(05-24-2012, 09:08 AM)The Oracle Wrote: [censored], then go watch Scottish Football crumble under a domino affect. Sick of hearing people say the Old Firm should go, Scottish Football would be better? Pysh, no outside interest if they did go.
Proof in the pudding is, Hibs and Hearts can't fill each others ground playing a Derby, supposed 3 and 4th biggest clubs in Scotland? The final is the first I've seen an almost full Hampden when one of the other is not playing the Old Firm and even then they struggle to fill there allocation! End of the day, everybody wants to beat the Old Firm (or should) and EVERY club wants the revenue matches against them bring. I'm a strong believer in not biting the hand that feeds you, like it or not, they have collectively hand fed millions to the SFA and the Scottish League over the years. We'd be like the League of Wales without them!
What a load of unsubstantiated, scaremongering, load of horse manure you've just shovelled there. I'm sorry but I have to ask, are Jim Traynor or Chic Young, as thats excatly the same 'party line' that they go on about.
You have no way at all to say that we will end up like the Welsh leagues, unless you have somehow perfected the black art of time travel, in which case you have distorted the time line continuum by revealing the future and now we have 2 time lines converging on the same line.....do you know what type of disturbance that causes...WELL DO YOU?
I've seen non-old firm fans claim that there 'home' attendance goes down when one of the ugly sisters descend upon their fair towns with all the unnecessary bigotry, songs and sheer stupidity that they bring with them. So it can be argued that if you remove the old firm, then more fans are willing to go to there home games and also travel away. Add in an increase in competition and we have more interest into the leagues and we could argue that we would be better off.
However to say whether we would be worse off or better off without 1 half (or both) of the Old Firm is all subjective, and as fans we base it on our own prejudices towards the Old Firm. Not even the guys in charge can category claim that
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C will happen if
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Z happens, but our game has suffered under the Old Firms dominance (love to see someone argue against that, out of Europe by August, no major finals for our national team since 98) so lets take this chance to implement change now.
I personally want Rangers punished properly and fairly, I don't want to see the SPL bending the rules for them because they are a 'special case' and as such let them get off scot-free. If this means the end of Rangers then let it be. No one cared when it was Gretna it was considered 'just'. No one carried when Livi where dumped to the 3rd, it was considered 'just', and nobody carried when Dundee where given a 25 point deduction, it too was considered 'just'. It's not about getting Rangers booted out of the SPL, it's about holding them accountable to their actions as if it was any other team, no special treatment.
(05-24-2012, 09:08 AM)The Oracle Wrote: BTW I would be worried by the fact that there IS no explaining why Geo got the cash, he got the same amount Souness did yet they tried to emply that it was to do with the Tugay transfer??
He was Head of Youth Development at Rangers at the time, so it was part of his pay such as say Martin Bain, Stefan Klos or any other of the 100+ that where on the EBT at the time (that 111 included Murrays Holding Group by the way)
Souness one is hell of a dodgy, HMRC invistigated it but couldn't find anything concrete on it.
