Originally Posted by
BOVRIL
I have always looked on this situation as a Golden chance for the non OF clubs to restore some financial parity to the Scottish game. Its also a chance to get rid of the rediculous notions that ...... A ) We need the OF to survive and ..... B ) We cant have a bigger league.
This is what we should be aiming for:
A 14 or 16 club SPL with play offs ....... 3 Up 3 down.
A fair voting system which negates forever the notion that ANY club ( or two clubs ) can dictate to the rest.
An even distribution of TV money ... the TV deals are not negotiated by the OF the are negotaited by the SPL for the SPL.
If we get that I wont give a rats ass where the newco end up ... As long as its not the SPL. A change to a bigger league will also give Falkirk etc a fair crack at promotion even with a newco in the 1st division.
The great Italian match fixing scandal in the middle of the last decade ended with the following sanctions:
JUVENTUS ..... Relegated to the second division, deducted 30 points for the following season and stripped of 2 titles.
FOIRENTINA ... Relegated to the second division and deducted 12 points for the following season.
LAZIO ..... Relegated to the second division and deducted 7 points for the following season.
A.C. MILAN .. Deducted 44 points for the current season and 15 for the following season.
The Juventus punishment would be the one to hand out to newco rangers, if relegation to div 3 isnt on the table. I for one would be more than happy with that.
But reading some of the posts on here, it appears we have now moved from 'we must punish rangers' to 'we must get rid of rangers, in any form' with some folk saying ( or at least it appears that way ) that they wont be back to Scottish football if they are allowed to survive.
Hell .... nobody hates the current buns more than me ... but extinction, to the extent that even a newco cant be allowed to exist, so that I can hate them all over again ..... sorry, not for me.