The reason a transfer ban was imposed on Rangers is straightforward enough, they bought players and cannot pay for them. Clubs from Vienna to Edinburgh are owed money and have little prospect of being paid ahead of the coming transfer window, a fact which will have an enormous impact on their own competitive challenge next season.
The SFA cannot allow member clubs to continue to splash cash on players while clubs from other associations go without payment. It has a duty to inhibit clubs in violation of the rules from further strengthening while others have been weakened as a consequence.
This notion is tolerated in Scotland (only by those with a vested interest in Rangers flourishing) but is simply untenable. The appeal will be rejected.
It beggars belief that Duff and Phelps complain that Rangers competitive challenge will be inhibited as a result of not being able to sign yet more players, the administrators are the architects of the situation the club finds itself in.
Duff and Phelps devised a plan which would see Rangers retain their squad, or at the very least, be in a position to trade players in the summer. The plan was sold as a great victory, a panacea which would ensure the club would continue to field a competitive team throughout the administration process, something unheard of at other clubs in the same situation.
At significant cost to creditors, they kept players on full pay for several weeks before agreeing to retain the entire squad on reduced salaries. Throughout this period they played teams they owe money to, including Hearts, who they defeated last week while using a player bought from Hearts with an outstanding £800k bill.
For signing players and gaining a competitive advantage, without paying for them, inhibiting competitors’ teambuilding efforts, the only appropriate punishment is a transfer ban.
No disrespect to junior, amateur and lower league teams, but…
One team in Glasgow,
There’s only one team in Glasgow.
One team in Glasgow,
There’s only one team in Glasgow…
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New away top (apparently)
http://pic.twitter.com/Y5n1T2wr
Mort
new article posted.
Listened to the Jeremy Vine show this afternoon, because I like a good laugh.
Apparently the government’s greatest new wheeze to waste your tax money on the feckless and bone-idle involves sending social workers around to wake them up and make them breakfast in the morning, because they refuse to take responsibility for getting themselves up at a reasonable hour and/or sending their own children to school.
Maybe Rangers needs a visit from the social work department, given that they refuse to take even the most basic responsibility for their own affairs?
Their business model seems to be based on the antics of Fagin from Oliver Twist, so arguably their players should be taken into care. (thumbsup)
ASonOfDan on 27 April, 2012 at 13:27 said:
I’m off to Santa Ponsa on Sunday, might try there.
All undergarments must be non sectarian . I blame Catholic schools myself
Off to work alas
Kayak on squad for Sunday
H x 2
Apropos nothing
Early summer book club recommendation.
The Africa Reich by Guy Saville
A pulsating ‘what if?’ thriller positing the idea that our WWII effort died at Dunkirk. USA never bothered and pacts were made. Commodity/Mineral/Fuel rich Africa is divvied up between Germany, Britain, Portugal, etc.
There’s a lot of research and analysis been done but it doesn’t strangle the book. But then the book is just a romp in an old school WWII yarn sort of a way, with cliffhanger after cliffhanger. Classic Nazi villains etc. Not finished it yet but am genuinely enjoying it.
U
McCoist on his discussions with D&P:
“They didn’t tell me who it was or go into any greater detail other than tell me they were very, very close which is obviously encouraging.”
How come he didn’t demand to know their identities?
Jimbo67
I thought the mighty jimbo mr mojo risin was well known for being knickerless?
Mort,
fantastic!
that has to be twittered, facebook shared, multi media’d as much as possible.
ulysses,
I also think the ref will be even more MIB’d up that usual and for that reason alone I think we should all applaud and cheer every decision he gives against us.
Remember what happened in 1999 when Hugh Dallas was struck by a coin. After the match Celtic and Celtic supporters were blamed. I was at that game and it was a horrible atmosphere. I couldn’t believe the match reports after.
How more galling could it be than to be applauded and cheered for every “wrong” or controversial or penalising decision you make? Does it really matter what the result is on Sunday, the game’s up for Rangers (IA), they know it and we know it. This could be the last chance for others to try to show that “we are as bad as them”.
The only and best way to sing the Billy boys is to laugh it. why not extend the same courtesy to the refs?
And you get to have a good old laugh at a Celtic Rangers (IA) match.
Laughter is the best medicine csc
Moonbeams WD. Kano \o/ Neil Celtic FC. We are the Champions. Ignore the WARTS. on 27 April, 2012 at 13:15 said:
HT
Sounds like an episode of Waterloo Road.
Whit yeez dane wae huns in yur staff room.
Kick Huns out of all staff rooms. Worse than smokers the lot of them.
MWD
Waterloo Road, they are filming that at the top of my Street. They have a very nice Ferrari on set today. A couple of weeks ago they had a guy chasing an Ambulance with a machete!!!!!! I am still trying to figure out what the feckless is going on.
This government eh, you’d have thought they’s wasted enough already on making hundreds of thousands unemployed and cutting the tax rates for the wealthiest in the nation and spending multi-millions in setting up NHS consortia that nobody wants.
The wasters eh
Mort on 27 April, 2012 at 13:05 said:
Brilliant. I’ll phone you tonight
MadraRua on 27 April, 2012 at 13:26 said:
The downside is you have to get “Tennents” tattooed too ;-)
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