Rangers must NOT subsidise league reconstruction

[RANGERRAB 3,299]

Time for CG to get tough. His promise that he'll not sign any SKY deal next season must be kept.

And he must tell any SPL/SFL club who backs these proposals that we will boycott their ground next season.

Make no mistake the SFA/SPL/SFL subsidy junkies require our support & money for these proposals to work by way of TV deals & our away support financing these clubs.

We must do all in our power to sabotage these proposals. This is called revenge.We owe these cretins nothing who wanted to put us out of business last summer.

Edited January 12, 2013 by RANGERRAB

[UCF2008 0]

I think Ally was suggesting as much when he said he had his doubts about the fans being willing to visit the same away grounds again next season.

 

As much as I agree we should be standing up to the lot of them and I'm angered by the way we're being used as a bargaining chip in the reconstruction talks, I don't think we should be making any out and out boycott threats.

 

We don't need to be going out of our way to be making friends in the SFL but we don't need to be making too many enemies either.

[RANGERRAB 3,299]

We need to be ruthless. It is the only language these people understand. These people are not our friends. They wanted to put us out of business last summer. I shall never forget that for as long as I live.

Edited January 13, 2013 by RANGERRAB

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TWO SPL chairmen have warned that top-flight approval for Scottish football’s new dawn is far from a done deal.

 

The 12-12-18 proposal presented by the three ruling bodies on Tuesday will be voted on by the SPL and the SFL in separate meetings at the end of the month.

 

But despite the impression being given that the top league’s backing is a cert, St Mirren’s Stewart Gilmour and Dundee United owner Stephen Thompson have revealed there are still fears and at least four dissenting voices.

 

So there is no guarantee the plan will get the 11-1 majority it needs from SPL clubs on January 28.

 

Thompson is also deeply concerned at the ruling bodies rushing the deal through without giving time to consult the fans, who were given a say by clubs on the Rangers case in the summer.

 

And he believes it’s because they fear getting an answer they don’t want to hear.

 

Gilmour told MailSport: “Contrary to popular belief, the clubs are not 100 per cent behind this. What we voted on unanimously before was to take it to another level, to fully explore it – no more than that.

 

“We have all still to vote on whether we agree to it and I know a few of us feel that exploration is a long way from being done.

 

“We know there’s no perfect system – that’s why everyone has to compromise somewhere along the way.

 

“We have to find the best plan we can but it has to be right and a lot of questions remain to be answered over the next few weeks.”

 

Thompson echoed Gilmour’s fears and insisted he will do nothing without consulting his support.

 

He said: “I’m not sure they (the plans) will go through.

 

“It only takes two clubs to block this and I know of four who are less than happy with the proposal as it stands.

 

“Also what happened to clubs consulting their fans, as they did last summer when it suited them?

 

“Is it because they don’t want to know the answer this time?

 

“We will again be discussing it with our trust and our Supporters Federation. We can’t just consult them when it suits.”

 

Gilmour – who along with Ross County chiefs initially favoured a move to three leagues of 14 with play-offs – has major concerns about the lack of flesh on the bones of the current proposals. And he is fighting for the inclusion of stringent financial clauses to keep clubs from spending money they don’t have.

 

The St Mirren chief said: “Some people seem to think this can be done by next season.

 

“But I wonder whether that’s just a chief executive or two wanting it on their CV.

 

“It very much depends on when the decision is reached. One point I’ve been making heavily is my concern for the middle eight and the temptation there could be for clubs to gamble and lose when it comes to getting into the top 12.

 

“I want to see a strict formula in place for wages to ensure clubs can’t or won’t go down the road a few have been down before.

 

“The game is still toxic from the problems experienced by the likes of Rangers, Hearts and Dunfermline and the last thing I want to see is another three or four clubs experiencing that.

 

“We need safeguards to stop that from happening.”

 

Gilmour also revealed that, contrary to popular belief, there will still be a parachute payment to any team which goes down from the Premiership into the middle eight and doesn’t make it straight back up.

 

He said: “At the moment the parachute payment is £20,000.

 

“The original intention of that was to allow teams to downsize, maybe pay-off players whose contracts they could no longer afford, things like that.

 

“Not every team used it that way. Now if a club goes down into the bottom eight, and finishes outside the top four, they will get £200,000 under the proposals.

 

“However, it’s the equivalent of an interest-free loan for these teams because it will be paid back as soon as they get back into the top division.

 

“It will come off their income, which to be fair, will greatly exceed that figure anyway.”

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/new-format-is-no-done-deal-1532012