Generic Sevco / Rangers meltdown thread

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[greenlex]

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There's a nice piece (NOT) in today's 'Daily Rectum' on Topping's leaving and to be honest, a more honest and accurate appraisal of him and his 'achievements' !


Departing SPFL chairman Ralph Topping has been an armchair general and will not be missed - Gannon

Michael says Topping has witnessed Scotland's football reputation plummet during the the most bonkers period in Scottish football history.



Ralph Topping (Image: Craig Williamson/SNS Group)


Ralph Topping’s SPFL long goodbye is finally upon us and it’s clear his replacement Murdoch MacLennan 
has big shoes to fill. Yeah, like the ones worn by Coco the Clown.

Harsh? Perhaps. But it says a lot about the footprint Topping has 
left on Scottish football that the 
news he was for the off at the end of the month was met by a collective shrug of the shoulders by many and a swift flick of the vickies by a few.
The outgoing chairman is a fairly inoffensive character. On the rare occasions he has spoken he has come across as a decent fellow.




Murdoch MacLennan is the new chief (Image: Telegraph Media Group Ltd) But he has been the seldom seen kid of the Scottish scene for eight years. This has arguably been the most bonkers period in Scottish football history yet the chairman of the entire organisation has 
been hiding under the duvet.
Topping has been an armchair general but we can only hope the 
new man is prepared to get down and dirty on the front line.
As for the soon-to-be-departed’s legacy, it makes pretty grisly reading.

Neil Doncaster and some friendly
 chairmen trot out the party line, 
saying Ralph steered the league through a very challenging period. Really? He might have been steering but 
the league has been 
a buckled trolley 
rolling down a hill.

Go back to when he replaced Lex Gold in 2009. The game was far from perfect but the Scottish league was ranked inside the top 15 in Europe, we had two teams in the Champions League – one straight into 
the groups – and six in European action.




SPL chairman Ralph Topping (Image: SNS) We’re 23rd now 
and God knows where we’re headed after this year’s disasters.
We’ve seen five clubs go into administration, including three of the biggest clubs in the land, and one which went all the way to liquidation.
Speaking of which, the chairman’s pitiful role in the Rangers fiasco is another line on the CV that needs a black marker through it.
Topping is credited for his part in the SPL merger with the SPFL. It was Ralph who got the clubs together, some say. Very good. But while he was twisting the arms of the Brechin City chairman, he managed to kick off the rebranded league without a sponsor.

That alone was a gallows offence. A shiny new product ready to launch and not a bean on board for two years. The same in the League Cup. That was the first job to do, not the last.

Now we’re meant to be grateful he managed to get his pals at Ladbrokes to sink a few quid in? Do us a favour.
If it’s a decent leader’s job to leave behind a stronger product than he inherited then Topping has had a stinker. The new man is going to have to call in the decorators on day one.



Some of Scotland's biggest clubs have been in financial difficulty (Image: SNS Group) A lot of folk will think, ‘Murdoch who? Ach, he’ll be another faceless suit like the man on his way out.’
But he might just surprise. This is a man who spent decades in papers and even managed to make money out of the internet. Folk say the newspaper business – whether print or online – is doomed. But almost two million in Scotland will read something produced by our papers every day.
Use it. Sell Scottish 
football. Get the clubs to open their doors, slash ticket prices and engage with supporters. Find out what fans want and work out a way to deliver it.
There’s more to do. MacLennan has been left holding the stinky nappy of the Rangers tax case.
Meet it head on and stop all the dithering. Go back to Lord Nimmo and see if he wants another look in the wake of the Supreme Court 
decision. If so, get on with it.











Try to tackle the brutal lack of youngsters playing in our top division.

Sort out the unfair play-off system that leaves Championship clubs clapped out by the final.
Knock the bickering chairmen 
into shape and find a structure and calendar that helps not hinders clubs.
Drive a hard bargain when it comes to TV deal negotiations rather than holding up the begging bowl.
The SPFL chairman doesn’t have to be just a referee among the arguing factions. He can be a leader.
Ralph can take the clown shoes with him. Let’s hope to God that 
Murdoch will come in wearing 
steel-toe-capped tackety boots.



The 'Coco the Clown' line is superb !!

Is the new guy not an ex SMG director? Indont think he's the one to shake up the old firm for the good of Scottish Football in fact we will possibly be bending further over.

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Wonder if they'd write about Topping like that if he supported one of the ugly sisters and not Hibs.

[Jack Hackett]

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Is the new guy not an ex SMG director? Indont think he's the one to shake up the old firm for the good of Scottish Football in fact we will possibly be bending further over.

Toppings successor will have been very carefully selected.

Corrupt to the core

[Bostonhibby]

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Toppings successor will have been very carefully selected.

Corrupt to the core

Private eye write about him a lot. He sounds like a business as usual appointment sadly.

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[ancient hibee]

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Toppings successor will have been very carefully selected.

Corrupt to the core

Do you think they should have picked a name out of a hat?

[Ozyhibby]

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Wonder if they'd write about Topping like that if he supported one of the ugly sisters and not Hibs.

Isn't Topping a former season ticket holder at Ibrox?


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[greenlex]

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Do you think they should have picked a name out of a hat?

They might have at least selected someone who was fresh and had not been part of the Circus.

[ancient hibee]

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Isn't Topping a former season ticket holder at Ibrox?


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No.

[HoboHarry]

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They might have at least selected someone who was fresh and had not been part of the Circus.

That was their last intention (sadly)

[Jack Hackett]

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Do you think they should have picked a name out of a hat?

Wtf does how they do it affect what we're saddled with? At least if they picked a name from a hat, we'd have a chance of getting something other than a rubber stamp

[Is It On....]

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Rik Mayall would have been perfect, but sadly he's no longer available.

Just thinking that Repo-man by Iggy Pop could be the title tune to Sevco, The Movie (part 1) 😂😂 (for those that don't know it, it's a fantastic song)

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[Ozyhibby]

A handy guide of companies to avoid while they support the corruption in Scottish football.
Some of them are real easy for me to avoid anyway but I need new specs and I will no longer be going to specsavers.


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[lapsedhibee]

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That's looking like a fenian conspiracy at the moment.

[Ozyhibby]

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That's looking like a fenian conspiracy at the moment.

It only went up last night and it was posted up here sharpish. I expect by the end of the day to see the yams and Aberdeen catch us up.
Does show that it's an issue important to Hibs fans though. Hopefully the club start to think the same way.


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[Smartie]

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A handy guide of companies to avoid while they support the corruption in Scottish football.
Some of them are real easy for me to avoid anyway but I need new specs and I will no longer be going to specsavers.


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I don't know if I agree with this approach at all.

I always think that Sevco look like a bunch of ignorant clowns when they threaten to take their business elsewhere.

Scottish football has struggled enough to find sponsorship in the past. If there are publicised boycotts by about half of the population every time there was a contentious period in Scottish football (and if it wasn't this, it would be the latest dodgy refereeing decision) then we'd never get any sponsors to put money into our game.

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I don't know if I agree with this approach at all.

I always think that Sevco look like a bunch of ignorant clowns when they threaten to take their business elsewhere.

Scottish football has struggled enough to find sponsorship in the past. If there are publicised boycotts by about half of the population every time there was a contentious period in Scottish football (and if it wasn't this, it would be the latest dodgy refereeing decision) then we'd never get any sponsors to put money into our game.

The money makes no difference anyway while the current regime is in charge. The SFA is failing in every single area it operates. The performance of the national team has been woeful for a generation now, our clubs are regularly embarrassed in Europe, the standard of players we are producing is falling, their oversight of corporate governance is failing, there has been no financial fair play rules implemented even though we have had 6/7 clubs in administration and they won't even uphold their own rules.
When it's as bad as that then it's for the best that they don't get more money. They need starved out.


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[Smartie]

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The money makes no difference anyway while the current regime is in charge. The SFA is failing in every single area it operates. The performance of the national team has been woeful for a generation now, our clubs are regularly embarrassed in Europe, the standard of players we are producing is falling, their oversight of corporate governance is failing, there has been no financial fair play rules implemented even though we have had 6/7 clubs in administration and they won't even uphold their own rules.
When it's as bad as that then it's for the best that they don't get more money. They need starved out.


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Fair points.

It all smacked a bit of "let's see how they cope without the blue pound" to me, something I am uncomfortable with.

[Ozyhibby]

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Fair points.

It all smacked a bit of "let's see how they cope without the blue pound" to me, something I am uncomfortable with.

It's def not a revenge thing, this is about forcing change. The fans have more power than they know.


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[Ozyhibby]

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Hibs still leading Hearts and Aberdeen.


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[Hibs Class]

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A handy guide of companies to avoid while they support the corruption in Scottish football.
Some of them are real easy for me to avoid anyway but I need new specs and I will no longer be going to specsavers.


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Not really into boycotts very much. Even not buying the DR is more of a quality decision than a boycott. It wouldn't really be a boycott unless you avoided them all though, and as I think G4S do Easter Road security it would quite difficult for Hibs supporters to go all-in!

[Keith_M]

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... and as I think G4S do Easter Road security it would quite difficult for Hibs supporters to go all-in!

We could always just ignore the stewards as part of the boycott.

[Seveno]

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Hibs still leading Hearts and Aberdeen.


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85 Jambo voters that fail to see the irony.

[Ozyhibby]

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85 Jambo voters that fail to see the irony.

I suspect your average yam is worried the enquiry got widened as I'm sure the Sevconians would push for.


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[PatHead]

Nice to see the new club getting a fine on their only ever European tie.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40642808

[Jack]

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A handy guide of companies to avoid while they support the corruption in Scottish football.
Some of them are real easy for me to avoid anyway but I need new specs and I will no longer be going to specsavers.


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Rather than target these companies hit the source.

A boycott of the national team games would, in my opinion, be a more direct demonstration by Scottish football fans while at the same time having no effect on our respective clubs.

[jacomo]

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I suspect your average yam is worried the enquiry got widened as I'm sure the Sevconians would push for.


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That would be awful of course.

But an acceptable price to pay in the name of fairness.

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JJ claiming to have confidential emails.
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