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If I've learnt one thing from the past 6 years, it's that predictions, speculation and guessing on legal matters and what may happen/have happened serves as much of a purpose as t1ts on fish.

Aye, might be a goodtime to go hard on Shifty McGifty and any others there is info on, either directly or indirectly.

The SFA brought the charges. edit. McGlennan gave notice he was resigning but would stay in post until 'late summer'. @colinstein Shifty is at the SPFL.

We look to have pre-empted what was originally to be a principal hearing and brought this challenge that meant it became a Preliminary Tribunal Hearing. Still someway to go if the SFA choose to go to CAS. Safe bet that the Res12ers will be at the Hampden door with placards forewith.

Well, they've definitely not found in The Timbo12s favour #Long+grass Howels of anguish from the Resolution12ers are forecast to be on the light breeze coming from the East !

Preliminary Tribunal Hearing Outcome: The Judicial Panel convened a preliminary hearing relating to the above case on June 26 2018. This preliminary issue raised by Rangers FC challenged the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA’s Judicial Panel Disciplinary Tribunal to hear the case, and contended that the Notice of Complaint must be determined by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Having received submissions on 26 June the Judicial Panel Disciplinary Tribunal have issued a decision upholding the preliminary issue raised by the club. The Judicial Panel Disciplinary Tribunal proposes to continue consideration of the complaint until parties consider next steps and terms of reference for any remit to CAS. https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish-fa/football-governance/disciplinary/disciplinary-updates/

Name your winners for 2018/19............. SPFL1 SPFL2 SCup LCup EPL EPL2 FACup La Liga CL EL

Aye, I think the 'hold' put on the new stadium investment tends to reflect where his thoughts may be.

Don't dismiss the "almost 60 year olds" ya cheeky whippersnapper Vicente at 59................. A few years earlier Jupp Heynckes at 68

Are Ipswich a feeder club for HFs new club, Tractor Sazi ?

Good executive management needs a tadge of foresight or at least decision-making that has a sound base. During some of the times you point towards it was "institutional failure" and we still count the cost in salaries and pay-offs. - don't push unreasonable expectations - promise 'less' and deliver more - SG 1er season don't mention 'them', it's about us improving and building - Give SG&Co time, this season will probably deliver little tangible reward - Lets work towards there being real substance in our optimism for 2019/20 (politicans line but reasonable all the same, IMO) .

Only time will tell on much of the detail. In mitigation, you have to consider the state of our main rivals and the increased difficulty to access European revenue. I've never known Celtic to be in a stronger state, both on and off the park. Something that makes the job of whoever was in charge at the club so much more difficult and more easily prone to risk-taking or sanctioning such, eg. transfer policy for the previous two summers. European football revenue is oft mentioned as something we have to attain by 'overspend'. Given how the competitions are set-up/co-efficients/date of qualifiers, it is more difficult to qualify and for how long can you 'overspend' ? SG&Co pretty much HAVE TO work and have to be given time, regardless of what happens in the next few months.

Yes, good and not so good but my main bugbear is too long without a coherent, holistic strategy and the lack of a hard-nosed, more than competent CEO to carry it out......It's not a new thought, I wrote a Gersnet article that featured that, way back. Too much tends to be reactionary rather than following a strategy. eg. Counter-attacks on individuals on governing body boards came after the 2 SFA charges. Regards SDI, let's review that in a couple of weeks after the courtcase. Regards TP, it doesn't look good and I doubt that it will end well. As for not effecting the football club, (TRFC), IMO he's being disingenuous....... it might well effect RIFC and hence the club...eg. share issues ? Regards the football, it's been that much of a mess, AJ called it an "institutiuonal failure" We hope that the SG&Co appointments can help turn the tide. Hopefully, the changes and improvements to the football operation as a whole are a sign of 'strategic approach' at that level.

I only did it so as to give Petrocub a better chance Ive sent a link to the Petrocub Gaffer so he can print it out and pin it to the dressing room wall.

He put his money where his mouth was and with some others fought a battle no one else seemed prepared to do and that should be fully recognised but I don't think he or others for him have went about executive control of the club in a coherent fashion and that is partly why we struggle to take the next step.

It makes for an interesting debate.............. A more settled and clearly improving side on the park would certainly help some of the other issues. eg. players doing well = less pay offs and potential profit on player trading, increased European revenue, etc. There is an argument that suggest that this is the current approach, opposed to 'top down', which in some areas is proving very difficult. If so, it's a big gamble.

We aren't 5 players off Aberdeen, that's patent nonesense. We are currently way off Celtic, that is an obvious fact.

An answer to the straightforward question as to why the Faroes and not Macedonia would be interesting. It's closer and could be slightly cheaper but I don't think there would be a significant difference in cost. Maybe they think the Faroes tie is still in the melting pot, Runavik did get an away goal edit Thinking about it, I think they'd wrap an answer up in the Tuesday being Betfred Cup night.

Bet365 will have a livestream of Osijek v Petrocub tonight (for account holders with at least 0.01 pounds/euros in account). Incidently, Osijek are priced at 1/5 on by the same bookie to win tonights game. Petrocub (midseason) unbeaten in 8 games Osijek played 5 friendlies prior to EL qualifiers, including a 3-0 win against St.Johnstone. Sat 23/06/18 CLF Osijek 2 - 1 Vidi More info Wed 27/06/18 CLF Osijek 1 - 3 Shkendija More info Sat 30/06/18 CLF Osijek 3 - 0 St. Johnstone More info Tue 03/07/18 CLF Osijek 0 - 0 Lokomotiv Moskva More info Wed 04/07/18 CLF Osijek 2 - 0 Zalaegerszegi

Location Nice plaza with showers to help cool you down. Most famous ex-player and golden boot at WC 1998 Davor Suker Croatian League 2017/18 1 Dinamo Zagreb 36 22 7 7 68 34 +34 73 WLLDL 2 Rijeka 36 22 4 10 75 32 +43 70 WDWLW 3 Hajduk Split 36 19 9 8 70 38 +32 66 LDWLD 4 Osijek 36 14 14 8 53 38 +15 56 LDWLL 5 Lokomotiva Zagreb 36 14 9 13 47 48 -1 51 WWWWW 6 Inter Zaprešić 36 11 10 15 43 64 -21 43 LLLWW 7 Slaven Koprivnica 36 11 10 15 35 45 -10 43 WWLDD 8 Rudeš 36 10 10 16 41 62 -21 40 DWWWW 9 Istra 1961 36 6 9 21 28 60 -32 27 DLLDL 10 Cibalia 36 6 8 22 36 75 -39 26 Starting XI in 1st leg last week. 9 Croats 2 Bosnians Average Age: 24 13 M. Malenica 3 B. Barišić 6 S. Radeljić 17 T. Šorša 16' 21 M. Škorić 7 G. Boban 30 H. Hajradinović 5 B. Mioč 12 P. Bočkaj 2 D. Lončar 24 M. Marić 52' Coach: Z. Zekić Recent Europa League results Thu 29/06/17 UEL UE Santa Coloma 0 - 2 Osijek View events Thu 06/07/17 UEL Osijek 4 - 0 UE Santa Coloma View events Thu 13/07/17 UEL Osijek 2 - 0 Luzern View events Thu 20/07/17 UEL Luzern 2 - 1 Osijek View events Thu 27/07/17 UEL PSV 0 - 1 Osijek View events Thu 03/08/17 UEL Osijek 1 - 0 PSV View events Thu 17/08/17 UEL Osijek 1 - 2 Austria Wien View events Thu 24/08/17 UEL Austria Wien 0 - 1 Osijek View events Thu 12/07/18 UEL Petrocub 1 - 1 Osijek 2 qualifying campaigns (including this season) 6 wins 1 draw 2 defeats 6 clean sheets Only team to KO them have been Austria Vienna Good to see that Petrocub at least scored against them. Support / Stadium

Anyone in the land of reality think Forrester will prove a good acquisition for the Tractor XI ? Promising first half hour then it'll be downhill from there.

As Dave King said today, it's an expensive business to go through so many managers in such a short period of time. #PayOffCentral

He's limited as to what he can say about the ongoing legal matters with SDI and TP. He doesn't mention the two SFA charges and the ongoing process. He hopes, like the rest of us that SG can be successful but it's football and we have to wait and see. What's important is how the above actually end-up and that would need someone with the predictory prowess of Craig to tell us ...