You wonder if Ally McCoist rues the day he called for the public outing of members of the SFA Judicial Panel which imposed a player registration ban on his club. One judge, one journalist and one football club, Raith Rovers, were soon outed. Crossing the Fifers was a mistake.
Raith Rovers are now pointing out the same facts we have discussed here for months:
“We are also concerned that there has not as yet been an opportunity for clubs to receive legal advice from the SFL and/or debate the potential consequences on the smooth running of our league in the event that the Courts are asked to annull/strike down any of the corporate transactions that have led to the current position of Sevco Scotland Ltd as owners of certain assets of the Rangers oldco.
“Indeed, the position as regards the potential sanctions to be applied by the Scottish FA via its Appellate Tribunal has also still to be bottomed out.”
In short, Sevco’s ownership of Ibrox may be nullified by the courts and the SFA will be forced to subvert judicial oversight if it wants to guarantee Sevco participate in football next season.
While these concerns were only expressed online, the SFA were able to ignore the issue, but with Raith Rovers asking the questions Mr Regan will have to look SFL clubs in the eye and tell them what he’s going to do with Lord Carloway.
Lurgan 53
Dwyer O’Hagan, or Lurgan 53 as he was known here, passed away on Wednesday after an illness stretching back to last year. Dwyer enjoyed our triumphs and defeats on the blog for many years and will be sadly missed by us all. Our condolences to his family and friends.
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Celtic v Penarol ole Dick Byrne as usual pops up
front of Jungle right of centre
Can anyone provide the burley link …….. Sounds as though there could be court case out of this one…….
Just read back a few pages,
Wanyama Situation anyone?
DavidMcCallumcsc
HH
In which I comment on the meeting of the Sevco Scotland Board and manager with the Rangers Fans Fighting Fund.
It is clear that the wagons are being circled at Ibrox. What is not clear is Mr Green’s funding and backers, but he has promised a reply to all questions only days from now!
It is not clear though how much money his company has just now and has access to, nor if the sums mentioned include the purchase price of the assets.
It is also unclear how the £30 million which would have been in the bank mid-July, if a CVA had succeeded has now vanished from the discussions unless it was to be the sale proceeds of the players.
And talking of the players, I wondered why Mr McCoist referred to only having six first team players. Maybe his definition of first team players differs from mine, and more importantly from the official Rangers website!
And finally, has there ever before been a league where a player for one team receives in wages almost 50% more than the entire turnover of a team in a higher division? (To which the answer is probably yes, but it will definitely happen should Sevco Scotland succeed in having a team in SFL3 in the coming season!)
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/the-sevco-board-met-the-rangers-fans-fighting-fund-what-happened/
Burley’s capacity to be a powerful producer of hot air was wonderfully illustrated in his pre match comments before Morocco 3 — Scotland 0.
Arrogant , ignorant numptie forecast that it would be no problem —
A game I fondly remember —— best free money I ever earned from a bookie.
The day the ole gazebo is besmirched by a wind turbine is the day I cancel my subscription to ‘Men and Motors’.
ole Dick B, the Sellick Zelig.
DBBIA
BSR has had the Gazebo in the garagge all summer, fitting it with a rather ingenious horizontal axis wind turbine that directly drives a compressor which in turn runs the refrigeration and aircon unit for the Gazobe’s Corp Hosp section.
Cleverclogs the ol BSR
I think it is time that somebody stood up for Dick Byrneand the Embrocations.
I’ll admit that some of their early recordings and appearances were,perhaps, a bit below par.
However, this was due to the quality of their sound systems.
As was common in those days, the lead singer was equipted with ex- Lancaster flight crew’s throat mics.
These somewhat distorted the voice patterns and produced a sound not unlike Cheryl Cole.
Palacio67
Neil Lennon on record that VM will not be allowed to leave Celtic.
Good enough for me.
Wanyama stated that he would like to play in the EPL “SOME DAY” ………
someday in the media dropped the words ‘SOME DAY’
In other news I see that model professional and all round role model Ryan Giggs will be the GB Football captain at the Jubilympics… He’s a fine footballer but could they not have picked someone a little cleaner?
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on 8 July, 2012 at 12:34 said:
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Can’t get a link but here’s the “article”:
“Has it really come to this? The future of Scottish football placed in the hands of a few nonentities from the lower divisions.
Muppets in charge of clubs that draw embarrassing crowds of 200 people suddenly standing as judge and jury over a decision that could cost the country millions of pounds in lost revenue.
Chairmen of part-time teams who are nothing more than afterthoughts in the
psyche of our national obsession, yet suddenly they have been handed the most important decision in the history of Scottish football.
Does the SFL do the sensible thing and accept the Rangers newco into the First
Division or cut off their nose to spite everyone else’s face by condemning them to starting again from the Third Division?
That they even have to think twice about this decision chills me to the core because it’s a clear sign that the knuckle-draggers – always the ones who make the most noise – have succeeded in making their voice heard.
And I’m not just talking about supporters, there are plenty of backward idiots in board rooms too and their petty witch hunt dressed up as “sporting integrity” could cost us all.
What price your integrity if there’s no sport left after you’ve slaughtered its biggest cash cow? Those opposing Rangers being
parachuted into the First Division cannot see the wood for the trees.
I’ve heard comments from clubs like
Cowdenbeath, Peterhead insisting they must start from scratch in the Third – who are these people and how are they qualified to make a decision that will affect clubs 10 times their size?
Let’s be honest here, if their clubs were to go missing nobody would bat an eyelid but if they abuse their newfound power to banish Rangers then the whole game is gone. It is THAT serious because without the revenue they generate through TV deals and travelling supporters, many other clubs will shut.
I know SFA chief executive Stewart Regan was criticised for warning that Scottish
football faces a slow painful death if the Ibrox club are tossed to the bottom, but I agree. There is no point telling people everything’s hunky dory when it is clearly not.
People must wake up to Regan’s alarming message before it’s too late. Most of all the SPL because the time is now to take decisive action. You may have read Raith Rovers’ vice chairman Turnbull Hutton accusing the SPL of bullying and railroading the lower league clubs to vote Rangers into the First.
There’s long been veiled threats to set up a breakaway SPL 2, including Rangers, if the top flight don’t get what they want, leaving those who defy them well and truly out in
the cold.
Well my feeling is why rely on a veiled threat when you can turn it into a concrete promise that can be used as a foundation to rebuild our game on a more stable platform?
Just do it, guys.
This is the time where SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster must stand strong and make the big decisions and grab the power back for the big clubs who know how to handle it.
Start the breakaway now, give us a fresh product of two top divisions with promotion and relegation play-offs and sell the package to Sky and ESPN as a fresh exciting new dawn for our game.
TV will buy into it, fans will be re-energised and hopefully start clicking through the turnstiles again.
Hey, maybe even the punters who
blackmailed their clubs to vote Rangers out of the SPL in the first place might actually start attending games – because I don’t believe for a second that they were all loyal season ticket holders.
You just need to look at Dunfermline
closing a stand last season and matches at Pittodrie resembling a closed-doors
friendly any time the Old Firm weren’t
visiting as evidence that these fans who
protested so loudly must now put their
money where mouths are.
So what of the rest you may ask. What about the clubs left behind by the new set-up?
No doubt some of them will fold while
others continue plodding along as they are just now – part-time community clubs with very little relevance beyond the borders of their town. It might sound brutal but there are too many teams in our senior game who are going nowhere.
So better to trim the dead wood than give them the power to kill off one of the two clubs that matters most. In short, it’s better them than Rangers when it comes down to a stark choice of who should go.
I can almost hear the outraged screams from Forfar to Annan already but hard nosed as it sounds the alternative, which is football Armageddon, is too much for the rest of us to bear.
Maybe the Neanderthals who are only interested in revenge and petty points
scoring after decades of Old Firm dominance will stop and think about the consequences before they call for more punishment.
The time has come to end this sorry episode and start fresh with a positive new beginning for all of Scottish football.
We can’t stand by and allow small clubs with their ridiculous tiny supports to gather on Friday the 13th and chase millions of pounds out of our game.
The time for action has come and
Doncaster and his SPL member clubs cannot afford to hesitate a moment longer.”
Turbine Gazebo Encroachment
Gordon Smith,like a few other commentators on the subject needs a metaphorical slipper ta’en tae him n sent tae bed wae nae supper,a sort of beneficial batterin’ yer maw used to give you for having too much lip because that’s what their indulging in,pure cheek.
Monaghan1900,
Is Burley trying to antagonise small clubs to vote against Sevco? If so that article does a bloody good job of it.
Thanks ghuys for the Wanyama update.
More msm made up pash then,
What aboout Burleys latest outburst, must be his worst yet, just hope all the SFL Chairmen read it.
HH
Well done to Burley for uniting all of the SFL teams against Sevco.
Hope he covers some scottish cup games next season at SFL clubs. He will be warmly welcomed.
Great job.
Lubo.
Gordon_J
That’s what I was thinking. If I wanted to antagonise every club and make them vote against Sevco, I don’t think I could have done a better job.
Mort
You have got to be kidding me.
Is that Burley article for real?
What on earth is he smoking?
If ever there was an article designed to entice a clear NO vote, that is surely it.
And he has the audacity to describe others as knuckle-draggers!
Absolutely staggering.
Gordon Duffield Smith :
“There is another big Scottish company struggling right now, Halls of Broxburn, and they employ a lot of people in their meat factory.
“They are having serious financial difficulties but if someone comes in and takes them over, will they be penalised and punished?”
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On the left hand, gentlemen, we have REALITY.
On the right hand, Duffer’s World.
No Zombie Piemen in the Sausage Premier League!
Send those purveyors of sausage meat to the bottom…Missus.
BSR – it looks like Invasion of the ole Gazebo-snatchers.
A terrifying glimpse into the future.
Is Andy Murray’s da a Celtic fan?
2010 Never Again
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By PATRICK COLLINS
PUBLISHED: 22:00 GMT, 7 July 2012 | UPDATED: 00:20 GMT, 8 July 2012
No room for cheats
Deluded: Stewart Regan
At the risk of intruding upon private grief, it would seem that demotion to the Scottish Third Division is the very least of the penalties which Rangers should expect for their sustained exercise in financial doping. However, Stewart Regan, the chief executive of the Scottish FA, is trenchantly opposed to such a punishment.
He pleads for the softer option of relegation to the Scottish First Division, apparently on the grounds that Rangers are too big to fail. Indeed, he has issued preposterous warnings of ‘Armageddon’ and ‘social unrest’ if the club should get what they truly deserve. Rangers in the Third Division, warns Mr Regan, would ‘kill the game’ in Scotland.
I suspect he is mistaken, for civilised sanctions will not kill the Scottish game. That task can safely be left to systematic cheats like Rangers. And deluded prattlers like Stewart Regan.
A brilliant own goal by Burley, well played sir!
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on 8 July, 2012 at 12:57 said:
Monaghan1900,
Is Burley trying to antagonise small clubs to vote against Sevco? If so that article does a bloody good job of it.
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Staggering arrogance, gratuitous insults and misrepresentation of the truth – the SFL clubs will love that.
hamiltontim on 8 July, 2012 at 12:31 said:
”DBBIA
The Grey Mare’s Tail, that’s the very fellow.
She’s desperate to do a hill walk and overnight camp and I’ve heard that, for a novice, this would be ideal on both counts.”
It’s been a bad year for midges.
I would suggest a midge net and some Avon Skin So Soft.
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Tricoloured Ribbon on 8 July, 2012 at 13:06 said:
”Is Andy Murray’s da a Celtic fan? ”
He’s a Hibee of sorts. His grandfather played for them.
I cannot put myself or my family through the pain of listening to CB; the fat, gumsy, in-factual biggot next season……
I have refrained from cancelling ESPN up to now, but this is the last straw!!!
How desperate was that Ayrshire trumpets article???
bad news for Scots so far Paul Di Resta out of GP..
Even my dog is questioning “controversial Craig”!!!
But the dog is an Internet bampot and does not have a season ticket!
How many Scottish football fans have turned away from Scottish football because it IS corrupt ?
HH
Ole Ernie- ‘a bad year for midges’, or a good year for midges, if you’re in the Anti Midgest League?
I am totally confused. Do the hunnites want to get into the league or not?
They seem to be doing a helluva good job of continually shooting themselves in the foot.
Not that I’m complaining. I just can’t fathom the depth of their stupidity.
I know that Ernie,his da though? Thought I read something somewhere he was a good guy.Maybe I’m wrong.
ernie lynch @13 08
Avon Skin So Soft .
Wonderful product .
Works against mosquitos .
Works against Tiger mosquitos .
Monaghan1900 on 8 July, 2012 at 12:53 said:
After reading this article ,I don’t want them in 3rd
div……………………………..I WANT THEM DEID.