Walt Kowalski

Driving up to this for the first time, are there any parking near the ground or are there any park & ride that actually have buses serving them?

Gie's a wee look at yer pink paper.

Raith best team in league apart from the Killie. Can't believe they didn't make playoffs.

Good luck James, future Killie manager hopefully.

No posts for over 10 minutes, is this the calm before the storm?

Anyone any idea who he means?

Newco could cut down drastically on policing and stewarding costs if they employ one man... My link

Ciao Gio, Ciao pal.

In a word.... Buffet

I'm sure I read somewhere that they were voting to try to replace the 11-1 voting structure today, Green & McCoist there to Scupper that if they have the Oldco vote?

Barry Richmond (Baz) from the Killie Trust is taking a proactive approach... "Boycotts don't always work as intimated, but I think that Ally is right in his approach that we can do something collectively here that will make them notice. I sent an email to ESPN congratulating then on their stance behind Scottish football and offered them some free advertising on the Trust website and killiefc.com. Tomorrow I will contact SD Scotland and suggest we get other clubs to do the same. This could make positive news and encourage Sky to play the game a bit potentially. Certainly worth a shot I think and a lot better than the clubs are trying."

I'm surprised they haven't twigged yet that PIE AND BOVRIL is really an anagram of BAN EVIL PRODI

Even some dregs would have been appreciated.

Someone left an empty Stella bottle on my wall last night, it's been safely dealt with now though.

This one? http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/rangers/2010/11/18/craig-whyte-profile-the-scots-billionaire-on-the-brink-of-taking-over-the-club-he-loves-86908-22722617/ Craig Whyte profile: The Scots billionaire on the brink of taking over the club he loves Nov 18 2010 Keith Jackson Craig Whyte started playing the stock market at the age of 15. By the time he left school he had more than £20,000 in his bank account. Today, aged just 39, this financial whizzkid from Motherwell stands on the brink of pulling off the biggest deal of his life - and finally bringing the curtain down on one of the longest-running sagas in Scottish football. Record Sport understands self-made billionaire Whyte has entered into the final stages of negotiations to buy control of the club he loves from Sir David Murray. And he's still one year younger than captain Davie Weir. A deal worth around £30million is now believed to have reached such an advanced stage that sources say Whyte, a high-roller who splits his time between a home in London and the idyllic Castle Grant in Grantown-on-Spey, could even have the keys to Ibrox in time to fund a major refurbishment of Walter Smith's top-team squad in January. The news will delight Rangers supporters who have been fretting over the future of their club ever since Murray first slapped a For Sale sign on the front door of Edmiston Drive around three years ago. As the club's financial health deteriorated to such an extent the banks moved in to control the purse strings, a series of false dawns came and went. First, a consortium headed up by South African-based tycoon Dave King came to the fore only to fail to meet Murray's asking price. Then, in March this year, Londonbased property developer Andrew Ellis emerged as the frontrunner and was granted a period of exclusivity in order to get the deal done. But Ellis, now part of the consortium, did not have the financial clout to back up his bold promises and his bid collapsed, leaving Rangers firmly in the grip of the Lloyds Group. Exiled Glaswegian King was then talked up once more as the possible saviour but he was also engaged in a long-running battle with the tax man and while those issues remained unresolved, he too looked l ike an increasingly unlikely white knight for a club now engulfed by crisis. But yesterday, quite out of the blue, Record Sport learned a new man is at the table and that a deal to end Murray's 22-year reign is ready to be completed. And that man is a relative boy. By the age of 26, Whyte was already Scot land's youngest self-made millionaire. Now, 13 years on, and in charge of a vast business empire, his wealth is off the radar. Whyte is a venture capitalist who has made his millions from playing the markets - a skill he secret ly began honing in his third year at Glasgow's Kelvinside Academy. In one of his few interviews he revealed how he immediately regretted going to the private school - because he despised playing rugby. He said: "I hated the discipline of it. It was a rugby-only school, which I didn't play as I was interested in football.'' Whyte worked weekends for his dad's plant hire firm. And he saved up his wages to fund his habit of gambling on Stock Exchange. It is said that, by the time he left school, he had more cash in his bank than many of his teachers. At 19, he was in charge of his own hire plant. Now he owns his own castle - one of the most historic buildings in Scotland. And very soon he could be adding Rangers to his portfolio. It remains to be seen if Whyte's move to capture the club will f lush any other parties out of the woodwork because - despite their failure to strike a deal with Murray - King and his consortium have yet to throw in the towel on their own ambitions. They had put together a package worth around £18m but this was flatly rejected and Ellis drove the price up when he agreed to pay Murray more than £30m. The club's debt has been reduced by around £10m since then but the selling price remains the same. Now, quite clearly, Whyte believes he will be able to close the deal and the young gun must have said enough to impress Murray, who has stated all along that he will only sell the club to the right people - men with enough money to take the club forward. Who knows? Murray may even regard Whyte as something of a kindred spirit. After all, Murray was himself aged just 37 back in 1988 when he launched a takeover of the Ibrox club. It was the beginning of one of the most successful periods in Rangers' history but Murray's aggressive pursuit of European glory eventually saw him writing the kind of cheques that his club could simply not afford. Now Whyte is bringing his money to the table but it remains to be seen if he will adopt the same scatter-cash approach as the man who has owned the club for the past two decades. But if he brings in even half of the number of trophies Murray delivered then the fans are unlikely to be complaining.

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This could be said about Killie then, they built an Hotel when money was plentyful and everthing in the garden was rosy due to the Sky money at the time. The Hotel was the brainchild of Bill Costley and if the Sky deal hadn't gone tits up then it would probably have been a big success. Instead we've suffered ever since with huge interest payments and been the subject of bile by other fans (mainly St Mirren BTW)

Chics cracking up I fear.

Chic sounds like someone who is recovering from a nervous breakdown.

Well it was on STV Sevco TeleVision

In the blues restaurant rugby park killie. Michael Johnston at the next table... tempting

In his statement after the SPLvote Michael Johnston said... "I also believe that the plan to parachute Rangers "Newco" into SFL1 is highly controversial and wished to register my concern about the timing of the SPL vote and the resultant pressure now placed on the SFL clubs to accommodate "Newco" in SFL1 when they vote on the issue on 13th July. " Now don't get me wrong, I think MJ would have prefered to vote yes to Newco in the SPL, but I think he is against them going into SFL 1 by bullying the SFL into accepting them. Here is a reply to an email of complaint about him abstaining in the vote... Thank you for getting in touch *******. I understand your concerns but there are other issues in play at present which I am unable to put in the public domain. Rest assured that my sole objective is the wellbeing of our club, unlike the objectives of others who have an agenda which will only be served by the failure of my endeavours. I do not seek nor expect popular approval and I shall remain true to the principles which I believe will best serve Kilmarnock Football Club regardless of the criticism levelled against me. Yours sincerely, Michael Johnston. He's still a cuntweasel tho.

Yes, he is, he "bought" the shares for £1 apparently from Jamie Moffat. He's been asked many times what it would cost to buy him out, he's so despised I doubt anyone would be prepared to offer any more than that £1 now.

Kilmarnock Football Club Supporters Association Statement – 8th July 2012 Kilmarnock Football Club Supporters Association (“KFCSA”) has noted with concern, and some dismay, the historic events in Scottish football in the past week in particular the abstention vote by the Club Chairman in the SPL “Newco” vote and his subsequent comments in the press. Whilst KFCSA welcomes the outcome of the SPL vote, we wish to express our disappointment and concerns with the actions of the Chairman and the fact that he seems to believe that undertaking a last-minute, flawed survey is actually engaging with shareholders and the Club’s season ticket holders. We are also very disappointed that he has stated that groups such as the Association “speak for relatively small numbers of people who take up extreme positions”. KFCSA currently speaks for approximately 1000 members located all around the world, this is not a small number of extremists but a large number of ordinary fans. The Association, and the supporters, now wish to know the Club’s plans for the season ahead and are willing and keen to assist the Club in anyway possible. An early meeting with the Club’s representatives is being sought. KFCSA has a genuine desire to work more closely with Kilmarnock Football Club in what will be a very challenging time for football clubs in Scotland. Sadly, it seems that, to date, the Chairman is reluctant to embrace the fans and the local business community. It is particularly disappointing that whilst other clubs, such as Dundee United, have commended their fans at this difficult time and there has been a genuine “togetherness” at other SPL clubs in the current crisis, the actions of our Chairman have led to considerable disharmony and divisions between him and the fans who are the regular customers of Kilmarnock Football Club. This is bound to have an adverse effect on the Club's finances. It seems that many fans are now of the view that, whilst they wish to continue to support the Club, significant and real change in the regime that runs the Club will be needed for the long term viability and success of the oldest professional football club in Scotland.