It’s difficult not to associate Hearts’ owner, Vladimir Romanov’s outburst on their club website yesterday with the current issue over Rangers finances, which could soon see the SPL, the SFA and the media take sides between Rangers and their creditors, in particular HM Revenue and Customs.
Romanov’s rant on the demise of the Scottish game was ignorable until he dragged in the “tax authorities” for blame. As you and I know, the tax authorities don’t play favourites, they collect vat, income, corporation and other taxes in line with the law.
Hearts failed to pay player wages last month and Romanov now says, “there is no point is spending millions to watch someone else’s show”. Most of Hearts debt is owed to Romanov’s own bank but if player wages are unpaid there is a good chance HMRC will also be outstanding, explaining the “tax authorities” reference.
If a new football club playing at Ibrox is ushered into the SPL with a points tally calculated from the position of a defunct Rangers you can expect a gold-rush of clubs ready to flush their debts to the country, and history, away.
Well done to STV who yesterday revealed the actual decision making process which would be put in place to judge an application to join the league midseason or at any other time. The SPL board, by simple majority, have the decision, while the SFA need to ratify membership.
If the SPL board vote to reward bad debtors’ shares in their league what incentive would most clubs have to pay their bills? Fortunately, our history is more valuable than any amount of cash.
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Estadio
You claim you don’t speak Russian and can’t chat with Aiden tomorrow. As I said still plenty of time until tomorrow.
For you and for all.
Conferenza Boruc
Do some people know something I don’t.
Liquidations expulsions and the case has’t even been heard yet,
LiviBhoy says
To make money in Europe you have to get there first.
Not something we have been noted for lately.
It took a protwest this year.
quonno says:
2 November, 2011 at 15:45
It is what happens when companies run out of cash and have no reasonable (ahem) lines of credit. Fire fighting doesn’t cover it.
HH
TLK
The Kris Commons video is great. Quashes the silly rumours. Hope he’s back playing soon.
Zbyszek @ 15 43..
Heard Artur on the radio recently. He is beginning to speak with a Tuscan accent.
The Cry was no November
November’s when we re-apply
Celtic have been one of few forward thinking clubs their model should be used by all clubs.
Celtic should lay out their proposals once the administration/liquidation happens at Rangers and Hearts.
Reduced admission prices: The price of tickets is driving fans away. Bring back the crowds. Most clubs make their cash through the gate.
All matches to kick off at 3pm on a Saturday: Football on TV is dying. There is only a small window of opportunity left. Games will be on the internet for free or very little before long.
Any TV or live streaming revenues lie with the club:
If we want to stream a match live at 3pm on the internet we should be able to (for a fee).
Other clubs will be happy that they are playing at 3pm every week and their fans will come back. Doesn’t matter if the game is on live if the price is right and the match is that their ground they will attend. Surely a Saturday match is better than Sunday at 12pm etc.
We can’t compete with England for TV revenues and we are getting less and less with every deal. Let’s forget it and leave Sunday so people can watch the EPL super Sunday and Scottish fans can attend their matches on a Saturday.
Scotland is a small country. Out with Scotland their is very little interest in our game. The fans abroad who support Celtic can watch our games accross the world on a Saturday and the fans in the UK and Eire can travel on a Saturday and enjoy their match experience without having to change plans due to rescheduling for a Sunday. Games should only be changed to benefit clubs in Europe.
Bring back the winter break: Scotland has increasingly poor weather in the winter and the break helps rest pitches and allow fans to avoid sitting in stadiums in the worst of the weather.
Ensure all clubs in the top league have under soil heating or appropriate provisions to ensure games are on: It’s been too easy for teams to call off matches when it hasn’t suited them in poor weather in the last few years.
This is a chance to change the whole game in Scotland for the better and Celtic need to take the lead. If the other clubs want to live in the past and continue with a status quo then Celtic have to consider resigning from the league.
LB
South Of Tunis says:
2 November, 2011 at 15:42
Mmm ——-
See that Capita are chasing The Hun for money . ——- I assume that it relates to an unpaid bill ——- Does anybody know what the bill is for ?
Horrible people – Capita .
” Crapita —-the world’s worst outsourcing firm “
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100% correct.
They’re like the Huns in the fact that they don’t like paying their bills either.
So Mulgrew is injured and Rogne hasn’t been registered which leaves only Loovens and Majstorovic as our only two centre halves. Also Ledley is injured, who has been playing LB in Europe seeing as El Kaddouri can’t play. This means we will have to have a right back playing left back, probably Matthews with either Cha or M. Wilson at RB.
I have insurance with Capita. Always found them straightforward and efficient. Wish them all the best in their cas against Der Hun.
Ole Thomas Rogne, trudging round the ole world, carrying the Fiendish Ineligibility Curse of Zheng Zhi.
Will the circle be unbroken?
This season has all the makings of a complete cluster###k.
LiviBhoy
Since we have poor weather for upto 3/4 months, what weeks do you propose we shut down for?
Davebhoy67
Mulgrew and Ledley injured? Where does it say this?
Dontbrattbakkinanger
I warned him not to watch that video of Sammi climbing out the well.
celt for life says:
2 November, 2011 at 16:04
January to mid February.
LB
James Forrest is Lennon says:
2 November, 2011 at 14:10
I asked the very same question a few days ago. I don’t get it at all. What superior position? What position of influence? We can demand changes to SPL structures – I’ve read that several times and all uncontested. Would someone PLEASE explain to me how we would be in a position to do anything, demand change, reconstruction whatever. Would someone PLEASE explain to this ignoramus how we can use this present position to improve our lot one iota.
Far as I can see we will be in a position to do bugger all bar vote against their readmission.
this sunday is crunch time for .i just hope that hooper and stokes are up for it,but i have my doubts going back to last season up at inverness were they 2 were posted missing.is there any strikers in the reserves that could possible play up front with one of them against motherwell on sunday.
I don’t think wee Whytie is doing anything to mitigate the Hun debt.
That is now cast in stone. They are going down like your average Bear finding himself in a sauna with Prince Edward.
All Whyte’s energies will be currently poured into a PR exercise which will save his own skin from streeet retribution; the
strategy for his flunkeys is currently –
‘I’m no the man who pulled the plug on the scurrilous history of Der huns, it wis a big boy fae the revenue an’ he ran away.’
There may be a few Craig Whyte CSCs in years to come.
Here’s a link to the training session that KC photo was taken from but this photo was at the same session.
http://www.snspix.com/detail/print/5742755.html
Looks fine to me!
HH
/Bishop B
Livi Bhoy
What shut down for 6 weeks? How would that work with Euros and World cup years
Lurgan 53 says:
2 November, 2011 at 16:07
James Forrest is Lennon says:
2 November, 2011 at 14:10
I asked the very same question a few days ago. I don’t get it at all. What superior position? What position of influence? We can demand changes to SPL structures – I’ve read that several times and all uncontested. Would someone PLEASE explain to me how we would be in a position to do anything, demand change, reconstruction whatever. Would someone PLEASE explain to this ignoramus how we can use this present position to improve our lot one iota.
Far as I can see we will be in a position to do bugger all bar vote against their readmission.
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We can tell every club we will not take away tickets and as a last resort resign from the league due to corruption
South Of Tunis at 15:42
Just finished an assignment on Capita. Didn’t really look at detail of the organisation but some interviews with staff members were eye-opening.
Mort
I am not convinced that the other clubs will necessarily vote to maintain the Old Firm. Many of the smaller teams may view this as an opportunity to get rid of that model for good. Their chairman might also fancy their chances of recruiting quite a few huns with bus fare. The clubs might be facing oblivion but their fans are not. Plenty of paying customers addicted to hating Celtic. Some Government help might be needed until a new structure is set up.
Reagan can market it as the change that the game is crying out for and presents a good opportunity to reattract those who have been disaffected over the years by Old Firm dominance on and off the park. He can also tub thump that its a good opportunity to implement some of Henry McLeishs proposals.
Possibly some clubs will merge. Merge or die ?
Summer football
Youth teams in leagues.
Improved officiating.
The main ingredient will still be there for modern Scotland. A chance to hate Celtic.
I would expect such a shake up would attract new sponsors and commercial opportunities.
I hope we move on and leave them to it.
How much influence does the SFL have within the SFA as this directly affects them too.
I believe this should all be possible but I am convinced that Scotland does not have the expertise to make this happen.
If we cannot leave the SPL this should be our plan B if the non Old firm clubs can’t be made to see this then they should be informed by us that they are slitting their own throa
greenjedi – “and as a last resort resign from the league due to corruption”
I see a lot of folk using this. Then what do we do? It is akin to your kid saying “if you don’t let me do this I will hold my breath”.
We have nowhere to go. That is an empty threat as to do it would be suicide.
If money is king for these clowns then that is how we play it. Celtic say we will take no away tickets and advise our fans not to take any.
That is our nuclear deterrent for these monkeys.
Celtic recent league form – last six matches
Home W L W W W D
Away W W W L L D
Collated L W L D W D
Poor ghuys very poor. No idea how we can improve.
“When you walk through a storm”
YNWA
ts.
Would their still be Celtic fans willing to pay at the gate of these clubs after such a carve up ?
HH
celt for life says:
2 November, 2011 at 16:11
It would mean we increase the league and play less games from playing teams twice or decrease the league which may happen anyway when two teams are set to fold and play less games.
Recontruntion may be required anyway. Celtic can then play a couple of glamour friendlies in the middle east or somewhere to make up our revenues.
I hope life after Rangers has been seriously looked at by Celtic. I hope Celtic freeze them out and never let them back in to a power of strength. They go under and so does the joint sponsorship. It’s the last time we should have anything jointly with them. When they go so does the term old firm. Let’s distance ourselves and improve the league for everyone’s good.
LB
Have we found our Mojo yet?
greenjedi.
Yes. Fair enough. We can do that and if successful it would be effective. We can do that off our own bat. My question referred to league reconstruction etc – all of which I ‘ve read on this board.
53
RogueLeader says:
2 November, 2011 at 16:16
As I suggested above if we resign from the SPL everybody else is bumped up a place and a gap is created at the bottom of Div3. As you say money is king and I’m fairly certain our application for that spot would be successful. Fans rally round a stripped back team and we march back up the SPL with a team that started young and has then matured into a tight competitive unit. It stroll the SPL and wins the following season’s Champions League. Nae bother.
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
BSR -yes, but he decided to go to ‘F—–F—–‘instead, even after he had his picture taken on the cover of the ole CQNMag.
LiviBhoy
Increasing the league and reducing games, there will only be one loser in that, us poor season ticket holders, as hell will freeze over before clubs especially ours reduce prices accordingly
Another team start making changes in the SPL.
1123 FOOTBALL: Aberdeen announce a series of strategic changes among the club’s board of directors with responsibility for football, funding, operations and stadium deivery divided between four sub groups.
http://www.afc.co.uk/articles/20111102/strategic-changes-as-the-dons-_2212158_2502185
The game up here is preparing for life after Rangers and reconstruction.
LB
LiviBhoy
I applaud your post. A lot of really good ideas there and it’s progressive and positive. Football in Scotland is on the edge, and a bit of positivity or a few good ideas may not be enough, but if we survive then it will be the only show in town.
Sorry I can’t take time to offer more detailed thoughts, your post deserves more than the blinkered moaning about winter breaks you’ve had so far…. argh we don’t know when it’s winter anyway, blah blah. It’s not quite the point, but, how much explaining should we be expected to do?
LiviBhoy says:
2 November, 2011 at 15:40
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Yep, things like that can serve to galvanise the squad and “clear the air”, so to speak…
HH
Giggs
Celtic could be missing seven for Rennes.