ian1964 10,457 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 FEARS are growing that Stewart Regan will block Rangers application to rejoin the Scottish Football Association if they are not voted into the First Division. Regan has already been branded a liar by two Scottish Football League outfits after he attempted to wriggle off the hook, following his statement that if the Scottish Premier League had voted Rangers back into the top flight, he would have made sure they were frozen out by refusing to give them an SFA licence. Clyde were the first club from the SFL to express surprise at Reganâ??s denial he had made such a promise. Clyde insisted he made the promise. They have now been joined by Morton, whose chairman, Douglas Rae, has written a letter to SPL chief executive, Neil Doncaster, who is also under fire, making his view clear that when Regan issued his denial, the SFA supremo was not believed. Now that two clubs have called the veracity and integrity of Stewart Regan into question in such a brazen manner, it is hard to see how the SFA chief executive can continue to exert any authority. But this is Scotland. This is Scottish football. This is the Scottish Football Association. And this is Stewart Regan, a man who has caused nothing but turmoil and division in the game since he arrived to take over almost two years ago. Regan and Doncaster want Rangers in the First Division and they have resorted to bullying tactics in the case of Doncaster and according to Clyde and Morton, in the case of Regan, lies too. Both of those clubs insist that what Stewart Regan made clear was, if the SPL voted Rangers back in, then he would make sure they could not play in the top flight by effectively banning the Ibrox club from the Scottish Football Association. Regan did not want Rangers in the SPL and that was the extent he was willing to go to in order to get what he wanted. Now he does not want Rangers in the Third Division. He wants them parachuted into the First Division. Therefore, it is logical to conclude that if the SFL clubs snub that parachute proposal and vote to admit Rangers to the SFL at the lowest level, the Third Division, Regan will attempt to push the nuclear button and refuse the Rangers application to rejoin the Scottish Football Association. It now appears as though Regan is a man on a mission and that there is nobody inside Hampden either willing or able to hold him to account. The impression grows with each Regan rant and bullish threat, that the Full Board of the Scottish Football Association is impotent and unable to control the actions of their employee. Unless, of course, it is the case that the Full Board of the SFA actually agree with the way in which Regan is behaving. If that is the case then let them issue a statement. Let the Full Board of the Scottish Football Association come out of the closet and act like men. Let them state clearly that they back all the actions of their employee, SFA chief executive Stewart Regan. For the record and once again, the Full Board of the Scottish Football Association, on which Regan sits as chief executive, is made up of President, Campbell Ogilvie, First Vice President, Alan McCrae, Second Vice President, Rod Petrie, Ralph Topping from the SPL, Tom Johnston of the Scottish Junior FA, plus the SFAâ??s first ever non executive director, Barrie Jackson, a man whose professional experience has been in the drinks trade. It is time for these men to stand up and be counted. Time for newspapers to take up this clarion call and demand an emergency meeting of the Full Board of the Scottish Football Association be called as a matter of some urgency. And that Stewart Reganâ??s employers demand their chief executive explain in clear and concise English, why two of their oldest member clubs, Clyde and Morton, have gone public with statements which brand Regan a liar. For if they do not act and act now, the danger is that when the SFL meet on Friday they will refuse the Regan-Doncaster axis demands to parachute Rangers into the First Division. That would set in motion the machinery to admit Rangers to the SFL in the Third Division, with Regan then springing into action to block the Rangers request for membership of the SFA, effectively banning Rangers from playing in any league, or any kind of football anywhere in the world. Stewart Regan appears to be a clear and present danger to the future well being of Scottish football and it is time his bosses on the Full Board of the SFA stopped him in his tracks. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Redhandluke Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Why do Rangers have to play in scotland,Rangers are 1 of the biggest supported football teams in world football,apply to join the English league atits lowest level,the rewards are greater playing in England,the scottish game as a whole will suffer without Rangers,i remember about 20 something years ago,when Rangers were doing well in europe how they would coupe in the premiership,there are no obsticles in the way now,imagen man utd,chelsea,arsenal,man city,spurs,playing at ibrox regulary,F.A.cup matches,playing in front of 50,000,every week instead of every other week,nomore crap grounds,be able to attract better player,because we would be in a better league,look at the irish league,Linfield win it every year,since Belfast Celtic went out of the league in 1950,nomore big crowds,how long will it take for Glasgow Celtic to go the same way,no compitition,so come on Rangers walk away from the scottish game. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 I think its a valid concern. would anyone really be surprised if the deal is a year out the straight back in the spl. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWeeBlueDevil 0 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 This Regan guy is a headcase , It's a concern that a man as twisted as he appears to be has the power to effectively kill off a 140 year old club by refusing us membership of the SFA. I just get the impression that he came here to Scotland intent on causing as much damage to our club as possible . Paranoia ? maybe, but his actions don't help, and the fact that Liewell was the man to bring him into Scottish football add to that way of thinking. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,290 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 That is the Regan guy with these naughty twitter favourites, right? Anyway, if they do this, Rangers should sue them ... and, for the time being, threatening to do this. After all, we are the victims in a fraud case, not the culprits. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CumbernauldGers 0 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 If the SFA ban Rangers for a year, Rangers will go to court and there will be no football in Scotland until it's sorted. Also it would be the end for Regan. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy steel 0 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Bit of an OTT reaction to a tactic, imo. The threat to ban us should he not get his way is not so much to kick us, as to put the fear of God into other clubs, who would see a massive chunk of their revenue disappear overnight. Now, it does seem like a lunatic tactic which only a control freak who was way out of his depth would employ...but at the end of the day, I doubt of it is for real. Morton, the other lot and probably the rest can see it for what it is, and will no doubt vote accordingly. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigy1881 79 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Sure because that will help the scottish game in the long run. This guy is an idiot. Great way to speed up the death of the game. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
amms 0 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Is banning us actually possible from a practical point of view (I know it's possible in the rules)? If they banned us for a season would the SPL continue with 11 teams then, one club having a free weekend? Surely that would cost them more than playing against either Dunfermline or Dundee? If the SPL did have 12 clubs then how do they shoe horn us in next season, not take the team top of the SFL, enlarge the league to fourteen clubs? I can't see either working. So if Dundee or Dunfermline go into the SPL the SFL need another club this season or else they have the same problem. All those clubs will have done their budgets on playing the correct amount of games a season, removing 4 of them will have a detrimental effect. I just can't see how a suspension is workable, it feels like scare-mongering to me. Has it happened in any other league before? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aweebluesoandso 290 Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 If the SFA ban Rangers for a year, Rangers will go to court and there will be no football in Scotland until it's sorted. Also it would be the end for Regan. This man Regan is a QC's wet dream, get him into a court of law and his bigotry towards Rangers will spew out him. In fact why has it taken so long? when his bias and anti-Rangers agenda has been clear from the begging of his appointment by Liewells and CO 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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