Urgency behind SFL plan

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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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  1. fergus slayed the blues on

    To think that the deceased club that was ragers tried to obliterate us from the game but only succeeded in destroying themselves ,now the spawn that is trying to pass itself off as the deceased club now desperately cling to us as a positive in the prospectus to prevent them from being flushed down the pan and all we ever hear from the peepil is that Scottish football won’t survive without a ragers (any bloody ragers ).

     

    So Ibrokes is now worth 65m I never knew that rust was so valuable on the metals market

  2. 67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors

     

     

    I understand that the ref (a Geordie) call over Mikael and states “Shut Up, Mikael’ at which point a team mate (Ramieres) runs past the ref at the time, Ramieries who needs english translation assistance thinks he hears the ref calling Mikael …wait for .it ‘a Monkey ‘ , he cannot work out what the ref states so he asks the centre half ,Luiz, another Portuguese speaker with skills in North East of England dialect who confirms that the ref indeed called their team mate a monkey.

     

     

    This is the biggest load of trash for a long time and Chelski should be hauled over the coals for bringing this clearly ridiculous charge.

     

     

    Talking of trash, the IPO powerpoint is an utter scream and was only bettered by the 5 slides they cobbled together when they presented to the SPL teams to keep them in the league…….

     

     

    one conundrum the IPO presentation does not address is that the reason the previous regime adopted dodgy tax schemes and the like was because they could not grow their revenue in any legitmate way, so they cut their costs illegally….. so what action will they start on 18 Dec 2012 which no one elses has thought of over the last 25 years…… what will they do with the investors money?

     

     

    Doomed to complete and utter failure with serious investors, needs the muppets to shell out , hence the reason Walter is back in the saddle.

     

     

    Walter’s judgment is brutally flawed and this latest mistake will eventually tarnish his legend status with the bears ………..

     

     

    What

  3. bookies pen for a button on a blazer

     

     

    22:27 on

     

    13 November, 2012

     

     

    I don’t think we should be the ones to suffer. I was alluding more to the participation of our “colts” in SFL3.

     

    IF. Celtic are not party to this scheme, then I feel they should make it known.

     

    Show chuckles, Longmuir, Regan et al for the liars and schemers that they are.

  4. I assume the prospectus will disclose the name of the surveyor who provided the valuations for Ipox and Minty Park.

     

     

    Hopefully it will also tell what medication he/she was on at the time.

  5. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    I actually thought smith, blue knights were all working away in the background on a new club when zombies2 failed but, with Smith joining greengo’s bored (he he), it is patently obvious there is no plan C……..Night all..!!

  6. jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on

    Brot 2 lts of Ballantynes back from Tenerife. Hope the 2nd litre is as good as the 1st was!!

  7. Wow, that Charlie and his presentation, what a supporters base

     

     

    Mibbe I shouldn’t have made share pledges under Uruguay Noamno and Chile Intit

     

     

    Looks like I’ve inadvertently setup sevco fan clubs

  8. I am now leaving this site and will not post again, my obsession with the conspiracy in Scottish football has seen me question an accident?

     

    I need to get a grip on myself and adjust my perspective. Please learn from my mistake and understand that there is a world out there beyond our narrow viewpoint.

     

    I will still look but desist from shaming myself.

  9. fergus slayed the blues on

    ernie lynch ,I think you will find that it was

     

    M,Goo and Co

     

    Waldo where’s ma coat

     

    hail hail

  10. Marrakesh Express on

    I think its safe to say that your average hunstritch prefers to keep his napper in the sand rather than search for the truth on RTC or Phil.

     

    On that note, I look forward to a Monday morning in work when one of them updates me on the Sevco situation. Since last year I’ve not had one single negative report. Its all sweetness and light this week with Green ‘getting to grips with things’ and ‘clubs falling like dominoes without us in the Spl’.

     

    God knows who the sources are but if its not the toilet cleaner at Centre One (who said the tax case was won), or some geezer at a ludge meeting, it must be propoganda leaflets getting dropped by bomber Green.

     

    Long may they keep getting it wrong.

     

    Hh

  11. jmccormick

     

     

    22:50 on 13 November, 2012

     

     

    I wouldn’t beat yourself up about it. You’ve only said what a lot of people were thinking. It was hardly malicious.

  12. CultsBhoy loves being 1st forever & ever on

    I have much to be thankful for in relation to the Barca game..and most of all it is the news imparted to me today from my (highly impressionable) 10 year old.

     

     

    As some of you know, he plays a fair bit of football including Saturday and Sunday – which severely limits his (and my) ability to see Celtic at Parkhead. So we end up going to Pittodrie.

     

     

    A few other things have happened this year – he’s been at AFC training, his pal’s dad plays for AFC and has taken him to player’s lounge on match day. So all of a sudden he wants an AFC strip last August for his birthday. Being a ‘tolerant’ dad and believing in allowing children to develop their own minds I have stood back and supported him all the way. (Conscious that children rebel against being forced to do anything)

     

     

    Today he tells me he wants a Celtic strip for Xmas and that he wants Celtic to beat AFC on Saturday. I ask him why the change of mind? He tells me Barca game reminded him how much he loves Celtic.

     

     

    All of this is great – confirms that he is HIGHLY IMPRESSIONABLE but also makes me wonder how many other 10 year old boys across the country were impressed?

     

     

    …I never doubted him (honest!)

  13. jmccormick

     

     

    We all that goes on in this country , I can understand your take on it

     

    but dont beat yourself up about it.

  14. Bookies Pen for a Button on a Blazer on

    southside

     

     

    22:47

     

     

    Honestly, I think if this garbage gets going we should withdraw ourselves from the corruption, otherwise we are tainted by the stench. It won’t wash off easily.

     

     

    Blazers

  15. Fholks,

     

     

    Can anyone assist? I am in the very fortunate position to have now paid off my mortgage and have received a letter from my mortgage company to engage with a solicitor if I want to remove the ‘charge’ against my title deeds for my house.

     

     

    I understand this ‘charge’ means that that against the title deeds there is a ‘charge’ logged that my mortgage company has an interest in my property.

     

     

    Anyone know if I should arrange for this ‘charge’ to now be removed and also if so what the lawyers fees are likely to be?

     

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

     

    Hail! Hail!

  16. Bookies Pen for a Button on a Blazer on

    Marrakesh Express

     

     

    22:52

     

     

    :)))) LOL

     

     

    Heard a Celt tell a hun not to speak to him about football ever again, until he can come and tell him something that turns out to be true.

     

    Hun was raging. :))))))))))))

     

     

    Books

  17. ernie lynch

     

    thetimrieper

     

     

    Thanks , but I worry that I am turning into a narrow minded cretin( like the other lot) that I despise. Or the type of moron who phoned up SSB last week and questioned why Barca were the best team in the world when they ” coodny pit a coarnir intae the box ”

     

    Sorry guys, that`s a path I do not wish to tread.

     

    Hail! Hail!

     

     

    see what i just did ……started posting again….what a fraud.

  18. jmccormick

     

     

    I don ‘t think we have a narrow view point.

     

     

    The evidnece is before our eyes, they have cheated, stolen, flaunted all the rules, Lied, etc, etc.

     

     

    There is a cover up of major proportions going on.

     

     

    Keep posting.

  19. THE EXILED TIM

     

     

     

    “I don ‘t think we have a narrow view point.”

     

     

    My mistake, I do not claim to speak for all of us, just being reactive to my own stupidity.

  20. This is a little comedy snippet from Etims twitter……….

     

     

     

    Etims twitter – Reports reaching us that Peter Lawwell negotiated HMRC payment plan with Hearts. No one at Rangers available to comment as club dead.

     

     

    This is an actual post from a Sevco blog.

     

     

    (@DarthKasei) on November 13, 2012 at 10:22 pm said:

     

    “Have to say I’m utterly disgusted with HMRC’s actions recently they have been nothing short of disgraceful, they let Rangers go on for 9 months not paying tax before taking action, yet the wait only 2 before hitting hearts, then to make matters they allow hearts to negotiate an extension and a repayment plan, where they simply refused to enter into any discussion with us, liewells reach seems to much further than anyone thought. One rule for rangers, a different one for everyone else. Disgraceful.”

     

     

    Yes, Peter Lawwell (known as liewell in Sevco circles) runs HMRC now. We should bear this in mind. Can’t be easy having 2 jobs.

     

     

    Reply ↓

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    Everyone knows what an APP is. We download them every day to our mobile phones and/or tablets and use them every day whether it be for gaming, shopping, banking, booking restaurants, holidays, downloading podcasts, downloading music etc. on the go.

     

     

    As an example think ARGOS. You download their APP to your ANDROID phone or iPhone, tablet or iPAD and order goods from your phone or tablet, pay for your goods and they are delivered directly to your door without the need to visit online websites hassle free in minutes on while travelling to work sitting on the train or bus.

     

     

    Your company will benefit from a fully integrated APP connected to your companies IT systems that your customers can download for free to their mobile phones and/or tablets providing a professional sales solution tailored to your companies target market and customers.

     

     

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  22. I hope there is big uptake from ordinary sevconians.

     

     

    Why?

     

    Once bitten, twice shy.

     

     

    They might get enough to make it through to the seasons end. When they need a bail out again it wont happen.

     

     

    Buy buy buy

  23. eNCA (African news channel) reporting Man Utd to offer $19m for big Victor in Jan.

     

    No idea of the accuracy – not very at a guess.

  24. jmccormick

     

     

    Ok, I will rephrase it.

     

     

    I don’t think you have a narrow view point.

     

     

    Talking about accidents.

     

     

    They managed to cover up an accident that involved the future King of britlands mother, so you are entitled to ask questions, as ernie said, most of us probably thought it in any case. I know I did.

     

     

    I wouldn’t put anything past them and their masonic cabal.

  25. Bookies Pen for a Button on a Blazer on

    estorilbhoy

     

     

    23:02

     

    I think that’s correct. Another piece of bureaucracy to dip your pocket. Not sure if you need a solictor, but I’d say it would be most likley.

     

     

    Pen

  26. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    Jmccormick …… If we (including your GOOD self) hadn’t steadfastly pursued the truth, they would have got away with it ……..keep posting, and keep the faith …. HH

  27. Right off to bed. When i wake up rangers will still be dead. Sevco will still be playing in d3 and chick greens grandson will be in big trouble with his IT teacher for the shoddy nature of his powerpoint coursework. Fail.

  28. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Got it on good authority Celtic park will be inspecte by Hans Blix, turns out the Green Brigage have been building weapons of mass entertainment.

     

    WhodathunkitCSC