Hibernian chairman, Rob Petrie, yesterday told BBC Radio Scotland “Integrity is beyond purchase”. It’s incredible to think that we live in times where this is actually news.
It’s hard to imagine how anyone would go about arguing with Rod on this matter. Kilmarnock chairman, Michael Johnston’s recent comment, “The [SPL] clubs are mindful of a sporting integrity aspect but the commercial benefits may outweigh that” offers the alternative view, but the logical conclusion of Petrie’s argument is stark. If integrity of top clubs can be purchased, what about officials, referees and players with bookmaker friends?
We can assume Hibernian will join Celtic in voting against admitting a Newco directly into the SPL, should such a vote occur. Five clubs in total are required to block such a proposal. With Petrie declared against, would Romanov at Hearts vote for Newco? His previous public pronouncements suggest he would relish the opportunity to take on one of the big Glasgow clubs.
Dundee United and Aberdeen are two other clubs under significant supporter pressure. Both teams are also keen to change the 11-1 voting rule, which would be possible without a Newco.
Rangers, Kilmarnock, St Johnstone (through manager Steve Lomas) have all declared in favour of admitting a Newco, I expect Motherwell and St Mirren will do the same. Ross County and Inverness may fancy adding Dundee into next season’s relegation fight instead of Newco but there has been no indication how either club would vote.
The 7th May vote was the best chance of getting Newco provisions voted through. The more time clubs have to consider the decision the more susceptible they will be to supporter lobby.
I am of the view that SPL chief, Neil Doncaster, will not allow himself to become aware if Rangers have a prima facie case to answer as a result of the SPL inquiry into contractual arrangements until after a vote is taken. Deadline for clubs to respond to the inquiry passed over five weeks ago. A simple check of submissions against SPL records is all that is required. Even if each clubs issued an all-clear, the inquiry should have reported.
Doncaster perhaps has no idea of the flood that will come his way soon and wash away all of these questions. His opportunity to act before events overtake him is limited.
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Googybhoy
Seeing it is a formal wedding,may I suggest you take a pelican bib with you,it would not look at the dancing later, if you dripped your soup on your tie.
Wedding Etiquette Celts For Style.
NeilR
Good to see you on the block again.
Rangers remain a shareholder of the SPL, and unless/until they appoint a Liquidator, they will have a vote.
Indeed, preposterous as it might seem, even were OldClub to sell ‘the business and assets’ to NewClub, OldClub would technically still be a member until a Liquidator was appointed or they voluntarily hand the share back.
Mad I know, but despite warnings from this and other sources since 2008 that RFC was sliding towards this inevitability, no one thought to check that the Governance framework could cope with it.
TBB
the long wait is over on 15 May, 2012 at 17:44 said:
ggogybhoy / fan and patriot
Sorry for butting in but , as any fule knows , the ONLY appropriate way for a gentleman to wear a tie is with a tee shirt.
Anything else is , frankly , ridiculous.
MrbojanglesCSC
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Are you Simon Cowell?
Jungle Jim
How many games has Loovens managed at his time at the club?
Constantly injured and will never forgive him for constantly being rag dolled by Kenny Miller.
Awe Naw,
We don’t need attention moved away from them and their wrongdoing. If the public perceive this as am ‘Old Firm’ issue they will quickly lose interest.
In my view Celtic have made their position clear. That’s plenty for now. We don’t need to be at the center of this. If we do get embroiled unnecessarily it would only serve to legitimise a Newclub as an extension of rangers and further perpetuate the notion of the ‘old firm’.
That’s about as precise as I can be.
Back later..
Jungle Jim on 15 May, 2012 at 17:32 said:
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JJ > In the 1st minute, Gary Hooper did make an erse of a good scoring opportunity…..
Paddy T….who is in his seat 1/2 hour before kick-off
hattiejacquescsc
Auldheid @ 17:42
It looks like the tactics of the No Surrender brigade might be about to backfire….they’ve been openly critical of the SFA in their attempts to deflect blame as was to be expected. Everyone now seems to be re-positioning themselves into the foetal position. This would surely scupper any plans Minty might have to ride in and claim to be rescuing the day at the end of Operation Zombie :)
Best wishes to Dominic Cervi who will not be back next year…. May never have played first team football other than friendlies but was still a hoops player.
Jungle Jim 17.32
It is the end of the road for Glenn Loovens – new contract offer is not forthcoming. I am surprised that both he and Majstorovic allowed to go and also surprised that Mark Wilson and Cha both allowed to go.
Must have players lined up on the lists – lets hope we don’t have to go to far down said lists before we get our men.
Ronnie Cully
Senior Sports Writer.
CELTIC are reported to have made a move for Leicester City central defender Matt Mills.
By RONNIE CULLY
The deal to bring Jaroslaw Fojut from Poland on a Bosman has been pulled after he suffered knee-ligament damage playing for Slask Wroclaw.
With Glenn Loovens saying his farewells to team-mates after his contract ran out, and Daniel Majstorovic not receiving the offer of a new deal either, the need for another strong centre-back is acute. Cha Du-ri is also leaving, along with Mark Wilson, after their contracts came to an end and the club decided not to activate the year option they held on both.
Back-up keeper Dominic Cervi is being allowed to go, while Darren O’Dea and Niall McGinn, too, come to the end of their time at Parkhead.
Lennon will attempt to move around half a dozen others out of the club to make way for new faces, and has just missed out on signing Latvian striker, Artjoms Rudnevs, who opted to move to Hamburg from Lech Poznan in a deal worth £3.5million.
Rosenborg’s teenage midfielder Markus Henriksen remains a player of interest. But with several clubs from Germany, France, Holland and France also in the hunt, he could be priced out of Celtic’s reach.
Lennon’s priority remains to bring in a powerful central defender and a striker who can add aerial threat to their attack.
Mills, captain of Leicester until he had a fall-out with new boss Nigel Pearson in February, could be the man to add strength at the back.
Reports in England claim Kelvin Wilson could be offered in a loan move.
At 25, one-time Manchester City defender Mills has similar experience to Loovens when he arrived at Celtic in 2008 from Cardiff City.
After collecting a Championship medal, the Dutchman is now looking for another club, and said: “I have been here for four years, and it is the end of my contract.”
Mills was signed by Sven-Goran Eriksson from Reading in a deal worth £5m a year ago, and the 6ft 3in defender was considered a key-stone of the Leicester side installed as favourites to win promotion back to the Premiership.
But, his relationship with the man who succeeded Eriksson, Pearson, has become strained and a quick exit from the club is anticipated.
BigclearoutCSC
fanadpatriot on 15 May, 2012 at 17:49 said:
Good advice that
Thank you.
Will give the soup a miss.
re abu dhabi connection to rfcia…allegedley…
anyone got any names to put to that ?
Paddy T
” > In the 1st minute, Gary Hooper did make an erse of a good scoring opportunity…..”
Did he not then go on to score five? Is that feat not more worthy of comment?
That is my point.
JJ
googybhoy
a man of your vintage should surely go dressed al la Frank Muir of call my bluff fame…
Right…..ST renewal…………….enigma…………
Q – Me & the Grandson have Adult & Child package, where we exclude the Hunnies Games…..In the event that them are relinquished to Div 3 and a.n.other take thems place…Will this mean that my ST excludes team a.n.other.
2nd point…….say, in a reverse situation, that our ST included the Hunnies Games (for which £42 per person per game is charged) would a refund be forthcoming for games against a.n.other?
Paddy T
Radio Clyde advert for away tops
‘Celtic. Always have been, Always will be.’
Are they trying to tell us something?
Jungle Jim on 15 May, 2012 at 17:32
I agree with you, if I could keep a player out of the 2 lists above it would be Loovens, he is not nearly as bad as people make out. He has played well this season and is at a good age in relation to the other members of the squad.
TopCorner on 15 May, 2012 at 17:56 said:
re abu dhabi connection to rfcia…allegedley…
anyone got any names to put to that ?
Sheik masash mafattawor
ASonOfDan on 15 May, 2012 at 17:50 said:
Funny, I have never forgiven Henrik Larsson for setting up Chic Charnley at Easter Road in 1997.
Or, Charlie Mulgrew for selling the jerseys v Motherwell and Kilmarnock.
Get over it, man.
blantyretim on 15 May, 2012 at 17:59 said:
googybhoy
a man of your vintage should surely go dressed al la Frank Muir of call my bluff fame…
I reserve that look for my appeal hearings.
Bad news for James F and other discerning viewers of ye old goggle box (no not Craigy W)
Breaking Bad has been cancelled in the US.
Nuclear Bovril and a Half Munched Pie on 15 May, 2012 at 18:03 said:
Bad news for James F and other discerning viewers of ye old goggle box (no not Craigy W)
Breaking Bad has been cancelled in the US.
That is bad news. What is the last series? 4 or 5?
WatfordBhoy on 15 May, 2012 at 17:47 said:
ABSOLUTELY
petec
I agree with you re Loovens’s and his excellent finish to this season.
Unfortunately for him he’s ranked over his four seasons contribution, length of service, pay scale etc, and he and Celtic look to part friends, as there’s nothing on the table for him via Neil Francis.
We’ll sign two CB’s.
p.s. forgot about Daryll Murphy and Effrain Juarez on the leavers list.
HH
googybhoy ♥ Celtic and Liquidation on May 25th. on 15 May, 2012 at 17:49 said:
If your looking for fashion advice I would recommend having a look at the guy on the right.
Dwayne Dibbley
Nuclear Bovril and a Half Munched Pie on 15 May, 2012 at 18:03 said:
Bad news for James F and other discerning viewers of ye old goggle box (no not Craigy
Breaking Bad has been cancelled in the US.
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My understanding is the 5th and final season will air this summer.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/episodes?season=5
Didn’t see the papers this morning, but Clyde talking about some report about people ‘waiting in the wings’ if green’s CVA fails and they liquidate.
Does this mean that in the event of liquidation there could be two or more competing ‘newclubs’?
anyone know how Diawara is doing at Seville? (i think thats where he went)
Paddy T..,
I raised this the other night.
A solution I thought about would be to replace the hun games with the first two euro games.
problem solved, simples.
My opinion on why the games should be included, gave rise to my concerns that regardless of any statement, this action identifies the boards intentions towards their old firm partners.
Including the tickest in the package should have been a contingency plan, not the default status.
TopCorner on 15 May, 2012 at 17:56 said:
re abu dhabi connection to rfcia…allegedley…
anyone got any names to put to that ?
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Fred Flintstone……abu dhabi doooooooo!!
4 words
4 little words
4 little words that orc does not understand
4 little words that dont seem to register with the scottish press or media
“Integrity is beyond purchase”
WELL DONE ROB PETRIE
WELL DONE THE HIBERNIAN
how many other chairmen are gonna grow a set and follow his lead
hail, hail the celts are here
hail, hail the hibs are here
hector
take yer time pal
have a holiday
a cruise
a world tour
see ye in December, big man
24th is good
:)
I prefer Glenn Loovens to Kelvin Wilson to be honest.
However, neither would be a first team starter for me – just back-up.
This is one position definitely Neil needs to address before our CL campaign kicks off.
Jungle Jim on 15 May, 2012 at 17:32
Agreed.
Always thought he was much better than dan or k wilson.
Sometimes folk are swayed by perception, i.e. Loovens has long blonde hair, therefore he’s girly, (even after smashing elbows up and down the park) whilst “big dan” has a baldy heid and looks the part, but in reality is a sheep in wolf’s clothing.
CRC
Badges arrived this morn. Many thanks. God bless TB and BM
Googybhoy
Just catching up and saw your post about the discerning dresser.
A suit accompanied by a v-neck??????
My God mhan are you a mad scientist!!! :-)
Re Breaking Bad, yup 5 seasons. Although they used to be called series when I was a nipper.
Ah well, perhaps it’s for the best, before it jumped the shark
QualityAmericanDramaThatIsNoMoreQuickNews
Bada Bing
I saw Diawara playing against Legia Warsaw few weeks back. He scored two goals against us. Really liked the player.
After the news about Celtic interest in Norwegian player I checked how is doing Norwegian transfer window hero Erik Huseklepp? Wiki says he established good relationship with fans of the Championship team. He is on loan there. Well done.