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And whoooeeeee!!!! Rangers FC has a dossier!! I hope they finally "burn their boats" when this long-awaited dossier is revealed!!

[BouncingHibees]

And whoooeeeee!!!! Rangers FC has a dossier!! I hope they finally "burn their boats" when this long-awaited dossier is revealed!!

SPFL have called a meeting at Rangers request for 12th of May, oh how they must regret not calling an enquiry into Rangers EBT use, could very well come back to bite them in the arse.

[hibeejim21]

The biggest mistake Scottish football made was allowing sevco to call itself rangers, they have been a pox on the game ever since. And now their bluff has been well and truly called with this EGM. Sevco are going down the shitter and want to take as many fellow clubs with them as they can. xxxx them.

Hertz have some nerve moaning about coercion while telling their players to take a pay cut or get binned. xxxx Them. I had some sympathy for their plight initially but now I just want them relegated.

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And what about Stranraer FC lodged within this "nest of vipers"!!?? What is that all about or is this another wee Scot footie club with some kinda Orange Lodge presence within its ranks??

[hibeejim21]

And what about Stranraer FC lodged within this "nest of vipers"!!?? What is that all about or is this another wee Scot footie club with some kinda Orange Lodge presence within its ranks??

Their chairman is a massive rangers fan, plus they are going to get relegated....like hertz. So at least they have an excuse to back it.

I keep asking but when are these games going to be played out ? You are going to need at least 6/7 weeks to play the remaining fixtures, and then factor in the training, the teams will need a mini preseason, and no way could they play weekend and midweek after that lengthy layoff. Then the players out of contract end of June, then what if someone picks up COVID or symptoms ? Whole team has to isolate and anyone who played them.....

UEFA want this done by 20th July. I don't see it and neither do the Belgian,french or the dutch. There is going to be ramifications, possibly legal cases but I can't see what else can be done. We should be planning for next season which will likely be in the autumn now... if we are lucky.

[BouncingHibees]

And what about Stranraer FC lodged within this "nest of vipers"!!?? What is that all about or is this another wee Scot footie club with some kinda Orange Lodge presence within its ranks??

Their chairman is a massive rangers fan, plus they are going to get relegated....like hertz. So at least they have an excuse to back it.

I keep asking but when are these games going to be played out ?  You are going to need at least 6/7 weeks to play the remaining fixtures, and then factor in the training, the teams will need a mini preseason, and no way could they play weekend and midweek after that lengthy  layoff. Then the players out of contract end of June, then what if someone picks up COVID or symptoms ? Whole team has to isolate and anyone who played them.....

UEFA want this done by 20th July.  I don't see it and neither do the Belgian,french or the dutch. There is going to be ramifications, possibly legal cases but I can't see what else can be done. We should be planning for next season which will likely be in the autumn now... if we are lucky.

High ranking FIFA officials saying it should be September that countries are aiming for to get back by and no football should be played before it, uninterestinly Germany relaxed its lockdown and have had a surge in Coronavirus cases again leading to the possibility of another lockdown there, this ain't ending anytime soon.

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Aye! I noticed that sudden glitch in the German recovery strategy and it indicates how intractable a problem this crisis presents to sports organisations and particularly team sports. I think it endorses Nicola Sturgeon's cautionary comments re the return of Scot footie fixtures coming any time soon.

[St Charles Owl]

Germany is going to be a guinea pig with regards to football in all this!! Whether it be players training, playing more games than usual, games behind closed doors, testing of players and officials and how the tv companies work with this. If they can cope with all this and everything seems to work then I expect other league to follow suit.

[hibeejim21]

Wow - That Q and A from the SPFLs man Mclennan there absolutely hammers sevco and the gorgie gran.

The notion that because they'd given out individual loans before meant that they could just send tens of millions of pounds to 42 different clubs, many on the brink of insolvency, is xxxx nuts.

They had the chance to present their evidence to doilotte and chose not to - Shock!

At no stage did the league say Dundee hadn't cast their vote --- finger pointed firmly at ICT.

Mclennan asking to carefully "consider the motives of certain clubs", and just outright asking them what in the name of god they actually want.

"It is revealing that, other than the deeply flawed suggestion about issuing loans, no-one has come forward with any alternative plan in the three weeks since the resolution was sent out to clubs." Quite.

"It’s just not acceptable for these vague assertions to be made without anything being brought forward. We’ve got demands for suspension of myself and another trusted employee of the SPFL without any clarity as to what it is we’ve alleged to have done wrong." Exactly, I mean where else is that allowed ?

It also sticks to high heaven that Queen Anne has voted in support of sevco's EGM without seeing the huns 'evidence'.

[BouncingHibees]

Here's the 'Open Letter' if you haven't seen it - I hadn't!

“Following the SPFL directors written resolution, which was passed with a large majority of SPFL clubs, we now need reconciliation and contrition from all parties if we are to safeguard the future of Scottish football.
We face huge challenges to ensure we can get the new season up and running on target and safely for all involved, and it is vital that all stakeholders collaborate and engage meaningfully with the Joint Response Group’s task force working groups, pooling our knowledge, experience and resources for the greater good.
As SPFL directors, we have volunteered our time freely, in uniquely difficult and challenging circumstances and have participated on a fully-functional SPFL Board, which we believe has operated in an entirely fair and even-handed manner.
We have each put our own self-interests behind us, to do what is best for Scottish football but have had to endure our professionalism and integrity as well as our compliance with our legal duties to the Company being openly called into question in recent weeks.
All of the SPFL Board meetings have been conducted in a fair and even manner, with everyone being able to voice their opinion and fully digest the many and varied issues that we have had to consider in forming our decision making.
In an attempt to reduce its own costs, ultimately for the benefit of all 42-member clubs, the SPFL furloughed several staff and a number of the executives voluntarily took salary cuts.
As a result, only an executive team of five remain to administer and manage the on-going business of the organisation as well as planning for the end of the current Season and for Season 2020/21.
Their workload has been extremely onerous, managing a huge number of additional tasks – liaising with the SFA, medical officers, the Government, UEFA, other league bodies, our commercial partners and clubs.
As a consequence, has everything been done perfectly and has it always been fully communicated? Of course it has not, and this is a point we have already raised to ensure the organisation is future – proofed for subsequent boards after we stand down.
Indeed, at our request, the SPFL Chairman will be issuing a comprehensive Q&A document within the week, addressing many of the claims or questions that have been put into the public domain.
We trust that this will give you, the members whom we have been appointed to represent, the same high level of comfort each of us has in the actions of the SPFL executive team.
We are unaware of any impropriety or any disregard for appropriate qualities of corporate governance.
If Huns Football Club has a dossier of evidence which shows anything to the contrary, then we would repeat the call for it to be brought forward immediately, because we, as club representative directors, have a clear duty to interrogate any allegations of misconduct or the like which it contains.
The SPFL Board is dealing with a fast-moving set of circumstances, with a skeleton staff trying hard to prioritise matters. It’s an unenviable job, and we are sure the many fair-minded people in Scottish football fully understand this.
All of the executive team retain our full support and admiration. Further recrimination and division will only decrease our chances of playing football matches in Scotland any time soon.
The players, fans and officials deserve our best collective efforts. At a time when thousands of people in our communities are dying of Covid-19, Scottish football needs to reflect and consider how this looks to the outside world.
In keeping with SPFL Rules, we will now have a general meeting on 12 May, when clubs will have the chance to either support or reject the resolution requisitioned by Gunts Of Midlothian, Huns and Stranraer.
We live in a democracy and the SPFL Articles are clear – if 75% of the clubs in the Premiership, as well as 75% of the clubs in the Championship and 75% of the clubs in Leagues One and Two vote that we should spend our executives‘ time on matters other than Seasons 2019/20 & 2020/21, and clubs’ money on lawyers’ fees, then we will.
But if the resolution fails to gain the support of enough Members and the requisitioners nonetheless continue on their current course, the cost to our game will be incalculable.”

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The letter is signed by by Motherwell’s Alan Burrows, Les Gray of Hamilton, Ewen Cameron from Alloa, Dunfermline’s Ross McArthur, Ken Ferguson of Brechin City and Peter Davidson of Montrose.

Stewart Robertson refused to sign.

There’s been issues between Maclennan and The Rangers for years, there isn’t going to be any ‘evidence’ it’s all smoke and mirrors, The Rangers are known for bullying and appear to be doing so again probably so they can try and force there own ‘peepul’ in at the top. MacLennan has so far played a blinder.