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It´s ironic but SG is more savvy about his environment/PR than pretty much anyone else at Ibrox or at least that is how it looked for a while. re. petty tank line...I´d add #pathetic

If you keep doing more or less the same thing.....you´ll get similar results. Change the way you operate Make the right changes Do things better Pick battles you can win and don´t just howl at the moon to appease the support with little thought to eventual outcome.

Jackson will do pretty much the bidding of anyone, if you can be his friend. Paul Murray gave him material, Jackson went in to bat on his behalf (2012-2015) Kenny Miler gave him material, Jackson went in to bat on his behalf (noticeably at contract renewal time/ arrival Pedro) Scott Brown gave him material, Jackson went in to bat on his behalf. (various) SPFL have given him material &/or promises, Jackson went in to bat on his behalf. (currently) Jackson/DR reach more people than Spiers and hence becomes valuable, above his actual worth. It´s not about parking big tanks without ammo #control_the_narrative

There has been a Groundhog Day feel to events within Scottish football for nearly a decade (both on and off field) and even when we know what the script is, we do the same thing. It wasn´t even the first time we´d used the Shifty Eye article. On the pitch we need players, who as well as ability, can cope with an expectation level that the money we have can´t buy. Very occasionally you´ll get a Morelos type signing whose price had nothing to do with the high level he performed at for a while...but generally you get what you pay for. Not enough funds, look to your own youth players and cross your fingers.

They haven´t jumped ship as such. Everyone is on their own ship and they are all called Self-Interest. That basic premise is very predictable and should be worked into any club thinking regards the strategy to take within this clusterf**k.

The media are forver looking for contentious Old Firm column inches and are there to be taken advantage of by the club. David Graham, the new PR man was appointed (Craig, btw I know his job title wasn´t PR). His first battle was to weather a storm attacking himself and was the time that the initial groundwork should have been going in regards a discrediting campaign re. 9IAR (I said this at the time in a thread on here). To infer we have no friends/ex-players who would do that is simply not true. Off the top of my head I´d start with 9IAR Captain, Richard Gough. I´d have 9IAR manager Walter Smith ready to go, Souness, McCoist, then I´d look at figures not directly connected with the club,... etc, etc You can say the media hate us but if we know that, we have to act accordingly and box clever. Parking the tanks on the lawn without any shells hasn´t served us well in the past and won´t now or in the future. Instead it will be treated as comedy time for Scottish Fitbaw. It smells more like appeasement to the support without much thought beyond that. There have been a lot of good appointments throughout the club from the football operation to the business side, etc but we have never really addressed the PR challenge properly. Granted, it´s a difficult remit given where we have been these past few years but we should have got some experienced professionals in rather than Traynor/Level5. To move forward as a club, the only way it will start to happen appears to be on the pitch and that means getting on top of a very well resourced and determined rival and as we sit, that doesn´t look like happening anytime soon. The C19 fallout may change the landscape but we go into it with bigger financial issues. It´s not a hopeless picture but it´s a very difficult one and the obvious worry is that if we have another couple of unsuccessful years, everything starts to drift, starting with ST numbers. One saviour could be a diffferent European league/Escape to England structure but we´ve been waiting for that for how long ?

Do you fight with your shadow ? ? Let´s just leave it with what I said in the beginning (in italics below). We all know that DP is interim chairman, I didn´t say he wasn´t, it´s still a bad start, regardless. If this heads where it looks like going, it´s a bad start for Douglas Park and the new PR man. ----- Beyond that.... I like most will have hoped that Douglas Park would be more savvy and for that reason, I thought that we might come through on the statement bluster. This is one of those moment that will leave scars and will make efforts to discredit the title in the eyes of the general football public more difficult.

The league was always going to be called, we´ve pretty much known that for ages. As far as that goes, it´s about discrediting the award so it is generally accepted that Celtic don´t move onto to 9 this season. We couldn´t get that right either. We had Alastair Johnson come out in the DR article talking about 8 and an half,...two or three weeks after a more subtle drip, drip approach should have been taken using ex-players, friends in the game and pushing it every 2 or 3 days.

They won´t have time to hate because they´ll be too busy laughing.

Thank´s for telling me something we all know ? ps. Murty was appointed interim first team manager back in the day and ended up in charge of more matches than the manager he took over from.

When Douglas Park had a go at Shifty for the Private Eye article this morning (Daily Record), the SPFL office would have been almost happy,...as it smelt like desperation heading towards a familiar result. Next time we send out the angry statement, it´ll just be laughed at and mocked by the Scottish game in general. If this heads where it looks like going, it´s a bad start for Douglas Park and the new PR man. I feel sorry for the younger generation of supporter who haven´t seen a successful Rangers team and worry about the future.

Looks pretty much like the above from yesterday. Waiting on Doncaster resigning before pushed. What do we do now ? We´ll have very few allies (clubs) in any battle if reconstruction happens. We know that we have more enemies than friends in the media. This is a time when we could do with being on at least talking terms with BBC Scotland. I´m not confident that the whistleblower evidence will be enough to bring as many down as we´d like (obviously hope I´m wrong) Partly because of our lack of media friends.

The SPFL would have to be very confident of their legal position and might be prepared to seriously push for reconstruction to prevent relegation for the three clubs.

You tend to think that the whatsup group(s) entire timeline/chat is in the bank, so to speak. Misinforming by omission Coercion IT jiggery pokery / porkies Now talk of "threats"

I can see why you might say that but don´t agree. Let´s look at the period 2006 - 2015, we had leaders (as a club) who actively sought division within fan politics for their own interests and it contributed to how events played out during a very complicated period. On the other side of the city, unpalatable as it is, Fergus McCann actually led the club in a much more constructive way. It built the base for where they are today and therefore makes it very difficult for us and easier for them to keep their distance. That brings us to the SPFL and why IMO it is important to take advantage of the current battle and force the Celtic Minded controlling structure out and further discredit the seemingly inevitable, eventual calling of positions. You won´t reverse things overnight but we have to start winning our share of the battles. For that, we need leadership, a holistic strategy (and money).

I was moreso pointing towards the lack of real leadership. You, me or the next man saying the obvious aint the same.

The obvious points are that closed door games won´t hold as much attraction for the Scottish League given the relatively high proportion that matchday income brings in. Nor would the clubs stand to lose as much money as the bigger leagues, if the league wasn´t completed. That said, it remains to be seen how so many games are shorhorned into such a short period given ongoing circumstances. Pre season League 19/20 European 19/20 European 20/21 qualifiers and group organisation League 19/20 Scottish Cup 19/20 League Cup 20/21 (only competition with sponser ?) Euros 2021 will require domestic season not to go on further than May 2020 Something has got to give and for eventual answers, study the finances (follow the money)

"There will be no hooligansm, there will be no vandalism and there will be no bevvying because the world is watching us...." Jimmy Reid was a leader of men. A trait that is sadly lacking today as Joe Punter tends to get propagandized into a land where general independent cognitive ability tends to be moulded into the required shape. Within the self-interested and narrow clusterf**k that is Scottish fitbaw, it´s a sad reflection on the fans that a third rate media still manage to hold so much influence. It makes any type of tactical or strategic move that Rangers might push for will feel like swimming against the tide with the added difficulty that we have very few natural allies, partly down to politics, partly our own fault or the way we have tended to play things over the past few years. From geo-politics to the SPFL, all the controlling powerbases of various levels know the importance of trying to maintain control of the narrative. Sometimes when something consequential actually happens, after consuming much of the media, it would appear that it did not happen or that it was of little import. So the SPFL meet again tonight....As the poster on FF says, patience is required. Pity the likes of Jimmy Reid wasn´t still around with a message modified for the social media age.

Same thing really. Times like this almost make you want to be on twitter ?

Best afternoon of Lockdown by the considerable girth of the Fat Lawyer !! Bit like being 0-2 up at Parkheid at HT. Happy days but not quite certain of how it will end.

The City of Discovery is on a roll........... Dundee United have fell out with their fans Club Statement https://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/news/6469/STATEMENT-FROM-CHAIRMAN-MARK-OGREN.html

Containing statement. Gives the CEO time to start looking for a new job.

They´d be using the Celtic Away Kit and playing against the Hooped first team V. Breaking: The daughter of Peter Lawwell is to be phsyio for both teams. (got a internship or similar at Harper and McLeod back in the day) Further Breaking News Lawwell has withdrawn the Celtic team for the match and Shifty´s V are now in contract negoitiations for a fixture against a Peado All Star V whose link with the Hoops that they will wear is apparently something to do with Sporting Lisbon (according to a Celtic PLC statement)

The SPFL will have their own legal opinion and it may well be different to that of Partick Thistle. However, I think it very difficult for the SPFL to contemplate the courts at this juncture and circumstance. Damage limitation would almost certainly include a willingness to reconstruct the Leagues so no team is relegated. In so doing they will limit opposition in terms of numbers. The individuals may try and weather the storm, push Teflon or Shifty and hope it appeases the rest. In such a situation, It´d be up to us to go for the throat (whistleblower evidence?) but it´s not good not to have many friends in the media.

After skimming the legal opinion, it points toward the vote being closed and resolution failed, prior to any such further discussion between representatives of Dundee FC and the SPFL/others.