Let’s be clear about what is going to happen on Friday. Monetary inducements are being made to allow a newly created company to advance its football team two divisions up the league structure.
The overwhelming majority of money to pay for these financial inducements will be taken from Celtic, who vehemently oppose all these measures. The SPL will reduce the commercial distribution to the top club in the league and pay-off everyone else. 41 teams will benefit financially from this proposition, only Celtic will lose.
For good measure, the SPL have declined to take gate sharing off the table. Up to 30% of your season ticket money will soon be commandeered by Kilmarnock, Motherwell and the rest, who will take their slice and share some with the lower leagues.
All the while you can scarcely find a football fan of any club who is anything other than disgusted by this shoddy behaviour; Celtic fans are by no means isolated. Most fans of former-club, Rangers, don’t want to see a phoenix assisted by such blatant patronage, lest Newco is forever known as a team which needed rules to be changed and money taken from Celtic to give it life.
Believe me, if Newco exists for 100 years, every day they score a goal someone will say, “They are only there because the rules were changed to help them and money was taken from Celtic to pay for it”.
They will forever be known as the Establishment club with definitive evidence that they benefited from the Establishment’s help.
The once-proud era of Scottish league football is surely over, what we are witnessing is merely evidence of this fact. ‘Sport’ as gone from our football. Fans, clubs and the national bodies must accept this reality and start to make forward plans to breathe the oxygen of genuine competition into our game.
Where is Michel Platini when football really needs some help?
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Wee word of warning for fans of the NewCo FC.
If a crisis on this level ever again darkens your door, try NOT to make an enemy of a football club which counts amongst its supporters a former Prime Minister, a man who understands the notion of a “blood feud” as well as anyone in politics in this great lands, who can advise and steer on any issue … oh yes, and who has friends who sit on the Culture, Media & Sport Committee at Westminster.
Tut-tut. What a silly, silly, bunch of sods you are.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/rangers/9387504/Rangers-in-crisis-SFL-clubs-unfazed-by-Neil-Doncasters-scare-tactics.html
toibhoy67 on 9 July, 2012 at 23:31 said:
U have just been through the CQN christening ritual. Nothing to be alarmed about, unless you are one of course :-)
HH
CRC
ernie lynch on 9 July, 2012 at 23:33 said:
So how do you stop gate sharing when there’s an 11-1 vote?
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You don’t; if it happens, it happens. It will not change the heterogeneous nature of the SPL, we’ll still earn sums vastly greater than any other club in the league.
And the need to produce our own talent (as a league, as a whole) will diminish because just over half the league can freeload a few hundred thousand to a million a year and the buying in of the new Don Goodman and Paul Bernard will come full circle.
Yaay, a busted flush. Again.
There’s a thread on Sevco Media about Mr Charles looking for a flat in Glasgow at the moment. This comment gave me good chuckle.
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Posted Today, 10:14 PM
Glasgow district housing advise green to grab a wee hairy and get her pregnant or he will have no chance of getting on the housing list
So. What has fandaparrot said?
MWD
CRC
Dropped a message to P&O on facebook lol
HH
Bundoran Bhoy – RAISING AWARENESS OF NEUROBLASTOMA (GOD BLESS WEE OSCAR) on 9 July, 2012 at 23:38 said:
Make sure you get us a big boat….I reckon there will be lots of bike volunteers
HH
CRC
James, interesting part from that article, and one I’ve not seen elsewhere in MSM, although I hasten to add that it’s some time since I took great notice of such…
Such an outcome would, it’s argued, protect the new, as yet unsigned, Sky TV deal – assuming, that is, that the new Glasgow club were able to win promotion next season.
Is that it in the open now – that all this manoeuvring is dependant on ‘ensuring’ Sevco also get promoted (remember, the game will lose hunners o mullions if they’re not)?
Nytol
Take care and god bless Timland.
HH
KTF
jock steins celtic on 9 July, 2012 at 23:11 said:
if there is to be gate sharing we might have to get the old board back to count the crowd.
VG.
Thanks been reading CQN for few months think its the best blog about ,went to Blantyre few weeks with Paul,phil ect enjoyed it enormously ! Great night !
HH
Bundoran Bhoy
Sent you an email regarding P&O
Hail Hail
So the SFA huns have blocked the registration of the walkaway huns
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/rangers/9387504/Rangers-in-crisis-SFL-clubs-unfazed-by-Neil-Doncasters-scare-tactics.html
**tucks TET in**
Off to bed too.
Night y’all.
dirtymac:
Oh I think the wording of the motion, I think the comments from Regan, Doncaster and Longmuir are all heavily slanted in a way which suggests if this grubby deal goes through NewCo’s smooth ascension to the SPL is assumed, if it not assured.
They are quite shamelessly promoting this as if football was not going to be played in the interim. And who knows? Maybe it’s not. Maybe they are going to decide this by Snakes & Ladders after all. And why not?
That’s the only other game I can think of where you can skip everyone in front of you with such startling ease.
Over..and…Over on 9 July, 2012 at 23:43 said:
Got it, thanks will try that (much appreciated)
HH
ernie
“So how do you stop gate sharing when there’s an 11-1 vote?”
Use imagination
Pre-emptive- Outline to the proposers the negative consequences of their actions; Fans actively staying away from games to avoid contributing to this scam.
Active:- Staying Away and going to a Development League match instead to fund Celtic
I’m sure there are many other courses of action and you have the wit and imagination to dream up more yourself.
James Forrest
Brilliant analogy, The Snakes and Ladders League.
HH
Wrote to the then Celtic manager, the late, great Jimmy Mc Grory, in 1963 and he personally arranged for me to get a season ticket in the Main Stand for the following season.
I was so chuffed to be one of ‘the elite’ till I realised I was on my own and all my mates were having a hooly in the old jungle!
Gave it up the following seson and joined them!
Hail! Hail!
Terrymac
Regan fiddles while Scottish football burns!
Last post for sure, then bed…
Aye James, I have a suspicion that the SFA, SPL and SFL will be under one umbrella part way through next season when the Sevco Threadbears are languishing in 5th/6th position and it becomes more apparent that promotion by right of merit is not on the cards.
“We listened to the fans” will be the press release from Hampden as they gerrymander a top-16 league with an initial 2 down, 6 up, thereby increasing the likelihood of their tainted presence in our midst.
I’d luv it, in a Keegan stylee, if that actually came to pass and Orc FC still mucked it up, finishing 7th by a point.
dirtymac on 9 July, 2012 at 23:50 said:
So that would be 3 down and 7 up! :-)
HH
CRC
My Dear,Dear Delia……
Jack will be so displeased with your catastrophic loss of discipline….
(Thumbsup?)
CRC – Regarding P&O, it’s their 175th anniversary this year. Might be worth using this as an angle for publicity etc…..
worthatrycsc
SFTB
How’s about hiring a big hit air balloon (from Celtic). Basket will have a glass floor and hold 60,000. It will then be released and float over Celtic park anchored to public areas around the stadium on match days. £500 a season to float over Celtic park.
It’s a winner.
MWD
MWD
Fanadpatriot posted at 16.53 and had us all on the edge of our seats. Then he asked us all to be patient!
Art of War on 9 July, 2012 at 23:56 said:
Good shout and worth a try, with Celtic being 125 years
HH
CRC
sftb
Exactly, easily done. How about Celtic v Celtic Bhoys at £100 quid a pop or £50 quid pre season. Tons of ways around it, free entry for anyone who turns up at the first three games. There is absolutely no way they can do it, to be honest I don’t think they will even try.
MWD,
I think ogilvie might be busy
CRC got some details for P&O so will try the 175 year angle on em ;-)
HH
MWD – Would that be floating shares then? ;-))))
hopefully dropping soap in the big house
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 9 July, 2012 at 23:58 said:
MWD,
I think ogilvie might be busy
share on F’book or Twitter
I’ll 2nd that.
Where’s Amadeus these days ?
He was always good for a scoop….
O.G.Rafferty on 9 July, 2012 at 23:05 said:
I’ll bow to your superior knowledge on the matter.
Unless I’m mistaken the judge allegedly delaying the ruling on the EBT’s will be on Thomson’s sights one way or another.
Why have the clubs not demanded a inquiery, do they all have something to hide
MWD
It was ernie that I was inviting to use his imagination and not be so prosaic.
You have no trouble with imagination.
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