The Rangers International share prospectus contained references about league reconstruction possibly expediting the club’s ascent to the Scottish Premier League for the first time. This was never on anyone else’s agenda and was merely the latest manifestation of the train of thought that Scottish football could not, and would not, consider life without ‘Rangers’ in the top flight, or perhaps one division below. We can only hope that the company’s budgeting was not dependent on this aspiration.
Even the most ardent advocates of the belief structure that a ‘Rangers’ branded company is wanted and needed by the rest of the game must now accept ample evidence exists that their flat earth claims are folly. For the record, Scottish football no more needs Celtic than it did Rangers, we are a lumbering albatross around their necks.
The Rangers chief executive, Charles Green, makes a valid point about the remainder of his club’s season, “If this [12-12-18 reconstruction] does happen, what is the point of us finishing the season?
“We might as well have a winter break from now until August. I can’t see any point in carrying on with meaningless matches.”
Crap club
As many have pointed out, his is the same purpose as the teams in each division who are free of relegation threats and already out of title/promotion contention – it’s called sport, but all teams in the SFL Third Division are effectively now playing for the joy of the game itself, which is pretty much what most of the do anyway. Let’s hope Mr Green’s comments are not widely reported to those he is trying to sell tickets to. It was astutely reported that Green has the makings of a PT Barnum about him, but rubbishing your own product is more Gerald Ratner than Barnum.
Roll up, roll up
By contrast, PT Lawwell’s comments on the proposed reorganisation, “To be fair, it is one of the very infrequent times when the greater good of the game has been taken into account”, could be taken straight from the consensus-builder’s manual. It remains to be seen how best to serve the greater good, but any solution has to work for every club, not just one or two.
Delighted Terry Butcher is staying in the Highlands. Great news for Inverness and the SPL. I’m enjoying this season; more please.
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A Ceiler Gonof Rust
01:29 on
11 January, 2013
ACGR = A Celier Gone Of Rust = Carnoustie Golfer.
Have you never read any Dan Brown novels?
Enigmamachine.com
HH:-)
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Enigma was written by Robert Harris ya philistine!
I will e-mail IZZY this morn….Jeez the way you talked me up, he’ll probably be expecting a call from Donald Trump!!!
oh and it’s P-E-D-R-O-C-A-R-A-V-A-N-A-C-H-I-O-67
HH bruv.
What`s with the Billy McNeill stuff?
Thought this was a cracker from Bobby Russels post last night.
This is yer typical hun.
Re: How can the FA not want us?
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They wouldn’t know a good thing if it smacked them square on the coupon.
They think we are all knuckledragging neanderthals up here.
07:46 on
11 January, 2013
Interesting posts last night re working offshore on the North Sea oil rigs, I enjoyed reading it.
Coorslad if your around, looks like the family and I will be over to Gods land on 16th Feb, mum wants to visit St Columbas which is in or near the city walls.
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Vmhan thanks for the warning,will start drying out now in preparation.The Long Tower Chapel was were your Dad was baptised..built by St Columba..was my Parish also,now a Creggan man..
You goin to Juve @ home?
VP
I thought they were all crackers, but the irony in that one was priceless!
And by the way, there are 2 `Ls` in my surname, (just like the huns) :-)
BobbyRussell
Sorry mate ,no verry good at the ol spellin malaky. hh
HH
Exhausted already with all the transfer speculation.. I ll believe it when I see it is my motto..
Every hoops player will be leaving as the MSM have targets to achieve and no other Scottish team is on a par with us..
Back to work ..
HH
Margaret McGill – “Oh yeah and dont believe the Venezuelan “ex-pats” either that tell you Chavez is a criminal.”
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Margaret – I lived in Vzla when Chavez first tried a military coup, in fact my apartment was riddled with bullets as I took photos (I lived opposite national TV station and saw watchmen being dragged out and shot through the head). The political system in-situ was a typical 2-party duopoly that looked after its own first, the middle classses second and pretty much ignored the poor. For the majority of people things worked reasonably well relative to life experienced in most other South American countries. Soft corruption was rife in business (under-the-table favours etc) and outside influence from the US and the oil companies much in evidence.
Much of the middle class supported Chavez in the early days, his rhetoric was stirring and inclusive and his vision for a fairer political and economic system appealing. People wanted to give a left-of-centre idealist a real chance to succeed.
As the years progressed little has genuinely changed. The poor have remained poor, the barrios have got ever bigger and the violence within them has got worse. The politicians that rule them have got fat, they dress in designer suits, they wear Rolex watches and they squirrel away their money in offshore accounts. Their extended families have also found themselves recipients of unearned wealth. Like their predecessors that they swept from power, they stay in the exclusive country clubs with armed guards protecting their roads, fly to the US to shop, drink the best whisky and smoke cuban cigars.
Idealism, be it communism or capitalism, doesn’t work without recognising the shades of grey between the polar opposites. Chavez became a fully-blown extremist who in his desire to destroy the rich and the corrupt also alienated the professionals in his country – the engineers, doctors, scientists etc. and dismantled the middle class that owned small businesses and factories. These are the people who would otherwise be employing the poor and giving them the money to be self-sufficient rather than relying on state handouts.
I have relatives that still live there, not the expats you refer too with disdain. I have brothers-in-law who spent years studying petro-chemical engineering who now find that they cannot get a job unless they are declared members of Chavez’s party. Who also find that the general labourers in the oil companies are entitled to earn more than the university-educated engineers.
Almost half the population now vote against Chavez, most of them working class people tired of the rhetoric and empty promises. He and his entourage have become just like the ruling elite that emerge from every other socialist revolution.
They follow Orwell’s Animal Farm tale to the letter:
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”
Or as the Who sang, “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”.
Chavez is no devil but he is also no socialist hero. Apart from his tiresome tub-thumping rhetoric he is little better than those that came before him.
From this morning’s ‘Scotsman.’
‘Rangers’ fall from the Premier League and their re-emergence in the Third Division has attracted interest from around the world, with a number of foreign reporters present at media conferences and matches this season as Rangers begin their journey back to the top of the Scottish game. And McCoist hopes such widespread exposure can boost his chances of selling the club to potential signing targets. A transfer embargo means Rangers must wait until 1 September before they can register free agents – and January 2014 before buying players – but can negotiate pre-contract agreements this month.
McCoist told the club’s website: “We’ve got a massive list of players from all over the world which we are looking over at the moment. We’re keeping on top of the SPL players because we’d be crazy not to but we’re looking far outwith that as well.’
Let me get this right. You go from the top tier of football to the bottom and will not be back up for at least three years, with no European football for that time either, and, according to Super Ally, that makes you attractive to a massive pool of players.
I’m going to lie down in a darkened room for a few hours, and try to figure that one out. Will let you know how I get on.
So when will Henrik have his final say on the Oshaniwa signing??
Charles Green in this morning’s Scotsman admits neither RFC (IL) or Sevco 5088 was a member of the SFA between June 14 2012 and Aug 03 2012.
Yet they played a game under the auspices of the SFA on 29 July 2012 against Brechin.
Confirmation that the zombie club played without a license?
If the Hooper to Norwich rumour is true we should have Grant Holt coming to us, plus cash, a part of the package. Holt plus Stokes or Watt I could live with. Preference would still be Hooper to sign a new deal though.
If the transfer rumours so far are anywhere near true then at least we are planning ahead with the early start to the 13/14 season. Gershon and now possibly Oshinawa, strengthening the defence with cover at both left back and centre half. With Victor probably leaving in the summer and the possibility that his replacement will be moving Ambrose forward, strengthening the defence now makes sense. The couple of Bosmans we’ve been linked wit,h Barbosa, left winger, an area which requires strengthening now, and Mitroglu, a striker who could be replacement if Hooper leaves, again ticking the right boxes. If the young Aussie proves his worth in his trial in Spain this week then he could be the attacking/creative midfielder we need.
So have Charlie Green and his mob left the building yet? I had a busy day yesterday and would hate to think I missed a big announcement. Mind you with their 500,000,000 fans worldwide they probably have a fair few offers to look through.
Hopefully Hooper will stay for now. If not I’ll console myself with the knowledge that the legend Bangura is back in the fold.
*Does a version of Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ face*
Interesting that SSN wheeled out Paul Murray ( he of the blue knights fame ) for comment on chuckie hovisheeds ramblings about leaving Scottsh football, obviously he is still lurking in the background.
It’s just another number.
FatalisticCSC
BILLY MCNEILL
The greatest living Celt…. Don’t know what he said but he speaks for me at all times . He is the quintessential Celtic mhan.
God bless him!
Chuckles Green admits all in the Newco website,
“But don’t talk to us we don’t know what we’re doing!”
See that the Norwich websites are confident that Hopper will sign for them this month.
If that is the extent of his ambition God help him, a second rate lower league club who’s ambition is to finish in the last spot above relegation every year in the Premier Leagus and who, in reality, will be a Yo Yo club at best between the Championship and te Premier League.
There must be better options in future for Hooper, at the moment we are a better option than Norwich for sure.
RobinBhoy
Calling Sannabhoy!!
We are CELTIC
Who the hell are Norwich? They can sign our players that are surplus to our requirements , not our stars.
They have ideas above their station and if Hoops is contemplating this at all he must be mad!!
Very few players go onto bigger and better things after us
Don’t even want to know what Billy McNeill is alleged to have said either,no interest.Billy McNeill can say what he wants to say.
Sick to the back bone with all the in-fighting and the bitching.
I once shook the hand of the man that shook Europe.
HAIL CAESAR!
If we do lose gary Hooper I’d spend the money on Kenwynne Jones….athlete and would score a barrow load for us with the right service
31003 – Are you out of you mind sir?
I can’t see Hooper going to Norwich. If he wants to leave he will wait until the summer I think – especially with Juve to come
Celtic Underground @celticrumours
Excellent source says “no chance” when asked about the talksport Hooper to Norwich story.
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Robin Bhoy
I would not take the Hooper to Norwich rumour seriously. He is in negotiations for a new deal, most Norwich fans think £30k p/w is something they cannot afford, and i suspect it is something we would offer if required.
Think this could be Gary Hoopers agent playing games here while in the middle of contract talks.
After all Gary is in Spain with the rest of the Bhoys. Cannot see his price being devalued by playing the rest of the season with us and winning possibly more trophies than he will in ten years with Norwich.
No brainer CSC
RobinBhoy. I dont think £30,000 per week is lack of ambition Hooper is a wealthy young man who drives around in a Bentley he has his head screwed on the right way and becoming even wealthier may well be his aim.I know we dont like to see good players leave but if the money is right and all that let him go we have lost many good players in the past and still prospered.H.H.
16 roads – Neil Lennon walks on water.
10:20 on
11 January, 2013
31003 – Are you out of you mind sir?
Oooooooohhhh……(holds handbag under chin)
We can’t afford to sell Hooper in the summer,unless he signs a new contract.
He should do the decent thing,like Stan Petrov did – sign on for three years,then leave in the summer – everybody’s happy then,he gets a did at the CL last 16,that’s what the club brings to the table – and let’s be honest,if he goes to one of those mediocre EPL clubs,he will never see the CL again.
Morning CQNer’s
31003
10:17 on 11 January, 2013
If we do lose gary Hooper I’d spend the money on Kenwynne Jones….athlete and would score a barrow load for us with the right service
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Gary Hooper dizny get the right service so – what makes you think that KJ would ?
HH
16 roads – Neil Lennon walks on water.
I’ll have you know that I have it on good authority that Neil Lennon rates Big Ken very highly
31003
10:27 on
11 January, 2013
Lol – If you don’t have anything sensible to say,then don’t say anything at all.
We would be better off signing Corporal Jones from Dad’s Army.
…..and so it begins…..