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Page 1690 for all those viewing in 50 posts per page mode btw
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I am a big fan of American Football and agree that the principle of "giving the best to the worst in the hope of levelling the playing field" is a great concept. Hard to get it working in football though as the NFL is the biggest gig in town and thereby attracts all the best players from college no way could Scottish Football compete and the labour laws in Europe wouldn't allow the type of agreement that the NFL and players have with the Collective Bargaining. Pity as I would like to see the convergence of the teams on a financial and ability level.
Some half measures ARE available:
- gate sharing
- flat distribution of TV/naming rights/ etc money.
Ina SPL context - with its c. 50 million GBP turnover Celtic would still be light years ahead of the rest, while the "best of the rest" like Hearts, Aberdeen or Dundee would see their c.8-10 million unaffected (or make minmal gains).
It would be the 4-5 million crowd which would gain the most.
Hence it would be 2nd to 12th mob drawing closer. Which could be a Good Thing in itself.
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Green says if CVA not agreed Rangers will lose their History
CVA not agreed
Walter tries to buy assets an hour after they're sold
Walter Walks Away
These two pairings gave me a chuckle. Red dot due to fat fingers - will make good elsewhere.
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I took a print screen
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Uh, reading into things, he has no choice in the matter. Why do you think he spent 4 hours in a meeting and came out with f**k all?
Surely 10k per home game is not nearly enough to stay afloat, considering the dosh needed to run ibrox?
Rough estimates see c.20K as a break even point.
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Nowadays most people mean "the Scottish Borders" (i.e. the unitary authority area and post-1974 region)... the former counties of Berwickshire*, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire.
*which doesn't embrace Berwick
Annan is in Dumfries & Galloway
HTH
I stand enlightened. Thank you.
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Aye, there's distinctly Scottish issues - in terms of population spread, tradition, crowds, quirky history of Senior/Junior football, prevalence of OF support in all towns etc - which defines how many clubs are full-time, how many come from certain areas, etc. We can't just divide England by 10.
Certainly a pyramid system would help inject the opportunity for equity.
For example there are 2 teams from Dundee but only 1 from Aberdeen and 2 from Edinburgh. There's no team from the Borders. Etc.
Ain't Annan near the border, and Berwick smack on top of it?
Or does Borders mean something else?
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Still to come:
1) The "Criminal Investigation" into the sale of the company (Murray to Whyte).
2) HMRC's "Forensic Investigation" into the mismanagement of the club during its last 25 years which led to its death.
3) BDO the company contracted by HMRC to Liquidate RFC (In Administration) may decide that the 300+ creditors, including HMRC
, who all together are owed a combined total of over £140 million with interest, have been ripped off by way of serious "fraud and deception" considering the way that Duff & Phelps conducted the administration and sale off all assets to Green for next to nothing.4) The stripping of many titles and cups that RFC cheated to win using EBT'S - Dual-Contracts.
5) Much more - this story has a long way to go before it ends.
But do nos. 1, 2 and 4 have any bearing on Sevco?
No. 3 doubtlessly would, and probably no. 5 also affect the newco, but the other three surely only are relevant for Rangers?
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Why are St Mirren currently playing pre-season matches in Spain if they are so skint?
It actually may be cheaper to have camp there.
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There are questions about what Sevco running costs could be.
Here are some figures from a few years ago:
http://www.football-finances.org.uk/spl/
A pity the site looks dead ...
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REgan and Doncaster are despised on this forum and on Sevco forums and on Celtic forums.
Can anyone explain this?
They are special.
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The Twitter rumours about ICT panicking have turned out to be true
http://www.highland-...ll-13072012.htm
INVERNESS Caledonian Thistle chairman Kenny Cameron says the decisionto place the 'Newco' Rangers into the third division next season could"spell the end of football as we know it."
Isn't this the wish of many people on this board?
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For the benefit of Sevco fans following the thread, can someone please post a gif with a map of SFL 3 grounds? Available at myfootygrounds.com, but I don't have the IT skills required. Thanks.
Any help?
http://www.footballgroundguide.com/scotland/index.htm
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Your attention to detail is very poor Borys, the only colour that can communicate a no vote is green, might not like either side but I'd roll about pishing myself laughing if a few wee puffs of green smoke came belching out of Hampden.
And the puffs would arrange themselves into
satisfação
and
pleasing
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Is there a chimney at Hampden for white and black smoke signals?
- "Habemus newcom in tertius divisiae?"
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What are these new league proposals that have been offered? I am just back from a week away with the brats, so need to catch up.
SPL expanding to 16 teams over the next two seasons. Plus vague promises of play-offs, of more money for the diddies, etc.
A piece of quickly thrown together, inconsistent BS.
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alex thomson @alextomo
Annan Chairman on Hampden steps calling for SFA and SPL chiefs to go
This sounds quite dramatic! Is he wielding a pitchfork?
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Maybe the board will put Sevco in 1stDiv, which will quickly be followed by an EGM which puts the board on a train to London and shunts Sevco into 3rdDiv.
Now that would be popcorn time
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It was surprising that Rangers oldco could vote on SPL newco entry, so maybe no huge shock Dundee and Airdrie can vote on SFL newco entry.
LTL is right - the whole affair is such a cesspit that gentlemany conduct can go out the window.
Why should one be nice to cads?
BTW - that latest blog by Thomson makes me think that Regan and Doncaster are doing wonders for the "Kick da Sassanech oot!" movement
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Looks like Ewing Grahame has started reading Pn'B and RTC. From today's Torygraph
Yes indeed, it looks like some of the posts here
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Thommo suggesting on twitter that Berwick only voted SFL3 because of his tweet. Jeez I used to like the guy but give us a break
Yup. The guy is fucking full of himself.
Typical journalist - the sun rises only because he wrote about it.
Meh ...
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Interesting turn of phrase.....
That's the succulent lamb while still on the hoof ...
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Cheapest carbonated lemonade from local Carrefour.
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Has this been posted?
http://www.sportingl...r-important-day
Longmuir ready for important day
Scottish Football League chief executive David Longmuir hopes on Friday to see a resolution to the problem of Rangers newco which will"be for the betterment" of the game in the future.
The relaunched Govan club will discover at the end of the week whether they will be playing in the Irn-Bru First Division or Third Division next season.
The vast majority of Ibrox fans favour a fresh start in the bottom tier after last week's failed bid to remain in the Scottish Premier League.
However, the First Division looks the likely destination after Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan claimed that dire financial consequences meant he could not allow AllyMcCoist's side to resume life in Division Three.
Longmuir expects to meet with Regan and Scottish Premier League chief executive Neil Doncaster over the next few days before the decision about Rangers newco is taken by the SPL [typo? shouldn't it say SFL?] board, on behalf of its members, who would then look forward to a package of reforms which are likely to include the re-introduction of play-offs and changes to the distribution of finances and votes.
Longmuir said: "Friday is a very important day for Scottish football, I will let others judge just how important.
"I expect to have meetings with the SFA and the SPL this week.
"We hope to achieve an agreement which will be for the betterment of the game in Scotland."
[loud of cringeworthy bollocks incoming]
Former Rangers striker John MacDonald, however, is baffled by the whole situation and claims the Ibrox club have been subject to a "witch hunt".
MacDonald, who played for the Govan club in the late 1970s and1980s, said: "Are there any rules or are they making them up as they go along?
"Any notions or talk of sporting integrity has gone right out of the window.
"Rangers really should start in the Third Division and most fans want that so there will be no comeback in years to come.
"But Stewart Regan has held a gun to the head of the SFL clubs by more or less saying they have to vote Rangers into the First Division.
"So it looks like the club will be in the First Division next season."
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Last Book You Read....
in The General Nonsense Forum
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Wages of Destruction by Tooze.
On the economy of the IIIrd Reich. Some of the views/information there contravenes "common wisdom".
Some cringeworthy typos or whitewashing, but on the whole an interesting read.
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