ian1964 10,870 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 SFA chief Stewart Regan has accused Rangers of behaviour and comments which were "undignified and irresponsible". Regan was accused of failing to show leadership by Ibrox manager Ally McCoist at the weekend before the club's chief executive, Charles Green, joined the applause as fans sang "if you hate Stewart Regan clap your hands" at Brechin on Sunday. But Regan effectively accused them of pandering to their supporters and claimed he and the SFA would rise above the flak. Regan and SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster have been under fire for the failed attempt to fast-track league reconstruction in order to parachute Rangers into the First Division. Regan is unpopular at Rangers, partly for insisting the club must face a one-year transfer embargo, but is also disliked by those at other clubs who accused him of trying to bully the lower leagues into accepting instant change or face financial ruin. "Some of the comments and some of the behaviour has been undignified and irresponsible," he said. "There is a recognition at the SFA that Rangers want to get back to the top of the game. "We have met all of the key players in the new board and there are those on that board who talk a lot of sense, and there are those who are determined to bring a lot of success back to Rangers." Asked about the weekend McCoist and Green episodes, he said: "As far as their issues are concerned, they have been desperate to try and bring their fans with them. They have used opportunities to try and engage with those fans." Alluding to the leaking of an e-mail he sent to other senior figures, proposing Rangers' entry into the First Division, Regan went on: "Over the last few weeks there has been a lot said. "There have been e-mails, there have been leaks, comments made to the media. Quite a lot of it has been undignified and irresponsible. "We have to rise above that and do what we think is right. I never expected this job to be a popularity contest. I can go to bed at night knowing all I've ever done has been for the good of the game in Scotland. "At the moment I'm perceived negatively by Rangers fans, by Celtic fans and, after the leaked e-mail, I'm perceived to be acting against the best interests of the game. Far from it. I've set out to drive change in this country and I'll continue to do that." He dismissed talk on Rangers messageboards that he was working to an agenda with Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell, and that the pair had a previous working relationship. "That's complete fiction. I met Peter Lawwell once before I came to Scottish football. It's just tripe." The transfer of oldco Rangers' SFA membership to the newco will be completed when the oldco's SPL share is transferred to Dundee on Friday. The SFA's appellate tribunal will this week sign off the 12-month transfer embargo, beginning on September 1, which the newco accepted as a condition of membership. http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/regan-slams-undignified-ibrox-chiefs.18326866 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
26th of foot 6,221 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Looks like Stu' has been referred to the Big Bumper Book(Summer Special) of, 'Playing the vicTIM Card'. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juancornetto 1 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Looks like Stu' has been referred to the Big Bumper Book(Summer Special) of, 'Playing the vicTIM Card'. Co-incidence that the fable of him "seeking security advice" appears today as well? I think not. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewarty 2,123 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Co-incidence that the fable of him "seeking security advice" appears today as well? I think not. They've tried that tactic already with regards to the identities of those sitting on the appellate tribunal. That was discredited too. Yet will you find any journalist actually question this? No no no, just report whatever BS is provided so long as it suits your own agenda. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ergatrude 0 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 There isn't anything undignified in speaking the truth. The SPL are a bigotted establishment. They believe they have the ultimate power over all of Scottish football & everything they do or say is correct - that is the mindset of a bigot. What is undignified is spending the best part of a year preaching about Sporting Integrity & then holding the 3rd Divisions annual payment (some would say lifeline) to ransom until they accept a TV deal, which could potentially have been worth many millions more to the league & also agree to allow the SPL to carry on with sanctions against one of their member clubs. Fuck sporting integrity, that's daylight robbery. The SPL have no morals or dignity & this article does nothing to disprove it. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy steel 0 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I met Peter Lawwell once before I came to Scottish football. Weird that neither he nor the journo get that this alone is worrying. Media types had one meal with SDM, yet the succulent lamb credo is follwed blindly by many. Campbell Ogilvie may have had one meeting with some financial wallah over EBTs, yet that is trotted out by many. One meeting with an agent is enough to start avalanches of rumours about signing targets. Rhegan meeting Lawwell once before his appointment is more than enough for me to apply the same rules. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy steel 0 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 And, I might add, Rhegan's puppet Lunny has called the Rangers bigwigs in to explain themselves. How many of the chairmen who commented most unfavourably on Regan over the summer face the same chastisement? SFA, get tae fuck. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aweebluesoandso 290 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 (edited) Aye right, next he will be telling us " i did not have sexual relations with that man with Mr Liewell" Edited August 1, 2012 by aweebluesoandso 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dutchy Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 It's funny that he claims to have the interest of Scottish football at heart, and criticises Green's comments as "pandering to the fans". Yet he had not one word to say when Scottish football was deciding to cripple itself by kicking Rangers out of the top flight, all based on comments from other SPL clubs CEO's that it's their fans choice. Not a peep at that type of pandering? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy steel 0 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 If I remember my Shakespeare aright, a pandar was originally a pimp, as seen in the character of that name in Troilus & Cressida. Regan as pimp...he's more of a John, with all the screwing up he's been doing. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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