bluebear54 0 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 If reports are true, and there are moves afoot to merge SPL and SFL, I can only see it as a fudge. There can't have been any proper consultation, nor an effective business case and business plan drawn up. Lawyers would need months to scope this one out. Even a small matter like SPL restructuring has been ongoing for years and hasn't got anywhere. How can a back of a fag packet plan be expected to Create a viable way forward? It's either a desperate ill advised fudge or a load of tosh. What it isn't is a well thought out plan for the future of Scottish football. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
26th of foot 5,859 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 If reports are true, and there are moves afoot to merge SPL and SFL, I can only see it as a fudge. There can't have been any proper consultation, nor an effective business case and business plan drawn up. Lawyers would need months to scope this one out. Even a small matter like SPL restructuring has been ongoing for years and hasn't got anywhere. How can a back of a fag packet plan be expected to Create a viable way forward? It's either a desperate ill advised fudge or a load of tosh. What it isn't is a well thought out plan for the future of Scottish football. This last week, we have listened to and read the on-message CSC chorus, "the least worst solution". Chris McLaughlin, Mark(the Slug)Guidi, Stephen McGowan, ........................... et all have presented the latest Lawwell/Reagan wheeze. Put Rangers out of the SPL for a season and they are seen to be punished. It also ticks the box of keeping Sky interested. The problem is that for Rangers to enter the SFL, they must start in Division 3. No problem, we will merge the SPL/SFL and the 'least worst solution' becomes possible. Andy Walker penned a piece earlier this week about the intolerable uncertainty of the current situation. His basic concern was Yahoos not knowing the score when their club is less than a month from CL qualifiers. Further, he hinted at their season ticket sales being not what they should be, because they don't know whate they are buying into. It's a case of, 'get on the team' because the 'least worst solution MUST be railroaded through. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinker 887 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 There seem to be a lot of people who are dead against Div1 - am I missing something? I'm prepared for us to be playing in Div3 next season - you can tell the way the vote is going to go at the moment. But dropping to Div1 is clearly more managable, and we'll be able to come back from it sooner. Obviously the motivation behind this fudge scheme is to lessen the financial impact on the other SPL teams, but as long as they don't try to sneak any other penalties in, it's a win for us too. Isn't it? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy steel 0 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 It's a case of that punishment (Div 1) being seen as helping out the clubs who are so keen to put the boot into us atm, Thinker. Our chastisement ought to be just that, for us; devising a desperate 'compromise' whereby our punishment serves to ameliorate the sufferings of others lacks a certain.....integrity? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calgacus 8 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 The SPL/SFL does need sorted out, the current structure isn't working, but it is not something that can be rushed through. I understand that the SFA have been working on something following on from the McLeish reports. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinker 887 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 It's a case of that punishment (Div 1) being seen as helping out the clubs who are so keen to put the boot into us atm, Thinker. Our chastisement ought to be just that, for us; devising a desperate 'compromise' whereby our punishment serves to ameliorate the sufferings of others lacks a certain.....integrity? True, but dropping to Div3 is an excessive "punishment". In the Italian scandal, Juventus were only demoted 1 division after appeal - and that was for actual cheating. You're correct though, using the re-admission vote as a way to "stealth" punish us for financial issues which have not yet been fully investigated shows a complete lack of sporting integrity. At the end of the day though - it's their vote. If they haven't got the balls to plunge the knife right in we should take advantage of that. IMO. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,289 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 The least worst solution ... the SFA suspends our membership for a season and sees that it can re-shuffle the leagues to a sensible format. And when we cry foul of this because of too harsh a punishment, they will point the finger at us saying: "You lot send Scottish football into chaos, now live with it." Would that be beyond these people? A question, btw. Why is it that "Rangers Football Club plc" actually holds the share of the SPL, not Rangers FC? Is it the case that all "companies" behind the other clubs hold a share, not the clubs as such? So in essence, the SPL is a legal/business construct that deals with the "companies" rather than the clubs itself? If a club (out of thin air, Ross County) has no "company" before entering the SPL (normal promotion), do they have to whip one up (a newco, so to speak) to get a share in the SPL? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
amms 0 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Could a club trade without a 'company' of some description? It would be a brave owner that took a club to the SPL without at least some sort of limited liability status,no? Off the top of my head only Stirling Albion don't operate as either a limited company or PLC company in professional football in Scotland. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calgacus 8 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I think Stranraer are an unincorporated association (club) as well. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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