I am not being obtuse here, at least I don't think I am. I don't get it. I agree a fine doesn't mean much as you are not in a position to pay it. I agree that you probably can't afford players anyway. So I don't understand why you are suggesting it isn't lenient. The SPL are still to return their findings. This was the SFA. You could still be thrown out of the SPL.
Referees were found to have lied to Celtic, that issued calls for transparency over decision making No one called for a witch hunt of panel members who handed out bans nor a list of what teams refs support to ensure impartiality...ok someone once did.....Walter Smith
"All we want from the SFA is transparency and a level playing field. If Lenny wants answers from them, godammit he should get them. Tim O'Ppressed 2011" hmmm - but william mcestablishment's response was "when lenny says that he brings all the trouble on himself" "Anonymity of the SFA's tribunal should be respected and if McCoist questions the SFA then he is a fat ****. Noone should question the SFA's impartiality. Tim O'Ppressed 2012 " hmmmm - and now william mcusedtobetheestablishemt's response is "mccoist is just defending the club" cant have it both ways - at least not if you are going to generalise our support
Gambol, even if you say it wasn't calculated to wind up the nutters, it was definitely calculated so that some sort of pressure was put on them by Rangers fans. Rangers themselves seem to be very involved in this "blame everyone else" pish - McCulloch even pulled out of a Tesco Bank charity appearance yesterday - because TB work with the SFA. McCoist has come out with a few persecuted pearlers this season - after Alukogate being a prime example. How this piece of lowest-denominator-appealing bawhum is able to sit in the dugout on Sunday whilst Lennon gets hauled up for calling a decision "criminal" is absolutely ludicrous. If Lennon uttered one of McCoist's "supposedly unbiased" or "the rules aren't being applied fairly" comments, he'd be ****ed - to say nothing of the slaughtering he'd get for performing McCoist's U-turn in his public appraisal of Craig Whyte. The interview McCoist gave was recorded, edited and broadcast by Rangers TV - not an external media source. What was said was deliberately put out there. Rangers as a club should be censured - it was a club-wide decision and the club themselves are carrying out the same petty reactionary actions that the most rabid of fans are advocating.
Lenient would have been no transfer embargo. At least then we could have looked around for experienced players on "frees" or low cost (should we have some money) rather than being a boys club for 12 months. But like I say, if we'd been kicked out the SPL I wouldn't have had any complaint.
then im off to support st johnstone (and turn them into a catholic only club where you wont be welcome hee hee)
Kicked out the league is maximum punishment So the maximum punishment is lenient but the lesser punishments are not?
ok. Imo I think that anything other than an umbungo is pointless as you acknowledge that a fine is a worthless punishment in the circumstances. For the sanctions that were available and the scope and extent of the offences (for want of a better word) that the SFA find Rangers guilty of, I think it is lenient.
