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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“Let them eat Soup”
ernie lynch on 16 May, 2012 at 08:42 said:
Aye but this is Duff and Duffer maximising the return for the creditors? They’ve negotiated to turn £25 million worth of assets into £8 million worth of assets while spending miliions elsewhere to reach the end of the season. There’s got to be be creditor’s court cases pending for their administration
TMWTL
Tomasz Jodlowiec came to my mind yesterday. Not bad choice for Celtic. He is between CB and DM type of player. Last season position was DM. Three years ago Napoli offered him contract but it only scared him and he decided to stay here. Not Napoli class but might be good for Celtic game.
Oops knowling = knowingly.
Modern belated applause for dead bassists is rubbish… sometimes!
Celtforlife – I know, ole information superhighway clogged up with Hillbilly mince.
leftclicktic on 16 May, 2012 at 08:52 said:
Brilliant…Celtic Humour at it’s best…
Kayal 07:51 read somewhere that Lenny will be with Lille for a few days studying their training and tactical methods.
SFA, i think the appeal panel will expel the fraudsters for life.
KTF
Luckily, nobody apart from me in the office to wonder at my minute’s applause for Mr D.D.D.
I think it’s laughable that the very people who are listing out , one after the other, all those Rangers players who are going to have to be sold for much less than the big fees paid for them are the very same people who have been telling us that Rangers have not spent any money over the past few years. On that list, (apart from McGregor who has been at the piggery since he was a piglet) Whittaker is the longest serving having been there since 2007.
Most of them were signed by Walter ” on a shoestring” Cardigan
ernie lynch on 16 May, 2012 at 08:42 said:
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?
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It’ll dawn on them just after they understand that there is no Hidden Fenian Hand and that it was in actual fact from within that they were destroyed.
I understand that’s pencilled in just after the temperature in hell hits the colder side of 0c.
As an aside, I don’t like the term NewCo/Newco as it’s quite a cold business-like term, not at all conveying what it actually is, can we all start using NewClub please, as that is what it actually is/will be?
-pmcc
Agent Craig “Green and” Whyte!! on 15 May, 2012 at 23:49 said:
Im lucky enough to remember Danny’s last 5 or 6yrs of his playing days.
A true worldclass player and in my top 3 Celts ever.
In the order of seeing them…
Danny McGrain
Paul McStay
Henrik Larsson
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My fav three too.
That DBBIA certainly knows his green onions
The Honest Mistake loves being first on 16 May, 2012 at 08:52 said:
I was thinking that a couple of days ago……administrators are charged with looking after the creditors interests………justified legal action to follow …..although I’m not complaining…..they’ve contributed to the shambles…..LOL
starry plough on 16 May, 2012 at 08:50 said:
SFA already doing walking away..
alex thomson @alextomo
SFA reckon a decision today on Rangers’ appeal against 1y ban on buying players is unlikely.
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The Orcs are still growling about disrupting the cup final on Saturday, taking to the streets etc. I reckon a decision to postpone the release of any outcome will already have been made.
DBBIA
….I bought an old pine blanket box / steamer trunk at a Fair in Waterford. I think it had been used by an NYC based Irishman tradesman, it looked turn of the century in design but the inside had been covered by a 1942 (I think) copy of the Sports section of the New York news….I was amazed to see it contained a soccer section and had at least 4 Scots / Irish / Keltic-named teams in competition. There was no commentary just the league positions.
I’ll look it out when I’m at home and confirm the team names.
Good Morning from a noisy but sunny Nuneaton
If Whyte had sold the players worth £25million during the January window they could have effectively paid the first round of debt and then made arrangements for the big case
I stand corrected re my earlier post about inaccurate reporting of Rangers’ transfer activity.
Journalists did not say that Rangers had not spent any money. What they said was that Walter had no money to spend……so he used somebody else’s (they didn’t say that last bit; that was my own barbed comment).
mighty tim/ Thomthethim
John Paul Academy isn’t the secondary for Milton since St Augustine’s was knocked down.
Most pupils now move on to All Saints in Barmulloch.
starry plough@08:50
By all accounts, the independent panel will issue their written findings along with their judgement on the appeal, hence a decision will apparently be Friday
Bankiebhoy – my dad’s dad was actually born in Brooklyn; the family then moved back to Co Derry as they were home sick[ !]
So Brooklyn’s loss was Coatbridge’s gain.
Having just read jangles piece on the Briggait Bargain Buyouts…………I just had to double-check he didnt also pen the the screenplay for “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “Beaches” and “Love Story”………
What a jerker……….
Sorry….
*tear-jerker*
PS I kno Coatbridge isn’t geographically in Co Derry. It’s a complicated ole story.
I always thought that the Co in Co Derry was short for Coatbridge
Morning all
So is this going to be a decisive day or not? Sifting through the usual bluster I think that if the original panel’s verdict stands then Green and his shadows will walk away. The Billion Pound man and his amazing warchest seem rather dependent on the transfer ban being erased. {and that’s before any CVA’s are agreed or otherwise).
Whatever happens today I hope that the picture will be a lot clearer as I am increasingly fed up with the episode. Since the heady days of 10th to 14th February this whole story has become a dreadful mess. Duff and Phelps’ shilly-shallying over cutting staff costs, the debate about Newco and whether it gets parachuted in, the truly distasteful behaviour of Mccoist, the wilful myopia of the MSM and the endless series of D-days has shown them and much of this country at it’s worst. Add to that a sense that if they had announced their Administration two months later that Celtic would not have lost a game – I do feel we lost some of our focus post-Admin- and we’d be playing again thus Saturday.
Whatever happens today I hope the focus of the Celtic support returns to our team. This season could have been better but think where we were on 5 November . Thanks to Neil and the Bhoys, the Thai Tims, AlexT, Private Eye, RTC, Phil Mac, Mark Daly, the Green Brigade and the sixth year boys at St. Als’ – you have made me smile. To the villains- MSM, Stuart McCall, Mccoist, Duff and Phelps and all the rest of them- a plague on all your houses .
Kayal33 – definite no to any Brazilians….this young team needs a couple of old growlers!
T4
DBBIA
Brooklyn is my favourite borough of the City, especially Williamsburg.
Very laid back whole different vibe to Manhattan but close enough when you need the fix. Tons of cafes and a few decent old-skool pubs….Funky vintage shops and.if you like Pizza – its the only place to be.
Recommended to me by that most excellent of CQN’r PJ Bhoy….
Carrigan on 16 May, 2012 at 08:57 said:
“SFA, i think the appeal panel will expel the fraudsters for life.”
If you are correct, I will buy myself a pint using my own money.
Sorry omitted CQN and its many brilliant contributors from my thanks list.
Oh and Undergarments to Sir Dave!
iki on 16 May, 2012 at 09:23 said:
Carrigan on 16 May, 2012 at 08:57 said:
“SFA, i think the appeal panel will expel the fraudsters for life.”
If you are correct, I will buy myself a pint using my own money.
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In one of Mr Carrigan’s fine hostelries, I hope??
HH
Giggs
If (big If) we sell Hooper in the summer I would reckon the bidding will start at £7m plus add-ons.
Now if he is taken to the Euros it will start at £10m plus add-ons.
If he is taken to the Euros and performs like we all know he can, well, Neil might be able to fund a whole new team……Andy Carrol was £35m after all and he is gash
Don’t see Hooper in the England squad – the guesses I’ve seen from the media, which usually aren’t too far off, see Rooney, Carroll, Wellbeck and Sturridge as the strikers with Crouch on stand by.
A summer off will do him good anyway.
Goron j
As long as he tries to loose a bit of weight instead of piling it on during a 6 week party!
greenjedi,
A break and then a good pre-season will set him up nicely for next season. The same for Commons and Izaguirre after their injury problems.
Gordon
I agree totally, but when he and Commons got a week off due to an international break last Autumn they went on a boozy golfing holiday. Not the best idea IMO.
the Appeals Panel
Ok RIA you have seen the reasons for the original decision – give us 3 reasons to overturn the decision
– We are the Peepil
-The Big Hoose must stay open
oh and
– we know where you live !
Kayal33 on 16 May, 2012 at 07:51 said:
Lenny off on a scouting mission tonight to the Lille v Nancy game.
Is Joe Cole still getting a game for Lille, do you think he’s a creative midfielder or past his best?
May in glasgow and its baltic!….which reminds me
A wee polar bear says to his da…”da are you sure Im a polar bear?”
Big polar bear replies’of course you are son,look at those claws you have for hunting,. the big wide paws for running and swimming…..the white fur to blend in with the snow,look at your big teeth big and strong….why do you ask son?”
The wee polar bear replies “coz am freezin da!’
hatcoat ..off
Jingle Jackson announces the Ibrox Jumble Sale Jamboree:
Can see his agenda here. Poor Rangers go gentle.
It also highlights that those given new contracts by White had their wages paid this year by the non payment of tax and national insurance.
The argument that CW did this all on his own fails to address the fact that the club gained 2nd place in the league as.a consequence.
The decision not to pay Hearts for Lee Wallace gave Rangers a player and denied Hearts.
Non payment to other clubs has given them an advantage.
Remove them from the league. Grow a pair.