…actually that does make sense. I think his parents are looking after him.
El Mad.
p.s Match Fixing? No, no way. Not in football anyway. Well maybe in South America …or Italy….or Germany…or Poland…But not Scotland. No chance, hmmm?