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12 Premiership
20 Championship
Regional leagues after this, with juniors in the mix. Automatic promotions slots between Premiership and Championship, no automatic promotion elsewhere. Also, regional clubs can decline promotion. If some club prefers to travel less, stay next to their rivals, in their historic little league, no reason to force them to move up. Lower league champion plays worst team from a higher league at the end of the season, but you can win it and choose to stay in your league.
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On 2017-05-11 at 10:42, peasy23 said:
Just saw it on BBC breakfast, suppose his sponsors won't be too upset as they are getting plenty of coverage.great point. someone should've thought of doing that on purpose!
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On 2017-05-10 at 23:07, Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo said:
Amazing. Someone thinks he's won it with a lap to go. What a fucking idiot. He'll be all over the interweb tomorrow.
Yeah was watching that race, was funny. commentators thought the guy was clowning at first.
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Besides Sacramento and San Antonio, San Diego looks like a very legitimate option to make it soon, they have big redevelopment plans and will have public vote. Tampa looks strong as well.
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23 hours ago, Torpar said:
A lot of the chants in the MLS are shit and never seem to be offensive in anyway. Toronto fans seem slightly better than the Yanks though.
Probably in a big way due to a lack of away fans, there just isn't that 'needle' between fans that you get in Scotland. But even when they do try and create a little tension, North Americans just don't seem to get it...
Yep, I also think it's probably mostly the lack of away fans, and time. We'll see what happens with New York clubs 20, 30 years from now.
Also I think it doesn't help that most games are not important. No relegation, winners decided in the playoffs. Rivalries are born in games that matter. If you lose a regular season game, so what. In other US sports, great rivalries were formed in the playoffs, but in a league as balanced, unpredictable and big (and growing) as MLS, two clubs could meet in the playoffs, have a tense series and not see each other in the playoffs for another 10 or 20 years.
Also, your post reminded me of this old Toronto clip, from when the club was new. Most "hardcore" supporters just standing outside before the game and chanting how the referee is a w****r.
But their feelings vs. Montreal were probably much more genuine.
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I was rooting for Boonen at the end, only because it would've been a record. But good for Hayman. Boonen allowed himself to get boxed in and had nowhere to go, unusual for a great sprinter. He choked it away. I'm sure he was kicking himself after that.
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I didn't see Antonie crash and I probably won't want to, but so terrible, rest in peace.
Just last week, I watched an older monument (don't remember which one, I was on a binge of watching many different ones), where two neutral cars crashed into riders in the same race. They must seriously re-think safety.
Also, different opera, but was it last year's Giro when a spectator rode a bicycle into the peloton and crashed a bunch of riders. Can this security prevent a terror attack? Peloton just looks like a very vulnerable target.
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He's an average but unproven manager who has brought a bit of order to the chaos of the previous incumbents. I can understand why he looks like a star manager to you but you're comparing him to a pretty low baseline.
Well, to be fair, days of Alex Fergusons coaching in the Scottish league are gone, an average muffin by global standards is all you need right now. I wouldn't mind an average one for my club.
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Meldonium is the drug she claims she has been prescribed by the family doctor for 10 years. She has lived in the USA all that time, where Meldonium is not approved for use by the FDA. Go figure.
She can have a family doctor somewhere on this side.
There seems to be a lot of EU medicine and new treatment procedures that aren't approved in the USA. A few years ago we had probably some dozen NBA stars go to Germany to get knee procedures because they weren't approved in the US (Kobe, Pau Gasol, Brandon Roy, don't remember others).
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if Rangers Football Club (or whatever they are called) wish to pay their previous debts from their previous incarnation then I (and I am sure everyone else) would have no problem with the "continuation/same club" narrative
Otherwise, you are a contemptible spoiled brat of a club and if you can't see why others would view you as such then I feel sorry for you.
can't have your cake and eat it springs to mind.
I doubt it, it's fun for people to annoy them, and it's about overspending to win and starting a new company, not about unpaid debts.
If it was about unpaid debts, then there are many clubs in a similar boat.
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It was sevcos council that wanted to draw the distinction, which the learned judges laughed out of town.
As I understood from tweets, the Green council said that club is only in people's minds, it doesn't exist (or something along those lines), then Rangers council replied to it in his speech much later, after court break, and then it escalated and judge went into it.
My impression is that the judge keeps asking both sides 'why is this relevant' more or less, in various forms.
But you could be right though, maybe Rangers council made that argument first, in writing before the court, and that's why Green's council went into it.
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I actually have a bet I placed three months ago: a £10 double on Donald Trump to be Republican nominee (11/4), and Rangers to win the Scottish Cup (14/1). It's an insurance policy against the unthinkable.
Regarding the psychology of Rangers fans, it's worth bearing in mind that they've had years of endless taunting on here and that must give rise to a siege mentality in those who aren't calm enough to handle the flak. People become entrenched and so the likes of Kincardine who (IMO) used to come across as a good-humoured guy, is reduced to taking extreme pro-Rangers views on everything, and hurling insults at idiotic diddies in most of his posts.
Also, so many Rangers supporters are initially drawn to them because they are successful, so they have a bit of the spoilt child / school bully about them. They can't handle adversity, and so they will say and believe anything that makes them feel good, no matter how preposterous or unbalanced. That trait has only been exacerabted by the endless "yer club's deed!" stuff they've endured for years.
And then there's Bennett who is a bastion of truth, balance, and integrity.
Replying probably more to the post you quoted, than to you. I think Rangers fans are a very divided group right now, there's a lot of internal conflict right now and insults thrown at each other, maybe not very visible here on this forum. I agree with you that this forum probably inspires a siege mentality. Some very strange dudes here, and I don't mean just Rangers fans.
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Why was the club vs. company debate relevant to this case anyway? Judging by this old article, the clause said "Club or the company", so it would seem that Green had all bases covered in this regard.
Wish I could listen to the whole argument instead of just those tweets, I wonder why Green's council went into this.
The old article with the clause, from November: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-34932541
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That list of explanations for what happened between Spiers and a Rangers director, in full:
- A professional journalist deliberately invented a story that might show Rangers in a bad light, purely motivated by malice and a desire to damage Rangers; He then intentionally orchestrated his own dismissal from a well-paid and cushy job, in order to show Rangers in a bad light and to win approval from Celtic fans; and now, the National Union of Journalists has backed the journalist, because the National Union of Journalists also hates Rangers and wants to show them in a bad light,
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- A Rangers director told Spiers that he quite likes the Billy Boys song.
Only a buffoon would believe that the former is more likely than the latter, regardless of which team they support.
Not Scottish here, and I don't know Spiers at all. Talking about journalists in general, not knowing the specific guy, nothing would surprise me when it comes to today's 'professional journalists', especially in the field of sports. Sports journalism today is dominated by twitter and sensationalism, everyone is trying to break some story to stay relevant, and since there aren't that many real stories, lots of stuff gets made up. Then people get called out, egos come into play, people end up losing jobs and starting blogs. There aren't many sports journalists who are immune to making stuff up, it's part of staying relevant for most at this point, nothing to do with malice or damaging this club or that. It used to be different before blogs and twitter.
I don't know if this guy made it up or not, but he'd be one in a long line of "professional journalists" to be full of shit.
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You are all strange dudes in this thread.
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So how can Rangers get out of the Sports Direct deal?
It could be assumed that the findings in the Charles Green/Craig Whyte fraud trail could have direct implications on this?
This article from last August focuses on that unfair Sports Direct deal with Rangers http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/13616961.Fresh_concerns_over_Mike_Ashley_s_Rangers_retail_deal_as_Sports_Direct_goods_figures_emerge/
It has a 7 year notice, as I understand. If they've paid the 5 mil, they should start the notice.
I don't think that the Green / Whyte trial has any impact on that deal.
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That Hat bloke with the annoying voice was on the radio this morning talking of progressing in the cup and stuff,
and talking of Europa League competition if they win the Scottish this year................
Have they actually had 3 years accounts signed off and agreed to allow access to European football yet,
In the amazingly unlikely event that they actually do anything in the cup this year?
Accounts signed off by who?
I assume they will simply have to send audited accounts to UEFA after they qualify for a Euro spot?
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Yesterday, King said it was “practically feasible and legally feasible” to rehabilitate the oldco.
The South Africa-based tycoon added: “I would like to see us taking oldco out of liquidation and putting assets back into oldco.
“It would be a good thing to do. It would be back to the traditional Rangers.
“I think the supporters would like it.”
Remember this?
Even the lifelong Rangers fan that runs the club believes that this is not the old club. This is not the company he's talking about here, why would King resurrect the company that Whyte/ Duff & Phelps ran into the ground?.
It's Dave King, he says whatever some supporters want to hear. Probably f**k all to do with what Dave King 'believes', I doubt he truly concerns himself with such problems in the first place.
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So you are borrowing money to pay off borrowed money but borrowing more than you owe on an interest free loan... no alarm bells. No worrying what the hell is going on just the usual 'trust dave'
TBH not surprised one bit that they need extra money, I don't think Warren Buffett could've turned them around into a sustainable business in a single year considering the mess of recent losses, bad commercial contracts and power struggles.
If anything, I'm slightly surprised that King managed to get that extra money, especially if it's interest free, and added some new investors in the process. The fact that they needed that extra money, not surprising at all.
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And that's why it would work... who the f**k would put up with it with others ruining it for them. They'd actually bother their arse and do something about it
It would work, but it would cause bigger problems. There are many crazy supporters, and this basically tells them "if you want your team to win, it might be a good idea to beat up some people time to time." Back to the stone age.
And yep, like that poster said, it's also just messed up with regards to competition. Casual fans will feel punished unreasonably and some will probably give up, just because of some idiots. Lots of whining and arguments. I think it would be just overall bad for Scottish football. Promotions and Euro spots and whatever should be won on the pitch, not based on the number of morons in the stands.
I think there's just no instant fix, it's an issue that requires decades and decades of work, and there are larger social issues behind, people have to change, and it will happen with work as generations change. It's better than it was but there will be setbacks.
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Do you think that anyone would be stupid enough to risk arrest and jail time in order to see Rangers docked points?
Tbh, when it comes to stupidity of some football supporters, nothing would surprise me.
Obviously it was a lighthearted reply, obviously everyone won't start wearing Rangers shirts, comical as that would be.
But that idea is a non starter, you can't encourage football supporters to lynch each other and kick the living shit out of each other, because someone would do something stupid, and it would end badly.
Clubs should be fined, some people should be banned from grounds, but ultimately the heavy lifting and physical enforcement has to be left to police, not to lynch mob.
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Dock points. 3 points every time banned songs are sung... how many times were certain songs sung against hibs. Imagine your team were deducted 9 points.. how many of your fans would kick the living shit out or anyone daft enough to try singing banned songs again
Won't everyone just get a Rangers jersey and start singing sectarian songs, just to get their points deducted?
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How much do teams get paid now for being in league 2 / league 1 in prize money or what not? Do we know any numbers?
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This I agree with but as more and more people are showing support in favour each day of reconstruction I think something has too happen.
The problem is, some people up here want radical changes and some are afraid of change. I'd rather do it in babysitters, so maybe reconstruct the national leagues then look at the structure of regionalisation after that and do it all over a number of years slowly and steadily.
I know how you feel.
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I think Surf is lame, uncreative. A typical early 1990s team name (or a women's sports name, US women's sports for some reason are full of abstract short team names). If they want to be creative, that's not it.