BBC report that Newco Rangers chief executive and major shareholder, Charles Green, has indicated to his board that he will resign. Two weeks ago the last owner of Oldco Rangers revealed that he was also a director of Sevco 5088 Ltd, the company who had an irrevocable agreement to buy the assets of Rangers from administrators Duff and Phelps.
The entitlement of Sevco 5088 was subsequently assumed by Sevco Scotland Ltd (now Rangers Football Club Ltd, a subsidiary of Rangers International FC PLC). Sevco 5088, which Green remains a director of, is now owned by Worthington Group PLC and has started legal proceedings against Rangers Football Club Ltd, claiming ownership of their assets, including Ibrox, Murray Park and all intellectual property.
Green initially rebuffed Whyte’s claims, insisting they were invalid, but his decision to surrender and.… walk away, is sure to add to speculation to what is coming next. Boom!
Reporters are desperately trying to find out when Zadok the Priest was heard at Ibrox Stadium, releasing Green from one of his hilarious commitments.
NEW SERVERS ARE LIVE AND READY TO ROLL
The current CQN server was commissioned in June 2011. When we approached the annual renewal time last year, like a lot of the media companies mentioned above, I thought, with no Rangers, interest will fade, there’s no point increasing infrastructure.
The traffic peak we endured in May 2012, when the server played its part in some major issues, hasn’t been matched since, but server resources continue to be stressed. Last week I bought three new servers (we now have three physical and one virtual) and shortly after full time at Tannadice tonight, our man Andrew in Belfast will bring the system down and start the migration process. We will be offline for a few hours.
After we’re back your existing user accounts will remain active. The domain name (celticquicknews.co.uk) will point to a new server (IP) address but it can take hours (or days) for each internet service provider to update their records. As a result, celticquicknews.co.uk might not find the new server immediately.
Once we are live I will let you know the server IP address (a series of numbers you can type into your address bar), which will enable you to get onto CQN before your ISP has updated their records. Check Twitter (twitter.com/cqn) or Facebook (CQN-Magazine) for the address.
Let’s hope it goes smoothly…….
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Many thanks to Andrew in Belfast who put a late Friday shift in.
He’s a Yorkshireman, or else he used to be
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Got it..the cqn…along with its history.
Mornin’ Lurcy.
Apparently I am posting too quick, and I hivny even posted yet
the servers alive !
All hail the new server
Welcome back, well done Andrew and anyone else involved…
And I was just going to bed, another few mins and you would have been rid for the night
Sniff alert on Boston scenario, something seriously not ringing true here.
The CQN International!
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Time for bed!
Nitol . . . . .
Cyrul
Well done Gerry & Andrew !……….I got the posting too quick message also
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Gotta go
This will be too quick for the all new super duper server…z
Well done Andrew
Sure enough, too quick, a few times too quick….
One good thing, the comments posted are still there
Loving the latest incarnation of CQN
Well done Paul 67 and Andrew in Belfast
Hail Hail
Stephen with a ” ph”
notafanofSoAL
I posted the same an hour after the thing kicked off, the Mrs reckons it’s the Boston Polis, she said so same time, she posted it on here face thing.
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Courtesy Two Hundred Percent..
Donald Findlay’s Casebook, And How Supporters Direct Scotland Got It Right
I know. I shouldn’t look at the BBC Football website… Moments after I’d done reading about “PR” Peter Ridsdale, I was shouting “WTF” at the national broadcaster’s pages once more. All but one of the Scottish football headlines yesterday referred to the Scottish FA’s readiness to act over league reform. And whilst the concept of “SFA readiness to act” was novel enough to catch my attention, I was fractionally more intrigued still by the headline “Findlay blasts ‘bleating’ chairmen.” Donald Findlay, for it was he, is chairman of Scottish Football League Division One strugglers Cowdenbeath. And the “bleating” chairmen were those of the Scottish Premier League clubs, whose labyrinthine proposals for Scottish League reform were defeated this week, in a manner which has led some to suspect a hidden agenda at play.
After the vote, Supporters Direct Scotland chief Paul Goodwin neatly summarised what Scottish league football needs by way of re-vitality, hoping that “the appetite still exists” for “one league body, a better voting structure, better financial distribution throughout all the leagues, more play-offs and a pyramid structure.” But the proposals were a demonstrable compromise on this modest wish-list – a dictionary definition of “mish-mash,” with two divisions of twelve clubs, one of eighteen and the middle 24 clubs mutating into three mini-leagues of eight, in an attempt to reduce the number of meaningless end-of-season fixtures. They needed the backing of 11 of the SPL’s 12 clubs – a voting structure itself up for reform – before it could even be presented to SFL clubs. But for the chairmen of St Mirren and Ross County, they still weren’t enough of a compromise. And their votes against scuppered the whole process.
In the wake of this, there were calls for the resignation of SPL Chief Executive Neil Doncaster. But calls for his resignation have been more frequent than Big Ben chimes this week, so many of those would probably have been made anyway. Of more import was the reaction of Aberdeen chairman Stewart Milne who launched a very speedy verbal tirade in the direction of his Saints counterpart Stewart Gilmour, suggesting that there was “a need to ask” the Saints “exactly what their agenda is.” That agenda, it has been assumed by many, was to vote down the SPL’s restructuring proposals and thereby force the idea of an “SPL 2” onto the agenda for next season, adding the SFL’s finest to the current SPL, plus the Scottish Third Division champions…so long as those champions went by the name ‘Rangers.’ Indeed, it was noted darkly that Rangers were quick to back the Saints and their stance (Ross County’s vote against has received far less attention – critical or otherwise). Meanwhile, Hamilton Academicals have called a meeting of the ten Scottish First Division clubs for next Monday, with SPL 2 “understood”, by the Beeb amongst others, to be on the agenda.
Into this maelstrom of accusation and counter-accusation strode Findlay, prepared to tell it to us straight. “All this bleating” was “quite comical” and a “fit of pique,” he said, and while he was ostensibly addressing league reconstruction issues, it didn’t take him long to get to the point he really wanted to make. “What I find ironic,” he… well… bleated, “is the hysterical reaction of certain Premier League chairmen who kicked Rangers out of the SPL for whatever reason… they have realised they have made a big mistake and now want them back in…the problem with the Premier League is that the people who should make themselves out to be the scapegoats are the ones who kicked Rangers out. This was a nonsense, which was surprising from a man of undoubted intellect – as a Queen’s Counsel since 1988 – and considerable football experience, dating back to last century – as a former vice-chairman and lifelong supporter of… ah… Rangers.
It is depressing to still have to counter the technically, legally and… well… factually incorrect suggestion that Rangers were “kicked out” of the SPL last July, especially from a QC such as Findlay’s, who not only ought to know much better but probably does know better. The words which leapt from my screen were “for whatever reason,” as if Rangers’ SPL exit was still a mystery… as if the fact that the company holding Rangers’ SPL share WENT BUST was a mere accountancy technicality… as if Rangers not being in the SPL was a punishment for this mere accountancy technicality rather than a consequence of it. And in further quotes, which appeared in the local Courier newspaper he set himself up for an unintended irony prize with: “Clubs only go out of business because they are not being run properly. It’s as simple as that. If you run your club in the right way and live within your means, your club will not be going out of business…we (Cowdenbeath) do not have a single penny of debt.”
This would be unarguable if he hadn’t just advocated Rangers staying in the SPL after “going out of business.” And while Findlay says Cowdenbeath are “not interested” in joining SPL 2, his attitude to any suggestion that Rangers should join it will be needs watching.
Rangers’ former chief executive Charles Green was an outspoken critic of the SPL’s proposals – the ‘outspoken’ bit being no surprise, of course. But he still told STV last month that “you don’t need to be a brain surgeon” to realise that Rangers would have to be “cherry-picked” to join the 12 SPL and 10 SFL 1 clubs in the two new leagues of 12. Of course, if there were such a thing as a European Union ‘salt mountain,’ then Green’s comments would have to be taken with it. And this idea required more salt than most. But it is the same idea as Rangers being “invited” to join an “SPL 2.” Rangers have impinged on the reconstruction debate because they have a far, far bigger travelling support in Scotland than anybody but Celtic and have been a one-team redistribution of finances this season, one of the very aims of reconstruction. But Findlay openly suggested that SPL chairmen simply “want (Rangers) back in (the same league body) as quickly as possible but haven’t got their way,” as if “one league body” for Scotland wasn’t the right thing to do regardless of Rangers.
The SPL broke away from the SFL in 1998 in an attempt to replicate the perceived success of their English namesakes. But this was doomed from the start given the Scottish game’s lack of the English game’s telephone-number finances. The clubs sought to rectify that mistake with these reconstruction proposals, rather than any “mistake” they supposedly made with Rangers. But that didn’t stop Findlay concluding: “Hell mend you, you shouldn’t have kicked them out in the first place” – phraseology as fascinating as his point was irrelevant and incorrect. The detailed debate over Scottish club football is not one on which I feel well-enough informed to justify writing an article on it. There are more capable people elsewhere in the blogosphere – elsewhere on this site – for that task. But I believe Supporters Direct’s Paul Goodwin properly identified the issues that matter. Rangers’ future isn’t among them. Rangers’ past isn’t among them. And any attempts to change that should be exposed and resisted.
Summa
Found it good
jings Paul67,that was a long 3 and a half hours,
I had to talk to mrs gb64 for a while,
So, the sfa, the sfl will be in a wee quandry soon enough, when the newco go into admin, how many points do they deduct ?????
Will they insist they are the same old, or will they only deduct what ever.
Could get interesting, so it could.
Blend the barstewards….again, and again if needs be, till they are no more.
Boston..quite a few family members and friends believe the two boys couldn’t do this..father is on his way from eastern europe claiming a set up.. It does smell…cnn in over load at the minute. The end is nigh I feel.
Time to turn the zombies life support off. Let them die.
Of course it’s a set up.
I was talking to a good friend, happens to be an expert on the bomb things, many years in the bomb disposal, Ireland, helps, he reckoned the blasts were very well controlled to minimise casualties, watch them again, and you will see what he means, they were, in his words, powder puff blasts.
Good to see NextGen CQN up and running
Good on yees Paul67 and Andrew in Belfast
No one would have believed that two local doctors living in a small village in Renfrewshire would attempt to kill people at Glasgow airport but they did.
And we are back.
Cheers to Andrew, Paul67. N1 lads.
Regards Boston, looks to me, this is disproportionate coverage, omg.
A real mix this one, Islamic (?), Russian (Chechnen) and getting the public familiar to armed Police all over the streets. This is wall to wall coverage, this is what the MSM wants the World to see. I wonder what the Story behind the story is.
I wonder how many people were murdered in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and countless other places yesterday because of the US/UN’s actions
Paul 67
Only 3 and a half hours to switch servers. You should go into IT. :)
Is just me or is everthing bigger on here since the switch.
On my mobile and have to scroll back and forth to read the posts.
Anyway glad its back.
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No Chechen Rebel Songs..
Summa of CountryMusicCSC
A song for that newco Club from the South of Glasgow, perhaps even prophetic. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggP5YDziMSY
Welcome back CQN. I will not leave here until I hear the Champions League music ring out across Celtic Park.
Auldheid
And here’s me thinking that you unplug the old wans, plug in the new wans and switch them on.
3 nd a half hours, wouldn’t get a job as a spark >}
And back to posting too quick.
That will be a bummer for the cosec posters then
HH
Evening/morning all.
Good grief, came home to find twitter full of tributes (?!) to Green and CQN down.
Another eventful day down Govan way then.
Happy weekend to one and all.