If Rangers maintain 45,000 crowds then this punishment will be meaningless in terms of survival, indeed it will stop the club spending even more money.
It will certainly impact on their performance. The administrators were struggling to find a buyer in anycase.
Looks like rangers fans want to 1) survive and 2) stay at the top of scottish football. It seems to have shocked them that this will not just happen.
An independant panel makes a decision following brand new rules agreed by all clubs - big deal.