Yesterday’s Sunday Mail exposé on attempts by the SPFL to change the balance of power within the SFA in favour of the professional clubs, while changing their bowling club committee-approach to running the game, was worthy of some merit but clearly the result of an SFA leak designed to undermine the proposed changes.
Any organisation which has a built-in requirement for office-bearers to have enough spare time on their hands in the years before nomination to attend mind-numbingly boring committee meetings is set on a path for mediocrity. Only those not busy enough with real world issues and challenges will qualify, meaning your best talent is never eligible, which is why we end up with a president like Campbell Ogilvie, who met the mediocre standards and is kept there by equally able under-achievers.
The Sunday Mail try to make out that the proposed move is a grab for cash, although they also explain why this cannot really be the case. It’s not a grab for cash, it’s not a subversive plot by Premiership clubs, it is an acknowledgement by the professional clubs that the systems of governance and administration in the game is inept and that they do not currently have the control to change things.
Our game needs deliverance from the bowling club committee.
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Get Barry Hearn to run Scottish Football,look how he has re-vamped snooker and darts.Anyone who can get 500,000 to watch live fishing on Sky is a commercial genius.
aiden bhoy @ 13.09
I blame Kafflick Schools.
bournesouprecipe
He didnae di he?
proudbhoy
Think Samaras, Forster, Kayal & those currently out on loan will all go. If they get a reasonable offer for Boerrigter, Pukki or Balde then they will also go.
Paul 67
Good to see the debate on the SFA’s competence and reform finally getting the airing that is desperately required.
In respect of removing Ogilvie maybe this will help the process along its way (from TSFM) At the very best it shows Ogivlie cannot be trusted to preside any longer, even if only on grounds of incompetence.
Dear Lord Nimmo Smith
In the attached file – 1 HarpMac Witheld Docs s – you will find details of documents that Rangers Administrators Duff and Phelps were either unsighted on or failed to supply to the SPL Lawyers Harper MacLeod, who wrote the commissioning terms of reference for The Investigation of the non registration by Rangers FC of side letters pertaining to ebts in respect of players contracts, on which you provided judgement.
In the second file TSFM HM Response Blog you will find after the introduction a letter to Harper MacLeod drawing their attention to the missing documents, their reply to that letter and a further response to it from The Scottish Football Monitor contributors. The response takes the form of detailed comment on the Harper MacLeod reply letter and a covering letter summarising the possible impact of the missing information on the commissioning of the Investigation and the impact of such on your judgement.
To be absolutely clear there is no argument that based on the evidence and testimony provided to you that your findings are legally sound, if not eye brow raising in the common understanding of the rules held by football supporters generally , however there is a strong argument that had the information in the missing documents been provided
a) the terms of reference of the commission would have had to take into account that the earliest ebts were indeed irregular and so directed you to investigate a different matter and under different rules broken, thus changing your findings.
b) had the information re the nature of the earlier ebts came out in the testimony offered by a key witness, then again your findings would have had to be different.
The matter is now back in the hands of Harper MacLeod and the SPFL, but you could quickly put the issue to bed if, on reading the attached documents, you could reply saying that neither a) or b) would have made any difference to your ruling had the information been provided before or during your investigation.
I have copied this e mail and attachments to your colleagues on The Investigation and will be bringing this letter to the wider attention of the TSFM readership.
the exiled tim
13:18 on 21 April, 2014
Afternoon Timland from a warm and wet hun free mountain valley.
I think LG will score more than GH did, and he will do in europe as well.
HH
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And so do I, but there are many in here who want the Bhoys head on a plate, shocking actually.
starry
Verbatim
Celtic would let Pukki go, but they can’t affijord it.
They coulf afjiord it if he went to Norway.
Could. doh!
jackie mac
that’s my cousin he’s talking about:))
HH
Bsr,
I hope you are finnished with that subject.
K33
Aye, pace is the answer, but pace with a bit of skill costs money, will we open the tin a tad more to get a middy in the mould of say Snoddy, who knows, or will we keep on buying projects that may or may not come good, I reckon that will be the line we go down.
I think the policy we are on has great merit, the likes of VW is a perfect example, but there are quite a few that haven’t worked out, far too many to mention, and if you add up all the VW’s against the ones who have failed to make it, it shows the policy has serious flaws.
A mixture of both is the ideal, Kris Commons cost next to nothing, been a great addition to the team, maybes splashing out on someone proven now and again to compliment the hopefuls is the way to go.
Over to you Pedro, CL qualification this year is crucial IMO.
HH
TD
Aye, he is a zoomer, but he is our zoomer >}
HH
kayal33
14:04 on 21 April, 2014
proudbhoy
Think Samaras, Forster, Kayal & those currently out on loan will all go. If they get a reasonable offer for Boerrigter, Pukki or Balde then they will also go.
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I dont think we will let mcgregor on loan at notts counry go or atajic to be honest.
I’ll be gutted if the tony watt situation has got so bad that he is let go.
I hope we can shift derk and pukki, espcially derk.
leigh g is a Natural Born Goalscorer, he will score goals in any company, including the much vaunted Champions League.
He might not be the brightest out there, honestly, who is?
Cross**Glen
bobbyrussell
To think we stayed up all night to get Pukki.
GM
Sorry back to doing the lawn
blantyretim.
you have mail.
Auldheid,
I am sure I speak for many on here in saluting your efforts and persistence. Here’s hoping it leads to something.
Do you have links to the letters?
Cheers.
Rumours of Moyes out the gate?
Aye – Radio 5 reporting multiple journos saying Moyes is getting his P45 filled out.
Galzer’s not in a mood to be patient…
glasstwo
Twitter sacked or really sacked?
Ferguson bookies favourite to replace Moyes.
bournesouprecipe 14:30
Guess we’ll find out soon!
Lenny for Manure then >}
HH
Bsr,
Blackpool to Manchester United….some move.
Sorry, I’ll leave the jokes to you.
bournesouprecipe 14:33
Ferguson bookies favourite to replace Moyes.
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Ahead of Ally?????
What odds are Ally?
Geordie Munro
Had me laughing!
I think Super Sallary is too young.
PAUL67
Good point,mate.
Twas ever thus,the only people with the available time to run a committee are those whose time isn’t swallowed up by a proper job.
We end up with philanthropists or numnuts.
And rarely the former.
Ally wouldent take a pay cut and go to united.
THE EXILED TIM
14:33 on 21 April, 2014
Lenny for Manure then >}
HH
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I know you are saying it in jest, if, and it is a really big if, they sack David Moyes then the game has well and truly gone bonkers.
Whoever followed Fergie was up against it straight away.
Your comment about life going this way and then that way is totally relevant.
IMO, if they sacked Davie, Neil would be at the top of the list to replace him.
tommytwiststommyturns,
Put a fiver e/w on “Gallant oscar” only got twelves…cqners must be hammering it.
Petec, you been on the baccy? ;)
Sipsini, I think so too it was 18 or 20’s at the weekend.
Man U have no footballing reason not to sack Moyes ….they have been a car crash all season and no CL football next ..unthinkable
Howard Webb is the dark horse replacement.
BSR
Certainly given a lot to the cause over the last few seasons
To sack Moyes would be just plain stupid, he needs time, at least two years to build, if they do they are loosing a good manager, the problem was they kept the Hun to long, shoulda bulleted him three years ago.