When Duff and Phelps put their initial deadline in place for bidders for Rangers back in March, Celtic Quick News took the view that Craig Whyte was the only show in town and that any successful bid for the company’s assets would have to come from him or his proxy.
We didn’t know who his proxy would be then and we are still not sure – although we could have a pretty good guess.
Place the current SPL and SFA dramas aside for a moment. If a deal is done to allow a Rangers-Newco to apply to play football next season the new ‘owner’ will be a Craig Whyte appointment.
If this unfolds in the days to come, I fully expect the SFA will take a very long time to consider any Fit and Proper questions, and I expect the SPL board will vote 4-1 to allocate a share in the league to the Newco.
Celtic, united with their own fans, and fans of the Gang of 10 clubs stand in one corner. The boards of the Gang of 10 want Rangers-Newco money too much to object. Don’t even count on Newco being subject to the penalties discussed at yesterday’s meeting.
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As a few on here have suggested there probably is more truth than we realize to the idea: people want to be seen as pro-hun for fear of inciting the infamous horde wrath. I’m a rough prol from caslemilk/govanhill who has experienced his fair share of violence but I would still feel a certain amount of intimidation in the circumstances. All we have to do is think of what Lenny has put up with so heroically. Suits like Dungaster are middle class guys who have probably never been in a real fight in their cotton wool lives…all of a sudden you have the potential threat of savagely illiterate raw meat eaters released from their rusty cages & banging on your door with dodgy parcels
LiviBhoy on 1 May, 2012 at 13:54 said:
If Sky is to be binned en masse then I reckon a date should be selected and all Celtic supporters do it on the same day.
Was just about to lift the phone to Sky,great idea with maximum impact.We can show the lapdogs etc,TV money is not the driver here.HH
Mort
I am not interested in being the strongest team in the league. That’s not what it’s about for me. If it was I would have been a Liverpool supporter in the eighties before switching to Man U. I was a Celtic supporter through all the barren years where I was labelled paranoid when I saw what in front of me.
The time has arrived where it has been proven to be all true.
Now I am expected to swallow it and it’s as you were
NO
Phil MacGiollaBhain @Pmacgiollabhain Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Just spoke to a senior SPL source. Ralph Topping resignation: “out of the blue”…
The Sky deal is a red herring hung out on a line by one and all of the save the dirt brigade as a smokescreen to drive through their dirty plan…
A planned protest then a boycott of all away games.
Neil wanted us not to boycott last year but remember at that time we were chasing a title.
Letters to SFA/SPL and to all clubs including our own threatening with boycott action.
There are legal options all over the place if that gimp-masked lot are allowed to just wander back in,all sins forgiven. No WAY can they be allowed to just stroll about like masters of the universe. They are proven lying cheating bigoted racist fascists who couldnae pay for a lucky bag. They will be mashed up in court for a very very long time if they try to slither out of this debacle.
one point for SFA, SPL etc.
what’s the point in holding meetings to discuss new rules etc…?
quite clearly you don’t have the guts to enforce the rules you already have, so what’s the point in another lot of toothless rules?
To the SPL clubs, vote in accordance with your financial fears and you sell your soul, along with the soul of the game to the devil. You may as well ‘sell’ your club to rangers ‘cos they clearly control your business & thoughts already.
Anyone care to look up the dictionary for the word ‘sport’ ? I guess that page has been removed.
wonkyradar on 1 May, 2012 at 14:45 said:
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A great comment.
wonkyradar on 1 May, 2012 at 14:45 said:
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Aye….exactly. That is one more good reason to kick them to death ( metaphorically & legally ) while they’re down.
Scum, ALL of them.
I can’t speak for anyone else here, but as far as I am concerned, I will continue to put my money into watching Celtic. Living in southern England, I only get up to Paradise a handful of times a season. It remains an enduring highlight for me to watch the Hoops play, win , lose, or draw.
I only attend matches at CP, buy any of my merchandising directly from the Store at Parkhead, and don’t subscribe to SKY anyway.
I hope and trust that either the Celtic Board and/or UEFA finally nail the cheats that administer the farce we are forced to endure as a home league, but if it remains a twisted fix, then it will be little different to the crooked mess we have endured for the best part of the last half century that I have been faithful through and through.
Just my 2p worth.
HH
We live in a country where young children cannot get the treatment they need on the NHS to fight Cancer but where a football club which cheats the UK public revenue to the tune of £100 million or so simply to win a few trivial football trophies is regarded as being part of the “fabric of the nation” and is protected at all costs by the authorities and other clubs.
These people have lost all any sense of decency they may once have had. Shame on them all.
All that is going on now to save Rangers is really just an extension of the cheating which we’ve become used to over the years. Therefore, signing up to a newco Rangers in the SPL next season is just asking for more of the same old torture and anguish. Not for me.
After reading this tweet @alextomo: Just for clarity – there is no – repeat NO – chance of Scot Prem League dropping rule-change vote and player probe for Bill Miller
Do we really trust the SFA/SPL after all the SFA said they didnt have discussions with Bill Miller but kerrydale street said they have been in discussions for the last 7 weeks with the SPL/SFA
Awe Naw
My dad was a Belfast Celtic supporter.
That great club took a principled stance and were consigned to the history books.
Belfast Celtic had won 14 titles when they disolved, Linfield had 18.
I am sure Linfield really worry about their lack of competition as they went on to win another 32 titles.
Is that we want here?
The Onlooker
in the coming weeks, sky, already know that x% will cancel during the summer, I agree setting a date to all cancel would make more impact.
Just how many will take the half-price offer and then resign in August though!
Haha
I’ve just worked maself into a right bad mood!
Away for a walk……
So is Ralph Topping’s resignation an attempt to show his disapproval of soon to be upheld SFA sanctions, or a prelude to the SFA granting Newco a licence, from which he’d have to distance himself?
My dear,dear,dear,friend Ray-Singh-Carr.
Ye are taliking…Sound Uncommon Sense.. Pally..
That’s whit ye are.. Atalkin’!
It all boils doon tae this..
“Whose Off Ox is Being Gored?”
And.. You have clearly stated.. that
You are quite Sure in YOUR Mind..
That That.. “OX” shall NOT be Your’s!
Maks Sense Tae Me.
Kojo
Yer pal. who likes ye aloater
Still, Laughin’
£11m
That’s the guaranteed money (not including gate receipts) the club will make if we are the only Scottish side to make next season’s CL group stages
How the worms are turning.
By Chick YoungBBC Scotland football pundit Rangers, it seems, are ploughing towards liquidation as surely as the Titanic towards the iceberg.
To escape would be miraculous: but I fear the end is nigh.
Quite the biggest story in the history of the Scottish game has triggered emotions which range from the grief and anger of the Ibrox support to the dark humour of Celitc’s Green Brigade whose remarkable artwork featuring the amended four horsemen of the Apocalypse was the product of talent and man hours.
I did smile at the banners and imitation gravestones on display at Celtic Park on Sunday.
It’s incredible how creative people can be at the expense of others, like the announcer at Celtic Park who chose to play the Three Degrees classic
When will I see you again?
as the Rangers support and team departed.
Meanwhile, the SPL have a new philosophy: turning procrastination into an art form.
The decision has been made to make the decision later
.
However, while others are in stitches, Rangers are failing spectacularly to see the funny side of all this.
And Celtic fans who are eager to dance on the grave of the Ibrox club should be careful what they wish for, trust me.
Even if Rangers manage to cough and splutter out of administration with a CVA they will be weary and wounded for years to come. And one-horse races tend to be a little yawn inducing.
If you thought Ally McCoist’s team at Celtic Park were a shambles then in days still to come it could get much worse. I suspect supporters of the club may yet recall 29 April 2012 with some nostalgia.
Rules have been breached and therefore there must be punishment. But I find it distressing that the priority is not saving the club.
Scottish football cannot afford to lose any organisation that promotes our game, from Third Lanark to Gretna, far less a business which attracts 50,000 customers to home games.
These people will not spread in the breeze to new adopted clubs, to Paisley or Maryhill or Motherwell or Greenock. They will chuck it. And the national sport will shrink accordingly.
Celtic will have no competition and the league will become a parade. It will be an embarrassment of a competition.
The anger of the Rangers support who marched on an empty Hampden
in a gesture which did little more than ease their frustration and advertise their fury might have been better directed at club owner Craig Whyte.
They seek him here, they seek him there but Whyte will never again be seen at Ibrox and could still collect the jackpot from his majority shareholding.
Unless that is, we have liquidation which would trigger a full investigation into what has really been going on at the club under his term of duty and that of his predecessor Sir David Murray.
Transparency? If that is what they really want then rip the body apart in the post mortem. And be prepared for some grim truths.
Creditors will be horrified at the prospect but it is in truth the only real option now.
from KDS
Press Release:
‘Following inaccurate media reports, the Blue Knights/Brian Kennedy Consortium wishes to clarify its position.
Firstly, on Saturday evening 28 April 2012, we submitted a materially increased offer which will be confirmed by the administrators, Duff & Phelps.
Secondly, and for the avoidance of doubt, our offer is conditional on a CVA and the delivery of Craig Whyte’s shares.
If successful, this will retain the SPL membership share in RFC 1899.
Dave Swanton
Twitter @swannymediaman
LiviBhoy on 1 May, 2012 at 13:54 said:
I’m with you on the 25th May for cancelling SKY Sports and ESPN.
As for renewal of S.Book or not, my mood changes with that just now depending if I’ve eaten or not.
Will defo leave decision on that till the last minute depending on what comes out of Celtic Park.It would hurt not going to see Celtic but it would hurt also paying into an officially backed hun rigged league.
I’m not paying for a seat at the back of the bus!!
Phil MacGiollaBhain @Pmacgiollabhain Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
Would Mr Topping be conflicted on some way if it comes to the SFA green lighting NewCo “RFC” club licence?
Well would he, a famous bluenose is he no Mr Topping???
Whatever happens they will still have the referees to help them.
Sort the referees, Sort the problem.
Sixteen roads to Golgotha
I will not shell out over £600 to watch a league that is rigged and corrupt, in fact i will not shell out 1p to watch a league that is OFFICIALLY rigged and corrupt. What would be the point?
Celtic would better chucking it that play along. we could never ever complain about anything as we signed up for a corrupt league.
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on 1 May, 2012 at 14:44 said:
I T alert
Whats the best way to Defrag my Laptop?? Keep it simples please!! lol
Go to- start-all programs-accessories-system tools- disk defragmenter.
Ii takes a while though, depending on how much it needs defragged.
I use a free program called defraggler, it’s a bit quicker.
Onlooker
You are scaremongering.
Why would that happen ?
We would all be playing only within the confines of Scotland. We would be doing so reluctantly.
Our Old Firm followers would still get their product.
The SFA would be starved of income due to the international ban.
We might eventually even win our cases. That would mean a lot more income.
And if we dont then we can phoenix with a Newco if the legal costs prove too much to keep satisfying our Old Firm followers.
If there are any Celtic fans left I doubt it.
But plenty of Old Firm followers
Might be a good opportunity to introduce Glasgow United to the world.
HH
googybhoy
So do we just roll over and let thems tickle our bellies for the next 10years?? They must be stripped of all things they won by default over the last 10years. Then we maybe just maybe negotiate!!
Realise it’s a bit late, but only got round to watching the game (minus the heart-stopping panic reserved for these matches). Agree with most posters who saw Commons and Ledley as our best players. Izaguirre was excellent, but Matthews disappointed slightly – not much to choose between him and Cha in that formation.
We have come to rely very much on Commons, both in this and in the 4-3-1-2 we’ve been playing. In each case, he’s worth two players in terms of the influence he brings Celtic’s play (less of the pie jokes now, I think). I would have liked to see how Paddy plays there (it’s where he featured when he played for Shamrock Rovers) but difficult to see past Commons (damn – did it again).
I’d keep the 3-5-2, but give Cha another go on Thursday.
Ernie Lynch
What a wonderful opportunity Paul67 has provided you with.
There will be quite a few fans who share your concerns about the boards stance.
Why don’t you go along and ask the board directly and then report back to us on the blog?
TT
Still nothing from the sfa judiciary panel
Headtheball on 1 May, 2012 at 14:54 said:
All that is going on now to save Rangers is really just an extension of the cheating which we’ve become used to over the years. Therefore, signing up to a newco Rangers in the SPL next season is just asking for more of the same old torture and anguish. Not for me.
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Well said that man, how will people feel when Huns are back in the league with no points deduction after all their years of cheating debt free.
Not for me either.
Still nothing from the sfa on the Huns threatening behaviour
Why this Sudden Realization .. that If the G.A. waltz right back intae the League,as a Newco…
Then.. Several August Members of this Sainted Blog..
wull Withdraw thur Support tae Celtic, by Refusing tae Re-New Thur season Ticket.. because they wull be Damned if they wull Pour thur Hard earned Money, into a Corrupt League???
Hey…You guys, who are threatening tae dae this..
Are You Telling Me..
That ,Ye didnae Know.. Before, this is gonna tak place..
That
The S.P.L his Bin A
CORRUPT and Dishonest League.
Fur..
One Hundred andUmpteen..
YEARS!!
Man, you guys, are kinda Slow in the Uptake..
Kojo.
Still ,Laughin’
Year
Darren O’Dea
Irish young player of the year – Surely we must look to keep him. An Irish International on our books and we are looking to punt him. Must be a better option that Wilson or Dan ?
“Internationally, I played a lot of games and won Young Player of the Year which was a big honour, we`d qualified for the Euros and I felt confident”.
Fat Sally
“Not being totally business-minded, I think
the two offers – certainly one and very
probably the other – do consist of newcos
but I have been told that does not involve
liquidation.”
So how does that work then, a Newco without liquidation?
HH
Tinytim
Why doesn’t Paul67 do it through the force that is CQN ?
Why does the board not do it of its own back ?
HH
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