Despite Walter Smith urging “Rangers fans to get fully behind the resolutions which last week were presented to the Board and shareholders”, which include sacking chief executive, Craig Mather, he added, “Craig Mather, as I have said before is doing a good job. It is unfortunate that this has happened but when change does come I hope he’ll be allowed to continue the job he has started”.
Smith is clearly close to, but not in tandem with, those who requested an Emergency General Meeting.
As well as support for the chief exec, on the manager, Smith says, “As for Alistair McCoist, it is important that we all appreciate that no other Rangers manager has had to work with poorer or more trying circumstances. It is my fervent hope that when the dust settles and Rangers have a clearer path and future he is given the chance to manage under conditions similar to those which were afforded his predecessors.”
Here we get to the crux of the problem. Rangers International face enormous financial challenges. With a half decent football manager, they would be able to win promotion from the third tier of Scottish football with a football budget of around £1m, or several times that of their nearest rivals. If, as the Herald suggested this week, there is not enough money to finish the season, the most immediate responsibility of the directors is to cut costs accordingly.
Cutting costs is not the reason anyone gets into football, and it is certainly not what Walter Smith knew in his time at the Rangers group of clubs, but at times it is absolutely necessary. The non-executive directors of Rangers International would serve their fans interests best by telling this unpalatable truth.
Failure to do this will pale in comparison to some other potential consequences. In setting his stall behind McCoist, Mather’s team building exercise and the EGM protagonists, Smith has almost ensured collapse if those demanding change cannot command the support of 51% of shareholders. To succeed, Paul Murray will need to demonstrate the leadership and deal management skills which were lacking a year ago.
Meanwhile, John Brown’s warning about Green turning Ibrox to dust hangs over the place, a bit like dust.
There is one overarching concern, however. Green is critical to fending off any impending action by Craig Whyte. His evidence will be necessary to explain how Sevco Scotland Ltd assumed the irrevocable entitlement of Sevco 5088 Ltd. Even with Green on-side, this looks like a challenge, but if the main protagonists in this action are separated from those who will have to defend any action, you suspect Whyte will be enormously encouraged.
When Whyte believed he was double-crossed he went nuclear. All Green would need to do is corroborate a sliver of Whyte’s evidence to bring Whyte’s legal challenge into sharp focus. For this reason, Green has to be part of the picture going forward. Demonising him is tempting, and may be deserved, but it’s self-defeating – and these people know all about self-defeating.
Section 111
Two weeks ago I said “place your bets” on what would happen after Celtic issued their “final warning” over a number ongoing issues in section 111. No one was in control of the situation, not Celtic, and not members the Green Brigade, who I believe had nothing to do with several of the issues.
Since then I’ve watched the debate. Some, like Phil Mac Giolla Bhain, attempted to inform on the debate, interviewing handicapped supporters and independent safety experts. Anticipating this day would come, I thought about interviewing the Council, but decided against, not wanting to draw them into making a public stance they would be unable to back down from.
Yesterday felt as inevitable as what’s going to happen next in Govan. Can the situation be rescued? Of course. Will it? Place your bets, people…
I’m not a regular newspaper buyer but the front page of one of today’s is a keeper. Celtic have a lateral movement issue, which dominates the front page, when the utter implosion at Ibrox is relegated to a side column. It’s a testament to our age. We will survive. I can’t say that with any certainty about the other lot.
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Turkeybhoy
at 00.12.
Pal.. Stoap Beatin’ Yersel…Up.
Listen.
Hiv ye evah head the Tale of the Two Monks, of whom..
One is Older( And Wiser) and the other,is Younger( And .. No Wiser.)and the Swift Flowin ‘ River and the Femme Fatale, who is… a Knock-Out?
Ye hiv?.. Then Ah am Gled.
Fur, If ye hiv then Ah hiv nae need tae Go into it ,oan here.
Well, Pal.. If ye dinna mind.. You are behavin’ .. exactly ..Like the Young Monk.
Ye are Carrying a Burden.. and so is.. canamalar..and Ah suppose.. A host of Ithers,
oan this her Blog.
Like the Old Monk said .. tae the Young Monk… when he noticed that the Young Kid , wiz brooding..as they Left the River..and the Young Lissome Lady, behind.
“Ya gotta Let Go . ..son.. That Annoyance ,ye carry ,at Ma behavior.
Because of Ma Involvement in the incident of which ye noo Dwell upon..
For That…Happened back there at the River… which is now oota sight… way back there in the distance.”
Yes, and Ah say tae you….
Let it Go,pal…
The Celtic Board are Daeing Jist Fine..
And
The G.A. Board are Daeing..well… HELLISH!
So.. Whit is the Point of Carrying such Animus and Grief oan yer Shooders.. Directed at Our Celtic Board of Guardians.. of vexing occurrences and and missed opportunities,which took place… in the fast receding Past?
Go fur a walk in the Park… Smell the Flooers.. Listen tae the Songs o’ the Linty’s … when they are no running, like..well..Lintys… and take in… the Beguiling Buzz of the Bees.
If ye dae that..and go tae bed wid a hoat cuppa Bovril and a V.C. pie..
Ah guarantee ,ye wull Feel a WholeLotta Bettah..
Like Ma Big Pal Vito..always says..
“Fuggggettttaboutit!!!!”
Kojo
Still, Laughin’
Gotta Go ,Joe
C’mon , the Celts!
Long gone..and.. Should Be.. but, Obviously.. No By You..and some ithers.
thought so
gordybhoy64, no. You’re quite correct ma man and its a stoatir:-)
I bought cases of the first, second and third edition Ardbegs when I knew the Distillery was de-mothballed and followed its progress. The intention was that I’d buy these as an investment………………………………..but what the hell:-)
I’m a drammer, not a collector.
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Celtic Vs Melbourne Victory Live Updates..Courtesy The Age..
6.30pm: A Scottish marching band, kilts and all, are currently entertaining about 3000 fans. Players yet to come out and warm-up. Happy to take your questions on all things A-League and Victory – leave a comment below.
7pm: Light rain, conditions otherwise perfect for football. Pitch looks good as is always the case at AAMI Park. Crowd building beyond 5000. Celtic and Victory Northern End currently about 40 per-cent full. “In Lennon We Trust” banner in the crowd at the Celtic end.
5 mins: Victory have had the majority of possession. Celtic are pressing, but as yet there have been no meaningful shots on goal. Fans have packed both ends at AAMI Park – Celtic at the Olympic Park end of the ground, and the crowd would be at about the 15,000 mark.
42 mins – It’s been scrappy so far. The offside flag now foiling both teams. The Scottish media contingent are rating this as the worst half of the down-under tour so far
50 mins – Paddy McCourt dribbles around the Victory defence only for Velaphi to make a great save. Victory counter quickly with Solarzano unable to connect with a great cross from Rojas!
62 mins – Celtic captain Scott Brown receives the biggest ovation of the night with his entry to the game as a substitute
65 mins – Anthony Stokes comes on for Celtic to add to their attacking options. They aren’t settling for a draw!
69 mins – Celtic fan getting carried out the Ground unconfirmed reports from The Werrebee Posse that it’s there Convener Pat..;-)
71 mins – Tonight’s crowd ….. 20,794
78 mins – GOAL! Commons corner is hit to an unmarked Brown at the top of the area. His right-footed shot deflects through a pack of players and nestles in the bottom right corner of the net. 1-0 to Celtic
90 mins – There will be three minutes of stoppage time. Celtic fans singing “you’ll never walk alone” with scarves raised. Fill your boots photographers
Midnight – Werrebee Pat arrives Home wife asks what was the Score..? “We hammered them 6-0..There were more there than the 200,000 that were at Seville Darling..” ..-)
Summa of TheLegNedThatIsWerrebeePatMelbourneNo1CSC
The full interview with chuckles is a cracker, he’s telling lots of lies, re-inventing stories from the past and making a complete arse of himself and the whole hun circus.
He should have a half hour show every night on STV.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
00:57 on 7 August, 2013
A White Horse walked into a pub in the heart of Dublin and casually asked for a whiskey.
The bar man said “That is amazing, absolutely amazing! Did you know there’s a whiskey named after you?”
“You’re kidding me” said the horse “there’s a whisky called Dobbin?”
ACGR,
sorry didn’t quite understand your last post,is the whiskey your partaking of £300 a bottle
!!bada bing!!
00:25 on 7 August, 2013
That Peter Adam Smith who interviewed him appears to interview Green and then disappears for months and now he’s back out today interviewing him again.
I wonder why it took a user on twitter to investigate charity theft but these journalist’s can’t and they can’t even ask the ? today.
I wonder if the DR will print the charity theft tomorrow.
Twitter.
what message is being sent out to kids when they see its ok for a club to rob the needy and nothing is done?-sevco have a lot to answer for
hen1rik
01:05 on 7 August, 2013
According to the SFA SPL SFL S F whatever its called now and Celtic they have nothing to answer for.
Usually I’m a bag of jelly before a Euro away game but for some reason I am not worried about tomorro night.
Am I daft, over optimistic or correct?
Mr Lennon has gave our team the extra yard mentally that WGS & M’O’Neill could not.
Read the comments in todays papers by our captain.
They are a proper team, friends & fighters.
HH
Anything the huns do within Scotland is ok.
problem #1. Their cheating spilled out of Scotland ..i.e. LLoyds and HMRC who were having none of it
problem #2. Yesterday was a stock exchange issue
Within Scotland huns are ok. Its external financial forces that trigger their debacles.
gordybhoy64, I didn’t pay £300 for it but at todays prices you could pay that. The first edition Ardbeg was called very young, the second was still young and the third was Almost there (my favourite of the three).
My tipple tonight is the second edition, the Still Young. I’m sure if I searched I could find it for less than £300 but I could also find it for more. I think I paid about £60 a bottle and that was about five years ago.
Ardbeg is without doubt the king of drams, well it is according to my palate.
I’ll bring you a wee sample to the do at the end of Sept.
HHHic!!
BTW
Anyone else work wi a shower of thems that for some reason no longer want to talk about football?
I took it 3 years stinkin from the supremacists I work wi but all of a sudden no-one wants to play?
The pain & bitterness is palpable.
I console myself by going in to work early and cellotaping photo’s of Lenny on to their desks, it’s some laugh, try it!!
HH
Mr Agudelo still on Neil’s wish list?
Margaret McGill – Do you use Skype? I’d like to cyber with you just now.
Morrissey the 23rd
01:20 on 7 August, 2013
Check your gmail
ACGR,
I would have it under lock and key if I were you never mind bringing it to a night out,
I aint a whiskey drinker,but I tried a few one weekend in Edinburgh £6 a half they were
but wouldn’t know a good one from a bad one,i was given a few bottles of Macallan 10 year old by a mate who says they might eventually be worth something since it isn’t being made any more,but tsuppose it will be a long time before there is any value to themhey are available for about £40 on line,
lost my way a bit at end of last post
The MSM reporting of the sevco charity theft is typical of the ‘noble cause corruption’ that was first used by Sir John Woodcock in 1992 when, as Chief Inspector of Constabulary he was attempting to explain why innocent people were sent to prison due to over zealous bobbies who were trying to get a result.
Just like those keen Peelers, no one is going to be held to account because they were just trying too hard.
Chuckles MST be having a wry smile to himself tonight. An EPL team held at 1-1 on an evening when sevcovians had planned a sit-in until the board answered their questions, he was apparently treated to some ‘abuse’ by a section of sevco but rode it out.
Ally’s last game in charge?
Or a shop window for a few players who are pulling down big wages?
gordybhoy64, when I first started buying drams I had an investors hat on. Now I’m not interested in making money from bottlings. If I can recoup my investment from selling a few and introducing others to the pleasure of the uisge beatha, I’m a happy man.
You met me in Glasgow earlier in the year shortly after the Three Elements bottle number 001 auction on here. Did you not get the fact that I was blown away by what CRC achieved with that? It changed my perspective.
As I say, you’re set for a taster of Ardbeg, only a small one mind, I’ll have a few others on hand to try too:-)
HH Big fella.
SV
So true. Bros in law and other relations all of a sudden not wanting to discuss football matters.
Horseface
ACGR,
sorry pal but you must be mixing me up with another poster,
I have only met a couple of CQNrs and that was in Derry,
saying that feel free to bring me a wee taster of Ardbeg,
I fully intend on attending BMCUWP in September,be good to put faces to names
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The HorseFace..
My Wee Man reminded me where the John Man home was but still it doesn’t ring a Bell..;-)
Summa
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Oops..Mam..
Sutton’s volley,
The line which makes me cringe the most is;
“Tae tell ye the truth, Scottish fitbaws oot oan it’s arse, always has been”
Funny how it wasn’t out on it’s arse when Whyte was taking over at Ibrox;
“He he he, you lot are in for it now, this guys a serious businessman with loadsa money tae pump intae us – thought yed never see the likes of Gazza and Laudrup again in Scottish fitbaw…watch this space” (Incidentally, never any mention of Celtic greats in the list of Scottish Footballs best seen players)
I’m still watching, and ironically, that’s exactly what I’m watching, a big empty, skint, space.
What a difference 2 and a bit years makes eh
HH
Margaret McGill 01:24
I have not used Gmail since June 2010! I have managed to get into it and hopefully you have mail. I didn’t.
The Horseface, There’s two huns I work with and neither have wanted to discuss football for the past eighteen months. My Zadoc the priest ringtone really pissed them off last season. I’ll be reintroducing Zadoc as my ringtone should we navigate our way through the next three matches:-)
All I need to do to get under their skin is give them a knowing look and a bit of a cheeky grin, ala Monday morning, and chuck in a bridie comment.
Re the brother in law question, I’ll get back on that one as my hun BOL from Dumfries is coming to visit me in two weeks. I doubt he’ll want to talk about their demise / shame / shambles / death / current zombification status either, but I will…………oh yes, I will indeed.
Charlie says ‘ The club has descended in absolute chaos since he left in April ‘ . The ‘ Club ‘ was fine until then ???????
Summa
Just behind the Orb pub.
Horseface
gordybhoy64, ha ha. Apologies I had you down as part of the vogue triumvirate with VP and Bada Bing. Those guys are uniformly sized at six four minimum.
Well Big Gordon aint getting a dram then, it’s yours instead. I hope the giant isnay upset, FFS.
Gordon, I look forward to meeting you in September and the dram as promised is of course yours.
Hail Hail Buv.
A simple case of mistaken identity between the Gordon’s on the site. I hope Jilted John’s not looking in.
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HorseFace..
Aye l know it My Auntie Lives across the Road..
I’m connected to the McS you mentioned and D..(The Rebels have Won)..on My Mums side Ha Ha..
Summa
A three legged dog limps into a saloon in the Old West.
He slides up to the bar orders a whiskey and announces “I’m looking for the man who shot my paw!!
Summa,
visit to Melbourne/Geelong now looking very likely its will be a go-er.
Just awaiting offeeshul confirmation (and then chasing to get visa of course!).
probs arriving Melbourne Sat 17th……..where will we be able to see the Aberdeen game???
:-)
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Maggie,
those are worse than even anything awe-naw offers……..
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
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The Token Tim
02:11 on 7 August, 2013
Just trying to fit in with the latest moon howlers ya traveller ye :)
The Token Tim
02:11 on 7 August, 2013
Today I was at Ocracoke. Caught 3 croakers, a sea robin and a bunch of Mullets. On CQN nuthin biting :)