At the start of the week our man in Poland sent me a link to the Croatian outlet who interviewed Nikica Jelavic. I mentioned the player in an article yesterday and recalled his earlier comments, which I referenced as background information. This ‘news’ was subsequently carried by today’s radio and print outlets in Scotland.
It’s maybe a low blow to bring out the ‘Lazy journalism’ point on the day Scotland’s formerly-largest newspaper shed journalists, although the point is perfectly illustrated, but lazy journalism always found its place in the past. The real problem has little to do with the standard of journalism on offer, it’s about business models in the old media. News doesn’t pay unless you can tax consumers or bundle it with paid-for football channels, which is not a good thing.
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My green brigade to prevail in the blue toon-
Forster/Zaluska
Matthews Mulgrew Rogne Izaguirre
Brown Ki Wanyama #9 Enigma
Stokes Hooper
Cellick to win by the traditional 5-0.
Hello Paul and Ah’ll
Someone earlier asked for the link to this, sorry can’t remember who
Grant Fae Perth
Comedy Gold
DBBIA
Cool, ole Peterhead bound, Goldstar will hold off till Monday and he’s coming for the chin wag as will EuroChamps.
new article posted.
St John Doyle
Let’s wait and see what the Tribunal says as we need the detail of the evidence that has been given before reaching any conclusions on that score. However, so far the press have seemed to suggest that if there is an administration then that will cure all evils.
There will be no administration at all– if anything it will be a receivership and that is a wholly different beast as Whytey controls the whole show.
The suggestion on RTC is that he will then “Hive down” the assets to a subsidiary company in settlement of the debt owed to him, sell that off to womsoever, and then liquidate the parent compnay (Rangers PLC) which will carry all other debts.
So now no administration but full blown liquidation with a newco being formed to carry on.
Does that then mean that everyone else will just shrug and forget what has happened over the last ten years in terms of proper football administration? No I don’t think so.
But let’s let the chicken come home to roost before sharpening the carving knife and getting out the bisto!
Paul67
can´t access CQN for the new article ? Huh ?
Hail Hail
I think we will see a few first teamers rested for the cup match.
Is Bangura fit to play or still injured? Lustig for a debut? And give young McGeough a run at them.
At the risk of repeating myself ….
People can talk all they want about a competitive league. But it’s all a load of old pony. If NewCo Rangers are allowed back into the SPL because of the need for “competitiveness” or TV revenue it will be a scandal without equal in the history of football in this country.
There are many ways to make a league “competitive.” You can impose limits on the number of foriegn players. You can impose salary caps. You can limit transfers to midnight on a Thursday once a year and institute a draft so that the best players are properly distributed between the teams.
You can skew TV money so that the richer clubs get least, and redistribute wealth. You can siphon off a percentage of each club’s season ticket money and invest in it in a youth development pool from which all the clubs can draw and, like the draft, allocates the best young talent to the lowest placed team.
Or how about this? You can award the team which is projected to finish last a 30 point head start, and award each team in the league a number of points on a sliding scale all the way up to the favourites, who get nada.
There are any number of ways you can make a league competitive. Many of them have been tried elsewhere, but all of them devalue the most basic fundamental principle of the sport, which is fairness.
What, to my knowledge, has not been tried is to allow a team which has won titles by fraud and tax evasion to get away with it because punishing them might spoil the equilibrium. You simply cannot have one rule for Rangers and another for Hearts or Motherwell or Hibs or Dunfermline, because to do so blatantly corrupts the league setup and makes the “level playing field” a mockery.
So what do you get when, in the name of “competitiveness” you allow corruption and cheating to prosper? You annihilate the entire ethos of the game, because you destroy the notion of playing by any set of rules.
There is an imperitive here for the SFA/SPL to act in the long term good of the game. If they allow NewCo Rangers instant access to the SPL they will have done incalculable damage to Scottish football in the medium-long term, because NewCo Rangers will beget NewCo Hearts will beget NewCo Motherwell will beget NewCo Dunfermline and on and on it will go.
Competitiveness itself will suffer, as the clubs most willing to exploit the rules will simply spend money they don’t have and overtake the ones who believe, naively, in a level playing field for all.
Besides, where is the “competitiveness” in allowing one club to determine the future of the entire national sport? How long before they are exploiting that position all over again? I’ll tell you how long. If we allow NewCo Rangers a place in the SPL one day, they will be signing players they cannot afford the following day, because there will be no-one, and nothing, to stop them doing so. In making such a scandalous decision, the SPL and the SFA will have carved in stone the notion that we are a two team country, although what in fact they will have done is elevated one of those teams far above the rest of the game.
The Scottish football paradigm is broken already, because it is, in effect, a two team system, with one of those teams wielding inordinate power. If that system is broken it allows a fresh start to everyone, ourselves included, and we can put together a business model of our own which is not so heavily dependant on the Celtic-Rangers axis, and that is something I would welcome.
No fresh start will be possible, in our lifetimes, should this stinking, hoaching, despicable stitch-up be ratified and accepted. There will be no level playing field. No competitiveness. Instead, one club will have taken a great big dump on the rest of the national game. The basis of that game will have been ruined forevermore. Fans will desert. Sponsors will run for the hills and the game will die.
But if the SPL and the SFA take a different road, and they make the punishment truly fit the crime, what will be the result?
Fairness will have won over narrow self interest. A clear signal will have been sent not just across Scotland but across football that cheating is not tolerated here, that the game is bigger than just one club, that we have a system in this country which respects all teams, not just two.
The fans of other clubs will applaud and be grateful for the courage shown. They will look at the demise of Rangers and realise the table is straight, that the wheel is not fixed, that they do have a chance after all … and without the Celtic-Rangers axis there will be a chance, a genuine one, for a challenge to emerge.
As Celtic cuts its cloth to suit the absence of our greatest rival, our own youth players will more and more come to represent our hope for the future, and by the time Rangers themselves claw their way back from the bottom, some measure of balance will have returned to our game. In the process, they will have enriched every club in the lower league structure, from the Third Division to the First, and that will have knock on effects and benefits for the national sport the likes of which no McLeish Report ever could or ever would.
On the one hand is the total destruction of our national sport in every meaningful way. Oh yes, it will linger for some years yet, but the end will have begun, and it will be painful and awful and it is uncertain whether even our own club will survive it when the effects hit home.
On the other is a demonstration of fairness and justice, a courageous choice which will reinvigorate the lower leagues, transform Rangers into something less arrogant, destroy the two team SPL system and give us a new page on which to write the future history of the game.
The choice, to me, seems a simple one. God Help the “leaders” of our game here if they, for whatever reason, take the wrong path.
AWE NAW 1239
Have I waited long enough to say
CAN YOU NO’ TAKE A HINT?
Where’s that smiley thing……
JAMES FORREST 1244
You may just have to take the risk of repeating yourself again.
Just going to the next thread to check.
Still cannae find that smiley thing…..
hehehe – stupid huns;
“I would say to those that are worried…if you don’t fully understand what’s going on (basically everyone), don’t worry, you don’t need to.
Whatever happens will happen and I would personally recommend placing your trust in Craig Whyte who has done nothing but seek the best for RFC from the moment he walked in the door, IMO. “
emusanorphan says:
5 January, 2012 at 17:37
Bhoytony says:
5 January, 2012 at 18:20
Guys thanks for all the help on Pattaya,I’ll find something I’ll have most of Saturday to trawl the bars.
Cheers.
Morning guys
Dave’s Dream at 8/1 in 2.05 Sandown for me today
Morning ghuys.
Twists ,I am going up against you today,what the huns have thought for decades..
….all for free in the 2.05 Sandown.
Good luck.
Vogue
When I chose Daves dream I immediately thought of Minty!!
Thats it – I’m doing a rev forecast on Dave’s dream and all for free
GL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
Naps here today lads !
fleagle1888
CQN Saturday Naps Competition – Results – Week 20 (Boxing Day) & Week 21 (Sat 31st December)
Cathal was our only Boxing Day winner (Blackstairmountain @ 9/2)… but we had 3 winners on Saturday – hunza rugli (Novellen Lad @ 3/1), PF Ayr (Cue Card @ 5/2), What is the Stars (Shadow Catcher @ 7/4).
+£12.00 voguepunter (3)
+£10.83 fleagle1888 (5)
+£ 8.83 bobbymurdoch’s winklepickers (5)
+£ 2.63 Rockon (5)
+£ 1.50 twists n turns (3)
-£ 0.50 Cathal (5)
-£ 0.75 Eurochamps67 (5)
-£ 2.50 wolfetonebhoy (3)
-£ 3.75 What is the Stars (3)
-£ 4.70 Som mes que un club (2)
-£11.50 hunza rugli (2)
-£12.50 PFayr (2)
-£14.00 Raymac (1)
-£16.00 Che (1)
-£21.00 BULL67
-£21.00 oldtim
-£21.00 The Token Tim
-£21.00 tommytwisttommyturns
*No selections from : Eurochamps67, Raymac*
Happy New Year to one and all !!!
Cheers, fleagle1888
Going for Dens Gift in the 3.20 at Lingfield, good luck
One of Lucindas for me
Stormion 2.25 Newcastle.
Twisty, how about this one to make up your trixie?
NO LOOSE CHANGE 325 Winc
NAP
WYMOTT 3-10
Lads,
My nap for today is : Prospect Wells (Sandown 2.35)
Cheers, fleagle1888
Che
I noticed that one earlier. Vogue and I are in the same race tho’ so trixie = no can do!
Master of the Hall for me – 3.10 Sandown.
Good luck all.
Playing catch up.
Numide 3.10 Win. 33/1.
Happy New Year Lhads.
Speculative nap today is COTILLON 3.45 Sandown.
Probably an E.W. but..
EC67
On a terrible run, need a pick me up, and soon.
Therefore…
GALLOX BRIDGE Wincanton 15.25
ktf
Afternoon all,
aplologies to Cathal but hopefully it’s a case of great minds think alike….
Master of the Hall – 3.10 Sandown.
Best of luck!
I’ll go for Attaglance in the 3:45 at Sandown.
TTTT
hunza rugli says:
7 January, 2012 at 12:24
No apology necessary – hopefully we’ll both have a winner :¬)
Love your nome de blog.
Cheers Cathal,
though not sure my name is acceptable anymore in “modern” Scotland!
C’mon the Master!
Wincanton 325 Gallox Bridge for me today thanks
Bawaardi, 3.20 Lingfield. Fair chance and a fair price. Double with Oasis dancer in the race before. Backed Arbroath for the draw.
My initial pick was going to be Glenwood Knight in this 1:55 at Newcastle, but changed my mind…..backed it though. Graham Lee already got two winners!
T4
Gouvenor Jack in the last at Thurles for me – Hail Hail Wolfetonebhoy
No loose change in the 325 at winc – pretty apt considering 21 donkeys in a row! Be lucky bhoys
What is the Stars says:
7 January, 2012 at 10:46
Unlucky sir.
Well done Ruby, what a joke….! Had Attaglance at 12’s, it was backed into 11/2 cf and batters the first fence.
Feckin brilliant!
T4
Apologies for the late post,fellas.
No proper stuff,so
T5 902
Monmore,I believe.