Rangers owner Craig Whyte gets lifetime ban from SFA

[Rodbouy]

Were Rangers banned for 1 year from buying players due to being in administration ??

Or for various other failings?

[lac]

Looks like sanctions will be reduced on appeal,this reads like the SFA are saying it was not us.
Statement on Judicial Panel Tribunal

This may me laugh,perhaps this is why the club were fined
"Its understood that the SFA intend to pursue Whyte for their money through a civil action if need be."

This maybe the time for one of the old firm to come down to England's lower leaques with the other to follow later
Financially Rangers would not be that much worse off.

[AgentD]

It was announced in January 2004 that Scottish Premier League clubs going into administration in the 2004?05 season would be subject to a 10 point deduction and be prevented from signing new players. With Motherwell and Dundee already in administration at the time, it was decided that if "they are not in the process of coming out of administration by 31 May", the deduction would be applied at the start of the following season. Furthermore, the Scottish FA would not allow clubs in administration to play in Europe. Both Motherwell and Dundee met the required conditions to avoid the deduction of points.

Have Rangers been treated differently or unfairly? 10 points deduction and a transfer embargo.

[johnboy1974]

Agent a 12 month transfer embargo is imposed but rangers could be out of administration before that is up.

[mattybhoy]

ok ill phrase it another way do you the newco to inherit the history of the oldco, or do you think they should have 54 league titles? and 1 crimewatch apperance?

I think the 5 stars would go one way or another, but the stigma of crimewatch would remain?

[KDC]

Agent a 12 month transfer embargo is imposed but rangers could be out of administration before that is up.

Yes m8 they could be straight out of administration into liquidation.

[lfc4life]

here is a thought david murray had his part in this too by running that intial huge tax bill ?!! is he get banned or proscuted ?? nope he should be stripped of his knighthood !

[colin mckenzie]

offcourse he should have been stripped of his knighthood, when he was running this huge bill though and paying 12m for the likes of flo Sir Minty was the hero

[lfc4life]

offcourse he should have been stripped of his knighthood, when he was running this huge bill though and paying 12m for the likes of flo Sir Minty was the hero

he should of got a criminal charge too !! and whyte maybe also :s

[Rodbouy]

Not only Murray tho, every board member who accepted the ebt were party to it.

They were all on it and share the same guilt.

Its good how its the SFA or the SPL that are killing rangers !!!! Dont see poor sally coming out and having a go at Minty or the old board ?

Blame the governing body for sticking to the rules.

As for Rangers Fans lusting over the 3rd Div, Just wait till you get there and the Mighty Albion Rovers pump the poor gers.

Coatbridge will be bouncing that day

[KDC]

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/4277457/Why-we-wont-all-help-The-Rangers.html

Well! well! Wonders will never cease, never thought i would ever hear myself agreeing with Bill Leckie.....

THERE***8217;S an old saying, you should be careful who you trample on your way up, because you might need them on your way back down.


Rarely has it applied more than in the meltdown of Rangers Football Club.

There***8217;s an element at Ibrox who, when they were flying, wouldn***8217;t have peed on the rest of Scottish football had it been on fire.

If you***8217;re not with them, you***8217;re against them. Do, say or write anything they don***8217;t agree with and... well, they all know what you are.

That element went all the way up to David Murray and all the way down to guys like Mark Dingwall, who***8217;s gone from running an abusive website to casting himself as spokesman for a generation.

Between them, they***8217;ve left anyone and everyone in their sights without a name.

So what makes them think that now it***8217;s all gone pear-shaped, the world will drop everything and help them out of the s***?

Which is not to say I believe the rank and file of Rangers supporters deserve what***8217;s happening to their club. I***8217;m not saying they had this day coming. Nor am I convinced the SFA***8217;s ruling is the right one, because they shouldn***8217;t be trusted to run a bath, never mind the national sport.

The transfer embargo makes sense, as it***8217;s the debt run up through vanity signings that has ***8212; in part, at least ***8212; taken them to the brink of oblivion. But demanding money from a business who has none? Anyone who***8217;s ever been hit with a ?30 surcharge for going overdrawn knows how illogical that is.

What is fair? I***8217;m not sure. All I know is that to give in to rabble-rousing mouthpieces like Dingwall and let them reinvent themselves without punishment because it***8217;s The Rangers, is a non-starter.

Where were they when Clydebank and Airdrie and Gretna were dying, when Motherwell and Dundee and Livingston were in administration?

Hitting the phone-ins to sneer that no one should weep, because there were too many clubs in Scotland anyway, that***8217;s where.

But I***8217;ve long since warned the excrement would really hit the extractor when a big club went belly-up, churned endless columns about how Murray***8217;s ego-driven, My Tenner To Your Fiver bravado would end in tears. So fans***8217; groups can re-write history all they like and pretend everything was dandy until that nasty man Whyte got his hands on them. But they***8217;re only kidding themselves.

Yes, the SFA***8217;s investigation centred on the chaotic reign of this chinless, gutless chancer.

But where***8217;s the probe into Murray***8217;s role? When are the fans going to turn their anger on a man who saw HMRC coming over the hill like a million Apaches and palmed the whole shooting match off to that chancer for a quid?

It might make the punters feel big to boycott William Hill and Vauxhall because they put cash into the SFA, but that***8217;s going to solve nothing.

Rangers are rooked because Murray ***8212; aided, by the likes of his namesake Paul, who sat there as they unravelled, yet now claims he***8217;s their saviour ***8212; hurled money at foreigners with no sell-on value, who took the club no further up the European ladder than they***8217;d been with a team farmed in Kinning Park and Bellshill.

None of this is the fault of the SFA or their sponsors or journalists or anyone else on the most-wanted list of the No One Likes Us We Don***8217;t Care brigade.

It***8217;s 100 per cent at the door of men they followed blindly because they promised the earth.

Rangers, as a club, are the ones who did the crime. Now, they have to do the time.

And the worst they get is not being able to sign players for 12 months. They***8217;ve got off with probation.

[lfc4life]

Well! well! Wonders will never cease, never thought i would ever hear myself agreeing with Bill Leckie.....

need too sort out that post

[KDC]

need too sort out that post

Why? I actually found myself talking out loud when i read it. Never before have i seen a piece signed by that odious creep that was bang on the money. Wonder who wrote it for him?

[lfc4life]

Why? I actually found myself talking out loud when i read it. Never before have i seen a piece signed by that odious creep that was bang on the money. Wonder who wrote it for him?

Cause its all full of numbers and words .... surely it could look easier to read!

[KDC]

Cause its all full of numbers and words .... surely it could look easier to read!

Its a copy and paste m8. Do you want me to type the article myself? I'll add a link for you when i get it to make it easier to understand.

Edit: Link added to op