Former SPL chief exec Roger Mitchell is fond of saying his old job had all the responsibility and none of the power, as ultimate control of the League lies with the clubs. Neil Doncaster has lived through a period of his life he will never forget, but after issuing a comprehensive rebuttal to the ‘dossier’ yesterday, he may reflect that his powerbase has been significantly enhanced by the traumas.
The tone of the SPFL’s response, signed by nine of the 10 directors, is unlike anything I have read before from a comparable body; “baseless, damaging and self-serving attacks”, they did not miss the target and hit the wall.
With no charge outstanding, votes against the League will amount to little more than historical allegiances with the protagonists. They will do well to get 25% support, instead of the 75% required for success.
I commented on Thursday that the phrase “serious breach of fiduciary duties” was likely to feature in news reports soon. Instead, the League opted for “gross breaches of confidentiality” for distributing confidential parts of their Sky TV contract in the dossier appendix.
The board have no choice but to act in order to protect their broadcast contracts from breach. The irony of trying to claim the League is jeopardising a contract by actively jeopardising that same contract is off the scale and indicates the levels at which we are operating at.
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Family video call interrupted my viewing of game. IPad dying, so switched to YouTube TV app.
It looks better on a big screen
60 minutes gone and it’s 5-0 following a gem of a shot from Rogic and a conversion from Calum after a strong run and cut back from Edouard.
Sevco keeper just made a good save from the irrepressible James.
Alfredo has just come on to save the day. Can he score?
See Budge is looking into the legal steps she can take following reconstruction talks going nowhere, if the premier league is called and hearts are relegation.
Ok, I have a plan that will save hearts money, go to the rule books and look at the section where it says the board can determine when to end the season, if needed. The current pandemic is the current, if needed part.
Hearts getting relegated while hamilton, livingston, st Mirren, st johnstone, motherwell etc stay up shows just how bad they have been for 30 games. The bull about not deserving to be relegated, take some responsibility for your situation, 15000 fans one of the biggest clubs in scotland and your mince.
Ps thought I would add I would prefer a 14 team league too.
HH
‘Scottish football needs protection from Scott Brown’.
So said Craig Levein as he launched a squirrel to deflect from his own failings
Budge should have been thinking ‘Heart of Midlothian needs protection from Craig Levein’.
Budge backed Levein.
Levein sank the shiip.
The ship should sink.
ST.STIVS @7.12
Fernie,Carroll and Kennedy is my guess.
75 minutes and somehow the score remains 5-0
Morelos just displayed his usual petulance and got a yellow for kicking out.
Leigh on for Eddie who looked like he was cramping.
that 5-0 game, thats when i started doubting Brendan as a celtic fan,
he cane away with somthing about “someone told me the record was 7-1 i didnt know this”
we should have scored 10 that day, they were utter crap
BHOYJOEBELFASY,
That was my guess too.
Dynamo Dresden, who play in the second tier of German Football, have put their entire squad and coaching staff into two-week isolation after two players tested positive for coronavirus.
The Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 are due to restart on Saturday, 16 May.
It is set to be the first European league to restart following the coronavirus shutdown.
“The fact is that we can neither train nor participate in a game in the next 14 days,” said Dynamo.
On Thursday, the German Football Association (DFB) said the season would resume under strict health protocols that ban fans from the stadium and require players to have Covid-19 testing.
About 300 people, including players, staff and officials, will be in or around the stadiums during match days.
The league has been suspended since 13 March. Clubs returned to training in mid-April, with players working in groups.
But on Saturday Dresden, who are bottom of Bundesliga 2, said they would be unable to fulfil the initial fixtures.
“In the past few weeks, we have made enormous efforts in terms of personnel and logistics in order to strictly implement all the prescribed medical and hygienic measures, “said Dynamo sports manager Ralf Minge .
“We are in contact with the responsible health authority and the DFL (German Football League) to coordinate all further steps.”
Dresden were due to resume the season on 17 May at Hannover 96.
Analysis
John Bennett, BBC World Service
The Dynamo Dresden situation proves that any league will be balanced on a knife edge when football resumes, even with all the planning and all the expertise that has gone into the Bundesliga restart.
DFL boss Christian Seifert admitted as much on Friday when he said that they are “playing under probation”.
The truth for football authorities everywhere is that there are no certainties at the moment and there will be setbacks.
The only good news is that although there are a lot of fixtures to pack in, time is relatively on German football’s side compared to the other big European leagues, who are still wondering if and when they’ll be able to return.
Now the DFL will be hoping that this will be the only fixture they’ll have to postpone on their high profile re-opening weekend.
FT. 5-0. Party to celebrate 7IAR begins.
We were scintillating from start to finish.
Highlights for me 4 goals in 10 minutes either side of half time.
Will affectionately remember Lustig’ wearing the policeman’s hat.
CQNPOTY for Jobo
EDDIE for his two goals and domination of the Hun defence.
JAMES for his incisive running, assists and particularly for the decisive 3rd goal just before HT where he beat 3 men and hammered it into the far corner.
NTCHAM probably his best game in a Celtic jersey where he prompted and pushed us forward and seemed to glide past hapless Huns.
It was a tossup between Ntcham and Calum who was everywhere.
No defenders in the spotlight as they strolled though the game against an inept attack.
BGFC and wee BGFC
Thank you for the entertainment tonight I really enjoyed that.HH
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD @9.52
Willie Fernie left us for St. Mirren, and came back to haunt us in the Scottish cup semi at Ibrox in ’62.
Awopbopaloobop
Alopbamboom
I was speaking to one of the Jambo fans at work and he was quite resigned to the fact that they deserved to go down as they had been rubbish all season, maybe because he is a good guy it makes the difference with all the the stuff you get on line
BGFC and wee BGFC,
thoroughly enjoyed your tunes tonight,
will make an effort to see you play sometime
in Glasgow
SMSM, (in this case the DR) ran today with a piece about Fernando Rickson. Imagine going to that length to open the sympathy channel for Der Hun.?
For the record, what happened to him was horrible.
However, the timing is appalling. Trying to take the spotlight away from the real issue, which is Sevcos attempt to bring the SPFL down whilst extracting/tugging at heartstrings.
That rag needs to end soon.
As for our radio pundits, not one expression or question of Stewart Robertson’s denial of bullying claim. Even allowed him to claim they were the ones who said it, not Sevco.
The media in this country is tragic.
AoW,
with a couple of exceptions.Michael Stewart
and Jim Spence,the media are either spineless,
EBT recipients, or both
Gordybhoy64, agreed. Only 2 who don’t stick to the script. And it is a script.
Spence has been threatened and silenced previously. Stewart has been barred for his comments.
Tell me of any other pundits who have suffered the same? That’s right Tom Boyd. No one else.
Interesting eh? Or sinister.
AoW,
the fact that wee have these EBT recipients on TV/Radio,
is a disgrace in itself,
why not ask them if they intend paying back the “loans”
that they received.
Big and Wee George – that was great
Thank you
Tom English morphing into Jim Traynor.
Hun cheerleader…how sad :-(
i got my hunskelpimgs mixed up.
we scored 3,4,5, that often you get the humpings all messed together.
Sevco gonna pay for enquiry if clubs ba j them now, jesus christ. Will that be paid in advance? Is that a bride? Are these cunts real?
Seriously sevco is something else, there is no way spfl could accept them paying, hence the reason the offer.
Once this is all sorted they should throw the book at them.
Bride = bribe
Stephbhoy67,
they can offer anything they want,
will still be too many Premier league
clubs vote against it,
irrespective of what the lower leagues do.
GORDYBHOY64 on9TH MAY 2020 11:11 PM
AoW,
the fact that wee have these EBT recipients on TV/Radio,
is a disgrace in itself,
why not ask them if they intend paying back the “loans”
that they received.
A state scrounger employing state scroungers makes sense to me
Dylan Thomas, cos you can’t beat good poetry.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas, cos you can’t beat good poetry.
—
or a gud horse
🏇
of the same name obviously
Paul67, the layout of the CQN site seriously sux.
Navigating through pages, having to click on the comments, then on the more comments and wading through screens of old articles etc…, spontaneously being kicked out again and again, it is nonsense.
Suggestion : Keep it simple.
The simple rule is : have the stuff up-front/in your face which people want to access and make navigation through the comments as easy & smooth as possible. All secondary articles/features should be accessible via some button/option if you choose to select it. None of the secondary articles/features should be up-front/in your face.
Get rid of all the clutter.
Morning! Just reading that them tramps are going to pay for independent enquirey! Hope to f@@k they pay up front!!
Test dammit!
This site is becoming impossible to use. It is beyond frustrating.
ay for an independent enquiry? You can always tell who paid for suevey. When you hear oht come..meat is good for yiu say scientists..paid for by scottish butchers…meat kills you..paid for by vegetarian society.
I and others have posted numerous times on how to improve your CQN experience.
I have downloaded DuckDuck Go as my web browser.
If you are using Safari etc, turn off JavaScript.
https://www.ibtimes.com/covid-19-prevention-experts-are-considering-indoor-ultraviolet-light-zap-airborne-2972622
Ultra violet light being researched to kill Coronavirus.
Morning All. Sevco wanting to pay for anything raises concerns. Show us your accounts first, then when we’ve stopped laughing go fly with the pigs to Mars. Wanting an Inquiry? Join the queue. Ours will blow you out of the water.
In a Q& A “Interview” with the Daily Record, the Huns Douglas Park states Two things that sick out in particular…
He says that They ( Sevco) are prepared to pay the legal bill for any independent investigation. Isnt that Bribery and Coercion ( AT LEAST ?)…That is one of the issues that that the huns claim against the SPFL in the lead up to the original Vote on good Friday ?…” COERCION” !
Secondly Park is asked IF Doncaster and/or McKenzie could attempt to sue Sevco for “Libel…Defamation of character etc ” ?
Park replies, ” Sevco refuse to comment on what others MAY or MAY NOT Do”
Sevco have ALREADY PREDICTED that the TV Companies will be looking for up to £10 Million in refunds if Football is NOT played/televised etc.
Sevco had/have ALREADY clearly stated what OTHERS may do or not do…when raising the TV Companies possible claims !
HH
Stay safe.
Sick out ??…STICK Out…..
Maybe I was right the first time…as I am Sick of the Huns.
HH