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Glasgow Rangers

Dundee will get their share of the SPL rights.

The issue is that the SPL are demanding part of the SFL TV rights. I think they want to buy the Rangers matches for a nominal fee. There is no logic to the demand but for some reason they think they are entitled to money for the Rangers matches.
 
jts1882 said:
Rangers want the Scottish Premier League to drop their investigation into dual contracts and the SPL want the SFL to hand over Rangers' media rights.

The new Rangers want to stop the investigation. So much for the claim of wanting a fresh start.

The SPL demanding the media rights is just being greedy. They had the chance to accept the new Rangers in the SPL and now, having voted them out, want the TV money that rightly belongs to the SFL and are willing to use extortion to get their way.

The behaviour of various Rangers entities, the SPL clubs, and the frantic scrambling by the chiefs of the Scottish football organisations to rewrite the rules would be funny if it wasn't so damaging to Scottish football. Here they have a chance to reorganise Scottish football without the veto from the Old Firm and they are doing their best to avoid the opportunity.
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They are having a fresh start. It's a whole new club. Nothing is going to be taken away from the newco.
 
It's a new club on paper, but everyone involved with it will carry on like it's the same one and they've just been unfairly punished.
 
Rangers newco being 'assisted' by controversial agent Paul Stretford

• Stretford banned for 18 months in 2008 for misconduct
• Rangers reach deal with Southampton on Steven Davis

Paul Stretford, the controversial football agent, is "assisting" Rangers newco, the Ibrox club have confirmed.

The club's chief executive, Charles Green, is using the agent, who was banned in 2008 for 18 months and fined £300,000 for a number of misconduct charges relating to how he acquired the right to represent the Manchester United and England striker, Wayne Rooney, six years earlier.

A spokesman for Rangers told the Press Association: "Paul Stretford is assisting the club."

Ally McCoist is preparing to bolster his squad for their debut in the Third Division next month. On acceptance of SFA membership, still to be ratified, the manager will have until 1 September to sign players before a 12-month transfer embargo begins.

Rangers fans may wonder about Stretford's remit given the club's new league status and the apparent lack of cash available at Ibrox to bring players in. Green continues to challenge the decisions of the players who walked away from the club this summer.

Rangers have confirmed that they and Southampton had come to a financial agreement over the transfer of Steven Davis. The two clubs agreed an undisclosed fee for the Northern Irishman.

On the advice of the players'union, PFA Scotland, Davis, Steven Naismith, Jamie Ness, Kyle Lafferty and Steven Whittaker rejected the opportunity to transfer their contracts to Green's newco.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jul/22/rangers-newco-agent-paul-stretford

How to fix a bad situation? Make it worse.
 
Rangers newco have been granted conditional SFA membership allowing them to play against Brechin on Sunday.
 
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Rangers kick off their season there tomorrow.
 
And the gulf in class is phenomenal. McCulloch scores after 4 minutes.

edit: Sorry, McCulloch assisted Little.
 
RANGERS XI Alexander, Broadfoot, Goian, Bocanegra, Wallace, Hutton, Black, MacLeod, Little, McKay, McCulloch

Rangers not as good any more. Very kick and rush.
 
Rangers' fall from grace might be financially disastrous for some clubs in Scotland but certainly not for all. 4'123 were watching Brechin v Rangers. For a club which attracted just 9,293 people in total to 18 league matches last season this number is phenomenal. I suppose that the treasurers of third division clubs are looking forward to the forth-coming season.
 
The Brechin numbers are typical of the Third Division clubs, home gates of 400-600, so a couple of Rangers home games would normally have a bigger attendance that the division's entire season gate, iirc. A bonus for the Third Division clubs this year, then presumably the Second Division club next year, etc. Not a bad outcome all round. The losers are the SPL clubs that voted Rangers out and then tried to bully the SFL clubs to make it easy for Rangers to get back.

The biggest opportunity for Scottish football is reorganisation without the Old Firm veto on changes. They should be able to negotiate a more balanced TV contract, instead of giving so much more to the top two. Rangers and Celtic will keep their big support advantage but building in an additional advantage in TV money distribution can't be good for the competition. However with the head of the SFA colluding with the SPL and Rangers to make changes, I'm not too hopeful.
 
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