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Nothing to play for and you got embarrased. Take away your top players and replace them with 17 year olds and it'll be year upon year of that 'performance' and result. Won't be great when it is TV contract renewal time. Your support has been galvanized recently by the reckless comments of those at Ibrox, but given the glory hunting nature of your support there is no reason to think that you will take any more fans to Tynecastle, Easter Road etc than a team like Aberdeen if you are mid table mediocrities at best.

This is dead right. The current financial argument for re-admitting newco (TV money and away crowds) is based on the current insustainable Rangers model. If they are living within their means they will be no bigger than Aberdeen and their travelling support will diminish, plus how much will Sky/ESPN pay to televise four thrashings a year of the type we saw last weekend from Celtic? If Rangers are playing kids next season and are away to Killie/Dundee Utd on the last game, needing 3 points to stay up, will these teams lie down and let them win as their chairmen NEED rangers in the SPL?

Yeah, surely the 8-4 vote is to decide whether to change the rules so that the 12 SPL clubs vote rather than the 6 man board. If this gets its 8 votes then they will all vote on whether to allow a share transfer, with a 10-2 majority required to pass?

Now that we are reverting to part time maybe we can bring Mark Ferry and Craig Wilson back?

Nice wee dig by our board on the offishul site.....

Someone needs to ask Houston if, in the hypothetical situation next season Newco Rangers go to Tannadice on the last day of the season needing a win to avoid relegation, will he instruct his players to lie down as the SPL needs a strong Rangers?

Raith won the league that season and so played in Europe as a Premier team. Not sure the licencing laws were the same then anyway tbh.

I don't doubt the consistency of your arguments, its just sometimes you come across quite coherent and eloquent, then other times it seems like you left yourself logged in at the library and some knuckle-dragging imbecile posts under your username.

Cheers, I'd forgotten all about that episode

Maybe these "conditions" from Doncaster/SPL are actually win-win - we let you back in scot free if you pay those debts and abide by the EBT judgement (ie we don't get our houses and stadiums burnt down for being the one that slayed the beast), then once the debts get payed the EBT judgement comes down against them resulting in expulsion for cheating. In fact, Miller might think the same and back out, why pay for a team who might get kicked out in a few weeks or months.

Without wanting to get in to a c0ck measuring contest, why did PTFC suffer the most? I'm genuinely unsure - I know we had to deal with idiots like Anelka and had a spell in the 2nd, and of course Airdrie went belly up but I don't know the Thistle story? I hope Hearts etc take the David Murray/Airdrie stance - "gies oor money, this is a business we are trying to run"

Can only imagine they are keeping their powder dry, hopefully no news is good news

I would suggest that these teams financial difficulties stem from "chasing the dream" ie building stadiums which conform to (ridiculous) SPL requirements rather than from a direct consequence of relegation and losing out on Old Firm revenue.

Are you Andy Goram? Talk about split personalities.

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When Paul Murray and His Blue Knights (featuring Brian Kennedy) were asked for £500k I'm pretty sure it was an unrefundable deposit

^^^ Celtic in administration thread for this pish (did i do that right, always wanted to do it) " their guvnor is a bawbag too" is not an adequate nor relevant defence for the financial shenanigans of ra peepul

But the overwhelming feeling amongst non-Rangers fans is that we would sooner have a diddy league of integrity over the status quo with a filthy cheating team who go unpunished because of who they are!

A "punished" Rangers won't have the opportunity to affect our coefficient for a while anyway. The only way they can affect it is they get parachuted back in with a slap on the wrist.

At first I thought you were telling the grandkids to GIRFUY!

In your scenario Rangers are just going to be a bigotted version of Aberdeen. And how much do they bring to the table in terms of TV money and away fans?

How much will the next Sky deal be worth if Celtic are whipping Rangers by 3/4/5 goals 4 times a season?

Surely getting rid of Rangers would be ideal for a debt free team like Saints? They would be best placed to cut their cloth while the heavily debted teams who need to keep the cheats to help service their own debts would suffer more. A debt free team would surely be favourites to step in to 2nd place?