Our troubles in 2012 which saw us put out of the top division only benefited one club.
But the likes of Milne & Thompson weren’t smart enough to realise this.
Scotland’s top division effectively became a one horse race. No one was interested in it outside Scotland.
Certainly not sponsors or TV companies who paid peanuts for TV deals without Rangers in the top division
So all clubs (bar one) starting making big cuts to their budgets. Incomes were reduced all round. Turkeys had voted for Christmas.
Eleven clubs in the top division were only really playing to stay in it. They’d no chance of winning it.
And the yahoos suffered too. Their best players left
Inverness, Ross County, St Mirren & St Johnstone won cups. Even Aberdeen won one too, their first in nearly twenty years.
But in the top top division the eleven clubs had unintentionally created a level playing field for themselves. Hibs, Hearts & Dundee Utd all got relegated. Hubs spent 3 years in the Championship & Dundee Utd have spent four so far
To this day I’ve always wondered about would have happened to Scottish football had Rangers not returned. Were Milne & Thompson really that stupid ?
Milne is going or has gone. Don’t slam the door on the way out please Stewart