EddardStark Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 I can't see it. Hearts have dropped points twice in 17 games. They need to drop points an absolute minimum of 4 times in the remaining 19, but that's presuming rangers win every game. Rangers won't win every game. Hearts have still to play rangers twice and Hibs 3 times I believe, even if they lost ALL of these games they'd probably still need to throw in 2 draws along the way. They might close the gap, but the 5 games I was talking about, if hearts can even draw a couple if those, it will be very difficult to catch them. They've had injuries recently, and still managed to keep the results coming. I wasn't being serious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 I wasn't being serious Oops! Had a look at the fixtures, and IF Rangers put a run together and beat Hearts at Ibrox mid January, possibly with Hearts dropping points v Hibs next week, it starts to become a bit more achievable. I can't really see attitudes at Ibrox changing under Kenny McDowell though, and Hearts seem to have their attitude spot on so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cove_Sheep Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Are the Rangers at Easter Road this weekend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShedTA Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 I made reference to that as well. She got her statutory entitlement and nothing more according to the discussion on FF in the days following. Maybe Phil is getting his exclusives from FF these days. And Phil is totally obsessed with Rangers. I imagine machine gun fire aimed at a stationary target will hit the spot once in a while. Yes we have covered this. But did she get statutory based on up to 20 years service which is the law or statutory based on 2.5 years service at the new club? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenAngus Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 SFA statement due in a few minutes on the situation at Ibrox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 SFA statement due in a few minutes on the situation at Ibrox. "Nothing to see here". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flure Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 You've got the years wrong, but Motherwell have dodged relegation twice, once due to the league going from 10-12 (1986) and once due to Falkirk not having a 10,000 all seater stadium (2003). Were these rules in place at the start of the relevant seasons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLAS Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Were these rules in place at the start of the relevant seasons? They were. They were also in place at the start of the season Partick Thistle finished bottom of the SPL and Inverness Caledonian Thistle topped the first division. Bizarrely, ICT were promoted without a 10,000 seater... and allowed to groundshare with another SPL team (another 'rule' that was ignored). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenAngus Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 "Nothing to see here". Not quite. They have refused the request for Ashley to increase stake to 29.9%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Not quite. They have refused the request for Ashley to increase stake to 29.9%. Ah! How do the bears feel about that? Pleased, I imagine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamntg Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 What's funny? Have I made that up? I'm getting on a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenAngus Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Ah! How do the bears feel about that? Pleased, I imagine? You'd think so. The big picture for them should be to get level headed 'Rangers' people owning the club rather than short term solutions which could have long term implications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenAngus Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 What's funny? Have I made that up? I'm getting on a bit. You must be as we've gone through this before. I'm sure you do remember but the 10 club SPL in 1999 voted to have an expanded version of 12 clubs starting in 2000. To get there the rules were Div 1 winners automatically promoted. Div 1 2nd and 3rd in a play off with bottom of SPL - 3 one off matches with side finishing bottom of the mini league playing in Div 1 and the other 2 making up the numbers to 12 in the SPL. Falkirk finished 3rd and didn't have a compliant stadium so the play off was cancelled and Dunfermline along with Aberdeen were spared the play off process. All of the above was in place and known before a ball kicked in 1999 including Falkirk's stadium issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 You'd think so. The big picture for them should be to get level headed 'Rangers' people owning the club rather than short term solutions which could have long term implications. Liquidation seems to be the only route open to them to those ends. Can't imagine they'll last much longer at this rate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flure Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 They were. So, the rules weren't changed to "save" a big club? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddardStark Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Liquidation seems to be the only route open to them to those ends. Can't imagine they'll last much longer at this rate. there are plenty of options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 there are plenty of options. Oh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenAngus Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Oh? Another march on Hampden? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddardStark Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Oh? there are offers on the table to invest in the club, with conditions of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLAS Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 So, the rules weren't changed to "save" a big club? Not for the issues you quoted, but they were changed for the one I mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 there are offers on the table to invest in the club, with conditions of course. Oh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamntg Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 You must be as we've gone through this before. I'm sure you do remember but the 10 club SPL in 1999 voted to have an expanded version of 12 clubs starting in 2000. To get there the rules were Div 1 winners automatically promoted. Div 1 2nd and 3rd in a play off with bottom of SPL - 3 one off matches with side finishing bottom of the mini league playing in Div 1 and the other 2 making up the numbers to 12 in the SPL. Falkirk finished 3rd and didn't have a compliant stadium so the play off was cancelled and Dunfermline along with Aberdeen were spared the play off process. All of the above was in place and known before a ball kicked in 1999 including Falkirk's stadium issue. A good year to finish last then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobydoo Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Rhangers Mhedia is gonna be brilliant tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddardStark Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Rhangers Mhedia is gonna be brilliant tonight.I would say the largest Rangers forum supports the SFA announcement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Can you afford them ? That's never been an issue before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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