I’ve spoken to a few Rangers fans over recent months, the base line of acceptability has been redrawn many times. If you read back on what was presented as reality on 13 February, when Craig Whyte announced that while it was “business as usual” he applied to the court for a 10 day period to appoint an administrator.
Back then, administration was abhorrent, but suggestions of liquidation were regarded as outrageous. On 22 February Celtic Quick News asked questions about Improper Registration of Football players, was it possible that Rangers results would have to be re-written as 3-0 defeats for a decade or more?
In March Rangers director (still, I believe) Dave King sent out a new baseline, liquidation was inevitable but there was no question that titles would be taken off Rangers. Even this concession to liquidation was disputed by the Blue Knight and Duff and Phelps. Publicly, both still hold to this line, although Duff and Phelps use some creative ideas to get there.
Most now know that liquidation is inevitable. A few understand that the SPL inquiry into player registration is likely to result in five or more league titles being reallocated to Celtic, but I don’t hear anyone accepting the reality of the situation.
Rangers don’t have a buyer, primarily as the administrators don’t have a stadium they can sell. Even if they try to remain in administration for next season, Ticketus own the majority of their income. It will cost countless millions to pull a deal together, much more than the £11.2m Bill Miller considered putting on the table, and no one is coming up with that kind of money.
In the unlikely event these problems are resolved, whatever club emerged would have to deal with the fallout from players refusing to join a Newco and becoming free agents, football fines debts from Oldco, SFA penalties, Newco penalties if preferential treatment is provided in order to get them into a higher league, and SPL penalties for Improper Registration of Players.
There are two simple solutions. Form a new club, ask to share Firhill or Love St – or better still, rent Cathkin Park (reset ambition for Rangers as the new Third Lanark), and apply for entry to the Scottish Football League. Alternatively, co-opt a lower league club, maybe Airdrie United could help, rename it and spend however many years as it takes trying to acquire whatever parts of Ibrox survives liquidation.
This is a controlled and predictable way forward, a concept not delivered by Duff and Phelps, totally in the control of whoever wants to harvest fallout from the demise of the Rangers brand.
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kikinthenakas
Hows u mate? pass on my thanks to your pal. Got my pic taken and his autograph on Friday. Real gent
HH
Margaret McGill on 9 May, 2012 at 23:05 said:
I can see where a Newco might be forced through. Are there any conditions Celtic could insist on that would make you feel they were making the best of a bad job?
kikinthenakas
missed it mate, i went n seen him just after it lol
HH
the tide is turning…finally acceptance of the situation by all but the totally deluded..
Got a chance to leave work early tonight -before 8.00pm – and thought I’d listen to Snyde. Wish I hadn’t!
The insistence that Scotland needs Them is staggering. Apologies if someone has already said, but one caller asked Spew if R*nkers actually finished last next season (assuming they were saved) would they not be allowed to be relegated.
Answer – “No they wouldn’t we’d probably move to a 14 team league!”
I know his job is to generate outrage and opinion but the message is rank rotten and perpetuates the `peepul’ culture. Shame on Shug as not everyone knows they are being manipulated and as a result he champions (pun intended) ignorance.
MWD
Bundoran Bhoy
He said he had a great night and enjoyed meeting the CQN ers, beat me a golf today as well!
Auld Neil Lennon heid on 9 May, 2012 at 23:23 said:
That Newco pay the bills of the Oldco.
newco-schmeco, it’s all just a big bag of lillian gish, what,where,who? you can’t just come back, despite what the LL say.
kickinthenakas
You must be really rubbish at golf!
MWD
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AoW
How many people did the wee runt talk over 2 nite? Condescending punk!!
AoW
Hugh Keevins…doesnt use internet, doesn’t drive a car. How the hell does he function as a journalist in the modern world. Answer – he doesnt.
I find my toes curling when he opens his sanctimonious mouth.
His level of self awareness is zero – Snyde exploit his sheer stupidity and naivety.
He endlessly contradicts himself and comes out with some real tumbleweed inducing comments. I like the awkward silence from his co-presenters before they …move on.
MWD
You are correct, coo @rse n banjo today!
Evening bhoys and ghirls!
Its been a mental few days relocating the family to London for wee oscars month of treatment so I havent been able to check in until now. Just did a wee update on the blog if anyone cares to read it
http://oscarknox.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/mibg-begins.html
Did I miss anything??
Keevins said sanny clark was unhappy he didnt get a penalty when Bomber brown brot him down. According to Clarks story on Monday it was Colin Hendry.
Keevins is superb at his job, we are talking about him are we not.
He riles supporters from both sides,he gets people tuning in to hear his inane rants, he is a master at making callers feel inadaqute, he has the cut off button.
The new media is where all the real info comes from, and don’t believe for a second that Keevins doesn’t log on to find out what is going down, he does, I know that for a fact, a FACT even, the MSM are on the road to oblivion, but at the moment the MSM have the megaphone, untill it’s taken away from them, they will hold sway.
He is still a twat :>)
THE EXILED TIM on 9 May, 2012 at 23:11 said:
I’m not so sure. Conventional wisdom tells us the huns were always thus and always will be thus.
But it wasn’t always thus. From the late ’70s until the mid ’80s Aberdeen regularly attracted larger crowds than the huns. That is the shape of things to come.
CultsBhoy loves being 1st forever & ever on 9 May, 2012 at 23:36
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don’t underestimate Keevins, he does a very good job of taking a universal/absolute point and making it personal. It will always be about you rather than the question you really asked. Keevins is well versed in dealing with people who call once in a life time, this is his job. A way to approach this is to have a question prepared, along the lines of: what should happen to clubs that cheat? ( usual Keevins response: what do you think?) response: what should happen to clubs that cheat? Keevins is the Sunday Post call in!
knoxy2000
thoughts and prayers for CQN super hero.
I can only imagine imagining what you are all going through and I’m sure even then what a imagine is a patch on what reality is like.
Keep the faith buddy.
What hospital is he in?
MWD
fritzsong
I agree, but…..as long as they have the referees on side, they can get back to winning ways soon enough.
All that needs done is get back to playing football, and scotland again can become a place where footballers are produced.
Sort the referees, sort the problem.
It’s that simple, really it is.
Harry Brady @HarryBradyCU
Could one club be about to step forward and speak for sporting integrity due to a leadership vacuum in Scottish football?
THE EXILED TIM on 9 May, 2012 at 23:49 said:
I agree regarding referees but i honestly can’t see them sort referees in this country.
Have to retire now, work in the morning, not real work, but paid work all the same, a couple of small orders for a dozen collars.
Take care and god bless
HH
KTF
hen1rik
I can’t see it either, but they could sort it if they wanted to.
But the big problem with fair referees in scotland would be Celtic winning year on year, and that ain’t gonna happen in scotland now is it ?
HH
Caeser 67/Cultsbhoy –
I stupidly thought that there would be some brevity after listening to an Alex T link ripping him a new one. Wrong. He only seems able to latch onto one `controversial’ word spoken by the caller and, no matter how well structured the point is, he wanders off in a well practised rant about…….well nothing really. Disappointing Shug ya wee waggy dug!
Do you hear me ya non-surfing waste of space? Waggy dug, no wally dug!
Having said that, what happened to wally dugs?
Everyone used to have a wally dug on their mantelpiece when I grew up. Is there a wally dug graveyard out there or have they been consigned to the dusty loft of doom? :-)
I need answers!
MWD
University College London Hospital.
Aye, its tough going but you kinda get used to it and it becomes normal.
I’d be lying if I said their demise wasnt helping!!! :-)
BM did due diligence and found it was a steaming big pile o’ pish, nuff said!
ET – A dozen collars! Are you a copper or a bounty hunter? Do you emerge from your cave to seek vengeance on those that have wronged society? ;-)
If so, I have a job for you over here on the Southside!
HH
Knoxy 2000
Thoughts and prayers with you all
HH
Right bhoys goodnight..
GBNL.
Knoxy2000
Prayers and thoughts with you and your family at this very difficult time. He looks a right wee charmer and love his shoes in the wedding pics.
YNWA HaiL HaiL
AoW
We had ducks!!
Thanks guys!
Must hit the hay here, early start in the morning!
Hail Hail
Knoxy
jude2005 – I bet my wally dugs over your ducks! Read and weep –
The Wally Dug
I aye mind o’ that wee hoose that stood on the brae,
Its lum was aye reekin’, its roof made o’ stray.
The ootside was bonny, the inside was snug,
But whit I mind best o’ was the wee wally dug.
It stood in a corner, high up on the shelf,
And keepit an ee on the best o’ the delf.
It was washed twice a year, frae its tail tae its lug,
And pit back on the shelf, was the wee wally dug,.
When oor John got mairrit tae sweet Jeannie Blue,
The auld folks they gied him a horse an’ a coo,
But when I left the hoose, ma hert gied a tug,
For a’ mither gied me was the wee wally dug.
There’s an auld saying, ‘Ne’er look a gift horse in the moo’,
But I looked that wee dug frae its tail tae its broo’
An’ a fun’ a wee slit at the back o’ its lug,
It was stuffed fu’ o’ notes, was the wee wally dug.
I tain it hame tae oor Lizzle tae pit on a shelf,
An’ I telt her the worth o’ that wee bit o’ delf.
An’ we aye feed it yet through that hole in its lug,
It’s a guid bit o’ stuff, is the wee wally dug.
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Quite moving I thought. ;-)
˙sʇɹɐʍ ǝɥʇ ǝɹoubı ˙suoıdɯɐɥɔ ǝɥʇ ǝɹɐ ǝʍ ˙ɔɟ ɔıʇןǝɔ ןıǝu /o\ ouɐʞ ˙pʍ sɯɐǝquooɯ on 9 May, 2012 at 23:21
Sorrento was the only disappointing one of my Italian holidays and the trip to Ischia was disastrous.
We went by some kind of express hovercraft thing. The crew handed out sick-bags to every passenger before the engines even started. After leaving the pier at Sorrento passengers saw only sky/Med, Med/ sky then sky/Med like a hospital soap graph . Those who failed to reach the loo on time either vomited or crashed into steel pillars.
The ‘rep’ told us just how lucky we were as in October they had to phone ahead to Ischia for ambulances.
any reports from Folly Folly?
I really like to hear what they are thinking…
CultsBhoy – “thinking”???? Wrong site surely?
AoW
Welling up here!!
Child of Prague on the mantlepiece.!! Cant hear you. o))))))