Shoddy Collins Leads Bids to Take Gretna Over.

Raskolnikov

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The Scottish Premier League has advanced Gretna some of the money the club needs to survive until at least the league splits.
Gretna, who entered administration this week after benefactor Brooks Mileson withdrew his financial backing after falling ill.

BBC Sport has learned Gretna will be paid £100,000 by the SPL.

Meanwhile, former Carlisle United boss Roddy Collins is heading an Irish consortium aiming to buy the club.

The money from the SPL would enable Gretna to play the five matches before the league divides into top six and bottom six.

Collins said he and other members of property developers the McMullen Group, will meet administrators at Raydale Park on Tuesday to discuss the bid.

Gretna's SPL match against Aberdeen on Saturday will also go ahead, despite the club entering administration.

Its future remains in doubt after benefactor Brooks Mileson withdrew his financial backing through illness.

Gretna's administrator David Elliot said on Thursday only 10 players were willing to play on Saturday.

But the club said that a full squad would travel to Pittodrie and it thanked everyone for their messages of support and goodwill.

A club spokesman said that a number of U-19 players would feature at Pittodrie.

"We've got a squad now capable of travelling so there's no problems at all doing that," he added.


Roddy Collins was previously linked with a takeover at Glentoran

"Obviously, it's not going to have some of the players that were here beforehand.

"It will include three or four under-19 players but generally it still contains a lot of the original squad."

The club has indicated that it is confident the league game against Celtic scheduled for Sunday 23 March at Fir Park will also go ahead.

If Gretna cannot complete the 10 remaining games of the season, the Scottish Premier League will have to recalculate the standings.

All points from games involving the bottom club would be taken out of the reckoning.

Dundee United, who have lost twice to Gretna, would be the main beneficiaries.


Gretna's players are facing an uncertain future

Celtic, who are three points behind league leaders Rangers, would move top of the table on goal difference.

However, Rangers would have two games in hand rather than the one they have at present.

Like Kilmarnock, St Mirren no longer have the threat of relegation hanging over them, following the 10-point penalty handed to Gretna for going into administration.

The Black and Whites have been playing at Motherwell's Fir Park this season, with Raydale not meeting the SPL seating criteria.

Motherwell have already stated their wish to liaise with the administrators and Gretna between now and the end of the season in order to assist as much as possible.

Ronan|Raven

God help Gretna. The ****e he spouted over the negotiations with Longford was comical. "The people of Longford love me" The only thing people in Longford love is the burgers from Luigi's and Joe Dolan and dont forget it Roddy

Jonny Arson

nah, Roddy got bored of Gretna after a few days so now he's planning to be the almighty saviour of Rotherham United until he fancies another financially stricken club to save (or exploit) next week

McMullen-Collins axis turns to Rotherham

March 20, 2008

Construction entrepreneur Anthony McMullen and manager Roddy Collins are in discussions to take over cash-strapped Coca-Cola League Two side Rotherham United.

McMullen last week tried to complete a deal for eircom League of Ireland First Division side Longford Town.

That move fell through, prompting the chief of McMullen Properties to turn his attention to Scottish Premier League crisis club Gretna.

Now, however, McMullen and former Bohemians, Shamrock Rovers and Carlisle United boss Collins are closing in on Rotherham.

The Millers incurred a ten-point deduction having fallen into administration earlier this week, and chairman Dennis Coleman has been meeting with potential investors in a bid to secure the club's future.

The Irish Independent reports on Thursday that Collins could join Rotherham in a football consultancy role next week, should the deal go through without a hitch.

It is not yet known whether Collins would take over as manager at Millmoor, where Mark Robins has been doing a sterling job on minimal resources.

http://www.eleven-a-side.com/acrossthewater/news.asp?n=31464

ciaran76

Its a different club every week !!!!

KdjaCL

Him and Mileson tried to buy pats few years, offered to buy the shareholders out for 2 million, assumed he had the club in the bag till he found out about how much was needed to buy the ground as the club didnt own it (still technically dont).

Looks like he is going to get Rotherham least he will feck off out of Ireland for a while. Rotherhams odds on relegation have been slashed


kdjac

gimmick

The sooner he is away from the eL the better. He is a clown. God help whoever he takes over.

horsebokks

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

God help Gretna. The ****e he spouted over the negotiations with Longford was comical. "The people of Longford love me" The only thing people in Longford love is the burgers from Luigi's and Joe Dolan and dont forget it Roddy

i was at the waterford united .v. longford game last week ... the people who "love" him must'nt have travelled ... "f*ck roddy,f*ck off son,f*ck off roddy buy another 1"bellowed from the 15 die hards in the longford end .....does roddy even know where longford is??

gucci

Jesus, how does he keep going? Seems to be selecting these teams at random every week. Where next.....Leeds Utd? :pac::pac::pac:

aidan24326

Collins seems to make a career out of talking sh1te. He has no credibility anywhere except in his own inflated head.

Blackjack

Anyone looking to buy Gretna would need their head examined. The population of the town (less than 3000) is never near enough to support a football team to keep it financially viable.

KdjaCL

According to the biggest voice in irish ^and english football.

the Rod is the new Director of Football at Rotherham, Mc mullenn building a 20k all seater stadium and the rod gonna get them into the champions league, blue square premier is a good bet imo.


kdjac