JR 1,480 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 This needs maximum exposure. MONDAY, 21 JANUARY 2013LAWWELL-DONCASTER POWER GRAB ON NEW LEAGUE SET-UPSCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE chief executive Neil Doncaster and his puppet master, Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell have hatched a devious plan to cling on to power.They are refusing to disband the SPL Ltd company, claiming it holds the purse strings and must stay. And that means any Scottish Football League clubs who join any new set-up could be at the mercy of the SPL and have to dance to the tune of the Doncaster-Lawwell Axis and their Celtic cabal.If they agree to the devious demands.And I can reveal that the tool Doncaster is using the try and force this deal through is a television deal which SPL Ltd have signed with Sky Television for the next five seasons. A deal which Doncaster claims, cannot be transferred to any new company.However nobody in Scottish football, apart from the two men who negotiated it with Sky, SPL chief executive and Celtic supremo Peter Lawwell, have seen this mystery contract.Yet the Doncaster plan to hand out £350,000-a-year in extra payments to the dozen Scottish Football League teams in the new second tier, is, according to what Neil Doncaster has told one club, based on this Sky deal which nobody in the SPL, apart from Lawwell and nobody at all in the Scottish Football League, has seen.A dozen times £350,000 comes to a mind boggling £4.2M a year which the Doncaster-Lawwell-SPL-Celtic Axis is promising they can afford to give away as a goodwill gesture. Every year. Yet that promise is based on a contract with Sky which they have so far refused to give anyone, or anyone’s lawyers, a sight of.While Doncaster is claiming that the only way to protect this deal with Sky is for the SPL to remain as the ruling body even if any new 12-12-18 set up is implemented and rushed through in time for next season. Doncaster says that is because the deal is with the SPL and Sky will steadfastly refuse to transfer it to any new league company. There are many who may believe that sort of threat sounds like blackmail.Especially when my highly placed sources in London assure me that Sky will be relaxed about dealing with any new company whuch may be formed to give substance to a new Scottish National League.Others may see Doncaster’s latest bluster as no more than a last desperate throw of the dice from Celtic and Peter Lawwell to preserve the Celtic cabal stranglehold on power, while Neil Doncaster remains as what many see as Lawwell’s willing puppet.Any Scottish Football League club signing up top any such deal – based on what looks like the threat of blackmail - would be taking a step in the dark off the edge of a steep cliff. Any Scottish Football League chairman willing to be marched blindfolded to the edge of the precipice would be seen as a man with a suicide wish.The Scottish Football League clubs will talk about the new 12-12-18 all-in Scottish National League when they meet at the end of the month, but there will be no vote and the SFL Board will make no recommendation.When the 12-12-18 plan was first mooted and when it looked as though it heralded the end of the SPL, a senior source told me he could not believe such a shrewd and powerful manipulator as Peter Lawwell, such a control freak and street fighter as Lawwell, would give up his vice like grip on top flight league football in Scotland quite so easily.That warning set alarm bells ringing and now my investigations have revealed just how Peter Lawwell intends to preserve the SPL, hang on to power by keeping his puppet Neil Doncaster at the helm and swallow up the minnows of the Scottish Football League.And the trail of questions I have been posing has led me to these revelations. Which are....1 - The SPL of Neil Doncaster and Peter Lawwell will fight to continue to control any new league set-up.2 – Nobody in the Scottish Football League has seen the contract the SPL say they have with Sky.3 – Only Neil Doncaster and Peter Lawwell have seen the contract the SPL say they have with Sky.4 – Doncaster claims that contract cannot be switched to any other body, so the SPL must stay in control of all 40 clubs.5 – Doncaster and Lawwell claim the Sky deal – which nobody else has seen – will fund £4.2M a year extra payments to the dozen teams in the second top tier.And on top of all that nobody in the SPL has made it clear to the 30 clubs in the Scottish Football League just what voting power they would have in any new National League, which would still be run by the SPL and the SPL-Doncaster-Lawwell-Celtic Axis.Ross County chairman Roy MacGregor resolutely refused to answer when asked by David Tanner on Sky on Saturday just how the voting rights would be carved up. He dodged the question of whether or not it would be one-club-one-vote.My view is that the SPL-Doncaster-Lawwell-Celtic Axis are already be planning some sort of voting carve up which will see the majority of the 30 Scottish League clubs left as a powerless rump, while the powerbrokers of the Celtic cabal among the top clubs – think Aberdeen and Duncan Fraser, Hibernian and Rod Petrie and Dundee United and Stephen Thompson – continue to rule the roost. It is an SPL-Doncaster-Lawwell-Celtic Axis secret plan which must be resisted by the honest men and true who form the Scottish Football League.Just do not expect the Daily Rhebel, commercially gripped as it is in Celtic and Peter Lawwell’s vice like control, to try to unravel this SPL plot to cling onto power.But it could be a chance, once again, for the Sun to shine..... AND....HARD on the heels of my revelation that two and a half years after he became Scottish Football Association chief executive, Stewart Regan, still does not live in Scotland, comes a fresh revelation.Regan walked out of a vital meeting nearly five hours before it was finished, in response to numerous calls from his wife reminding him he was due to meet her and friends for dinner in Leeds that evening.You couldn’t make it up.leggoland at 08:07Share Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlBear. 8,499 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Seriously though, not surprising in the slightest. If he has proof get it out there ASAP and let's watch them burn. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFC55 109,182 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Any one else get the feeling nobody else has seen the contract Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
quabba 440 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Any one else get the feeling nobody else has seen the contract :lol: Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianb1547 3,767 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 It's in the drawer........................ underneath the deeds! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bears r us 30,818 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Any one else get the feeling nobody else has seen the contract It kinda seems that way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianBacon 2,088 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Items 1 through 5 are covered earlier in the piece.Nothing like filling it out, eh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLE SUPER WILBERT 2,475 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Leggo Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue and True 311 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 was the business entity that is now called the SPL not originate from a company set up by Fergus McCann? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianBacon 2,088 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 was the business entity that is now called the SPL not originate from a company set up by Fergus McCann?SPL - Strathclyde Pussy Lickers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wearethepeople1 3,897 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 SPL - Strathclyde Pussy Lickers.Sectarian Penis Lovers? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlBear. 8,499 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Especially when my highly placed sources in London assure me that Sky will be relaxed about dealing with any new company whuch may be formed to give substance to a new Scottish National League.Scottish National Premier league...Life looks bleaker by the day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingWilBEARy 4,319 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Crackpot. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian 4,281 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Aye, as we know contracts can never be altered, not ever.What a load of pish.Clearly Leggo believes if a thing is worth saying once, it's worth saying ten times. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ritchieshearercaldow 22,190 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I wish lego would name his sources otherwise its mostly hearsay and fantasy Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergio 1,199 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 The SPL are fucked, they will fold like a wet cardboard box if they do not merge back into the SFL to become, the new SPL Salty Penis Lickers Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WATP-FOREVER 5,231 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 The spl deadline for thier 2012 financial statements are due in 5 weeks. These clubs should hold out til then, before they vote. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouncybear 43 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Items 1 through 5 are covered earlier in the piece.Nothing like filling it out, eh?For a one time professional journalist, Leggo sure knows how to write like a semi-literate adolescent. It's a shame because it seriously detracts from his message especially on occasions like this when he may have something worth reporting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlCapone 7,678 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 For a one time professional journalist, Leggo sure knows how to write like a semi-literate adolescent. It's a shame because it seriously detracts from his message especially on occasions like this when he may have something worth reporting.It truly amazes me that a Rangers supporter could read this and the only thing that they would comment in is the grammar. Its attitudes like this that have got us in the state we are in....head in the bloody sand.Seriously, with the attitudes on here if I was Leggatt I would leave the talking about Rangers to the likes of Keevins, Guidi, Delahunt and Walker. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlCapone 7,678 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I wish lego would name his sources otherwise its mostly hearsay and fantasyDont be so bloody stupid. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ritchieshearercaldow 22,190 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Dont be so bloody stupid.Nothing stupid about it, it very easy to write an article full of "my source" and "a friend in the inky trade"Who's to say these contacts are not only repeating idle gossip that they've heardJournalists and even ex Journalists should provide facts (maybe asking too much there)It means sweet FA if you can't back up your statements although some of his stuff seems to have some truth to it, (or is it wishfull thinking?)I read Leggo's blog every day and I would like to think he's got some inside knowledge but I always finish it thinking...Aye right Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingWilBEARy 4,319 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Nothing stupid about it, it very easy to write an article full of "my source" and "a friend in the inky trade"Who's to say these contacts are not only repeating idle gossip that they've heardJournalists and even ex Journalists should provide facts (maybe asking too much there)It means sweet FA if you can't back up your statements although some of his stuff seems to have some truth to it, (or is it wishfull thinking?)I read Leggo's blog every day and I would like to think he's got some inside knowledge but I always finish it thinking...Aye rightAll Journo's have a right to protect their sources. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlCapone 7,678 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Nothing stupid about it, it very easy to write an article full of "my source" and "a friend in the inky trade"Who's to say these contacts are not only repeating idle gossip that they've heardJournalists and even ex Journalists should provide facts (maybe asking too much there)It means sweet FA if you can't back up your statements although some of his stuff seems to have some truth to it, (or is it wishfull thinking?)I read Leggo's blog every day and I would like to think he's got some inside knowledge but I always finish it thinking...Aye rightNo disrespect mate but thats the daftest post I've read on here all year, it is early mind so someone might beat it before the year end.If you honestly cant work out why sources need to be protected and why sources cant be mentioned then theres no point in talking about it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco 1,472 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Leggo reminds me of our version of Fox News - he plays the numbers games. The man has a disaster lined against us every day and his record (namely those he has chosen to back and those he has chosen to vilify) speaks for itself. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianBacon 2,088 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 All Journo's have a right to protect their sources.All chefs have the right to protect their sauces. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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