I loved the way Rod Petrie spoke on BBC1 the other night.
Let's not forget that as Rangers were cheating they were desparately trying to get out of the Scottish game along with their bedfellows Celtic. They would have left not giving a second thought to the rest of the Scottish game.
And similarly they torpedoed the SPL TV channel.
The arguement could be that both were only guilty of looking after their own better interests.
Fair enough.
Well now is the time for the rest of the SPL to look after their own affairs. With the Huns on their knees (oh the irony...) the others need to get together and address the issues that are seeing others hemorrhaging support through boredom of the current structure.
They must only accept any new Rangers company preserving their SPL status, following the inevitable liquidation, by agreement of reform of the voting structure.
Just for starters....
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08-03-2012 07:48 PM #1
Hibs Must Seize The Current Opportunity To Save Scottish Football
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08-03-2012 07:51 PM #2
Absolutely. But the fans of the other 10 have to buy into it and back their clubs by turning up on match day.
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When you think about it is there such a difference between how supporters of say Motherwell challenging for 2nd and us battling to safety feel about the state of our game?
Third place has completely lost its appeal.
Yes there will always be richer and poorer clubs with supporter base differences. However, this one hell of an opportunity to create a much more competitive structure.
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But as I posted on the PM board earlier today, like it or not they'll be involved, albeit hopefully in a lower league for at least one season. They can't be seen to have gotten away with it and MUST be punished in some way.
That's all dependent on them being reformed though. If someone chips in and throws money at them we're back to square one.
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For them not to get the ultimate deserved sanctions we need major concessions. And its us supporters through the other SPL clubs that need to apply pressure to our clubs to do so.
Though hopefully they are anyway!
One things for sure that in their opinion in the 'best interests of Scottish Football' the SFA and SPL hierarchy will be applying the maximum pressure to not punish and not force concessions.
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At some stage, the media will be FORCED to wake up to the fact that the Huns are finished and there is a new game in town with different rules. The days of the gravy train free-bees from the Huns are over - welcome to the real world.
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We as paying supporters of our club were cheated by them.
They need to be punished. And if not punished fully as they should be, because they like RBS are 'too big to fail' they must be forced into giving major concessions.
Kicking them when they are down? They've been stamping all over the rest of us through CHEATING for over TEN YEARS.
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As always in these things they bring on all the OF sympathisers and apologists, but if the fans, all the fans, from outside the OF make a stance then it can be done. There is no way that any chairman could back it if it meant that there would be nobody at the games, after all how much do rangers actually add to our income or the income of the other clubs?? not much I would guess.
OK it may be harsh on your own club, but then again your club would not be supporting your views either.
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Hibs gain £163,000 from Rangers two visits. Without them we would be better off by £4200. I posted the rationale for those figures on the Chick Young Blog thread.
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As a new company/team they should have to work their way up from the third like every other small club.
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08-03-2012 08:45 PM #23
Problem with the weegia media is IMO that they were all set to naff off with the OF as well and hang the rest out to dry.
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