It is one thing for football fans and administrators to be embroiled in the politics of the game but it’s no wonder that Neil Lennon tires of such subjects. His team are top of the SPL and in the knockout stages of the Champions League but he is being distracted by references to his club emanating from the lower leagues. Maybe he should limit his comments on this subject to those of Walter Smith, “We wish the new Rangers Football Club every good fortune.” Every “new” club deserves the same courtesy.
Can you imagine the reaction if Neil said the same!
Speaking of which, I see the man who has avoided trying to win friends among other clubs since his arrival in the game last year is now trying to influence people on league reconstruction. Good luck with that.
We spoke over the weekend about well-run clubs in the SPL (Inverness, St Johnstone, Ross County, Motherwell), where managers come and go but results tend to remain buoyant. Notably absent from this list was Dundee United, who have underachieved for years, but whose manager, Peter Houston, was today given permission to speak to English Championship side, Blackpool. Houston has been unable to sprinkle magic dust over Tannadice so, if offered the Blackpool job, I expect him to accept.
United need to ask some fundamental questions should they be forced to replace their manager, like why they have vastly more resources than Motherwell, and appear to be able to produce prodigious young talent, but consistently fail to match the Lanarkshire side the in the league table. They are a club in need of vision.
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Celtic scout confirmed at Benfica versus Porto match yesterday
ASonOfDan – Celtic scout confirmed at Benfica versus Porto match yesterday
What a strange place to be confirmed. What name did he take?
I wanted to be called “Spiderman” but sadly my teacher was having none of it. (thumbsup)
I hear Challs was in the hun cesspit,The Quarry Bar Rutherglen yesterday,pandering to the lowest common denominator.He was blaming PL for all their troubles,he said they were bringing in 3 players before this window closes.Stupid huns.
Seems Green is happy for a team to play a full season in the bottom tier fighting for promotion only to end up back in the bottom tier after reconstruction, as long as it’s not sevco.
South Of Tunis
12:13 on 14 January, 2013
From previous post,funny really funny,I agree with him on Bendtner a big lump o wood.
” What do you want me to do ——–hit him hard with the ball and hope it deflects into the goal ?’.
We’ll see
Paul 67 / all
I think you are being very disparaging towards the Green consortium
For years Celtic have been talking about joining the EPL with zero progress.
By contrast, only last Wednesday Chuckles talked about joining the English league, and sure enough on Saturday, he had a top English team at Ibrox in a highly competitive game .
Sounds like the land of milk & honey, as long as the zombies keep spending money and the wage bill is capped at a ridiculously low level…
Hargreave: Why I’m investing in Rangers Football Club“The best way to make a small fortune from a football club is to start with a large fortune”, a famous saying goes, but Marlborough’s Giles Hargreave believes he has found an investment opportunity that could prove this wrong.
The high likelihood of Rangers Football Club moving back up to the top level of Scottish football makes it an undervalued stock that is well worth investing in, according to FE Alpha Manager Giles Hargreave.
Rangers collapsed into administration earlier this year and were kicked out of the Scottish Premier League, leaving them in the Scottish Third Division.
The newly reformed club launched a share issue on AIM in December, and small cap stalwart Hargreave – along with FE Alpha Manager Paul Marriage – was a significant investor.
“It’s the 12th-best supported club in Europe, and in the UK, Manchester United are a bigger brand, but there aren’t many other brands that are bigger in the UK,” he said.
“The club has said it will only stick one-third of its turnover into player wages and with the merchandising potential, if the club does that, it will be significantly profitable and remain so.”
The company was launched onto the AIM index on 19 December 2012, and data from FE Analytics shows that the share price has risen 17.76 per cent already.
Hargreave says that one major advantage the stock has is that the company is free from debt, having recently emerged from administration.
It also owns its own stadium and training ground, and is still pulling in fans despite playing in a lower league, meaning that cash-flow remains healthy.
“The cash-flow, profitability and balance sheets – it ticks all the boxes,” he said.
Investing in football clubs is often considered to be risky, as financial success is, at least to some extent, dependent on success on the field.
Not only are financial prizes awarded for wining competitions and achieving higher league positions, but the marketing potential of a club is hugely affected by its success on the field.
However, Hargreave thinks that the high likelihood of Rangers swiftly moving up the league system minimises the risk in this area, and means the stock is still undervalued
News just in: a spokesperson for Kleenex has just announced that the company hasoffered to sponsor the famous, B Listed main stand facade at Ibrox and rename it the Wailing Wall …
FF
News just in: a spokesperson for Kleenex has just announced that the company has offered to sponsor the famous, B Listed main stand facade at Ibrox and rename it the Wailing Wall …
FF
Following from Gab Marcotti on player recruitment in the EPL is worth a swatch:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324235104578239813457221562.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Do they honestly think the rest of the support in Scotland will ever go along with their proposals?
SEVCO fans today claimed victory in their boycott of the Scottish Cup clash with Dundee United – despite 100 rebel fans buying tickets for Tannadice.
Light Blues supporters decided not to buy briefs for the showdown with United on February 2 after they were drawn to face the SPL club last month.
And the Ibrox club refused to accept their allocation due to ill feeling over their treatment by their Tayside rivals back in the summer. United, who will have to give Rangers half of the gate receipts for the fixture, decided to sell direct to followers of the Gers.
And it emerged over the weekend that 100 people have ignored appeals and bought tickets for the away end for the fifth round showdown next month since they have gone on sale on Friday.
But Rangers Supporters Assembly president Andy Kerr reckons that the boycott has still been a resounding success.
He said: “A statement has definitely been made. We normally take 5500-6500 fans to this sort of game. Given our current situation, I would have envisaged there being a full turnout of Rangers fans for this fixture had there not been issues with the opposition.
“When we were drawn to face Dundee United, I think Rangers fans felt strongly about wanting to make a point. Feelings were running pretty high.
“Dundee United spoke fairly prominently against us getting back into the SPL in the summer. There were also issues in the past with a rearranged cup game.”
Kerr continued: “Dundee United have reserved the Fair Play Stand and made tickets available for it to away fans.
“There was always a risk when they took that step that fans in the Dundee area who did not normally attend games would go along.
“There are also some fans who would be compelled to go and see their team no matter what. I would never say to any Rangers fan not to go to a game.
“But I think a statement has been made. I would that now that it has that we can move on as a club. Of course, the reconstruction debate may affect things.”
I wondered at the start of the season how on earth CG was going to keep sevco in the limelight but he seems to be making a rather good fist of it. Only another two and a half years of this to go until the gang of villains is back in the big league eh charlie.
For them:
Reality is nothing.
Perception is everything.
They are a footballing insignificance and are terrified of becoming an historical footnote. Without a compliant media and corrupt authorities this would already be the case.
The world is waking up to a new dawn. Life without the hun and it tastes good.
And they know it.
cv
Green’s just spouting rubbish to give the impression to the Deadybears, that he and their fledgling club, have some form of credibility and standing and have been (ahem) thinking about reconstruction proposals.
The fact that his new superduper new plan has them still in the third tier,is an admission that whatever happens, theyre still doomed to being two promotions away from the top league after this season.
Cause thats what the stupid and increasingly annoying bag of gas, has been told – Id guess.
Partial boycotts – it’s the future.
Just like partial 45k attendances.
And partial ticket sales.
The Battered Bunnet
That was interesting Norwich = none,Swansea = two players with EPL experience last season.
Thank you for link
Vmhan, Motherwell are certainly a harder team.
Clashcitybhoy, ha!
Even some of the zombire are starting to tire of Greens Tripe talk.
I spoke to one this morning “Wish he would just shut to **** up,
its starting to become a rid neck”
“STARTING” said I :))
Why do some folk post the same message twice? Why not just post the same message twice in the same post.
Why do some folk post the same message twice? Why not just post the same message twice in the same post.
Last week –
12-12-18 – no fair
We’re off to England
Celtic fans want us back (aye but only if you listen to the 4 daft guys who call SSB as a focus group and one of Andy Walker’s pal’s who he references but gives no details about – could be one of the 4 who want to see OF games or as normal people call them – morons – I’m talking to you Laurie in Denistoun.
16-10-16 – no comment – Fast tracking neither denied or confirmed
Without it you stay in the bottom league – no outrage
This week-
14 x 3 – no details but winning promotion means you are 12th from bottom of 42 – no fast track mentioned but it’s fair to assume that is their scheme (better word than plan)
Any reconstruction whether it be 12-12-18 or 16-10-16 or 14 x3 puts them in the lowest league. The only way they “move up” is with the Status Quo so with no respect whatsoever, how is this any less a re-arranging of deck chairs and not fair to be brought in at this time in the season?
Are they really only in favour of 14×3 because it is their proposal? Are they that self – important? (well yes they are but it doesn’t get them on any without a fast track mechanism any more than 12-12-18 keeps them back in their own mad minds).
It is a time to be mindful. The lobbying is only beginning.
Steven Thomson not putting up a fight to keep Houston at DU,Derek McInnes might be his replacement.
Snake,
Status Quo are only a wee bit more alive than thems…..
The MSM simply want to continue the myth that Sevco are important.
Can Neil not respond with;
‘Why do you not ask me anything about any other fourth tier club?’
Next question.
The 14-14-14 model was first suggested in October in a column in the Daily Record by a certain J. Traynor.
A person of the same name was recently appointed as Charles Green’s Director of Communications.
Purely a coincidence.
20 scots refs, just goes to show how corrupt the whole game is.
I was goin to go off on one about how anything chucky says is getting reported as news and reported without mentioning any of the facts around these.
Instead I thought I’d list my favourite Chucky messages and throw in one or two questions for each that our super sleuths in the MSM haven’t asekd yet.
1. We will leave scottish football and join the EPL
Queue the usual stuff about who thinks it’s a good odea or not, all this did was give plenty of TV and radio air time for the usual rent a quotes.
I’d have liked to hear somone ask:
Will having no published accounts be a barrier ro membership of any leage (except a Sunday league) in England?
Chucky his vision for a 14-14-14 league set-up.
Hours and hours of radio time discussing this proposal. We’ll have Tam (no)English saying “it’s closer to what the fans want and I should know I met one once”.
This new club are not even full memebers of the SFL why should anyone care what they want, the full members will vote on the proposals?
(not chucky, but..)
If the league structure changes we want our transfer embargo lifted?
This is bound to have all the ex huns (players and supporters) saying they have been punished enough.
Shouldn’t somone just say, enough, stop. What happened to your we are where we want to be in Div 3, why don’t you just stop gteetin like a wean in a toy shop.
Anyway, I just know I’m going to spend at least an hour tonigh listening to circulating arguments of the pro’s and con’s of a 3×14 league and how this new club have been punished enough. ad nausium as it was in the beginning of the end, so it is now end ever shall be.. I say, no it doesn’t have to be like this. STOP.
I only ask that somone in the MSM hit nails on heads and end these discussions, it seems to only waste my time, and I fear a downward spiral into my own mental hell where Kenny Macintyre get’s excited at the reading of an Our Wullie cartoon. Please get to facts, stop the madness, ask the right questions, stop the mindless speculation, report the news (and while we’re at it, get Simon Cowell, Ice skating, diving and dancing off the news). Also when reporting the news, just report the news, don’t use it as a taster for something which comes later “hear abot the latest SPL player to be caught talking about something, I can’t tell you who, what they were talking about, where they were when they said it, or who might be upset, you’ll just have to tune in later”.
When I’m old, I won’t regret the times I was drunk and can’t remember what happened the previous night. I won’t regret the time spent standing in queues waiting for the post office to open a second window at lunchtime. I will regret the time I spent listening to journo’s and pundits talk scottish football into oblivion.
Kinda did go off on one.
Patrick Barclay
‘Rangers should stop moaning and quit Scotland
The reasoning behind Rangers’ threat to leave Scottish football is simple. They are in the fourth tier and certainties for promotion, yet their chief executive, Charles Green, claims they will suffer from a League reconstruction which would put them in the third tier next season.
No, I don’t get it either. But let’s not split hairs. Not when there is a chance of Rangers going. Ever since they were demoted with barely feasible debts, they have
been what PG Wodehouse called “a Scotchman with a grievance”, ie not to be confused with a ray of sunshine. And no one carries a grievance like the supporters of a football club.
Even my fellow Dundee fans tend not to understand why we had to be punished for serial administration. But we are nowhere near as paranoid as the Rangers family. So please, Mr Green, save our ears and truly go.’
Snake Plissken
14 x 3 isn’t their proposal. PL talked about it in March, on the radio at the weekend the chairmen of both St Mirren and Dunfermline said they would prefer 14 x 3, no one has openly said they don’t want 14 x 3 but like everything else in the whole sorry mess that is Scottish football there is no leadership that will come out and explain what they are doing and why.
Bobby
My grandad was a parrot and I have a stutter.
(I bet you wish you knew that before you posted) …
:-|
Pretty Folly
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My Dyslexia is Getting Worse..
It is one thing for football blogs and administrators to be embroiled in the politics of the game but it’s no wonder that Celtic bloggers tire of such subjects. Our team are top of the SPL and in the knockout stages of the Champions League but we is being distracted by references to a club emanating from the lower leagues. Maybe we should limit our comments on this subject to those of Neil Lennon:“They are in the Third Division, we are in the SPL, It’s Like Comparing our Top Scorer in Europe.. to their Top Scorer in Europe..Oh Wait..”
Summa of CutTheCordCSC
Asonofdan,
“Hargreaves says that one major advantage the stock has is that the company is free from debt, having recently emerged from administration.”
When did this happen? Didn’t realise they emerged from administration! ;-)
SffS
There must be a severe shortage of decent managers in Englandshire if Blackpool are looking at the manager of an eighth placed SPL team whose record is hardly sparkling. Good luck to him anyway.
Kayal
A 14 team SPL (as memory serves) was what PL and Martin Bain came up with a couple of years ago to satisfy the demand for more access to the SPL from below.
It had a 6-8 split after 26 rounds of games, and was kicked into touch pretty quickly.
There was no recommendation for what happened in the leagues below, as that was considered to be an SFL issue.
Timmy 7 -noted @13 12 .
Bendtner ?
Juve blogs went into meltdown when it was announced that Juve had taken him on loan.
Typical comment included ——Why ? What for ? Unbelievable . Ridiculous . .
His official Stats say —–8 appearances / 0 goals / 0 assists.
His first appearance in a Juve shirt saw a big banner being waved in the stadium —
” We don’t want Bendtner ——Send him back now .”.
He gets jeered on , he gets jeered off . A Juve spokesman publicly asked the support to give him a chance .
A Juve spokesman publicly expressed the Club’s disappointment at the delight expressed on Juve blogs when Bendtner suffered a serious injury .
Emdy seen or heard of Awe Naw lately? Following from the BBC. Concerned…
A German student “mooned” a group of Hell’s Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.
The man drove up to a Hell’s Angels clubhouse near Munich, wearing only a pair of shorts and carrying a puppy.
He dropped his shorts and threw the dog, escaping on a bulldozer from a nearby building site.
He was arrested later at home by police.
After making his getaway on the bulldozer, he had driven so slowly that a 5km tailback built up behind him on the motorway.
After driving about 1km, he had abandoned the bulldozer in the middle of the motorway, near Allershausen. He continued his journey by hitchhiking.
“What motivated him to throw a puppy at the Hell’s Angels is currently unclear,” a police spokesman said.
The puppy is now being cared for in an animal shelter.
12:35 on 14 January, 2013
tomtheleedstim
12:32 on
14 January, 2013
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Wheres the nearest place to join the canal for me? I live near Blackpool.
Just chewing the fat CSC
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Leeds
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Tom,
I don’t fancy the 60/70 ml bike ride to your starting point at Leeds then the 120 odd Cycle to Liverpool, that would make it around 200mls for me plus around 65mls return trip from Liverpool to home, that would be a minimum of 250mls and is a wee bit more than my 35ml occasional round trip to work.
My Oscar bucket day and other contributions will have to do methinks.
Good luck with, it as its a trip n a half.
V
They and their stadium are moribund; entropy and decay will take care of the infrastructure and the corpse. Chunkles is like Dr. Frankenstein gone wrong, constantly trying to reanimate the hideous concoction on the slab with more and more desperate incantations and futile attempts to raise it erect.
Eventually, as its surroundings crumble around it, it will lumber off into the snowy wastelands, howling at its lonely, demented devastation.
Funkenstein? Well, he’ll merely rue his latest attempt at playing god and will move on, with a copy of ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’ tucked up in his kindle.
It’s all becoming so predictably pathetic.
Joe the Lion has spoken
WELSH WONDER WANTS TO STAY… Joe Ledley today confirmed he is keen to remain at Celtic & is waiting on the call so he can sit down & talk over a new deal. The spotlight has been on Victor Wanyama & Gary Hooper in recent weeks but the Welshman has been waiting patiently in the background…. “We are still waiting to speak to Peter Lawwell. Hopefully it can be done because I have one more year on my contract after this season. I’ve enjoyed my time here & would like to stay for a long time. It’s a fantastic bunch of players, the manager & coaching staff are great. I’m very happy.”
Good news..