There is always a frisson of excitement when the new season’s fixtures are announced but there is an extra spring in the step today. Flag-day for the champions will be the weekend of 4/5 August against Aberdeen but I’m sure, like me, your eye ran down the list, rhyming off the names: Aberdeen, United, Ross County, Inverness, Hibs, St Johnstone, Club 12!
You had a smile to yourself, didn’t you?
SPL secretary, Iain Blair, explains, “Following the failure of Rangers FC to exit administration via a CVA, we have received an application to register the transfer of their SPL share to a newco. Should it be rejected, then another club may be invited to join the SPL for season 2012/13.”
That pretty much covers it, Iain, Rangers FC’s share will pass to either Newco or another club may be invited to join. Simple enough language to explain where we are.
As recently as a week ago I was pretty sure the fixtures would contain Newco but sentiment has been flowing against the concept since Charles Green took the SFA to court, inadvertently inviting a severe punishment from the Association as well as annoying SPL chairmen.
The BBC SPL table is also worth a cursory glance, resplendent with only One Team in Glasgow!
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Two thread titles from FF:
“Accusations of Arrogance – utterly baseless.”
“What SPL ‘Punishment’ Would We Deem Acceptable?”
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You couldn’t make it up could you? The huns lack of introspection and inability to understand irony only makes it funnier.
Bengybhoy
Great result, congratulations to your daughter, takes brains and good work ethic to get a 1st, I should know cos I possessed neither!
I blame Catholic schools.
All together now
“Oh the Club 12 are sh***, oh the Club 12 are sh***”
“Not by the Hearts, the Hibs or the Clu-u-b 12 – we shall not be moved”
benjybhoy mul on 18 June, 2012 at 13:44 said:
My daughter has just learned she’s graduated with an hons 1st in Law and French!!
A great day.
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Brilliant Benjy,
My bhoy is waiting for his Standard Grade results in August. Pressure !
He’s fine but I’m a mess..
Club12 in the league table – it really is far too funny for words. Somebody pinch me!
Even in my negativity I dont believe they will be voted back in the SPL – too much has happenned – they couldnt have played this worse even if they tried.
Oh that I have lived to see these days…..
Gincher67 on 18 June, 2012 at 13:43 said:
That’ll be the Greens who are committed to abolishing denominational schools?
benjybhoy,
a proud time for you, a lot of work by your lass for a hard degree, to get a 1st well done benjymhiss.
An Austrian politician has been caught with his pants down by a camera hidden in a forest to photograph wildlife
The camera, which takes automatic pictures when movement is detected, was set up to monitor wildlife in the forest in the Carinthia region.
But it photographed a sexual encounter involving a politician who could receive up to $25,000 compensation if a court rules his privacy was violated.
The camera belongs to the Carinthia Hunting Society and was concealed in a hunting zone, according to the society’s lawyer.
The politician, who has not been named, is complaining that the camera was not marked and there were no warning signs.
The guy must be a hun, to be found doing something wrong and then bleat he was the victim…
ernie lynch on 18 June, 2012 at 13:49 said:
Dont be silly, but it will give me an inner joy. :)
benjybhoy mul on 18 June, 2012 at 13:44 said:
Brilliant mate, it’s all the fault of the schools dontcha know :-)
I can’t speak highly enough about newcoRFC.
They are in a league of their own.
And long may it stay that way!!
johann murdoch on 18 June, 2012 at 13:50 said:
Yes but this is Glasgow, and even the presence of asbestos wouldn’t prevent a fire from sorting out the problem.
Benjybhoy Mul
Sensational news.
Congratulations to your daughter.
It is obviously genetic (;-)
TT
benjybhoy mul on 18 June, 2012 at 13:44 said:
My daughter has just learned she’s graduated with an hons 1st in Law and French!!
A great day.
I blame the Catholic schools.
Congratulations to all. Very impressive.
The orcs,since rfc is dead and buried,should read their Wittgenstein:
“Whereof one cannot speak,one should remain silent.”
South Of Tunis 13:25
Thanks, I’ll keep an eye out for the teams.
EN
SPL should pick one of these punishments to be carried out before Club12 get back in.
Once upon time punishments were far more severe and were more closely linked to the crimes committed.
Here is a top 10 of punishments historically handed out at the Old Bailey.
1. Hanging: In front of large crowds, convicts were hanged at Tyburn village, near present-day Marble Arch. Known as ‘dancing the Tyburn jig’, executions occurred here from 1196 to 1783.
2. Branding: For less serious offences, convicts were branded on the thumb – a T for thief, F for felon or M for manslaughter. For a period (1699-1707), in order to increase the deterrent effect, convicts were branded on the cheek.
3. Burned at the stake: This punishment for women found guilty of treason was abolished in 1790. It was common practice for the executioner to strangle the condemned victim first.
4. Hung, drawn and quartered: A rare punishment for men convicted of high treason, this was considered the ultimate sanction of the law. Convicts were hanged, cut down while still alive, disembowelled, castrated, then beheaded and quartered.
5. Hanging in chains: To act as a deterrent, the bodies of those convicted of egregious acts were left hanging in chains near the scene of their crime. The practice was abolished in 1834.
6. Pillory: For crimes of sodomy, perjury and fraud, the convict’s head and arms were locked in a wooden frame on a busy street, such as Cheapside or Charing Cross, for one hour. Crowds would then pelt the offender with rotten vegetables, dead cats and even excrement.
7. Whipping: Stripped down and tied to the back of a cart, offenders convicted of theft were flogged “until his back be bloody” along a public street near the scene of the crime.
8. Military / naval duty: A practice used frequently during War of Grand Alliance (1688-97), War of American Independence (1775-83) and Napoleonic wars (1793-1815).
9. Imprisonment: Though not perceived to be a form of punishment in itself, convicts were sent into solitary confinement to reflect on their sins and reform themselves.
10. Hard labour: In an attempt to teach them to be industrious, convicts were set to dredge the Thames and naval dockards, or beat hemp with a mallet to make rope.
DownForSam on 18 June, 2012 at 13:55 said:
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Well done that Ghirl!!
ernie lynch on 18 June, 2012 at 13:47 said:
hamiltontim on 18 June, 2012 at 13:43 said:
Would you agree that by refusing to renew fans of other clubs have had more influence over their respective boards than Celtic fans have had over the Celtic board?
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What evidence do you have to support your assertion that the supporters of other SPL teams haven’t in fact renewed?
So lasteason the No12 jersey was retired, how long before club 12 is retired
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
With respect, being exiled doesn’t hinder me from what is happening in scotland, I read the blogs, I listen to the local news.
So many posts, the grand total of 2 today have intimated that I think club 12 is in fact the huns, it’s just my humble opinion, and like your good self I am entitled to hold one.
There has been no planning for say Dundee to take the huns place, that to me smacks of pre planning, and knowing the powers in scotland, the huns are the favoured club to be club 12
Club12 are not at home in any of the fixtures when we are at home, just another little coincidence.
The directors can bleat all they want, when it comes to the vote, we will see how hard and loud they bleat.
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benjybhoy – félicitations! (thumbsup)
Feck, that’s me down to 2. New Labour supporting New Orange Walks, through their heartlands of New Ayrshire and New Larkhall and The Celtic Supporting Tories Party
ernie lynch on 18 June, 2012 at 13:52 said:
Gincher67 on 18 June, 2012 at 13:43 said:
That’ll be the Greens who are committed to abolishing denominational schools?
Congratulations to Benjyghirl[ and her proud parents!] Well done,
or as they say in France, Wunderbar!
RaRaRasputin
Article 14 outlines what happens “if a Member shall cease to be entitled to hold a Share” so it can happen.
miki67
Benjybhoy’s daughter, not mine.
If ‘Club12′ is too difficult for the ole Hillbillies to remember, they can try countin’ their toes.
ASonOfDan – Hard labour
I hear Ed Miliband got viagra eye drops so he could look hard. (thumbsup)
ernie lynch on 18 June, 2012 at 13:47 said:
If the club were never going to vote for NewClub, it’s hard to see how they could be accused of ignoring the fans’ wishes.
I’m not sure if any other club fell into the ‘never’ bracket, so it’s far easier to say that they listened to the fans on this.
DownForSam on 18 June, 2012 at 13:58 said:
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Aye……I’m reading too fast! Maybe that ‘s why all I ever got was the third degree.
:-)
philvis
@13.59
Brilliant!!
Clube Doze
Félicitations à dautghter benjybhoy de.
That mob just don’t get “IT” do they? How can something so basically simple continually allude the unholy vagaries of their hun ‘intellects’? They are still screaming from the bottom of their barrels about Pacific Shelf, Middlesbro, Charlton, Leeds, Darlington, Livingstone, Dundee…as though all these erroneous examples are somehow cast iron empirical proof they are not Dodo burgers! They are like rabid wolves howling at an imaginary moon. Maybe if they howl long and loud enough they will not hear the birds of Truth sing from the Tree of Karmic Justice.
None of the clubs they cite were ever subject to a winding up order. They are all the same club. They all share the privilege of continuity. The huns do not share that privilege. They are dead. They are loyally follow following Dodo FC. They’re situation is the same as Airdrie and Third Lanark- which they are in the process of denying- two clubs that were liquidated and who have no right to the old clubs history. When will this reality kick in? When the season starts? What is so wrong with Reality that the huns cannot accept it or should that be what is wrong with the huns that they cannot accept what is right about Reality?
They are continually bragging about how The Rankers are debt free etc and have no liabilities for the oldco and yet in the same breath want the continuity of the oldco’s history to be transferred to The “new” Rankers- it’s always the same with this mob: if its bad then it can’t or won’t happen but if it’s good then it can and it will. That could be the hun motto. Their DNA was made from denial.
I must say that I still cannot understand how a club can vote, thereby bringing influence to bear, on something that directly effects them…I cannot understand how a Club that is in the wrong, and who brought this whole situation to the fore, can be allowed to lobby the other clubs before the vote is taken…surely it goes against moral justice to vote for yourself where it will confer gains for yourself against the interests of others? Your hardly going to vote against your own interests.
celticRchamps @celticRchamps
Open safari and paste in this link https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/m6tjlir92n38m4aonclglhcrkg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics you can import Celtics fixtures into your smart phone from there…
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When will Green & Co get the bombs and bullets? Wheres wee Craigy bhoy? We havent heard the last of him i hope.
ernie lynch – That’ll be the Greens who are committed to abolishing denominational schools?
To be fair, there won’t be much call for Catholic schools once the Greens have successfully abolished industrial civilisation.
The kiddies will be too busy with their exciting peripatetic education in the backbreaking toil of organic subsistence farming to have much use for reading, writing, arithmetic, and RE. (thumbsup)
From CSA
I looked at the fixtures for the coming season this morning with a slight sense of justice with the inclusion of Club 12 instead of Rangers, but in closer examination it looks like it is another shambles for the Celtic supporters.
After we unfurl the League Flag against Aberdeen on August 4th, we have the game against Real Madrid in Philadelphia on August 11th, and then it starts to get messy, we are being asked to go to Dingwall and Inverness in consecutive weeks on August 18th and 25th.
What has happened to the days when some guy sat down with a pencil and managed to work out the fixtures so that you played home and away matches on consecutive weeks, during this coming season we have consecutive home matches, and consecutive away fixtures on five occasions, and that would have been six occasions if not for the Real Madrid match.
It is time we as Celtic supporters took a stand on these issues, we will have other reasons to voice our opinion in the coming weeks with regards to the proposed Rangers Newco, but we must also speak out when it comes to unreasonable fixture list..
In an age of austerity due to the global recession everyone but the rich has had to adjust their particular lifestyle, Celtic supporters are no different, so why are the SPL not trying to spread the cost of attending away matches by the biggest support in Scotland over the whole season Instead of in fits and starts?
Now is the time for the Celtic support to stand together, the other teams in Scotland are going to use the debacle that was Rangers to try to strengthen their own hand, they will try to change the voting system to get more televised matches involving Celtic at home, and possibly a share of our home gates.
We should not be weakened as a team because of the actions of others, Peter Lawwell stated in February that we have a stand-alone policy, some supporters might crave the Glasgow derby matches, I’m not one of them, give me the Champions league ahead of a Glasgow derby any day of the week.
We need to make it clear to those in authority, Scottish Football has changed dramatically in the last few months, and it will change again if all supporters are not treated fairly. It is time that those people in authority spoke to the people that matter, and that is the supporters, because if they continue in the present way, there won’t be any supporters left to talk to.