Hibs Petrie Hides Behind Regan

[andy steel 0]

Not many Rangers fans have any time for the CEO of the SFA, Stewart Regan. Seen as little more than a media mouthpiece for celtc's Peter Lawwell, his record since coming north from Yorkshire has seen him comfortably installed in the top 5 'public enemy' list for Bluenoses. I can't help feeling that, his gaffes notwithstanding, that this is a little unfair.

 

It's not that I think he has been effective at his job - I don't. Nor do I think he has been impartial or balanced in dealing with Rangers as we stagger from crisis to crisis - he hasn't. It's because I can't see how or why Regan should be the one to shoulder the blame while others skate smoothly by without a word of criticism.

 

The first thing to note, as always in these kind of articles, is that we are the authors of our own misfortune. Since no post about Rangers may proceed without The Ceremony of Abasement demanded by the self-righteous, I blame Murray, Whyte & I suppose myself for the wreck that we have become. Regan didn't take up his job, don top hat and cloak, jump on the first tube to Ibrox and begin his nefarious work of destruction; we managed most of that all by ourselves.

 

As the face of the SFA, he's first in line of fire. But as the leaked email of last weekend showed, he is the man who collects the threads of others and tries to weave them into a whole. When you are confronted with people like Hibs chief Rod Petrie, your life becomes much harder. Petrie claimed, while campaigning to have us expelled from the SPL, that integrity was beyond any price. Now we find that, far from being beyond measure, integrity stops at position 12 in the Scots football structure.

 

Petrie was charged with keeping secretly Charles Green informed of what the SPL clubs were up to and what Rangers could expect in votes. This blatant hypocrisy can't be simply laid at the door of Stewart Regan - if you rely on people whose morality is no better than alley cats you are on a hiding to nothing from the word go.

 

Fans of other teams, who have joined us in an unlikely alliance against Regan, may feel aggrieved that Regan has been actively trying to limit Rangers punishment to 'only' a 10 point penalty, relegation to the second tier, a fine and a transfer embargo. Seems quite a lot to me, when added to a three year European ban, loss of an entire squad, financial collapse and 6 months of torture.

 

Nevertheless, as the panic stricken statements of some SPL chairmen have shown over the weekend, the relentless whipping of The Rangers may lead to the loss of 5 other clubs. In this light, Regan has a duty to balance skelping wur erses with avoiding the much predicted apocalypse. You could argue that that's what he's been trying to do, while faced with our collapse and untustworthy colleagues.

 

His previous job, at Yorkshire Cricket Club, has often been pointed to as evidence that Regan can't handle such big jobs. Yorkshire fans seem to differ; while doing some unpopular things, he seems to be viewed as having done his best and had some successes, too. It's not likely that he'll be viewed in the same light in Scotland any time soon; Rangers fans are convinced he's out to get us at the behest of our enemies, while our enemies are convinced he's trying to save us at the behest of...The Queen, or something.

 

Maybe we should focus less on the figure at the top, and more on the moral corruption of those he relies on.

[Kenzie1 0]

"Regan has a duty to balance skelping wur erses with avoiding the much predicted apocalypse."

 

And where exactly in his leaked email, was this balance?

[Guest Dutchy]

Regan is the boss of the SFA and whether he's been badly advised or not, he has a duty to Scottish football and some might say the ability of excercising free thought. He's decided to take the advice and I don't think he can be let off the hook that easily.

 

We are indeed guilty of mis-managing our own problems, but the punishments for our mistakes are the 10 point deduction for admin and starting again in the 3rd for going into liquidation. The other punishments cause some concern to me in that Craig Whyte gets fined for not paying his our taxes, and so do we. £200,000 in Whytes case, and £160,000 and a years transfer embargo.

 

Why is there 2 found guilty of these misdemenours? As well as the threatening and bullying behaviour exhibitied by Reagn/SFA.

 

For this, I say he's culpable.

 

Anyway, Petrie's fatter than Regan, so he'll not be able to hide for long.

 

Start asking questions, now!

[TheWeeBlueDevil 0]

I have no doubt that Petrie along with a host of others are hiding behind Regan as they continue to throw punches at our club, but I am also convinced that Liewell is the puppet master pulling the strings.

 

Regan has been used and abused by Liewell and his gang, almost like the wee skinny kid in school who the big boys tell to do naughty things, desperate to impress the little skinny kids does as hes told. When it all goes tits up the big boys slink away into the shadows leaving the little skinny kid to take the derry.

[Guest JCS]

"Maybe we should focus less on the figure at the top, and more on the moral corruption of those he relies on."

 

I think we should continue to focus on all of those who are morally corrupt and that, of course, includes Stewart Regan.

 

He is the Chief Executive of the SFA and charged with the specific responsibility of leading by example.

 

Rather than rely upon his now discredited colleagues (like Petrie), I suspect he was the prime mover in the moral corruption of others. He has amply demonstrated by word and deed that he is a bitter, twisted and vengeful man.

 

Yes, others should also be in the spotlight, but they should be in the spotlight with him.

[TheWeeBlueDevil 0]

The whole SFA board are guilty of moral corruption.

 

They should all be replaced if Scottish football wants a chance to move forward.

[Guest Dutchy]

Longmuir should come in and run a new, revamped, single entity SFA.