Point of order. Steven Davis has not decided to leave Rangers. Kyle Lafferty did not leave Rangers. Jamie Ness, Steven Whittaker, Steven Naismith, Shauny Aluko and Rhys McCabe did not leave Rangers in some insurrection of Stevens-and-friends-with-odd-names.
All have chosen to remain employees of Rangers Football Club PLC and (reportedly) objected to transfer to Sevco 5088. Loyal to the end, heroes to the jersey, despite how this is being reported elsewhere. The administrators currently managing Rangers Football Club PLC may soon issue all of the above with redundancy notices, but until then, the players will sit tight.
Sevco don’t need these guys anyway, they’ve 19 targets, several of whom have been busy at the Euros, ready to sign-on.
And how could I forget about Gattuso? We’re in trouble when that lot arrive, guys!
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canamalar –
I would give them a year, as things stand, but that could change as time passes, and it could be more. Who knows? For now I am only concentrating on “next season”.
‘We dont do walking away….’
Craig Craigy Craigy Whyte
bill ng
bill miller
paul murray
Joanna Lumley
john gregg
walter smith
steve mccenna
sone aluko
ryce mccabe
steven naibalance
steven whitiker
kyle lafferty
jamie ness
steven davis
Insomnia. Health problems. The realisation I’m not getting the help I should be. Don’t want to worry my missus.
C’est la vie.
Anyway….there’s always the black comedy gold that is rfc(zombied). Daily,guaranteed to make the day brighter,the air fresher and dispel the gloom.
So….what’s new today in zombieland?
HH!
Read a roll (sorry fur the roll ref EN) of dis honour.
HH
I was thinking about booking a band for the bears protest, I’m glad I never there’s more band members in the Damned, than were protesting at ibORCS (soon to be demolished).
Maybe the Wakes will do it?
HH
Paul
A couple of questions?
If they are still employed by RFC(IL) do D&P have to pay their wages at the end of this month?
If they do not receive their wages are D&P in breach of contract and can they then walk away for nothing?
If they stay with D&P until RFC(IL) folds then they will be able to claim statutory redundancy (Which is about £300+ per week for every year of service). This should amount to about £1500 for most of the players. At that stage are they then free agents?
Miki67
You’re getting addicted to CQN, I can recognise the signs :>)
I guess ye don’t want to miss any of this, I wonder when the book(s) will be out….. Oh and the film….. It could be on a loop at the comedy channel…..
HH
Miki67
Sorry bud I mis read you’re post, the earlier part….. What health problems? I hope you get the hell and support you need.
HH
For 100 years dodo fc wouldnt have a catholic player on their books. Now zombie fc have no catholic players either. Disgraceful.
Vmhan on 27 June, 2012 at 06:06 said:
>>>>
Emphysema……consultant wants me back sooner than I expected. Gave up the fags,but the damage is done. Coughed up a load of blood a few weeks ago…..grim,I know. But I lived a wild rover’s life for long enough and I’m not complaining….I just want to spend more time with my Mrs.
After doing some research,I realise that I should be getting more comprehensive help in managing things…a more holistic approach,more rounded. Instead,I’m given little info. and feel annoyed by medical people. It’s a process I guess.
But I’m really not self-pitying; I have much to be happy about. I’m just worried,and that’s normal.
It just so happens that the people/friends I would normally talk to about all this are going through some extremely tough times themselves. 2012 is turning out to be some year for many.
And yes,I’m addicted to CQN. Coz 2012 is the year a loathed adversary,rfc,hits the skids big time. Now,that is a buzz!
HH!
Morning all from the Coster Blanker.what a glorious day in more ways than one.
I thought I would be in a seriously gloating mood this morning but I´m not for some strange reason.
is it too much to hope that this really could be the end of them.
Would that be too much to hope for or maybe the Walter Mitty conspiracy theorists are right.
Oh well we´ll just have to wait & see what unfolds today.
I expect there will be a few more leaving & don´t be surprised if Wallace & elbows have a rethink.
Hail Hail.
Good morning CQN from a misty Clydebank
Another Green day
I work all night, I work all day, to pay no bills I have to pay
Ain’t it sad
And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me
That’s too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldn’t have to work at all, I’d fool around and have a ball
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the Green man’s world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the Green man’s world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It’s a Green man’s world
Keep the Faith
Hail Hail
Vmhan … Why you not pounding the beach this morning ;)
Could the media please stop with the comedy gold until next Monday and allow us real football fans to enjoy the climax of the euros
Miki67
Help and support….. I typed that on the move :<)
Jinky not been training since last July, picked up a serious injury, still on painkillers.
I’d need to be up at 4am to go running …… 5am’s early enough innit.
Hows you amigo?
HH
One hun went to mow,went to mow a meadow.
Turnbull Hutton’s scathing criticism of Wraiths F.C. is wonderful stuff.
No league will want the Green & Moisty show anywhere near their grounds or towns.
Vmhan on 27 June, 2012 at 06:06 said:
>>>
No problemo!
HH!
Music for Another Day in Paradose?
Miki67
I see, you need to seek better help and support mate, perhaps there are others on Cqn with similar and could advise.
CQN is a wealth of support and knowledge….. and not too bad at hunskelping innaw.
KTF miki67
WHITSH HAPPENIN AT OOR CLUB!?
WHAT CLUB?
With only Mcculloch and Wallace declared for Sevco are Chuck and Sally singing Lees Lees more if you please.
Morning bhoys from a bright and dry ha3.
Hown am I going to concentrate on work today worrying about howmany players the uglies are going to have by the end of the day.
That doesn’t mean that those who don’t walk away today, will walk up (to auchenhowie ) tomorrow.
Sanna
miki67 on 27 June, 2012 at 06:21 said:
Careful with the ” research,” mate.
If anything is designed to cause sleeplessness,that`s it.
Good morning fellow Celts from mild grey London town
SFL clubs lining up to give thems the message
reminds me of an old Andy Partridge song
“No thugs in our house…are there dear?..”
HH
Sorry to hear that Vmhan … So your not carrying the Olympic flame ?
Im cool as rangers income mate …. T in the park next weekend … Oldest swinger in town ;)
Was with O1 and bt on Friday at the Blanytre internet bampots thingy … Martin and Paul too along with sftb
PAUL67
Cracking wee article,that one.
However…..
I don’t think it was wise to let DECLAN write it’s last line,haha!
MIKI67
Hope your medical advice improves,and your condition also.
Your revelations have fair put me off my hedonistic lifestyle,btw.
We have a new rebel leader in Govan, at least he says sorry
A host of legendary heroes and ex-Gers vice-chairman Donald Findlay QC threw their weight behind former star John Brown’s plan to lead a fans’ buy-out.
SunSport can reveal sickened Bomber QUIT as Rangers’ transfer scout to put all his energy into ousting the From Back Page Green regime. Fans’ heroes Brian Laudrup, Lorenzo Amoruso, Jorg Albertz and SunSport columnist Andy Goram all backed the move.
In an exclusive interview with SunSport Brown said: “We want to say to the fans don’t buy your season tickets as we fear money is going to go in and then disappear.
“That’s what happened under Craig Whyte and look where we are today.
“The fear of that money disappearing is a very real one for us.
“So this morning I say show us the title deeds, who has keys to Ibrox?
“We want to get you out of OUR club, we’ll help the fans fund the takeover.
“That will ensure that no greedy man can ever do this to Rangers again.
“I urge the fans to get behind us, starve them of your money.”
Brown emptied his desk at Murray Park on Monday afternoon.
Now he has enlisted the advice of Cowdenbeath chairman Findlay, one of Scotland’s leading legal brains.
Bomber insisted: “I am making this decision because I believe the regime in charge are NOT the true owners of the football club.
“They have documents under Sevco but we want to know whose name is on the title deeds for Ibrox, Murray Park and Albion car park.
“That’s the key to the future of our club.”
There are fears that for all the protests to the contrary the truth is that shamed former owner Whyte remains a spectre over the club.
Brown said: “Today we ask Charles Green: How much do you want for the club so we can put it into the hands of the Rangers family?”
Last week SunSport revealed Brown was fronting a consortium offering £8.7million for control of Gers and the club’s assets.
That saw him carpeted by Green on Friday and Brown revealed: “I was called into a one on one meeting with Charles Green on Friday.
“I asked him to name his price to walk away and he wouldn’t give me one.
“I then asked him what have you spent to now. He said: ‘Guess.’
“He then said he’d write it on a piece of paper and the figure was £8.7million.
“Funnily enough, that matched the bid made by my original consortium in recorded delivery letters that day.
“I have very influential Rangers men in the background now.
“I realise there was publicity surrounding Steve McKenna’s Celtic background in the original consortium but he is someone I trust and that move was designed to smoke people out.
“There’s no hidden agenda to this, I have investors from Hong Kong, Australia, America and Britain.”
Brown will today seek talks with fans’ groups.
But he insisted: “Since no one from the Rangers regime has had the balls to do, as a former Hamilton and Dundee player I want to apologise on behalf of my club to the whole of Scottish football.”
OK lads, now the serious guys are in town…
…Bomber Brown!
Morning from a Balmy Chilterns…
Wonderfully accurate piece on RFCia on the Today Programme’s sports bulletin earlier … and I paraphrase
“Solicitors for [the Stevens & Co] have confirmed they will not be transfering their contracts from R@ngers to Charles Green’s NewCo….”
No Roddy aboot to obfuscate then?
Not that D&P need any further issues but this could be another wee headache.
Didn’t they suggest that all the transfer fees go to NewCo.
If D&P sell any of these guys can they really tranfer the money through to SevCo? How will the creditors feel about that?
If they make them redundant without realising a potential £10M in transfer fees how does that play with the creditors?
Good morning bampots and keyboard clatterers.
Will today be the day we discover there’s a new multimillionaire saviour waiting in the wings?
You know, in a way it’s less important to me now what happens to them. The fact that scottish football fans the length and breadth of the country have made this stand for integrity is the real victory. The MSM has been shown up for what it is, and their undignified scramble to revise their own past opinions is truly pitiable.
HH
One hun went to mow,went to mow a Newco
Two huns went to mow,went to mow a Sevco
Three huns went to mow,went to mow a Minto
Fours huns went to mow,went to mow a Skintos
Five huns went to mow,went to mow a £700million Casino
Six huns went to mow,went to mow a Tesco
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLE-PICKERS on 27 June, 2012 at 06:54 said:
Aye…..it’s ‘the long dark night of the soul’ thing I’ve got goin’on. Like rfc(ghostly &ghastly) are only just learning : sooner or later you gotta pay.
Consequences and all that…..I never expected to last as long as I have (and I fully intend to stick around for as long as I can),and I don’t think anyone else did either. For most of my life I lived like there was no tomorrow…then I grew up. I met the best human being I’ve ever known,and we got married. I am a Celt,and prone to nostalgic melancholy,but I’m generally upbeat and happy with my lot. There are so many people in this mad world who don’t even have decent food and water,let alone a friggin’ iPad…
It happens to everyone…..the realisation that there’s less ahead than behind.
And on a sleepless night the mind goes into overdrive. At least I know what I’ve got to do for myself. And for others.
And I will KTF. And all through life I’ve always known that none of us walk alone.
HH!
I like this quote from the article in the hootsman
“But if, long-term, you cheese off your season-ticket holders and supporters and backers, is it worth it? Do you sell your position for 30 pieces of silver for some short-term advantage or take the moral high ground?
ALL 30 Scottish Football League clubs will meet at Hampden next Tuesday as a contentious move to parachute newco Rangers into the second tier of a hastily reconstructed senior football set-up reaches a critical stage.
A meeting of the SFL’s board of management yesterday concluded without any firm declaration of intent regarding the proposal, drafted by Scottish FA chief executive Stewart Regan, to merge their organisation with the Scottish Premier League with immediate effect.
With next Wednesday’s SPL vote on Charles Green’s application for the transfer of Rangers’ share to his newco now a formality, with six clubs having already publicly committed themselves to rejecting it, the gathering of SFL clubs 24 hours earlier will hold the key to what level of football can be played at Ibrox next season. But there are already signs that SFL club chairmen and owners are coming under the same kind of pressure from supporters to oppose a newco Rangers as has been exerted on SPL clubs. Raith Rovers yesterday joined Falkirk in declaring their objections to the newco gaining direct entry to what is currently the First Division.
• Keep up to date with our guide on how SFL clubs are likely to vote
The move is understood to have retained the backing of the majority of the SFL’s nine-strong board at yesterday’s meeting, although The Scotsman understands concerns were expressed by more than one of the representatives present.
David Longmuir, the SFL chief executive, emerged from the meeting to deliver a brief statement on the steps of Hampden.
“The SFL board met today to discuss a number of issues currently affecting our game,” he said.
“The three governing bodies will continue to work together over the coming days to deliver a way forward which will be in the best interests of our game. Key to that process will be a full consultation with clubs which will take place early next week.
“We didn’t rule anything in and we didn’t rule anything out. The most important aspect of the whole process is to consult with clubs.
“It will be a general club meeting where clubs have the first chance to see the issues we have been dealing with.
“They will debate them and discuss them fully with the board of the SFL and take appropriate action as required.”
The carrots being dangled in front of SFL clubs include a new financial distribution system and play-offs which would make more than just one promotion place available to the top flight each season.
In order for the changes to be implemented, 75 per cent of SFL clubs would need to approve them, at least 23 of the 30 members. But the dissenting voices are already making themselves heard and there remains a view among many that newco Rangers should have to apply to join the SFL in the Third Division.
Falkirk were the first to go public with their view last Friday, chairman Martin Ritchie stating that “it would be totally unacceptable if a Rangers newco were admitted to the First Division on the current rules”.
The following day, Partick Thistle chairman David Beattie addressed concerns put to him by his club’s support when he pledged that any vote cast by the Firhill club would take their views on board.
Yesterday, Raith Rovers fully committed themselves to opposing a newco Rangers in a strongly-worded statement.
It concluded: “The board of directors of Raith Rovers FC is unanimous in its view that we shall certainly not cast our vote in favour of any integrated plan that, in our view, compromises sporting integrity by involving the admission of any ‘Newco’ directly into Division One.”
Dunfermline, relegated from the SPL last season, have underlined their belief they should be reinstated in the top flight as a result of newco Rangers’ imminent rejection, but have also hinted that they could oppose the planned merger of the leagues.
“The board refuse at this stage to speculate on conjecture,” said a club statement yesterday. “But what we can say is that we are fully aware of the views of Pars fans in terms of sporting integrity, and any decision the board may make on behalf of the football club in future will respect this, as no one wishes to alienate our own loyal supporters.
“We would also reassure our supporters that the board intends to robustly defend the club’s position if any structural change disadvantages DAFC, as has been speculated.
“Nonetheless, to totally ensure the engagement of all our fans, across all different age groups and categories, the club will ask for their feedback via our official website on the subjects of “Newco” and regaining SPL membership.”
“We shall certainly not vote in favour of any plan that compromises sporting integrity” say Raith
RAITH director Turnbull Hutton insists there was no way he could back Rangers being parachuted into the First Division in return for wider changes to Scottish football – because of the way his club and fellow board members have been threatened during the Ibrox outfit’s sorry demise.
Hutton is content that the Stark’s Park side are right to take the ‘moral high ground’ instead of accepting ‘30 pieces of silver’ as talks go on to find a way of easing Rangers back into the Scottish Football League. After it emerged that the fallen Old Firm giants have failed to win enough support to have their ‘newco’ admitted to the SPL, it has been suggested that a place would be found for Ally McCoist’s team in the First Division.
That plan appears to have been proposed as part of a speeding up of the game’s overall reorganisation, including promotion play-offs from the First Division, a more equitable split of finances and a merger of the SPL and the SFL.
However, the Raith board have indicated in no uncertain terms they will reject any attempts at an ‘integrated plan’ on reconstruction that will also include Rangers being handed a spot in the First Division.
A statement was released by directors following a board meeting on Monday and came in response to a flood of correspondence from supporters eager to discover the club’s stance. Warnings have been made by fans that the Kirkcaldy club could alienate hundreds of their own supporters and hardcore season-ticket holders should they back Rangers’ admission to the First Division.
Hutton expanded on that stance yesterday when he highlighted as an issue the treatment of fellow director Eric Drysdale, who received death threats and had to be warned over his safety by police back in April after he was named as a member of the SFA judicial panel that dished out a 12-month transfer embargo on Rangers.
The former Stark’s Park chairman and leading director insisted there was no way the future of Scottish football and Rangers’ passage back into the First Division should be packaged up into one as some have suggested.
Hutton said: “We have been inundated with emails from fans and season-ticket holders. People have said they are holding off on buying season tickets until they find out what is happening with Rangers, and there are some strong opinions out there, with some supporters of 25 years saying they will not be back at Raith Rovers if we back the Rangers proposals.
“With what is happening with the SPL clubs, it seems to have been punted on to the SFL clubs to solve the problem, a problem which is none of our doing. Initially, the board had not discussed it because it was not our problem. But, personally, my view was that I would have difficulty supporting any move to put Rangers in the First Division, given what has happened.
“This is the same Rangers whose supporters threatened to torch our stadium and whose manager demanded that one of our directors was named over his involvement with an SFA judicial panel, which resulted in TV cameras camping outside his door and threats being made by various outlandish factions. We also had Sandy Jardine publicly calling for repercussions for those clubs who have not supported Rangers.
“Given that, how could I, as an individual, be expected to roll over and have my tummy tickled by some inducement to allow Rangers to come into the First Division. I gave my opinion to the board on Monday night and the board had a position which was not in any way different from my own.
“That does not mean, if and when there is a meeting of the SFL clubs and a vote, that the outcome will go the way we want it to go. I imagine some clubs will see some short-term advantage to be had.
“But if, long-term, you cheese off your season-ticket holders and supporters and backers, is it worth it? Do you sell your position for 30 pieces of silver for some short-term advantage or take the moral high ground?
“From our point of view, there should be an application from Rangers to come into the SFL in the Third Division and that is something that would, I think, be supported by all league clubs.”
Good morning all from a grey and drizzly East Kilbride
Years ago there was a bloke near us called ‘Bomber Brown’…..and his moniker had zip to do with aviation..or fitba’…
;-)
Morning all from gay Paree, cloudy with sun to come later (27C max)
The season hasn’t kicked off yet, and the huns are oot a cup!
Rangers were hit by another blow last night when it was revealed they have been dumped from Southampton’s Markus Liebherr Memorial Cup On 14 July.
Belgian champions Anderlecht will replace them, a decision the Saints’ website said was due to “the well-publicised circumstances surrounding the Scottish side”.
“The decision has not been made lightly and has been reached with the integrity of the competition in mind, ensuring that the annual event will remain an extremely competitive experience with both Arsenal and Anderlecht bringing along a first team squad.”
Embdy starting to feel sorry for them?
Nah, me neither!
;o)