First club to act - Inverness calling an emergency board meeting

[Guest thebear0806]

Inverness calling an emergency board meeting due to today's vote and the financial implications to the club at the weekend sky sports news

[GovanAllan 0]

Partime football by next season for them and a few more. I'm trying to hold back the tears honest.

[Yorkshire Bear 0]

Tears of laughter I hope. :cheers:

[ian1964 10,874]

House of cards?

[Zappa 0]

I genuinely can't wait for SPL clubs to start imploding in the wake of their own selfish and moronic decisions. Doncaster handed them all a grenade and 10 of them just smiled and pulled out the pin. Stupid c**ts.

[Guest thebear0806]

They reap what they sow , f*** them all

[ian1964 10,874]

INVERNESS Caledonian Thistle chairman Kenny Cameron says the decision to place the 'Newco' Rangers into the third division next season could "spell the end of football as we know it."

Scottish Football League clubs met at Hampden Park this morning to come to a decision on where Charles Green's newco Ibrox club would play,and 25 of the 30 clubs voted the club into the bottom tier.

Cameron has said the club's directors are set for an emergency meeting this weekend to discuss the financial implications of the decision.

In a statement, Mr Cameron said today was saddening for Scottish clubs, and that no club would escape the consequences.

The statement, in full, reads as follows: "There will now inevitably be serious consequences for the game in Scotland.

"We have all, as clubs, accepted the views of our stakeholders in making the initial judgement to uphold sporting integrity.

"All clubs will now have to live with the repercussions of this decision. Scottish football was at a crossroads today in terms of what was on the table for all clubs regarding reorganisation, financial distribution and a road map that would have taken the game forward.

"But this has now been thrown in to disarray by this decision. This is a sad day for all clubs in Scotland."

Mr Cameron added: "None of us will escape the financial fallout from this. There was an opportunity on the table, in terms of the joint agreement tabled at today’s meeting for us all to come together and a genuine willingness to improve the game substantially over the coming years.

"But it now looks as though this will once again be kicked back in to the long grass. A once in a lifetime opportunity to bring forward change may well have been lost.

"The directors of ICTFC are fully aware of the financial implications of this latest decision on Newco. The loss of either our fans or our sponsors was never going to leave any of the clubs in Scotland in a healthy financial position and for some this could spell the end of football as we know it.

"Certain clubs in the SFL have perceived the financial information they were receiving as a 'big stick' to beat them into accepting Newco in the First Division. This was definitely not the case, as far as I am concerned. What they were being told was the reality of the situation."

The chairman concluded: "We will be convening an emergency board meeting over the weekend to discuss the very serious financial implications for us as a club going forward."

The Glasgow club was forced to apply to the SFL after a meeting of SPL clubs last week voted against the newco joining the top tier.

Rangers went into administration on February 14 owing over £130 million to creditors.

The club will be liquidated, meaning its registration with the Scottish Football Association and SPL ended. A Green-led consortium bought Gers' assests for £5.5 million and created the Rangers newco.

A number of the Glasgow club's first-team players have signed with other clubs, rather than play for the newco in a lower division, but manager Ally McCoist has stayed.

A decision of whether to let Dunfermline, who were relegated from the SPL last season, or Dundee, who finished second to Ross County in the first division, is imminent.

[Zappa 0]

To all the fans of the clubs who voted against us being allowed to continue playing in the SPL. To all those fans who've been slavering on incessantly about so-called sporting integrity. I hope you drown in sporting integrity. I hope your sporting integrity destroys your club. You deserve nothing less.

 

:cheers:

Edited July 13, 2012 by Zappa

[ian1964 10,874]

  Zappa said:

To all the fans of the clubs who voted against us being allowed to continue playing in the SPL. To all those fans who've been slavering on incessantly about so-called sporting integrity. I hope you drown in sporting integrity. I hope your sporting integrity destroys your club. You deserve nothing less. :cheers:

 

But...but...but...we don't need Rangers to survive:tongue:

[CumbernauldGers 0]

How long before the SPL ivite Ranges back in?

 

After all is that not the reason thy have not named he team to take our place?