Regan refuses to be forced out the SFA

[RANGERRAB 3,731]

For us to move on he Regan and Doncaster must go. Also Liewell, Riley, Petrie and Thomson must resign their positions.

 

As Gordon Smith said we need a full investigation into the '5-way agreement' from last summer. All of those involved should either be sacked from their positions or receive lifetime bans from Scottish football (like Whyte got). Things cannot move on until this happens

[Guest Dummiesoot]

if only stewart "brother is a bigot lecturer" rhegan stopped the others with their personal objectives last year.

 

lying cnut.

[barca72 440]

As Gordon Smith said we need a full investigation into the '5-way agreement' from last summer. All of those involved should either be sacked from their positions or receive lifetime bans from Scottish football (like Whyte got). Things cannot move on until this happens

 

I agree with you that they should all be fired. However, if as Gunslinger says above that all the clubs have a vote in removing Regan, I assume the same would be true for the members of the board - Riley, etc. Who would have the authority to call such a vote, since the nest of vipers control the agenda? Since we are only associate members of the SFA and have no vote we can not control any given situation, so how do we influence events?

[RANGERRAB 3,731]

I agree with you that they should all be fired. However, if as Gunslinger says above that all the clubs have a vote in removing Regan, I assume the same would be true for the members of the board - Riley, etc. Who would have the authority to call such a vote, since the nest of vipers control the agenda? Since we are only associate members of the SFA and have no vote we can not control any given situation, so how do we influence events?

 

we're not associate members of the SFA. We're full members of the SFA. I think it's the SFL where we've got associate membership

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we're not associate members of the SFA. We're full members of the SFA. I think it's the SFL where we've got associate membership

 

I'm pretty sure you're correct Rab.

[RANGERRAB 3,731]

I'm pretty sure you're correct Rab.

 

as associate members of SFL I'm sure we don't get a vote for 3 years or something. But we are full SFA members. As recall Regan seemed to take an eternity to agree to transfer over the licence from the olco to newco thus ensuring we were same club with history intact

[barca72 440]

as associate members of SFL I'm sure we don't get a vote for 3 years or something. But we are full SFA members. As recall Regan seemed to take an eternity to agree to transfer over the licence from the olco to newco thus ensuring we were same club with history intact

 

You're right about the membership, even so how do we get somebody to call a vote on both the SPL and SFA as regards a change of the boards and CEO's?

[RANGERRAB 3,731]

You're right about the membership, even so how do we get somebody to call a vote on both the SPL and SFA as regards a change of the boards and CEO's?

 

Last summer the SFL clubs called for a vote of no confidence in Regan which was proposed & seconded but Jim Ballantyne said something like now wasn't the time for a vote like this. Well when is the time ? Last Thursday's outcome surely means his involvement in the 5-way agreement means he now has to go(along with Doncaster too I might add)

[ian1964 10,761]

Regan and Doncaster have failed Scottish football

 

 

AS Hearts and Dunfermline teeter on the brink of extinction Keith Jackson asks what the men at the top of Scottish football are doing about it.

 

 

 

SO women’s football, eh? What’s that all about?

 

Only joking ladies. Put the hot wax away. We’ve had enough tarring and feathering for one week at Daily Record HQ and, having made the mistake of scorning the fairer sex, a brave if misguided colleague of mine is still whimpering under his desk, threatening to come out and set fire to his Y-fronts.

 

There really was a quite hysterical reaction to that column by Gordon Parks, or Sid James as he’s now to be known, but the real carry on is happening in the world of the men’s game and it would be funny too if it wasn’t just so utterly terrifying.

 

You see, a crisis is unfolding the likes of which the professional sport in this country has never before witnessed. There are genuine fears that at least two of our most historic clubs, Hearts and Dunfermline, are hurtling towards the same oblivion which consumed Rangers a little more than a year ago and spat them back out into the Third Division.

 

That the Ibrox club survived that trauma in any shape or from was purely because of the backing of a support so huge and so powerful that it makes them something of a phenomenon. But even though the fans inside Tynecastle and East End Park are every bit as passionate about their own cause, what they lack is the same safety in numbers. And that leaves both of these ravaged operations desperately vulnerable.

 

The Hearts fans have already dug deeper than could have been expected to keep the big maroon gates open once this season but their club continues to teeter on the brink of a financial abyss and Dunfermline, having failed to pay their players in full last week (now where have we heard that one before?) are hanging on by their fingertips.

 

There is going to be a faller sooner or later and it is likely to be spectacular. And no true football fan should feel even remotely smug when it happens because the old saying, ‘There but for the grace of God’ should be applied across the board.

 

If it can happen to these two, and to Rangers for that matter, then it can happen to just about anyone else. With Celtic the obvious exception.

 

The cash-rich champions can afford to fiddle while Rome burns as has been proved by chief executive Peter Lawwell who is one of the driving forces behind a reconstruction plan which will see his club giving up a small fortune in prize money – and yet still emerge relatively unscathed compared to the rest of his top-flight rivals.

 

In fact, the club which stands to lose the most, at least in straight cash terms, from these proposals for a 12-12-28 set-up is whoever finishes up in second place in its inaugural season. Or, in other words, whoever manages to put up most of a fight against Celtic.

 

The champions will be out of pocket by £315,000 – but with the chance to make up the difference and much, much more with a crack at the Champions League. Using the figures from this current campaign, that would leave Celtic, oh let’s see, about the guts of £20million up. A decent bit of business, I’m sure you’ll agree.

 

But next season’s runners-up will not fair just so well. In fact, they’ll be £682,000 worse off than they would have been and presumably unlikely to have much left over in reserve for squad building for the next campaign.

 

Between them the top two will sacrifice £1m in order to spread the wealth. It’s all very philanthropic until you realise that, in fact, the chances are that the richest will get richer.

 

And the gap between the haves (or Celtic) and the have nots (everybody else) will continue to widen, year on year. Tell me, where’s the sporting integrity in that?

 

You can’t blame Celtic for looking after their own best interests, that’s for sure. Scotland’s champions are genuinely booming right now and, even though this season’s thrilling European adventure will surely come to an end in Turin on Wednesday night, they have every right to feel good about themselves.

 

No wonder Neil Lennon could hardly keep the smile off his face the other day when he talked about tackling Juventus in the last 16, not renting them a training ground. It was a clever line. A proper head shot. And it encapsulated perfectly the current state of affairs in Glasgow as Rangers paddle around in the muddy puddles of the Third Division while Lennon and his men are powerboating off across the Mediterranean.

 

No, it’s not Celtic’s fault they are so much better than the rest. Or that the chasm can only grow bigger if this farcical new three-tier structure, with its two twelves and three eights, is voted through.

 

We’ve been asked to study it more carefully and give it a chance but the closer you examine this spotty faced, buck-toothed plan, the more ugly it becomes. On what basis then should we give it a chance? Because it might not kill us? And what if it does?

 

No, it should be resisted rather than explored. And the people who should be held to account for this preposterous proposal are those sitting in the top offices of the game and who are desperately attempting to foist it upon supporters against their will. Yes, Stewart and Neil, that means you. Regan and Doncaster. It has a certain ring to it, don’t you think? Like a firm of funeral directors.

 

And yet this pair, along with David Longmuir of the SFL who has been coerced and brought into line, are to be trusted with the health of our game? When, between them, they have overseen the most prolonged, sustained period of carnage and disarray ever to have been unleashed on our national sport?

 

We still don’t know how Doncaster feels about the SPL’s failed bid to have Rangers stripped of titles because the chief executive disappeared out of the country on the day Lord Nimmo Smith delivered his verdict and has offered not a single word since.

 

At least Regan did stick his head above the parapet at the weekend when he spoke about the need for Scottish football to focus on the positives and to move forward as one. But the more he said, the more absurd he sounded. What positives exactly does he wish the rest of us to focus on? What has Regan ever done for us?

 

Because despite all his talk about streamlining this and modernising the other, Scottish football has never been so backward or so bereft as it is today. At no time in its history have things been just this bleak.

 

Regan says all that he can do is focus on what he believes to be right for the good of the Scottish game.

 

If he really means that then he should be true to his word and leave it well alone before any more irreparable damage is done.

 

Regan and Doncaster have failed Scottish football. And if we’re not very careful, they might be about to bury it.

[Tumshie RFC 0]

Regan has a cheek telling everyone to stop putting personal agendas aside. He was quite happy to let the SPL boot us out for 'sporting integrityu' while trying to bully the SFL clubs into letting us go into Division One so the SP-Hell clubs wouldn't suffer financial meltdown.