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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Challs on Sky News soon with fellow goat worrier Jeff Randall.
Chuckles on Jeff ‘the zombie’ Randall’s business programme on Sky News. Talking about taking the zombies to play in England according to preview
notthebus
See the 21.2 mill they have in the bank >>>is that connected to the negative goodwill, or do they really have more than 20 mill in the bank???
Jon Daly for Sevco?
Aye, and so are Robbie Keane and Aiden McGeady.
HH!!
celtic mac
18:50 on
4 March, 2013
Great point …… When BDO get away from the lobbyists and actually liquidate the oldco, the big hoose will be repossessed and the creditors will get, at least, some of their money back….. And when the UTT uphold the appeal, greengo will be disappearing over the horizon with a big smile and his pockets full………l
Just heard the Dundee United chairman on Radio Scotland running up the white flag over the prospect of appealing the LBS decision
He said ” We commissioned an independent inquiry, that was the right way to go about things, so we must accept the outcome and move on”
No reference to his supporter’s views on the matter or the unjust treatment he suffered recently from Sevco fans.
Just abject surrender.
Can we expect any more from chairmen of other SPL clubs?
Sevco set to swooooooooooooooooopppppppppppp………………………………………..for injury prone fenian hit man
MurdochauldandHay
Thank you :))
Think I spoke to yer Mhan on sat and he was raving about the excellent company and great night he had on Friday.
Doc is Neil Lennon posted last night too about the great photos that were taken.
I really will need to make an effort to come along to a CQN gathering.
Wee Oscars day was good enough :))
sftb
Why am I not surprised
setting free the bears
Very disappointing…
the exiled tim
19:02 on
4 March, 2013
They don’t have anything in the bank…..it’s all wee figures, suitably manipulated by accountants to maximise the spim ….media, hook, line and sinker….LOL
SFTB
I’d have expected more from their Chairman.
It’s a shame.
U
67Heaven
That’s the answer I wanted >}
HH
I am mashed on Morphine. Legally. Hahahahahahahaah. Up yours Plod!
HH!
Seriously, fholks…..the way things are going, they are going to get an award for making the Pide Piper look like Santa….
TET
You took a lot of stick on this issue but you have been right a lot more than many.
starry plough
I can cut Stephen Thompson some slack because he took a fair bit of abuse and bullying from them but this will not work as an appeasement tactic for him. They will still hate him, I hope he realises.
The threats from The Gang are working.
bournesouprecipe
19:06 on
4 March, 2013
I thought Michael Collins had hung up his boots….
TET
Negative goodwill indicates a distress sale leading to a depressed sale price.
Nothing to do with the alleged share issue.
With a 9m T/O leading to a £7m loss they must be using whatever they brought in to keep the lights on.
They certainly cannot continue to trade like this
67Heaven
Greengo the Racists O;
Greengo the Racists O;
The sweetest hours that e’re they’ll spend;
Are spent among the Fascists O;
67Heaven
How can we divert from the 7 million loss, in 7 months? * tell them we’re signing a player *
Very dissapointed in that Dundee Utd statement looks as if there not willing to rock the boat even after suffering appalling treatment from the zombie hordes let’s hope there fans have more of a backbone
sftb
Trust me mi amigo, I have wanted to be proved wrong time after time, but alas……
HH
I’m so mashed I meant to post that mashed post hours ago……battered from mash to Smash……..oh, welll.
Mash it up now.
Plod…..yez are numpties. Schoolboy bullies in uniform…….just like school, ya nonces.
YoHoHo…….you know where it goes. You and your batons.
Hehehehehehehehe……….ya bams……..the polis, that is.
Not you grand denizens of Timland.
HH!
setting free the bears
Agree it’s easy enough for me to shout for folk to stand up against the bullies from the safety of my Swiss Valley, their tactics have been clear from the start and intimidation is high on the list, it’s easy to forget what a sh**storm Ra Peepul have caused since this whole thing started.
Looks like Fan Power might be the only way like last year to get the clubs to follow the wishes of their supporters, the game is on it’s last legs and appeasment will surely kill it altogether..
Jon Daly….?
He Could Be Oor Special Agent….
In The Belly Of The Beast..
What’s Not To Like..?
notthebus
Ok, so let me get this sorted in my head.
The negative goodwill can only be used once, and come the time that the books are audited, things could well be worse…….
And if there is no negative goodwill for next years accounts, they are fecked.
GB
GranTurismo Bhangra.
I’m no takin’ the piss.
I’m just blootered on legal morphine/heroin/valium/temazepam.
Pleeze exkyooz me.
Come on The Bhoys!
leftclick
Yer man’s pic has been redacted, administrative error it seems ;)
From Phil M
In the Murray RFC years 190 out of 191 senior clubs in Britain played an ROI full or U21 International player in their 1st team.
southside
19:26 on
4 March, 2013
From Phil M
In the Murray RFC years 190 out of 191 senior clubs in Britain played an ROI full or U21 International player in their 1st team.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
Who was the only one who did not?
We demand to know!
HH!!
The hype’s reaching a crescendo now, with unaudited accounts being swallowed like water in the Sahara etc….. what a fall’s coming to the lot of them ……..
Who would want to be a sevco player with all the talk is about replacing the current crap sevcoo players…….LOL ……..eat your heart out dl
THE EXILED TIM
I would have thought it will be substituted by Goodwill.
None the less, without a major injection of cash or a major cost cutting campaign they are still F***d
Jimcormick @ 18.26……..Friend of mine had the misfortune to watch one of the last Glasgow derbies while on holiday in Newcastle in a workmans social club and had to keep his head down such was the anti Celtic and anti Neil lennon feeling in the place.
Big John Daly lol defo a Mick Collins spiting image lol ! Can just see him in a free state uniform signing for Sevco pmsl !
the exiled tim
19:23 on
4 March, 2013
They all actually believe the investors handed them £22m…..LOL
Miki67
Keep giving them both barrels,respect,thoughts and prayers,and cap doffed SIR
hail hail