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It's purely back of a beer mat stuff I agree but I still feel that the sums involved show that it's nonsense about us needing an OF to survive. Some clubs will need to have a lean few years to get their budgets in line but there is no reason at all why life without the bigot brothers is not feasible. In fact it's essential for Scottish football to survive. However the small minded, short sighted Chairmen will simply take the easy way out and ensure Rangers 1690 will be back in the SPL with minimum delay, normal service resumed and a few more nails knocked in the game's coffin.

Say we only got £5m total in the non- OF dream land. That's a drop of £7m from what they currently get ie £700k per club in theory. Even rounding it up to 1m to allow for the ever decreasing away support income, it's sad that our chairmen would be willing to keep the non competitive set up for what in the overall scheme of things is a relatively small amount of money given what they are effectively selling ie Scottish football.

Excellent HJ. Many thanks. (I looked it through with the Sheldon voice reading it to me) So basically the non OF clubs have £12 million total sponsorship income to share between them as things stand. Do you think we'd get anywhere near that without the OF?

You're the man to answer this HJ. Tried in another thread but no luck. How much does the SPL actually get from SkyESPN and what does each SPL club get out from it? I know it's dependent upon league position and I'm interested to see exactly how much we diddies are left with after the bigot brothers have creamed off the lions share, normally. It won't happen of course but if these b*****ds were ever allowed to die, I don't think we'd need as much from any tv deal without the OF than is being made out.

You may well be right!

Glad you see it that way. I hope that will also see an end to the zero tolerance claim as even you can see now it's not true.

I appreciate what you're saying but surely the fact that Rangers have 35000 guilty parties to choose from and they have banned nobody shows that they don't have a zero tolerance policy. It's more of a token gesture policy.

Even one song is illegal. Given Rangers have zero tolerance to sectarianism these days, how many season ticket holders and supporters did they ban following this incident?

We all know that Rangers 1690 FC will be formed and immediately re-entered into the SPL allowing Scottish football to continue as per usual asap.

Aberdeen were also against it but this is often forgotten as neither the club nor their supporters have spent the time since the vote gloatingly saying 'nah nah nah nah nah, told you so' like the bigot brothers have.

Was going on character. They appear to have identical attitudes. Spot on. It must just be a Saints thing though.

It's called an observation, bitter boy. Mind you, if anyone knows about being miserable, it's you. Away you go to a funeral and cheer yourself up.

HJ and Sheldon. Separated at birth, surely.

Yay. It's HibeeJibee.

Not the name. He's probably sold Ibrox itself. Ground share with QP from now on...finding the 6 months rental deposit might be a problem though.

GERS CHIEFS SABOTAGE DAN'S DEAL

Thats now the same night as the Saints v Rangers CIS Cup semi at an empty Hampden. Will the Leeds game be shown in Scotland or will Bridget Jones Diary get another airing?

Local rag tries to cash in and make a quick buck? How rare! The PA would bring out a special edition if someone from Perthshire had a 2 second audition on the X Factor if it meant they could make a few more pennies.

Exeters commemorative DVD, t-shirt, wall plate and key ring out soon I believe.

Leeds United bringing out commemorative DVDs and T-shirts because they won at OT? Good God. How the mighty have fallen indeed.

Terrible, isnt it. By the way, do you know if Jim Leishman missed out on this weeks meeting?

Really? You must get yourself up to speed with whats going on at Dens these days.

Its too late to go through the last 20 odd pages and catch up properly but am I seeing things or have the Becks completely taken over? Jim Leishman was on the SFL committee that sat today and decided Livi's fate? Nah, it cant be right, even for Scottsh football. Tell me this didnt happen. It cant happen, surely. Jim Leishman deciding Livi's fate?

Slight amendment if you dont mind. There are no morals of any kind involved in this situation.

Come in Mr McGruther. Ooo, nice handshake by the way. Now, have you come to a decision regarding these diddies that are owned by an Italian and used to be run by a follower of the Church of Rome? They die you say? Excellent work. Hey, what about Dinamo last night. Superb result wasn't it……….