Old Lumley-troubled used a classic rhetorical technique yesterday. Give your target audience lots of points to consider which you know they will agree with; build empathy, get heads nodding, fists banging on tables, then slip in the line you are trying to sell. As a piece of prose, you have to respect the statement. This guy, or his writer, has not only read the Greeks, he’s understood their importance.
If Sir David is right, Rangers issued no side contracts, all non-discretionary payments to players in connection to football were registered, if the redacted contract which appeared in The Sun in March was a piece of fiction, if the prima facie evidence presented by Duff and Phelps was an error, he and his soon to be liquidated former club have nothing to worry about.
Cicero CSC.
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So, some more signings for the NewHuns, eh?
Much as I’m tempted to gloat that this will see them in administration by Christmas, it seems clear to me that the game is afoot. There is simply no way players like Black and Sandaza would sacrifice 3-4 years of their career to the lower leagues in Scotland.
Promises have clearly been made to them about this situation being temporary.
We already know that the SFA and SPL want them back at the top (astonishingly, the heads of both organisations have admitted as much).
We already know that the SFL and the media are refusing to acknowledge the break in history and the reality of the club being a new legal entity.
We already know that some SPL chairmen only agreed to banish them in the belief the SFL chairmen would meekly collude in a stitch-up.
Look at the rules that have already been bent for them: NO sanctions for taking the SFA to court. NO immediate implementation of a transfer ban. NO insistence that football debts are paid before they sign anyone. NO recognition that they fail the test to gain entry to any league. NO action taken against McCoist, Jardine, or Green for incredibly inflammatory comments on other clubs – comments which put people’s safety at risk. NO swift resolution to the issue of shady tax schemes and potential industrial-scale cheating.
They are only where they are because of us internet bampots and some honourable SFL chairmen.
But now they and their infernal allies have regrouped, and I am certain that they will be catapulted up the league structure a la Fiorentina as soon as possible.
Our enemies are still in place: Traynor; Regan; Doncaster; Ogilvie… Scottish football is exhausted after a terrible, existential battle this summer. Many fans will not want another fight with the forces of darkness, and there will be much less opposition to them being aided through wholesale league reconstruction…
Things haven’t gone quite to plan for Green – but he is nearly there. In 2 years time he will have a club universally recognised as RFC, more or less debt-free, playing in the top league in Scotland and ready to re-enter European competition.
He will make a fortune.
TET
Yup more important for clubs like Celtic to get player wages paid than to accept the rules and statutes of the game. I live in hope but I have also lived far too long to expect a change in direction from the; SFA, SPL, BBC, Strathclyde polis, SFL, UEFA, ECA, Scottish written media, Scottish television, The tartan army
It would seen that it is far too big A job for our board.
Hence the regularly delivered intelligence insulting new league platitudes.
Same old same old.
HH
Earliest Olympic memory:
Mary Peters doing a lap of honour + wee Precious McKenzie doing the weightlifting. Whatever happened to him?
Radio Scotland ” they’re embarking on a wonderful journey” ………. Whit ur they like…!!!!
LLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL
Estadio on 7 August, 2012 at 19:55 said:
KO delayed at Ibrox.
Est attendance 47,000
The story I’m hearing is they are having to quickly build an extension to accommodate everyone.
Seen=seem
HH
sparkleghirl
Nah, couple of things. There’s an EF player in white socks and what looks like a NewThems player in white socks too, and they’re being handed bibs. Plus, where’s the officials? (possible answer – in blue with the rest of the team).
How funny would it be if they lost?
For those in the O’l West End
Game on in Tennents tomorrow
AND
From what I can see in Ashton Lane the bold ‘Declan’ is playing Jinty’s tonight- should be a lyrical experience!
20 minutes played and 0-0. That can’t be right!
According to Chico and co it’s close on forty thousand.
Shortly after a rendering of Derry’s Walls, Doddsy says songs have been marveluous.
Bloke109 on 7 August, 2012 at 20:05 said:
Oh well. Maybe there’ll be some infiltrator there to send us an update.
shimmies33 on 7 August, 2012 at 19:45:
I want us to spend on a CH and Striker. We will sell Ki for around £7 million but very much doubt we will buy Rhodes.
We will try for Scott Dann if we conclude the sale of Ki, prepared to go to £3 million for Dann I hear.
Who the striker is, will most probably depend on if we qualify for UCL group stages, just what I hear.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Hey I thought you were joking about the delayed KO because the clock on livescore was ticking away nicely.
It’s just reset itself for an 8pmKO
Need to be very careful about the boasted attendance figures- East Fife are entitled to half – but when was the last time Oldco or Newco paid anyone?
greenjedi @ 16:48
I’m still waiting for my reply but, should it ever arrive, I imagine it will be as arrogant as yours.
It is most certainly not for the SFL to decide on the history of their newest member.
If you haven’t responded yet perhaps you could ask if they sought the view of the SFA before doing so.
For iPhone user
Refresh just works- no need for time stamp
Celtic iPhone app.
Latest score:
Unknown 0 East Fife 0
Brilliant.
How much was it to get into hunland tonight?
SPF
oh right 8:00 kick off. I was confused, as I thought East Fife would have been at least 1 up after 20 minutes.
Dave playing well
I would live to ask a FOI question of Strathclyde Police- have they paid- how much do they owe the public
Lennybhoy
I would take Dann
Wasnt saying we would get Rhodes i was just trying to point out how one big sale would allow us to get hi class striker without breaking bank Cheers
I would say it is more to do with cash at the gate delaying kick off rather than any huge attendance.
Ki a done deal with QPR when South Korea eliminated. We will bring a couple of players in then.
McLean should be embarrassed, you would think this was the ch. league final, rather than a lower league, league cup tie.
shimmies33 on 7 August, 2012 at 19:55 said:
Still think Ki would be a sensation in Spain
>>>>>>>>>
He’s getting really good reviews at the Olympics, and I wish we could keep him, but if he goes, I trust we will spend the cash. I just dont think it will be in this window, as we tend to sell late, to push the price up, and then dont have enough time to get anyone in.
As long as we spend in January, that’s OK for most seasons. But we need another striker now.
https://p.twimg.com/Azt5DBzCUAIPDKk.jpg
Nae money for a top each or will one of them always be injured? Just share it, why waste money?
stoopid.. aah mean clever clever exhuns
Just put on the radio….
Rob McLean, “Here at an almost full ibrox”
Hun fud
1-0 newco
How do you refresh using an iPhone?
rob is a hun
Cash on gate and delayed KOs –
Triggering memotires – do you remember a game at CP, think it was pre-season friendly, would be early 90s, pay-on-gate but the price was fixed at something and 50p. Long queues and loads in late because turnssties couldn’t deal with change.
turnssties = turnstiles in case it’s not obvious.
I hope they diddle every SPL club that they play.
HH
SFL even
Great goal
Celtic U20s 1 up
Sevco now world beaters with a goal against East Fife. £15,000 in wages combine to put them one up. lol!
Has Ki been sorting their defence out ?
Weak weak weak