Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshep
Someone Scottish from something called "Rangers" has just phoned and asked if I "fancy a game." Is this a 50 Shades of Grey thing?
:tee hee:
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Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshep
Someone Scottish from something called "Rangers" has just phoned and asked if I "fancy a game." Is this a 50 Shades of Grey thing?
:tee hee:
Well that's the job nearly done, well done the SFL chairmen, at least I will be able to go to a scottish game now, even if it only means randomly picking non SPL teams excluding the 5 who supported the Zombies. All I need now is for there to be no dirty deal to reincarnate the corpse into SPL or up the leagues and I can watch SPL games.
Hoping that the non footballing side of this can now be properly dealt with. Still baffled why the deal for the assetts that have to be worth more than the "fixed" price that seems to have been agreed betwen Green and Duff & Duffer has been allowed to stand without investigation, hardly the best outcome for the creditors/HMRC. We really do need someone to get at the maximum money that can be picked off the corpse and also an investigation into any fraud associated with the transactions.
Another good (and long) read here about what may happen next, in particular around the SFA/SPL passing the buck on who actually finishes off The Rangers.
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.co...-scotland-ltd/
Will there ever be an end-game to this saga?
Also the guy is worth following on Twitter for all you Tweeters out there: Paul McConville - @Paulmcc12
In the most childish way possible...why do we lmao the likes of Scott to a division 1 team? Between all the spl clubs we could loan our fringe players to a different 3rd div team every year and keep the Huns out of site hehe.
Well said Annan
http://www.annanathleticfc.com/news.asp
The SPL are now due to meet on Monday where the first steps of shift in governance should take place with removal of the 11-1 vote. Like many other clubs we are suspicious that the SFL’s decision to place Rangers in Div 3 may not be final, the SPL could easily counter such fears by inviting Dundee or Dunfermline into the SPL to take the compliment of teams to the minimum number in accord with the legally binding Settlement Agreement. We were delighted to hear the unanimous response from all ten 1st Division clubs who stated that they are only interested in a 42 club resolution (for any CEO’s or others who are unsure what that means, bluntly it is stick SPL2 where the sun don’t shine and do not even attempt to pull a 16 team stunt move, another scenario that wouldn’t astonish us is for Rangers to be invited back into the SPL – to think we were threatened with Armageddon! We do however have faith that the SPL chairmen, the guys that matter, will invite Dundee or Dunfermline into the SPL and through all our combined efforts we will see a 42 team resolution to restructuring and the many other changes we all wish to see happening.
From Alex Thomson's blog
three people present at today’s meeting told me independently that the SFA boss Stewart Regan has told the “Rangers” owner Charles Green that there is no way his club will be playing in D3 a fortnight tomorrow
Instead of the widespread assumption this is a threat that the SFA will do everything to get newgers into the SPL 2, could it not be read that the SFA won't give Newgers a licence to play next season?
I know that sounds most unlikely, but remember the SFA still have to decide on what 'punishment' to put on them after the CofS appeal finding. Here's hoping.
I take it resolution 3 was passed at the SFL meeting allowing either Dundee or Dunfermline to leave the SFL if they get the call from the SPL ?
If so, I don't see how a stitch-up by Doncaster and Co could get Sevco back into the SPL.
They are now locked into the SFL and won't even have a vote for 4 years ! :greengrin
For our esteemed poster, Blueisthecolour.....
Annan Athletic - Galabank, capacity 3000 they are down the way from Ibrox
Berwick Rangers - Shielfield Park, ENGLAND (scene of your 'greatest game in history'), capacity 4131 Over the border, in case you had forgotten
Clyde - Broadwood stadium, capacity 8029 What's it called? Cumbernauld
East Stirling - Ochilview, capacity 3776 ground share with Stenny
Elgin City -Boroughbriggs, capacity 4927 up north
Montrose - Links Park, capacity 3292 nothing to do with sausages, it is by the seaside
Peterhead - Balmoor, capacity 4000, you probably know Peterhead, there's a big hoose there
Queen's Park - Hampden Park, capacity 52000 the largest ground in the SFL 3 and the chance for a newco-firm derby
Stirling Albion - Forthbank, capacity 3808 stuck in the middle of an industrial estate
Enjoy the journey
Dorin Goian aims to leave Ibrox after the Rangers newco was voted into the Irn-Bru Third Division.
The Romanian defender, who joined Rangers from Palermo last summer, had vowed to stay if the club were allowed into the First Division. But he quickly announced his intention to quit after 25 Scottish Football League clubs voted to admit Charles Green's Rangers in the bottom tier.
"I am not playing at the fourth level - there's no question of that," Goian told Romanian media.
"I am on my way back and I will meet the president of the club and I will learn more.
"My agent has already spoken with other teams but nothing has been agreed yet.
"I would have stayed if it was the First Division - but not this."
10 things you may not have known about the Scottish third division1) Rangers (assuming they are allowed to keep their history) can now become the first club to win all four Scottish divisions.
2) Sevco Scotland Ltd has been granted associate membership of the SFL, which means that they will have no voting rights for three years.
3) The SFL is sponsored by Irn-Bru, Scotland's other national drink. It's understood that drinks giant Barrs supply product rather than cash for the bulk of the deal.
4) Sevco will have only the second-biggest ground in Division Three. Queen's Park's capacity at Hampden is 52,500 - 1,418 more fans than Ibrox can hold.
5) Two of the clubs in the Third Division, Alloa Athletic and Annan Athletic, have never played a competitive match against Rangers in any of their previous incarnations.
6) Only two of the Third Division sides have faced Rangers (as was) in a league match. Clyde last played them for points at Shawfield on Feb 22 1975 while amateurs Queen's Park, in their last season in the top flight, won 2-1 at Ibrox on March 20, 1948.
7) There will be a scramble for tickets for away matches, particularly at Annan's Galabank, which has a capacity of 2007, with only 500 seats.
8) No Third Division club has ever reached the final of the Scottish Cup or the League Cup.
9) By joining the SFL, Sevco (assuming they are allowed to keep Rangers' history) will have the chance to add the Ramsdens Cup to their list of trophies won.
10) According to the SFL's website, Ramsdens is “the largest independently owned pawnbroking and financial services business in the UK.”
Elgin have just released a statement: for every 1p Sevco FC spend they will spend 2p.
Anybody looked at the official Rangers website today?
http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/football-news-index
One thing that makes me laugh is they think they have been 'punished' for their crimes. They have received what any other club would have for entering administration and then liquidation: a 10 point deduction and loss of the liquidated companies football registration. The only extra punishment they have received for their industrial financial malpractice was a fine of £160,000, refused to pay it, and banned from transfers for two windows, refused to accept it. The European ban is also purely procedural as they have no audited accounts. So we have a situation where a club has brought the Scottish game into serious disrepute but as yet has had no sanction applied successfully. The question of history has to be addressed: if Sevco FC claims the history of Rangers FC and that is allowed to be the case then it must accept the sanctions for its previous incarnations misdeeds. Personally I favour the no history, no sanctions route. But it has to be fully stated first that Sevco FC has no claim on the 54 titles won by Ranger FC 1872-2012 (RIP)
Just said on the news the SFA are meeting next week to discuss all that, they still don't have an SFA licence and the vote yesterday was dependant on it being granted