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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Mea Culpa on 10 July, 2012 at 03:49 said:
True. But why show up in court when (from your first post)
17. The SFA/SFL/SPL will do your bidding for you?
Margaret McGill on 10 July, 2012 at 03:17 said:
errrr..let me se…err thinking..err ..gottit..refs!
what took me so long ah should be ashamed o masel
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Note to self: Must remember to put wee smiley things when I’m only joking
All those speculations about Division One or Three, who says they will be, after all, accepted in the SFL at all?? Jez, that would top everything :)
Top of the morning to you all from a still, grey, but dry Fife.
Not much happening today in the press other than the Herald where the Morton chairman calling Regan a liar and Doncaster a clown!
Just another day in Scottish soccer folks.
Morning Celts it’s hissing down along the NW coast of engerlund.
I see the Morton chairman is sticking it into the mafia – Scottish football authorities, from the Herald:
DOUGLAS RAE, the Morton chairman, has sent a strongly worded letter to the chairmen of each Scottish Football League club criticising what Stewart Regan, the Scottish Football Association chief executive, and his counterpart at the Scottish Premier League, Neil Doncaster, said at last week’s SFL meeting.
Representatives from the 30 lower-league clubs came together at Hampden last Tuesday and were addressed by Regan and Doncaster regarding the implications of voting Rangers newco into the Irn-Bru First or Third Divisions.
In his letter yesterday, Rae lambasted the contribution made by Doncaster, in particular, saying he “seemed to many to be a man who had lost his way and [is] unable to get back on the right road”.
Doncaster had outlined that SFL clubs would put at risk six top-flight clubs unless they voted to install Rangers in the first division. They are scheduled to meet to decide the issue at a special general meeting on Friday.
The Morton chairman reiterated the assertion made by third-division club Clyde that Regan had lied about the SFA’s stance on a proposal to install Rangers in the SPL, a motion defeated last week by 10-1 in a vote by top-flight clubs. He also alighted upon a common theme in lamenting the existence of three governing bodies in Scottish football, expressing a wish that the authorities be merged.
“Scottish Football League clubs are being placed in an intolerable position by the SFA and the overwhelming decision by the SPL to refuse to admit newco Rangers into the Premier League,” wrote Rae, whose club will be represented on Friday by chief executive Gillian Donaldson, as Rae remains on holiday. “I was very disappointed indeed with the input of the two visiting officials at the SFL meeting, which lasted some five hours. The visitors were Stuart [sic] Regan, chief executive of the SFA and Neil Doncaster, chief executive of the SPL.
“Neil Doncaster was a man who didn’t appreciate that the current problem relative to newco Rangers, and which league they should be playing in next season, is exclusively the problem of the SPL and little do to with the SFL.
“Neil was totally unable to get his clubs to accept the decision going forward that he wanted. Following that mammoth failure, Neil now expects the SFL clubs to bail him out, which would mean SFL clubs ignoring the views of their supporters. Never have I known supporters to be more single-minded than how they feel over this newco Rangers drama. Quite frankly, Neil Doncaster seemed to many to be a man who had lost his way and [is] unable to get back on the right road.
“The SPL CEO made scant contribution other than trying to impress clubs that if we did not vote newco Rangers into the SFL Division One, financial disaster of epic proportions would be the experience many clubs would suffer. His forecast was that up to six SPL clubs could go ‘bust’ if the SFL clubs did not follow his advice to back newco Rangers.”
Rae was only marginally more impressed with the presentation of Regan, who last week delivered a withering forecast of the state of Scottish football should Rangers newco not be allowed to enter the first division.
Last week Clyde revealed that Regan had intended to block Rangers’ entry to the SPL should clubs have opened the door to them, although it stated that his comment had been delivered in such a way that it came across as “less than an absolute statement”.
However, Rae indicates he pressed Regan on his comment, and he reiterated that the governing body would have blocked Rangers’ path into the top flight. He also explained that such a decision was kept from the clubs for “greater effect”.
The letter continued: “The most concerning point about Regan’s presentation was he departed truth as he became increasingly desperate to get his viewpoints accepted. When asked what would have happened if SPL clubs had voted newco Rangers entry to the Premier League, he stated that the SFA would block it. I asked why that point had not been made known to the clubs prior to the meeting. Stuart stated that sometimes points are withheld until the last moment for greater effect. I asked, through the chair, if I could ask Regan to repeat what he had said about ‘blocking’. He responded by repeating what he had said minutes before; namely that the SFA would block any result that would see newco Rangers entering the SPL.
“The following day Stuart countermanded in the press what he had told the SFL meeting the previous day.
“It is very disappointing the SFA chief executive was unable to give a truthful response to SFL chairmen.”
Rae then revealed his desire for Scottish football to be governed by a single body, headed by current SFL chief executive David Longmuir.
“Scottish football is in crisis and needs a man of honesty, vision and strength at the helm – David Longmuir. David addressed the meeting last week and gave a clear picture of how he saw the way ahead for our clubs – and was the only one of these three speakers who spoke with clarity and which he managed to do without misleading the chairmen.
“I am sure I am not the only chairman who considers it absurd to have three organisations looking after Scottish football. There should be one organisation looking after all aspects of our game.”
The SPL and SFA chose not to comment on Rae’s letter.
HH
It certainly looks like some SPL chairmen have grown a pair and may indeed relieve Regan and Doncaster of theirs.
Simple question should be first item.
Does the new unnamed as yet applicant fulfill the criteria for membership?
If “NO” then the meeting may adjourn to listen to the applications from Spartans for the vacant spot in the SFL.
SFL SFL SFL ad Infinitum.
Big Nan morning :>)
Regan and Doncaster have now pitted themselves against men steeped in Scottish football for the love of it. Tehe.
Hopefully the masons dont win the day.
As far as I can tell, according to the letter from Longmuir, the ‘vote’ should dismissed at point (i):
(i) That the Scottish Football League Members agree to admit Sevco Scotland Limited as an Associate Member and agrees to permit Rangers F.C. to play in the League during Season 2012/13.
From my reading of this, he is asking that Sevco Scotland Limited (an agency that does legally exist) to become an Associate Member of the SFL
AND ALSO
to agree to permit Rangers FC (an agency which is currently in administration) to play in the Season 2012/13.
If Sevco Scotland Ltd is permitted to become an Associate member, why hasn’t he asked for Sevco Scotland Ltd to have a team in the SFL?
He isn’t asking that Rangers FC become an Associate member, therefore kinda pointless to ask if they can field a team.
The general assumption here is that Sevco Scotland Ltd = Rangers FC.
This is NOT the case. Rangers FC are in administration and about to be liquidated.
I may be stupid here but I do believe that the correct names for agencies should be quoted in ALL business documents.
If teams can be kicked out of competitions for technical errors in paperwork, I would have thought that new teams seeking entry would be told to go away and do the paperwork again if there are any technical errors.
It is also intriguing to see that trivial details such as cutoff dates for submitting applications to join the league are conventiently ignored.
If rules of membership are totally ignored, how much faith can clubs have that the rules of the game itself will not be treated in the same fashion, to achieve the same outcome.
None of this is for the benefit of Scottish football.
The executive members of the SFA, SPL and SFL should ALL be charged with bringing the game into disrepute. They have turned Scottish football into the laughing stock of the entire footballing world.
“She cannae take it Captain”……wiping away the tears.
Jesus, Mary and all the Saints, thank you.
RANGERS legend Paul Gascoigne yesterday insisted there’s “never been a better time” to play for the Ibrox side as he made a bizarre pledge to join the skint club next season.
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The 45-year-old star vowed to help old pal Ally McCoist by pulling on his boots again days after the fallen giants were dumped out the top flight.
Gazza, who helped Rangers clinch their famous nine league titles in a row, made his pledge as controversial lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano revealed he wants to buy the old Rangers and exploit a loophole that he claims would allow them to play in England.
Gazza, who quit Ibrox in 1998, said: “I’ll play for Rangers next season. I will be there next season with Coisty and his team.
Good morning fellow Celts from the 0630 to Waterloo skies looking a little clearer this morning and temp is higher.. still have my trusty brolly :)
Paul67 blog temp going from Hi to Lo Difficult to know what’s next. However I cannot see how they can get a team on the park in time for new season… whatever league they finally bulldoze their way into.
HH
Top of the mornin. Just when you thought it couldnt get any better…….Sweet Jesus.
Gazza : “if I can get my hip sorted I’ll make myself available for a few games in the Third Division if Coisty needs me. There is no better time to play for Rangers than right now.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/feeds/smartphone/scotland/4420369/In-your-dreams-team.html#ixzz20CDDhTG1
Rangers will be playing at Central Park Cowdenbeath!
http://keltyhearts.co.uk/#/stefan-winiarski-testimonial/4566413650
Sorry that should be Central Park Kelty.
Two miles out!
But Mr Di Stefano, do ye no ken that oor country needs “them”. Huv yae no heard?
Please don’t take oor Rangers away. We’ll die withoot “them”.
Just a wee point though. If you are offering to save them from the great abyss, do you happent to have 100+ million in cash to pay off their debts. I do believe these are still outstanding.
Oh and of course there are all those inconvenient EBT thingys to resolve.
And the various investigations into “them” for fraud etc…
And then theres the taking SFA to court against FIFA regulations.
And not forgetting the new investigation by Westminster.
And as time goes on, I am fairly sure these various investigations will uncover a whole suite of other illegal goings-on at Swindlers FC.
Why on earth would you want to do such a stupid thing?
I do prefer to look on the bright side, if you are going to take them off to Ingerlund, gonnae take the mingin minions who follow them doon there too.
Bonus!
Eamonn Cushley on 9 July, 2012 at 23:20 said:
I see st Stivs has offered the usual warm welcome :)
Do you live in Chapelhall? I have cousins in States who originated in Co Down and briefly settled married raised family in St Als parish?
Welcome aboard
HH
1st. ? :-)
Drat ! Can’t even get a 1st on a page :-(
Chaplin get up earlier mate :)
S E S
You’d need to be up early to keep up with these charlatans running our game :-(
Oh and Mr Di Stefano,
I am sorry to have to tell you that you are ineligible to act as would-be saviour for Pestilence FC.
You see, your surname has to be a colour of some kind.
afternoon Chaplin.. o))
2 quick points before I finish bathing (you didn’t really need to know that. Did you?)
1. For a parrot Fanda really needs to learn how to talk more. (thanks to those who pointed me in the direction of his comments last night)
2. Why does Maggie Maghill want me to do life?
Hail! Hail!
MWD
Morning all from a bright and pleasant looking Wembley .
I read Foxy’s comments and then had to double-check the byline as thought it had been awe-naw’d .
I think we need to pull together a time-line of the last 5 months detailing , in a roller coaster stylee how events have conspired to raise false hopes among the unwashed before battering them down again with the sledgehammer of reality .
Sanna
If Gazza gets to play for the scum then Celtic should surely do the corinthian thing and reciprocate to level the playing field.
We need a striker of the larger variety, Sutton/Hartson.
I may be 55 but certainly of the larger variety and did bang in a good few goals back in the Greater Glasgow Premiership winning days. EC 67 to Lenny’s rescue. I’d even suit the new away kit.
EC67
BlackisslimmingCSC
Good morning CQNers,
Just musing; if Regan’s ‘special team’ do gain admittance to the 1st division and labour through games to an extent where promotion is in doubt do you think Mr Regan will deploy the storm troopers to ensure results favour the ‘special ones’?
Just speculating.
James Forrest
Inspired by your snakes and ladders analogy – might I suggest that one of you creative types designs a “pull out” S & L for the CQN magazine?
It would be a tremendous piss-take and collectors item in my humble opinion…
My previous post could be considered defamatory but Mr Regan’s manoeuvring has left him open to such accusations. What’s more, I’d bet he’ll rue the shameless preferential treatment he’s afforded Sevco Scotland before the next season is completed.
If gazza is serious about buying the huns would he pass the “fit and proper person” test?
Is he more suitable than bummer broon?
Is he not an undischarged bankrupt?
I should have finished with –
Is he just another in a long line of hun fuds?
Gazza for Sevco? They might need him. McCoist will be playng too at this rate.
@celticrumours: RT @johnbomberbrown: RFC
Rangers For Change
Fans Unite <- "RFC FU"?!?
Gazza wants to play for Rangers? That’s him back on the piss for certain.
Morning all from a so-so North Ayrshire.
Awful to hear of the desecration of St Conval’s. My prayers for Fr Willie and his community.
My mate was telling me the Celtic are on TV this evening. Does anyone know which station are showing the game?
Yes born and raised there !!
A see gazza wants to play for sevco when his hip is fixed !
They just keep giving and giving lol
CS CSC
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous New hillbillies the day?
Looks like Sally has offered to share his monster munches with Gazza. Too funny. Could we write something this much comedy gold. Hail Hail