Surely the rest of the SPL teams won't vote to allow a new set of huns into the league. Also, surely they couldn't just walk into Div3, Cove Rangers and Spartans have been waiting for a while have they not? Surely a new set of huns can't be formed before the beginning of next season anyway, only a month or so away.

If the there is any sort of hun team in the SPL next season, like thousands of others, I will never go back.

To be honest, I just feel for Gattuso.

Another thing; what is this crap huns are spouting about "the SPL will crumble wiout Rangers"... Do me a fucking favour.

There might be a bit less revenue in the short-term, but in the long-term, all this will do will make the SPL a more competitive and interesting league and hence, imho, more lucrative. At the moment, the attendances at grounds outwith the old firm are so poor largely due to the dominance of the old firm. The old firm have more money than anyone else and are able to buy up any decent young prospect at other clubs and hence have greater success than anyone else. There is so little interest from some quarters because it is fucking boring and predictable. When Rangers die, it can only pull Celtic down nearer to the level of the other teams. If this happens, the league would be infinately more interesting and hence attendances would rocket. Teams like Aberdeen would get about double the attendances they do if they were challanging for the title, as would many other teams, and hence a hell of a lot more revenue than they currently get from the couple of times they play the huns each season and quite possibly more revenue from TV deals.

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Another thing; what is this crap huns are spouting about "the SPL will crumble wiout Rangers"... Do me a fucking favour.

There might be a bit less revenue in the short-term, but in the long-term, all this will do will make the SPL a more competitive and interesting league and hence, imho, more lucrative. At the moment, the attendances at grounds outwith the old firm are so poor largely due to the dominance of the old firm. The old firm have more money than anyone else and are able to buy up any decent young prospect at other clubs and hence have greater success than anyone else. There is so little interest from some quarters because it is fucking boring and predictable. When Rangers die, it can only pull Celtic down nearer to the level of the other teams. If this happens, the league would be infinately more interesting and hence attendances would rocket. Teams like Aberdeen would get about double the attendances they do if they were challanging for the title, as would many other teams, and hence a hell of a lot more revenue than they currently get from the couple of times they play the huns each season and quite possibly more revenue from TV deals.

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aye because teams like the sheep are so financially sound that they dont need the immediate revenue of tv money and the sponsorship tv brings to service their debt

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Another thing; what is this crap huns are spouting about "the SPL will crumble wiout Rangers"... Do me a fucking favour.

There might be a bit less revenue in the short-term, but in the long-term, all this will do will make the SPL a more competitive and interesting league and hence, imho, more lucrative. At the moment, the attendances at grounds outwith the old firm are so poor largely due to the dominance of the old firm. The old firm have more money than anyone else and are able to buy up any decent young prospect at other clubs and hence have greater success than anyone else. There is so little interest from some quarters because it is fucking boring and predictable. When Rangers die, it can only pull Celtic down nearer to the level of the other teams. If this happens, the league would be infinately more interesting and hence attendances would rocket. Teams like Aberdeen would get about double the attendances they do if they were challanging for the title, as would many other teams, and hence a hell of a lot more revenue than they currently get from the couple of times they play the huns each season and quite possibly more revenue from TV deals.

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aye because teams like the sheep are so financially sound that they dont need the immediate revenue of tv money and the sponsorship tv brings to service their debt

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AFC are actually in a pretty good place financially. Once the planned new stadium goes ahead, AFC will be debt free. Stand free.

Imho, there will still be a TV deal next season without the huns anyway.

personally cant see the tv deal being anywhere near the amount sky have offered as long as there are the 4 old firm games but you are right maybe bbc alba will come up with something
but on a serious note i really dont think the likes of aberdeens chairman etc will vote to boot rangers out.money talks to these people. they couldnt actually give a fuck what the fans think, and for the record as a rangers fan my preferred option is to go into the third division like airdrie utd etc.think a few clubs would struggle financially but the likes of st mirren would survive no problem and celtic would just cut their cloth to suit.we might actually see rangers bringing through a team of young homegrown talent for a change.could be a good thing all round

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Another thing; what is this crap huns are spouting about "the SPL will crumble wiout Rangers"... Do me a fucking favour.

There might be a bit less revenue in the short-term, but in the long-term, all this will do will make the SPL a more competitive and interesting league and hence, imho, more lucrative. At the moment, the attendances at grounds outwith the old firm are so poor largely due to the dominance of the old firm. The old firm have more money than anyone else and are able to buy up any decent young prospect at other clubs and hence have greater success than anyone else. There is so little interest from some quarters because it is fucking boring and predictable. When Rangers die, it can only pull Celtic down nearer to the level of the other teams. If this happens, the league would be infinately more interesting and hence attendances would rocket. Teams like Aberdeen would get about double the attendances they do if they were challanging for the title, as would many other teams, and hence a hell of a lot more revenue than they currently get from the couple of times they play the huns each season and quite possibly more revenue from TV deals.

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aye because teams like the sheep are so financially sound that they dont need the immediate revenue of tv money and the sponsorship tv brings to service their debt

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The Sheeps debt is guaranteed by milne, although a millstone while they try to make the club pay its own way, longterm if he ups and leaves, snuffs it or whatever, then the debt is paid off, thats why no one really goes on about them going tits up. apart from that if theres a short fall next season they will have to cut their cloth, maybe some teams should have tried that before, reap what you sow

This TV deal (5 year deal) that everyone thinks is going tits up was signed three years ago and has two years left to run, the SPL have a two year opt out in the final two seasons if they wanted, sky and espn dont. in two years time it will be up for renewal, until then its safe, ESPN have just lost the EPL so in two years they will be looking for something else, maybe more of the SPL, who knows and who really cares, id rather loose them all and have clubs cut their cloth to suit

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but on a serious note i really dont think the likes of aberdeens chairman etc will vote to boot rangers out.money talks to these people. they couldnt actually give a fuck what the fans think,

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You're right about Milne, he is a businessman at the end of the day and a pretty good one at that. But if he does vote the huns back in, then there will be a massive number of fans, like me, who will turn their backs. So either way the club would take a hit financially in the short-term.

Court, what makes you think that this newco should be allowed into Div3? Surely they should get in line behind Cove and Spartans etc? Do you honestly think that this newco can form within a month in any case?

why shouldnt a newco rangers be let into division 3 when airdrie utd were allowed back in? i think the rules state that a club that goes into liquidation and emerges as a newco have to re apply for their spl/sfl and sfa licence.now if a place were to come up in the sfl because gers are liquidated and a team from the 1st division is given promotion to make up the 12 spl members then the merits of all teams applying for the sfl are carefully looked at to see if criteria are met and ultimately what that team would bring to the scottish football league. with all due respect to spartans,cove etc i would imagine SFL clubs would rather see a newco gers in as i would imagine it would bring them an increased revenue and be a more exciting prospect for sponsors etc.possibly even some form of increased tv coverage as well? all these things would be looked at.i dont believe its just a case of getting in a queue because some clubs have been trying to get in for longer.when it arises each club is lloked at on merit and personally i believe a newco rangers would bring more to the SFL than any other club.thats why i believe the newco should be given the opportunity in div 3.as for forming within a month yes i think this is possible.i would imagine a lot of work behind the scenes has already gone on as a contingency plan to cover all eventualities.
can anyone confirm that the fixture list is to be released on monday for SPL?

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To be honest, I just feel for Gattuso.

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He seems happy enough.

Reports that Ally McCoist is close to quitting. I hope it's not true, he's shite.

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Here's a question. If Rangers do indeed go into liquidation then how do they get to keep Ibrox? Surely it should be sold off and the money raised used towards paying their tax bill?

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They're selling the assets to the newco at a cut down price. I don't know why they get the opportunity to get it at a slashed price but saying that who else is going to buy the shit hole

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Im after some blue garden furniture if they can help

Rather than improve the competitiveness of the SPL would it not lead to Celtic domination?

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why shouldnt a newco rangers be let into division 3 when airdrie utd were allowed back in? i think the rules state that a club that goes into liquidation and emerges as a newco have to re apply for their spl/sfl and sfa licence.now if a place were to come up in the sfl because gers are liquidated and a team from the 1st division is given promotion to make up the 12 spl members then the merits of all teams applying for the sfl are carefully looked at to see if criteria are met and ultimately what that team would bring to the scottish football league. with all due respect to spartans,cove etc i would imagine SFL clubs would rather see a newco gers in as i would imagine it would bring them an increased revenue and be a more exciting prospect for sponsors etc.possibly even some form of increased tv coverage as well? all these things would be looked at.i dont believe its just a case of getting in a queue because some clubs have been trying to get in for longer.when it arises each club is lloked at on merit and personally i believe a newco rangers would bring more to the SFL than any other club.thats why i believe the newco should be given the opportunity in div 3.as for forming within a month yes i think this is possible.i would imagine a lot of work behind the scenes has already gone on as a contingency plan to cover all eventualities.
can anyone confirm that the fixture list is to be released on monday for SPL?

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Airdrie didnt get back in, they had to buy another club and their licence, They are using clydebanks reg no, the registered company number is the only constant in the whole thing you can change the name as often as you like (ala celtic under mccann), Airdrie trade on a number that was initially for a company called clydebank, that compnay is now called airdrie as they bought the number and the history that goes with that number.

AS things stand it looks like Rangers number is being liquidated, if so it can never be used by a company again, A new company will have to be registered and be given a new number, There is nothing stopping Rangers doing as airdire have done, indeed cowdenbeath and st mirren are names that have already been banded about as possible trojan horses, Rangers have already tried once to obtain st mirren

Re RichmondRoad, initially yes, but long term Celtic probably stand to loose the most from Rangers going tits up, hence why their fans are not overly certian if the club will actually vote not to accept a newhun into the SPL, the tim fans want rangers dead, the board maybe not so keen. Also out of three trophys up for grabs this season Killie won one, Hearts won one and the Tim won one, not too one sided or even two sided (as Rangers were still there)

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Rather than improve the competitiveness of the SPL would it not lead to Celtic domination?

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Absolutely. The only thing worse than a two horse race is...?

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At first, aye. But Celtic will probably downscale a bit knowing they can win titles without needing to spend to financially compete with that club who no longer exist, which in the long term will probably bring them a big closer to the pack. As it is, the gap has been closing between Celtic and Dodo FC and the rest of the SPL in the last 5 years or so.. Hearts even finished second a few years back and Motherwell could have finished second this year had their manager shown a bit of ambition.

There's a few more Highland League teams who are on the waiting list to get into Division 3 (Huntly being one of them). One of their directors is high up with the SFA and has put across the point that teams have been waiting to get into Division 3 for some time.

Also, after all Gattuso said he goes and signs for Sion... hahaha.

Sky confirm the tv deal will stand even without the new being in the spl

What's all this HUN shite,

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What's all this HUN shite,

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It's a nick name for Rangers and their fans.

So what does it mean

It was a word used during the war to describe the enemy.

Oh I thought it was a derogatory word for Protestants.

Hun is not a sectarian slur as farn as I am aware. It is a term used by supporters of several other, non-sectarian clubs.

It was also commonly used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the Germans.

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can anyone confirm that the fixture list is to be released on monday for SPL?

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Yes mate, it will still be announced on Monday. Rangers will be absent from the fixture list. Their place will effectively be marked with an 'X' and that will either be the Newco or Dundee FC, depending on how the vote goes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footbal...ture-list.html#