Having been handed their backside on a plate by the SPFL, Newco claim their incompetent resolution “was never intended to release end of season payments” as “any club facing short term financial difficulties should request a loan from the SPFL”. This runs contrary to their earlier statement “Rangers [sic.] will immediately propose a members’ resolution which would release prize money.”
Exactly why a resolution would be required for a club to request a loan under existing arrangements is unfathomable and the reason why you don’t allow children to issue statements on behalf of football clubs.
Can you imagine the wording of such a resolution, “We propose that clubs are allowed to request a loan as it already says in the rules clubs are allowed to request a loan.”
A leaked document on the SPFL vote indicates that the vote remains active for 28 days or until it gains sufficient acceptance to pass. If the majority of clubs voted No, the issue would still remain on the table for 28 days, allowing any number to change their vote to a Yes. It is also the case that not voting is the same as voting No; the resolution requires sufficient numbers of Yes votes to pass.
Dundee’s No vote and rescinding that vote therefore count as the same; they are entitled to rescind or change their vote to Yes at any time.
All of this, ALL of it, is like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. Releasing prize money now will assist community clubs with a very low cash burn. It will put only transient money in the pockets of others. If they do not have many millions in the bank, like Celtic, or cannot find a benefactor, and no other Premiership club has one, they will be insolvent soon.
Instead of firing off angry statements or conspiring to subvert the League, Newco would be better advised to face harsh realities.
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BOGNORBHOY on 14TH APRIL 2020 9:57 AM
Aye.
Gaun yersel now :-)
Reports stating…It will be another Three weeks of Lock Down in UK ?
it MIGHT be 7th May before some restrictions are lifted ?
This is now my 26th Day of self isolation….Nae Beer…Nae Celtic…Nae Wummin..Nae Glesga Banter in the Pubs…
By the time that we are allowed out and the Pubs are open..I’ll be a feckin Millionaire …apart from paying Bills etc Online…nothing to spend on .
by the time the Pubs are open and being Teetotal since 18th March etc…The first TWO Pints will probably knock me drunk ?
LOL
HH
BIG JIMMY on 14TH APRIL 2020 10:22 AM
The lockdown .
Nobody knows . That`s the reality.
It`s all speculation . Politicians who feel the need to respond to questions and not come across as pessimistic .
I`m hanging out for the first politician who has the cojones to say :
” Look. We don`t have a bloody clue because we are sailing through uncharted waters . ”
Because that`s the fact .
Meanwhile , no lockdown in the Channel.
And if / when the virus mutates ?
What then , pally ?
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 14TH APRIL 2020 10:34 AM
Agree 100% what an opportunity for politicians to level with the country
Tell the truth and BTW the truth is as you suggested – we don’t know how this ends yet
But they just can’t help themself – forever feeding BS
Hey Ho
67ECW
If Trump were Captain of Titanic:
– There isn’t any iceberg
– It’s a fake iceberg
– There was an iceberg but it’s in a totally different ocean
– The iceberg is in this ocean but it will melt very soon
– There is an iceberg but we didn’t hit the iceberg
– We hit the iceberg, but the damage will be repaired very shortly
– I knew from the beginning there was an iceberg, long before people called it an iceberg
– The iceberg is a Chinese iceberg
– We are taking on water but every passenger who wants a lifeboat can get a lifeboat, and they are beautiful lifeboats
– Look, passengers need to ask nicely for the lifeboats if they want them
– We don’t have any lifeboats, we’re not lifeboat distributors
– Passengers should have planned for icebergs and brought their own lifeboats
– I really don’t think we need that many lifeboats
– We have lifeboats and they’re supposed to be our lifeboats, not the passengers’ lifeboats
– The lifeboats were left on shore by the last captain of this ship
– Nobody could have foreseen the iceberg
– I’m an expert on icebergs I’ve got lots of friends who deal with icebergs, some of the best, really good ice people who know ice
– Summer will come and the iceberg will disappear, it will go away, like magic
67 EUROPEAN CUP WINNERS on 14TH APRIL 2020 11:04 AM
Glad to hear that .
It`s some of the media inquisitors as well . Desperate to get a ” a story “. As an inveterate newshound , I am now turning off the news, because there is none apart from the body count . So the agenda now is to pick holes in every little unguarded comment .
How is that doing a service for the general public ?
” The media is the message ” . Never truer than today .
God help us.
The accursed virus came from Wuhan.
Not Washington .
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 14TH APRIL 2020 11:27 AM
So the agenda now is to pick holes in every little unguarded comment …..
So we just allow governments to just get on with it with no accountability?
The fact that the vast majority of our “press” are pro Tory makes your comment even more distressing.
National Socialism the way forward then pal?
In a long line of pro-Sevco articles in the Press, I have found the latest tin-foil winner in The Evening Times by James Morgan:-
“NO ONE did social distancing over Easter weekend quite like Neil Doncaster.
Just as the Tory government has been sidestepping the difficult questions over its handling of the Covid-19 crisis, the SPFL chief executive has been all too visible in, well, his invisibility since the farce over the vote to call the lower leagues early started to unfold.
We could cast Doncaster in the role of hapless Matt Hancock spraying hospital balls to NHS spokespeople. But at least the minister for health has been seen fielding questions, however feckless he has appeared in doing so.
Where has the SPFL chief executive been in the middle of this meltdown? A brief statement last Wednesday aside, there has been no word of communication from him.
Murdoch MacLennan, the SPFL chairman who has business links to Celtic owner Dermot Desmond and shareholder Denis O’Brien, has assumed responsibility for acting as the board’s mouthpiece.
The situation has, in turn, become tribal, loaded with claim and counter-claim; all too regularly the case in Scottish football and all too regularly to its detriment.
It is often said – sometimes too often – that the clubs themselves are the SPFL. With disparate interests to be heard, there are times of rampant discord and division as a result.
It is therefore incumbent on Doncaster, as highest-paid director, to step forward and assume the mantle he has been entrusted with as public face of the organisation. His position should exist specifically for moments such as this – when faced with competing self- interests strong and stable leadership is required.
On Saturday, a petition aimed at removing him from his post was launched by a Rangers fan. As of late yesterday afternoon it was closing in on a target of 25,000 signatures.
“This man is far too close to Celtic football club [sic]. There must surely be a conflict of interest going on here,” wrote one signee, somewhat predictably.
“Completely lost faith. No reasons properly given for not releasing funds to clubs now. Rushed and poor decision making,” remarked another.
Outlandish? Maybe, then again maybe not. Such claims refuse to go away and do the SPFL’s credibility no good whatsoever.
Of course, it is not the first time Doncaster has dealt with a crisis or met with stiff criticism.
The league went three years without a title sponsor and when it finally got one it was with Ladbrokes, a third betting company (to go with Betfred and William Hill) when the game was being rocked by a succession of stories involving players and club officials breaking the rules on gambling.
Worryingly, the language which has been expressed in the aftermath of Friday’s vote has an echo of 2012 when the then SFL clubs talked about scare tactics and bullying over efforts to find a home for Rangers in the first division.
The feeling among some clubs is that this has been an unfair procedure from the outset, the voting process has been flawed and the publication of an exit poll before everyone had voted beyond belief.
As an exercise in administrative probity, it was a shambles. “My role as chief executive
is to represent all 12 clubs equally,” said Doncaster, when league reconstruction was on the agenda back in 2013.
“It’s not the case that I drive the clubs; it is the other way round.” Doncaster is actually responsible for all 42 clubs, yet too often it seems he is acting in the interests of a cartel.
His own a la carte definition of the job is at odds with his statement last Wednesday, which
used intemperate language suggesting “now is the time to act” and “the quicker we reach a final position the better”.
There is no doubt that some clubs are on the brink, but previous talk of impending financial Armageddon in the face of the Rangers crisis compromises his argument.
Doncaster possesses the comportment of a door-to- door insurance collector; you sense his definition of strong and stable might refer to the garden furniture at Dobbies. Alas, in recent days his organisation has looked as if is being held together by a few sheets of MDF and tin tacks.
He has been lauded for negotiating the record £150million TV deal with Sky Sports that is due to come into being next season. A sizeable amount, yes, but there is no doubt that the deal could have been better.
In 2018, the same year the Sky Sports deal was struck, Eurosport agreed to pay £48m for the rights to show games in Sweden’s top flight. In Rangers v Celtic, Doncaster has one of the biggest sporting spectacles in Europe as a selling point.
In 2008, the Scottish Premier League successfully negotiated a deal with Setanta Sports that brought £31m a year over four years. The deal collapsed due to Setanta’s financial implosion a year later but it was a fair barometer of market value.
The new deal agreed by the SPFL is just £1m more than that, a meagre three per cent in the 12 years since it was struck.
It’s not even in line with annual inflation, unlike Doncaster’s salary increases, however. In 2013, when he was chief executive of the SPL he was earning £200,000, today he earns almost double that when bonuses are factored in.
It equates to £388,000, more than the entire prize money handed to those teams that finished in places 4th to 11th in League 2 last season.
He is surely the highest-paid powerless administrator in world football and it appears to suit the SPFL clubs to allow Doncaster to stand on the steps at Hampden and take bullets for them.
Increasingly, though, the system he represents looks fatally flawed. If he is in a no- win situation as an employee then the problem lies with the job itself. The chief executive, his chairman and his board should have a degree of autonomy as final arbiters when competing interests prove insurmountable, yet the whole edifice is built on representatives with vested interests – Doncaster and MacLennan aside.
Perhaps radical league reconstruction – which should be unavoidable now – must look at all facets of the structure, including what goes on behind the chief executive’s door. “
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52271406
the beebs take on it – apologies if already posted; I don’t know scott Mullen – good journo?
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 14TH APRIL 2020 11:40 AM
I saw that
Parroting the Follow Follow line that Murdoch McLennan isn’t impartial because he’s a non-executive director of a company where Dermott Desmond is a minority shareholder.
Disgraceful really
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 14TH APRIL 2020 10:34 AM
And if / when the virus mutates ?
=====
It already is, at the expected/normal rate. Most of the mutations are either harmful to the virus itself making it less likely to spread OR don’t change how it functions so not affecting the process of finding a vaccine.
It has low shielding, meaning a vaccine may be easier to develop and licensed as quickly as possible within the constraints of clinical trials and ultimately licensing procedure,
HH
In ither news……………
“Lard Foulkes”………..
I’m now getting a dune buggy appearing which seems to have made its way through duck duck go shield
What was the other site being used ?
Wonder if Rangers have a mega deal lined up to replace Ladbrokes
as exclusive betting partner
IN A BEHIND CLOSED DOOR Ibrox next year
Hope they have thought this through :-)
ONENIGHTINLISBON on 14TH APRIL 2020 11:38 AM
I fear that if you cannot recognise that the BBC , the most influential of all the media outlets in UK , is a coalition of Labour / Greens with a microphone , then there is little hope for your ability to discriminate news and biased propaganda.
Publicly funded at that.
Accountability is coming .
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 14TH APRIL 2020 12:20 PM
I’m now getting a dune buggy appearing which seems to have made its way through duck duck go shield
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BT
Dune buggy ?? Go oot a wee walk mucker,yir gon stir crazy.:O)
SIEMPRE CELTIC (FORMERLY TRADITIONALIST88) on 14TH APRIL 2020 12:03 PM
An obviously informed opinion.
Very reassuring .
Thank you .
https://twitter.com/collectcelticfc/status/1250003807389528064?s=12
The comment probably nearer the mark with Ladbrokes…
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 14TH APRIL 2020 12:29 PM
ONENIGHTINLISBON on 14TH APRIL 2020 11:38 AM
I fear that if you cannot recognise that the BBC , the most influential of all the media outlets in UK , is a coalition of Labour / Greens with a microphone , then there is little hope for your ability to discriminate news and biased propaganda.
You are taking the mickey here surely?
new article posted.
VP
I need to , I checked my phone this morning and I’ve averaged 230 steps per day since lockdown . I really need to get outside as I am as you say
going stir crazy 8-(
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 14TH APRIL 2020 11:12 AM
If Trump were Captain of Titanic:
Actually Paul McCartney wrote a song on his last album about Donald Trump being captain of the Titanic…..Its actually very good..has a jeff wayne ‘war of the worlds’ quality to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vDVZNOFMEM
!!BADA BING!! on 14TH APRIL 2020 12:36 PM
Ladbrokes Sevco story true or not certainly exposes the sheer horrid venom and evil bitterness in their support.
If I was a commercial partner I would think very carefully before getting involved with the govan club.
It seems when things go wrong or simply come to an end there is a call for boycotts and scorn towards the former partner company…….unless you are already have the bigoted devil stitting on your shoulder it really does not make commercial sense to get involved with such a poisenous club in any commercial way.
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 14TH APRIL 2020 12:20 PM
I’m now getting a dune buggy appearing which seems to have made its way through duck duck go shield
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Ditto
“In Rangers v Celtic, Doncaster has one of the biggest sporting spectacles in Europe as a selling point.”
Tells you all you need to know about Mr Morgan and his ET article.