Spl and Sfl merger!

Miller - your comments about points reset seem to be correct, but that is about it I am afraid.

The embargo on buying anyone ends effectively next January, ie what would be halfway through Rangers being in the current setup SFL2 (assuming promotion this year).

If this reconstruction comes in this season, then essentially, season 2012/13 ends the day it is implemented, as all remaining games, save those few I outlined earlier, will be meaningless.

Something which has been "conveniently" forgotten in all this seems to be the previous requirement of 2 season''s notice to resign from the SPL - remember that been chirped whenever Rangers or Celtic mentioned anything about moving to England?

Or does that not apply, maybe because this is not anything to the benefit of the game, but merely shifting the deckchairs on the Titanic......

Miller I think you are right about the motivation for reconstruction, I wouldn't be surprised if an invite was extended to Rangers to take up one of the two places in the new revamped SPL.

Once Rangers are back at the top division suddenly the desire to have a 10 team top league will be back.

DC1 my points about the embargo is that by having Rangers in tier 3 of 18 it doesn't particularly matter about when it ends. Rangers would be playing a lesser quality group of teams than expected in the current set up. So there would be less risk of Rangers not being promoted even with the embargo intact.

Its hard to see how this would be rejected by the SFL in my opinion. 9 Div3 teams will vote to be in Rangers league next season and the division 2 teams not stepping up to tier 2 (including those who would miss Rangers run through the leagues by having been relegated) will vote to be in Rangers league next season as its a guaranteed money maker for them. Should be 17 votes in the bag right from the off. Add the 12 from the SPL and its almost a done deal.

I just think it reeks of desperation of a plan to get Rangers back in what would be a renamed SPL in minimal time whilst mainting the stance of sporting integrity.

I just see SPL2 by the back door.

17 votes from 30 in the SFL does not carry it. Any more than 7 in the SFL say no, it is a dead duck.

So, Rangers will say no. That just means that 7 more no votes from 29 teams are required.

The same 29 teams who all said yes to 16-10-16 over a month ago.

I would say extremely unlikely this will go through.

Davie....Rangers dont even get a vote as we're associate members !!!!

Rangers do get a vote - we had a vote when 30-0 was voted for the 16-10-16 idea, and we get a vote this time too.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-fume-over-absence-from-vote-1525171

So this article is wrong then. My understanding is that we were consulted as to proposals but are exluded from the "real thing"

meuandcoop - IF that is true, we should be locking the doors.

Seriously - it was widely reported that the 16-10-16 vote was 30-0.

If it was instead 29-0, and Rangers do not EVER get a vote within the SFL, what are we doing here?

Subsidising other teams with no power to affect anything.

Strange how this was not in the prospectus for the shares.......

Davie...I agree , it's another of the conditions that we had to agree to to get into the 3rd Division. The team with the biggest crowds at home games in Scottish football and who are filling the coffers of all other clubs they play......have no say in the future of the game. Sporting integrity......ma erse !

Davie.....one wee thing, I think we did get a vote on the SFL proposal but on the SPL/SFL one, which is the one that counts....nah!