Originally Posted by
DC_Hibs
Fan Power!!
taken from the bounce:
"The email has been sent to the SPL clubs, SFA, SPL and various scottish media contacts also.
Hopefully other fan groups can do similar as our main collective aim should be to get the message across to the clubs prior to any vote taking place.
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For the attention of the Board of Directors
The following letter represents the views of the majority of users on the two main Hibernian fans forums hibs.net and hibeesbounce.com with 10,298 and 11,575 registered users respectively. The position of these fans is abundantly clear based on two opinion polls carried out within the last week on the aforementioned websites and a multitude of other threads on this subject.
1224 (99.19%) of users polled stated a Rangers Newco should not be allowed into the SPL in 2012/13.
103 (90.35%) stated they would be willing to boycott the stadia of clubs voting yes to a Rangers Newco.
To SPL Clubs:
Sirs
Mindful of the imminent meeting of SPL chairmen to consider the application of Newco Rangers to gain admission to our Premier League, we, the fans of Hibernian F.C., consider it vital that you should be aware of our feelings on the matter so that you are better enabled to come to a decision in the interests of the game of football in Scotland.
Be in no doubt whatsoever that we are fervently opposed to the admission of a club which, though it may have given itself a new name, is of the same spiritual essence, and has been responsible for the greatest fraudulence perpetrated in sport in Scotland, described by an eminent advocate as tantamount to match fixing.
We are aware that some among you are fearful of the financial consequences of a league without Newco Rangers. Let us point out to you that any losses you contemplate are minimal compared with what you have already lost in diminished attendances. When disaffected fans realised that they had little or no chance of winning silverware of any kind, they preferred to stay at home. Top league placings, European competition and resultant financial benefits remained, forever, the exclusive, almost right, of the premier two.
We put it to you that a future involving a re-admitted Newco promises to be even more bleak financially. A large number of fans are resolved not to return to Scottish football at all. Those who will return have made it clear that they will attend no games involving Newco Rangers or indeed games involving clubs whose directors have acquiesced in inclusion. This is in no way a threat, rather a warning of the financial and other consequences of what we consider a misguided vote.
A number of us watched football in Scotland when the playing field was much more level, when any one of a number of excellent clubs might gain the laurel wreath. That possibility has been thwarted in recent times by filthy lucre, and recently corruption.
Let us restore pride and probity to our game, both more important and less ephemeral than a handful of silver. We have no doubt that our game will profit more in so many respects if corruption is consigned to where it belongs.
We, the fans of the other Scottish clubs, who are endeavouring to live within our means, would urge you to administer commensurate punishment, no more, and to reject the overtures of a rabid and self-interested Glasgow media. We ask this with the best interests of our game at heart, both local and international. Judas, it must be remembered, gained nothing from his abandonment of integrity.
Yours sincerely
- on behalf of Hibernian Fans"