Rangers Newco to play in 3rd Division.

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Newco Rangers forced to start in division three after crucial SFL vote | Rangers | Sport | STV

Scottish Football League clubs have voted to accept a Rangers newco into Division Three for the 2012/13 season.

Representatives from 30 member clubs decided Sevco Scotland Limited must play in the bottom tier of the league structure after rejecting proposals which could have seen the new company play in the First Division.

Airdrie United and Dundee weren't originally expected to vote in the ballot but were informed that they would need to take part in the process on Thursday evening.

SFL clubs received a raft of proposals on Wednesday following talks between the Scottish FA, the SPL and David Longmuir.

Prior to the vote, several teams across the three divisions publicly stated their intention to object to plans to allow the newco to play in the countrys second tier.

[thecelticfan]

Rangers also get their wish to play in England! Berwick Rangers away

[SIMPLY THE BEST]

Superb happy days

[haribo]

Bring on peterhead..

[ray156]

1601:
ALLY McCOIST "I fully accept the decision of the SFL today and thank them for allowing us into the SFL.
"Clearly, starting again from the bottom league is not ideal and makes the task of rebuilding Rangers a longer one but the SFL was placed in an impossible situation and I respect its decision.
"I fully supported the fans views that starting again in Division 3 maintains the sporting integrity that the SPL clubs were so keen on.
"The SPL clubs and the SFA have made their positions clear over the last few weeks and it remains to be seen what the long-term effects of their decisions will be.
"Rangers has been severely punished for the actions of some individuals who previously ran the club and it will take time for us to recover but we will come back stronger thanks to the loyalty of the fans and the commitment of everyone at Ibrox who are working tirelessly to bring stability and success back to Rangers.
"I will be carefully monitoring events and reactions over the new few days and will be making further comments probably early next week

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Inverness have said they are having an emergency meeting at the weekend regarding there finances is this the start of the impact of sporting integrity.

[southpaw83]

Inverness have said they are having an emergency meeting at the weekend regarding there finances is this the start of the impact of sporting integrity.

You seem desperate for it to be

[PremierD]

Trolling is not tollerated people ...

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Why do you think that southpaw ?

[barrowmanandrew]

imho this is the correct decision.

would be unfair and disrespectful to teams who have fought hard to play in 1st division.

my only gripe is, why it took so long to reach this stage??

Scottish football is a joke run by idiots...

the powers that be need to take a long hard look at themselves.
the manner in which this saga has been left to continue is a disgrace...

hopefully we can all now move on...

[PremierD]

I'll bet you a pound of horse shit ... some one dissagrees with you mate ...

[barrowmanandrew]

well to be fair,
its not right been allowed to join a league at another teams expense...

when the decision was made to refuse entry into the SPL then this is the only sensible option left...

i wouldn't like my team to be ousted at the expense of another, so fair is fair.

and this way, it will put all the consipiricy theorys to bed.

no-one (no-one in their right mind )can now claim rangers get preferential treatment.

we shall have to dig deep, take our punishment and hopefully move on...

[opsmonkey]

If not mistaken all the people involved in the wrong doing are no longer at the club, most of the players are leaving now, strikes me the only people being punished are the fans. Seems football the world over is run by corrupt officials that don't give a Shit about those that go week in week out to support their team.

Not a Rangers fan, not a Scottish football fan but can sympathise with the fans here, they are the only ones to miss out

[gracieboo]

Brilliant news i think its the outcome the fans wanted. I would love to know what price rangers would be to win 4 consecutive titles.

[Snowy79]

The descision has saved Rangers fans from a future of abuse at the hands of their opponents so it's a better result, if not the one a lot wanted.

Scottish club owners will suffer as they won't have spare money to cream off to pay the directors and I'm sure if the banks call the debts in a few clubs will go to the wall and I'm sure ripples will head South to the English clubs.

In all honesty who could name the teams in the third division or even the second division. If Scotland ends up with only 10 professional teams it will be a bonus and maybe each team will have their fair share of decent players, instead of it being monopolised by the two with the money. (make that one now).