Yesterday evening STV revealed the real outcome of last week’s meeting between Stewart Regan, Neil Doncaster and David Longmuir as a proverbial gun was put to the head of Scottish Football League clubs.
In short, SPL chief executive, Neil Doncaster, no doubt with the support of some clubs but without the prior knowledge or support of Celtic, has threatened to kick 20 SFL clubs out of the senior game unless they acquiesce to his demand to parachute Sevco into the First Division.
The proposal was presented by SFL chief executive, David Longmuir, and appears to carry his endorsement.
Five scenarios are portrayed:
‘Rangers’ remaining in the SPL is dismissed as SPL clubs have confirmed they will vote no.
‘Rangers’ going to the third division is objected to on two grounds, financial (which is laboured a bit) and – wait for it – “The sporting opportunity is quashed for other clubs”.
Ponder that one for a moment, “The sporting opportunity is quashed for other clubs”.
‘Rangers’ to the First Division is presented as being “financially possible to recover from this scenario”.
‘Rangers’ to SPL2 is dismissed as apparently this would create “a bigger divide” than moving ‘Rangers’ to the First Division but not changing the name of the league. It is also noted that a legal challenge could bring paralysis.
Finally, they discuss ‘Rangers’ terminated or suspended, which apparently would lead to “complete financial meltdown”.
Then come the inducements to co-opt ‘Rangers’ into the First Division…. cash, your cash. Lots and lots of your cash, an “immediate cash benefit for all 30 clubs!” The exclamation mark is theirs!!
We could spend all day dissecting this disgraceful document but I’d like to focus on one immediate element:
‘Rangers’ terminated or suspended – complete financial meltdown.
So how do the SFA, SFL and the SPL rogues who participated in this shambles propose to ensure the SFA Independent Judicial Panel does not suspend ‘Rangers’ for subverting our game for over a decade for fielding illegally registered players for that period?
In short, it cannot. The independent judicial process will itself need to be subverted. As I suggested a few days ago, the judges will be told they are no longer wanted, we are back with the hand-selected SFA committee men.
The three most senior executives running our game have told you that one errant club is so powerful it cannot be subject to the rules and must not face the punishments which are due.
I’m not going to dispute the validity of this view (just now), but surely we deserve some honesty? If the Scottish Football Association and Scottish Premier League has accepted the ‘game’ is over, let’s hear from them. Where is the leadership from the SFA president on the collapse of the game under his watch? What are the chief executives saying to their paying customers?
Our sport cannot be subverted below radar.
You have been cheated and the rules will be changed to ensure there are no consequences. This is no longer a sport, it is a financial accommodation where a few executives are threatening to expel 20 clubs, most of whom have over a century history in the senior game, to allow Sevco to start two divisions higher than they otherwise would.
Celtic can have nothing to do with this.
The game here is dead. The leagues are set to collapse, most likely, no matter what happens now.
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Ref McFadden.
I was watching 2 days of the SFA Level 2 coaching badges couple of weeks ago at Largs.
My nephews were part of the “runners”.
Faddy came across as quite shy. And took all of the course very serious. On watchiing him , skill level is trememdous, ever move , drill, exercise completed brilliantly.
I do get the “if he was fit” comments, but I also think he is worth a gamble.
Not huge money, and only 29.
traditionalist88 on 29 June, 2012
Apologies mate,i was indeed replying to the idea of signing McFadden.You are right and ive suspected for many years,we also sign players late in windows to avoid paying them in close season.Makes sense tae me but we need FF to commit now or else look elsewhere as a new keeper probably needs a bit more time to settle in with the defence IMO.HH.
They really are desperate for cash…
Brian Stockbridge, Finance Director of The Rangers Football Club, issued the following statement today.
“There has been considerable debate and confusion about the status of season ticket direct debits and I would like to offer Rangers supporters clarity on this matter today.
“As a result of a new company being formed it was necessary to put in place new direct debit arrangements in order for supporters to pay money to the Club as normal.
“No season ticket money has been collected as yet from direct debits and none will be until July 6 at the earliest.
“If supporters have already advised us they wish to cancel their season tickets then it will be cancelled in the ticketing system and when the payment instruction is due, that payment will not be taken from their accounts.
“In view that a new company has been set up to take direct debits some supporters may have been concerned that the company contacting them was different to last season.
“This is inevitable because of the transition from the old company to the newly formed company and we regret any inconvenience caused to supporters. There is no question of any money being taken in advance of July 6.
“However, supporters can be rest assured that all monies from season tickets, when they start to be collected by direct debit, will be going to the Club and for sole use by the Club.
Bummer broon musta opened a nue bank akoont rite enuff.
With the ghreatest respect to, Paul 67 and
his merry band of learned posters, the BEST
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wonkyradar on 29 June, 2012 at 12:02 said:
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Even a disciple of doom like me was
rolling on the floor at that one.
You know what, If Wonky could somehow
paint the picture he so hilariously described
It would out-sell The Mona Lisa by x 1 million. imo.
Hail Hail
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLE-PICKERS on 29 June, 2012 at 14:52 said:
LAZY DYNAMITE 1348
I cannot thank you enough for the information which you imparted in this post.
I’m not talking about the route to cheaper satellite tv,which you have seen fit to share with us,nor the fact that you may just have slightly skewed priorities (though as I don’t have a house of kids to keep happy,I’ll give you that one)
No,my gratitude is that thanks to your post,YOUR post,ya blinkin’ star that ye are,and the swiftness of AWE NAW’s reply,I now,FINALLY,understand personal pronoun abuse.
I think.
But thanks anyway,you really,really,special person.
dear..’BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLE-PICKERS’
im really not sure what you mean?.if its my grammar then i will admit that im not the best.
could you please explain your objection to my post?
p.s
mind you at least you never accused me of being a hun which seems to happen on here!!
Bada Bing
No worries buddy, sorry for not being clear what I was on about!
Agree, its a fine line between signing players early as possible(and paying them over the close season), and holding off a bit to save a good few quid(in doing so raising the risk of losing the player to someone else).
To add another layer of complexity players and agents aren’t always too accomodating, with the latter often advising the former to hold off and see what else comes up.
Its a wonder any tranfers get completed at all sometimes!
The keeper and defence situation are ones we shouldn’t put off, you’re right- unless of course Lenny is of the opinion youngsters like Marcus Fraser are ready for the first team. Should be interesting.
HH
Someone should tell Green that Mel Gibson is a Tim!
Green said: “It’s not right that a proportion of Rangers fans continue to attack my consortium and try to undermine our rescue plans.
“It’s not right that every two weeks a Mel Gibson appears, delivers a Braveheart statement, then doesn’t deliver anything.”
Green faces the prospect of relaunching newco Rangers in the Scottish Football League, with his application for entry to the Scottish Premier League doomed to failure.
Seven of the 12 SPL clubs have now publicly stated plans to reject the bid at next week’s formal vote, which requires an 8-4 majority.
Reports yesterday claimed plans are being put in place that would see Rangers relegated from the SPL to the First Division with immediate effect, rather than start from scratch in Division Three.
Asked for his views on the proposals, Green added: “Did you refuse to pay the price of membership of your golf club?
“My opinion upon right or wrong doesn’t matter.
“We will continue to work to ensure Rangers play football next season and that we can look everyone in the eye.”
lazydynamite
Your a hun!!
It would br nice if the
ebt decision being delayed till the assets and jelavik transfer money is allocated before they apply all punishment to a companytrying to claim to be the original company.
as a few on here predicted.
God, they want to see your rent book, yer title deeds, now yer golf club membership.
Whatever next?
So if Souness says (and we obviously believe him) he never got the £30k from an EBT, but the BBC say they have got the form to prove £30k was drawn in his name, WHO did get the £30k?
This could open up a lot of cans of worms!
traditionalist88
Agree mate,i just hope we dont take our focus away from CL qualification (hard as it is ),get the guys in who will give is a decent chance,and dont downsize cause the huns are dead.We could do with getting a few out too.
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Look forward to Souness suing Mark Daly and the BBC then.
The only guy Green could look in the eye is Willie Collum.
Winner’s mentality ———
Interviewer —-
” Gigi —— you didn’t stay on the pitch to celebrate with your team mates . You looked angry as you hurried to the dressing room .”
Gigi Buffon ——
” Yes – I was angry —– Angry that we missed 3 sitters, angry that we gave them a stupid penalty . Angry that it wasn’t 5-0 with 5 minutes to go.
Celebrate ? —– I’ll celebrate if we beat Spain . I don’t celebrate coming second . We haven’t won it yet. “.
Prandelli expressed his delight that the big hole between /behind the 2 German centre halves was still there.
Prandelli and the Italian players thought the pitch was a disgrace .
Hot , very hot -way down south — Beach / cool dip -soon come.
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ref Faddy
Will said player enhance our chances at domestic honors ? with the huns on skid row and an inevitable retraction of financial outlay by our SPL rivals, i would suggest our present squad is more than adequate domestically
C/L qualification and any hope of the group stages i believe will require squad additions with quality and experience, however that is a very expensive route, will Faddy enhance our European chances ? it certainly should be an option we are considering irrespective if he has snubbed us before, eyes on that prize of C/L group qualification i would certainly have him in for pre season training
Cancelled Sky Sports..although my two daughters did say dad if youve cancelled geordie shore…… “we keel you!!”..???
HH
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 29 June, 2012 at 14:36 said:
Cheers but I never could see an EGM getting off the ground and in any case not only do turkeys not vote for Christmas they do noty stuff and baste themselves before wrapping themselves in tinfoil before hopping into the oven.
Somehow that pressure has to come from outside. and I suggested the equivalent of the volunteer Working Party of MPS that produced the kind of recommendations I would expect a similar enquiry toproduce in Scotland as the means. CQNers can check what they came up with here and tell me that is not relevant to Scotland.
http://www.allpartyfootball.com/APFG_Report_on_English_Football_&_Its_Governance_April_2009%5b1%5d.pdf
Bada Bing
Agree, I think Lenny and( maybe more to the point) the board consider the squad we have at the moment to be more than strong enough to get us through the third qualifying round at the end July/early Aug, so it wouldn’t surprise me that much if some business was left until nearer the end of the window as is often the case.
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After Sandy and Cardy and EvilBroonie we need a new source of amusement for next week, or this thing is looking excernment wise as good as Police Academy 8.
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had to read that article a few times to really beleive it!!!
My god do they think we are all so so stupid to just accept this ‘proposal’
I have listened to the reasons for the Celtic board saying nothing over the last few months and although at times thinking they should have spoken out, have admitted that they were right to say nothing but by god if these proposals are allowed to happen it really will be financial meltdown for the whole of scottish football.
The other SPL clubs have listened to their fans about a newco getting straight into the SPL but if a newco is allowed directly into division 1 with financial incentives from the clubs who have played by the rules and paid their taxes!!!!especially Celtic!! and told they have no choice, then it really is time to put the padlocks on the gates of all of the grounds and declare football in Scotland as dead.
I still cannot believe that Lawell and Desmond are not in the ears of Fifa and Uefa about this whole sorry mess!
Maybe this is all part of the exit strategy, to get us into another league in another country that exists for the benefit of all the clubs and not just the one who has cheated.
Remember when the huns used to come out with that “We buy any player.com” to slag our signing policy.
Now they have 5 seniors, 5 juniors and 3 out of contract players. lol!
Feel free to share your funny hun moments…
Cancelled sky/ESPN when authorities decided to back newco straight into spl.The gang of 10 have waited for this chance for years,not really surprised.Wait to see the exact wording of any new rules then get our lawyers onto it.I am sure there’ll be ways around handing 30% of our gate receipts to away clubs.
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Apologies Kit for not getting back to you the other night, didn’t actually read your latter post until next day, different timezones and all. Didn’t realise it was a private conversation between yourself and Macjay, was it, so may have taken your assertion out of context, which if I remember rightly was over the role of Ireland during the latter part of a World War which had began in 1914, (with 19th century roots) and ended in 1994. Trust me I was in Berlin that day. Your point, albeit in context, was that Britain , post Dunkirk could not defend itself against a German invasion. My point, unsaid it has to be said, was that is just about the only thing Britain could do after the crushing defeat in France. The only thing. A defining moment, though not a final one.
ASonOfDan on 29 June, 2012 at 15:34 said:
lazydynamite
Your a hun!!
do you realise how silly this statement makes you look…if you are gonna label me a ‘hun’ at least have some kind of reasoning.
is this just the ‘go to’ response.
yes im some hun me.
followed celtic since i was a kid in falkirk..lived in england since i was 11..hate the english football team,hate the queen,accused of being too sympathetic to the irish by my workmates……spent most of the last few months on a constant high about the implode of rangers fc…cried my eyes out when we lost the 2003 uefa cup final,cried my eyes out again when we lost a late pen in lyon the following year to deny us champs league knockout football…my favourate player was paul mcstay,i uploaded a song on youtube as tribute to another fav of mines tragic demise ‘tommy burns’.
i even charged rangers fans in my chip shop for salt and vinegar a few months ago as a joke but they took it the wrong way so i kicked them out anyway.
so you can think again with the ‘you are a hun’ bullshit.
i wish to god people would not start throwing that around in here at the slightest bit of difference of view…it really really makes you look silly and very paranoid!
South of Tunis- Why did Milan not keep Pirlo?
Scotland footballer Garry O’Connor has been ordered to perform 200 hours of community service for possessing cocaine and obstructing police.
The striker, who played for Hibernian last season, was found guilty earlier this month after a trial.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court had heard that police in the city saw him snorting drugs in a car on 14 May 2011.
He fled after giving police a false name, only to be caught a few hundred metres away.
Sheriff Derrick McIntyre told O’Connor that he could have been jailed for up to 12 months for both offences.
He told the footballer he would have been fully justified in sending him to prison for possessing the significant amount of the Class A drug.
He said: “I would have thought someone in your position, a footballer in the public eye, would have set some example to other people, including your own son.”
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A SonOfDan @ 15.34,
Mel Gibson is often seen as a Tim, but he’s actually a member of an exremist “church” – like his father.
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Do you know how stupid you look taking my post seriously… :0)
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