Rangers International adopted a firm position in their court hearing against former director, Imran Ahmed, in Edinburgh yesterday. Directors and major shareholders know they have a cash shortfall for next season, even if season ticket sales are as higher than anticipated. Therefore, they know they will need to facilitate a loan, cough up for more shares or issue shares to new investors. A few million here or there from season tickets will not change this fact – so the argument goes.
With that in mind the club is under no serious threat from fans turning towards Dave King’s glorious attempt to deprive them of cash. Contrary to earlier reports, organised protests against the Easdales, Ashley and Laxey Partners is in no danger of putting the club under.
The best case scenario for King and his Band of Protagonists is that the club owners would be worn out by the sheer hassle of dealing with their campaign and would wilt before cutting a deal with him on very easy terms. This does not look likely today, the owners appear intent on getting a return for their money.
At various times during the past two years I’ve offered goodwill towards Hibernian, wishing them well against Hearts in the 2012 Cup Final, encouraging them after they lost to Celtic in the 2013 Final, and on the Hail Hail Media Celtic History podcast I spoke about The Famous Five being the best team in Europe in the late 40s, but I’m all Hibs-d out. I hope they are relegated.
50 years ago Hibs were almost the same size a club as Celtic, although Hibs were far more successful at the time. The decades since have utterly destroyed whatever legacy left by The Famous Five. Sir Tom Farmer’s ownership has provided financial stability but when he combined with Rod Petrie the pair contrived to bring about the most wasteful partnership in the history of the Scottish game – and that includes Sir David Murray’s years of unrestrained bombast.
New chief executive, Leann Dempster, has been more than a firm hand on the tiller at Motherwell, she delivered success over and above their station, but Hibs are so afflicted you wonder is anyone will be able to resurrect it with Petrie still in the chair, Farmer in ultimate control and Terry Butcher in the dugout. Not only do they deserve relegation, it may be necessary for Dempster to clear-out the deadwood above and below her. Better to be relegated than stumble on with Petrie and his Inverse Midas Touch.
Some good Celtic fans and CQN’ers are holding an event at Monroe’s Tavern in Galway tomorrow in aid of Console, the Irish suicide prevention charity. One of the many auction items is the photo above, signed by Bertie Auld. If you would like to help Console, stick a wee bid into ruairigucks@gmail.com .
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DD @ 18.53
You missed oot the last word…..”buckle”
winning captains
13:41 on
7 May, 2014
Crazy thought – to make the league more interesting could Celtic suggest we accept a handicap, maybe start the season on minus 9 points? Enough to give Aberdeen, Dundee Utd etc the chance to win the league but still will plenty of margin for us to catch up? Worth a try…
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I’ve been thinking about this for some time and not only for teams in Scotland. I feel if UEFA aren’t willing to restructure the leagues then some form of handicap system could revitalise some of the leagues in Europe.
Say the top teams finished as
1 – 100pts
2 – 86pts
3 – 84
4 – 78
5 – 70
6 – 64
7 – 60
8 – 58
9 – 46
10 – 40
11 – 34
12 – 33
The following season the top 6 teams would start the season with on minus points based on the gap between them and the team that that finished 7th. 33% of the gap would be the penalty for the new season.
The teams that finished in the bottom half would also benifit by starting the new season with a positive point start of the same 33%.
So the team that finished 1st in the previous season would effectively be 24 points worse off than the team who finished 12th.
The newly promoted team would be claased as finishing 12.
This season Next season starting points
1 – 100pts -13
2 – 86pts -8
3 – 84 -8
4 – 78 -6
5 – 70 -3
6 – 64 -1
7 – 60 +1
8 – 58 +2
9 – 46 +6
10 – 40 +8
11 – 34 +10
12 – 33 +11
It would never be adopted by the teams nor the leagues but it would sure as hell even things up and provide us with a more interesting league that would sustain our interest for longer.
BTW feel free to pull it apart, just an idea. :)
Kris commons…
Celtic legend?
Get sutton in!!!
God bless “Twist ‘n’ Turn” and CQN as lately I just look in on the blog and I saw his post on the horse Colebrooke running at 8 O’Clock at 16 to 1 at Worcester tonight. I got £15 EW on it plus a 5/2 winner and a non-runner on my lucky 15. I hope to bump into “Twist” someday on a NH meeting as we seem to go sometimes to the same race meetings. I hope you bought your Merc now “Twist”
Skelton CSC
The Celtic Way
15:08 on 7 May, 2014
charliebhoy
14:49 on
unlike you TCW not all the nuts are not numb!!!!
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Again I must ask my learned friend…………WTF?
Unlike me not all the nuts are numb? Does that mean that `like me some of the nuts are numb? All of the nuts are like me, numb? Hardly any of the nuts are numb unlike me i`m all numb?
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I know its a long shot but did my English teacher get it so wrong? I ask unlike you tcw not all nuts are numb …..now I know its late and ive had a few but if I say unlike you, that means like it says on the tin “unlike you” so contrasting “like you” you stupid person “you are a numb nut” if god doesn’t give me strength there must be a society of numb nutters that can I assume you type in braille selftaughtinthewaysofsexrfc