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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The huns are still a shambles no matter what. At the end of the day they will not even be able to finance a team in the First Division! The BBC, STV, SPL and SFA can fantasise all they want. THE HUNS ARE A DEAD PARROT!!
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Tony McKelvie @TonyMcKelvie
Now that Scot Gov has confirmed one implied threat in the SFL Proposal Document is FALSE, how much of the rest is similarly made up pis* ?
henrik
Cheers pal, if anyone knows it it would be good to send the proper footballing authorities a copy!
Grant Russell @STVGrant
SPL confirm they can’t “relegate” Rangers as per rules. July 4 ‘no’ vote will see club expelled, newco left to apply SFL. As we already knew
It pains me to say this, but i will NOT be back to watch Scottish Football…. Celtic time for us to hand in our notice period…. NOW!!
I see that I am the minority when I think that we should not interupt our enemies while they are making mistakes. Plenty of mistakes being made.
Celtic will talk when our position is strongest. The next phase will be the forced responses from the SFL teams. Their own boards will be under pressure not to accept thirty pieces from their own supporters. Let this one play out first. Every day closer to the start of the new season is onther nail in Sevco’s coffin. The oldco is already bury ragers. Patience bhoys. Lot of mistakes still to be made before the sentences are handed down. We have a tax paying corporate they have bomber clown , fat sally and agents green and whyte.
Celtic should open the gates of paradise to host a protest by fans, maybe have a training session as entertainment, nominal entry fee for a suitable charity.
Show the bhuns how to do it properly.
“For all we have and are
For all our childrens fate
Stand up and take the war
The hun is at the gate”
Kipling (Joseph) Rudyard
We are so conditioned to being cheated by Scotland’s football mandarins that we have lost our inherent savvy.
Rangers are fatally wounded & NO AMOUNT of spin or manipulation can restore them.
There is nothing that can or should be done other than to witness their death throes.
Be still & know….
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This site can be one of the most fulfilling & uplifting forces in the lives of many of us.
We witness ordinary guys doing extraordinary acts of generosity & kindness on an almost daily basis.
Sadly, sometimes we let ourselves get dragged down to a place which does not fit with those acts of humanity & even heroism.
Yesterday was one such day.
To be a witness to Celtic men turning so viciously on one another is depressing.
To read posters telling us that all non-Celtic Scottish people are some kind of gererically twisted & bitter bigots is too sad to even contemplate.
Paul has given us something special.
We should try to live up to the ethos of what CQN is meant to be.
Paul67
Scottish football is collapsing before our eyes, the root cause is clearly senior staff at SPL and SFA, I wouldn’t be comfortable in dealing with them now or in the future, football in Scotland has been corrupted.
Have we resigned yet?
HH
Rogue Leader – Hat doffed sir. Excellent stuff.
Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby…..thank you. It happens occasionally, sadly only very occasionally!
ParkheadcumsalfordwhoisNeilLennonand PaulMcBrideandTrishGodman on 29 June, 2012 at 11:34 said:
“I know of at least one genuine Scottish sports journalist who would be happy be happy to tell it as it is. He has been threatened and he finds it hard to get any copy printed.”
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WTF ? Has it become THAT bad ? If the above is true then surely that is a serious matter for the police and it requires forensic investigation.
Time for an outside police force to be called into Glasgow to clear up these malicious acts perpetrated on behalf of the most corrupt and violent front organisation ever to infiltrate football.
This kind of $#/+ has got to stop.
I see they slipped this in when I was on holiday…..has none told them sevco will be liquidated also within a month?….. Silly erse-licking SFA
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning!
Cancelled it weeks ago due to the ongoing nonsense. If they only want to give us a ridiculously low amount to cover our game and then withdraw it because of the huns, they can whistle for my money.
Everyone talking about Celtic losing money to support the rest of the game. SKY/ESPN strangled Scottish Football when Setanta collapsed and they came in like a pair of vultures with the lowest offer possible.
SKY should step up and pay up or get tae ****!
Would it be possible for Celtic to change their ticket prices & season tickets, charging a registration fee then offering matchday tickets at £0.01 each, or free season tickets for a monthly donation of over £50
We need to do something or we’ll be paying for Kilmarnocks lawnmowers etc as a result of the new structure. It stinks!
I cancelled Sky/ESPN –
Philbhoy
Miki67
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musters,
This isn’t about relegating an old club. It has gone of its own accord.
This is about admitting a brand new club and immediately promoting it by two divisions for no reason
Folly Folly – we have a chance here to setup the league based on the principles of fairness and equality. The definition of a league after all is an association of individuals for a common action. Equally the SFL clubs should realise they have a great deal of power here and should exercise it.
Celtic should empower them. Somebody used the battered wife analogy last night, it is apt. We all need to stand up now and say enough is enough, this is sport and sport is the only thing that matters in this else, as Paul states, we will lose it all
I cancelled Sky/ESPN
Had the White Knight Blue Knights and now ol’Bomber brings us his version. “The Brownshirts” HOW APT
http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&source=mog&hl=en-GB&gl=uk&client=safari&tab=wi&q=the%20brownshirts&sa=N&biw=480&bih=268#i=0
I’m reading a lot of very similar comments, namely ‘they’re dead, how can a dead team be admitted to the league, whichever league, forget it, no chance’. Yes, of course, but the rules being proposed by Doncaster and Regan are for any FUTURE ‘Rangers’ that could emerge and make itself financially viable, it’s that future team that these crooks are trying to bend the rules to accommodate, and trying to scare every team in Scotland into accepting.
Kilbowie Kelt
Tried that ‘turning the other cheek’ in this bigoted wee country and all that happens is you end up with both slapped.
Sad, but painfully true in this ‘One Nation…’
http://www.thecelticnetwork.com/2012/06/28/generic-letteremail-to-uefa-and-fifa-please-pass-on-to-fans-groups/
Is there a mechanism where clubs can raise a ‘vote of no confidence’ against the SPL/SFA leadership?
“Down With This Kind Of Thing”
: > )
I cancelled Sky/ESPN –
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5 seniors, 5 juniors and 3 out of contract players.
That should take Divison 1 by storm…
I DONT THINK!!!
Paul67,
Sounds to me like people in high places would rather Scottish football collapses than have “them” start at the bottom.
Says it all really!
And people thought we were paranoid!
I cancelled Sky/ESPN –
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What have you cancelled Sky Sports or your whole Sky Package?
I’ve nothing to cancel, I’d never give that Murdoch toerag any of my hard earned. And Never saw the point of paying to prop up the EPL which only went to widen the divide between us and our neighbours.
the stickittotheman CSC
Paul67
It’s beyond disgraceful the power a few temporary custodians have over important parts of Scottish social history,a mass protest from every honest club against who and how the game is being run and I would like to think Scottish football clubs are more important to Scottish society than the ego of Scottish Freemasonry.
ASonOfDan – I wouldn’t put it past them to propose changing it to a 5-a-side league with Rangers given a 30point headstart
JAMIE NESS is poised to complete his switch from Rangers to Stoke.
And Potters manager Tony Pulis expects to complete a double swoop on the fallen Scottish giants by signing Ness’s midfield team-mate Steven Naismith.
Scotland under-21 international Ness, 21, has agreed a four-year deal with City and is likely to be joined by Naismith, 25.
Both players insist they are free agents after refusing to switch contracts to Rangers’ new company.
But new owner Charles Green has vowed to seek compensation and the threat of legal action could delay completion of the deals.
Greenmaestro
I cancelled the whole package, everything.
Freeview only now.
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tomcourtney on 29 June, 2012 at 11:42 said:
Oh deary me old chap quoting Kipling on a Timmy site. Haven’t you ever read his “Ulster 1912″.
” For such as serve not Rome—
The terror, threats, and bread
In market, hearth, and field—
We know, when all is said.
We perish if we yield”
NoHunpoetrypleaseCFC
I am NL in NZ Tauranga – exactly.
BTC still to announce, dual contracts still to be exposed, SFA not in control of that information.
You drive a Mac truck through the holes in that document.
Remember 13 players, 3 without contracts, baw is burst.
This document reeks of panic and that’s the reaction this document is designed to provoke.
20 clubs cut loose for making a democratic decision?
Lawyers up and down Scotland are high fiving each other at the very thought of this.
i cancelled sky sports and espn yesterday
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lol!
SPL to be now known as the Tennents Sixes.