Broccoli Dog Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 (edited) alex thomson @alextomo This should amuse all fans of all colours who've a sense of humour http://i48.tinypic.com/2s1rh8p.gif FF already raging about Timmy Thomson mocking the Ibrox disaster. Edited June 26, 2012 by Broccoli Dog 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty 218 Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 From todays Glasgow Herald :- "SFL clubs say no to newco but yes to quick solution. The Scottish Football League board will meet today to discuss proposals for merging with the Scottish Premier League and taking Rangers newco into the first division". This, for me, would almost be an even bigger sell-out than voting Yes to the SPL. It really does beggar belief that they would re-create the whole league structure in order to accommodate the Newco! Surely the rules don't even allow a non-entity Newco to be admitted at anything other than SFL3?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Leitch Loyal Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 On a lighter note 'Spot the Ball' for beginners. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 (edited) From todays Glasgow Herald :- "SFL clubs say no to newco but yes to quick solution. The Scottish Football League board will meet today to discuss proposals for merging with the Scottish Premier League and taking Rangers newco into the first division". This, for me, would almost be an even bigger sell-out than voting Yes to the SPL. It really does beggar belief that they would re-create the whole league structure in order to accommodate the Newco! Surely the rules don't even allow a non-entity Newco to be admitted at anything other than SFL3?? Heh, heh..................which of The Succulents dreamt up this piece of ordure ? Edited June 26, 2012 by Florentine_Pogen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DensDerry80 Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 If we do manage between us to bin this stain on Scotland I think it would be a good idea before every game for the first round of match in the league for all supporters to stand up and applaud each other for one minute. And if anyone asks we'll just say we are mourning the passing of rankers 1.0. yes then after the whistle blows to end the minutes applause get back to normal and rip each other to shreds!! "in your glasgow slums ......" etc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tam1314 Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Funnily enough I can see the return of the warm ping pong balls. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 CoeurdeLion on FF: As far as I am aware we the fans have shown much humility FFS :lol: :lol: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Funnily enough I can see the return of the warm ping pong balls. Aye, right. From now on, all cup draws to televised and the SFA can borrow a machine from Camelot so that there is no room for Weegie type shenanigans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 You`re all deluded.... I never realised that Scotland had so many legal experts and tax experts all playing on the same forum and don`t even get me started on the subject of "sporting integrity" experts. How do you measure sporting integrity by the way? Judging by the way that the people charged with the responsibility of looking after the interests of their own clubs (ie Chairmen, Boards of Directors )and also tasked with the responsibility of running their own league, ie member clubs of the SPL, have been and are still currently behaving, then its absolutely no surprise that the Scottish game is in the state that it is. Greed, delusion,fear, self-interest, procrastination are just some of the character traits that are currently being portrayed by the afore-mentioned office bearers for each of the respective clubs. They are to busy trying to be seen to be pleasing the "rent-a-mob fan base" that have suddenly surfaced waving the sporting integrity banner in one hand and their club colours in the other hand. To pass a decision of this magnitude over to the afore mentioned rent-a-mob fans is nothing short of ridiculous (it`s also a breach of their fiduciary duties as a Company Director) It would appear that not one of them has had the courage to actually say "NO COMMENT " when being asked which way their club will vote on July 04th whilst at the same time actually then looking at all the COMMERCIAL implications of rejecting an application for NEWCO to join the SPL. By pandering to the rent-a-mob they are collectively signing the death warrant of the game in Scotland and consigning the SPL to years in the doldrums. I`ll guarantee you that all the so called "supporters" who have been on the forums, newspapers, radio etc over this saga will be the very same ones who will be on the same media vehicles a year from now complaining about the state of Scottish football and how poorly regarded we are by the rest of the world,we need league re-construction,oh woe is me, etc..................... do these so called office bearers currently charged with making these decisions today really think that all the rent-a-mob fans are going to be digging deep into their pockets and turning out in the middle of winter when moneys tight, Xmas is coming and the weathers crap because Dundee/Dunfermline/Club 12 are coming calling. The rent-a-mob fans will be out shopping with their wives,sitting at home on their key boards typing crap about something else,sitting watching the darts on TV.......the only thing they won`t be doing is out supporting their clubs. It will be a similar story in the last quarter of the season as well because 99% of them will have ZERO to play for. So by the end of the coming season each of the clubs (the ones that survive,because Administration is a heart beat away for at least 2 of them) will then see the real effects of the decision made this season. Budgets and revenues will be slashed to levels that will then finish the job of consigning the SPL to a level that it will never recover from. This decision will send ripples through the Scottish game right down to grass roots level so the SFL, Junior and Amateur leagues are all going to feel the effects of this decison for years to come. Before the brain surgeons,doctors,protectors of sporting integrity,rent-a-mob start beating their key boards to death with their sarcastic, un-witty responses finished with just the right measure of bile, I`d like to point out that at no point have I condoned ANY of the actions of Rangers or the previous administration at the club. They will have to deal with the ramifications of their actions for years to come.In the fullness of time the criminal investigation will hopefully lead to the right people being called to account at all levels. You should all be honest and admit that none of the current out pouring is being done in the name of "sporting integrity" or because you think that your club has been hard done to at some point by Rangers. You are being carried along with the mob mentality which says more about our current society than anything else has ever done in the last 50 years. I was fortunate enough to have played professional football at a decent level and I know what goes on behind the scenes of clubs up and down the country and some of it isn`t pretty nor legal. If you are all really hell bent on "sporting integrity" then you should now be lobbying the powers that be (SFA,SPL,SFL) to carry out an audit of ALL the member clubs on the same basis as the audit carried out on Rangers. " Without fear or favour " I believe was the phrase used by Stewart Regan and Neil Doncaster on several occassions. Mr Regan and Mr Doncasters respective panels would be snowed under with the "prima facae" evidence of financial mis-management,contractual irregularities and overall general bad management at every member club. What then???? I have good memories from football and I`ll share those memories with my son`s and let them watch the DVD`s of what the game used to be like in Scotland. I`ll encourage them to play football and enjoy it for what it is now but I`ll also enjoy taking them fishing,golfing and any other outdoor pursuits that catch my eye because football at a serious level in Scotland is now officially in decline after the keys to the asylum were handed over to the patients. Last one out please make sure you turn the lights off........... We all welcome the comments of Sandy 'Willie Puller' Jardine to P&B, welcome aboard pal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonedsailor Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 FF already raging about Timmy Thomson mocking the Ibrox disaster. To be fair I can totally understand there being bad feelings towards that gif, I thought it was hilarious until I found out it was the disaster memorial so I understand the other side of the argument but I fall on the bad taste side of the fence. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 (edited) To be fair I can totally understand there being bad feelings towards that gif, I thought it was hilarious until I found out it was the disaster memorial so I understand the other side of the argument but I fall on the bad taste side of the fence. Freudian slip ? Edited June 26, 2012 by Florentine_Pogen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 From todays Glasgow Herald :- "SFL clubs say no to newco but yes to quick solution. The Scottish Football League board will meet today to discuss proposals for merging with the Scottish Premier League and taking Rangers newco into the first division". This, for me, would almost be an even bigger sell-out than voting Yes to the SPL. It really does beggar belief that they would re-create the whole league structure in order to accommodate the Newco! Surely the rules don't even allow a non-entity Newco to be admitted at anything other than SFL3?? This screams a year's suspension then Newco in the Scottish League 2 of 2. However, the first division fans need to get mob happy big time to make it clear if Rangers are accepted into the first division as is, then there will be no more season ticket renewals. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 This screams a year's suspension then Newco in the Scottish League 2 of 2. However, the first division fans need to get mob happy big time to make it clear if Rangers are accepted into the first division as is, then there will be no more season ticket renewals. That's my view too. I still think all of these articles are just total speculation, much like the ones previously talking about rangers waltzing back into the SPL. Most are just pure fantasty. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonedsailor Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Freudian slip ? Having reread what I typed even I don't understand what I wrote. I think the gif is in bad taste. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballymoneyyin Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Shocked to hear that Lee Wallace is transferring to the newco. Very pleased with that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fasda Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Are you saying the SPL chairmen should ignore their supporters who are their main customers? Are you saying the SPL as a whole should turn a blind eye to a team cheating in almost every match they played for nearly a decade? Would you be happy to just sit and watch football even though you knew the outcome was rigged? He's saying that we are all deluded as opposed to Traynor, Young, RFC Forums, their supporters in general and, of course, their management. So that's us tell't then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonedsailor Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Shocked to hear that Lee Wallace is transferring to the newco. Very pleased with that. I take it you will be transferring your support to newco then? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeTeeJag Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Anyone heard of "Who moved my cheese?" Because I think I should send a copy to the SFA/SPL/SFL. It revolves around 4 characters. 2 are mice who scurry about looking for chesse, and 2 are little people who initially are too scared and unwilling to go hunt for cheese after their supply runs out. The mice noticed that the supply was getting gradually getting lower each day and so made plans to seek out new cheese. The 2 little people however, didnt notice the cheese running out until one day there wasn't any. But everyday they would return to the same spot hoping that day there would be cheese, but there never was. Eventually one of the little people decided that he should maybe see if there was cheese elsewhere, and although scared he made small steps in looking for new cheese. At first there was nothing but he kept trying and found little bits her and there. Meanwhile the other little person had decided that he would just wait in the one place because it was what he knew and felt comfortable with, and maybe if he kept going back to that place then one day the cheese would return. The story is a bit longer than that but you get the idea. The SFA/SPL/SFL are so scared to go out and go in a different direction in case the "cheese" returns and falls back into their lap. They feel comfortable where they are and haven't noticed that all around them the "cheese" is getting a little less each day. Until one day it's no longer there and they ask where did it all go and how did this happen??? They are comfortable with the way football goes in scotland. Two big teams winning the title each year and bringing in money for them, and the other teams just keeping quiet and not making too much fuss. And teams like kilmarnock are doing the same thing. "We will get the OF money in and we'll break even, we're comfortable and safe with that." Yet others, many among us included, have been like the 2 mice, realising for a while that something isn't right and that the way things were going couldn't be maintained. But the powers that be, have convinced themselves that the "cheese" they received everyday would never run out and so made no plans just in case it did. Was the little person that eventually went out and started to look for cheese worried and scared about having to do something new to survive? Ofcourse he was, but he knew that he couldn't just sit and wait for the cheese to start appearing again in that one place. The point is, yes having no rankers and their fans, and their money might be scary and difficult at times, but Scottish football if it just remains in the one place as it has done for decades and waits for the "cheese" to start appearing again, is going to die. The chairmen have been happy to just accept what they are given that they havent noticed that little by little they are getting less and less, until one day there is nothing. So they wait and wait for the money to return, but it never does. But they are too scared to move on, just in case that money comes back and they miss it, so they wait and wait some more. We have been given a wake up call, and a chance to change Scottish football forever. The question is, do we wait and see what falls into our laps or do we make our own changes and take back this game we love? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broccoli Dog Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Shocked to hear that Lee Wallace is transferring to the newco. Very pleased with that. He's basically saying, "f**k you pay me." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Shocked to hear that Lee Wallace is transferring to the newco. Very pleased with that. What kind of wage is Wallace getting? I'd imagine it'll be creeping near 5 figures a week? Not sure a team in the lower leagues, even Rangers, can sustain such a hefty wage tbh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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