The fallout from the demolition derby continues within the dignified corner of social media.
Quite simply The People are in shock.
Some of them couldn’t believe the evidence of their eyes.
The last couple of days has been about them coming to terms with the unavoidable post-match conclusion.
For the avoidance of doubt dear reader, Sevco really are quite shite
In fairness, they have proved in the past that they’re rather good at ignoring unpleasant truths.
However, the 5-1 drubbing on their home turf was an ominous harbinger of what will happen next season.
This makes the annual season ticket pitch a rather hard sell now.
The Ibrox clientele wants to know where Mr King is and what he planned to do about the current malaise.
As of yesterday the rebel faction on the Sevco High Command had not heard from him since before the match against Celtic.
Of course, two years ago we were told that the “Rangers men had won”.
The new regime had swept to power in the Off Licence Putsch in March 2015.
In doing so, The People put a convicted criminal in charge and alienated a real billionaire.
They turned a powerful ally into a vengeful enemy.
Smart, real smart.
Now, perhaps The People are starting to come to terms with the historical significance of the events of 2012.
The proceedings in the High Court in Glasgow today should eb a reminder of those days.
Regular readers here will know that your humble correspondent was often a lone voice in those days before Rangers (1872) suffered a fatal insolvency event.
Indeed, I cannot recall any other named journalist who stated in 2011 that Craig Whyte in the Blue Room meant the end for the Ibrox club.
Now, the mainstream media in Glasgow are still in liquidation denial, and they’re thirled to the concept of the “Old Firm”.
The reality is that a five-year-old basket of assets case is acting out a fantasy that they really are Rangers (1872).
They’re pretending to themselves and their customers that they are the original Ibrox club.
Moreover, this fantasy includes the belief that they are genuine rivals to Celtic.
This five-year exercise in mass delusion hit reality on Saturday when Mikel Lustig danced through the Sevco defence to make it 5-1.
I would wager that very few among The People believe that their beloved Engine Room Subsidiary has any chance of the title next season.
Pedro will be given a relative pittance to build a squad.
Brendan Rodgers will be funded to improve Celtic as a Champions League side.
Sevco commences their inaugural European adventure on June 29th.
This means that they will be playing with the same squad that Brendan’s Bhoys utterly Rodgered at Ibrox on Saturday.
Of course, The People still have their priorities in perspective.
They sing about “hating Catholics” so everything is ok in their culturally impoverished world.
Meanwhile, the world moves on and so does Celtic.
Expect the stenographers to start running with a lot of high-Level speculation about Poor Pedro unearthing Portuguese starlets for Sevco.
There is only one problem with that fantasy.
If the Holding Company Vehicle can fund a massive rebuilding project in the summer then why are they paying Kenny Miller’s modest signing on fee by instalments?
So Miller is being paid in installments and there’s not a jot of it in the SMSM?
Who’d have thunk it.
Super piece, Phil. There really seems to be no end to their delusions of superiority. The hilarity continues……….
Lenny returns next season….one less team to lie down to Rangers2012.
I think they’ll hit their target of 55 points next season.
Commons should be nowhere near the dressing room imo. Once his contract finishes he can goto hibs or someone.
My issue has always been with the corrupt man at the helm David Murray, how he managed to hive of part of his company Murray international holdings before it was liquidated owing 200m to the bank. He then walked away with 13m profit from his new company. Now he has 150m and on Scotland’s rich list. What people forget is this man cost the taxpayer 200m. You and I paid his debts and he goes on unrepentant free from debt and able to amass a huge fortune and he is still a sir.
Hear,hear,strip his title too.He caused all of it,with his greed and moonbeams.Shameful.
At least Phillip Greene tried to make amends by partial payment of his ex-employees pensions.
I was on a TRFC forum trying to see if they have any decent dialogue in this vein and the only thing I found was a thread banging on about how Murray is a criminal who ran his companies into the ground before selling the assets to another company, setting himself up again and shedding his debt. They really don’t do irony at all.
Kris Commons thought he’d be telling Brendan Rodgers what to do last June. Mr Commons should consider himself very lucky that he was on such a huge wage for the last 12 months of his contract whilst he barely kicked a ball. BR was never going to have 4 rebels in the dressing room post Ronny, Stokesy, Mulgrew were released, Scott Brown summoned to London to meet the gaffer and put on his one and only warning with him. Only for we had no takers for an unfit and constantly overweight Commons on such a high wage he would’ve been gone long ago. Ronny & John Collins never recovered from his outburst in Molde, and if he’s honest with himself (Commons) neither did he…
hi Phil
“sevco commence…. June 29th”…..?
I wonder once again: how in the name of the giant god eating space goat are this crowd of semi bankrupt charlatans going to obtain a licence to play yooropean fitba’….. your thoughts?
nick
Granite, The hybrid pitch won’t be complete until next year is my information.
Phil, the Scottish transfer window opens on 9-June. Most of Europe is open in June. Only England doesn’t open until 1st July.
Booooom !
What does it say about Aberdeen that they managed to lose 0-3 at Pittodrie to this mercenary bunch?? The really exciting thing is that we can see that there is still room for improvement in our finishing and defending so hopefully we will beat them by bigger margins next season. With a new quality pitch to play on and a couple of good signings a lot of goals should be being racked up against most teams even when they park the bus. I hope Kris Commons can be fit enough for a final fling before the season ends.
Can’t disagree with your points granite. KC is a cult hero in the hoops but unfortunately if he can’t get to a level of fitness BR wants then sorry to say he has to go. Still love Commons right enough. HH.
Great piece Phil.?