Scottish Premier League chief executive, Neil Doncaster, yesterday told the BBC that no provision existed for a liquidated SPL club to reconvene as a Newco FC at the bottom of the Scottish Football League (reported at 1821 on their crisis timeline).
This is being grossly misreported to suggest that the only opportunity for a Rangers Newco to phoenix is to slip straight back into the SPL – completely and utterly untrue.
There is also no provision for a Newco FC to slip into the SPL. Newco FC would be able to apply for membership to the Scottish Football League (where they would unquestionably be accepted) or the Scottish Premier League.
The default position when a club goes out of business in the Scottish Premier League is that the club that finishes bottom of the league at the end of the season escapes relegation. As things stand, Dunfermline would remain an SPL club and Ross County would be promoted.
No moral, legal or football administrative argument has been made to suggest that Dunfermline will be relegated to allow a new club entry into the league. None whatsoever. Dunfermline Athletic will remain a SPL club if Rangers are liquidated.
The various parties seeking to phoenix Rangers would get the lawyers onto securing a stadium, scouting some part-timers, buying a ticketing system, applying for entry into the Scottish Football League and finding cash to employ stadium stewarding. This could take weeks but is more likely to take months or even years.
Football needs to get used to this idea.
Neil Doncaster did not suggest a Newco FC applying for entry into the SPL had any primacy over an application to the SFL. In fact, an application to the SFL would not have to overcome the unfortunate objections of Dunfermline Athletic – who pay their BBC licence fee and are worthy of due respect.
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Bundoran Bhoy – LOVES JELLY & ICE CREAM on 7 March, 2012 at 21:26 said:
Messi is AMAZING!!! 5 goals WOW
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Whats more he hate the Huns and Anti Football – i love him, in a manly brotherly hug type of way that is :-)
Have they submitted their audited accounts yet…………they can only sell once an audited set of accounts is published……….bit like buying a hoose……you would need to know the value of the hoose…….LOL
They have no intention of selling at all…….this is all about going into liquidation to try to avoid having to pay the creditors……
Holy Moly, Messi again.
RRC – sorry, headline is just Urgent sale required, article tells sorry tale we’re already familiar with but comment below says:
I’m a Rangers fan, fed up with this situation, but you could see it coming, they started the season very well in the league and suddenly lost their advantage, suggesting to me to be that they weren’t being paid and so stopped trying on the pitch – shameful.
9/3/12
Deaths
Rangers Fc
Son of William,it is with regret that we announce the passing of the huns today after a long illness.
No flowers please
all donations to HMRC gratefully received.
Barcelona just seeing out the game now, so I am now watching Apoel Nicosia v Lyon. The Cypriots are 1-0 up and it’s 1-1 on aggregate, so all to play for.
oglach on 7 March, 2012 at 21:28
Agree what’s not to like, guys on a different planet and he hates the huns lol
HH
roy croppie, superb. Loved Jackie Mac’s hook!
Great save by Leverkausen keeper there…
Just aswell,…
could’ve been embarrassing, this.
the fight back begins 7-1
Messi hits five
“We’re running out of superlatives” is one of the most useful phrases for ex footballers like Andy Townsend
7-1 nice score . reminds me of something :-)
Didn’t Lionel blub at a game at CP? injured and had to go off! Is my memory playing up has the excessive sugar intake over the past month played havoc with my recall?
Leverkusen score, come back on………..
http://i.imgur.com/loyTK.gif
the last one to leave put the lights out!
As the great Celtic supporter Bob Marley once said. “Justice for Ja People”
Ever Faithfull
oglach, he did his hammy at the Nou Camp against us and hobbled off in tears
TJ
7-1 game
Messi
or
Teasy Weazy
:-)
HH
M
Good night Timland
HAIL HAIL
Paul67
From Duff & Duffer
“What we don’t want to do is mix the terminology here and start to portray liquidation as a process which creates the cessation of the business.
“The liquidation will wind up a business following the sale of the business activities into a newco.
Liquidation is liquidation surely?
If Rangers bought St Mirren, then would the new name be St Huno FC(2012)
The feast of St Huno is 13th February and he died in 690. Just seems appropriate.
HH
CRC
Extra time in the other game.
SPF
And what does Messi do after he scores 5 goals, get the match ball like it’s the first ball he’s ever seen.
What a guy!
Thank God for the final whistle – thought their old 12-3 agg record was in danger there!
Wouldn’t want to give them something to cheer them up. :-)
“Beleagured Rangers scrubbed from Europe The Dominion Post 20:10”
Strap-line from Newsnow.
Sounds good, doesn’t it?
HH
Apparently any advantage Rangers have gained from their failure to pay tax is no worse than the advantage celtic will gain from the Commonwealth games investment….
I kid you not. Anti Rangers witch hunt
Warning, FF site. I didn’t go there deliberately, google led me….
Brilliant to see what a superb display of football as it should be played. Super Barcelona !!!
C’Mon the Celts
HH
@Briandamge64: @McNallyMirror RFC will get £3.6m from Collyer Bristow account tomorrow at high court. That explains why no cull of players.
row z \o/ (O) whatever part of my club is dependent on rangers I am willing to lose! on 7 March, 2012 at 21:28:
Yes, they are trade assets and I presume their value will be set by Dubbs and Phelps, though how they reach that valuation I’m unsure, presumably on what they are paid, length of contract left, whether they have international caps and if they can ascertain what the average is for a Player of such standing.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Tommy Joad on 7 March, 2012 at 21:33 said:
oglach, he did his hammy at the Nou Camp against us and hobbled off in tears
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Tommy, it was a cunning plan he couldn’t face the propect of playing against his beloved Celtic so feigned injury. The tear were caused by the realisation that he would never be good enough to wear the world famous, and very honest, Hoops of Glasgow Celtic.
WaltermittyCSC
hen1rik –
That doesn’t make sense. It is not the job of the Administrators to see Rangers through to the end of the season. It is their job to cut costs and get them out of administration by negotiating payment of the debts. Also, the 3.8m has been frozen by the court. It will take months at least for it to fall into the hands of Rangers.
Not having a go at you mate. I realise you were only passing on someone else’s tweet.
Did I hear a guy on Clyde say TICKATUS own the seats at doomdome? That allows them to sell the seats for rock concerts or for anything they want to do with the seats. Emdae hear that?
hamiltontim on 7 March, 2012 at 21:15:
You believe yet?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Oglach, The Celtic player from history closest in style to Messi…………
Lubomir Moravcik. Not the same dribbling ability, but similarly well balanced, not as good obviously, but still world class.
TJ
Courtesy of @Scotzine
Rangers monitoring Lionel Messi in a bid to sign him on loan
Talksport educating their listeners about the part the huns played in Airdrieonians demise.
Ain’t karma a bitch!
There was a hun on earlier saying ” we didn’t have any money problems until Whyte arrived ” !!!
” we only had 18 million debt and the bank were allowing us to pay that at 1 million a year ”
Comedy gold lmao!
Hail hail
MME
Duff and Phelps really have screwed this project up big time.
Their indecision has cost the club its future.
Not that I’m crying…
Brian Boru on 7 March, 2012 at 21:13 said:
Good Evening one and all. Completely off topic. Congratulations to Michael Jamieson for qualifying for the 2012 Olympic swimming team (200m breaststroke) Michael is a big Celtic man and has worked very hard to achieve his dreams
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Not that I’m boasting or anything but Michael is a former pupil of SadiesBhoy :-)
If Ticketus have any kind of claim on seats at Ibrox, would this give them a say in a sale of the stadium? Just asking.