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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!!BADA BING!! on 10TH MAY 2020 9:35 AM
You know where I work, social distancing on the shopfloor is a joke.
Tools being shared, jobs being passed on to be assembled.
We’re classed as key workers as its nuculer work.
Most if not all is for backup and can lay in stock for months/ years.
Helen’s Memorial fund for Strathcarron Hospice including Gift Aid now exceeds 18,000 pounds with 588 individual Supporters.
That is awesome, A credit to Helen to Chris their family & friends & to their Celtic Family who answered the call.
Tim Martin …
Our revenge will be the beers of your rivals
Kelvinbhoy- it’s noticable the SMSM are giving credence to the huns nonsense, as they can’t pin anything on Celtic, the subtext is to get a body.The body being Murdoch McLennan,who has business links to Dermot Desmond. That’s all the desperate ones have.
Bognorbhoy- VG
Other drinks are available also 😜👍
Before anyone goes back to Wetherspoons, we need a detailed study as to the transmission rate of Covid19 via posh stained sofas.
That should read pish stained
Bada, yip – despite Robertson being invplved in all of this as part of SPFL…..Davie Provan in Sun online talking about forced to vote on Good Friday and not being given the required 28 days. I say this to everyone I talk to on this subject and posted on here, even the ICT guy conceded it was and advisory deadline, more a request. So they voted because they thought they had enough votes to bring down the motion then cried foul when they failed…..unbelievable!
‘Bundesliga restart blow after entire Dynamo Dresden team quarantined’
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/09/bundesliga-restart-blow-dynamo-dresden-team-quarantined-covid-19
I used to use Wetherspoons on a regular basis but stopped after his Brexit stance.
Reasons to never use Wetherspoons ever again:
Treatment of staff as soon as COVID-19 kicked off
Stance on Brexit
Placement of CCTV in ladies and gents toilets
Level of hygiene in kitchens
Live mass at 11 in case it’s useful for anyone… https://www.facebook.com/ourladyoflourdesek/
Jobo
Just done Mass from St Josephs Blantyre
See this church hopping 🙏
Just watched St Joseph’s Blantyre at 10 buddy
Didn’t see you Norrie , did u leave after communion ? 😬
Slight change in the weather on the Costa del Moray – snow flurries in Forres. 🙁
BT
Consistently over 300 tuned in
I’m wondering how there was 2 priests 🤔🙏
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY
NORRIEM
Watched 10:00 at St. Joseph’s as well, seen MALORBHOY as well.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Norrie
Saves them doing nothing, Fr Mark who did the sermon in Stephen O’Donnell’s brother
He was the priest from priest school on BBC
The other is our PP Fr Lamb
The young organist has just finished 1st year in Rome
My parish in case you didn’t notice 😉
Malorbhoy and Lennyboy also logged in
LENNYBHOY on 10TH MAY 2020 11:08 AM
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY
NORRIEM
Watched 10:00 at St. Joseph’s as well, seen MALORBHOY as well.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
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I take it MALORBHOY wasn’t standing side on. He’s a shadow of his former self with all that dieting. I need to take a leaf out of his book. 😉
” POR CIERTO on 10TH MAY 2020 9:56 AM
How important in the great scheme of things is Pubs? ”
For many people, very important .
PÓGMATHONYAHUN AKA LAIRD OF THE SMILES on 10TH MAY 2020 11:13 AM
Remember it is you that said it…:)
I like 10:00 Mass as it is the time that I would normally go to Mass before visiting the sick in Whifflet St. Mary’s Coatbridge.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
There is a site called Church Sevices TV,
If you open that & click on schedule there is a list of times & Masses, You can click on any Mass you want to watch from Cork to Belfast, Derry to Dublin, London I presume to Glasgow,
I just watched a 10.30 Mass from a wee Church in Cork we used to go when I was a child.
When I went there it was quite a rural setting with the Church at the end of a long Tree lined Avenue.
All the trees are gone & replaced by a Shopping Centre but the Church itself remains untouched albeit now tucked away in a totally different setting.
Anyhow incredible site well worth a look,you will never be late for Mass, one starting every 15 minutes from somewhere.
Went for our messages yesterday.
Quite a long list and included was “apple cider”.
Now we don’t drink cider so it looked a strange one, however, thought I, the wife’s been making some fancy meals so must be an ingredient she needed.
As I thought one bottle seemed expensive, i bought a 4 pack of Magners for £3.98.
Anyway get home and the misses unpacked the shopping and says, “did you not get the apple cider VINEGAR then?”
Err, that’ll be a naw then!
Had a couple in the garden yesterday, very nice too!
Apple Cider Vinegar tastes horrible but is reckoned to be one of the most health Beneficial drinks in the world,
CORKCELT
Is it any good as a mixer?
:-(
Unfortunately I cannot see pubs opening anytime soon. It would be impossible to have any kind of social distancing and hygiene control. At a supermarket you go in sanitise get what you need and leave taking probably a maximum of 30 minutes and on the whole you probably stay 2m apart for most of the visit.
On a pub visit you might sanitise going in but your intention is to stay a lot longer than 30 minutes. All pubs would need bouncers on the doors and also the toilets to control numbers and social distancing. There would probably have to be a limit on how much you are allowed to drink and how long you are allowed to stay. Smokers would not be allowed to congregate outside the front door so wouldn’t bother going. The numbers being allowed to enter the pub would not be economically viable for opening the pub and paying the staff and food (a big earner) would be a non-starter.
IMHO pubs are a thing of the past until a vaccine is found. The drinks companies will shift their production from barrels to cans and bottles and not give a shit about pubs.
For someone like me who prefers to drink in a pub rather than at home this is a nightmare scenario.
I got this from Friesdorfer this morning, for cruise buffet substitute pub:
https://twitter.com/Johnny_suputama/status/1258786799851376641?s=09
CORKCELT on 10TH MAY 2020 11:43 AM
Apple Cider Vinegar tastes horrible but is reckoned to be one of the most health Beneficial drinks in the world,
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I use it a lot in cooking. Supposed to be good for joint pain. Turmeric is another.
Cider vinegar and Tumeric cocktail – never tried it only a suggestion. If it works let me know. 😉😂😂
POGMATHONYAHUN…………..
Do you drink it or inject it?
Someone on another site is comparing Park to The Ballchinian in Men in Black.
Brought a smile to my face it did.
BT
I feel physically sick watching those imbeciles and their street parties.
I used to work in Tennents brewery years ago and it was a well known fact that Wetherspoons never cleaned their beer supply pipes
HOT SMOKED on 10TH MAY 2020 11:21 AM
” POR CIERTO on 10TH MAY 2020 9:56 AM
How important in the great scheme of things is Pubs? ”
For many people, very important .
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HOT SMOKED…You are 100% correct.
I live alone, I have NO Family to speak to face to face or on a phone and I dont get any visitors to my home except Heart nurses etc, mostly every 2 weeks or so, although I havent had a visit from a nurse for around 5 weeks now ?
When Tesco deliver my food, its around every 10 days or so, and that is my only source of seeing an actual person at my door and having a VERY brief chat. My medication is delivered once a Month…again there is only a VERY brief conversation at my front door for obvious reasons.
POR CIERTO….Due to my health conditions, my local Pub is really my ONLY Source of being able to meet and chat to friendly faces, including my two best mates, one who owns the Pub, and the other who works there, 3 or 4 days a week.
I fully understand why its probable that Pubs and Restaurants will be among the last to open, and I certainly do NOT have the answers as to how a Pub can open…with certain restrictions that have already been suggested such as, Folk only being allowed Two/Three Pints and then possibly being refused anymore and asked to leave ?
At the risk of stating the obvious, can I comment on my own Local Pub and how busy or otherwise it is on Week Days ?
Being only 20 yards from my home and the FACT that I really struggle to walk much further anyway, I cant remember the last time that I was in another bar other than my local. I do tend to go in quite often and there are plenty of times that there may only be 3 or 4 Customers including myself in the bar.
In such examples, how would it be financially viable for a Pub to be open, and pay a member of staff if that Pub is literally turning away business after I have had those 2 or 3 pints and leaving ( Probably to try and get to another Pub and have another 2 or 3 Pints ? LOL ).
My local is quite a large Pub, and at a guess and keeping a social distancing whilst in there lets say the Pub could hold maybe 30 Customers at the one time….how would any member of staff be expected to keep tabs on “How Many” drinks any one customer has ?
Also, would it be feasible for me to have those 2 or 3 Pints, and then leave of my own accord…only to return 5 or 10 minutes later for another 2 or 3 Pints, especially if I know that there are very few Customers ?
As I say, I do not have the answers, but if I was in my local Pub right now and I had my quota of 2 or 3 Pints, I would be very surprised if the Owner ( a mate of mine), would then ask me to leave….?
HH
Ray W- Park’s a double for Fat Ba$#@rd from Austin Powers….other adjectives could be added..😆
CORKCELT on 10TH MAY 2020 10:16 AM
Helen’s Memorial fund for Strathcarron Hospice including Gift Aid now exceeds 18,000 pounds with 588 individual Supporters.
That is awesome, A credit to Helen to Chris their family & friends & to their Celtic Family who answered the call.
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The family are absolutely astounded by the response to Helen’s just giving page it’s become a focus for us in the past week. However, I’m very aware of charity fatigue so we’ll probably call a halt to it next weekend.
I’d anyone would like to make a small donation the link is below, it genuinely is for a wonderful cause!
https://t.co/8KKO1EpSms
The SPFL board should take Sevco up on their offer to pay for the investigation.
Tomorrow ask Sevco to place £500K into a holding account under SPFL Control and have them sign a legal contract to pay any remaining costs should the investigation cost more.
Simples.
Douglas Park has today claimed the £10,000,000 Sevco finance gap for this season has been met.
I’m sure the interims will back that up, once they’re released…
PÓGMATHONYAHUN AKA LAIRD OF THE SMILES on 10TH MAY 2020 11:46 AM
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Respectfully, I cant agree with some of your Post about Pubs.
In my local Pub, there wouldnt be any need for “Bouncers”, as most folk know each other and are on good terms with the staff ?
I have been a Smoker for almost 50 years, and IF I could go to my local for only 2 or 3 Pints during this situation, I would STILL go to the Pub and I would STILL go outside for a smoke. I wouldnt need to “Congregate” outside the Pub door with others…I could walk 3 or 4 yards away ( as I often do) and enjoy my smoke…alone ?
HH