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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Good morning CQNers,
macjay1 for Neil Lennon 07:07
Would you just clarify for me, is Pope Francis one of The Odessa rat line as you so inelegantly put it in your broad-brush stoke assessment of the Argentine ruling classes?
lionroars67
08:35 on 14 March, 2013
I get your point and remember how worried i was thinking that our club could go to the wall.
Going to work at the time was a nightmare as i worked beside a lot of orange b*****s.
Unknown to us, thems would cheat their way for years and then died, only to be reincarnated as a pub team:-))
I just have a soft spot for dunfermline
since the centenary game.
Hail Hail.
Good morning from an overcast Nordrhein Westfalen. Has anyone photoshopped Papa Francisco I in the Hoops yet? When it is done please let me know as I need a new photo for my FB page.
FTPCSC
Mail online
Day One and new Pope faces first controversy: Argentinian pontiff Francis I labelled British ‘usurpers’ in the Falklands one year ago
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I believe he was being polite….he didn’t use ‘fekn’ before usurpers.
Pogmathonyahun
Bada ,sent me this dont know if it will work.
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Ever since they lay down to the old huns, I refer to them Dungfermline.
They can come back as NewDung and start from the bottom rung like the other lot.
I’m sure they will be helped along at each and every step on their route to recovery by those aimiable chaps at the SFA…
The Pope’s team in Argentina giving his appointment big licks on their website, not too sure about the colours though, lol
http://www.sanlorenzo.com.ar/
VP, not working on my IPad but I’ll try my dinosaur-like PC.
Don’t think much of Pope Francis’s team colours,but their new stadium plans
are fantastico.
http://www.sanlorenzo.com.ar/noticia.php?codigo=26
Vmhan….
Could be miles off the mark here but did I read that you could not find your season book..
If so Zippy G has it….
March, 2013
Macjay1
Food for thought sir.
V
Mate.
My kind of Tim.
We could share corned beef,cabbage ,praties and 25 Guinnesses and agree to disagree.
Slainthe.
sipsini
09:13 on
14 March, 2013
Fair enough you have a soft spot for the pars, the Pars IMO like the rest of Scottish football are playing the cards they have been dealt with from a rigged deck, they stood by and watched the deck being rigged, they knew the cards were marked by the SFA for the main player in Govan, if the local community save it with Celtic money? will the people who run the new Pars still vote for RC as president of the SFA?
Thanks for the replys
Morning all..my tuppence worth..dont beleive wee should help any scottish clubs that have never helped us in any way..jock stein or whatever..our club has a budget like every other at the start of a season..and you must stick to it to survive and make the correct cutts to to do so..gavin masterton runs them…those who dont know about him should check the previous info before handing out the collection bowl..lots of good other reasons have been posted..look after no.1 and our enemies h.h
Lion roars and sixtaeseven totally agree 100%
VP, you could just see the Celtic crest on each corner of that stadium! What’s not to like ;-)
Pogmathonyahun
My thoughts too.hh
Tontine Tim
I think that I would agree with Big Nan about JL, but you are right his brother is a Celtic fan
I met him a few years ago and spent about two hours in his company(or was it two days) he likes the sound of his own voice and he loves telling stories about football, only problem was they were not funny or interesting
I came away with the impression that he was half daft.
Just because an odious individual like Yorkston is at a club doesn’t mean they’re forever tainted, the fans not the directors or the manager or the playing staff are the club. If that’s not the case for Dunfermline it’s not for Celtic or any other team either. Why don’t we just do away with fans and have franchise teams and their billionaire playthings like in America, who have no history and are proud of it.
lionroars67
09:42 on
14 March, 2013
Yes, the cards have been stacked against us since our birth…not only football wise, as most posters would concur.
I went in to hunmedia and their argument is dunfermline wanted thems down so as they could take their place.
They want vengeance, i just wanted justice.
I don’t think dunfermline will be the last casualty.
Other than the deadybears and the minis most clubs i would prefare to survive…just my opinion.HH
No tears from my eyes if Dunfermline go to the wall.
Those of us who were at East End Park in August 2003 on the opening day of the season, and listened to the home support gleefully taunt us for 90 mins about losing the league the previous season, will know what i mean.
By not paying their tax bills etc they are cheating, just like RFC 1872-2012.
ps if it wasn’t for the fans of the wee teams, sevco would be in the spl, maybe that’s why so many ‘celtic’ or ol’firm fans want the wee teams to go bust.
Murdochbhoy, yermanfromMK
09:10 on
14 March, 2013
Good morning CQNers,
macjay1 for Neil Lennon 07:07
Would you just clarify for me, is Pope Francis one of The Odessa rat line as you so inelegantly put it in your broad-brush stoke assessment of the Argentine ruling classes?
Oh,dear.
My comments were directed to the ” malvinas screamers ” who shamefully responded to the election of an Argentinian Pope with their support for the Argentinian fascist regime
who were responsible for the deaths of thousands of leftists.
It was they who associated the Papal election with Galtieri`s fascists,not me.
Voguepunter
midge ure was an orange hun..even worse..my dad used to be a postie in c’lang and delived theyre mail..said he used to cut about in his flute gear thinking he was a musician
tommysbhoy
Never Knew that …..I was just taking a guess cause he wasn’t a Tim:O)
Good news.
Craig Brown to retire at the end of the season.
Bad news (for the Aberdeen support).
He’s staying on as an executive director. More money squandered by Stewart Milne. I thought Aberdeen were skint?
I dont think its celtics place to help the pars..more the sfa..dont all laff at once!! I for one dont want to see any teams go to the wall..but thats life…airdrie.third lanark.clydebank an so on its all very sad as they had fans and history attatched..its down to theyre fans and community to do as much as they can..but dont rule out the sevco ruite..nothing would surprise or shock me after what that mob got away with..we should be putting pressure on the powers at be…getting rid of the rott and trying to clean up our game other than reconstructing its leagues..imo
Voguepunter
he told me when i was a kid an it nearly put me off ultravox lol
We shouldn’t turn our backs on Dunfermline..just think of all the help we got
when we were in trouble…………..NADA
Just dropped in to say…
Midge Ure was – Dancing with tears in his eyes
when he was forced to opine – “U2 stole the show!”
When he was being interviewed on a BBC documentary
celebrating the 20th anniversary of Live-Aid @ Wembley
1985.
Also….Jackie MacNamara – one of my all-time heroes from
the Wim & MON years says that – Dunfermline have to be saved.
What to do ?
HH
Got theyre 1st album fae r’glen library..to record on a portable tape recorder ..oh they were the days..you had to make sure nobody caughed or farted as it would record any background noise..even orange walks
Kev jungle
i bet he was dancing wi tears in his eyes when the huns went BOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!LOL
tommysbhoy
10:25 on 14 March, 2013
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Heh.heh, heh :o)))
HH
My view of the Pars is coloured by the fact that my good friend at uni was a massive fan. Went with him to a couple of games at East End Park in the late 80’s. Him and his mates absolutely loathed the huns. I mean really, really despised them, the only other team that came close on their hate scale was Falkirk. He was delighted we stopped 10IAR.
Yorkston however is an utter tool of a man.
tommysbhoy
I used that Library as well for tapes to listen in works van,I had not tape deck at time so I got
my driver to transfer my big 12 incher of Midnight Express (Giorgio Moroder) to tape.
He being an ole geezer of aboot 28 at the time ,played it at 33 an a 3rd.
“Quite good that ” he says…”wrang speed ya tube” I said.
I have this suspicion that…if Dunfermline / Hearts / or whoever
have to face closure – sevco will be fast-racked in to replace them
with a LNS type of GIRUY Timmy flavor about it.
Only saying
HH
That is true, Celtic got no help at all when we were in danger of going out of business for good, there wasn’t any talk of sevco1994 either, that would have been that. Fair point well made.
guys, who scored 2 goals against hibs in september, wife needs to know.
If Dunfermline go to the wall would their membership be up for transfer to the highest bidder? This is an ideal oppotunity for Sevco to jump up to the 1st division for the start of next season.
How does that change the attitude of people who are saying what have Dunfermline done for us?
Personally I have always found the pars to be OK. Decent enough fans in the past and one of the few places we visit that the pubs are reasonably welcoming. The Jock Stein link is huge for me as well. Jock would be gutted to see the state of his old club. Maybe Man Utd will buy them as a feeder club. SAF has a lot of great fondness for the Pars.
LB