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.
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In town and no time to scroll back, can someone tell me the Eberdeen v St J score please and thank you.
Will Pat Nevin still think that yesterdays scottish cup semi-final is the best game of the season so far?
Doc
2-1 St J
Ta Richie, in Zizzis with the family, they are going to Dancing on Ice later.
Steve lomas is a good mate of our Neil also from their citeh days and I think he favours the deceased club
Enjoy..good grub in there.
Doc
Aberdeen led scored 1st but May scored a double and his 2nd was with just 5 mins to go.
Is it safe to come back on?
Has anyone seen BRTH today? Last thing I can remember he was chatting to a camel…
Steinreignedsupreme
14:46 on 13 April, 2014
Keevins was even better on Clyde.
He said Thompson was sitting among the Utd fans as ‘he has a problem with Glasgow….’ He then went on to list a series of incidents exclusively involving the huns……
new article posted.
Richie, Calamari is magic.
Thunder Road and CowieBhoy, Ta.
They will be no team in Scotland winning the double this year
Love
Henderson had to go for that….does he think he is playing in Scotland?
reds win
Lovely zoom in on the bloke with the Celtic, Liverpool scarf…hun telly’s going out the windaes.:)))
Stevie G. weeping….what a match! 3-2
Well done Liverpool. Cracking game!
Well played Liverpool.
Siesta time zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
sipsini
Saw that too
Well done to both Liverpool and St Johnstone,lets hope
the SFA show some sense and have a pay-in gate at
the final.
Afternoon
margaret mcgill
12:59 on 13 April, 2014
Natlknow
Naw
It was
The wee tax case
The big tax case
And
The VAT bill
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Ha! And that just the stuff we know about. Could be on track for an unprecedented quintuple or more
winning captains, You have mail.
corkcelt
15:38 on 13 April, 2014.
Have you broke the blog? :))
sipsini
16:22 on 13 April, 2014
Have YOU broke the blog??
Hope you don’t mind, but your post deserves repeating:
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bankiebhoy1
10:13 on 13 April, 2014
Pet Navan and Huge Kevin are not the story – its what causes them to have and hold prominence that is…Especially those that purport to work for a respected national organisation with a contracted responsibility to everyone.
As a supporter of this Dear Green Place I will trust that our Bhoys chase down the story…..
…and take it to its conclusion. ( progress on this should be addressed)
What might clog my gears is if we are seen to be just a
…..”$h!7 Disturber”…..
….we all know that Shortie aint straight ……no story there.
Substantive proof needs to be forced home and out in the open with the perpetrators brought to book. Finish the job for the good of….all of us.
If Pet has openly contradicted himself, it might at least be worthwhile asking him the necessary questions as a follow-up. ( who knows, his headphones might have been screwed on to tight, or his apparently brainy napper a tad too big to hear properly…?)
So, for the avoidance of doubt follow up on Pet, follow up on the backstory and get a result we can all share in – the game is dutched enough, and the pitch has been narrowed for too long.
( …and there are very obvious and some sleekit blog bashers who are out to spoil the blog – that’s to be expected in any social medium, they’re not hard to spot)
HH
Is the blog on a go slow?