Moaning Ally McCoist has claimed that the SPFL aren’t treating his club fairly.
Eighteen months after having every rule in the book dismantled to give the new club entry to league football ahead of Spartans, it seems that goodwill is a one way street where Sevco are concerned.
Last summer the newly formed SPFL conveniently dropped restrictions on the number of players aged over 21 that a club could sign while the rules regarding trialists were also relaxed.
Now, eight days after using a lack of matches as an excuse for drawing at home to Stranraer, the £800,000-a-year Ibrox boss is complaining about fixture congestion and saying that Sevco are being treated unfairly just like Rangers (IL).
“Different initials but the same old story with the way our club has been treated,” blasted McCoist looking at Sunday’s trip to Ochilview.
“This game should not have been played on Sunday, it should have been played in midweek. That’s our fourth game in only 11 days and it’s just not on.
“To make matters worse, they’re sending us up to Forfar after a nine-day break later this month. So we play four games in 11 days, nothing for nine days and then they send our fans away up to Forfar on a Monday night.
“There’s something not right about that. Stenhousemuir’s preferred option was Sunday I think, which I can understand for financial reasons.
“But we made our feelings absolutely clear we wanted to play when everybody had a free midweek.
“We had our say but it shows you how much they listen to us. There’s no point in raising it with them again because they knew we weren’t happy with it. At this time of the year when money is scarce for everybody to ask our support to travel to a third away game and a fourth match in 11 days is just not fair.”
Despite being given a friendly helping hand by the football authorities it seems that memories are short at Ibrox.
In one of the darkest chapters in the history of the old SPL the 2007/08 fixture list was virtually dictated from Ibrox.
Not content with getting a match with Gretna postponed to allow extra preparation time for a Champions League match, Rangers (IL) then refused to play the fixture in a blank midweek in December while Celtic faced NINE games in 32 days including TWO Â Champions League ties in a week.
Despite that schedule Celtic qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League while Rangers (IL) dropped into the UEFA Cup with the SPL season given an unprecedented extension of five days, handicapping eleven clubs to cope with the fixture backlog of Walter Smith’s side.
The match with Stenhousemuir was postponed last month after a chip van reversed into a temporary stand causing a safety issue.
sally isn’t thinking straight I mean pie and Bovril 4 days out of 11 happy days he should be saying, he only recently complained about playing midweek now he wants to change his mind back, he has to be the worst pain in the arse in Scottish football history, hope that he has to sell his star players(aye right)tubby tosser
McCoist moaning about fans ‘being out of pocket’…..that like the creditors being out of pocket Ally?
What a Fud!
One smells ‘ fear ‘ coming from the sleekit
one.In other words,he senses a defeat
could be around the corner.
Not content being full time,with expensive
players, he wants another advanage of
playing part timers in midweek
While these players are putting in a day
shift,Sevco have all day (every day ) to
prepare for the game.
The presure is getting to the fat one.He
looks up at us, and sees the gap getting
wider and wider.So he comfort eats,which
makes him wider and wider.
Do we complain playing 4 games in11 days.No.Having to go to Inverness and
Perth into the bargain.
That’s what big clubs do.It just shows how
small fry Sevco are.
Fat sally is going to explode,from the inside out.No need for a presure cooker,
it’s too late.
He won’t be able to walk away,after all !!
Are you saying he will Roll ( on sausage ) away? 🙂
Spot on, Monti.
And the we runt durant will be rolling
him away !
Come to think of it,they would need
Judas McDowall,kit man ( bigot who never applauded Jinky ) and ALL the
groundstaff to move the FAT ONE !!
Wonder if the ibrox bus driver got a job driving the chippy van for Stenhousemuir.
Rent a gob strikes again.
The man is shameful even by the standards of Sevco when will the authorities take him to task?
I’m surprised the sleekit one never asked for the chip van drivers name to be made public.
“Stenhousemuir’s preferred option was Sunday I think” No churnalist thought to challenge the cowardly whisperer on this statement? He “thinks”! Is this poetic licence to espouse your views on any subject, without fear of reprisal? A bit like Ian Hislop saying “allegedly” after every controversial remark! For the record, Lionel Messi has demanded a transfer to Celtic…I think! H×2
Is it not the case that they can’t afford the hotel bill for another overnight stay?!
for god sake give ally a tissue,bringing tears to a glass eye.
but oh what fun,plenty more to come yet.
sit back and enjoy.
This brass necked fud knows no bounds of decency…
A couple of days ago… it was hostile atmospheres at away games…and having to listen to things that women and children shouldn’t be subjected to….
Good job the Pope wisnae there..He’d have been…beelin’…
How can anyone at Ipox criticise ANYTHING that others sing…? when all they chant is bile and sectarian filth…?
As for this latest complaint….He should remember that for over 100 years they have been backed by the Establishment….the SFA…Masons in Black…and a sycophantic Scottish Media..
So piss off Sleekit….and gie’s peace….
PS: Have you agreed your Salary cut yet…??
Just askin’ like…
With the size and quality of squad they have in comparison to the others there should be no room for complaint. Maybe that’s what the masters on the 6th floor are thinking, though I doubt it. Either way, sleek it needs to wind his neck and think about what he’s saying when he spouts about money being tight and what people can and can’t afford.
Give sally some credit guys. He has never quit trying to find a good excuse to walk away.
He has tried pissing off everyone he can, had his nose in every sevco chairman’s backside who has gone through that amazing revolving door over the pst 18 months, and said “if they do this, or that, I will quit” more times than any person in history. Yet he hasn’t been able to get out.
He has tried every trick in the book but can’t get out. Nice try fatso, but you are stuck until the new club move into the Premier division when they will bring in a manager.
McCoist is right! Different initials same old story.
The initials are now RIFC and not RFC and the same old story is no matter which club happens to be operating out of Ibrox they still expect preferential treatment because of the arrogant belief that they are somehow far more important and superior to everyone else. Shouting their mouths off, stamping their feet and demanding favourable treatment, some things never change eh Ally! And you wonder why even clubs like Dunfermline and Airdrie can’t stand you and yours.
McCoist’s ramblings are just what happens when the football authorities and media fall over themselves to appease him, his club/clubs and the Ibrox masses, it reinforces their delusions of granduer and leads to arrogant and ridiculous outbursts like this. It’s the very reason why they saunter around spouting their ‘we are the people’ shite, they believe they are in some way special and above the rest of us mere mortals. Well long may it continue because it was that very same attitude that buried their old club and it will eventually bury their new one as well.
Hail Hail.
Is this pie eating clown for real how should sevco be treated any different from any other team. Guy is a joke
He learned the art of gamesmanship from the old master himself, Dignity.
2008- rangers cancel a game to rest for a game in Europe ( they got humped 3-0)then moan when having to play the game latter at the end of the season.
2014- sevco newco tesco or tribute act cancel 2 games against part time teams because a few players where on international duty then moan when having to play the games.
Different clubs same knuckledragging moaning if you cancel games don’t be shocked at having to play them later HH
Keep comment short and sweet “maybe smelly” when you know that the modern day Billy Bunter from Edminston Drive talks through his rectum rather than his mouth
He has every quality except one you could ask for from a sumo wrestler.
Can anyone guess which quality he doesn’t have ?