Bluegenebop
Well-Known Member
Excellent work mate.
ROY McGregor, the Ross County chairman and major shareholder, has appealed for “peace to reign” in Scottish football following the SFA’s decision to reject the SPFL’s call for an independent inquiry into the financial collapse of Rangers.
Stewart Regan, the SFA chief executive, defended the governing body’s refusal to support a review into the events which led to the liquidation of Rangers oldco back in 2012 on Monday.
Regan revealed that Celtic - who have called the move a “failure of transparency, accountability and leadership” - were the only one of their 108 member clubs to have contacted his organisation asking them to look into the affair.
The Parkhead club would like to see the Ibrox club’s extensive use of Employee Benefit Trusts during Sir David Murray’s reign examined further in the wake of the UK Supreme Court judgement on their legality.
The SPFL board, who announced back in July that no further disciplinary action would be taken against Rangers and none of the titles they won between 2000 and 2011 taken away from them, had called for an independent review into the saga. They will discuss the latest development in the ongoing stand-off at a meeting next week.
However, Stewart Milne, the Aberdeen chairman, last week called the bid to pursue the matter further “unhealthy” and urged other Ladbrokes Premiership clubs to move on and stop “dwelling on the past”.
Hibernian released a statement on Monday revealing they did not support the SPFL board’s appeal for a judicial review and questioning the merit in spending “significant sums of money and huge reserves of time and energy to challenge already lengthy and detailed legal advice”.
Now McGregor, whose Dingwall club only won promotion to the top flight in the 2011/2012 season, has admitted he would like to see the leading clubs in this country concentrate fully on ensuring a prosperous future.
“I don’t have any particular stance on it one way or another,” he said. “It’s a matter for the clubs who were involved at the time. We weren’t in the Premier League when it happened so I don’t have a particular view.
“I’m not one to judge one way or another. I don’t know the rights and wrongs of it. It would be wrong for me to make a judgement on it as we weren’t there at the time. We got into the Premier League after it happened. They (the SFA) have gone through the process and taken legal counsel.
“But I do think we have had so much pain and so much distress in Scottish football that it is just time to move on. I would like peace to reign. Scottish football has been through enough turmoil.”
Rangers were fined £250,000 in 2013 after an independent commission chaired by Lord Nimmo Smith found they had failed to properly disclose side-letter payments to players contrary to both SFA and SPL rules.
Regan this week expressed doubt the handling of the Rangers financial crisis by the SFA, SFL and SPL five years ago would ever be accepted by everyone in Scottish football even if the SFA agreed to an inquiry.
“I think it would be really difficult to convince those who believe in conspiracies that there isn’t a conspiracy at play,” he said. “Some stakeholders won’t ever get closure.”
McGregor, a successful Highland businessman who is also the chairman of the Global Energy Group, also feels that an independent review would be expensive, time-consuming and would ultimately achieve little.
“We could argue about this for another 10 years and I’m not sure one side or another would be satisfied with the outcome,” he said. “It is not going to heal anything.”
The fact the SPFL board called for an independent review when it has subsequently been shown that only one of its 42 member clubs – Scottish champions Celtic – has been in touch with the SFA about the matter has raised eyebrows.
However, McGregor revealed he had no issues with the board, which comprises Les Gray of Hamilton Academical, Ann Budge of Hearts and Stewart Robertson of Rangers from the Ladbrokes Premiership, acting on behalf of every senior club in the country.
“I wasn’t involved in this decision even though I am involved at a club,” he said. “It was decided by the SPFL board, it wasn’t decided by the clubs.
“The clubs are there to play football. These are governing body issues. This is a matter for the powers that be. That’s why they (the board) were voted in.”
Ross County had their first ever sell out against us the other week
they know who the biggest club in the land is and would be mad to piss us off again
excellent. Well done mateI suspect many of the lower league clubs do not back the Celtic stance either.
On Wednesday 26th July, I sent the email below to every Scottish senior club indicating that their club logo was displayed on the website dedicated to stripthetitles. I used the email addresses listed on the SPFL website. Five addresses may have been updated and emails were bounced back from Motherwell, Forfar, Albion Rovers, Berwick Rangers & Raith Rovers.
Email to Scottish Clubs
Subject: Club Intellectual Property Rights.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Club Intellectual Property Rights.
On the following website, a copy of your club logo is prominently displayed.
https://twitter.com/1stripthetitles?lang=en
I wish to draw this matter to your attention and ask the following two questions.
Has permission been granted to use your official club logo?
Does the appearance of your logo on this website indicate that your club endorses the view presented on this site?
Both internationally and at club level the future of the Scottish game looks bleak. Engagement in a form of open civil war within the Scottish game seems, to me, to serve no purpose.
Yours faithfully
G_d
Four replies were received. I would add them to the list compiled above in this thread.
Stirling Albion, Brechin City, Montrose & Dumbarton.
Reply 1
On 26 Jul 2017, at 16:45, Stirling Albion <office@stirlingalbionfc.co.uk> wrote:
G_d
Many thanks for drawing this matter to my attention.
Clearly there is no endorsement or indeed permission given to carry our logo.
In the first instance I have forwarded to our governing body, the SPFL to ask them to address the matter centrally.
I will keep you apprised of developments.
Kind regards
Xxxxxxx
Chairman & Ops Director
SAFC
Reply 2
On 26 Jul 2017, at 16:54, Xxxxxxx wrote:
On behalf of Brechin City FC I can confirm that we have not given permission for the use of our Club logo for this post and that we do not as a Club hold the views presented therein.
Regards.
Xxxxxxxxxx
Chairman
Brechin City FC.
Reply 3
On 27 Jul 2017, at 10:43, Montrose wrote:
Hi G_d
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
We did not give permission for our logo to be used and we will now be taking action to have it removed.
Many thanks.
Regards,
Xxxxxxxxx
Club Secretary
Montrose FC
Reply 4
Dear G_d
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. For the avoidance of doubt Dumbarton Football Club has not and will not give permission for the use of the Club logo for the purpose stated on this website, nor do we endorse the view presented.
It is our view that this is a matter for the football authorities to address in accordance with SPFL and SFA Rules.
Yours sincerely
Xxxxxxxxxx
Chief Executive
Dumbarton Football Club
Copies of the emails can be provide to admin, if required.
Exactly mate,I hope we eventually find out why Ashley boltedIf King is upto something behind the scenes, then they have made a big mistake in underestimating him.
Look how that turned out for Ashley.
There is reason behind this by the tims. I don't think they are getting the support expected from the clubs, so are pushing the small tax case investigations by other methods. If we have proof that this is weighted by the great unwashed, then I would expect all out war by our board.
Well done for this palI suspect many of the lower league clubs do not back the Celtic stance either.
On Wednesday 26th July, I sent the email below to every Scottish senior club indicating that their club logo was displayed on the website dedicated to stripthetitles. I used the email addresses listed on the SPFL website. Five addresses may have been updated and emails were bounced back from Motherwell, Forfar, Albion Rovers, Berwick Rangers & Raith Rovers.
Email to Scottish Clubs
Subject: Club Intellectual Property Rights.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Club Intellectual Property Rights.
On the following website, a copy of your club logo is prominently displayed.
https://twitter.com/1stripthetitles?lang=en
I wish to draw this matter to your attention and ask the following two questions.
Has permission been granted to use your official club logo?
Does the appearance of your logo on this website indicate that your club endorses the view presented on this site?
Both internationally and at club level the future of the Scottish game looks bleak. Engagement in a form of open civil war within the Scottish game seems, to me, to serve no purpose.
Yours faithfully
G_d
Four replies were received. I would add them to the list compiled above in this thread.
Stirling Albion, Brechin City, Montrose & Dumbarton.
Reply 1
On 26 Jul 2017, at 16:45, Stirling Albion <office@stirlingalbionfc.co.uk> wrote:
G_d
Many thanks for drawing this matter to my attention.
Clearly there is no endorsement or indeed permission given to carry our logo.
In the first instance I have forwarded to our governing body, the SPFL to ask them to address the matter centrally.
I will keep you apprised of developments.
Kind regards
Xxxxxxx
Chairman & Ops Director
SAFC
Reply 2
On 26 Jul 2017, at 16:54, Xxxxxxx wrote:
On behalf of Brechin City FC I can confirm that we have not given permission for the use of our Club logo for this post and that we do not as a Club hold the views presented therein.
Regards.
Xxxxxxxxxx
Chairman
Brechin City FC.
Reply 3
On 27 Jul 2017, at 10:43, Montrose wrote:
Hi G_d
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
We did not give permission for our logo to be used and we will now be taking action to have it removed.
Many thanks.
Regards,
Xxxxxxxxx
Club Secretary
Montrose FC
Reply 4
Dear G_d
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. For the avoidance of doubt Dumbarton Football Club has not and will not give permission for the use of the Club logo for the purpose stated on this website, nor do we endorse the view presented.
It is our view that this is a matter for the football authorities to address in accordance with SPFL and SFA Rules.
Yours sincerely
Xxxxxxxxxx
Chief Executive
Dumbarton Football Club
Copies of the emails can be provide to admin, if required.
And let's face it that's the three biggest clubs apart from us. Disaster for them...So that's now Ross County, Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen and Kilmarnock all distancing themselves from Lawwell.
He is a total lady's front bottom.Nice to see Liewell being rounded on and being made to look a total c*nt.
Which brings me right back to Doncaster, again.
He wrote to the SFA on behalf of ALL the SPFL clubs. Who gave him that authority? Why did he believe he had the support of all SPFL clubs?
He's put himself right out on a limb for someone, and that limb is being slowed hacked away right under his feet.
The fat Japanese is out on his own and he's looking more and more like a total f.ucking bellend
I can't back this up, but I have a feeling that our board are making their mark on clubs outwith the filth. I'm beginning to see a move away from universal hatred, (at board level at least), and maybe a new view towards Rangers possible power surge.
Excellent work mate.
Who will be next to say "get it up you fat boy"?
How did he vote?Tbf, MacGregor was making common sense statements back in 2012. He was not going to back a witch hunt
Don't think they were in the top league at the timeHow did he vote?