SPFL Shambles

[MisterC 12,270]

1 minute ago, eejay the dj said:

Well said . Brilliant post Malky 

I've nominated it for a Pulitzer prize. Seriously, this sums up my feelings on this thread and how its going

[The Dude 20,026]

Just now, Malkytfp1 said:

And that's your problem right there mate. We're not all journalists on here, or lawyers or doctors. We're not all blessed with the information some have, or the knowledge. We're all different.......But we Are all Rangers fans. We all invest hard earned money and time into our club. By willingly, intentionally winding up your fellow fans hoping to see them 'fucking angry' is where you have the ability to stop. It's slightly sociopathic.  A lot of reactions against you are way OTT but you need to seek out the common denominator here which is you. Nobody wants anyone banned. We all come on here to wind the fuck down from our everyday lives and read up on things like "Jardel immanent", nobody wants to eat shit. Just be a good guy, don't be a cunt guy. Good rule for us all.

Where have you pulled that from? People got wound up by the fact I reported quotes from SPFL clubs. Should I not pass those on incase it upsets someone on here?

I'm not for a second saying everyone is 'blessed' with the same information but I'm not not going to share stuff on here just because some don't like it. If folk wanted to come on here and read stuff like 'Jardel imminent' this wouldn't be far and away the busiest thread on here in recent weeks (closely followed by the BLM stuff).

 

[eejay the dj 31,964]

1 minute ago, Malkytfp1 said:

Aww shucks ♥️

Post of the evening mate . There i  created that just for you 

[BridgeIsBlue 66,606]

14 minutes ago, Dave Hedgehog said:

If you are “not bothered if celtic get handed the title or not” then I don’t think you are a Rangers fan.

Thats my opinion on that matter, don’t know and have never known a Rangers fan that would say that. 

Our own board aren't Rangers fans then. 

[siamthedanger 2,855]

Statement from Budge -

 

By now, most of you will know that the SFA Arbitration Panel has found against us in our “unfair prejudice” challenge, following the relegation of Hearts, Partick Thistle and Stranraer, as a consequence of the early termination of Season 2019/20.

For those of us involved throughout this process, sadly once again, we cannot say we are totally surprised at the outcome, despite firmly believing in the power of the arguments and evidence we put forward.

I want to take this opportunity to thank our legal team, who despite the result, were quite simply first-class. They acknowledged from the outset that this would be an uphill battle, but nonetheless it was a battle we felt we had to fight. We could not simply sit back and accept the unfairness that was being meted out to us.

What has been allowed to happen in Scottish football, where fellow member clubs and our governing bodies have stood back and allowed totally disproportionate financial damage to be imposed on 3 of its members, can only be described as shameful… as indeed, should the SPFL’s recent self-congratulatory statement.

For too long, Chairmen and Owners have stood on the sidelines bemoaning the decision-making processes, the perceived lack of leadership, the lack of commercialism; the general shortcomings, as they see it, of Scottish football. However, if they really want things to change, it will take more than words. They will have to stand-up and be counted. 

We tried to do just that. Unfortunately, the very fact that we tried and lost, will cause many others to be even more wary. I can hear them now... “You can’t fight the rules; you can’t fight the establishment; we must support the centre.” Sadly, I see little cause for optimism that things will improve any time soon in Scottish football. I hope I am wrong.

My rant is over for now. While frustrated, disappointed and angry with much that has gone on over the last 4 months, we must now move forward. 

We will suffer serious financial losses as a consequence of losing this particular battle but we will survive and we will come through this stronger than ever. We have suffered a series of blows over recent months, but our spirit has never been stronger. We will continue to run our Club with honesty, transparency and integrity. These are the values we have always adhered to and we will continue to keep them front and centre of everything we do. 

We will also lead with strong financial management and importantly, with confidence. We look forward, once again, to celebrating a successful year, culminating in winning the Championship and getting back to where we belong. Robbie has done it before and with your support, we can make this a year to remember for the right reasons as well as the wrong.

I make these statements, confident in the support I know we will have from our incredible fans and sponsors. The messages of support that I, personally, have received throughout this enormously difficult period have been absolutely amazing. Let me say “thank you” to each and every one of you. I am sorry we did not win this battle but as we all know, it is winning the war that counts.

[The Dude 20,026]

By now, most of you will know that the SFA Arbitration Panel has found against us in our “unfair prejudice” challenge, following the relegation of Hearts, Partick Thistle and Stranraer, as a consequence of the early termination of Season 2019/20.
For those of us involved throughout this process, sadly once again, we cannot say we are totally surprised at the outcome, despite firmly believing in the power of the arguments and evidence we put forward.
I want to take this opportunity to thank our legal team, who despite the result, were quite simply first-class. They acknowledged from the outset that this would be an uphill battle, but nonetheless it was a battle we felt we had to fight. We could not simply sit back and accept the unfairness that was being meted out to us.
What has been allowed to happen in Scottish football, where fellow member clubs and our governing bodies have stood back and allowed totally disproportionate financial damage to be imposed on 3 of its members, can only be described as shameful… as indeed, should the SPFL’s recent self-congratulatory statement.
For too long, Chairmen and Owners have stood on the sidelines bemoaning the decision-making processes, the perceived lack of leadership, the lack of commercialism; the general shortcomings, as they see it, of Scottish football. However, if they really want things to change, it will take more than words. They will have to stand-up and be counted.
We tried to do just that. Unfortunately, the very fact that we tried and lost, will cause many others to be even more wary. I can hear them now... “You can’t fight the rules; you can’t fight the establishment; we must support the centre.” Sadly, I see little cause for optimism that things will improve any time soon in Scottish football. I hope I am wrong.
My rant is over for now. While frustrated, disappointed and angry with much that has gone on over the last 4 months, we must now move forward.
We will suffer serious financial losses as a consequence of losing this particular battle but we will survive and we will come through this stronger than ever. We have suffered a series of blows over recent months, but our spirit has never been stronger. We will continue to run our Club with honesty, transparency and integrity. These are the values we have always adhered to and we will continue to keep them front and centre of everything we do.
We will also lead with strong financial management and importantly, with confidence. We look forward, once again, to celebrating a successful year, culminating in winning the Championship and getting back to where we belong. Robbie has done it before and with your support, we can make this a year to remember for the right reasons as well as the wrong.
I make these statements, confident in the support I know we will have from our incredible fans and sponsors. The messages of support that I, personally, have received throughout this enormously difficult period have been absolutely amazing. Let me say “thank you” to each and every one of you. I am sorry we did not win this battle but as we all know, it is winning the war that counts.

[HG5 11,112]

1 minute ago, The Dude said:

Well, as I've said. If people stop acting like cunts, they'll stop being treated as so. Funnily enough, if you'll bother to actually read the thread, you'll see I was quite happily staying on topic until some roaster started ranting about me not writing about child abuse. If, as Gogzy says, admin do fuck all about the abuse aimed in my direction, then folk cant be surprised when they get some back.

You might not appreciate wanting to read through pages of futile arguing, I don't particularly appreciate posters claiming I'm 'morally corrupt' for not writing about something that has nothing to do with my job.

And if you have an issue with them, you can always take it to PM - you don’t HAVE to drag all of us into it.

And I get that you might not always like some of the replies you get.

How about considering defusing a situation, rather than getting triggered by it?

 

[The Dude 20,026]

18 minutes ago, Dave Hedgehog said:

If you are “not bothered if celtic get handed the title or not” then I don’t think you are a Rangers fan.

Thats my opinion on that matter, don’t know and have never known a Rangers fan that would say that. 

The Rangers board who agreed the season couldn't be completed, thus handing celtic the title.

[bluenoz 30,835]

2 minutes ago, HG5 said:

And if you have an issue with them, you can always take it to PM - you don’t HAVE to drag all of us into it.

And I get that you might not always like some of the replies you get.

How about considering defusing a situation, rather than getting triggered by it?

 

The thing that irks me the most is he takes threads totally off-topic. I can count numerous threads that have been closed for that very reason where he is front and centre. I would be embarrassed if I were the reason for a thread getting closed.

[Malkytfp1 18,594]

1 minute ago, The Dude said:

By now, most of you will know that the SFA Arbitration Panel has found against us in our “unfair prejudice” challenge, following the relegation of Hearts, Partick Thistle and Stranraer, as a consequence of the early termination of Season 2019/20.
For those of us involved throughout this process, sadly once again, we cannot say we are totally surprised at the outcome, despite firmly believing in the power of the arguments and evidence we put forward.
I want to take this opportunity to thank our legal team, who despite the result, were quite simply first-class. They acknowledged from the outset that this would be an uphill battle, but nonetheless it was a battle we felt we had to fight. We could not simply sit back and accept the unfairness that was being meted out to us.
What has been allowed to happen in Scottish football, where fellow member clubs and our governing bodies have stood back and allowed totally disproportionate financial damage to be imposed on 3 of its members, can only be described as shameful… as indeed, should the SPFL’s recent self-congratulatory statement.
For too long, Chairmen and Owners have stood on the sidelines bemoaning the decision-making processes, the perceived lack of leadership, the lack of commercialism; the general shortcomings, as they see it, of Scottish football. However, if they really want things to change, it will take more than words. They will have to stand-up and be counted.
We tried to do just that. Unfortunately, the very fact that we tried and lost, will cause many others to be even more wary. I can hear them now... “You can’t fight the rules; you can’t fight the establishment; we must support the centre.” Sadly, I see little cause for optimism that things will improve any time soon in Scottish football. I hope I am wrong.
My rant is over for now. While frustrated, disappointed and angry with much that has gone on over the last 4 months, we must now move forward.
We will suffer serious financial losses as a consequence of losing this particular battle but we will survive and we will come through this stronger than ever. We have suffered a series of blows over recent months, but our spirit has never been stronger. We will continue to run our Club with honesty, transparency and integrity. These are the values we have always adhered to and we will continue to keep them front and centre of everything we do.
We will also lead with strong financial management and importantly, with confidence. We look forward, once again, to celebrating a successful year, culminating in winning the Championship and getting back to where we belong. Robbie has done it before and with your support, we can make this a year to remember for the right reasons as well as the wrong.
I make these statements, confident in the support I know we will have from our incredible fans and sponsors. The messages of support that I, personally, have received throughout this enormously difficult period have been absolutely amazing. Let me say “thank you” to each and every one of you. I am sorry we did not win this battle but as we all know, it is winning the war that counts.

💯 given up. Lots of negative/past tense language in there. Basically that could have been shortened to, "we got our cunts kicked in and were done"

[GaryMc 2,394]

That's game over then for this latest shambles.

Only us as a club can hurt these cunts by winning 55. All focus on Saturday now for me. 

Where we all watching it? 

[magic8ball 27,901]

A few digs in from budge ,for me the one that sticks out like as sore thumb is the pop at clubs who know the SPFL is a shiteshow but do nothing about it and some even have the idea that the board need to be backed no matter how much of a fuck up they are 

[The Dude 20,026]

Just now, HG5 said:

And if you have an issue with them, you can always take it to PM - you don’t HAVE to drag all of us into it.

And I get that you might not always like some of the replies you get.

How about considering defusing a situation, rather than getting triggered by it?

 

Gave up trying that one a long time ago. Utterly pointless exercise trying to 'defuse' anything.

I'd rather keep it public, that way at least, they can show themselves up to everyone else rather than getting to hide in PMs.

If the same wee handful of posters never reacted like a bull seeing a red rag every time they read the name 'The Dude' - or admin dealt with it -  it would be much better but, as Gogzy said earlier, admin do nothing about the vast majority of abuse aimed my way despite me almost never being abusive back. The same folk then whine like fuck when I push back.

Put it this way, see if I had dished out half of the abuse I've received in this thread alone, do you think I'd still be here or do you think some would've kicked up a big enough stink until I was banned? Christ, one was moaning like fuck because I used the word 'giro' in a reply to Eejay earlier.

[Malkytfp1 18,594]

Just now, magic8ball said:

A few digs in from budge ,for me the one that sticks out like as sore thumb is the pop at clubs who know the SPFL is a shiteshow but do nothing about it and some even have the idea that the board need to be backed no matter how much of a fuck up they are 

Absolutely. Nothing short of naming names there.

 

[The Dude 20,026]

2 minutes ago, bluenoz said:

The thing that irks me the most is he takes threads totally off-topic. I can count numerous threads that have been closed for that very reason where he is front and centre. I would be embarrassed if I were the reason for a thread getting closed.

Easy to see where it goes off topic - and it's not because of me. Some clown moaning that I'm not writing articles about child abuse is how this went off topic.

[SeparateEntityMyArse 53,715]

 “You can’t fight the rules; you can’t fight the establishment; we must support the centre.”

You can't take them on and win.  Their gang rules the roost and its a closed shop to outsiders.

Telling, and the most transparency I've seen on this matter in weeks.

[The Dude 20,026]

If anyone can explain how Hearts demanding 10m in compensation (almost three times what the Premiership winners will make) isn't "totally disproportionate financial damage to be imposed" on SPFL members given the funds would come from the prize money fund paid out to members?

[magic8ball 27,901]

3 minutes ago, Malkytfp1 said:

Absolutely. Nothing short of naming names there.

 

Reckon we can work out who a few are ,Sheep at top of the list and likely their city rivals too 

[gogzy 31,195]

4 hours ago, Colin Traive said:

Gogzy, I appreciate your attempts at playing peacemaker but what you’re actually doing is telling forum members NOT to debate because one single WUM is pissing them off.

I'm saying nothing of the sort.  Actually the opposite.

If you want to debate, by all means do it.  If you don't want to get into it with him, then ignore him.  It's really quite simple.

[Blueshoff 11,799]

2 hours ago, SeparateEntityMyArse said:

😂

 

Too obvious? 😊

[HG5 11,112]

1 minute ago, The Dude said:

Gave up trying that one a long time ago. Utterly pointless exercise trying to 'defuse' anything.

I'd rather keep it public, that way at least, they can show themselves up to everyone else rather than getting to hide in PMs.

If the same wee handful of posters never reacted like a bull seeing a red rag every time they read the name 'The Dude' - or admin dealt with it -  it would be much better but, as Gogzy said earlier, admin do nothing about the vast majority of abuse aimed my way despite me almost never being abusive back. The same folk then whine like fuck when I push back.

Put it this way, see if I had dished out half of the abuse I've received in this thread alone, do you think I'd still be here or do you think some would've kicked up a big enough stink until I was banned? Christ, one was moaning like fuck because I used the word 'giro' in a reply to Eejay earlier.

Re the giro - that is a word normally used when discussing the sellik support, not one of our own.

I suspect you knew that though, so are you genuinely surprised that somebody rose to it?

Rhetorical question.

[Malkytfp1 18,594]

Neil Doncaster right now...Prick.

And now that he knows he can't be 'got to' he will have his beady little eyes fixed on one club in particular. Our board better batten down the hatches cause this cunt will be bringing a storm. 

[The Dude 20,026]

Just now, SeparateEntityMyArse said:

 “You can’t fight the rules; you can’t fight the establishment; we must support the centre.”

You can't take them on and win.  Their gang rules the roost and its a closed shop to outsiders.

Telling, and the most transparency I've seen on this matter in weeks.

Ann Budge spent two years on the SPFL board and was widely regarded as one of the driving figures on it during her time. Not sure I'm having her 'closed shop' stuff.

[gogzy 31,195]

4 hours ago, Tiger Shaw said:

RM members defending statues are potential peados needing their hard drives checked, weirdos with strange habits/predilections 

He does abuse posters on here but does it in a sneaky underhand manner. I understand why people get annoyed, he was also boasting the other day about how he likes getting other posters banned. 

Hes an absolute cunt and only gets away with it because people also abuse him then he plays the victim.

I don’t want him banned couldn’t give a fuck about him but he’s not the victim he portrays.

 

If you think he has made a post that breaks the rules, report it.  

[Tiger Shaw 30,464]

Always the victim,  it’s fucking pathetic.

Another trait he shares with the tramps.