ROOM FOR ONE MORE!

Another Night of the Long Knives at Ibrox has seen the departure of Malcolm Murray and Phil Cartmel (who?). Both of them 'resigned' while one of the Bus Brothers was made a non-executive directot (NED, for short!). So much for Mr Dignity's deep friendship and loyalty to Murray, eh?  'Aye, well done mate, there's a wee pat on the back. Now there's the door, piss off!'

It was not that long ago that the supporters of Ersatz FC, including Mark Hateley and other contributors to the Scottish media, were screaming about the SFA applying 'fit and proper person' tests. In their neverending quest to blame others for their troubles, they sought to point the finger at our football authorities for Whyte's behaviour. Where's the clamour disappeared to now? If only half of the stories about the Bus Brothers are true then not only are they not 'fit and proper persons' to be on the board of a football team, they're not fit and proper persons to be walking our streets!

Many of the Ersatzers seem to think that having the Bus Bothers on their side is a good thing. 'They'll stand up for Rainjurz!' is the general opinion. In other words, Neil Doncaster might well wake up one morning to find himself sharing a bed with a big cuddy's heid!

Meanwhile the Daily Record continues to give a platform to the guy with the 'off the radar' IQ, Kieran Prior. It's strange how nobody else seems to give a shit what this guy's saying; only the DR! Apparently this character owns 1.2 percent of Ersatz FC and says he only bought the shares to find out what's going on. (Does he not read this blog?) He says that he will 'continue to ask questions.' Unfortunately, nobody, except the DR, seems to even notice that he's there, never mind provide him with answers!

He does, however, raise some interesting points, one of which everyone else seems to have forgotten. Charles Green has a lock-in period on his shares of two years, which means that he won't be selling to anyone for at least another year. The stories of him selling up to the Bus Brothers are just that; stories. They won't be able to get their hands on those shares for a good while yet.

Which leads to another of Prior's points: what makes one of the Bus Brothers eligible for a seat on the board at Ibrox? Neither of them appears on the lists of shareholders so how can one of them be on the board? Surely it's not a case of that 'thur gonny hiv shares so wae might as well let thum oan the board the noo'? It is entirely possible that, if the Bus Brothers were to buy Green's shares, then they might well end up as the biggest shareholders. In that case maybe everybody is just 'sookin' up' before this scenario materialises! Or it could just be, as some Ersatzers have suggested about Big Jabba's sinecure, that they know which cupboard the skeletons are in; unless, of course, Craig Whyte sold them!

Interestingly, as Prior points out, Ersatz FC has also changed brokerage firms. They have got rid of Cenko (Is that not a coffee?), which is apparently a long-established firm, and replaced them with Strand Hanson, which almost exclusively deals in the AIM diddy stock exchange. Why they have done this has not been made clear but it might be so that Green can sell his shares. There is a lot of red tape to go through before this can be done, which a firm like Cenko might well have advised against. (Phil Cartmel was Cenko's placeman, by the way). Are there going to even more financial shenanigans at Ibrox?

Of course, the main point of all these changes is to distance the current regime as much as possible from Green. The sale of the assets by Duff and Phelps was tantamount to fraud and might still result in said assets being seized by the liquidators. The subsequent setting up of the new company and club, not to mention the share issue, would be null and void. This possibility appears more likely when one considers Green's links to Whyte. The hope is, therefore, that if the board at Ibrox severs all ties then they can perhaps use the excuse that 'a big boay dun it an' ran away' and be left alone!

And finally, The Sun ran a story about Hibs player Scott Robertson's 'semi shame.' That's the thing when you're young, a stauner can always pop up when you least expect it, especially when you're naked in the changing-room!

 

'Ye shoulda seen it, man! It wiz thon size!'