Scottish football is posed for the most momentous stand-off in its history. The battle lines are clear:
Money v Morals, TV money v Season ticket money, Bank of Scotland v Fans
In 12 days the SPL clubs will vote on resolutions which will enable a new club to parachute straight into the SPL following the liquidation of Rangers without having to apply for entry to the Scottish Football league and rise through the pyramid. Five clubs can block their entry – for a few days anyway. Six, a majority if one member is liquidated, would be enough to ensure Rangers Newco SPL entry is blocked.
According to the SPL Fan Survey fans would overwhelmingly like to see any Newco football club enter the Scottish Football League, a position supported by a large number of Rangers fans, but the voices of fans are more easily discarded than that of the Bank of Scotland, who a large number of clubs depend upon to keep their own clubs out of administration.
In short, unless clubs can demonstrate to the Bank of Scotland that they will lose more money from disaffected fans by voting for Newco than they will by voting to retain the custom of Rangers fans, with accompanying television and sponsor money, Newco FC will be voted into the SPL.
Celtic will vote against Newco but fans from Hibs, Hearts, Aberdeen, Dundee United, Inverness, St Johnstone, Motherwell and St Mirren have to do more to make their case directly with their clubs. Irrespective of fan views, I reckon Dunfermline shareholders would rather relegate their own team than Rangers. Don’t even ask about Kilmarnock.
The Gang of 10 may speak as one. If they get rid of Rangers they will be able to out-vote Celtic and have a unique opportunity to change voting rights, allowing them to capture long-term money currently going to Celtic. This, together with overwhelming fan pressure, might be enough to persuade some, but this issue is more complex.
Despite initial opposition to changing the voting rights, Duff and Phelps may vote with the Gang of 10 on voting rights as part of a deal to allow them to sell a place in the SPL. Yes – trade votes in order to sell a place in the top league. Sporting integrity dismantled forever.
Since we first raised the alarm on this vote back in October I have been convinced Newco would be ushered into the SPL but the weight of opinion from fans from other clubs is stark. Over half of respondents to the Survey say they will not attend SPL games if Newco is voted straight into the league.
Even the Bank of Scotland would have to recognise the business sense in siding with the fans if this view is made firmly enough.
Truth is, no one knows which way this one will go, but this is a once in a century opportunity for fans to make a stand.
Bids for the original canvass painting of Neil Lennon by US based artist, Joseph Gormley, has topped £600! Keep an eye on the auction, which ends tomorrow, here.
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macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 18 April, 2012 at 21:35 said:
I am interested and you have made me think beforehand not with the
latest admission which is hardly news breaking.
If the Malvinas was so vitally important why are the left so exposed after only 30 years ?
Quite simply if the Argentinains wanted them back they can take them and there is
nothing we could do about it according to every British miliatry expert
It seems that it was expedient to invade them when they did … mmmhhhhhhhhhhh.
You need to add something new and of substance to this debate or I will lose my interest
Hail Hail
Liquidation filing
What are the SFA going to do to Criag Whyte?
Banning him from games won’t do a lot of good.
The man is in trouble and he’ll show us how great he is.
Mr. Neil Lennon.
CELTIC F.C. – Powerful Beyond Measure
Charles lavery
say its true
whats a 2.16B document
Hail Hail
up over goal
Any details from our business aware posters?
Is this a genuine decision or a necessary precaution that does not guarantee liquidation?
Who is Charles Lavery?
Who is Charles Lavery?
Is party time upon us?
If Neil is banned for the Hertz game then Celtic should decline to receive the trophy at that point and arrange the presentation at a time that is suitable to us.
This is a no brainer as far as I am concerned.
It’s our trophy and we can have the ceremony to suit ourselves.
Also, I would implore any statisticians on here to produce the evidence which demonstrates that rankers are treated differently by referees than any other team in the league,with some officials notably Norris being particularly partial in this regard.
We should be exposing these cheats at every opportunity using evidence which they and their fellow travellers will find very hard to refute, and constantly reminding them of it will hopefully cause maximum embarrassment and discomfort.
Who knows it might even make them think twice in the future, though I won’t be holding my breath.
The bottom line is that they have declared war on us and we must respond, but in a way which benefits us and damages THEM in all their
guises.
BTW
When are the wages due to be paid at Skull Mountain?
ernie lynch
The trophy will be raised aloft. It raises money for the club. They will be selling all sorts of merchandise with the trophy on it. No danger it won’t be paraded and Neil Lennon will be on the pitch. Once the referee leaves the pitch the game is over and Neil can enter the field of play.
LB
It’s not liquidation.
It’s a statement of affairs relating to the administration.
They penetrate your skin
No more vitalities
Feeding your mind with fear
Smell of death is coming near
Squeezing out your blood
Life dragging through the mud
Dissection of your brain
Pumpin’ up the lead
The suffocate my flame of life
Ceremonial desecration
Death is now so close to me
Liquidation
The sound of ripping fleash
No chance for your defense
Languishing hungry guns
Return the hellish sacred flame
Unyielding hateful wrath
No confidence in god
Another breed behind
They’ll leave you where the others lie
The suffocate my flame of life
Ceremonial desecration
Death is now so close to me
Liquidation
Incapability
Escape your destiny
The rhythm of your heart
No more salvation to go on
Trapped in an icecold blaze
Your carcass starts to mate
Love finds a graceful end
The devil incarnates
The suffocate my flame of life
Ceremonial desecration
Death is now so close to me
Liquidation
greenjedi & headtheball
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According to his site
greenjedi/headtheball
http://charleslavery.org/
Ernie
2.11B (Scot) Notice of administrator’s appointment
2.15B (Scot) Notice of statement of affairs
2.16B (Scot) Statement of administrator’s proposals
2.16BZ (Scot) Notice of deemed approval of proposals
Hold up – looks like a false alarm. 2.16B is the form detailing D&P proposals to creditors on 5th April making its way to companies house acc. to Mike STV
So all bidders are after liquidation
Hail Hail
ernie
That is what I feared.
Although Duff & Phelps actions make little logical sense, filing to liquidate when seeking bids would seem a step too far, even for them
SFTB & Kayal
Cheers
Yup we need a Z
Gimme a Z
Hail Hail
Thanks for the info on Mr Lavery guys but has he jumped the gun on this one?
It’s not liquidation.
http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/insolvency/docs/forms/scotland-forms/2-
16bpdf.pdf
They won’t liquidate – yet. I would think that an offer of a CVA will be made first.
And then swiftly refused.
ernie
What about this?
Charlie Lavery…what are you like! eh?
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I’ll never look into your eyes…again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need…of some…stranger’s hand
In a…desperate land
Lost in a Roman…wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
There’s danger on the edge of town
Ride the King’s highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake…he’s old, and his skin is cold
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and we’ll do the rest
The blue bus is callin’ us
The blue bus is callin’ us
Driver, where you taken’ us
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and…then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door…and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother…I want to…fuck you
C’mon baby, take a chance with us
C’mon baby, take a chance with us
C’mon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin’ a blue rock
On a blue bus
Doin’ a blue rock
C’mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But you’ll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end
Looks like Charles Lavery conceding defeat on this one.
Why are you Bhoys trying to get me to fall off my chair..?….LOL
Apocalypse Now indeed Awe Naw, apocalypse now :-)
Come on whats happening? I was just about to go for a nap. Are they dead yet?
To paraphrase St Augustine (as you do).
Lord, liquidate the huns, but not yet.
I want our last game against them to be a victory.
Time to live
Time to lie
Time to laugh
Time to die
Takes it easy, baby
Take it as it comes
Don’t move too fast
And you want your love to last
Oh, you’ve been movin’ much too fast
Time to walk
Time to run
Time to aim your arrows
At the sun
Takes it easy, baby
Take it as it comes
Don’t move too fast
And you want your love to last
Oh, you’ve been movin’ much too fast
Go real slow
You like it more and more
Take it as it comes
Specialize in havin’ fun
Takes it easy, baby
Take it as it comes
Don’t move too fast
And you want your love to last
Oh, you’ve been movin’ much too fast
Movin’ much too fast
Movin’ much too fast
Years ago Hibs were invited to take part in a pre-season tournament in Canada. The excellent Jim O’Rourke was awarded a large silver plate for being player of the tournament.
At the airport on the way home, the media asked Jim to hold the plate aloft while they took photos. Jim duly obliged. When finished, he then FOLDED the silver plate and stuck it in his bag. (It was a comment on how mickey-mouse he considered the award.)
Celtic could do something similar – and further our bond with Barcelona. Do an open top bus celebration with the trophy, then let it accidentally fall underneath the front wheels of the bus. Then return it to the SPL in a black, council bin-liner with an attached note, “They think its all tainted – it is now.”
My guess is that @OfficialNeil will not be able to receive the trophy. However, given the celebrations at when the league was actually won, do we expect some faux-celebrations with the trophy just to satisfy the SFA/SPL/Sponsors etc? It was their choice not to have it there on the day that mattered.
I’d send most of the players are away on holiday to rest and get back early in time for the ECL qualifiers and play the development squad. Who cares about a piece of silver that has names on it that dont deserve to be there.
There is however a creditors meeting arranged for 12:00noon tomorrow at Ibrox.
Mort
seventyxseven ‘gelee et glace’
It was Real Madrid who dropped the Cop Del Ray.
LB