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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ah shite
huns score
Another sevconian falls over, another free kick.
Hmmm
2 – 1 Dreadful goalkeeping fro a free kick
Scheisse
Keeper makes a mess of it
Poor goalkeeping
This is hilarious
Go united! “Your not rangers anymore”
I don’t miss their bigotry but do miss beating them at Ibrox
Lets not sign utd keeper :(
A minor blip, never a freekick in the first place.
Ok Tele back off
GCT
It ain’t even half time yet….
Dreadful decision to give the free but goalie have a word with herself
Keeper makes a mess of it. 2-1.
Goalie at fault there, Sevco get one back.
Bad timing
They’re still rotten!
thats 2 non existent fouls booby madden has given sevco since the 2nd goal – and that one lead to that goal
there was no doubt he was going to have an influence at some point
im away round to west mains to lay a jobby on his door mat
Keeper went down like a roll of lino
Keeper has looked poor all day
DU denied a pen.
Should be a pen and a red card
Blatant penalty.
The Ref gets involved, clear pen for DU denied.
Elfmeter for sure
Utd denied a good shout for a pen
Dundee Utd stick on pen – not given.
Madden having an impact
Fake amoruso gets away with a shove when sevco got a free kick for less for the goal
If Madden had eyes in the back of his head would he have given Utd a penalty there?
Brother Madden is surpassing himself today
Stonewaller ignored
The Exiled Tim
Until that moment he was ok
Corners and fouls. Their only hope.
I was hoping for a repeat of the penultimate time the old Rangers lost in a Scottish Cup semi – a plucky 6-0 loss to Aberdeen . Dreadful standard of football on display
frank ryan’s whiskey ” independance for shetland now”
13:29 on 12 April, 2014
Keeper went down like a roll of lino
What colour is he wearing I need new Lino for my kitchen?
Stonewaller. Not given. Madden confirms what we already know.
Madden would def have gave that pen the other way
HT, 2-1.