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what will happen is that the sports companies such as Adidas, Puma etc will be invited to tender for the contract for the Rangers strip for a fixed period of time. The bidder whose bid is deemed best by CG & co will get the contract. Many think it'll be adidas but I've a feeling Warrior ( who manufacture the liverpool strips) are well placed at present.

It's a longshot I agree but we need to get out of Scotland. We are stagnating here.

We need to be ruthless. It is the only language these people understand. These people are not our friends. They wanted to put us out of business last summer. I shall never forget that for as long as I live.

Forget England. Won't happen. Too many obstacles & too many leagues to get to the EPL.

However would the recent proposal to amalgamate the Dutch & Belgian leagues ( the Beneliga) be an alternative to England?

They need big clubs & I believe Rangers would be welcomed with open arms.

Question is how feasible would this option be in CG's quest to get out of Scottish football?

his injury record is horrendous but the few times I've seen him he'd looked a good player

Time for CG to get tough. His promise that he'll not sign any SKY deal next season must be kept.

And he must tell any SPL/SFL club who backs these proposals that we will boycott their ground next season.

Make no mistake the SFA/SPL/SFL subsidy junkies require our support & money for these proposals to work by way of TV deals & our away support financing these clubs.

We must do all in our power to sabotage these proposals. This is called revenge.We owe these cretins nothing who wanted to put us out of business last summer.

The more I think about it maybe they won't pull out. SKY too. After all they're paying peanuts for scottish football and that's the big issue here. The Australian A-league gets double what the SPL gets & it's not exactly the best league in the world is it?

No the real issue is that the Dumbcasters & Regans when they came into scottish football were to get more TV money ino it. They have failed miserably in that respect. Walter Smith warned when he left Rangers there was no money in scottish football. We're about to see teams reduce their wage bills by replacing existing players with cheaper inferior ones. Will supporters watch it ? will they pay tv subscriptions to watch it ? I doubt it very much

wooosh !!!! Swept away as archie would say

of course celtic are for it, it makes their life alot easier. they now have free reign over scottish football for as long as they want.

When will the rest realise this?

Are Celtic afraid of a challenge? is that their problem?

That's always been the case with the SPL so no change there in whatever basterdised league comes out of reconstruction.

 

 

 

The carrot of CL football will still be sufficient for their needs as it was for ours for long enough.

Think you'll find CL going back to more knockout rounds as there's too many games no one wants to see. That will mean less games/less money for Septic. Whenever I look at the CL games b4 xmas it reminds me of the SPL with the amount of empty seats at games

bugger all, it was investors money, easy come easy go.

??? Please explain ??

We're not the best right now. I think you're the only one on here who would argue we are not the biggest. But even if we ignore that last point we are the most successful club in the country and therefore we are never going to be liked by the rest of Scottish football. So I think it would a fool's errand trying to earn their affection. If we don't have their respect now, we never will and should carry on doing things correctly regardless of their views.

we're the biggest in scotland right now in terms of attendances & tv viewing figures

I sincerely doubt any Scottish police force has the capability to undergo an investigation of this type, Operation Hornet has been ongoing since 2007 and these are the first charges laid. The wheels of justice grind exceedingly slow in regards to corporate fraud and in the end plea bargains invariably render any punishment to be of the slap on the wrist variety.

 

I'll be totally amazed if anyone sees the inside of a cell for the crimes that have been visited upon us, the will for justice to be done is noticeable only by its' abscence.

tell that to Ticketus !!!! how much have they lost ?

They don't need the CL monies every season, they will be downsizing of that there is no doubt but they will be doing that safe in the knowledge that they will face no effective domestic opposition for at least 5 years.

 

Irrespective of their domestic attendances their accounts will be lot healthier for this season than last, that's not something to be in awe of merely the financial reality.

Their biggest problem will be trying to attract quality players now. Who wants to play in the SPL? Can't see anyone signing on the chance they might get into the CL which is losing its appeal IMO as there are too many teams in it now

If they've so much money then why do they continually seem to be looking for cut-price players then ? they never seem to spend any more than £1m or £2m at most. they've a massive wage bill and must have lost a fair amount due to the low attendances at their SPL home games.

Yes they'll be financially sound but no more than that.

A couple of former HBOS managers and a "turnaround" specialist were today charged with "conspiracy to corrupt", just for good measure MCR ( aka Duff & Phelps) are also amongst the parties being investigated. (Operation Hornet).

let's hope the same investigators turn their attention to the 2 bhoys who used to run LBG's Scottish business division. We need to know if SDM was blackmailed into selling to Whyte

Let's face it - if these insane league reconstruction proposals go ahead ( which I doubt because SKY won't buy into it & replacement sponsors for CB & Barrs Irn bru will be hard to find) then it's case of asking the last person leaving scottish football to pleaase switch off the lights.

If Rhegan, Dumbcaster & Longmuir think this will improve Scottish football god help us. Just about every football supporter in Scotland seems to think these proposals are daft from the ones I've read.

Didn't want to start a new thread on this as I know it bores/annoys some fans.

 

So searched for a thread with a relevant discussion.

 

Here's the FOI for their ICT game:

septic don't have 44,000 season ticket holders. nowhere near it

the russian & ukranian leagues are combining. The dutch & belgian leagues are proposing combining to form the beneliga. Things are happening to allow weaker leagues to amalgamate to form stronger leagues. It may be way off but one day we'll leave this nasty little country behind & play elsewhere

Again I ask - have these proposed reconstructed leagues got a TV deal or new sponsors to replace the CB & Barrs Irn Bru whose deals finish at the end of the season ? if not where's the money coming from to pay all of these SFL clubs?

Where's the TV money & new sponsors coming from for this league reconstruction?

is it a possibility that he is in fact on the payroll of someone with a vendetta against our club? hmmm i just dont know!

I'd be more inclined to say some organisation. But which? This man clearly gets an income from somewhere.

if it's proven SDM was blackmailed into selling to Whyte by LBG will BDO pursue LBG also ?

would be good if Fullerton and/or Kane were to do a stretch behind bars would it not?

Can't see it myself.

 

I cannot work out what is going on. First he proposes 3 leagues of 16-10-16 and now abandons that idea.

 

One thing I do know, he has lost credibility in my eyes, although I thought he was given too much credibility in the first place. After all he was involved in the drawing up of Rangers going into SFL3 along with the other 2 unmentionables, which seemed to be then forgotten as he assumed hero status.

 

All 3 ignore the fans at their peril.

unless they get a new SKY deal & new sponsors this whole reconstruction is dead in the water IMO. Perhaps Longmuir knows this & dumb and dumber don't

what I don't understand about phil multi-names is does anyone pay him an income ? who employs him ? where does he get income from?