The world looked so different for Scottish Football League chief executive, David Longmuir, back in March. He convinced half of the member clubs to reject a deal which would earn them considerably more money next season, while enjoying the accolades of Rangers International chief exec, Charles Green.
Green remains a controlling director of Rangers International, but Longmuir’s actions infuriated First Division clubs, who have now applied to join the SPL, furious at his attempts to subvert them earning what many see as crucial income next season.
To suggest Longmuir acted in the interests of one Third Division club to the considerable detriment of all First Division clubs would be stating the obvious. These shenanigans still go on in Scottish football, even now, after all that happened last year, but it is reassuring that the overwhelming majority of voices have, again, said, ‘On your (boardroom) bike’. We are rapidly becoming one of the least corrupt countries football is played in the world. Good luck to all in the First Division.
I read the leaked document, Rangers (sic): the way forward, yesterday afternoon. It was so ludicrously lacking in anything which remotely resembled substance I assumed the leak was an attempt to discredit Charles Green. Then I heard BBC’s Chris McLaughlin say it was Green himself behind the leak. The fact that the Rangers International director categorically recognised the club is lumbered with a lame manager hardly passes for insight. The document was embarrassingly inept.
“The team will work for each other and press the opponents when not in possession.
“Most of all, players will come off the park knowing that they have done their best.”
In a high-level policy document this is cringeworthy.
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Were the Beeb not banned from mordor for uncovering some facts about our Craigy Bhoy ?
HH
BBC banned for publishing the way forward document.
Meanwhile somewhere in Scotland a six year old wants their blue crayon back.
when it goes belly up at mordor jabba will be welcomed over at snyde with open arms
BT aka SDM
I deliberately left the goodies where you can see them… but just outta reach . ;)
Looking forward to seeing you clean shaven next Friday
Players will be disciplined and act mature on and off the park
lol
They should learn how to read and write good first.
WE IS RANGERS.
Kenny MacIntyre very calm about the BBC ban, strange that. He’s Jabba’s twin.
Let you all into a secret, me and Jabba have something in common…we share the same Hairdresser. Before any smart comments, I have much more hair.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
just heard the guy on SSN telling us that there was a “world record crowd ” at Chateau d`Espair today ; so everything must be rosy over there then?
lennybhoy…supporting neil lennon and cfc until i die
18:13 on 4 May, 2013
Let you all into a secret, me and Jabba have something in common…we share the same Hairdresser. Before any smart comments, I have much more hair.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!……..
………………..
Oh dear that is very liberal of you.
“We share the same Hairdresser”
Not sure what to say about that?
FlouncingCSC
jmccormick
photos on twitter suggest lots of fans dressed as blue seats again…
Palacio67, LionRoars, thanks for sorting out the tickets, two excited Tims here tonight.
Looking forward to Seeing NFL dancing around Hampden with the Scottish Cup.
I owe you both, and it won’t be a cyber pint when we meet.
McIntyre – “do you think it galvanised the players for today?”.
Evidence is in the result Kenny – a 1-0 home win against the mighty Berwick Rangers!
Googybhoy:
Lol…I don’t do flouncing as BMCUW posted earlier, rumours of my flouncing were greatly exaggerated.
NoflouncingCSC
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
praecepta, 18:01
I think old Mr JT is finding that the world of ‘news management’ isn’t quite the same when some pesky journos ask their pesky questions.
Head and sand only work for so long.
doc is neil lennon
18:17 on 4 May, 2013
Good news that Doc.
You deserve them.
Talking of Tickets, please remember Lennybhoy if any of you get a spare.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Tom English talking about articulation – doesn’t do irony
Googy, good ghuys helping me out.
Love CQN, and the CQNers, manly love of course, coughs in a deep voice;-)
Rangers Director of Communications James Traynor said: “We are aware of our contractual obligations but we also have to be aware of our duty to protect the players, manager and supporters against reporting which lacks logic, balance and fairness.”
So James Traynor is against reporting which lacks logic, balance and fairness.
Wow – go read some of your own articles, James!
lennybhoy…supporting neil lennon and cfc until i die
I never thought you had flounced but sharing a hairdresser?
;>{}
What a brilliant defence: Shiels cannot articulate what he really means, the words come out wrong.
These guys previously called him articulate and intelligent. Never mind Beltrami send for Tom English!
The decision of Tommy Burns’ family to include Ally & Wattie in the funeral was an example of true Christianity.
It was Christ-like.
It showed what the essence of these truly Christian people is.
The subsequent actions of the recipients of such generosity of spirit should not in any way deflect from the magnificence of the gesture.
Tommy was not ‘THE PEEPUL’.
Tommy was genuinely a man OF the people.
Huge difference.
A Question.
How did Sevco manage 50,000 today when their stadium only holds 48,000 and they had Thousands of empty seats?
Did Paul Daniels do a turn for them today?
Traynor is in an impossible position.
He must know that there is a pile of dirty washing well outside his control just waiting to be made public, so all he can do is be seen to play the victim and ‘integrity’ card by standing up the one of the messengers.
Tick.
Tock.
Jabba has a hairdresser, must be a big big seat…
OK, it’s a complete crapshoot at the moment, so I’ll hazard the following prediction:
* It turns out Rangers are still owned by Craig Whyte.
* They run out of money, and Dave King negotiates with the SFA to have them liquidated yet again, only this time the SFA will state that the club is separate from the company and should continue in Div 2.
* Dave King buys the assets from Craig Whyte and takes control.
By James Traynor | 15 Aug 2012
06:30
SCOTLAND haven’t even started out
on the road to Brazil and already our
national team manager is going nuts.
In fact, you could say he’s cracking
up before we’ve kicked a ball in
earnest.
Craig Levein, the man we’ve
entrusted, the man we have allowed
to carry all our hopes and dreams,
yesterday cracked up at the country’s
national paper.
Levein banned the Daily Record. He
wouldn’t let our men Keith Jackson
and Craig Swan into his press
conference ahead of tonight’s friendly
match against Australia.
Later, an SFA source relayed a further
threat that if we reported our ban we
risked being excluded from covering
the Easter Road match.
You’d have thought our national team
boss would have been busy scanning
film and stats of the Aussies and our
opponents in the World Cup qualifiers
with a forensic intensity. But no, it
seems he prefers to study the papers,
especially the Daily Record.
Fair enough, everyone who wants to
know what’s going on in the game
does exactly that but they don’t
throw adolescent strops when they
see things they don’t like.
Then again they aren’t Levein, a man
so thin-skinned you can see right
through him. Yesterday he thought
he’d beat his chest a bit. Alpha male
nonsense perhaps, who knows.
Aware of the falls of Berti Vogts and
then George Burley, the current
manager might have thought he
should sound a warning that he’s not
to be questioned or messed with.
With the qualifiers about to begin it
was time, he might have reckoned,
for a declaration: Don’t pick through
my selections, tactics and methods,
or else.
If that was the plan seven out of 10
for a decent effort which might have
had some paper boys shrinking back
in fear. But all Levein succeeded in
doing as he tried to put his foot down
was put his size nine right in it.
And all because he didn’t like a
headline – a perfectly legitimate one
– in yesterday’s paper which
highlighted a bit of a U-turn by the
manager. No problem with the
writers, Levein said, and no
complaint about the story either.
Just didn’t fancy the headline.
Tough. We and all the other Scotland
fans didn’t like Levein’s top line in
the Czech Republic but we had to
accept it and live with the
consequences.
But maybe we should give Levein the
benefit of the doubt. He could just
have been trying to psyche himself
up for the biggest test of his
managerial career because, having
failed to lead Scotland to Euro 2012,
Levein knows he must get us to the
2014 World Cup finals.
It’s a massive responsibility for any
man to shoulder but the rewards for
success are equally big. The
gratitude of every Scot, every reader
of the Record, Scotland’s national
paper, would be his. He’d be our
hero.
Levein for First Minister? He’d get my
vote. But the price of failure is
severe. Levein could not, should not,
survive a second failure and perhaps
it was this pressure that had him
spoiling for a confrontation
yesterday.
After all, intense and constant
pressure can do the strangest things
to people. It can separate them from
logic and reason and make even the
toughest men run around as if their
hair were on fire.
Imagine then what it might do to
anyone who isn’t as mentally tough
as he thinks he is. It might make him
behave like… well, like Levein
yesterday. Scotland’s national team
manager has thrown his rattle out the
pram.
I like Levein and rate him as a
manager but he really needs to
lighten up.
Levein, who should be totally
consumed by the desire to get this
country to the World Cup finals in
Brazil, is in the huff.
He took time off from preparing for
tonight to play the role of a heavy
outside a nightclub door.
Our men were shut out because we
reported that, having ignored Rangers
players last week when he selected
his squad, he then called up Ian
Black after a clutch of withdrawals.
Fine, Black is a decent back-up man
and probably an obvious choice as
the casualty list lengthened. Nothing
wrong with that and although we
reported the story correctly the
manager decided he didn’t like part of
a headline and created a drama where
there wasn’t one.
Levein had said it would be difficult
for him to pick players from the
fourth tier of Scottish football and our
story merely reminded everyone of
that.
Yesterday he tried to explain by
saying: “My quotes are there for
everyone to see. What I said when I
announced the squad is that it will be
more difficult for the Rangers players
to get into the international team
because the standard in the Third
Division isn’t akin to international
football.
“That is what I said and also that the
door wasn’t closed on any Rangers
players. We had some problems in
midfield. Ian Black would have been
with us to America (for the May
friendly) if he hadn’t been injured, so
I brought him in.”
That’s also fine but why Levein had
to round on the Record is open to
debate but yes, it probably is a
tension thing. Even so, let’s try to
draw a line under this unfortunate
incident over a headline that didn’t
upset anyone else.
There are a few headlines I don’t
fancy either but like Levein I’m not a
production journalist and prefer to
leave this side of the business to
those better equipped to perform that
function.
Each to his own, eh Craig?
We’ll do our jobs and you do yours.
And your job is to get Scotland to the
World Cup finals.
Finally, and just for the record Craig,
do not make the mistake of thinking
that because you had the power to
close the international door on
Steven Fletcher, a proven goalscorer,
you will succeed in shutting this
paper out.
Scotland aren’t your team. They don’t
belong to one man or organisation.
Scotland belong to all of us and the
Daily Record has always backed our
national teams, just as we have
always backed you.
In fact, we were supporting you in
the job long before any other paper
knew you had it, a truth I’m sure
you’ll be able to verify. The Record
are proud supporters of our national
teams and will continue to be long
after you’ve gone.
valentinesday
All that sounds a lot more likely than Jabbas plan.
Apart from the bit about the black American crooner :)
HH
Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC until I die
18:13 on 4 May, 2013
Let you all into a secret, me and Jabba have something in common…we share the same Hairdresser. Before any smart comments, I have much more hair.
Well I hope Barney Thomson cuts his an not yours.
(If youve no read The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson ye wont know what I mean, but Robert Carlyle is making a film of it, out next year, seriously funny book)
Twomacaroons:
Not read it mate but will make a point of doing so.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
In America some broadcasters are called ‘shock jocks’ for their ability to say the most ugly and outrageous things they can think of.
Our equivalent is Jabba.
up_over_goal
As a former director and all round good guy is Dave ” The Eel” King not banned from being involved in third or fourth Sevco or did I just dream that??
Congratulations to The Rangers on their 1 nil win against Berwick today – not bad for a Swan Song
miki67, 18:43
Though rather than him doing the talking he seems to spend a lot of his time trying to prevent others from doing just that.
What’s the diffrence of people singing offencesive songs at the football,and orange walks blasting out bigoted tunes ?
Did fat sally not tell Keevins you would never get banned from ibrox for writting a story. Having a wee dig at us.
starry plough
The SFA, as we have seen, will do anything and accept anyone who will ensure there is a ‘Rangers’ in Scottish football.
up_over_goal
Doh, living in Europe has made me saft in the heid..
HowsillyofmeCSC
Steve Bould just caught using explicit language during QPR game, will he be reported, no chance only in Scotland and if you are employed by CFC.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!