Glasgow Rangers Enter Administration

[gemarriott]

I feel a bit sorry for the fans but as usual they are the ones that are punished for the wankers running the club. A bit like us paying for the bankers.

I think more will go to the wall now including the Anti Forces sh1te that wear green and white!

 

[Downsizer]

I'm amazed you had to ask - you are either a Rangers fan or you're not. Through thick and thin. We will play in blue at Ibrox. No debate.

I know where my loyalties lie, no doubt there....

But I also have family who are in doubt, does the history transfer to the new club, trophies, etc, etc....and as such no longer see RFC as existing.

And as for the players walking out..well, money grabbing cnuts the lot of them. Particularly Naismith (due to the support he recieved whilst injured) and Steve Davis (captain FFS and boyhood fan!)...

 

[firestorm]

Fans are loyal, players rarely are.

 

[Inevertouchedit]

It'll be a long time until we hear the phrase 'Old Firm Derby' again

 

[Rocket_Ronster]

Fans are loyal, players rarely are.

Neither are managers.
Neither are board members.
Neither are chairmen.

Just the fans, always the fans.

(Unless you`ve heard about that new breed of fan that wished they hadn`t jumped ship to ManCity after Chelski eventually sneaked the Euro Cup.) DT_Xtremez_42:

 

[he_who_dares_rodney]

I feel a bit sorry for the fans but as usual they are the ones that are punished for the wankers running the club. A bit like us paying for the bankers.

I think more will go to the wall now including the Anti Forces sh1te that wear green and white!

Not all off us are anti forces BTW.

Shortsighted stupidity by the league and other clubs
Yes everyone might sing and dance about the demise of Rangers but I expect it to wipe out the league.
A league minue Rangers si an uncompetative league.
The money raised from the first round of the UEFA cup wil not supplement what hey earned from Rangers
Records will not count Lennon could win 10 in a row but people will say there was no Rangers.
TV Monery will plumm,et the rest of the league were earning cash off teh back of the two Glasgow clubs knocking lumps out of each other.
It wouldn't suprise me if the owners of Rangers and Celtic got together and came up with a plan to bail out of the league altogether.
Without both Glasgow clubs that league at best would end up semi proffesional.
So well played the chairmen of he other clubs you've killed Scottish Football.
There's already talk of Rangers buying Bury and playing their English League games at Ibrox..
We might be Green and White ****e and they might be Blue Nosed *******s but the League need us both and both teams need each other.

English fans don't laugh to loud it'll happen down here before long.

 

[Rocket_Ronster]

English fans don't laugh to loud it'll happen down here before long.

I truly hope so.
Unfortunately, just like the banks, there`ll be certain clubs (ManU) that are deemed too big to fail.

 

[gemarriott]

I truly hope so.
Unfortunately, just like the banks, there`ll be certain clubs (ManU) that are deemed too big to fail.

Utd are cap in hand to the American stock market with a share issue to repay the debt the Glazers lumped them with.

Back to Scotland if Rangers are forced to play down in the bottom division it will be the finish of Scottish football. No decent pro will want to play at that standard so promotion in 3 succesive years won't be a given, especially with every body watching their finances so closely.

 

[BillyBunter]

A nation does not evolve around two football clubs and never will. The Old Firm need to wisen up and stop thinking the world evolves around them, as right now that time is over.

Scottish football will be around a long time yet , according to every englishman its pish anyway so when we are that bad we have nothing to loose.

Its the Rangers fans I do feel sympathy for as they have no control and its anger and hatred spitting out, but come next week when everyone has moved on and come August when it starts again things will be back to normal. Rangers will be back and If it really was going to be a financial issue to axe them then why was the vote an overwhelming majority.

If people done the math the majority of TV money always went to Rangers or Celtic, very little was given to other clubs and it showed as every game shown on TV was O/F bar the occasional Edinburgh derby.

Other clubs in Scotland have learned thanks to the O/F to live at there means, just a shame somebody had to cheat and avoid taxes to try win

 

[Teh Wal]

...
So well played the chairmen of he other clubs you've killed Scottish Football...

Scottish football won't die but there's a good chance it'll be knocked back 50 years or so. The infastructure will still be there. The stadia will still be there. The supporters will still be there. A few clubs will go down the drain and there may have to be more reliance on local talent or talent from equivalent leagues in other countries but eventually, probably after many of us are long gone, Scottish football will get back to what it has been over the past 20 years or so. It might even do it some good in the long run.

 

[Tin basher]

if Rangers are forced to play down in the bottom division it will be the finish of Scottish football. No decent pro will want to play at that standard.

Pre the newco an ageing super star or small country Johnny Foreigner who wasn't picked up by the Italian, Spanish, German or English leagues could join Rangers on a lucrative salary knowing full well what was expected. Play at cruise control most weeks as you and your 10 mates in blue could win without raising to much of a sweat. But you must work your nads off 4 games a season against "them" your fans expect nothing less than victory in these games and winning brings lifetime homage. There are three domestic trophies chances are you'll win at least one, Medal for your CV, European qualification is a given so a chance to show case your talents across other TV networks and maybe move to a big continental club.
Post the newco Johnny Foreigner won't be interested, Scottish league 3, mainly full of part timers, tiny crowds, no TV deal. Given only the one remaining power house club north of the border Scottish football begins to look more like the Welsh premier league, not on TV, under funded skint clubs entering Europe for a brief flirtation in the preliminary rounds. However I think the taxmans searchlight will now begin to shine into the dark workings of some English marque clubs, Rangers may well be the tip of a very rotten iceberg.

 

[BillyBunter]

Yes the Whal,

Would not surprise me already that UEFA have already decided the next host for the European Championships

Just to pump a bit of money back into the game up here.

 

[Inevertouchedit]

If they're still playing pro-football in Scotland in 2 yrs time, then I'll be stunned.

 

[Teh Wal]

If they're still playing pro-football in Scotland in 2 yrs time, then I'll be stunned.

Oh please! Stop being such drama queen.

And BTW I'm English.

 

[Inevertouchedit]

Oh please! Stop being such drama queen.

And BTW I'm English.

30% of the revenue from all SPL clubs is made up by playing Rangers. Factor in less TV money from a 'devalued' product. Average gates at the other clubs is less than 6000, etc etc etc. They're in it deep

 

[Teh Wal]

30% of the revenue from all SPL clubs is made up by playing Rangers. Factor in less TV money from a 'devalued' product. Average gates at the other clubs is less than 6000, etc etc etc. They're in it deep

I support Rochdale. We've been promoted twice in 105 years and fought our way to the final of the League Cup once (in '62)... and yet I'm still mightilly proud of The Dale as are many other folk. Jocks have a fantastic amount of pride for anything Jockanese which is why Scottish footy will survive whatever happens in the next year or so. Change is a-comin' but good will come out of the other end.

 

[BillyBunter]

30% of the revenue from all SPL clubs is made up by playing Rangers. Factor in less TV money from a 'devalued' product. Average gates at the other clubs is less than 6000, etc etc etc. They're in it deep

I can tell you as an Aberdeen fan we get about 3-4 k of travelling fans twice a year. We will make up half that with team 12 hardly gonna hurt us big time. It's the cup games sure but we can all draw against the newco like before so they still gonna take max crowd. Rangers are gone mate just get over it , and Scottish football CAN only get better.

 

[Tin basher]

I support Rochdale.

There is a way back for the newco, my lot Accrington Stanley, went bust in 1963 and folded completely. It reformed in 1968 but in much lower strata of football. Now even though Teh Wals lot pinched our most sucessful manager and after 44 years out of the league with many trials and tribulations along the way we are back in the same league we were in the 60's. All this with a much much lower fanbase than Rangers. IF fans continue to turn up to watch Rangers in historical numbers then a revenue stream that is greater than all others bar one should ensure a quick rise back throught the tiers of Scottish football.

 

[he_who_dares_rodney]

Good piece in todays Mail

Scottish football faces meltdown: Rangers' crisis sparks fears of financial collapse
By Michael Walker
PUBLISHED: 22:19, 4 July 2012 | UPDATED: 00:27, 5 July 2012
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On a day when Rangers were voted out of the Scottish Premier League, the chief executive of the Scottish FA, Stewart Regan, warned of ‘social unrest’, ‘Armageddon’ and ‘the game withering on the vine’ if the club are forced to restart next season below the Scottish First Division.

Regan’s alarming comments came at the end of a day that was already the most dramatic, in terms of structural change, in the 122-year history of the professional game in Scotland. Rangers, formed in 1872, have never been outside the top flight.

The Ibrox club will now discover if they will drop one tier into the Scottish First Division or into the Scottish Third Division alongside semi-professional clubs.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...se-Scotland-Michael-Walker.html#ixzz1zm51EsE8

 

[Shinyscot]

Other clubs in Scotland have learned thanks to the O/F to live at there means, just a shame somebody had to cheat and avoid taxes to try win

What other teams live within their means? Most of them have indicated that they need the money that the home games v Rangers bring into their coffers. Hardly living within their means is it, relying on other clubs' supporters to prop them up.