The Last Drink In The Last Chance Saloon
12/07/2012 7,916 Comments
It is roughly seventeen months since this project started. Despite all of the revelations from this blog, and from other ‘new media’ outlets, little has changed in the world of Scottish football. This might seem a strange claim given that the largest football club in the country has become insolvent and now sits on corporate death-row awaiting its execution. However, the major institutions that feed on the blood of Scottish football fans: the SFA; the SPL; and the newspapers- appear to have learned little from events in this time.
They still believe that the people who pay their wages are imbeciles. They still dish out fatuous lies and peddle disinformation as if Sir David Murray was still in his heyday. The hysterical exaggerations and tales of impending financial doom should be transparent to the businessmen who fill most of the Chairman roles at Scottish football clubs. Anyone with even a few minutes of business experience will see through the lies of the Scottish football establishment. These scare stories are not the issue. It is the dangling of long requested changes in the structure of the Scottish game that will present clubs from both the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League with a dilemma.
From their public statements, it is clear that the driving forces behind this attempt at league-rigging are SFA Chief Executive Stewart Regan and SPL Chief Executive Neil Doncaster. Despite being paid to promote the Scottish game, they have spent recent weeks trying to convince advertisers and TV companies that their product is worthless without someone representing Rangers’ legacy playing in the SFL1 next season. It is as if Sevco Ltd was a panacea and that this new club will be guaranteed promotion to the SPL within a single season.
Let us be in no doubt. Scottish football faces a period of turmoil and some financial belt-tightening regardless of what happens in any of the upcoming votes. (If Servco Ltd are forced to start in SFL3, the nattering nabobs of the mainstream Scottish sports press will doubtless blame every player transfer and setback on ‘internet bampots’ and shortsighted fans of so-called ‘diddy teams’). The Scottish game became unsustainable and unhealthily unbalanced towards just two clubs. In an era when it is easy to watch the best football from every country all week long, we need to extract the cancers that have been devouring our game for over twenty years rather than battling to preserve them. Among the assorted symptoms of the illness facing our game are:
- Scottish football has failed to develop a single stand-out talent since the early 1980s
- Scottish football has been spending more than it takes in for far too long
- Scottish football has fallen far behind global standards in the quality of entertainment it offers
Scottish football had become dull and uninteresting for all but the fans of the two clubs that could entertain thoughts of ever winning the league.
There is a now a golden opportunity for creative minds to remake the game. Instead, we have intellectual pygmies telling us that everything in Scottish football is fantastic and must be saved at all costs. What is worth saving? Declining attendances? A terrible set of TV contracts that do not realise the full value of the Scottish game? A national team that cannot qualify for any international competitions? We have a game that is viewed with universal contempt for both its lack of technical quality and the lopsidedness of its top division. This is where our game finds itself almost three decades after the “Souness Revolution” started at Rangers. The false economies started by David Holmes, and placed on steroids by David Murray, eventually devastated all around it. Rangers embodied the ideas that financial might made right and reckless spending was the key to success. Their demise should be a cautionary tale to others to get their house in order. Instead, the Scottish football establishment wants to send the signal that if you are going to fail, make sure you do it on a spectacular scale: we will make everyone else carry you if it goes wrong.
Mr. Doncaster trained as a lawyer and has an MBA. If Scottish football was a case study at a business school, anyone submitting a paper that recommended crushing the last remnants of fairness in the game to prop up a failed old-order would not get a passing mark. Doncaster in particular is failing. (Funny that Messers Doncaster & Regan find it so easy to predict the effects of Sevco Ltd playing in SFL3, but could not use these same skills to anticipate Rangers’ implosion. Even when the aforementioned ‘internet bampots’ had warned years earlier of a crisis brewing at Ibrox, the men with the crystal ball today were unable to see something that was so obvious). When the dust settles on this disaster one way or another, one can only hope that Doncaster and Regan have absented themselves. It is clear that they lack the imaginations required to improve our game. Our hopes for restoring the thrill of Scottish football now rests on the men who run the clubs in the SPL and the SFL. We must hope that they have the backbone to stand-up to being bullied and the foresight to realise that all that is being dangled by Regan & Doncaster can be obtained anyway- without sacrificing the game and without the hired hands for whom this all appears to be just a job.
If fairness fails and Sevco Ltd is able to field a team in the SFL1 next season, it is for each fan to make an individual decision on whether it is worth returning to watch a game played with loaded dice. For those who do decide to go back (I am still undecided), something will still be missing in the game. An unfillable void will have opened. The men who will vote on this decision have to realise that they are not just voting on short-term revenues. They are going to irreparably alter the Scottish game whatever happens. Money will ebb and flow in football in proportion to the excitement and quality of the competition. If fans believe that there is no competition because a winner is preordained, money will leave and it will stay gone.
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I think it’s sevco scotland, sevco 5088 is an english company set up presumably to take the zombies on the ill fated english journey
The Taxman Cometh says:
12/07/2012 at 6:23 am (Edit)
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TTC- I think there is some doubt over which one is which, but most bampots appear to have settled on Sevco 5088 as the prospective football club. However, I will be happy to edit if the weight of opinion is otherwise.
If they do end up in Div 1, I hope the fans boycott sevco games.
There’s one thing which I do believe has changed for the better; there is a far higher awareness now of the manipulations which have frustrated the ambitions of participants at almost every level of the professional game. We can clearly see that the game has not only been rigged in Rangers’ favour at the top end but also it’s apparent that progressive, well-run clubs such as Spartans are unable top earn a place in the higher level through sporting merit.
Regardless of how the game’s administrators manage to bring further disgrace upon themselves in the near to medium future, lines of communication are now open between decent fans of all clubs, a new level of respect has been established between rivals and the supporters themselves have woken up to the realisation that they not only have the power to make changes but also the voice to express their demands.
Its sad but true – the whole Rangers shenanigans and this blog have been far more entertaining than the football season
Your blogs were brilliant from 1st to this and will be till the last. The corruption in our game, or what the average punter in the street can see anyway, is a mere tip of the iceberg. When its all over, whatever the outcome. The people in charge of our game must be removed, no matter the outcome on Friday. Corruption, lies and bribery will end because of this. So good may, or has to come from this. This is my hope and wish.
Well done you guys, 10/10 all the way. You inspired a generation of new bloggers. You brought about a new Social Media. You made a difference to the future of our game.
Shaun.
An excellent analysis.
rangerstaxcase says:
12/07/2012 at 6:26 am
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The Taxman Cometh says:
12/07/2012 at 6:23 am (Edit)
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TTC- I think there is some doubt over which one is which, but most bampots appear to have settled on Sevco 5088 as the prospective football club. However, I will be happy to edit if the weight of opinion is otherwise.
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website says
The Rangers Football Club, a trading name of Sevco Scotland Limited (No SC425159) Ibrox Stadium, 150 Edmiston Drive, Glasgow G51 2XD
Would an english club (if it ever became a club) be able to compete in scottish football?
Do Sevco even have a licence?
NewCo in SFL Div1 will be the end for me.
I will walk away.
There are better things to do with my leisure £ that are not corrupt.
What a crying shame if it comes to be.
There’s one thing which I do believe has changed for the better; there is a far higher awareness now of the manipulations which have frustrated the ambitions of participants at almost every level of the professional game. We can clearly see that the game has not only been rigged in Rangers’ favour at the top end but also it’s apparent that progressive, well-run clubs such as Spartans are unable top earn a place in the higher level through sporting merit.
Regardless of how the game’s administrators manage to bring further disgrace upon themselves in the near to medium future, lines of communication are now open between decent fans of all clubs, a new level of respect has been established between rivals and the supporters themselves have woken up to the realisation that they not only have the power to make changes but also the voice to express their demands.
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Thought I would get a few posts in before the trolls/spammers/idiots re commence making the blog comments unreadable
Henrik – (I see what you did thar)
Haven’t Spartans shot themselves in the foot “for the greater good” – they have all the right credentials, being a football club for a start, but have not applied for a league spot in deference to sevco scotland?
Laughing Tim says:
12/07/2012 at 6:27 am
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If they do end up in Div 1, I hope the fans boycott sevco games.
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I have made a similar point before
I hope that all clubs refuse to play them
Henry Clarson says:
12/07/2012 at 6:29 am
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I fully agree. Having followed this blog since early last year, there has been change in Scottish Football. For the first time I can remember the fans of all clubs are united as one for sporting integrity. The msm, while continuing to peddle the myths, are slowly starting to ask questions. Maybe not as ferociously as the internet bampots, but they are at least starting to ask them.
The SPL clubs listened/were forced to listen to the fans. I believe on Friday the SFL clubs will do likewise. We can then look forward to how we reinvent Scottish football to carry us forward…
This time – the fans, united by yourself rtc, will have a say in what happens. THAT is the change that has been made in scottish football.
Whatever company finally declares as Rangerswereus is not important. This is a fiasco, the like of what has never in the history of football been seen before. The biggest scandals throughout world football have only ever been about money and therefore associated power.
This is much more than that and it is frightening that it could go unchecked by the Football Authorities. Collusion between the 3 Football bodies has escalated into a stomach churning episode with the U turns over the past couple of months proving the powers being exerted.
The SFL should never be expected to carry the weight of deciding the future for our national game, it is unbelievable that we have got to here without intervention (sic).
The CVA Proposal by Duff and Duffer made clear that the binding contract was with Sevco 5088 Ltd. The report yesterday defined “Sevco” as “Sevco Scotland Ltd”. 5088 was never mentioned.
It is a bit Orwellian – “We are at war with Eurasia; we have always been at war with Eurasia!”
It is Sevco Scotland Ltd to which other directors have been appointed, and Sevco Scotland which seeks to register the titles for the fixed assets (and about the Incredible Shrinking Asset Values I posted yesterday – http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/duff-phelps-july-report-re-rangers-football-club-plc-review-part-1-incredible-shrinking-fixed-assets/ )
Of course Mr Green has not told us what his RFC 2012 Ltd company is for.
D+P have not explained if Mr Green/Sevco are payng the costs of the EGM to change the name of Rangers Football Club PLC (In administrtaion and minutes away from liquidation) to RFC 2012 PLC.
Mr Green’s desire to have the company name of Sevco Scotland Ltd changed to The Rangers Football Club Ltd prior to liquidators appearing has not been explained either.
“Transparency and clarity” was the cry! Aye right!
The SFA have poked a stick at the wrong beast . Football clubs might not be able to sue their national association, however individual shareholders acting alone or as a group in a class action have no such restriction.
Regan may shortly find that any attempt to close down any enquiry into Rangers behaviors is resisted in court. There may be no appetite at the SFA to conclude on illegal registrations and bringing the game into disrepute amongst others. There is however a consequence. Shareholders at Celtic have seen the value of their equity seriously damaged by SFA failure to police the game properly.
This isn’t going to end with a vote on Friday. Clubs have been cheated out of £10’s of millions and the SFA have watched it happen. Regan and Peat, along with Smith and Ogilvie are going to find out that their actions have consequences
Something to ponder over a glass of Malbec
Totally agree with the sentiment of the last paragraph. I’d like to add though that we as football fans now have a duty to ditch the msm who have tried to manipulate opinion in order to give sevco a leg up. This also means convincing those fans who are not internet savvy to stop buying papers such as the daily record. I’m sending my da on a computer course for his birthday.
It is also remarkable the vigour with which the proponents of Sevco pump out the Private Fraser-esque “We’re dooooomed”.
The latest is Henry McLeish in the Scotsman where he says:-
““The clubs are taking a big decision for Rangers on Friday but an even bigger decision for Scottish football. They have to see the wider implications. If you looked at the SPL option [for Rangers], that would have ticked the box about keeping finances to the fore but would have done nothing as a fit and proper punishment.
“If you look at Rangers playing in SFL3, that ticks the box in terms of a fit and proper punishment but it raises concerns about finance and the future for Scottish football. If you look at Rangers playing in SFL1, then to me it can tick both boxes. It brings to a conclusion, I would like to think, the range of punishments that have been meted out. But it also satisfies the fact that a huge punishment has been delivered to the club in terms of their integrity and credibility.
“It is a balance and the fans may want to extract the maximum punishment, which is the Third Division. If you lived in an ideal world, a purist’s world, that would be fine. But we don’t have the luxury of that. In the position we are in, we can’t afford to take those lofty and philosophical decisions.
“I congratulate supporters for putting integrity and good governance of the game to the top of the agenda. The fans have done a good job, but it’s now time for them to join us in addressing the other issues in Scottish football.”
McLeish admits there is no hard proof of the apocalyptic figures which have been produced in recent days to illustrate the losses which would be suffered if Rangers are placed in the Third Division, but he is convinced it would cause significant problems for many clubs.
“I don’t have any empirical evidence to justify it but, in terms of the research I did, there are a lot of clubs in a very precarious situation,” he said. “How that would fall if Rangers went into the Third Division, you can’t identify the detailed consequences.
“But there is an instinct which many people share that it wouldn’t be positive for those clubs who are struggling on the margins. We are not like the Premier League in England where they are sitting on a fantastic amount of money. The game in Scotland is currently starved of investment. Much of that has to do with ourselves. We have to put our own house in order. No-one owes us a living.”
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So according to Mr McLeish SFL3 is appropriate punsihment, but SFL1 will be a bit of punsihment and a bit of financial impact, so that is all right then. He gives the fans a wee pat on the head and tells us now to “address the other issues”.
This all follows on from our own Mystic Meg, Mr Doncaster – who as Donstalk pointed out yesterday predicted mayhem and disaster last summer…if the SPL expanded!
You could, literally, no longer make any of this up!
The damage is done. SFA and SPL decided months ago to publically back newco against any offered reasoning. Are their bonuses predicated on TV revenue…
Real fans see through Newco supporters’ feigned concern for all other clubs’ income, how sweet and sincere, we could all learn from them.
I’ll never enter a senior ground in my life.
Bent cops win.
The Taxman Cometh says:
12/07/2012 at 6:40 am
Thought I would get a few posts in before the trolls/spammers/idiots re commence making the blog comments unreadable
Henrik – (I see what you did thar)
Haven’t Spartans shot themselves in the foot “for the greater good” – they have all the right credentials, being a football club for a start, but have not applied for a league spot in deference to sevco scotland?
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IN fairness to Spartans though, TTC, they cannot really apply for a league spot when none exists. Until such time as the SPL invite an SFL club to join them and that invite is accepted, the SFL is ‘full’.
Despite all of the revelations from this blog, and from other ‘new media’ outlets, little has changed in the world of Scottish football.
I’m sorry RTC, like Henry above, who just pipped me to the post (pun intended) I’m going to have to disagree with you. Even a few short weeks ago most football fans wouldn’t have believed that their influence would have been enough to see Newco’s application to the SPL rejected; let alone seventeen months ago when this erstwhile project began. I am convinced it will be the same again tomorrow, when fan power from across the country will see the ‘efforts’ of those charged with running our game (namely Regan and Doncaster) shown up for what they really are. That will be two battles won. The final one will come when that decision makes the positions of those two completely untenable. Despite the continued nonsense from ‘journalists’ like Graham Spiers about what a splendid job they’ve done in difficult circumstances, it will be up to fans yet again to ensure these two aren’t allowed to do any more damage by calling for their removal from their posts forthwith.
Since tax is obviously what started this blog can I make an observation? The apportioned figures for the purchase of Oldco’s assets seem to me to be a further possible case of tax evasion (not avoidance). On the face of it Green has paid large sums for something which any lawyer will tell you is virtually worthless (and with TUPE could even be regarded as a millstone forcing you to take on players who couldn’t get paid as much elsewhere) ie the players’ registrations of a liquidated co whilst paying low sums for heritable property which objectively have to be worth far more.
Stamp duty is calculated on the purchase price of heritable property. I smell an artificial apportionment here so that instead of paying say £4 million for the heritage and nothing for the registrations tens of thousands of pounds o stamp duty is evaded.
Putting it another away it’s a bit like you buying a house and saying that £200k of the £250k purchase price is for the few old bits of furniture being left.
It really could all do with a public inquiry.
What was devolution for again?
Given there are several people of the Ibrox persuasion within the corridors of Hampden, Doncaster and Regan would have known for some time that Rangers meltdown was inevitable.They chose to keep it under wraps.The lies and deception followed.
Thanks again RTC, unbridled knowledge and impassioned clarity, just what we need and what we’ve become accustomed to. A devastating assault on the Old Firm years too, which will have much more resonance coming from yourself rather than a Diddy agitator.
I truly doubt the fans revolution would have came this far without you to guide us.
Hopefully all SFL clubs will read this before attending The Corrupt Pantomime(c. T.Hutton) tomorrow.
No to newco, yes to a bright new dawn for Scottish Football.
Predictions for the meeting. The chair will attempt to reject any amendments to motions. Clubs will then vote against the motions, ensuring that the SPL continues with 11 teams. The spinning will start immediately for SPL2, with the SFA sadly concluding that senior football should be reduced to invitations sent to 16 clubs with a stadium size of 10,000 or more, so that Sevco (whichever) can be recognised as a team.
RTC, I suspect that your real work may begin this evening. And that the strategic option of silence will not be available to Celtic.
I’m convinced that Integrity will win out and the cheats will be offered a place in Div.3, where they will languish for at least two seasons as further incriminating evidence of fraudulent practices is revealed and subsequent litigation/sanctions will impede any chance of fast track ascension to the higher leagues.
In the interim, grassroots footballing talent will emerge and flourish within an environment free from the distorted and corrupt influence of discredited Governing associations and their media partners in perverse filial connivance to accommodate and protect the deviant actions of one crooked club in their contrived dereliction of corporate responsibility to the near fatal detriment of all others.
Barcabhoy,
Were shareholders to do such an action, would it not be considered by football’s administrators that the club they had shares in tacitly allowed this to go ahead by not stopping it, thereby creating more trouble?
There is one thing I would just like to give Neil Doncaster credit for – The SPL are paying footballing debts from Rangers prize money so Hearts will get their payment for Lee Wallace. Bit late now that Black, Suso and Beattie have gone, but it’s a start.
Do you think it would be possible to arrange that all scottish football fans that hold sporting integrity as paramount to wear a white tee shirt on the first day of the season. This could be a stunning visual display of unity and protest on the first day of the season. Anyone have any thoughts on this or better ideas?
‘If fans believe that there is no competition because a winner is preordained, money will leave and it will stay gone.’
I really don’t think RTC could have summed up this sorry mess any better with that simple statement. This vote is not about the next 3 years, it is about the next 50. Let’s hope the SFL Chairmen remember that.
Richard Wilson,
A Plc has no power over the actions of individual shareholders. In addition you can sue based on your residency or domicile
Paul McConville says:
12/07/2012 at 6:44 am (Edit)
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Och for goodness sake- I just changed it to Sevco Ltd! 🙂
You all know who I mean. lolz
RTC
Care to predict the voting for tomorrow ?
Paul
Of course Mr Green has not told us what his RFC 2012 Ltd company is for.
D+P have not explained if Mr Green/Sevco are payng the costs of the EGM to change the name of Rangers Football Club PLC (In administrtaion and minutes away from liquidation) to RFC 2012 PLC.
Mr Green’s desire to have the company name of Sevco Scotland Ltd changed to The Rangers Football Club Ltd prior to liquidators appearing has not been explained either.
“Transparency and clarity” was the cry! Aye right!
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The duffs have confirmed in their letter to RFC(IA)’s shareholders that RFC 2012 is for the purpose of RFC(IA) changing it’s name to RFC 2012 to allow Sevco Scotland to rename itself The Rangers Football Club ltd (not PLC)
The shareholders will have a postal vote on the 31st July
rangerstaxcase says:
12/07/2012 at 7:18 am
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Paul McConville says:
12/07/2012 at 6:44 am (Edit)
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Och for goodness sake- I just changed it to Sevco Ltd!
You all know who I mean. lolz
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If there is one thing i have learnt from this blog is that there is profit in obfuscation
I know this doesn’t end tomorrow, but it does feel like a new chapter will begin. I want to say thank you for the ride so far, this blog has dominated all my thoughts for ove a yerar now, and I still wake up eager for the latest instalment. I haven’t added much to this other than encouragement, but would like to now offer a reminder; for all the legal complications and contrivances, THIS IS JUST ABOUT RIGHT AND WRONG.
If it is not SFL3, then that is wrong and I cannot support the game any longer, it will be forever tarnished to me.
If it is SFL3 . then as I have stated before, the game has a long term future. Sure, in the next year or two we will have critics, but we will have a foundation from which to grow again, and one day we can look back and be proud of our stand.
Till tomorrow…
Paul McConville says:
12/07/2012 at 6:53 am
The latest is Henry McLeish in the Scotsman where he says:-
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If Henry McLeish spent a day and a night writing that piece, with the express intention of making it sound as patronising towards Scottish football fans and the smaller clubs as possible, all I can say is that the man has succeeded. An upmarket and more subtle version of the Mad Burley article a few days ago.
Hawick Royal Albert v Rangers 21/07/2012
Battle of the cheats?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8280038.stm
Dreadful stuff from McLeish this morning. Praises fans for insisting on sporting integrity but then tells them “you’ve had your fun, now fall back into line and ignore all the rules like we told you too”.
And this is the visionary appointed to solve our game’s ills?
Bring back Ernie Walker…
Shranders dice: How about https://twitter.com/sunnybhoy/status/222658558712487936/photo/1 😉
Sevco Scotland have lodged particulars of a charge at companies house in favour of the Scottish Sports Council. It relates to The Training Centre Youth Academy in Milngavie and is inherited from oldco plc.
Still no sign of the charge that may or may not involve others.
Hope the SFL clubs put the final nail in the corrupt cheats coffin today.
By that I mean dont accept them into the SFL.
Not ever division 3.
That should go to non corrupt clubs like Spartans.
Doncaster, Regan and Longmuir should all walk after todays vote.
Corrupt the lot of them.
In this litany of crimes and (lack of) punishment, one of the biggest perpetrated has been to puncture the bubble of optimism which united fans throughout the country following the rejection of Sevco into the SPL. The malevolent squirming of the evil triumverate has driven many of us to despair so lets hope that tomorrow’s vote can restore that optimism and that it can be swept along by the few fair members of the MSM who have both business acumen and a moral compass.
With Cadaver FC awaiting burial, wouldn’t it be nice if a place in the coffin could be found for Sevco before it did any more damage to the game in Scotland its disorderly and disruptive appearance has already brought to the brink of ruin?
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Yet another great piece from Rangers Tax Case. To me it is mystifying how a brand new club (as that is what the Newco effectively is) can expect to start just one division below the Premier League. It is in affront to any notion of fairness and sporting integrity. Money (and the financial case is dubious anyway, as this piece demonstrates) should not be a consideration. The piece also makes some relevant points about the decline in standards in Scottish football. If this sorry saga has any positives, it is that there is now an opportunity to address the unhealthy balance in favour of the Old Firm that has slowly been sucking the life out of a once-proud league. Lets hope the clubs see sense and reject the plan for the Newco to enter the First Division.
“If you always do as you’ve always done you’ll always get what you always had”
The real issue tomorrow for our clubs is not whether Sevco are finagled a berth in SFL1 or 3 because neither should happen.
The biggest task and need for the chairment to debate and vote on is not Sevco.
It is to clear out and clean up the administration of our game because we need clean and fair management.
And we haven’t had that in the past and don’t have that right now even with the promises of change.
We don’t even need to create new rules – just apply what is already there without favour the way they applied to Gretna, Livingston, Falkirk etc.
Then the forensics can start.
On the basis that the meeting at Hampden goes ahead,any sign yet of a demo/protest being held?
I am in a position not to visit Celtic park any more since having emigrated five years ago. I for one am not envious of the decision many of you guys have to make after tomorrows decision. If I was still in Scotland and Sevco were voted in to division 1, I would not be renewing my season book. If division 3, I would renew but feel strongly aggrieved for the non league clubs who never had the chance to apply. In all fairness, Sevco should only be able to apply after three years of correctly managed books and a properly run club. All we can hope for is the chairmen to develop a similar outlook to what Turnbull Hutton has……. Here’s hoping
Great post as usual RTC.
Somehow I think that the real battle for Scottish Football will begin tomorrow.
If honesty and decency prevail then we have a future. If the devotees of Sevco Ltd ,which is not and never will be Rangers, prevail then the game is dead.
The predictions of Gypsy Rose Doncaster are at variance with his previous pronouncementsand he has no credibility left.
The future of the game would be better served by the removal of Regan and Doncaster together with Ogilvie and his cohorts.
The cringe worthy attempts to shoe horn Sevco into the league under the guise of Rangers is despicable. Sevco do not and never will meet the criteria to be a football club.
Chairmen need to stop thinking about short term gain and need to see a solid business plan with credible sources of finance before including Sevco in any division. There was life before Rangers, there will be life after Rangers and if the clubs think that fans are bluffing when they say they will not be back they are sadly mistaken.
I have often visited Barcelona and have followed themas my second team for years. Those of us who are interested in seeing good soccer just need to flick a button on a remote control,sadly perhaps, and that is where we will get our football rather than on the rainy terraces of a corrupt Scottish game.
Great post RTC. The board of my club and 28 others stand on the brink. I shall remind them again today of the importance of their decision and how it will affect my relationship with them. A bright, clear future or a mirky, endless pit of decline.