The Sevco fan forums are in meltdown today as the results of the SPFL board elections come in, and Stewart Robertson has gone.
He has been replaced by none other than Peter Lawwell himself.
Now, for me I am glad that we’re represented on that board instead of the miserable whiners at Sevco, although I would rather Lawwell was focussed on signing us players for the moment. But don’t underestimate what this means.
The news that Robertson is gone means either Sevco is spitting the dummy, and has resigned him, in another act of self-harm or he was voted off because of their last act of self-harm, the hunting of the SPFL chairman.
Only Sevco could behave so outrageously and not expect consequences. For weeks their club and a handful of media toadies have been screaming about MacLennan and trying to force him to quit, trying to rally the clubs in their cause.
Today the clubs gave their answer and if that’s not definitive I don’t know what is. It’s a two fingered salute to the last few weeks. Sevco is now even weaker than it was before. Either they have fully isolated themselves or the clubs have isolated them.
I hope they release another statement. I hope it’s a paranoid rant about how all of Scottish football hates them. They did this to themselves though, by looking for fights and creating enemies.
Their fans don’t believe that. To them this is the proof that the Unseen Hand is now firmly wrapped around Scottish football, and from their vantage point it must certainly look like that today as the shadow of Celtic Park looms every larger over them.
The simple truth is that we’ve never had a stronger position in the game here from which to affect change.
That’s why there will be no excuses if we do not use it.
Sevco fans sense that it’s our time though, and Hell mend them.
They are drowning in paranoia.