With former Rangers International director, Charles Green, no longer on the scene, Scottish Football League chief executive, David Longmuir, has had a sudden change of heart. After encouraging member clubs to reject the SPL proposal to merge leagues, yesterday he congratulated clubs who voted for the merger as “reluctant heroes”.
SFL president, Jim Ballantyne, was less pragmatic, “We are joining their [SPL] company, their organisation. They have swallowed us up. We could use nice words about it, but it is a takeover.”
On this occasion, we concur with Mr Ballantyne, who went on to say, “It will be for others to decide if this step takes us to where we want to go.”
The truth is that while this arrangement will do lots for clubs in the second tier of the game it will fundamentally change nothing, our challenges remain.
News this morning of impending financial doom at Hearts as a result of their lender and major shareholder going into liquidation presents another challenge. Hearts over-reached what looked like a bizarre attempt to spend money like there was no tomorrow. Memories of Zadoc the Priest blasting over the PA system at Tynecastle heralding their access to the Champions League qualifiers in 2006 will seem hollow now.
Scottish football has one perfectly solvent cash cow and nearly 40 businesses teetering on the brink. Send the cash cow off to graze in pastures where it can be fattened in return for writing a cheque big enough to solve the game’s problems.
Willie Wallace will be at the Celtic Store, Argyle St, for late night shopping, from 5.30-7.30 pm tonight (Thursday). Where you can buy a signed copy of his book and have a chat with the man himself. Bring a camera.
Immediately after leaving the Celtic Store Willie and Brogan Rogan (and a pile of books) are heading to the Greenock Celtic Supporters’ Club for a CQN Question and Answer evening. Entry costs £2 (all of which is going to our charity causes). DON’T FORGET YOUR CAMERA!!
Raffle tickets for this fabulous signed Celtic strip cost only £1, you’ve two days left to get a ticket, so fill your boots here.
Tomorrow, while some of us are relaxing in Fife, over a hundred Celtic fans will drive north ahead of a 1254125 Ben Nevis climb and Huddle. Two of our own are then cycling from Fort William back to Glasgow on Sunday…. They need sponsors for their 1254125 campaign. Even if you can’t make it up Ben Nevis you can help out here.
And, if your stuck in Lanarkshire tomorrow there’s a trivia quiz in aid of the Walk Centre, Nakuru, Kenyan, who help children and families of the slum. Quiz takes place at St John The Baptist Church Hall, Uddingston, 7.30 – 11.30.
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Ggh, aye. For the liquid sunshine.
Talking about liquids , got a case of tequilerios for the bus – that way I have something to blame my shank on the first on .
BMCUW
You are my kind of pal. Let’s make sure we meet up at CP. Keep me posted when you are going to be there. Looking forward to meeting you kiddo. :))
Weefra HH
It will be wet in Aberdour tomorrow, well, I’ll be wet at the 19th…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
The Comfortable Collective
It’s in Edinburgh with an audience of 16 and 17 year olds getting the vote for the first time from what I’ve been told.
What else could it be about?
If I’m wrong about that then I apologize but that’s what I’ve been told.
sipsini
If they’d have got someone on from Radical Independence against Farage that really would have been entertainment.
Sanna
What time is your tee off time
Snake
You’d just have had two bangers on instead of one
Sannabhoy
I can shank regularly without any chemical influences. It is the plague of my golfing life.
Snake
I think you’re wrong mate
DD just said it wasn’t
WEEFRATHETIM
Defo.
I arrive 21/9 and leave 3/10
Hoping to take in a coupla matches and a wee dayoooot on the 28th.
Gonna have to sweet-talk my Mum into allowing my Dad out to play. Always a difficult enterprise which requires utmost tact and diplomacy. Usually I just beg…
snake plissken
The first question asked relates to british government security forces inappropriate tapping of peoples use of social media. Hardly a devolved issue.
I think I’d rather hear George Galloways take on that than the Harvey bloke from the Greens blaiming it on Catholic schools.
Pf , 10:10 . 2nd tee-off
Gaun yirsel George. ;)
In Nigel….We Trust
good night Tims
KTF
HH
Pf Ayr
Who on the show tonight isn’t a banger?
BMCUWP
I’m away for the 28 th …
More daft walking stuff…chamonix this time ….
We’ll to arrange another night
Nigel Farage on QT in Scotland will BOOST the Yes campaign,take it from me.
Night cqn..
The Comfortable Collective
Fine.
TCC
No way the beeb would allow that …wouldn’t be a contest GG would stuff him
Snake
Apart from Farage the others are ok…
Is that big baw face Robertson a Hun, he certainly looks like one.
C’mon George get Sevco on the agenda and / or rip nige a new one.
PF AYR
You wurnae invited!
Kidding,planning a night in Troon wi various Ayrshire Tims,meal at The Marahani then beer till my last train has left.
When are you away?
Snake,
GG and farage draw the crowds.
The same reason…sky,etc, want newco back..
It makes them money.
BMCUWP
Sounds good
Thursday to Monday of the weekend of the 28 th
Nigel’s got the right to heard..just like anyone else…instead of being hounded in the streets for having an opinion.
Bmcuwp
I’m in…( maybe ) ;-)
Zimmerman
Correct ….the more air time he gets ….the more exposed he’ll become
Zimmerman
Agree, disnae mean he’s no a lon Chaney.
Christine Graham
Patrick Harvey
Brian Donohoe
Willie Rennie
Now there is an all Scottish QT panel to show the face of how an independant Scotland would look. FFS I haven’t even got a tory on it.
Catholics need not apply.
Not posted for a couple of weeks as like everyone the summer is abummer when no internationals to keep us ticking over. Thank heaven for Charlotte, if there was any chance anything Charlotte had made public wasn’t true, 100%, then they would have been found and duly run out the country at the very least. As far as the sault n sauce huns go I do actually hope they do better than their western counterparts and survive as there are some decent fans among them. However if they do die like the zombies did I will not shed a tear as they have nobody to blame but themselves. The original paranoid zombies however blamed everyone but themselves when they died and continue to do so, but they are unique in so many ways.
Good luck to the golfers tomorrow.
Bt.
Catch you at another event.
Take it easy until the nerve heals proper. HH
PF AYR
Magic-I’ll check with a few of the others who might also have problems with certain dates and work it from there.
Dunno why you plan all these walking tours,just do what I do and read timetables wrongly.
Get all the walking you could ever need that way.
sannabhoy 22:52:
So we should see you around 15:10 then…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Excellent GG …
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
The great Nelson Mandela.
BMCUW
Callander marked. I go to all home games. Will arrange to meet nearer the time. Soooo looking forward to it. :)))
Weefra HH
Robertson …..typical xenophobic insular scoddish man …embarrassing