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FROM TODAY'S DAILY RANGER Rangers in crisis: SFL chief to reveal details of reform plans ahead of vote on newco Jul 11 2012 Exclusive by Gordon Parks SFL chief executive David Longmuir will tonight deliver the historic proposals for change to all league clubs ahead of Friday’s vote on newco Rangers.Record Sport understands all SFL clubs will receive details of the radical plans to revolutionise Scottish football. This will allow them to digest the finer points before gathering in two days at Hampden. Reconstruction of the game as well as financial carrots will all be on the agenda as the SFL board attempts to convince clubs to vote Rangers into the First Division. Clubs are warming to the idea of merging the leagues into one governing body but Berwick last night confirmed they will vote no to the newco going into the First Division. Longmuir, meanwhile, confirmed he hoped to give clubs a look at what’s on offer on Friday by “Wednesday night”. Does FINANCIAL CARROT not read the same as BRIBE?
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They keep publishing shite like this with "authority" but they can't even get the fact that TTFKAR are no more, and can't be relegated. They are a team without a league membership applying to join a big league rather than a pub league and should be fucking grateful that there is a reasonable chance they'll get to play in the SFL, rather than bump along for years as Annan did and as Spartan are still doing.
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The claim by several that Scottish ffootball is in meltdown is closer to the truth than most people accept. But.....it's not financial meltdown but bureaucratic. We have guys at the top i.e. Regan who talks tough in private, then fudges when put on the spot in public, trying to play both ends against the middle, then we have complete knobs like Doncaster who is tough in neither situation, just a pure fudger (or fudgepacker), and finally we have Longmuir who's trying to play the fans' favourite in public, but a two-faced twister in private. We need rid of the three of them and a decent, honest, proper organiser who knows the rules and insists everyone stick by them. I just hope this results in a butterfly moment where the ugly pupa gets an internal liquidisation and emerges as a beautiful graceful creature. (I know, I'm deluded, ain't I?)
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Well, IF they get a lot of "helpful" referees, dodgy penalties, opposition goals dubiously disallowed, late "gift" goals, there shouldn't be any issue re. non-promotion, but that would never happen in Scottish football, would it. No...., wait..... . There have been some views that even in present form, thye'll struggle to get automatic promotion, so mibbe that's why play-offs are being mentioned, you can fiddle the result of a knockout series easier than in a league situation, if they were to finish 2nd or 3rd. If they finish below that, there will be a pre-pared league reconstruction document waiting in the background ready to be unfurled as soon as it becomes obvious that even the play-offs are beyond them.
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Having spent time catching up on this thread, one thing seesm to have slipped under the radar. Mr Green's "offer" to allow a fan involvement by share purchase looks like scam to raise operating funds in place of the mission millions from ST sales. By any definition, that ain't investment, that's working capital. And he values the company at £55m, he's offering shares to the fans to the value of half the company value, so he's hoping to get in excess of £25m when SDM got what?, £5m? Dream on. As I've said before, I just can't see them lasting 6 months with the obviously very poor cash flows they seem to be "generating". Putting them into Div 1 would be causing more chaos when Sevco go into admin in February 2013.
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I don't see why there's all the surprise in this. It's obviously been the plan all along if the CVA was accepted that the punishment would be demotion to SFL1 with guaranteed promotion back tp the SPL after 1 season. This is just another way of effecting the same result post-liquidation. If Sevco end up in Div 1 the thing to watch for is "helpful" referees, we know it has been bad enough in the past, God knows how bad it could get if winning the SFL 1 is to be a certainty, colluded to by SFA, SPL, and SFL. We'll need to keep a statistical survey going on the penalty awards to Sevco and the goals disallowed for their opponents. A lot of comments have been made, particularly by Traynor that the SPL clubs could survive 1 season without "Rangers" ( he still doesn't get the fact that they are no more), but not 2, so s far as Doncaster is concerned, 1 season in the wilderness is a price worth paying. On a fair and level playing field I can'tsee them getting back in one season with the quality of player they are likly to have. A few comments haove been made abut the transfer ban. That surely is a dead donkey, as it was deemed illegal, so another punishment must be applied if they wish to keep their history and "no entry" to the SPL was not a punishment for bringing the game into disrepute, that was for going into liquidation. Still a lot of loose ends to be tied up, and I think John Yorkston could be holding a couple of aces close to his chest in the form of "valid legal" objections.