Liquidation
Was reading the BBC yesterday and they brought up a good point.
If Rangers went into liquidation and got voted back in.
How could the SPL refuse any other club that decided to the do the same?
The way I see it is even if they were to change the rules, there'd be some smart ass lawyer out there that could find a way round it. Or a valid reason to sue.
We could see a new Rangers, Celtic or Hearts every few years.
From some of the other stories I've been reading, if the SPL were to reject them. they could apply for entry into Division 3. Every Club that has applied to join Division 3 has been asked to provide 3 years worth of financial records etc.
How can a new company do any of that?
The only option that should be open to them, is to do what Airdrie did and buy another club, move it to Ibrox and rename it.
They have cheated for years the rest of us, both by buying and paying players they couldn't afford. By having them on 2 contracts, they've cheated again.
If the SPL, SFL and the SFA don't stand up and grow a set, then their mugs.
The SPL chairmen involved can expect to see a reduction of fans from their support.
After all why should we the paying punter continue to accept that the best we can ever hope to get is 3rd in the League, because we are willing to let clubs away with cheating.
The SFL Chairmen, Clubs and their fans will continue to see the SPL as only looking out for themselves and not the rest of Scottish Football. This could in effect reduce the SFL crowds further.
If Rangers get to join the SFL, how many punters are going to want to turn up watch their team being pumped by a team that would do a Gretna. Any reduction of their own support, even for a season could be hard for them to get back once the cash cow leaves their league.
If the SFA try to force the SPL or the SFL to let Rangers join, it will only prove that Celtic fans don't have paranoia.
Simple fact is that Rangers have knowingly cheated for years and the only reason it has come out now, is because of administration.
The worse thing about this is that some in the media have known about the double contracts and other things that have now come out for at least a year, they'll say sat on it for legal reasons, I say they tried to hide it rather than bring an institution down.
The Administrators
I am going to be watching very carefully over the next few days or so on how the Administrators at Port Vale deal with the club and redundancies.
Someone behind the scenes at Ibrox, appears to be pulling the administrators strings.
Every other club that has been placed into administration, has had the administrators in charge of every decision from day one.
Yet the administrators brought in by Criag Whyte, do not appear to be doing this.
Redundancies at every other club in Scotland and England, have been made within the first few days or at most a week.
I appreciate that they have been trying to get a handle on where all the money CW brought into the club has gone but from the time the news broke that there was going to be redundancies, it's taken almost a fortnight to get where they are today.
It's been one excuse after another from them, "We won't announce anything just now because of International Football" give me a break, there'd be nothing to announce because the players wouldn't have been there to tell in the first place. So that first week was just a "we must be seen to doing our jobs"
If they were anything like they should have been they'd have told the players concerned over the phone, we know that all administrators have been heartless bastards , if you listen to some of our ex-players being told by a young girl.
Then they have the audacity to sit down with the players and put a deal to them. If the player says no, surely it should be "there's the door" not "okay tell me what you're looking for and I'll think about it"
Then the there's the stories appearing in the paper from our own Government, Rangers Football must survive.
Others declaring that the administrators can't sack too many players as it devalues club - If they don't do that it puts more behind the scenes staff at risk surely, but they aren't exactly involved in the success of the team on the pitch, it's only the players and management that matter, I forgot!!
Another one I saw yesterday was if the administrators sack the 11 or more players, it will cost the new owner £20 million pound to replace them, your having at a laugh at that one. At the end of the 3 months or when Rangers come out of administration and these wages go up again, it's going to cost them £12 Million pound a year shortfall that they aren't bringing in at present. Okay they may well sell some on, but knowing how desperate Rangers will be for money, do you really see McGregor getting sold for anywhere near the £9 Million previously quoted?
Sorry for the rant but it's been a long time coming, I have also taken the information only from what I am reading or hearing on the news, I haven'[t even began to look at any of the non-news media on this.
Some of you may agree with all of this, some of this or none but it's my thoughts on how this whole diabolical shambles of a situation has occurred and has been handled.
I'm not going to start on the whole debate of Rangers needing to be part of Scottish football to survive as I already said my piece on that when they wanted to move to England and my view hasn't changed.
