Benjamin_Nevis Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I think we're all supposed to believe SPL has no cash in the bank *and* Rangers being in SFL3 not SFL1 will cause every TV firm/sponsor to pull out, meaning the £645k basic pay-out ceases to exist. More scaremongering pish i'd imagine. Surely they realise that the SFL chairman aren't going to be cowed by this nonsense now? From your knowledge of such things HJ, are the SFL likely to lawyer-up and take these fuckers on, should they attempt to renege on this payment? Is it actually contractual? Cheers in advance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Algorithms Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 John Baird Not only the fact that he's signed for Dundee, but also the fact Baird and his brother are Celtic daft make this hilarious. NewCo fans: clamouring for ex-Raith players... Quite funny to see the reaction for the chairmen. Most fans seem alright with any financial cutbacks, but the chairmen have been living in their own wee world thinking us SFL1 clubs would jump at the chance to have a giant global brand like Rangers in our league. Throw in league construction to benefit the whole of ten or twelve clubs or such for a season while maintaining their own statuses, how could it go wrong? Have they not thought through that first division clubs like Raith and Falkirk have had massive cutbacks in the last few seasons, and the last thing we want to see is the vile club waltz in at our level debt free? They only have themselves to blame for this mess, had they addressed the issue of reconstruction earlier and in a more positive light (instead of proposing an even more closed shop) then they might have been alright. Now, they just look like fannies who've failed to get their moneys worth from sky! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Kowalski Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 b*****d. They might have left ye a full one. Even some dregs would have been appreciated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Any social unrest today? I was woken up at 3am by some barely intelligible drunk guy in the street outside my flat shouting and greeting about his bird dumping him. Come to think of it,might well have been fat Sally after being handed his playing budget for next season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTID Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 There is a danger of a financial meltdown - but it's not due to Rangers going into liquidation. It is the panic and 'Armageddon' tone of chairman and lack of any leadership from the hierarchy that is threatening to tear the game apart. They seem to live in a different reality - Rangers are dead and things will not be the same whatever outcome was reached. Let's make this clear, voting rangers into div 3 was the very minimum the clubs should be doing. This should now be the beginning of a whole list of changes fans NEED to push through otherwise this clueless lot in charge of our game will leave it in a mess. Taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture, the SFA/SPL/SFL should have met the day after liquidation was announced and said: 1. Rangers in div 3 - agreed - done 2. Dundee/Dunfermline or playoff - done 3. Speak to sky/espn and confirm deal - done 4. Speak to sponsors - who is in - out - done 5. Create a plan to restructure SF inc league changes, playoffs, one body and a pyramid system. Plan A, B, C etc. clubs meet up in a week and vote for changes. This would all have been resolved in a week. Perhaps 5. Would take longer to implement but 1-4 is basic stuff that minimises all this infighting. Fans must stick together in this - its the only way the game will be allowed to flourish in this awful situation we've inherited. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 (edited) Any social unrest today? Noting out the ordinary Edited July 15, 2012 by Enrico Annoni 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Troll Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Any social unrest today? There's a broken down Range Rover outside my girlfriends flat, it's green so I'm suspecting Sevco fans 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Bible Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 (edited) Someone left an empty Stella bottle on my wall last night, it's been safely dealt with now though. Hopefully the SAS dealt with it in an appropriately professional manner: cordoned off the area, shot a few turban-wearing individuals etc. Personally I've had little sleep since they had to set up base in Ayr. Lots of unrest around wellington square, as the orcs attack the emblems of the traitorous establishment - mayhem. Bit like the old Friday night piv battles. Edited July 15, 2012 by Team Bible 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaffenThinMint Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Aye massive riots have been reported accross the country. One thing I have noticed, there was no Orange parade at all in my neck of the woods this year. None last week, none this week, and the buggers were out marching on the evening the other arse cheek won the title, no doubt to show their "defiance". Methinks they're all still at home sobbing their wee black hearts out: their world has crashed around them and the one thing that ever gave them a feeling of being Billy Big Baws in their lives has vanished. Shame! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wunfellaff Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I've always maintained that you should have 2 bodies... an association and a league... for exactly the reasons of checks-n-balances. Not only can they concentrate on different areas of the game where they specialise, but the association can act as a watchdog on the league, while the league - by merit of its independent sovereignty - guards against untrammelled dictatorship from the association. Yet the SPL and SFA would have paired up v SFL, its gonna be a long couple of years to sort it, I just hope it is gotten right. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderspaceman Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Even some dregs would have been appreciated. Dregs, hee hee. Made me think of Sevco. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fife Saint Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Gilmour has been taken for a complete haddie. I've little sympathy for him if he was complicit in a deal to stitch up the rest of the game. 'We had a deal, we had a deal!...' *tears* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marty_j Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Aye massive riots have been reported accross the country. Not surprised to be honest. Hopefully we get the army on the streets to quell this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marty_j Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 It's great living in Berwick this summer. The usual influx of the great unwashed to The Haven holiday park all sporting their Rangers taps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fife Saint Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Just had a chance to see the leaked email from Regan. These c***s are hopelessly out of touch. That weasel Broadfoot involved too. Makes it even better that it fell on it's arse. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broccoli Dog Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Morning football fans, what's the Hampden roar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8tuTSi6Sck 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Koop Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Social unrest report from Partick - two of my neighbours had a dispute over who got to hold the close door open for whom. Musical interlude - yesterday was the 32nd anniversary of Malcolm Owen's death. Troubled times never really seem to go away. Babylon's Burning seems as good an anthem for Scottish football as any. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Duck Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Is Eye still offering its analysis of the Rangers fiasco? I've missed a couple of issues. Not in this edition sadly, although I think the next edition is pretty certain. My eldest son assures me the ambiance is just as good onboard a scalloper in the minches just after they anchor up for the night! ooooh errrrr fnar fnar 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Koop Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 It's great living in Berwick this summer. The usual influx of the great unwashed to The Haven holiday park all sporting their Rangers taps. Oh dear. I used to take my summer holidays at what was then Feathers holiday park in Berwick. I used to sit on the headland round from the steps to the beach and watch the Vulcan bombers fly over the coast. Happy days - all I had to worry about was the new season and the haircut I'd need before I went back to school. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broccoli Dog Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Yikes don't hold back there fella! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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