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Just back from holiday so apologies if this prospect has been already touted....... Has there been any suggestion that the SPL and SFL may have agreed to form SPL 2 and invite nine current 1st division Clubs to join Newco in this league? Haven't had time to read through all the posts over the past couple of weeks over this matter and wasn't really interested in what happened to Rangers either way to be honest. However, it strikes me that the problem is there would be a danger of the SFL Clubs rejecting Rangers bid to join the 1st division, but this could be avoided by inviting the 1st division Clubs into the new SPL2 where the SPL make the rules and invite whoever they wish (including Rangers)? I think it would be very difficult for 9 current 1st division Clubs to refuse a decent offer to join SPL 2 and the more I think about it, it would fit perfectly what the SPL would like and with the promise of what most 1st Division Clubs would like. Rangers would be demoted to the very bottom of the SPL League Structure (SPL 2) and the current 2nd and 3rd division Clubs wouldn't get a say. If this were to be what is suggested and Thistle stood to benefit from it greatly, would we still have the same objections to us joining them in their league as we have to them joining us in ours?

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What then? Even if Thistle vote against it, it could still happen. I think that the clubs that oppose it could make a very strong point... Let's face it, the only reason that they would be in Div 1 is because the SPL want them back ASAP and expect them to win the league. Let's give them that. Immediately after KO against Newco is every game, the opposition should just walk off. 3-0 Newco - everybody is happy. It would highlight the farcical sense of 'competition'. Only problem with this is the fans who turned up would be out of pocket (I mean Div 1 fans - don't care about Newco fans). The other thing, is for ALL Div 1 fans to walk out at some point (maybe with 12 mins to go - Club 12 and all that) - I honestly think that with the current level of anger around that this would result in total walkout - again, would highlight the nonsense. I don't want to damage Thistle but we need to show the ridiculous nature of these measures - if they want our game to be a farce, let's give them one.

I listened with interest to this morning's sports report on BBC Scotland which discussed the latest twist to the Rangers saga. Relegation to the First Division with SKY being “guaranteed” an Old Firm fixture through a revamped Glasgow Cup. The first suggestion is clearly designed to allow honour (I use the term loosely) to be satisfied by relegating Rangers but minimising the financial damage by limiting it to a one season demotion. Not much point in the rest of us turning up next season, is there? By hook or by crook (and how appropriate is that phrase?), the newco will shed the old crimes and debts and be back after the minor inconvenience of one season mingling with the lower orders. As for the second proposal - intriguing that SKY can be “guaranteed” such a fixture since there are four senior teams playing in Glasgow and in membership of the Glasgow Football Association. To offer such a “guarantee”, Rangers & Celtic would require to be drawn against each other in one semi-final with Queens Park facing PTFC in the other. Suits us, but the cynic in me suggests that the intention is to offer SKY an Old Firm game with a trophy, and quite a magnificent piece of silverware it is, on offer at the end. So might the draw be manipulated – a shameful suggestion I know – and then everything possible done to ensure that the “right” result emerged from the semis? As I said, a cynical suggestion but then as far as Scottish Football is concerned, a cynic is what an idealist calls a realist!