With rumours flying around the City of discussions \u00a0regards the finer details ( and impact ) \u00a0of the Administration process between a certain club and SPFL \\ SFA officials, we find ourselves asking..<\/p>\n
1: When does a season end? When a league campaign is over ( SPFL) or the Scottish Cup final Whistle (SFA)\u00a0or is it up to the discretion of the Governing bodies?<\/b>\u00a0<\/span> 12. Who determines a potential club director or owner passing the fit and proper test? i.e. What are the rules they must pass from a governance perspective and who approves this?<\/span><\/p>\n 13. If the auditor of a clubs accounts “indicate the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern”. Shouldn’t footballs governing bodies immediately intervene?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 14. Should a club that wins promotion in the same season as an insolvency event be allowed promotion ?<\/span><\/p>\n 15. Should a club winning a trophy in the same season as an insolvency event be allowed to keep that trophy ?<\/span><\/p>\n 16. Should a club (we know, we know) which has entered successive insolvency events be required to place a financial sum with the SPFL as a guarantee to continued solvency?<\/span><\/p>\n 17. Should any board member involved in an Administration episode be automatically banned from serving at any Club?<\/p>\n 18. Should any club entering Administration be banned from Cup competitions?<\/p>\n 19. Should any club entering liquidation and having license transferred be banned from domestic Cup competitions in similar fashion to UEFA’s 3 year rule?<\/p>\n 20. If the clubs own auditor states there is an \u201cuncertain outcome of potential litigation\u201d, which relates to letters before claim issued by Craig Whyte, the previous owner of RFC 2012 PLC (now in liquidation) and Aidan Earley….and…… that despite the company having conducted an \u201cindependent investigation\u201d….and…..despite the \u201cinherent limitations of a private enquiry\u201d from which the company concluded the claims has no legal merit……the “ultimate outcome cannot presently be determined, and accordingly no adjustments have been made\u201d. If the clubs auditor states all this shouldn’t Scottish football’s Governing bodies be all over this like a rash demanding answers?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n They can contact us at the usual address, and we’ll publish the answers….<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With rumours flying around the City of discussions \u00a0regards the finer details ( and impact ) \u00a0of the Administration process between a certain club and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/unanaswered-questions.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2J7If-1hi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4918,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions\/4918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n2: If a title has been awarded, can that campaign be deemed as over and any Administration points awarded move onto the next season?<\/span>
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\n3: If a license has been transferred, should any club playing under that license, that goes once again into Administration within 2 years, suffer additional penalties?<\/span>
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\n4: What is the point of the new SPFL if it cant take a strong hand in dealing with serial offending clubs, has nothing changed?<\/span>
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\n5: Shouldn’t the SPFL be able to place a representative on the Board of any club going into Administration to ensure proper governance.<\/span>
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\n6: Should all clubs be forced to pay into an SPFL Escrow account to ensure proper funding is in place to cover principal footballing costs before any season begins.<\/span>
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\n7: Should a club that has been refused Credit and the use of Credit based facilities be allowed to owe monies to football related entities?<\/span>
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\n8: Should any club that has already suffered a transfer embargo in previous 2 years due to financial difficulties, \u00a0and then goes into Administration, be handed another extended transfer embargo which can only be terminated at discretion of SPFL and full account sign-off<\/span>?
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\n9: Should any club with Audited accounts deemed “An on-going concern” be docked points to prevent likelihood of further irregularities and escalating into Administration.<\/span>
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\n10: Should a club that goes into Administration twice in 3 years (we know, we know!) have its license revoked by the SFA if another solvent club has submitted an application, ie Spartans<\/span>
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\n11: Should a club be forced to lodge its grounds deeds with the SPFL to confirm ownership?<\/span><\/p>\n