I think this is where surely the status of the Newco has to be established before any consideration of whether or not sanctions can be applied to them and if things were above board, I believe, sanctions wouldn't apply and the Newco would not get into the SPL. It strikes me that, if it is actually true, that the SPL have stated that sanctions will be applied to the Newco, if they are voted into the SPL, then the bargaining has already begun and a dirty, fudged, deal could be on the cards. Either that or, as you say, the SPL are letting both the Newco and the defunct club know that they are going to be hit bigtime no matter what way they try to wriggle around things - though I'm far from convinced that the SPL can be sure of their ground in this respect.
Am i right in thinking that rangers/newco get a vote on whether rangers/newco are admitted to the SPL?
how that works is beyond me. 12 clubs vote to allow a new club in so that it remains a 12 club league. eh?
It should be an 11-1 vote , any spl club voting for newco should be thrown out Scottish football . There is cheating but Rangers took that to a new level over the last 12 years .I keep hearing Newco are barred from Europe for 3 years this should be increased to five , the number of times they denied us champions league football .
Yep - there is, or should be, a clear distinction between the defunct club and the Newco. Interestingly, the attached Sky news report does not interpret the SPL statement as implying that the Newco will have sanctions applied if they are voted into the SPL but merely quotes the SPL as stating that "Disciplinary charges will be brought when the future status of Rangers FC is clarified and prior to the start of season 2012/13." Isn't Rangers FC the name of the club about to be officially liquidated? http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11788/7823984/Date-set-for-Gers-to-learn-fate
That is near enough what we were saying earlier. I noticed that lassie off sky sports giving it "new club" the other day as well. The BBC from outside the shareholders meeting played one guy greeting about some Hun ****e. The whole interview had him greeting about the loss of 140 years of history. That went missing from the TV version. We are being conditioned to accept Sevco as Rangers. they must think we came down in the last shower.
Anyone with a working brain cell knows that the history disappears with the liquidated club - and the SPL 'sanctions' for the double contracts should be to strip the tainted titles from that liquidated club as well and add them to that of each of the runner's up in the relevant competitions. Roll on July the 4th when hopefully sporting integrity will triumph.
I couldn't agree more. My own opinion is that it is extremely generous to allow the new club into the bottom tier. Some good will come of it as teams with such things as audited accounts and a legitimate footballing claim to any available spot in the Scottish league position can kick up a stink and force a restructuring of the league, The present bullshit proposals are to help the new club out. Nothing more. The official line is that they got fed up and are trying to force it through for next season................They think we are stupid.
Stupid is as stupid does and if they do come up with a fudge and dirty dealing they could face such a backlash from all decent fans that would have an even bigger detrimental effect on Scottish football.
Not going to happen. Why would celtic vote in their only realistic challenger for the champions league spot?
EACH year the SPL utilise the services of Canadian IT firm Optimal Planning Solutions to navigate the intricacies of the league's 12-team format and devise a fixture list which keeps as many people happy as possible. But it is doubtful whether even Deep Blue or those clever people behind the Large Hadron Collider could come up with an algorithm capable of computing the myriad different variables present in the set of games the Scottish Premier League released yesterday in a manner which avoided any arguments. The biggest of these, of course, is the identity of Club 12, a mysterious presence in the fixture lists. It remains anyone's guess –at least until July 4 – whether this will be a newco Rangers, or Dundee, or Dunfermline (the latter two were simultaneously named in the SFL's first set of fixtures for the Irn Bru first division), but an army of amateur sleuths last night were using the set of games as further evidence that this latest reincarnation of the Ibrox side were set to be voted back into the top flight. The proof for the prosecution, if you like, was the fact that Club 12 are scheduled to play at home on the same day as Celtic just once, August 11, which just happens to be the same day the Parkhead club are awarded leave of absence to travel to Philadelphia to play against Real Madrid in a friendly. The fixture computer clearly has no such problem scheduling them for home fixtures at the same time as Dundee United, which could be rather problematic if Club 12 turn out to be Dundee, who play their matches on the same street. Further grist to this mill resides in the fact that this mysterious Club 12 also play host to Celtic on Boxing Day, which is effectively the mirror image of the trip of oldco Rangers across the city on December 28 last year hmmm!!
