In his Q&A session with the Daily Record yesterday, outgoing SPFL chairman, Ralph Topping touched on the subject of who knew what when, regarding Rangers slide into liquidation saying:
“There wasn’t one single person ever who envisaged this case happening. You tell me who pointed out that this was going to happen – did you?
“The biggest assumption about the set-up in the SPL would be that you would have Rangers and Celtic playing in it in perpetuity – nobody thought that those two bastions of football would ever be involved in anything like this and nobody flagged it up.”
Well, in October 2011 I knew. This CQN article from 27 October 2011 notes in very specific detail Rangers were going to liquidate, a phoenix would be created which wanted direct access to the SPL (the top flight at that time). I got the timing wrong, predicting the phoenix would take place during the season, but to be fair, it later became clear this was Craig Whyte’s plan at the time.
Ralph Topping’s SPL knew too. Rangers alerted them to the situation that very month. The SPL spend November, December and January preparing the ground for Rangers administration and liquidation, a period during which a new TV deal was signed.
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There was some editing required in the c&p of those results, of course.
‘another sevco home draw’ Gordon Bennett
I cannae be bothered wi multiple login posters.
Boring.
Gerryfaethebrig on 30th July 2017 6:28 pm
Philbhoy 6.21pm
Surely by the law off averages the new klub must get an away draw at some point (Celtic park doesn’t count that just keeps the lights on and the off shore accounts bulging :-) Alledgedly
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Someone will correct me but I’m sure every club has a 50/50 chance of a home tie every draw.
It’s like flipping a coin. Of course I’m not factoring in a weighted coin here, but purely stats it’s 50/50
TET…
They have a collective madness,existing only in their own wee world with no counter balance to their sense of entitlement and supremacy.Impervious to constructive criticism and unwilling to bend even when it would be to their benefit.Their arrogance is heavily weighted by idiocy.
Badly guided from childhood and enabled and encouraged by a weak,compliant media.
I’m ecstatic at not being one of the peepil.
HH
I quite like multi login posters!
Damn, forgot to log out and login:-)
Auldheid I like my eggs sunny side up thank you.
However I suspect that the eggs, like that jam we keep getting promised, will always be tomorrow.
I can see clearly now the rain has gone
Going to start watching “Pablo Escobar,The Lord Of Evil” on Netflix so as KEVJ would say,aff oot.
Be good to each other.
HH
seeding another uefa idea and corrupt
Baba
Aye, what I like as well is when we tell them what is going to happen and they ignore it cos it’s Timmy telling lies again, always makes it sweeter when it does happen so it does.
I could never even imagine being one.
HH
GENE on 30TH JULY 2017 5:56 PM
Noticed Rosenborg didn’t play this weekend
Norwegian league break from 17 July to 5th August
The Huddle 6.35pm
Stop introducing logic even though it’s uncanny with these 50/50 chances :-)
By the way, paranoia ! Watching James Bond “the day after tomorrow” and I quote ” Man Utd beating the home team Celtic 3-1 in the champions league” even Ian Fleming canny like the Hoops :-)
Hobgoblin Gold 4.5% abv £1 / 500ml bottle at morrisons – nice
(last week it was speckled hen)
Hartley will be the mini’s boss before that new stand is finished:-))
Embramike
no one likes a smart ass :))
Fairhill
they will be looking for a coach / bricklayer / plasterer
Ignore my last post day after tomorrow is not James Bond and heehaw to do with Ian Fleming, going to be a long, long 3 weeks :-)
Day after tomorrow that global warming movie? I thought Celtic were drawing in that scene
Gene-it looks miles from being finished:-))
Home draws
In each draw you have a one in two chance – a probability of a 1/2 or 50% – of being drawn at home. It is equivalent to flipping a coin and getting heads. But the chance of x home draws in a row is like all players flipping heads one after each other – it halves each time, from 1/2, to 1/4, to 1/8 etc.
FAIRHILL BHOY on 30TH JULY 2017 6:49 PM
Gene-it looks miles from being finished:-))
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They are going for open plan minimalist look with a light and airy feel
Gene on 30th July 2017 6:51 pm
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I’m sure in stats world the coin resets every time it is flipped so will always be 50/50.
The Kilmarnock League Cup tie will be on Tuesday the 8th as we have a game on Friday the 11th.
Congratulations to Fairhill Bhoy, who
got post No 1690. Hope you can live with the shame :-)
http://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/champions-league/2015-2016/sepp-blatter-claims-european-draws-fixed-with-hot-and-cold-balls_sto5647083/story.shtml
The huddle
In the first toss it is 50/50 and on the 2nd toss it is 50/50 but the chance of 2 in a row is 1/4
trustmeiamanexpertatgooglingCSC
Be careful if you want to google more on that last link I posted.
Shudder!
Especially if combining search with ‘tossing’!
Interesting that Brendan played KT at centre half again yesterday. Getting the feeling that Brendan might see that as his best position in the years to come. Paulo Maldini could switch between both positions effortlessly. Not that I’m comparing Maldini with one of the greatest defenders of all time!
Gene on 30th July 2017 7:03 pm
The huddl3
In the first toss it is 50/50 and on the 2nd toss it is 50/50 but the chance of 2 in a row is 1/4
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I’m sure that’s not right, sure hitting heads 2 in a row changes the odds Im talking about it landing on head or tails each time. It will always be 50/50 as the coin has no idea that it landed on a head or tail last time so there’s no external influence.
TTR
The Killie tie in the League Cup will be avoided by me. Not another penny getting spent on Scottish fitba. Doncaster and his tournament can gtf.
How does anybody know for sure who the multiple posters are:-))
The huddle.
Look at like betting odds
Would a bookmaker give you just evens for tossing 4 heads in a row – should give you 16/1
DD
Well said. Those Killie cheats can do one.
Give them nothing.
HH
BILLYBEAR- o the shame,and I wasn’t going to post at all:-))
Just heard jim Duffy onfrom SSB.. how can he sleep at night. What a HUN LOVER