In what increasingly looks like a facsimile of updates on the defence of Bagdad in 2003, Duff and Phelps continue to accentuate the positives about the potential bidders for Rangers Football Club or its assets but the charade is finally running out of acts.
This afternoon’s withdrawal of interest by the Blue Knight (singular), Paul Murray, the accountant who was a director of Rangers during the hugely controversial EBT years, and Brian Kennedy, should allow minds to focus on the most important question, what next?
Here’s a prediction for you:
Rangers Football Club will play their last game on Sunday 13 May 2012. One day next week, possibly even before the appeal against the SFA Disciplinary Tribunal punishment, one, or perhaps more, of the prominent players who have been jockeying for position recently will commence proceedings to buy a club in the Scottish Football League, or form a new club, ask for permission to play at Airdrie or Paisley, and apply for SFA membership. If membership is granted, an application will be lodged to join the Scottish Football League as soon as a vacancy becomes available.
In time Craig Whyte will sell or otherwise lose control of Ibrox Stadium, and if it is still in an operable condition, the football team hoping to profit from the demise of Rangers will look to acquire rights to play there.
You have witnessed an incredible period of Scottish social history in recent months.
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Richie on 11 May, 2012 at 14:52 said:
From FF:
Mr Charles Alexander Green
Looking at his history, that man has done some amount of `walking away`
Thems will be busy tonight with the threatening phone calls and the unpleasant emails to Mr GREEN
What chances of a bid from David Gold? That would give us
Green, Whyte & Gold
Sound familiar…
The Independent 03/10/1997.
chief executive Charles Green said yesterday.
“A plan to build a hotel and leisure park on a 14-acre site and expand the ground capacity at Bramall Lane has been approved.”
philhoopyloguewantsthebighouseofpainclosedasap on 11 May, 2012 at 13:26 said:
Never mind newco. At 1.05am this very morning on way to hospital a new member of the Celtic Family, Eirinn Christina Logue was born in my car at the side of the road in Corofin, Co Clare. I can’t believe i delivered a baby! Mom and baby ghirl doing well. I’m away for a wee sleep.
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You’re already superb dad, well done!
So Mr Green is into bioscience and farming.
Does that mean he will be using an incubator to grow a Zombie Rangers?
Thread on FF saying Green will be confirmed as preferred bidder tomorrow.
The natives are not happy!!
A song for the Celtic Family…..?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=we+take+care+of+our+own+bruce+springsteen&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
rangers media already moaning about his NAME!
Club about to die but they don’t like the name ‘Green’
Horrible, Stupid, Bitter, huns…
The Blue Knights
The blue nights
The blue night
The red night
The red nigh
The red is nigh
The ed is nigh
The End is Nigh
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Another Alex Thomson blog on it’s way…
So we’ve had Craig Whyte and the Blue Knights. Now it’s Charles Green.
I bet the other two bids came from Professor Plum and Miss Scarlet.
Why to all the bidders for liquidFc seem very Catholic in outlook? as they all seem to practice the withdrawl method at the last minute:)
AT: ‘Be in no doubt this appeal is able to increase punishments handed down to the club as well as reduce them.’
SSN Jim White, face like a drapped hallowe’en cake! Brian Kennedy, MEMEMEMEME!! Jim thinks his press conference will be ‘explosive!’
Why do some people go public and some don’t? Because some people don’t want jo33ies posted through their letter box!
JW: Whyte has agreed to sell to Green.
O.G.
This one?
Inside the Big Bad HooseFriday 11 May 2012 2:14 pm Alex Thomson 330Rate thisAs the Rangers saga moves into what – Act 345? some congratulations are in order for the Scottish FA in publishing its recent deliberations into what Rangers was really like under the ownership of Craig Whyte. Or to their tribunal for insisting their deliberations are published, which is not quite the same thing. You will recall this hearing led to Mr Whyte – former Rangers owner and still the major shareholder – being banned for life from Scottish football . The club itself is banned for a year from buying players and fined £160,000.
The appeal against all this will now be heard on Wednesday and I understand we will get a decision that day on whether or not to uphold – or indeed increase – these punishments which Rangers manager Ally McCoist has deemed unfair.
The Rt Honourable Lord Carloway (Chair) Craig Graham and Allan Cowan will be on the three-man tribunal.
The SFA has said they must be free to do their job without fear of intimidation: “It is essential that these panel members are allowed to conduct the appeal without fear of intimidation and we respectfully ask all involved in the process to do their utmost to observe our wishes and the wishes of the panel members.”
Intimidation which happened after the same Ally McCoist demanded that the identity of SFA Tribunal members should be made public. It’s not yet clear if the SFA will pursue that potential breach of conduct with Mr McCoist. But it says everything about Glasgow football culture that anyone should be threatened in any situation and that police advice should need to be sought. Which century are we in again?
And what emerges from the notes duly released this morning after the initial hearing on Rangers which led to those sanctions is astonishing stuff.
The panel considers Rangers Football Club has gone so far off the financial rails that: “the tribunal considered whether it should terminate Rangers FC’s membership of the Scottish FA and concluded that punishment was too severe.”
Notorious culture
Indeed the panel felt the offences were so serious that “only match fixing might be a more serious breach”. And they go out of their way to say that directors had to have known what was going on. The age-old Rangers defence for years going back past Craig Whyte’s ownership to Sir David Murray’s that ‘we didn’t know’ and ‘we weren’t told’ or ‘we left it all to the chairman’ is clearly not convincing this panel. That strikes a blow to the heart of Rangers’ notorious culture for passing the buck whilst winning glory with money it did not have and potentially millions which should have gone to the taxman.
The tribunal talks of the ‘scandalous business activities’ of Craig Whyte – who deems this entire process ‘a joke’ accusing the SFA of never giving him a chance to put his case and of judging him and punishing him without proper due process.
Channel 4 News uncovers the web of connections showing a club in crisis
These are legal brains taking what one must presume is a dispassionate look at a football club which had lost all norms of proper governance under the Craig Whyte ownership and people knew it was happening and did nothing about it. All of which makes the simple and childish scapegoating of Craig Whyte wrong in principle, wrong in fact and wrong in law. Craig Whyte is not the only baddie in all this and the club management more widely, stands roundly condemned here.
Lunatic fringe
And that is why those who say – and there are many of them – that the club cannot and should not be held responsible for Craig Whyte’s actions, are laid bare in all this for what they are – cowards who refuse to face the facts, the truth and the hard reality that Rangers went catastrophically wrong and that is Rangers’ responsibility and nobody else’s – chairmen and directors.
Foremost among those, because of his recent words and actions, must be the current managers of Rangers, Ally McCoist. Who questioned very openly the independence of this inquiry and whose actions in demanding identities be made public were followed by threats from the lunatic fringe. This should be a time for reflection and introspection within at Rangers Mr McCoist, not simply more of the loud, boorish fingerpointing without. Not likely to help Rangers appeal these punishments. Not likely to help Rangers at all.
On Wednesday the appeal will be heard. The gravity of what is at stake for Rangers is clear for all to see. Be in no doubt this appeal is able to increase punishments handed down to the club as well as reduce them.
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philhoopyloguewantsthebighouseofpainclosedasap on 11 May, 2012 at 13:42 said:
Never mind newco. At 1.05am this very morning on way to hospital a new member of the Celtic Family, Eirinn Christina Logue was born in my car at the side of the road in Corofin, Co Clare. I can’t believe i delivered a baby! Mom and baby ghirl doing well. I’m away for a wee sleep.
Congratulations ……enjoy the best days of your life lie ahead ;)
Jam67
Been a busy man…
Charles Green
The esteemed Paul Murray has just parked his car right outside my office
Looks as though the 1600 press conference is in the Radisson
With that barnet, he looks a dead ringer for Paulie Walnuts
philhoopyloguewantthebighouseofpainclosedasap
Well done to you pal, many congratulations
best wishes to your baby ghirl and to your wife
The Celtic family keeps growing
……I heard it was Cee Lo Green……………….
“….oh……. RFC You……!”
Surprised Jim Ballantyne the Airdrie chairman is not on the panel. I mean he’s been there when der-huns sent his club into oblivion a few seasons ago so he know the pain his club went thru. He also knows what der-huns are going thru seeing he has been at the forefront of thems fund raising events and his uncle George has his hand up A-hole!!
That doesnt sound to bitchy does it?? <o)))))
Jungle Jim, 15:06
No, this one
“… as a result of the discussion and the perceptions of both Mr John McClelland and Mr John Greig arising from the absence of any management accounts or financial information about Rangers FC being provided to them, the failure to convene any Board meetings and Mr McClelland’s exclusion from the offices, they both arrived at the conclusion that they were now being so marginalised and excluded from the governance of Rangers that their position as directors was untenable.”
But did they do anything? Did they tell anyone? Did they inform the Scottish Football Association or the Scottish Premier League? Did they inform the media? No. no, no and no. The Tribunal damns them as individuals who could and should have acted but they did not act.
They walked away.
Will Rangers be saved by the ‘Green Brigade’? Too funny.
I see Zombie Casinos and Ghost Hotels amid floating 8G pitches…………………
Ten Men Won The League -Print out a picture of Big Jock with the real trophy and stick under his windscreen wiper…..
I know a guy called Green who has not missed a Huns game for about 20 years.
I also know a Sheffield United fan, who I just asked about Mr. Green.
The reply lasted about 30 seconds and contained about four non-expletives.
Frying pan and fire…
The final irony …… Green and Whyte ….OUCH….!!!
There’s talk starting up on ranker’s VAT FRAUD …….. CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS …?
I need to lie down for a minute……..LLLOOOLLL
I have already mention to Paul67 that my name – Thomas – and my paraniod mentality (over 50 years supporting Celtic) will not allow me to believe that they will go away – yes I am a doubting Thomas I have read many on here who seem to understand the legal and financial rules that suggest they are dead and buried But my simple head cant get there Hope to God I am wrong
67ECW
RogueLeader
I’m pretty sure i saw him asking passers by if they could spare a pound for the parking meter ;)
We’ve had Whyte now it could be Green who’s next in the frame Gold????????
philhoopyloguewantsthebighouseofpainclosedasap –
many, many congratulations on the birth of wee Eirinn Christina. Enjoy your wee sleep !!
The Lizard King @ 14:36,
Thanks for that update, as you say the vague regulations allow them to make it up as they go along.
I hope going forward Celtic will press for reform and clarity in the drafting of the rules, just as Paul McBride pushed the SFA.
Hail! Hail!
Sneddoni on 11 May, 2012 at 14:51 said:
Falkirk had sold Brockville to Tesco and had to find a home until their new Falkirk Stadium was complete. So they were investing in a new ground it is just that it wasn’t ready yet. They had access to a compliant ground in Airdrie. They ended up playing at Ochilview for a year.
It is synonymous with the RIA situation in that the rules have sufficient wiggle room in them to allow certain corporate interest to prevail over any sense of fair play. All symptoms of poor overall governance.
HH
TLK
I heard Mark Guidi on radio last night and he predicted that Rangers will be in the SPL next season and that the ban on transfers will be overturned on appeal. I don`t know about this but I`ll take that as my starting position and anything else that happens to them to be a bonus. :-)
Is this the same Craig Graham who is due to sit on the panel on Wednesday?
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Rangers would be at front of the queue for a place in third division if it came to that, admits Spartans chairman
Apr 27 2012 By Chris Roberts
SPARTANS chairman Craig Graham insists Rangers would get into the Third Division no problem because they are an “outstanding candidate” – but he hopes they remain in the SPL for the good of the Scottish game.
The Edinburgh supremo laughed off claims from SFL chairman David Longmuir the Ibrox club would have to join the queue behind his side and Cove Rangers in the bid to make it into the league.
Graham said: “If Rangers apply there is no doubt they would get in. All the teams in Division Three would want Rangers to be in their league for one season.
“But I really don’t want it to come to that as it would be far better for Scottish football if Rangers were in the SPL.
“There wouldn’t really be any sense in anybody going against Rangers. We don’t know what is going to happen to them but if they ended up as a new company and had to apply to the SFL I would imagine they would be an outstanding applicant.
“But they should be in the SPL because of the amount of fan support and finances they bring to Scottish football.”
If Rangers were to fold and come back as a new company, Graham insists they would have no problem keeping hold of their history
He said: “I don’t know technically how it works but look at Wimbledon. They set up as AFC Wimbledon and play in the same strips and the vast majority of their supporters are the same.
“People remember where they were before so they would recognise their history and winning the FA Cup.”
Graham is still hoping his club can get into the Third Division by way of a play-off to be implemented by the SFA in a few years’ time.
The plan is for the East of Scotland Premier League champions to play the top Highland League team with the winners facing the Third Division’s bottom side.
Graham said: “Within two to three years there will definitely be a lowland league alongside the
Highland League and then the winners of the two leagues will play off for the right to play the team at the bottom of Division Three.
“That’s what the likes of us and Cove really want.”
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Already gone public on how he thinks Rangers should be in the SPL next season.
He should be impartial,at least on paper,not otherwise both on and in the record…….
Ten Men Won The League ,
Maybe Paulie Walnuts is going to unveil Tony Soprano as the mystery investor in his 4.p.m. press conference ?
Italian Catholic Waste Distribution tycoon to invest in Huns, maybe they are going to recycle some of the rubbish
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 11 May, 2012 at 15:22 said:
So this impartial lickspittle bluenose is one of the panel…
It never ends…
Clearout from top to bottom required..