Dictionaries across the English speaking world will need to be updated for the term ‘loose cannon’, currently- noun, a person whose reckless behaviour endangers the efforts or welfare of others. In future they should be appended, ‘Charles Green’.
For months Charles has been busy telling anyone who would listen to him that his The Rangers club will never appear in the Scottish Premier League. Now, he has told the world the Scottish Football League are set to propose reconstruction which would see the end of the SPL and create one fewer step between his new club and top flight football. He told TalkSport, “I understand that the Football League [presumably he means the SFL]on Wednesday are having a meeting of clubs and it’s the intention of the executive to unveil what they think would be a restructuring plan for Scottish football.”
Green is one of the few from the SFL who have had anything to do with the plan, few were aware of it until his announcement yesterday. I hear the other architects of the plan inside the SFL are chief executive, David Longmuir and Airdrie United director, Jim Ballantye. My source also told me SFA president, Campbell Ogilvie was “in on the ground floor with the SFL plans”. They will all, surely, be frustrated that Green was out there with the news before the league were.
As STV today reported, the SFA have set a deadline of 30 November for the leagues to agree a reconstruction plan, “threatening they would instead push through with their own plans to bring about change by the 2013/14 season if an agreement could not be reached”. That’s next summer!
Timing here is everything, and is urgent.
The SPL Commission will soon convene into Improper Registration of Players at Rangers…
the predecessor club of The Rangers…
whose SFA membership The Rangers benefited from in order to compete in league football with less than three years accounts…
and who consequently are liable for penalties served on Rangers.
If found guilty, and no one is holding to the pretence otherwise anymore, the consequences for The Rangers are enormous. Forget about the inevitable stripping of titles, this is of historical consequence only, prize money [of circa £15m]will also be reclaimed and a punishment levied.
As I have said before, the toxicity of the old club is simply not viable to continue with. Newco Rangers either have to start from scratch, or the structures of Scottish football need to brought down with any penalties due wiped from the slates.
The Rangers share prospectus, now overdue, will have to detail these risks to the company unless an alternative narrative can be agreed and presented.
The chances of the SPL giving this Longmuir, Ballantyne and Ogilvie plan serious consideration are remote. It is a nonsense, will be rejected by the SPL and may even face opposition from those clubs within the Scottish Football League who stand to benefit from the change, but will find the motivations behind it unsupportable.
Scottish football is enjoying a well-earned renewal this season, no thanks to the game’s administrators, but the serious allegation, that many leagues and cups were won for over a decade by a club which was paying players against the tax laws of the country and against SFA, SPL and Fifa regulations, has yet to be resolved.
Until we know the truth, hear the consequences, know that those responsible are no longer in control of the game and have been banned for life from future involvement, there can be no talk of expedient change.
STV’s revelation that the SFA have imposed a 30 November deadline is the greatest illustration yet why “heavily conflicted” Campbell Ogilvie should have been on garden leave months ago. All those who carried out the duties which led to this shambles, and who have legal responsibility for it, should receive the life ban from the game that was promptly applied to Craig Whyte.
A swift rebuttal of this nonsense with a clearing of the decks is required. There can be no discussions on these matters while inquiries are on-going and those responsible for recent events are still running the game.
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Just read that Hun crap…hilarious ..reminds me of O level accounts
The valuation figures are particularly enlightening …however downright disingenuous
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire 21:08:
Just caught your post…no not a fraudulent claim any good lawyer e.g ….PFayr would argue correctly that what they state is accurate and that they chose to accentuate the positives in order to attract investors.
As I posted earlier and …PFayr posted no respectful institution will invest. Football Clubs are not for investing to make money, except of course if your name is Green.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Paul67 et al
Overheard at the Emirates at the weekend…
“Awe naw no Mannone oan an awe noo”
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
There was a fatality and the lawyer is in hospital.
Lennybhoy…,
wouldnt the word “is” make it fraudulent :oD))
Sevco’s powerpoint – interesting small print:
Strike presentation or copy – taken or transmitted – distributed (directly or indirectly) to:
The USA (or US persons), Canada, Australia, RoI, RoSA (rules out King), Japan or to any resident thereof.
The presentation being made on the basis that the recipients keep confidential any information contained herein or otherwise made available……………….
Well does this restrict circa 4.8M of their Worldwide fan base from contributing??
Lennybhoy
What did you think of Skyfall?
SPF
ASonOfDan
20:56
Agreed. :) Neither my daughter or myself had ever used powerpoint before, but she’d been asked to do a 1st year high school presentation, so she asked me to help her put it together. Between us we had a slide show going after about an hour that was better than that!!!! :)))))
Books
Canamalar
No …
Suggestion that the driver of the other vehicle had a heart attack and crash head on into RMCK car..
ticketbus says NO!
thetimreaper
god rest the fatality victim and best wishes for a full recovery for the injured.
But the unreported intimidation and already violence perpetrated make the question valid, I have no intention of besmirching the victims.
But when they are posting bombs and bullets, threatening to burn down stadiums, being briefed by anti terrorist units, IMO its valid.
PFayr..,
cheers, for the info
I’ll say no more on the subject.
time for a pint
hail hail
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire 21:16:
I love a trier, no it would n’t as technically they are until the liquidation is finalised. I might be pedantic but until the liquidation process is completed they are. However, the presentation is from sevco5088 so there could be an argument that is a historical fact about an institution loosely related to them.
ScotPatsFan 21:19:
It was okay, not what it was hyped up to be, unexpected ending.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Got the slide show open. Can you still pledge for shares, I think my £120k really isn’t enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux_QhYc4oy4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Had never seen this before, magic. Anything with Christy and billy Connelly can’t be bad.
Interesting that sevco seem to think they’ve got a smaller payroll than Hearts, despite signing four of Hearts best players recently.
They’ve compared 2011 payroll with sevco’s ‘current year’. But is that ‘year to date’?
KK
It’s a NO, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER! from me (and big Ian)
Lennybhoy
Yeah. I’d agree with you.
Not for me.
SPF
Only two clubs in the United Kingdom have had more than half a million fans through the gates so far this season, Manchester United & Celtic
Beat that Sevco
KK
NO ,NAE ,NEVER,NO,NAE ,NEVER,NO MORE
Their presentation is one of the worst I have ever seen. I cannot for the life of me see any institutional investor buying into this. Most of it is so nonsensical its not worth analysing. Just 2 points attracted my attention, they make a big point that the possibility of both themselves & Celtic being allowed to enter Colt Teams in a lower League could set the ground for both Clubs to break away from Scotland in the future. Secondly they are allowing for an Investment of UP to 10 million pounds in player purchases post 2014.
….pfayr
21:35 on
13 November, 2012
KK
NO ,NAE ,NEVER,NO,NAE ,NEVER,NO MORE
Go’n yersel
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
Understand, theres no depth to what these lowlifes can do and
are doing.
Definitely off this time.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
theweegreenman
21:08 on
13 November, 2012
As you say, there is something going on……..Surely everything is not being delayed to allow their sham share issue (greengo’s pension) to be completed …….. Have they not learned from their historical devious mistakes……..they could end up destroying football in this country altogether……..it’s so obvious that there is collusion in all of this, but they will fail…
Forgive me Ghuys,but I think the share issue looks quite professional.
Then again I am typing this on the Tommy Tutor Play computer.
Another thing I notice now that there is no rangers in the league.
No blatant displays of referee bias in favour of one club.
We’ve dropped plenty of points so far but blamed it fairly and squarely on the team performance and not the referee.
Good to see the back of “honest mistakes”
Why anyone would want these crooks back is beyond me.
Looking through a few spl team forums, and they think in general
that we`re up for this reconstruction and the entry of a celtic
reserve team.
asonofdan
20:56 on
13 November, 2012
LOTS OF LOL……….. VERY AMATEURISH….and not even accurate…..
EZ!
Strange how this “NEWS” from the SFA about possible intro of Colt teams coincides with Greens begging letter which tries to make a big issue of this very fact. The thinly veiled insinuation in the begging letter is both our Clubs Colts could stay & play in Scotland but our first teams would play in a bigger League outside Scotland.
I cant believe the amount of so-called Celtic fans who say they miss the huns in the SPL. Do they ever take stock of what that football club and their following stand for? Do they remember the murders of innocent Celtic fans? Have they forgiven them for their vile songs about genocide and the weekly slurs against the great Jock Stein? How on earth can any one of us excuse a club whose sole purpose of exisence is to beat us by any means legal or illegal.
I could go on all night but just remember this. If we were in their position we’d be ostracized by now, with no way back. There would be no cry for help from the msm and certainly no calls for leniency from the hun support. In fact if we’d cheated them out of trophies and CL revenue, they’d be working out a repayment plan for us right now. Can you imagine us bumping the crown for X millions in tax and one single hun wanting us back?
I can also picture Salmond on National News apologising for the shame this once great football club has heaped on the country. How different things would be. And yet we still have some clowns who want them back because they ‘miss the buzz’.
I’ve got great memories and some bad ones too, but i dont ever want to see another game between the two clubs. There are many great football rivalries throughout the world but i doubt very much if any others have been loaded in favour of one club, the way the huns have been afforded, and at our great expense.
hh
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
21:41
The share issue must succeed. How else are we going to get our financial compensation out of them? :)
Pens
marrakesh express
21:48 on
13 November, 2012
The only good memories i have of that lot are when we pumped them and when they died
H.H
All
i have just viewed the first two slides and its a joke ……They will not be living in any form soon
HH
Just watched 4 eposide’s of the Thick of IT.. Def not family viewing!!
Interesting Rangers Season ticket prices average 33% lower than Celtic.
What makes this appealing to an investor?
What makes this relevant to anything?
Strangely enough most clubs 3 divisions lower are at least the same, oh er!!!
Broadcast Revenues = NIL
BUT…. we are the biggest contributor to most other clubs.
WTF!!!
Rangers and Celtic could break away from national association!!!
How to win friends and influence people!!
There plan to invest 10 million in new players depend on them raising 25 million. Anything less then 15 million and they have zilch to spend on the team.