People hear what they want to hear. When Neil Lennon was asked at a media conference if he was able to spend £6m on one player, as he was last year, he gave the honest answer; “Yes”. He was able to make this type of signing, but that’s not to say he would regard this as the best use of his very finite resources.
Some felt “cheated” when Celtic ultimately didn’t make a £6m signing, they perhaps only read headlines with promises to that effect, without drilling down to the actual quotes. Nothing can be done about this. Dave King is another story.
King desperately wants to do something positive for Newco Rangers, perhaps mindful of his role as a director when Original Rangers were consigned to liquidation. He wants to believe that he can bring influence to bear on the collection of hedge funds and Respectable Local Businessmen who control Newco, but he appears to be indulging in a bit of ‘hearing what he wants to hear’.
Newco accused King of making “untrue” and “disgraceful” comments, which is perhaps polite for “glib and shameless liar”. Based on their public comments, Newco are in the right. After almost two years of over-promising and under-delivering, they have played clever. Specifically, they did not publicly promise to reveal their forward budget plans for the club before season ticket renewal deadline. Why would they?
King met the board and then told the world he won this assurance from them. I’d be amazed if Graham Wallace was sufficiently malleable to be manipulated into making such a commitment to a man who led Oldco into liquidation. Wallace’s 120 day review period was surely chosen not because it takes anything like this long to discover the blatantly obvious, but because it allowed him to kick all this trouble into the long grass of the close season. Wallace’s entire strategy for this season is not to be drawn on discussing the long metaphoric winter that lies ahead.
A few weeks ago I described King as the Pied Piper of Govan. In truth, I don’t expect many fans will sign up to his hair-brained “give me, not them, your money” plan. It’s far more likely that thousands of would-be fans will simply tune out. There are a million more things people can do than watch lower league football; maybe some could back the team their grandchildren will support, I hear they have Champions League qualifiers coming up.
The worst thing for King right now is for Salary McCoist to fluke a cup win today, allowing Newco to flood their support with season ticket renewal notices on Monday on a wave of positivity. Acting on the eve of such a major game will surely have been a well-considered move. Better all-round if United win, momentum is halted and those hedge funds and Respectable Local Businessmen are forced into a humiliating liquidation.
Don’t bet on it, though. The current key holders will have contingency plans of their own.
Seville – The Celtic Movement
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Unbelievably no yellow for Foster
Ha ha ha ha
lovely miss from dean shiels
I was speaking to an eminent member of the Scottish Judiciary of my acquaintance last week who is a died in the wool Arab and who regularly travels to Tannadice and elsewhere to watch Dundee United.
I asked him if he would be going to Ibrox?
His reply was blunt — even if he were guaranteed a 6-0 united win he would not set foot in the place with an attitude like that.
If United get to the final he will happily go to Celtic park — where he has been on numerous occasions to support united and on other occasions to cheer on Celtic.
He singles Ibrox out as the ground he absolutely detests in football — not just Scottish Football — all football.
And he is a very middle of the road kind of bloke who seeks to be fair on everyone.
!st honest mistake? Hail Hail Hebcelt
Foster was booked in the end. And Shields misses a great chance.
‘you expect a player of his ability to put it in the back of the net’ no you don’t
fk du 25 out
Gave the fourth foul there. We’ll done ref
haha
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
Armstrong for du
Boom
Yasssss
one nil for the good guys!!!!!
Arabs go ahead
Please let me be wrong….
Yeeeesssss
Of ya Francing dancer!!
1-0
Get that right up you
That will do – United open the scoring
Yeeeeeeees!!!!!
YYYEEESSS
There ye go.
Yesssssssss…..
1-0 to the good guys !
yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
very well taken, kept calm and put away brilliantly -well done to the linesman and ref for not blowing for offside
Chickens roost home roost to Ya dancer Hail Hail Hebcelt
Whoooohoooo
Weefra HH supporting and praying Wee Oscar.
hey TET thats worth a beer ……braw cheers abidy …..
Could have been 2
Dalziel on Clyde – against the run of play
Waaaaaa waaaaa
Scum tiring already
dave king spotted doing somersaults down Edmiston Drive
SKY commentators not biased………aye right!
Commentator seems to be more concerned with the chance the HUN missed than the goal united scored
All going swimmingly so far.
:-)
The boy armstrong is a great prospect, someone we should go get.
You’re not Rangers any more
You’re not Rangers any more.
That will never get old.
Too many corners conceded. And now a foul…
excellent
and i’ve found a non-sky related square sausage
much better commentary