Scottish Football League chief executive, David Longmuir, emerged from the shambles that the game’s administrators got themselves into last year with a remarkably solid relationship with the SFL’s member clubs, indeed, he has been singled out for high praise from the Newco-club.
The flow of sentiment reversed after he wrote to member clubs suggesting Celtic and Newco-Rangers enter ‘colt’ clubs in the Third Division. This bizarre suggestion was justified on the basis that if Celtic and Rangers join another league, while leaving the rest of the leading clubs behind, their colt teams would continue to bring interest and revenue to the game.
Mr Longmuir seems to have missed the fact that in the event any of the above comes to pass, the departure of Celtic and Newco-Rangers would then create an opportunity for colt clubs to be considered. Their inclusion now is unnecessary, especially when Newco could potentially enter administration next season, lose players, suffer the mandatory 25 point penalty and be relegated into the bottom division with their colt players, who presumably would also suffer administration-related penalties.
Speculation that Mr Longmuir is taking care of current business until he is ready to move to Newco is becoming hard to ignore. Newco need to get themselves out of the bottom league first, though. The colts team idea is certain to be rejected, the question will not even reach the SPL or Celtic. The 12-12-10-10 idea favoured by Newco is looking an increasingly hard sell, with 12-12-18 more likely. Mr Longmuir better look after the interests of all his member clubs if he wants to hang on long enough to move straight to Newco. If he loses his ability to be a dealmaker I’m not sure what he can offer an aspiring £100m company.
Football is seldom played on a higher plane than we witnessed from the Camp Nou last night. Barcelona, until recently undisputedly regarded as the best team in the world, were up against it. With a league win assured their form stuttered and they had to become the first team in Champions League history to overcome a 2-0 first leg defeat.
They delivered, as did their most precocious talent, but there was a hugely important lesson to be learned from the game.
Milan are out of Europe because they made preventable mistakes which Celtic didn’t make, home or away, against Barcelona. Even at this level, the team which makes fewest preventable mistakes progresses.
Milan and, after Juventus, Celtic, can spend the remainder of the season pondering the value of putting laces through the ball. Barcelona, of course, are fabulous, but the question remains, can they do it at home against Annan Athletic? I’m not so sure.
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Vmhan.
Point taken mate and I agree , but a bit harsh!
Burghbhoy
My teeth still grind thinking of the last day of the Seville season.
V
Top of the morning to you all from a bright but chilly Fife where the weather looks more promising than the outlook for the local club, Dunfermline Athletic or as they are known the Pars.
The Pars slide into disrepute began with the rise in influence of Gavin Masterton and his puppet John Yorkston.
Under Yorkston and with the help of Hugh Dallas the Pars failed to mark Bobby Murdoch’s passing with a minute’s silence.
They also had programme notes saying that they wished the visiting Celtic fans could be tore up like their plastic pitch.
Yorkston wanted Chris Sutton barred from the ground as well as the playing field following his truthful comments about Dunfermline’s lack of will to win at Ibrox.
I could go on.
Dunfermline Athletic are not a community team they belong to Masterton, the man who gave SDM the £5m to buy Rangers and who financed his business empire with loans, more like gifts, from the Bank of Scotland of which he was head.
See this about Masterton’s complex business deals/loans:
http://www.saveourglen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Gavin-Mastertons-complex-deals.pdf
It is hard to feel sorry for the corporate Pars while the Pars community is a different matter, but as things stand how do we help the latter without bailing out the former.
The only help I’d give Dunfermline is a road map to the wall they’re about to crash into.
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Absolute classic.
PFAYR 6.46
Take it from me .
Jim Leishman is a tremendous bloke.
A real 10/10 individual.
I have friends who speak to him regularly.
Also The banter from him is as good as Billy Connolly.
He should replace Alex Salmond as first minister.
TT
vmhan
no need for the map… its staring them.in the face now
maybe an east coast squillionaire will bail them out
Big Nan – I think that Celtic should bail them out,on one condition – their wretched supporters take over the running of their pitiful club.And they in turn oust those two wannabe zombies that are in charge.
It’s coming up to Easter and all that there,we are not huns.
As Burghbhoy suggested,the club should make a token purchase of one or two of their goats that masquerade as footballers…then let them go about their business.
Vmhan is a million % correct,sensible folk would opt for the “let them stew in their own p@sh” option – but that road is the easy road,the difficult road is to forgive them,and save them.
No dis-respect to anyone.
Surely Dunfermline just dump the debt , someone buys the assets / history etc for a fraction of its value and continue as if nothing has happened .
Is that not the way it works in Scotland .
HH
It was the Dunfermline supporters who held up the “Happy birthday Celtic ” banner in the Oldco end , during our centenary season.
Yorkston and Masterton do not represent them.
DAFC will not be saved.
Liquidation will come soon enough.
The banks have security over the ground.
TT
“Frankie says repent” t – shirt ordered.
Mandy Kerr from the RST using threats again to boycott SFL clubs.
Message to Mandy Kerr, SFL clubs survived fine without you’re gate money and they’ll do so again so stop issuing empty threats you clown.
iBenedictines
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A Great Joy
by Digitalnun on March 14, 2013
‘I announce to you a great joy: we have a pope.’ With these words, spoken in Latin, we learned that that the cardinal electors had completed their task and chosen the man who will lead and direct 1.2 billion of us as Bishop of Rome, 266th successor of St Peter and Vicar of Christ. The video footage from St Peter’s Square showed hundreds and hundreds of faces from all over the world, most of them young, waiting with great anticipation for that moment. When the pope finally appeared on the balcony, dressed in white but without the usual red mozetta, the joy was palpable. The significant choice of name, Francis, the beautiful gesture of bowing before the crowd and asking them to pray for him before he gave his blessing, the silence that accompanied the prayer, all these were reminders that the Church may not make much sense to those who don’t believe, but to those who do, it makes perfect sense.
We rejoice because we have a pope. Every single Catholic, whether Eastern Rite or Western Rite, whether attached to labels like liberal or conservative or utterly indifferent to them, rejoices because without a pope the Church is somehow incomplete. Each and every one of us has a personal connection to this man. At times that connection may be expressed negatively, but if so it will be with the negativity of family membership. For the moment, however, we are still absorbing the fact that we have a pope, and one whose experience ties him more to the southern hemisphere than to the northern. That will inevitably shock many who see the world through the lens of our Western preoccupations about sex and sit more lightly to the Church’s teaching about social justice.
During the next few days there will be many profiles of the pope and much media speculation about what he may or may not do. There is, however, one small fact about Pope Francis which will mean something to those who have any kind of respiratory difficulty. He effectively functions on one lung. Like the saint whose name he has taken, he bears within himself a secret pain, a physical limitation. As he begins his first full day in office, he knows that he must take on the task of rebuilding the Church with God’s strength, not his own. Let us pray for him.
I always had a soft spot for dunfermline after our centenary year…the happy birthday banner and the way they participated with our celebrations.
I for one hope they recover.Hail Hail
As Campbell Ogilvie would say , I’m hopelessly conflicted now ! In regard us helping Dunfermline.
Can see both points of view.
Doesntknowhisownmindcsc
Bring back The Holy Goalie,and wee Aiden?
You had better believe it.
Remember April 16th ’08.
JVOH.
Turn it up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AFtstHfIeQ
Did anyone from Dunfermline fans or board assist Celtic when the club had the bank chapping at the door
One more for the hun,Nakamura Shunsuke:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVLXW7-IscQ
You can hate me now.
16 Roads
Brilliant link to JVH song.
Remember standing outside Buchan Arms with about 30 like minded tims singing that after we gubbed Deidco.
Great memories!
16 roads – Neil Lennon walks on water.
07:49 on
14 March, 2013
Agree time to forgive but not forget……in our 125 year’s
of unbroken history we’ve had spat’s with most club’s
in Scotland.
lionroars67.
I don’t think they would have been in the position to help us.
There’s a few clubs i wouldn’t lose any sleep over if they went the way of the bhuns, dunfermline for me is not one.
Took a day off to celebrate our new pope.
Burghbhoy
Valentine’s Day
Indeed.The war is over now.
Humility is what our club is about,and it has always been about humility and charity.
Far too much class for those zombies,and the various zombie splinter groups that have tried in vain to antagonise,and irritate the big club.
If i was Dermot Desmond,i would buy their hovel,demolish it,and build homes for the needy.
It would probably cost a lot of money though as it it riddled with asbestos,but sure…
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I remember being in Dunfermline heading to a ‘Disco’ and Our ‘Disco Bus’ stopped for a Wee Wee..
I’m Quite a Shy Bloke.. So I decided to Jump a Wee Ditch to get the Aforementioned Wee Wee..
Bad Move Especially in White Spandau Ballet Troosers and Pink Too..
But My Mates reckon I Suit Brown..
Summa of MuckedUpFaeHeidTaeToeCSC
sipsini
08:27 on
14 March, 2013
lionroars67.
No help whatsoever from them
In addition a club which has as many other Scottish clubs turned up at the SFA and voted to keep the Ernie Walkers, Jim Farry, George Peat, Cambell Ogilvie, etc etc, all in office, the mess that is Scottish football is all in their own making.
If Celtic have a few hundred grand to throw about lets throw it at more deserving causes than at a club in an area which is well served with a plethora of football clubs
Summa of Sammi….
I Remember those ‘Disco’ buses,Dunfermline and Kirkaldy..wtf?????
Wasn’t as if it was Studio 54 we were going to :O)
Dunfermline
Sorry but tough.
You chose your path.
Scottish football is where it is today because of the greed and ego of SDM.
Minty only afforded his plans due to “largesse” of Masterson.
Their financial links run very, very deep, allegedly.
EC67
Good morning to all
16 Roads at 08.13. I’m off to work with a spring in my step. Nice one! HH.
Summa of Sammi – It takes all sorts,more than a club and all that there and all.This one is for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrUNRZ3LZQE
22:59 on
13 March, 2013
midfield maestro
Are you a Rafferty.
Hail Hail
Went to bed after my post. No, but yes. Not my surname, but my mother’s maiden name. Her brother ran the guild footy, whom you obviously know of. Your monicker is a goodyin, you from Anderston?
Hx2
No I am from Dumbarton,I knew Dick Rafferty when he ran the Boys Guild football,he was a boxing referee and most importantly a gentleman.
Hail Hail.
Night Magic and Jackie O’
.
VoguePunter..
Re; Disco Buses..
Methinks Your mare a Midge Ure than Spandau..
:-)
Summa of D.I.S.C.O.CSC
summa of sammi….
Were you a maestros man or viva? The kiddy on new romantics ;-)))
Summa of Sammi….
Midge Ure ? naw the guys a hun and from Cambuslang ..a double mark down :O)
Leishman is a big Mason and self-proclaimed legend with more faces than the Dunfermline town clock.
He can hardly utter a coherent sentence let alone patter as good as Billy Connolly.
zimmerman
05:02 on 14 March, 2013
Donovan’s song..Universal soldier is a belter..just about sums up the scam.
*He didnae write that Buffy St Marie did, I shared a shuttle bus with her at LAX 4 year ago, shared the same flight fae TO tae LAX tae.
Another one for the hun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGsK-jOkFRg
Here in Berlin there has been wall to wall coverage of Pope Francis— I am expecting the highlights of Lisbon 67 anytime soon.
Big Nan
09:02 on 14 March, 2013
Leishman is a big Mason and self-proclaimed legend with more faces than the Dunfermline town clock.
*His brother’s a Celtic supporter
I’m hearing only bad news,on radio Sevco…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF79sN_8g3E