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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He is not Chris Torey, I am.
I am not a right winger or a left winger.
The elite own both, as Meyer Lansky used to say “never bet on a game if you don’t know the outcome”.
Get Beyond Politics, forget the Socialist simpletons, start to think.
If you want a Benevolent Dictator, I’m your man. I mean a real dictator, that is one who controls the money. Better me than the shadowy tribe that controls it just now, you know the tribe I’m referring to, yes, that one who controls the Masons too.
Viva Cristo Rey
Tom McLaughlin on 10 May, 2012 at 02:31 said:
Now Now ! That’s just a coincidence don’t be a silly the billy
Tom McLaughlin on 10 May, 2012 at 02:31 said:
But..an amazing photo..wont you agree?
So this is the last thow of the dice? N.B. the last 9 lines in this article.
http://www.todayonline.com/Sports/EDC120510-0000060/Ng-back-in-the-hunt-for-Rangers
GCT
For you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Y2hv-3UCM
In a fit of insomnia I was surfing the Celtic Wiki, and I found this.(Just extracts here – read the whole thing if you can.)
Final Say…James Traynor
(1998)
GET OUT NOW FERGUS OR YOU’LL BE HATED FOREVER
FERGUS McCANN has basked long enough in the warmth of his deeds.
…
In fact, Celtic’s irksome managing director has overstayed his welcome. Mr McCann, it is time for you to be somewhere else. Anywhere will do because Celtic’s fans are tired of your posturing and disgusted by your parsimony.
McCann did give Celtic fresh hope but now his grip is choking the life out of the old club.
…committed to maximising profit, apparently at the expense of the team’s ambitions… In the beginning McCann’s methods seemed quaint, and for a while most of us made excuses for his confrontational and abrasive style because he was unaware of the football business’s unwritten rules. … If McCann really were a supporter, someone out of the same mould as the thousands of foot soldiers who bought into the dream almost five years ago, he would be able to lift his eyes from his ledgers and see the damage his refusal to break his pay structure is causing.
Pretty soon his stock among the rank and file will be so low he may be allocated a place in the club’s hall of infamy alongside those directors who ruled before him. If he is not careful the mere mention of his name in crowded Celtic strongholds, like Bairds Bar in the Gallowgate, might cause a silence to fall over the places.
It would be a great pity if it should come to that but McCann and his disciples within the club have only themselves and their egos to blame.
They behave as though they and only they know better and that is an arrogance which has alienated each one of them and which now prevents the club from making progress.
Celtic, who lost again on Saturday, are a club without trusted leadership on and off the pitch …. Apart from last season’s premier-division championship win, Celtic have known only trouble and misery. The last 10 years or so have been fraught with problems, manufactured mostly in-house, and the fans are bewildered and anxious….. under McCann, whose allies would have the fans grovelling in appreciation until the end of time because he delivered the new stadium, this club has courted controversy. … Even so, the fans would still be behind him if he had provided a team to take on all-comers. …. Yet, Celtic are still waiting for the player who could strike a blow for them and strengthen their hope of retaining their title. That, Mr McCann is what is most important to your customers, yet you and your people have failed miserably to provide. …Celtic are still without a top-quality striker because they will not put themselves into the big-pay league. It is that simple and it is also where McCann lets the fans down.
Listen to this Fergus and try to take it in. You insult your club’s fans when they are told they don’t understand the economics of the business or the workings of the transfer market. And stop telling them players are too greedy and make enormous demands.
These are not newly-uncovered secrets, Fergus. The supporters could have told you how much would have to be spent to keep Celtic on top. The fact is fans don’t give a damn about how much money players want to grab for themselves and unlike McCann they don’t spend too much time fretting about the profit margin.
No one is greatly impressed either that McCann appears to have embarked on some kind of holy crusade to bring football’s expenditure under control, and his season- ticket holders would rather have the title with some debt run up on the transfer market than no title and no borrowings.
These fans are willing to gamble, and remember they, too, are shareholders.
They still find it difficult to believe Celtic didn’t sign reinforcements during the close season and they are appalled that a top-class striker has not yet been secured.
If anything the signing of Lubomir Moravcik at a cut price has merely caused them further embarrassment. …
Note to disbelieving readers: Jim Trraynor, author of this stuff, is still pontificating, still actually being paid
Hey. Who is attacking summi
A perfect gent he is
Somebody who has had a few ups and downs in life , more ups recently :)))
SummiofsammygentCSC
deliasmith on 10 May, 2012 at 03:41 said:
Its amazing! The whole diatribe is in itself is an indictment of Blah Blah Jabba and this is from FIFTEEN years ago! The last sentence is a cracker..
“If anything the signing of Lubomir Moravcik at a cut price has merely caused them further embarrassment. …”.. I believe cut price Henke soon followed
A wee nightcap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWKoWmnwNyo&feature=email
Teuchter
Maggie –
Sorry, been away for lunch.
My comment was meant tongue-in-cheek.
Yes it is an amazing photograph, except that you can never trust still photographs, because they are a snapshot of a very brief moment in time and can be very misleading.
Hail Hail
Deliasmith
Stunning peice by Jabba.
Goodnight all
HH
SIALF
1000th post.
1001 – Celtic are the best…by far!
deliasmith on 10 May, 2012 at 03:41 said:
Delia
That`s an amazing find.
It deserves further distribution later i.m.o.
Good morning from a wet Clydebank
Paul another outstanding article
Let’s see what to-day brings from the Bigoted Dome
Keep the faith
Hail Hail
Good morning friends from a very wet windy grey and miserable looking East Kilbride. Still grinning though…
The beautiful game.
Anyone watch €514m debt 3 – 0 zero debt last night?
I do love a bit of sporting integrity.
I see Souness is being touted as the new Hun saviour.
The man who, along with Murray, started them on their ruinous path of over-spending, and whose subsequent sort-lived and angry managerial career has been marked by one fiasco after another, is now the guy to bring sanity to this ongoing pantomime.
Yip, he’ll do.
Morning all from gay Paree, warmer today, no rain (25C max allegedly).
Just read who’s being touted to help save 666 FC…
Maybe he can help out with the EBT enquiry while he’s here.
Internet Bampots CSC
Good morning fellow Celts from wet , grey Ealing
Athletico Madrid gave Bilbao a right good lesson in the value of getting out the blocks quickly, defending strongly and counter-punching with precision. At one point I was beginning to wonder if some Bilbao players were giving the ball away deliberately. Seriously!
Our young team have massive potential and achieved a lot this seaso. We can look forward to much more. Domestically!
For me the real test of the value of our team is Europe. I can remember the European finals and the semis and all those great nights. I remember the 80-82 team and how they never quite had it. If they had the Maestro or Choccy mebbe it could have happened once again.
Then the glory of the Mon years with Seville and the Fortress Paradise where even the mighty trembled and fell regularly. We never quite managed to realise our potential in the CL due to awful away results. ( which we mastered in lesser cup?)
Then Gordon took us as far as we have been .. In almost 30 years Twice! That night in the San Siro will live long in memory only to be outdone on the counter by the wizardry of Kaka. No shame there!
The scene is set for another tilt at the Big Cup and that will always get this bhoy’s heart racing. However, there is no disguising the fact we are short if 5 key elements:
Experience
Midfield Maestro
Heidi ba’ in net striker
Ability to retain ba under ‘P’
Not easily resolved but possible.
The fifth my friends, is tempo, allied to fitness. I hate to say it and the tin hat is on but some of our bhoys do not look physically fit enough to handle the rigours of European fitba.
Watching those two Spanish teams
last night brought home to mevthe full realisation we ae still very much a work in progress. The tempo and movement with sheer full on controlled aggression is only visible to us in phases and sometimes in games it is completely absent.
That is partly due to the way games are reffed here and the quality of the opposition doesn’t help. I know that is a handicap.
What gives me huge encouragement is some of the performances we saw in Europa Cup group stages. Both home and away we kept the ball well and countered beautifully. If we can solve the freebie early goals problem we are on the right road.
Then fix the five priorities we could make a big impact.
Had we faced A Madrid last night I fear we may have been on the end of a drubbing. A M a good bet for next year’s CL!
Felt sorry for those Basque fans last night. They never even got a goal to celebrate. Great strip tho’
Hail Hail
M
deliasmith @ 03:41,
That is truly amazing.
Paul67, – A trip down memory lane, quoting some of the stuff written by our same favourite journalists might be worth a look into. I never realised until now what was actually being published back in Fergus’ day.
wet but stopped in bishopton. grey.
hun here upturn in defiant colours wearing. its the shameless fashion.
off for train.
yellow kagoul with cqn badge or green umbro rain jacket.
be prepared.
Quiet ,orning on what is more akin to a winter’s day in G1.
Have a good day Tim Land
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Macjay 1 @6. 22
Quite agree. We should all show this to as many people we know who still rate Jabba,
JJ
Morning,all.
Reading back on last night,I saw a fair few mentions of the 4-2 game at Ibrox in 1983.
Which was largely academic,btw,due to losing 3-2 to Dundee Utd in midweek.
It seems we missed a chance to form a pre-CQN Club as we were all in the enclosure that day!
Weird…..
I can still remember being in that very place and hearing Davie Provan say to a prostrate hun,to whom he had given twisted blood, “I could keep a beach ba’ aff ye in a telephone boax!”
Ah,happy days,but I wouldn’t mind never playing them again.
Which reminds me……..
ARE THEY NO’ DEID YIT?!!!!
no phonecalls to Gov buildingss today in support of my former colleagues who are striking to protect their pensions….
DR now saying Agent Whyte has agreed to sell his shares for £1 …… He must have seen the same ‘books’ as Bill Miller …… Or he has been tapped on the shoulders…..He He….
jungle jim 0757
I agree it merits a repost near the top of the next article,but I doubt even Jabba’s editor rates him anymore.
He is turning into a sad parody of himself,which is accentuated wonderfully by his self-importance.
We should be grateful we don’t see what he sees when we look in the mirror in the morning.
Though,come to think of it,looking in the record is punishment enough!
Morning all from a very dreich North Ayrshire.
Well, where are we with the pantomime today?
I think that we could give any side in Europe a run for their money,particularly at home.
SIXTEEN ROADS TO GOLGOTHA
I keep meaning to ask,were you previously known by-initials-UC?
blantyretim on 10 May, 2012 at
08:01 said:
That is ingenius and will have the coalition quaking in their boots. I think I will join you. lol
That,of course is…if we ever manage to field our best first eleven players.
Serious injuries to our best and most vital players all season,makes the title victory even more remarkable,considering.
And i don’t want to go on about this,but some of the “tackles” that put our players out,were nothing short of horrific.
You have to laugh. In the midst of the downpour, which was our weather here in North Ayrshire last year, I wrote to the BBC weather people asking if there was any reason for the phenomenon. I had a reply which basically said that it was just the norm. Now that they have had a mere month or so of it in England, the BBC are sending people up in planes to try and get an explanation.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 10 May, 2012 at 08:14 said:
Nah mate,that’s probably Ulster Celt that you are thinking of.
I will not phone scabs
every little helps 0))
Pie and Bovril @pieandbov
Dates outlined for CVA show meeting couldn’t happen until June at earliest plus 28 days after that for cooling off = Still in admin in July