Nellie The Don

I think the embargo only applied to over 18s.

Just seen Alan Maybury is a free agent. Worth a look?

Depressingly enough, half of those guys weren't born the last time Aberdeen won a trophy.

I'm not reading that. The first line alone made me feel nauseous. Go away Terry. I'm sure someone somewhere must need potatos peeled.

L) Hampden burned to the ground by an angry mob.

Hari kiri on the Hampden steps?

I'm fairly confident that they will, in practice though. They would just need to propose an amendment to the first proposal to include wording to specify entry at div 3 (I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it's in the rules for such meetings that any member can do something like this), then vote to approve proposal 1, and reject proposal 2.

I'm pretty sure that crosses the finishing line in terms of a majority.

It would be shoking for human beings to take advantage like that, but for Sun reporters it actually shows quite a lot of level-headed restraint.

They were going to, but it turns out that BBC Scotland's share of the licence fees is conditional on his continued employment, and Scottish football journalism would die a slow lingering death if he moves to Radio Clyde.

In other words, "There is no way for us to get a kickback from this, so we don't give a shit."

Fucking hell. The world is truely arse over tit when the Mail is the voice of reason.

"Rangers" and Celtic don't have to be in the same league to play 4 games a year. But more to the point Scottish football was around, and was much better quality, long before ESPN took an interest. Fuck them and their money. If teams go bust they will reform and football will still be played, in a more frugal sustainable manner, and it will be honest. If Doncaster, Regan et al get their wish, we reduce Scottish Football to the level of WWE wrestling.

Here's a notion that may sound a bit crazy and out there, but stick with me. Didn't ESPN sign a CONTRACT?

They were the abstension, as I understand it.

Comparing Alex Thomson's and Graham Spiers' opinions on Stewart Regan's Scotsman interview in which he claims that scottish football is dead if Sevco/Rangers aren't allowed into SFL1 speaks volumes about the need for objective journalism, removed from the footballing establishment. One claims the comments, if true, "amount to professional suicide", the other opines "Stewart Regan captures exactly the intractable Rangers dilemma". Can you guess which of these viewpoints comes from a serious and respected investigative correspondant and which from a man who has self-confessed form for being too close to the powers that be to make objective assessments?

I will be returning to watch AFC games when I am back in the country, and will be boycotting Kilmarnock. It will be a disgrace if the SFL tear up the rulebook to accomodate the new club, but there isn't much AFC can do about that, short of pressing for Cockwomble's resignation, and I think the damage is already done there anyway. In any case, I just can't see the SFL clubs swallowing it. Cockwomble and Regan should be hounded out of football, but it won't stop me supporting Aberdeen if they survive.

Stewart Regan, Neil Doncaster and David Longmuir are all an utter disgrace. Bringing the game into disrepute with every minute they hold office, and clearly not 'fit and proper persons' to run the game. RESIGN NOW. All three of you.

One undeniable truth of the situation is that, when all is said and done, Neil Doncaster must no longer be a part of Scottish football. The man is a disgrace, as is all he represents within the game. Even if Aberdeen vote against this circle-jerk of a proposal, I could not in good conscience contribute money to an organisation in which he holds office. If he cannot be sacked by the member clubs, then all 11 should resign from the almost unredeemably tainted SPL and ask permission to rejoin the SFL (from the bottom if required). The SFL chairmen who have spoken publicly seem to be the only players in the story capable of escaping this nonsense with any credible dignity.

We (everyone involved in Scottish football) all need to take a step back, and stop looking at this as 'the Rangers situation'. They are (were) one club in forty-two. Far more than forty two if we adopt a pyramid system and allow all clubs to rise and fall on their own merit. This kind of protectionism, in which a future cannot be conceived in with things operate differently cannot, must not, be allowed to stand. Thus any question of Rangers playing in the SPL/Div 1/Div 3 becomes irrelevant. Rangers are utterly and self-evidently unfit to join any league by the start of the coming season, so they no longer figure in the equation of Scottish football. The really interesting sitution, from my point of view, is the reaction of the so called 'blazers' and sections of the print media to this debacle. To me, no longer is the question, "What happens to Rangers?", but "What happens to Neil Donaster (and by extension the SPL hierarchy)" and "What happens to Jim Traynor (and by extension the whole festering cesspool of entrenched self-serving hacks who post copy in central Scotland).

Does anyone know anything about SPL procedural rules? What would it take to get a no-confidence vote in Doncaster added to the schedule of Wednesday's meeting?

Superb article. The last paragraph in particular I feel warrnts repetition to many on here:

If they get 0 votes, what percentage out of 30 is that? Enough for a recount? Also, and I feel I may be repeating myself here, there's a reason why that shitrag is nicknamed after rangers (deceased). Every time you buy a copy you're killing a small orphaned African puppy, YOU BASTARD! PPS unnamed SLF sources have had nothing useful to contribute since their seminal 1991 hit 'Last train to (Glasgow) trancentral'.

THIS. This this this this this. Abso-fucking-lutely. I still don't believe for a second that any SFL clubs will vote for these proposals. If they don't, and the SPL clubs do the right thing and back them, Cockwomble must not be allowed to show his face within our footballing community again. If they don't, and the SPL teams fuck them over and follow through on the 'threats' thinly disguised in that letter, I will never spend another penny on supporting Aberdeen or any other SPL club, but will turn my support to an SFL club (in my case probably Morton), and encourage all others to do likewise, in the hope of replacing the SPL as the top division in Scotland, and running the Cockwomble out of our game. If they do, somehow, vote for this... I can't imagine any scenario where the SFL would actually vote for this. I've no idea what I'd want to do, but I'm sure that whatever it is, Cockwomble being hounded out of Scotland would be the last of his worries.

I was really starting to get bored of the whole hun implosion debacle, but this John Brown stuff has brought it to a new level of entertainment for me. His crazy deluded, up-to-eleven brand of hun bampotery is an aspect that has been so far missing from anyone being taken seriously in the pantomime. Thanks 'Bomber'. *popcorn*