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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remember hillsborough
remember heysel
Pool 1 up
What a goal by Sterling.
The City back 4 will have to pay to get back in.
TT
robcfc11
Disaster at Spartak Moscow stadium which was the copy of Hillsborough. Also 96 dead and hundreds injured
Ice in your veins stuff from young Sterling.
Just passing through to say….
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croppybhoy
11:43 on 13 April, 2014
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Agreed mate.
The very ghuy to implement all of what
you describe, is sitting in the TV studio
commenting on the SCSF right now.
Only draw back is – big Mark McGhee
disny do – puppet strings !!!
Hail Hail – C’mon the Dons – Off oot.
Spartak Moscow disaster
20 October 1982.
Hart was poor there
Jobo.
Nice one. I guess the fact she let you go to the footie and ‘took you back’ told you she was a special lady!
;-)
Uber composure by the young lad Sterling for the first goal.
HH jamesgang
Jobs
Nice story.
But what was the weather like?
zbyszek.. liverpool were involved in both games i mentioned. no offence intended by not mentioning other stadium disasters.
richie #teamoscar
13:47 on 13 April, 2014
Hart was poor there
–/
I thought so as well. He mirrored the movement of Kompany reducing a 2 man defence to effectively 1 line of defence.
Wee McGinn is playing well
And as a final postscript – first date 13/4/06, firth house bought 13/5/88, married on 13/8/88, daughter born at 9.13pm, So yes, 13 is indeed an unlucky number! ;-)
You got married, bought a hourse and had a wean all before your first date????
Tight wad. ;>{}
googybhoy –
oops, first date 86 not 06 ;-)
1-1 May
2-0 Pool !!
Liverpool & St. J score
L-I-V E-R-P- O-O-L-LIVERPOOL FC… (Robert Carlyle as ‘Albie’)
CEEEEEEEEEEEEEL-TIC CEEEEEEEEEEEEELTIC (Robbie Coltraine as FItz)
“Cracker”,;To Be A Somebody’ October 1994
tobcfc11
No offense taken. I did not understand you were talking about Liverpool. Wanted to mention similar disaster.
Liverpool giving Citeh a right doing here
Liverpool running riot 2-0 but should be 4!
Liverpool pace and movement upfront is simply superb. Dzceko on the other hand is not good enough at this level.
McGinn should have scored!!!
Stevie May’s finish was excellent for St J. The pitch is still narrow and there still seems to be an omerta in place on the subject.
At least both teams are playing good, quality football today, unlike yesterday, when sevco dragged United down to their atrocious level……
Great finish!
Topper from May ….2-1 Saints
Brilliant goal by Stevie May! Hope St J hold out.
2-1 Saints. May again.
Scrolling back @ 9.52
Honest mistake
Totally missed the point I was making. I realise that sevco have cheated EVERY team in Scotland.
Point that I was making was that Celtic were not Nevins club and as such he would have no problem in acting as an apologist for the hun hordes both on and off the pitch. Their “footballers” and the massed ranks of the Nuremberg choir.
Pity, – thought we were all set for an old firm final.
Well remembered jobo. I get into a panic every September trying to remember if my anniversary is the 24th or 28th!!
Well done St Johnstone! Hope wee Jackie’s boys win the cup!
Coffee then second half of Liverpool vs. City
Well done Saints.
oh well I had hoped there would be no blue at CP but hey ho not that bothered
God Bless WeeOscar
HH
Dis that mean McInness isny manager of thi year :-)
Well what about that – a team in blue wins at ipox!!
And a Tayside derby in the Scottish Cup Final. Armageddon isn’t that bad . . . . .
Yurcl