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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Thetimreaper
Very funny!
Fairhill Bhoy
Words, style and content.
Recurring themes
Similar arguments
PLC worship
Dislike of poor people, the GB
Unwitting Testimony.
And so on.
HH
Gene and The Huddle
Some Chinese mathematicians did a calculation on the chances of getting 10 heads in a row in a coin toss after Derren Brown did it in one of his shows. They worked out the odds were 1/1024 so 15 consecutive home draws by my calculations would be 1/32,768
Paranoid, not ‘arf!
Gene on 30th July 2017 7:13 p
Look at like betting odds
Would a bookmaker give you just evens for tossing 4 heads in a row – should give you 16/1
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That’s a different bet.
He would give you evens on the next toss not on 4 tosses in a row
TGM
As Tontine calls them Kilmasonic.
Give the nothing!
Cheat lovers.
Cold Balls.
Handshakes as well:)
HH
SID1888
That ties in with the doubling of the odds 2,4,8,16,32…..1024
SID1888
I’m not chinese
I wasn’t aware today was the anniversary of England winning the World Cup in ’66 so it’s lucky Clare Balding managed to mention it within 30 seconds of the program starting.
English women now favourites to win the tournament now Germany are out apparently.
cv
DD
Giving the Killie FC Cheats nothing but the contempt they deserve.
HH
The huddle
that’s the point it is on consecutive home draws – not the chance in each individual draw.
Ask a bookie what odds he will give on 5 consecutive home draws (nb if its sevco he will only give odds on)
FB- just said same re Hartley to Hearts..
Gene
I think the guy who organises the cup draws is:-
Hun Hom Ti
OK I’ll get my coat…
Cathedral – only if they are at wemberley
we shouldnt be complaining about sevco getting a home draw
we got one as well
and i wish we hadnt
ive said for ages i would prefer away games in this tourny and the scottish cup
cos now we are going to play a game in a quarter full ghost stadium
no atmosphere, no excitement.
zzzzzzz
Gene on 30th July 2017 7:25 pm
that’s the point it is on consecutive home draws – not the chance in each individual draw.
Ask a bookie what odds he will give on 5 consecutive home draws (nb if its sevco he will only give odds on)
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The question was what are the odds of a home draw.
Now at the start of every draw the odds are reset for every team so it’s 50/50.
Now if you’d said 5 years ago that the huns would get a home tie every round then of course you wouldn’t get 50/50 odds. Though it’s 50/50 chance each time the draw is made.
Though you’d have lost your money when they drew away to Dunfermline.
SID1888
:)
a bookies wouldnt give you evens on the next toss of a coin
they would likely give you around 4-5
they got money to make
The huddle
looks like we have been answering different questions
roundincirclesCSC
cathedral view on 30th July 2017 7:23 pm
I wasn’t aware today was the anniversary of England winning the World Cup in ’66 so it’s lucky Clare Balding managed to mention it within 30 seconds of the program starting.
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Let them enjoy their history, doesn’t happen often, if ever again.
TGM- don’t know why they can be bothered with the hassle of logging in with different names and passwords!it takes me long enough just to log in my stuff:-))
The Huddle / lets all do the huddle
multiple poster – I claim my £5
:))
Gene on 30th July 2017 7:34 pm
The Huddle / lets all do the huddle
multiple poster – I claim my £5
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heads or tails :O)
FB
multiple poster = multiple devices
notthatiwouldknowCSC
I was always surprised that I got the huddle as a login on this site and a few years previously on other Celtic sites. And that’s the first other huddle i’ve seen
the huddle
i am not you!!
lets all do the huddle on 30th July 2017 7:37 pm
the huddle
i am not you!!
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Likely story – are you a hun :O)
LETS ALL DO THE HUDDLE on 30TH JULY 2017 7:37 PM
the huddle
i am not you!!
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but are you – you
The Huddle / lets all do the huddle
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in fact a ridiculous claim
surely a multiple poster would pick completely different names??
or would they? hmmmm!!!
!!BADA BING!!-sorry mate,I’m reading back and the talk earlier was cathro’s plight,and read hartleys piece in the sun this morning,putting himself out there,so put two and two together and got five:-))
Wumman’s fitba….no thanks
Fairhill Bhoy
I agree bud, one name will do me.
Cant see the need for more, unless some use other identities for all the different axes they need to grind:)
HH
My favourite multi poster was Mrs Pastry.
Comic genius fae that good Tim. :))
FB- Cathro will be lucky to see next weekend, Hartley has done very well at Alloa and Dundee, who pulled the trigger too early, all these clubs go through a period when they get 2 draws in 10 for example, Dundee had that late in the season.Was good to see Brendan taking him to Lennoxtown for a few sessions.HH
FAIRHILL BHOY @ 6:44 PM,
Good shout, think he’d do a job…
We need Hearts to come above…
Was really disappointed in Ann Budge I must say but, they are a Club that are getting there house in order, have huge potential – they should be Competitive in Europe.
With Aberdeen and Hibs fighting it out for Second and Third, at the end of the Season, so we could have another European Spot up for grabs;)
InLennyWeTrust
Hail Hail
DD
I wouldnt mind. But its when the trolls go all hunnish and horrible, hating on everybody. That annoys me.
HH
Moravcik67
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thetimreaper on 30th July 2017 7:08 pm
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!
…. I reckon you are on it m8.
KT
KT
TKO – Every Time.
He is the Real Deal.
We just dinnae ken it Yet. ;))))
TGM-I can talk enough pish myself without inventing another pish talker:-))