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Rangers Football Club enters administration

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  • No club should be bigger than the competition that they play in .

    If Rangers had not been relegated then this would have created a precedent for future financial mismanagement being potentially unpunished.

    I suspect the SFL will be split between those like my favourite team Raith who will take a principled stance ( see above ) and those who will sense an opportunity of making money on the back of a lucrative fixture against the Gers .

    In terms of safety ,I would be very interested how places like Stenhousemuir a ground I know slightly would cope with a home match and the risks associated with a massive club playing them .
  • Sad news indeed, come on you Ger's
  • Is he trying to straighten his ears after Ally McCoist twisted them and kicked his arse?
  • I hate that man so much.
  • I hate that man so much.
    Why?

  • I'm hoping the SFL get their act together and make Rangers start off in the 3rd division - but I'm sure some 1st div chairmen will vote with their pockets...........
  • I'm hoping the SFL get their act together and make Rangers start off in the 3rd division - but I'm sure some 1st div chairmen will vote with their pockets...........
    That would be stupid as they will get Rangers in two seasons anyway.

  • @David Conn

    The SFA also seems to want newco #Rangers in Division One, arguing like SPL that TV deals will unravel if RFC in Division 3
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  • I would compare Rangers to Juve in terms of rampant corruption, so one division would probably be right
  • I hate that man so much.
    Why?

    Yes indeed, why?
  • Great news!

    My moneys on Inverness to go bust first!
    Mine's on St Mirren!

    In the interest of sporting integrity Rangers should start in the third division, that will make the SPL big wigs and Celtic sweat. Speaking of Celtic, who's silence is deafening, can anyone find title odds for them next season?

    Congrats to Dundee if they've gone up.
  • @David Conn

    The SFA also seems to want newco #Rangers in Division One, arguing like SPL that TV deals will unravel if RFC in Division 3
    The TV companies (Sky) will have to lump it - they can't get out of a contract becuase a certain club isn't in the league - that is just tough.
  • @David Conn

    The SFA also seems to want newco #Rangers in Division One, arguing like SPL that TV deals will unravel if RFC in Division 3
    The TV companies (Sky) will have to lump it - they can't get out of a contract becuase a certain club isn't in the league - that is just tough.
    The issue is about them renewing their contract in a league without Rangers.
  • Great news!

    My moneys on Inverness to go bust first!
    Mine's on St Mirren!

    In the interest of sporting integrity Rangers should start in the third division, that will make the SPL big wigs and Celtic sweat. Speaking of Celtic, who's silence is deafening, can anyone find title odds for them next season?

    Congrats to Dundee if they've gone up.
    Yep, congrats to Dundee if so, Rangers have to be punished, but its a bit like turkeys voting for xmas, I think some of them will regret their votes more than they think.

  • Great news!

    My moneys on Inverness to go bust first!
    Mine's on St Mirren!

    In the interest of sporting integrity Rangers should start in the third division, that will make the SPL big wigs and Celtic sweat. Speaking of Celtic, who's silence is deafening, can anyone find title odds for them next season?

    Congrats to Dundee if they've gone up.
    Last I saw you can get 1.07 on Betfair for them to win the title, better than putting it in the bank to be fair
  • Paddy Power quoted 1/50 this afternoon on TalkSport.
  • @David Conn

    The SFA also seems to want newco #Rangers in Division One, arguing like SPL that TV deals will unravel if RFC in Division 3
    Are the TV deals up for re-negotiation at any time soon?

    Until then they'll have to be honoured and it's likely that by the time they need to be re-negotiated that Rangers will be back in the SPL.

  • @David Conn

    The SFA also seems to want newco #Rangers in Division One, arguing like SPL that TV deals will unravel if RFC in Division 3
    Are the TV deals up for re-negotiation at any time soon?

    Until then they'll have to be honoured and it's likely that by the time they need to be re-negotiated that Rangers will be back in the SPL.

    3 years left on the contract.
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  • I reckon it will be Dunfermline staying up rather than Dundee going up.
  • I think 1st division makes more sense than the 3rd division when looking at the wide picture.

    If you're a 3rd division team and you play Rangers 4 times a year, you're probably going to benefit a lot more than most clubs in Division 2. Not really fair surely?
  • edited July 2012
    Here's a stat.

    Motherwell gate receipts last season break down roughly as follows:

    31 % Rangers
    29 % Celtic
    31 % everyone else

    If that is representative across the other 10 clubs in the SPL... how many of them can really survive with a third off gate receipts and for how long?
  • I do enjoy the underlying attitude of Old Firm supporters that their club are untouchable
  • St Mirren chairman has already stated if Rangers go down they will be in adminstration by September. Roddy Forsyth said this last night on 5 live
  • That just sums up the whole problem of how they set up the SPL. For any business to have a reliance on one other business for nearly a third of their income, is about as poor a business model as you can get. Factor in one other business that provides nearly another third and you are going nowhere other than down if one/both are no longer there.

    Lots of calls up there for a complete restructure. They'd be far less reliant if they went for an 18/20 team league. It would hurt in the short term, but a better model going forward as they get weaned off of two extra home Celtic/Rangers games.

    Frighteningly, they may have left it too late for themselves and it could be a very bad generation for Scottish football (as if this one hasn't been bad enough).
  • The whole game of football in Scotland is on a death wish. They produced so many talented players over the years. Now nearly everyone who plays in the SPL is a foreigner and the national team is a disgrace and a mere shadow of the great days of Dennis Law and Dave Mckay Etc when it really was "Scotland the brave" and they were hard to beat.
    I think the SFA and the SPL are shooting themselves in the foot. Scottish football without Rangers will be so uninteresting and boring because rather than having a two horse race it will now be a one horse race.
    SPL Champions for 2013 Celtic
    SPL Champions from now to infinity Celtic unless common sense prevails.
    TV revenue will dwindle to nothing.
    It's sad but Bye Bye Scottish football.
    The only good thing is all those idiots and misfits who run the SPL and SFA will be without a job.
  • So Rangers and Celtic can get away with whatever they like?
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