So how about this scenario, Celtic Youths are trailing in their league with 10 games to go when they register three new players, but someone’s ‘at it’. The players are all over-age but the date of birth on their registration forms have been incorrectly completed, so the players are registered and become eligible to play the remaining games. Celtic Youths win their remaining games and win the league.
At the end of the season the deception is uncovered. The people responsible for filling the forms out incorrectly are criticised but one is president of the Scottish Football Association, who give evidence to an inquiry that as the Association registered the players, the results must stand.
Time to “draw a line under it” is the line from the SFA chief executive, hoping with all his might that no one mentions the Scottish Youth Cup games the players also played in, which would invoke a parallel punishment to the one recently imposed on Spartans Youths for exactly the same offence in the same competition. The chief exec also dismisses attempts to call those criticised by the inquiry to account as scapegoating.
Ridiculous? Of course, but this is what we’ve just experienced, with another club, of course.
Challenging the verdict, if possible, is a worthwhile endeavour but it will only treat one symptom of the many issues facing Scottish Premier League clubs, who could be forgiven for losing the will to compete within the rules. Fans of several SPL clubs now believe their best interests are served by playing in an environment beyond Scotland – for a whole range of reasons.
We have to work with fans of other clubs to make the case for the SPL, as a unit, to leave Scottish football (I see cross-club initiatives are already underway).
On a completely unrelated question, if you had £21m in the bank late last year, and you were burning cash at £1m per month, which year would you run out of money?
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Estorilbhoy
Not really got much I’d like to share with him that wouldn’t get the cyber polis to my door :-))
burghbhoy
22:41 on 4 March, 2013
How naive are they…??
another wasted night,
i am giving this job up.
anyone else want to take up the position :
handsome hun finder general.
and the new opening
honest hun administrator
bournesouprecipe
23:00 on
4 March, 2013
He’d be able to share clothes with FPLG
After a sixth visit from Dell engineers, the wife has eventually got her laptop fixed.
Everything is new, apart from the screen and the outer plastic case that houses the gubbins.
They sent out their man today with a stick, a stick that would solve all the problems, they reckoned it was us who couldn’t download drivers etc, anyways, he spent about 2 hours wiping the computer clean and reloading everything, only to find that the mother board was fecked, he had a spare, Dell were prepared this time…
It worked, and the wife has not even bothered with it, saving herself for later I reckon, anyways a brand new laptop.
HH
Been over on splfansunited ,turns out everyone hates the old club and the new club .
Excellent
Mrburnscsc
Hail hail
sipsini
That would be like the pledges I made then…….
Insult to snakes so he is.
HH
sipsini I saw an article earlier where Traynor said they had received their Share from Dundee United amounting to £33,000 and once funds were cleared they had donated the money to two Charities. My first thought was what £33,000. There must have been around 10,000 at the game, at an average of £20 a ticket that would be £200,000. Huns due 40% i.e. circa £80,000.
@stevendoyle75: @splfansunited No SPL Appeal http://t.co/oCtkiucGSI
….Pfayr,
I just gave him my thoughts on his contribution to the debate and , as a catholic, how I thought he would be perceived by people of that faith.
Hail! Hail!
Mon the Rebels
Pfayr
No I’ll be crossing to Belfast at that time so praying we don’t win the league that day!!!
CRC
Posting a bit behind as my phone doesn’t seem to load new posts for 15 minutes or so. Yep, can’t wait, hence the earlier and more ridiculous start. No doubt catch up with Brian in the Stanstead bar for a Guinness breakfast.
Will be up the road regularly after Easter so catch you soon.
Take care
CF
BSR…… pmsl !!! Just their type of big hitter whose movement would trouble any team in Scotland’s FOURTH tier or is that tyre of football ! Bellys gonnae get ye !!!!!
NO SPL APPEAL!!!
@stevendoyle75: @splfansunited No SPL Appeal http://t.co/oCtkiucGSI
MWD
How does twitter work ???
Eventually sussed out how to get the phone connected to the wifi thing, no as daft are us old blokes, the wife has been laughing for long enough, but she is well chuffed I have managed on my own.
My three questions a day are at a premium, so things like twitter and the like would be well down the list….trust me.
HH
Any info would be appreciated
Tet.
We pledged to a newco whose corpse shafted everyone.
I see hunmedia has crashed.
They had a new thread warning about threatening posts as they were being monitored.mmmm
What did ye think of Caesar the cat?
HH.
2nd biggest budget in scotland, 700k to a rookie manager, running with massive overheads, does not sound like a good way to make money.
does thompson speak for whole spl board
think celtic should step forward and put them in their place now, leaving no doubt about our position
TET.
I’ll email you my twitter, then just start following me and others, around 1,200 Tims and one Hun follow me, I don’t use it so much now, but it’ll get you started.
TET, email sent.
corkcelt
23:15 on 4 March, 2013
I’m not sure but wouldn’t thems have got a cut of the tv revenue ?
Doc
You’ve got a hun follower?????
I knew there was something about you!! ;-)
TET
You need to be a twit. So you’ll be good!
MWD
Surely they wouldn’t try to fastrack sevco…….that would be their biggest mistake….they have already confirmed that that would not be considered….mmmmmmmmmm
Ghood night (and it would be ‘good night’ to Scottish Football if they tried that one)
NO SPL APPEAL!!!!
@stevendoyle75: @splfansunited No SPL Appeal http://t.co/oCtkiucGSI
MWD
HT, I keep him as a pet, haven’t heard from him for a while surprisingly, around a year ago on 12th of February was the last time he was on:-0)
i like this old man.
i bet he would know self interest all the tim,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23eUo4ohA
So dwindling cash reserves…..
But all those new contracts ?
Advertising contracts….
Tv contracts…..
Naming rights contract …
Shirt deal contracts …
Merchandising contracts…
Sponsor deals…..
All these revenue streams negotiated by servco…
Reviewable contracts ? ….
With all those losses this surely is not a sustainable business plan?
Surely these contracts increase for every promotion up the leagues?
Is that THE real reason why chuckles green is against league reconstruction in its current form?
Are they missing out on a contractually improvement on thier current deals with each promotion ?
Did they plan for that cash ?
Oops
bournesouprecipe
22:19 on
4 March, 2013
Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares C4……………………….Wonder if he’ll swear, shout call the owners lazy, and tell them to change the menu?
>>>>>>>>>>
So the foul-mouthed, uncouth, humourless got is going back to the bigotdome?
Meanwhile Chuck already saying he’s being misquoted by an agenda driven media: he never said he was going to buy Daly, he actually said they were going to start paying for the daily paper!
am away now, hope to ghod celtic grow some balls tonight and release a statement demanding action against oldco and lns’s recommendation be thrown out as the remit did now allow for a true investigation into thems and their rule breaches
give ourself a shake celtic
sipsini
A very apt name, he looked as regal as they get…….I have aquired another dug today, not that we were planing but, the young lassie that has been abandoned has had to get rid, so we have ended up with another, not that one more will make any difference.
Main thing is, the lassie is sorted, we have managed to get her a birth cert, and are in the process of getting her passport, sometimes I could swing for so called parents.
She is off to scotland in the next couple of weeks, daughter is putting her up, a job is sorted, no much, care in the community, but it’s a job, enough to get a new life started.
…………………..
Doc
much obliged, can’t says that I will suss it out right away mind you, but will give it a go, will be in the morn,
HH
got=potato-faced, charmless git.
MWD
Ha, it would take one to know one >}}}
Doc.
It’s not that fat bird with the long hair and hun top on smoking a fag.
God help ye.lol
Oh well! Must be just me that is surprised by NO SPL APPEAL
Can someone tell me when Stephen Thomson rejoined the SPL board?
MWD
For years I drunk Dry Blackthorn Cider. I loved it’s crisp, dry taste, with a lovely appley aftertaste, and it’s refreshing qualities. I much prefer it to Magners. I may not drink Magners very often, but I’ll never drink that Blackthorn $!!T again!
TET
Too right! :-)
MWD
Bag packed, like a kid before Xmas. Reading another chapter of dreams and songs to sing. Great Celtic book when all else fails
As always dreaming we can do it. Whether 0. 5. On way back from artmedia or after we lost 3 0 in Amsterdam. 2 0 in cologne or same in Lisbon. St Ettiene 2. 0. Or even Neufchâtel. Some we have prevailed and some not. Mostly we have done ourselves proud as a club and support. So it’s up at 5am and Off to Turin with hope in our heart.
After 10 wretched years of watching the morally bereft lot try to compete in Europe it is just great to be part of it no matter if we win lose or draw. We have had a right good kick at the ball this year.