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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Rascar Capac on 16 May, 2012 at 00:39 said:
Has Nicola Sturgeon much experience of alcoholics?
Totally agree with you mate, people with this illness will still get their drink, food and family will do without.
Good morning CQN from a cloudy Clydebank
Have met Danny McGrain a couple of times
A true gent of a man always makes the time to have a chat with you
Keep the faith
Hail Hail
Good morning friends from avery pleasant, bright and sunny-ish East Kilbride. Whilst they have their SFA appeal today, I assume we won’t necessarilly learn the outcome today?
Morning all
Jobo if the player registration enquiry is anything to go by then I wouldn’t hold my breath for an announcement today
HH
Re Danny McGrain
Early morning quiz.
Who can tell me the name of the Scottish band who wrote a song about Danny?
Answer later on when I get up from last nights nightshift, if not already answered.
SPF
Anyone know what time the appeal for der hvn is today.
Thanks.
No to Newclub
HH
Has Nicola Sturgeon much experience of alcoholics?
This min price is to stop the fri/sat night drinker who is choking the NHS, yes alcoholics will find a way to drink, but the amount of kids/adults that splurge on drink and end up in A & E is unbelievable, drain on an overly stretched NHS
or is it a way of getting extra money for drink companies as I see it isn’t a TAX
Not saying it will work though
HH
Good morning fellow Celts from sunny Ealing
Go Danny Go go go
HH
M
ScotPatsFan
Big Wednesday
Lostinbonnybridge
Correct!
Sliding in like McGrain by Big Wednesday
SPF
Morning all from gay Paree, bright sunny morning, but heavy showers later alledgedly (15C max).
Some great posts yesterday about Celtic legendsTommy, Bobby and Danny: always a pleasure to read those.
Can anyone please confirm that it is indeed today that the SFA will convene to consider teh RFC(ia) appeal against their transfer embargo and £160K fine?
I’ve just had a quick scan thru the so-called kwality papers plus the BBC Scotland site and I can’t see a single mention of it.
I must have got my dates mixed up…
;o)
RFC(ia): Time to Pay the Wages of Sin
grand!
ScotPatsFan on 16 May, 2012 at 07:43 said:
Said band performing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqpiHa_BTJg
Lenny off on a scouting mission tonight to the Lille v Nancy game.
Kayal
Marko Basa? Ireneusz Jelen?
Zbyszek on 16 May, 2012 at 07:57 said:
Lille’s Brazilian striker De Melo mentioned on KDS transfer rumour thread.
As a nipper my Dad took me along to Portland park in Troon to watch Celtic training – apparently Jinky blasted a ball that bowled me over and Bobby Murdoch came straight over, picked me and got me laughing again. My old man always grumbled about JJ after that claiming he never said sorry.
Those were the days when Celtic would regularly stay at the Marine Hotel ahead of Cup games.
Jingle Jackson announces the Ibrox Jumble Sale Jamboree:
Rangers in crisis: Seven Ibrox stars worth £25m can go for just £8m following pay cut deals
May 16 2012 Exclusive by Keith Jackson
RECORD SPORT can today reveal the full multi-million pound cost of the secret sweeteners handed out to Ally McCoist’s most valuable stars by Duff and Phelps.
Even by conservative estimates, the eye-watering reductions slash the current market value of seven of Ally McCoist’s first-team stalwarts from around £25million to a fixed price of less than £8m.
And these cheap-as-chips deals look set to force owner Charles Green into overseeing a painful Ibrox jumble sale this summer.
The cut-price fees are the result of trade-offs made by Duff and Phelps when McCoist’s men agreed to take whopping 75 per cent wage cuts to keep the club in business.
The full list of bargain basement buys is being circulated around clubs in England and across Europe by agents who believe their clients can make a financial killing when the transfer market opens on June 1.
Record Sport has also received explosive details of the deals which were struck behind closed doors between David Whitehouse and Paul Clark, union boss Fraser Wishart and players’ advisers.
And we can reveal skipper Steve Davis, keeper Allan McGregor, team talisman Steven Naismith, Northern Ireland striker Kyle Lafferty, Scotland full-back Steven Whittaker, USA international Maurice Edu and Romania defender Dorin Goian are the stand-out buys likely to attract most interest from vultures circling the stricken club.
Davis can go for a knockdown £1.65m and was already being lined up for a return to former club Aston Villa before they binned boss Alex McLeish on Monday.
Villa could yet return to the table for Davis who was signed for £4m from Fulham in the summer of 2008 after an initial loan period.
At 27 and captain of his country, Rangers could expect £5m for Davis under normal circumstances.
Scotland No.1 McGregor can be picked up for a flat fee of £2m – around £6m or £7m less than the prices being bandied about when he was linked with Spurs in 2009.
A fully-fit Naismith – who has already attracted serious interest from West Brom despite not kicking a ball for most of the campaign because of a cruciate injury – would probably be marked down as the single-most valuable asset following his blistering form over the previous two campaigns.
But his sale can be triggered if a bid of just £2m is tabled, which is just £100,000 more than Rangers paid to buy him from Kilmarnock.
After copping a two-week ban from the club following a bust-up with McCoist, Lafferty appears a racing certainty to want to cash in on his clause.
The £3.5m signing from Burnley is up for grabs at just £575,000 and Record Sport understands a firm bid could be imminent.
Whittaker has also never been more highly regarded after nailing down his place as a regular in Craig Levein’s Scotland side.
But although the player Rangers bought from Hibs for £2m in August 2007 is now entering his prime and tied up on a long-term new deal he’s on the market for just £850,000.
At just £300,000, USA midfielder Edu might be viewed as the biggest bargain of the lot, given his experience of representing his country at the highest level including the World Cup in South Africa. That price represents a massive £2.3m loss on a player who was lured to Scotland four years ago in a £2.6m deal.
Goian appeared to be something of a steal last summer when McCoist picked him up for £750,000. But Rangers don’t even stand to turn a profit on the 31-year-old as his deal allows him to move on for only £500,000 should any clubs come calling over the next three months.
It had been hoped new Rangers owners might get the chance to negotiate with these players and urge them to rip up the recently redrawn contracts but Green arrived too late to open talks.
Now the man who plans to push through an £8.5m takeover of an already ravaged club could also be exposed to losing his biggest assets at fire-sale prices.
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The verdict of Leicester fans on Matt Mills is mixed at best:
http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/topic/81731-mills-to-celtic-in-swap-deal-with-wilson/
Bit of smoke and mirrors piece this about the transfer of players.
What he does comment on is the fact that if they liquidate then the players walk away free. Now we all know, one of the reasons why this had to be drawn out until June 1, when transfer window opens, so that some of the most valuable of assets achieve a price and that of course will help pay the bill outstanding to D&P…por cierto.
Danny Mcgrain , the best full back I have ever seen, remember seeing him on the 105 bus to the Drum on the night we won the Scottish in ’71, I think he was in the squad but did’nt play, had his white adidas bag with his initials on it, travelling like that would’nt happen today. if he could have hit the target, he would have been Celtic’s all time top scorer…….those were the days.
Off to Edinburgh for work today, well someone has to visit them, following todays appeal I fully expect to see the see the flags at half mast as I pass the welcoming villages on the M8 enroute home to the Metropolis.
Do your job panel.
Increase their “punishment”
Ghuys
The DR piece re Dignity transfers is a shameless piece of Duff £ Phelps propaganda to influence the SFA hearing today. … look at us players are leaving, we can’t buy anyone … Help!
Fortunately the great & the good on the Appeal panel will be taking the Telegraph, or FT
Chillpillcfc
Ghuys
Joining the dots .. If the top players are worth £8m howuch is the CVA again?
Flight called must dash!
Deniabhoy 08.04
A poster on RTC posted a few week ago that he heard that some of the players had stitched the club up goodstyle (my words).
The offer from Duoe & Duper was double the cut they took off their transfer fee E.g. £10k for 12 weeks= £120k = £240k off transfer fee when time to move on.
The highest earners took a cut of £170k over 12 weeks = £340k off transfer fee BUUUUUUUT some demanded and got in writing a deal to cut £2million off said transfer fee or they would not sign up to cuts,Which left some members of the management disgusted as the players were being portsayed as martys in the MSM. (ALLEDGEDLY) :)))))))))
ps today will be a massive indicator on how this whole sorry case will pan out if the SFA buckle i think we can forget about the huns getting the just punishment they deserve, but after reading the report on their wrongs(just short of match fixing) I fully expect the fine & embargo to stand even in this corrupt country.
But niggling in the back of my head is the way Paul mcBride wiped the floor with them on more than one occasion.
INCOMPETENT & NOT FIT FOR OFFICE today will show us.
HAIL HAIL
* portrayed*
So the ranjurs “stars” can leave for a fraction of their cost ,according to jingle, and make themselves a lot of money at the same time. I would assume that the the ranjurs men among them Niabalance, Davis and Mcgregor will stay as they “dont do walkng away” (sic) A.McCoist.
Whither the cash-strapped scrofulous Hillbillies the day?
Zbyszek
Another centre half that we are apparently considering is Tomasz Jodlowiec of Polonia Warsaw
Any thoughts on how good he is?
1914 – The first ever Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2-1.
That Jingle Jangle piece in the DR is genuine. I assumed it was a parody, so I checked.
It just confirms the detail of what was already known: that the players wage reductions came at a huge long term cost. It kind of encapsulates in miniature the problems with the huns whole business plan over the last 20 years.
How long will it take for the huns to realise that their heroes, the ones who were praised for giving up their wages to help the club, have shafted them?
The Brooklyn Celtic, also known as the Brooklyn Celtics and Celtic F.C., was an early twentieth century American soccer team which competed in the New York Amateur Association Football League. They won the second division in 1910-1911, gaining promotion to the first division. They proved their worth as a first division team in the 1911-1912 season when they tied New York Clan MacDonald for second place. The two teams met in a playoff for sole position of second, with Clan MacDonald winning 1-0. The next season, Celtic went on a streak of five straight league championships.
DontPatmadug
I’m sure Naibalance can only do hobbling away at the moment!
Did David Murray do walking away?
Apologies if this has been covered in the bhlog but a minute’s applause for Donald ‘Duck ‘Dunn, bass player with the peerless MGs, who died on Sunday.
DBBIA/Green Onions CSC
Dontbrattbakkinanger on 16 May, 2012 at 08:45 said:
The bass line to so many classic tracks..
Respect DDD
SFA already doing walking away..
alex thomson @alextomo
SFA reckon a decision today on Rangers’ appeal against 1y ban on buying players is unlikely.
Met with RFCia fan today. He’s adamant there was no problem before CW turned up. Anyone see the fatal flaw in his argument?
Nope, it’s all down to CW and SFA and all those evil b*****ds who are putting the knife in.
Obviously he hadn’t seen the Daily Retard report on SDM knowling and gladly dumping RFCia into it by selling to CW even despite the ‘flaw’ in his character.
I can’t believe that there are still current buns out there who actually believe the FTT will come down on their side. It’s all been a big mistake. We apologize for any inconvenience etc…
So, what’s going to be their story when the FTT also sticks the knife in?
One thing we did agree on, if CW gets spotted by any RFCia fans, he’s not going to need a lawyer ever again….
Billy no’wells latest
Sorry if already posted *ps some sweary words*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-4s-P8-2Rk