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THE Celtic connections are already mustering as part of a Scottish Premier League Task Force which looks like being aimed at doing in Rangers.... Again! It is a measure of just what a close firm and vice like grip Celtic have been allowed to take on Scottish football in the decade since Peter Lawwell moved into power at Parkhead that there is nothing surprising about Celticâ??s latest power grab for the future of top flight football in Scotland. Just do not expect to read about it in the nationâ??s newspapers. Or at least not the one neutered by Celtic after entering into a commercial deal with Peter Lawwell, the Daily Record. And not the one whose chief sports writer and chief football writer blindly follow the Lawwell line, the Scottish Daily Mail where spouting bile about Rangers and about Alastair McCoist is second nature to two most powerful by lines on the paper. However, today, I can exclusively reveal that it has not taken Celtic long to get their new company secretary, Michael Nicholson, the guy from Harper MacLeod who was previously the SPLâ??s attack dog against Rangers, Rod McKenzieâ??s sidekick at the legal firm which represents Celtic and the Scottish Premier League, parachuted into the SPL negotiating team which is in talks with the honourable men of the Scottish Football League about the future of football in Scotland. And guess who I am told lawyer Nicholson will find sitting alongside him on the SPLâ??s side of the negotiating table? Why none other than Celticâ??s £2500,000-a-year financial director Eric Riley, a man who pockets that salary only if he dances to Peter Lawwellâ??s tune. And who else? Well, surprise, surprise it is Rod Petrie, someone who is apparently so keen to do Lawwellâ??s bidding that he needs no financial inducement. No thirty pieces of silver. Rod Petrie seems to be happy enough doing Peter Lawwell and Celticâ??s bidding for nothing. Is there no one on the Scottish Premier League who will speak out about about Celticâ??s stranglehold? Nobody from, for instance, St Mirren, Ross County, Inverness Caley, Kilmarnock and Motherwell? For they are the clubs with the most to lose if a Celtic stitch up to keep control of any new set up emerges on the back of financial promises to those who will form any new 12-team second tier, based on extra money being handed over by such as St Mirren, Ross County, Inverness Caley, Kilmarnock and Motherwell. Money they can ill afford to cough up. It seems there is nobody at any of those clubs willing to speak out about what many believe to be the morally corrupt Scottish Premier League. And it is a forlorn hope to even hint at the idea Scottish Premier League chief executive Neil Doncaster would speak out. For, as far as many are concerned, he is buried deep inside Peter Lawwellâ??s back pocket. Doncaster appears willing to accept a man, a lawyer who is Lawwellâ??s latest puppet, Michael Nicholson, who has not been working in Scottish football for five minutes, has earned a seat at the top table in talks with the honourable men of the Scottish Football League about the future of Scottish football. My view about Doncaster is that this is just the latest in a long line of supine acts which add up to a consistent and appalling dereliction of duty. Not his apparent duty to Peter Lawwellâ??s wishes. That he seems to have no problem fulfilling. But his duty to the wider good of Scottish football. Which is the duty he is actually paid £200,000-a-year to fulfil. Goodness knows what sort of plans the under Peter Lawwell orders and paid for by Celtic, Michael Nicholson and Eric Riley will hatch with Lawwellâ??s pal, Rod Petrie. But of one thing we can be certain. They will not be good news for Rangers.

With 355 goals from 581 first- team appearances, he is, by some considerable distance, the leading scorer in the Ibrox club's 141-year history. Next best is Bob McPhail who, with 261 to his name, is still way behind. In the modern era, only Derek Johnstone, who netted 210 times, comes anywhere close. But McCoist's intimidating strike-rate in the 15 years he was a player at the Glasgow club does not mean he was averse to the odd off-day. Far from it in fact. Even he went through hugely frustrating fallow spells, at the start of his tenure at his boyhood heroes in the mid-1980s especially, when he struggled to hit the target. Subjected to dog's abuse from his own fans, booed off the field, dropped by his manager due to poor form; Super Ally experienced it all in his time in a Light Blue jersey. So he knows exactly how Kane Hemmings, the young striker who started his first ever game for Rangers on Saturday, is feeling at this precise moment in time. The 20-year-old was given the nod to play up front by himself in the Irn-Bru Third Division match against Stirling Albion at the weekend. His selection made perfect sense. Top scorer Andy Little was away on international duty with Northern Ireland and Lee McCulloch had been moved back to strengthen a porous defence. The English lad, too, had looked bright during a short loan spell at Cowdenbeath earlier this year and had scored four goals in seven appearances in the First Division. However, he squandered three gilt-edged scoring chances against Stirling as his team slumped to another deeply disappointing result at home. The 0-0 draw was not as wretched as the 2-1 defeat to tiny Annan had been a fortnight earlier. But it was not far off it and the Gers supporters did nothing to mask their displeasure. Yet, McCoist is confident Hemmings will recover from the experience quickly and would not be surprised to see him netting against Montrose at Links Park this weekend if he is selected. "Kane is disappointed because he had a couple of chances to score and make a bit of a name for himself and he didn't take them," he said. "But, listen, I have been there myself 100 times. He will not receive any criticism from me for his performance against Stirling. "I think he is the type of centre forward who will snatch at a couple one week â?? and will then go out and score three or four goals the next week. "That is fine. What is important is that he keeps going, continues to work on his finishing and doesn't let his head go down. "I would have probably been more disappointed if he hadn't managed to get himself into those scoring positions. "We created one or two scoring chances at the weekend. Kane will be disappointed not to have taken them. But we won't dwell on it at all and neither should he." Hemmings was one of several Murray Park graduates who started for Rangers against Stirling Albion due to a series of injuries and suspensions. Senior players like Ian Black, Little, Ross Perry, Francisco Sandaza, Dean Shiels and David Templeton were all absent from the line-up for a variety of reasons. Elsewhere, Lewis Macleod, arguably the brightest of the young prospects to burst onto the scene at Rangers in the 2012/13 campaign, is recovering from knee ligament damage. So, while disappointed not to win the game, McCoist believes there were mitigating circumstances behind the result which must be taken into account. "I am actually a lot better than I have been in the last couple of weeks because I played a totally inexperienced team at the weekend," he revealed. Despite the draw â?? the third time in five Third Division games that Rangers had failed to win â?? they still moved 21 points clear at the top of the league table. If they win against Montrose away this Saturday and Queen's Park draw or lose to Elgin City at Hampden they will be crowned champions. Alternatively, if they draw and the second-placed side in the division lose at home they will not be able to be caught. McCoist feels the experience of being part of the title run-in, and of enduring criticism for poor performances, will be invaluable to his young charges in the long run. He stated: "I said to the young boys at the end of the game: 'You can go on loan here, you can go on loan there, you can go on loan anywhere you want, but there is no substitute for going out there at Ibrox and finding out what football is all about in front of 30,000 or 40,00 fans'. "That is where they will grow up. It may be difficult at the time but, in the long run, it's massive for them."

Charles why do you keep mentioning the Savile Dome they don't give a fuck about us so fuck them.

Yeah i would agree mate thats the problem we have we dont have any direction and Ally will needs to get it sorted and addressed soon or his Managerial career will be over.

Banners reading â??Less time tweeting, more time trainingâ?? were unfurled by Rangers fans in the BF1 section on Saturday during the dismal 0-0 draw against Stirling Albion at Ibrox. It was a dig at some Rangers players after Kyle Hutton, only a few days after the home defeat to Annan Athletic. caused a minor furore among the support by tweeting that he was going home from training just after noon to watch DVDs. It wasn't helped when Darren Cole followed with a joke tweet -- or possibly a jibe at the complaining support -- that he "just got a text from Ads their mate we are in training tomoro at 7am - 11pm." This was followed by the hashtag â??#easyseshâ??, as in an easy training session. It was all ill-advised at the time, and after the fans had to sit in sub-zero temperatures watching one of the worst performances ever seen at Ibrox, it looks even less sensible. After the match, Rangers manager Ally McCoist said, â??I thought it was a disappointing 90 minutes for everybody, to be honest. Anybody who was watching it will agree it wasn't a good game at all. We just have to get over the line, thatâ??s what we need to do. I said at the start of the season we needed players and Iâ??m not going to change my tune on that. We had seven or eight players out today and that will tell you where we are. I'll probably go down in history as the only Rangers manager who struggled to fill a bench.â? That is all true. It is a makeshift team, with injuries, and more importantly the handicap of a transfer registration ban and problems in the summer of 2012, which ensures McCoist is unable to pick his own squad. However, there can be no denying that the players at his disposal are still superior to the opposition, yet they often look unfit, disorganised and struggle to play any sort of passing football. Not just against Stirling Albion, but nearly all season. Except for a good spell in late November and December, where it looked like the team had come together, it has been embarrassingly bad. Like the Bill Murray character in â??Groundhog Dayâ??, this has all been seen and heard before, but this is why the support is so frustrated. Nothing changes and itâ??s the same woeful football week after week. Why does McCoist persist with a team formation that patently doesnâ??t work? Why does he not experiment, even slightly, with anything other than one up front? On Saturday, he may have been short of players, but he could still have mixed it up on the park. Why were four defenders and two holding midfielders needed against Stirling Albion? Even when substitutes were made, it was like-for-like in a positional sense and there was no attempt to change how Rangers played. There should be no hiding how bad the team has been recently, yet calls for McCoist to be replaced are premature. He has to be given the chance to build his own team and develop his own style of football. Only then can he truly be judged. However, itâ??s no exaggeration to say that the loyal Gers support are becoming disgusted with players on thousands of pounds a week struggling to beat part-time players, or amateurs in the case of Queenâ??s Park. The nightmare scenario is that this is the style the Rangers manager will persist with, and it's just that he doesnâ??t have a Steven Naismith or a Nikica Jelavic who can do something special. Though the SFL3 title will be won, the season will end in disappointment and a feeling a chance to rebuild with a planned footballing strategy has been ignored in favour of grinding out wins. Whatever the truth, there is no doubt McCoist still has the chance to lead a footballing revolution at Ibrox with the fans by his side. But if he doesn't recognise this is what they desire, and not just beating part-timers with a long-ball game, then itâ??s doubtful the support will stay with him.

"That was a disappointing performance and result but - do you know something? - it's a point, a hard-earned point which will hopefully help us over the line." Oh dear, Ally no wonder the standards have dropped on the pitch no team fears playing us.

Great post hard to argue with that .

Malcolm Murray was in Bar 72 after game and (i don't agree with him talking out in public) but he wasn't happy with yesterdays performance neither was board, Ally had told them the team were up for it and they would see an improvement on previous displays/results and it didn't happen. He said some more stuff which i wont put on here but the jist is Allys got next season to improve and if fans don't start turning up due to watching dross Allys job will be tenable.

If Sandaza has breached his contract we either sack him get nothing for him, or we have suspended him on full wages so we can punt him and get what we get for him whether Sandaza likes it or not.

Starting the game 4-1-4-1 formation at home to Stirling Albion yes fuckin Stirling Albion....playing Faure as a holding midfielder c'mon what the fuck..... The fans patience is running out with Ally's tacticts and no game plan , team shape , urgency.... playing Hemmings up front on his own was criminal he had no support... Stirling Albion came to Ibrox with a game plan , didn't play 10 men behind the ball they had a go and were unlucky when they attacked us, they are part timers ffs matched us for 90 mins at home... Ally will be in charge next season and i hope for his sake things improve because if they don't he is going to turn the fans against him much worse than it is now.

Playing 4-1-4-1 against Stirling Albion at home with a holding midfielder in Faure ffs get a grip Ally, playing Hemmings up front on his own another master stroke from Ally, with no game plan or shape in the team the youths have been hung out to dry. The basics should be built from Reserves to 1st team with a system in place so when these players come through they know how they are playing, were 18 months down the line and we are going backwards.

Sandaza has been stupid and gullable a joke that went too far to cost someone there job scummy cunt hope Tommy get his dues.

20k - 25k at game the weather ? the product on the park ? there will be a few reasons why lowest crowd at ibrox for a long time.

Fran Sandaza is planning court action FUMING Rangers ace Fran Sandaza is planning court action against the prankster who duped him in a hoax call. The Spanish striker revealed he is taking legal advice on how to pursue notorious trickster Tommy the Taxi Driver. The move comes after Sandaza, 28, was suspended by Gers chiefs over the stitch-up which became a web sensation. The hapless star blabbed about the financial details of his Ibrox contract to Celtic fan Tommy â?? who was posing as a footie agent. Sandaza also admitted he only joined the Division 3 club for cash. But last night he claimed the prank call he took last Tuesday was â??illegalâ? as their conversation was â??private at all timesâ?. He said in a statement: â??I received a call from an alleged â??agentâ?? from the American MLS League who attempted to call into question my position against Rangers by offering me a supposed contract with another club in the above mentioned league. Given that I have an existing contract with my club, which I respect, I want to clarify that at all times during this conversation I have tried to act correctly with respect to both the person I was talking to and to my club. â??At no time did I wish to demonstrate a lack of commitment to Rangers Football Club â?? neither to my manager nor to the fans. â??This private conversation has been published illegally in various media outlets, and I would like to reiterate that I have not made declarations which call into question my commitment to the club.â? He added: â??In spite of this, the club has decided to suspend me while they conduct an internal investigation. â??Naturally I am disappointed with this decision but I intend to cooperate fully with the club for the duration of the process. â??I will now continue to seek the advice of lawyers before deciding the best course of legal action to take against the man that recorded and leaked our private conversation.â? We revealed yesterday how Sandaza told Tommy he only joined Gers for the finacial rewards and hinted that he would leave for even more dosh. The star said he wanted to move to the US. He added: â??If I get a better league and more money Iâ??ll go.â? The striker was banned for at least a week after he was hauled before furious manager Ally McCoist and Ibrox chief executive Charles Green. But he will still pocket his £4,500-a-week salary. He did not train with the team before yesterdayâ??s 0-0 draw with Stirling Albion. http://www.thescotti....over-hoax.html

From SFL 3 Twitter Account.... SFL 3 Clubs have voted against league construction... This will be interesting for the SPL in regards to the votes...

East Stirling apology to Rangers over player's Ibrox disaster post STV 20 March 2013 10:56 GMT East Stirlingshire FC: The club apologised to Rangers over the comments.SNS Group East Stirlingshire FC have issued an apology to Rangers over a "sickeningâ? social media post about the Ibrox Disaster by a youth player. Brett Molloy, an under-19s player with the Third Division side, made the post on Facebook on Tuesday night in which he said the "Ibrox stairs are calling" before adding "there (sic) f*****g deadly". The Ibrox Disaster occurred in 1971 in which 66 supporters of the club died and 200 were injured in a crush as they left a game against rivals Celtic. On Wednesday, East Stirlingshire chairman Tony Ford said: "I have been contacted by a number of people regarding posts made on social networking sites by one of our under-19 youth team players and I would like to thank those people for bringing this matter to my attention. "Having read these comments I share your sense of shock and revulsion. Furthermore, I am horrified that a player connected with our club can express such opinions. I am sure all Shire supporters will join me in condemning these words. On behalf of everyone at East Stirlingshire Football Club I would like to apologise for the actions of this individual. "As chairman of the club I would like to express deep regret for the distress these words will have caused the families of those who lost their lives in the Ibrox Disaster. I would like to say sorry to all Rangers supporters for the grossly offensive nature of the descriptions used. "And I would also like to apologise to the officials, staff, coaches and players of Rangers Football Club, who we have spent this season building warm and cordial relations with. The player concerned has already been spoken to by club staff and has been told he will be the subject of a disciplinary procedure which will begin today. I will not prejudge this but I believe the individual concerned understands the possible implications and potential outcomes." The chairman stated that all players at the Falkirk club had been given training on "dealing with the media and using social networking sites" while they have "participated willingly and positively in initiatives to combat sectarianism, bigotry and hate." Rangers reproduced the apology in full on their website, adding: "East Stirlingshire have issued a full apology to Rangers Football Club following sickening posts made by one of their clubâ??s teenage players on a social networking site about the Ibrox Disaster. "The 1971 Disaster, in which 66 people died, resonates deeply with all Rangers supporters and it is truly abhorrent that anyone could see fit to mock such a tragedy. "Rangers condemns the sickening comments made and we note East Stirlingshire have issued a swift apology to everyone connected to the club."

What if the wind up is from someone impersonating Sandaza ........ Now if it was Sandaza a lot he said was with honesty as stupid as it was with a stranger on the phone.

He's claiming his account has been hacked.

GA our Squad 2012/12 Neil Alexander Scott Gallacher Anestis Argyriou Sebastian Faure Chris Hegarty Ross Perry Emilson Cribari Lee Wallace Daren Cole Ian Black Kyle Hutton Lewis MacLeod Andrew Mitchell Robbie Crawford David Templeton Fraser Aird Barrie McKay Francisco Stella (now gone) Dean Shiels Andy Little Francisco Sandaza Kane Hemmings Kal Naismith Kevin Kyle (now gone) Lee McCulloch Looking at our 1st team squad above and even the reserves it's hard to believe we have a £7 Million wage bill we have 22 players in the squad.....Out of the squad what players will be offloaded i believe Hemmings is out of contract at end of season. We should get a team from above to win Div 2 surely with a couple of additions ? or is above not good enough and most should be offloaded....

" now unless you have a personal agenda against McCoist " Was not directed at you personally in (bold) and if you have read my posts i have no blind loyalty to Ally. I support Rangers and if that means supporting us when were playing pish it wont be the first and it wont be the last , under Walter the football was dire granted Walter was sucessfull, Ally's on brink of winning the league which was the objective at start of season , and if he get's it right next season he will become good manager if he fails he will be out the door, he has my support to see what the plans are for next season and the product he plays on the park.

Traynor hits out at Scottish football chiefs as Rangers will NOT be fast-tracked to SPL Rangers will not be fast-tracked into the Premier Division as part of Scottish footballâ??s radical re-structuring. Fans of rival clubs have pointed an accusing finger at the governing bodies, insisting the reshaping of the national game is designed to get the Ibrox club back to the top level quickly. Confirming that Rangers will remain rooted in the 18-team bottom tier even if they win the current Third Division, however, SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster insisted promotion can only be won on merit. Asked specifically about Rangers, Doncaster said: â??There is a genuine desire to ensure that sporting merit is the basis on which clubs fill the positions which are available. â??Our intention is to ensure that clubs get there on sporting merit. â??I donâ??t think there is any desire to accelerate any club falsely. Itâ??s sporting merit which will decide it.â?? That stance was reiterated by the SFLâ??s David Longmuir, who said: â??No club will move through the leagues and quicker than any other club given any of the structures we have put in place â?? and we are unanimous on that.â?? The governing bodies spoke as Rangers blasted the failure of the authorities to include them in the restructuring talks. As associate â?? and not full â?? members of the SFL, the Third Division leaders do not have a vote, but new head of communications James Traynor criticised that stance, saying: â??The sheer hypocrisy of what is happening within Hampdenâ??s corridors of power right now will not be lost on them (Rangers fans) but letâ??s not pretend sporting integrity or the wishes of supporters really are important to all those clubs pushing for this change. â??If they were listening to fans they wouldnâ??t be sticking with a top division of 12, and if there was any integrity there would be no rush to bring in changes for the start of next season. â??If, as seems likely, the structure is altered for 2013-14 supporters wonâ??t get what theyâ??ve already paid for, especially those following teams striving for promotion. Actually, this entire season will be rendered meaningless. â??Sporting integrity wonâ??t merely be compromised, itâ??ll be crushed, but this is what happens when desperation slips in and throttles reason.â?? For followers of Rangers, then, news of Scottish footballâ??s brave new dawn was hardly the source of unbridled joy. The end result, if the blueprint is, as expected, passed will see the Ibrox legions once again looking out the road maps to Elgin and Annan. The finer details of the new plan have yet to emerge, but merging the bottom eight in the current Second Division with the Third Division in its entirety â?? as seems likely - is hardly a prospect to quicken the pulse. It also begs the question of what exactly are Rangers - and indeed the rest of the Third Division - playing for this season? The league trophy will assuredly be Rangersâ?? property before the Easter eggs are opened, but beyond that? As things stand, Ally McCoistâ??s men will be in the same division next term as say ninth placed East Stirling (assuming the bottom club will be relegated as part of the pyramid system). In fairness, no one at Rangers has ever publicly sought any favours from the redrawing of the gameâ??s graph. But if they privately hoped for any, they were certainly in short supply on Tuesday. Three years in the wilderness appears to be exactly that. For Ally McCoist, the task of persuading players to pledge their futures to the club as of September 1, has assuredly not been made any easier. Nonetheless, when Sportsmail canvassed the opinion of a leading agent on Tuesday's developments, he remained convinced that the club would continue to sell itself. â??No one at Rangers has ever suggested to me that they believe theyâ??d be back in the top flight a year sooner than scheduled,â?? he said. â??So I canâ??t imagine the news will have much bearing on things going forward. â??Theyâ??ve already had success in persuading players to come and play for them in the Third Division so I canâ??t imagine that will change because they havenâ??t been moved up the ladder ahead of schedule if you like. â??For footballers, the appeal of playing in front of 45,000 plus every couple of weeks is obvious.â?? Rangersâ?? crowds this season have been nothing short of remarkable. Near full houses against sides like Arbroath and Queenâ??s Park in the Third Division have made headlines the world over. Will a similar recipe next season prove just as enticing? Perhaps not, but at least there will be eight new visitors to sweeten the pot. Ibrox fans have shown a remarkable appetite for the road back to respectability so far. They now know itâ??s going to be just as long and winding as was first feared. Full Traynor statement: 'Remember Sporting Integrity?' The shape of things to come, three divisions of 12-12-18, has been agreed in principle. This abomination will now be pulled and stretched by selected members of the SPL and SFL in a desperate attempt to make it more presentable. Good luck with that. It would be easier trying to iron out the lines on the face of the old broad, Madge, in Benidorm. 12-12-18. Itâ??s ridiculous, especially when you remember the two 12s will fragment into three eights. Yet this time supporters will just have to buy into it. Whatever happened to that new and bold notion that fans were all important? It isnâ??t that long ago clubs, particularly those in the top flight, were solemnly insisting that ignoring the views of fans would be akin to financial suicide. Remember? It was when the game was wrestling with the problem of what to do with Rangers. All the clubs were squealing that the wishes of fans had to be granted. If you swallowed any of that bilge you probably also believed in sporting integrity. Of course it was all nonsense. Sporting Integrity was a cloak of convenience, albeit a rather thin, practically transparent one, behind which club leaders huddled together to come up with sanctions. Rangers had to be punished, they deserved to be punished but it seemed as if additional penalties were being randomly introduced depending on who was in which meeting. Many Rangers fans like to think the frenzy to cause the club as much additional pain as possible was driven by one club but that wasnâ??t strictly the case. Many fans of many clubs waded in but this is not to say Celtic fans or their club didnâ??t attempt to influence the outcome of debates on Rangers and possible sanctions. Of course they did. And they are still at it on social media sites and on blogs clattered out by individuals who are no better than semi-literate. The sheer hypocrisy of what is happening within Hampdenâ??s corridors of power right now will be lost on them but letâ??s not pretend sporting integrity or the wishes of supporters really are important to all those clubs pushing for this change. If they were listening to fans they wouldnâ??t be sticking with a top division of 12 , and if there was any integrity there would be no rush to bring in changes for the start of next season. If, as seems likely, the structure is altered for 2013-14 supporters wonâ??t get what theyâ??ve already paid for, especially those following teams striving for promotion. Actually this entire season will be rendered meaningless. Sporting integrity wonâ??t merely be compromised, itâ??ll be crushed but this is what happens when desperation slips in and throttles reason. This belief wonâ??t sit well with the few who are more or less running the SPL and influencing thinking within that desperate organisation but they canâ??t complain. After all, theyâ??ve dismissed Rangersâ?? views completely. This club, the biggest one in the country, were not invited to take part in talks which will shape the gameâ??s future. We are then entitled to conclude that this club are not important, which is strange indeed when so many fans of other clubs continue to be obsessed by Rangers, who are simply getting on with their own affairs asking no favour from anyone. We do, however, expect commonsense to be applied, along with fair play. Look, Rangers will return to the top flight, which will of course have to be rebranded. Rangers will take a seat at the head of the table where, despite the latest insult of being shut out of reconstruction talks, we will act with the good of Scottish football in mind. Weâ??ll work through the divisions and we will return stronger and better than ever before. This club accepted their sanctions and moved on but too many others have been unable to do the same. They continue their assaults and while the deranged, who are using social media sites as conduits for their twisted agendas, should be ignored there are more than a few in the mainstream still maligning the club at every opportunity. In a BBC radio debate last Saturday night one pundit, in a matter-of-fact manner, said Charles Green speaks with â??forked tongue.â?? No attempt to explain or justify the statement, just as no explanation was offered when another radio voice claimed there was a dishonesty about Walter Smith when he went public with a late bid for the club. Word of advice gentlemen. From now on be very careful when talking or writing about this club. To paraphrase something said about another club, Rangers will not be treated less than others. And although there is no desire to pick fights, be assured that no one will attack Rangers with impunity. Better, however, to quote Bill Struth: â??Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. You do that, you will emerge stronger than before.â?? Tolerance and sanity. Thatâ??s what Rangers will demonstrate and maintain, especially when back at the summit. Be interesting to see if this changes are made to CG wanting into mid tier if it's 12-12-18

Traynor hits out at Scottish football chiefs as Rangers will NOT be fast-tracked to SPL Rangers will not be fast-tracked into the Premier Division as part of Scottish football’s radical re-structuring. Fans of rival clubs have pointed an accusing finger at the governing bodies, insisting the reshaping of the national game is designed to get the Ibrox club back to the top level quickly. Confirming that Rangers will remain rooted in the 18-team bottom tier even if they win the current Third Division, however, SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster insisted promotion can only be won on merit. Asked specifically about Rangers, Doncaster said: ‘There is a genuine desire to ensure that sporting merit is the basis on which clubs fill the positions which are available. ‘Our intention is to ensure that clubs get there on sporting merit. ‘I don’t think there is any desire to accelerate any club falsely. It’s sporting merit which will decide it.’ That stance was reiterated by the SFL’s David Longmuir, who said: ‘No club will move through the leagues and quicker than any other club given any of the structures we have put in place – and we are unanimous on that.’ The governing bodies spoke as Rangers blasted the failure of the authorities to include them in the restructuring talks. As associate – and not full – members of the SFL, the Third Division leaders do not have a vote, but new head of communications James Traynor criticised that stance, saying: ‘The sheer hypocrisy of what is happening within Hampden’s corridors of power right now will not be lost on them (Rangers fans) but let’s not pretend sporting integrity or the wishes of supporters really are important to all those clubs pushing for this change. ‘If they were listening to fans they wouldn’t be sticking with a top division of 12, and if there was any integrity there would be no rush to bring in changes for the start of next season. ‘If, as seems likely, the structure is altered for 2013-14 supporters won’t get what they’ve already paid for, especially those following teams striving for promotion. Actually, this entire season will be rendered meaningless. ‘Sporting integrity won’t merely be compromised, it’ll be crushed, but this is what happens when desperation slips in and throttles reason.’ For followers of Rangers, then, news of Scottish football’s brave new dawn was hardly the source of unbridled joy. The end result, if the blueprint is, as expected, passed will see the Ibrox legions once again looking out the road maps to Elgin and Annan. The finer details of the new plan have yet to emerge, but merging the bottom eight in the current Second Division with the Third Division in its entirety – as seems likely - is hardly a prospect to quicken the pulse. It also begs the question of what exactly are Rangers - and indeed the rest of the Third Division - playing for this season? The league trophy will assuredly be Rangers’ property before the Easter eggs are opened, but beyond that? As things stand, Ally McCoist’s men will be in the same division next term as say ninth placed East Stirling (assuming the bottom club will be relegated as part of the pyramid system). In fairness, no one at Rangers has ever publicly sought any favours from the redrawing of the game’s graph. But if they privately hoped for any, they were certainly in short supply on Tuesday. Three years in the wilderness appears to be exactly that. For Ally McCoist, the task of persuading players to pledge their futures to the club as of September 1, has assuredly not been made any easier. Nonetheless, when Sportsmail canvassed the opinion of a leading agent on Tuesday's developments, he remained convinced that the club would continue to sell itself. ‘No one at Rangers has ever suggested to me that they believe they’d be back in the top flight a year sooner than scheduled,’ he said. ‘So I can’t imagine the news will have much bearing on things going forward. ‘They’ve already had success in persuading players to come and play for them in the Third Division so I can’t imagine that will change because they haven’t been moved up the ladder ahead of schedule if you like. ‘For footballers, the appeal of playing in front of 45,000 plus every couple of weeks is obvious.’ Rangers’ crowds this season have been nothing short of remarkable. Near full houses against sides like Arbroath and Queen’s Park in the Third Division have made headlines the world over. Will a similar recipe next season prove just as enticing? Perhaps not, but at least there will be eight new visitors to sweeten the pot. Ibrox fans have shown a remarkable appetite for the road back to respectability so far. They now know it’s going to be just as long and winding as was first feared. Full Traynor statement: 'Remember Sporting Integrity?' The shape of things to come, three divisions of 12-12-18, has been agreed in principle. This abomination will now be pulled and stretched by selected members of the SPL and SFL in a desperate attempt to make it more presentable. Good luck with that. It would be easier trying to iron out the lines on the face of the old broad, Madge, in Benidorm. 12-12-18. It’s ridiculous, especially when you remember the two 12s will fragment into three eights. Yet this time supporters will just have to buy into it. Whatever happened to that new and bold notion that fans were all important? It isn’t that long ago clubs, particularly those in the top flight, were solemnly insisting that ignoring the views of fans would be akin to financial suicide. Remember? It was when the game was wrestling with the problem of what to do with Rangers. All the clubs were squealing that the wishes of fans had to be granted. If you swallowed any of that bilge you probably also believed in sporting integrity. Of course it was all nonsense. Sporting Integrity was a cloak of convenience, albeit a rather thin, practically transparent one, behind which club leaders huddled together to come up with sanctions. Rangers had to be punished, they deserved to be punished but it seemed as if additional penalties were being randomly introduced depending on who was in which meeting. Many Rangers fans like to think the frenzy to cause the club as much additional pain as possible was driven by one club but that wasn’t strictly the case. Many fans of many clubs waded in but this is not to say Celtic fans or their club didn’t attempt to influence the outcome of debates on Rangers and possible sanctions. Of course they did. And they are still at it on social media sites and on blogs clattered out by individuals who are no better than semi-literate. The sheer hypocrisy of what is happening within Hampden’s corridors of power right now will be lost on them but let’s not pretend sporting integrity or the wishes of supporters really are important to all those clubs pushing for this change. If they were listening to fans they wouldn’t be sticking with a top division of 12 , and if there was any integrity there would be no rush to bring in changes for the start of next season. If, as seems likely, the structure is altered for 2013-14 supporters won’t get what they’ve already paid for, especially those following teams striving for promotion. Actually this entire season will be rendered meaningless. Sporting integrity won’t merely be compromised, it’ll be crushed but this is what happens when desperation slips in and throttles reason. This belief won’t sit well with the few who are more or less running the SPL and influencing thinking within that desperate organisation but they can’t complain. After all, they’ve dismissed Rangers’ views completely. This club, the biggest one in the country, were not invited to take part in talks which will shape the game’s future. We are then entitled to conclude that this club are not important, which is strange indeed when so many fans of other clubs continue to be obsessed by Rangers, who are simply getting on with their own affairs asking no favour from anyone. We do, however, expect commonsense to be applied, along with fair play. Look, Rangers will return to the top flight, which will of course have to be rebranded. Rangers will take a seat at the head of the table where, despite the latest insult of being shut out of reconstruction talks, we will act with the good of Scottish football in mind. We’ll work through the divisions and we will return stronger and better than ever before. This club accepted their sanctions and moved on but too many others have been unable to do the same. They continue their assaults and while the deranged, who are using social media sites as conduits for their twisted agendas, should be ignored there are more than a few in the mainstream still maligning the club at every opportunity. In a BBC radio debate last Saturday night one pundit, in a matter-of-fact manner, said Charles Green speaks with ‘forked tongue.’ No attempt to explain or justify the statement, just as no explanation was offered when another radio voice claimed there was a dishonesty about Walter Smith when he went public with a late bid for the club. Word of advice gentlemen. From now on be very careful when talking or writing about this club. To paraphrase something said about another club, Rangers will not be treated less than others. And although there is no desire to pick fights, be assured that no one will attack Rangers with impunity. Better, however, to quote Bill Struth: ‘Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. You do that, you will emerge stronger than before.’ Tolerance and sanity. That’s what Rangers will demonstrate and maintain, especially when back at the summit. Be interesting to see if this changes are made to CG wanting into mid tier if it's 12-12-18

I agree with some things you say regarding Ally's Managerial Skills, the reality is Ally is going to be in charge next season whether you or i like it or not......now you have a choice you can get behind the Manager and Support him or don't bother turning up for the games.... Ally stood by the club ( which has got him the job under new owners CG ) if he hadn't been there standing up for the club he wouldn't have got the job, he could have also thought fuck this i am outa ere i don't need all the hassle...he has aged in 18 months with stress you can see it....now unless you have a personal agenda against McCoist i feel he has to get it right next season , no more excuses, he will be under more pressure to deliver a product on the park and if he doesn't and fans start not turning up for games due to watching pish Ally will be gone no if'd or but's.....while he is still here he deserves our support.

Looks like CG is saying if 12-12-18 goes ahead Rangers will go into mid tier 1 season away from SPL and maybe thats why Ally has been making noises about building bringing in new players for the impact getting back to SPL in 1 season.