SPFL and Covid ( Leagues 1 and 2 to restart )

[TheBigO]

2 minutes ago, chrisyboy7 said:

Aim so fed up with all this I starting to not give a flying **** what happens. I'm surprised Scottish football has any followers with the way its run. To sum up the entire Scottish race.......we are the only country to vote against it's own independence lol. 

We basically fail to do the right things and still dont do the moral thing. Idiots 

The problem we have in Scotland is that in general, the things the people want, the mainstream media and real powers that be, don't.

 

That makes it hard. You're always fighting from underneath and those who can be swayed will be by the propaganda machines.

 

Life ain't easy being a pro-ind, socialist, East Coast, non-of fan, in Scotland!!!

[Biffa Bacon]

I would go for Colts plan to get us to remain in top tier. However I think it is a distraction at a very late stage. The bottom of tier 3 clubs are miffed about dropping into tier 3 with the 14-14-14 or 14-14-16 option. 

14-10-10-10 rectifies the unjust relegation and does not piss off so many wee clubs.

 

Another thought... what if the weegies were relegated could they play in championship against their Colts, or would the Colts have to be relegated too?

[Borders Jambo]

5 minutes ago, TheBigO said:

The problem we have in Scotland is that in general, the things the people want, the mainstream media and real powers that be, don't.

 

That makes it hard. You're always fighting from underneath and those who can be swayed will be by the propaganda machines.

 

Life ain't easy being a pro-ind, socialist, East Coast, non-of fan, in Scotland!!!

Great post.

[Howdy Doody Jambo]

11 minutes ago, chrisyboy7 said:

Aim so fed up with all this I starting to not give a flying **** what happens. I'm surprised Scottish football has any followers with the way its run. To sum up the entire Scottish race.......we are the only country to vote against it's own independence lol. 

We basically fail to do the right things and still dont do the moral thing. Idiots 

I certainly won't be supporting the national team ever again after all this pish, its corrupt, tin-pot and Mickey mouse all rolled into one 

 

[DETTY29]

Challenge with Rangers proposal is that it is a financial inducement to bypass due process. 

 

What if a benefactor turned up at Craigroyston with a few million quid, met SFA licensing criteria and offered level 3 clubs the same financial inducements?

 

Straight in?

 

No inducements and start at bottom.

[jack D and coke]

1 hour ago, Selkirkhmfc1874 said:

Have some patience ! Every Avenue gotta be explored before nuclear button pressed

It’s getting seriously draining having to listen to all these tin pot outfits knocking us about. 
I hope it’s this week that’s its made very clear that we won’t let this drag into another week. 
Its decision time or we go legal. 

[Newton51]

Rangers' reconstruction blueprint is radical but it looks set to be suffocated by self interest - Keith Jackson - Daily Record

Their grand plan may be doomed to fail.

Even in the best of times, getting consensus in Scottish football is like trying to nail custard to the wall and, it goes without saying, these are far from the best of times.

 

So tomorrow it’s almost inevitable that a freshly floated Rangers proposal for league reconstruction will end up dripping on the skirting board, like all the others before it.

But the fact that the Ibrox club have attempted to plot a course for Scottish football out of this coronavirus nightmare should be welcomed and recognised nonetheless.

 

This is the Rangers our games needs, progressive and forward thinking, capable of reaching out to the rest of 
Scotland’s clubs and offering solutions and leadership rather than acting in anger and causing further division.

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That their vision for a new look SPFL is unlikely to get off the ground is unfortunate. There’s much to like about the 14-14-18 blue-print.

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Not only would it correct all the wrongs which Covid-19 has dumped on our doorstep but it would also see the Old Firm launch B teams into the lowest tier.

 

This is precisely the sort of radical and imaginative initiative that the game in this country is crying out for.

So it is indeed a great pity that it will almost certainly be suffocated by the self interest of the perennial hangers-on who clog up the pyramid without ever contributing anything of substance to it.

The Rangers plan would also allow Kelty Hearts and Brora Rangers to invigorate the lowest tier.

It would breathe some badly needed new life and ambition into an all too stale structure all of which, in turn, would help to raise standards across the board.

(Image: SNS Group)

The most talented and pampered youngsters from the academies of Lennoxtown and Auchenhowie would also be fast-tracked from the sterile, cotton wool environment of pro-youth football straight into the real, gritty world of the professional game.

There’s hardly a coach in the country who doesn’t see the benefits in that.

In the future, other top flight clubs would also be able to place colts sides into the pyramid, either in the Highland or Lowland League, and make men of their best young boys. 

 

Alternatively, they would have the option to forge ‘strategic partnerships’ with established clubs lower down the order and send batches of up to six players on loan at a time, along with some of their coaching staff. 

Given the financial catastrophe of the current global pandemic, this too would seem like a sensible and attractive way forward. 

It has the potential to be a game changer in the development of the country’s most talented teenagers and it could offer a glimpse of a better future for our national team. After 22 years kicking around in the international wilderness, it’s surely about time our game attempts to break outside of the same old box which has kept it caged in and stifled for so long. 

There’s also a fundamental sense of fairness underpinning this Rangers proposal as it would spare Hearts and Partick Thistle from dropping down the divisions while also rewarding Kelty and Brora for winning the Lowland and Highland Leagues.

In fact, it’s difficult to find a single good reason for not backing the Ibrox club on this one, so difficult that even Celtic are on their side, but that doesn’t mean it will win the votes of those clubs who feel most threatened by change, the community clubs who aspire to do little more than exist. 

These are the clubs Gordon Strachan would like to see pushed to one side, perhaps into amateur status, to help streamline the professional set-up and create a fit-for-purpose elite.

There’s much to be said too for Strachan’s vision of what a revolution might look like but such a huge, widespread cull could only be forced through by a breakaway from the SPFL and the creation of an entirely new league.

These are the kind of conversations which really ought be dominating the proceedings now that the bad tempered furore of season 2019/20 is finally beginning to subside. Rangers, of course, will still feel a little raw and bruised by the controversial decision making process which brought the campaign to an end when Steven Gerrard and his player still had an outside shot at the title.

(Image: SNS Group Ross)

Theirs is an injustice which cannot be corrected by any reconstruction or even an asterisk.

It may take some time for that particular scar to heal, even if in reality Gerrard and his players were also more than likely destined to come up short.

But the fact that theyhave now stepped into this wider debate on the very future of our game and attempted to take a lead is a sign of a club moving back in the right direction.

For that reason alone, what they have put on the table deserves to be given proper consideration by all 42 of Scotland’s clubs before any final decisions start dropping into Neil Doncaster’s inbox over the course of the next 24 hours.

Those who are minded to dismiss it out of hand should really ask themselves what exactly it is that their own clubs are bringing to the party.

It’s probably a questionthat they would rather not have to confront.

But, at this moment in time, Scottish football is in need of some serious answers.

And, after all the rancour and acrimony of these last few months, Rangers deserve credit for attempting atleast to be part of the solution now.

[BelgeJambo]

Whoopee. well done Rangers

[kila]

Incredibly predictable that when Rangers come out with a proposal that’s identical to Hearts only it includes OF colts, that wank piece jizzes his load over it. 
 

 

[Riccarton3]

1 minute ago, kila said:

Incredibly predictable that when Rangers come out with a proposal that’s identical to Hearts only it includes OF colts, that wank piece jizzes his load over it. 
 

 

Shameless.

[Gordon Ramsay]

9 minutes ago, Newton51 said:

Rangers' reconstruction blueprint is radical but it looks set to be suffocated by self interest - Keith Jackson - Daily Record

Their grand plan may be doomed to fail.

Even in the best of times, getting consensus in Scottish football is like trying to nail custard to the wall and, it goes without saying, these are far from the best of times.

 

So tomorrow it’s almost inevitable that a freshly floated Rangers proposal for league reconstruction will end up dripping on the skirting board, like all the others before it.

But the fact that the Ibrox club have attempted to plot a course for Scottish football out of this coronavirus nightmare should be welcomed and recognised nonetheless.

 

This is the Rangers our games needs, progressive and forward thinking, capable of reaching out to the rest of 
Scotland’s clubs and offering solutions and leadership rather than acting in anger and causing further division.

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That their vision for a new look SPFL is unlikely to get off the ground is unfortunate. There’s much to like about the 14-14-18 blue-print.

Show Player

Not only would it correct all the wrongs which Covid-19 has dumped on our doorstep but it would also see the Old Firm launch B teams into the lowest tier.

 

This is precisely the sort of radical and imaginative initiative that the game in this country is crying out for.

So it is indeed a great pity that it will almost certainly be suffocated by the self interest of the perennial hangers-on who clog up the pyramid without ever contributing anything of substance to it.

The Rangers plan would also allow Kelty Hearts and Brora Rangers to invigorate the lowest tier.

It would breathe some badly needed new life and ambition into an all too stale structure all of which, in turn, would help to raise standards across the board.

(Image: SNS Group)

The most talented and pampered youngsters from the academies of Lennoxtown and Auchenhowie would also be fast-tracked from the sterile, cotton wool environment of pro-youth football straight into the real, gritty world of the professional game.

There’s hardly a coach in the country who doesn’t see the benefits in that.

In the future, other top flight clubs would also be able to place colts sides into the pyramid, either in the Highland or Lowland League, and make men of their best young boys. 

 

Alternatively, they would have the option to forge ‘strategic partnerships’ with established clubs lower down the order and send batches of up to six players on loan at a time, along with some of their coaching staff. 

Given the financial catastrophe of the current global pandemic, this too would seem like a sensible and attractive way forward. 

It has the potential to be a game changer in the development of the country’s most talented teenagers and it could offer a glimpse of a better future for our national team. After 22 years kicking around in the international wilderness, it’s surely about time our game attempts to break outside of the same old box which has kept it caged in and stifled for so long. 

There’s also a fundamental sense of fairness underpinning this Rangers proposal as it would spare Hearts and Partick Thistle from dropping down the divisions while also rewarding Kelty and Brora for winning the Lowland and Highland Leagues.

In fact, it’s difficult to find a single good reason for not backing the Ibrox club on this one, so difficult that even Celtic are on their side, but that doesn’t mean it will win the votes of those clubs who feel most threatened by change, the community clubs who aspire to do little more than exist. 

These are the clubs Gordon Strachan would like to see pushed to one side, perhaps into amateur status, to help streamline the professional set-up and create a fit-for-purpose elite.

There’s much to be said too for Strachan’s vision of what a revolution might look like but such a huge, widespread cull could only be forced through by a breakaway from the SPFL and the creation of an entirely new league.

These are the kind of conversations which really ought be dominating the proceedings now that the bad tempered furore of season 2019/20 is finally beginning to subside. Rangers, of course, will still feel a little raw and bruised by the controversial decision making process which brought the campaign to an end when Steven Gerrard and his player still had an outside shot at the title.

(Image: SNS Group Ross)

Theirs is an injustice which cannot be corrected by any reconstruction or even an asterisk.

It may take some time for that particular scar to heal, even if in reality Gerrard and his players were also more than likely destined to come up short.

But the fact that theyhave now stepped into this wider debate on the very future of our game and attempted to take a lead is a sign of a club moving back in the right direction.

For that reason alone, what they have put on the table deserves to be given proper consideration by all 42 of Scotland’s clubs before any final decisions start dropping into Neil Doncaster’s inbox over the course of the next 24 hours.

Those who are minded to dismiss it out of hand should really ask themselves what exactly it is that their own clubs are bringing to the party.

It’s probably a questionthat they would rather not have to confront.

But, at this moment in time, Scottish football is in need of some serious answers.

And, after all the rancour and acrimony of these last few months, Rangers deserve credit for attempting atleast to be part of the solution now.

 

What an absolute bellend this guy is. 

[DETTY29]

31 minutes ago, Stupid Sexy Flanders said:

 

I reckon the clubs/chairmen all know the SPFL is strongly suggesting a reconstruction, and that they'll possibly force it through in order to avoid court. So the Old Firm are now just seeing what they can get out of it. 

 

The Old Firm could have proposed this colts idea at any time, in fact it would probably have been easier for them without all this other stuff going on. Why now and not five years ago? (I know it's been talked about for a while but never seriously.) To me, it seems like the opportunistic OF have said to themselves, "Looks like recon is happening anyway, let's use that to our advantage." 

 

I'm not ITK, I'm totally just guessing. 😄

Just guessing too, but its a threat from Rangers to put a spanner in the works of Doncaster needing to get his 14 team top league under threat of legal action from us, dirty linen in public (ergo Celtic too) and pressure from Sky to guarantee them 'switching' their vote.

 

It then puts pressure on Doncaster to do and give something.  Just an opinion but an 'indication' from Doncaster that he is more than considering his short to medium term position will do and 14-10-10-10 will be their interim accepted position. 

 

Hearts legal team will be building a case against the SPFL.  And that case won't just be the matters of law etc that would be presented but a picture will be built of the SPFL modus operandi.   Rangers as much as Celtic need the league to start asap but don't worry, since it's and it's predecessors inceptions, Rangers have plenty SPFL,SPL dirty linen too that they would rather not see the light of day.

[stevie1874]

7 hours ago, Smith's right boot said:

There will be folk on here that will still be angry if the league is reconstructed and we stay up. 

 

You can't make that stuff up. 

 

 

Maybe folk are angry at the way the people in power have tried to force things through by any means for the good of a certain club or clubs at the expense of others. Having a day in court could be the only real chance to expose the corruption that exists and our media could then not deny it exists. 

[NaturalOrder74]

If we’re bringing in colts can we have a clause they have to be in the same league and have to play each other four times a year please ? If one of them misses promotion we can just have a vote on keeping the two of them together in the same league to keep things fair 

[DETTY29]

9 minutes ago, BelgeJambo said:

Whoopee. well done Rangers

Aye,

 

Where was this proposal 2 months ago?

[ford donald]

28 minutes ago, Still Tynie said:

I certainly won't be supporting the national team ever again after all this pish, its corrupt, tin-pot and Mickey mouse all rolled into one 

 

 

Always has been.

[jackal]

This is the Rangers our games needs, progressive and forward thinking, capable of reaching out to the rest of 
Scotland’s clubs and offering solutions and leadership rather than acting in anger and causing further division.

 

 

 

Amazing how a suggestion appears a great idea when one of the OF make it.

[Geoff Kilpatrick]

Keith Jackson has a stunning lack of self-awareness.

[TheBigO]

Just now, jackal said:

This is the Rangers our games needs, progressive and forward thinking, capable of reaching out to the rest of 
Scotland’s clubs and offering solutions and leadership rather than acting in anger and causing further division.

 

 

 

Amazing how a suggestion appears a great idea when one of the OF make it.

Yup.

 

It's actually disgusting.

 

Look, he may be right. But what did he say about us doing similar and more, again?

 

Our media make me angrier than anything else

[I.T.K]

Keith Jackson is murder.

 

I'm curious as to where the colt teams play? 

[DETTY29]

17 minutes ago, kila said:

Incredibly predictable that when Rangers come out with a proposal that’s identical to Hearts only it includes OF colts, that wank piece jizzes his load over it. 
 

 

Wonder when AB spoke to Rangers or Celtic about what they would get behind whether they mentioned their Colts?

[Borders Jambo]

5 minutes ago, Geoff Kilpatrick said:

Keith Jackson has a stunning lack of self-awareness.

And an incredibly inflated sense of his own importance.

 

Disgusting is correct.  I hope KJ realises that it may not be wise for him turning up at Tynecastle anytime soon

[DETTY29]

2 minutes ago, I.T.K said:

Keith Jackson is murder.

 

I'm curious as to where the colt teams play? 

Jim McInally said yesterday that when the proposal was put together initially by Celtic and Rangers, Chris McCart at Celtic said they would play at Cappielow.

[Fozzyonthefence]

14 minutes ago, kila said:

Incredibly predictable that when Rangers come out with a proposal that’s identical to Hearts only it includes OF colts, that wank piece jizzes his load over it. 
 

 

Incredible but predictable!  When Anderson offered to pump money into the lower leagues, Jackson was all over it, saying Hearts must be relegated as this cannot be seen to be a bribe.  
 

Now Rangers have come out with something not even disguised as anything other than a bribe to pay money to fastrack 2 teams into the league, bypassing all the normal rules and pyramid system, and they are trying to save Scottish football, not even a mention that this is a bribe. 
 

So what would you call buying off clubs to get a team into a higher league when it’s the OF and not Hearts, Keith?  **** off Jackson you hypocritical Hun pr1ck!

[hibsarepants]

1 hour ago, Selkirkhmfc1874 said:

Have some patience ! Every Avenue gotta be explored before nuclear button pressed

Agreed , I have advocated that line from the start but we are now close to having to take steps to legally fight back against actions that will cause our club serious damages. If by Wed , all plans for reconstruction have either ran into the ground or at best deferred for further discussion , we should write to the SPFL informing them that if they do not take steps to remedy matters we will be in Court by Monday latest. That should put the cat amongst the pigeons as they say.

[Brian Fantana]

"And that would paint an ugly picture of Scottish football being prepared to drop its knickers for the highest bidder – as well as its
principles and what’s left of its sporting integrity." 

 

Jackson quote from last week when JA offering a donation was a bribe and had to be decried as much as possible. Of course that picture no longer exists now that Rangers are offering money to clubs. They are the altruistic saviours of Scottish football and must be worshipped.

 

 

Angry, disgusted but sadly not surprise. 

[DETTY29]

2 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

"And that would paint an ugly picture of Scottish football being prepared to drop its knickers for the highest bidder – as well as its
principles and what’s left of its sporting integrity." 

 

Jackson quote from last week when JA offering a donation was a bribe and had to be decried as much as possible. Of course that picture no longer exists now that Rangers are offering money to clubs. They are the altruistic saviours of Scottish football and must be worshipped.

 

 

Angry, disgusted but sadly not surprise. 

Jackson is a parody of his own hypocritical self.

 

Edited June 8, 2020 by DETTY29

[Deevers]

6 minutes ago, hibsarepants said:

Agreed , I have advocated that line from the start but we are now close to having to take steps to legally fight back against actions that will cause our club serious damages. If by Wed , all plans for reconstruction have either ran into the ground or at best deferred for further discussion , we should write to the SPFL informing them that if they do not take steps to remedy matters we will be in Court by Monday latest. That should put the cat amongst the pigeons as they say.

They should have everything prepared and lodge papers first thing on Thursday morning if there is any more prevarication and foot dragging.  No more hanging about waiting and hoping for something to happen. 

[MCW1976]

28 minutes ago, Gordon Ramsay said:

 

What an absolute bellend this guy is. 

He (Keith Jackson) comes across as a football Ned, set loose on a keyboard.

 

The Sports department at the Daily Record is an afterthought. The real Record journalists are let loose on their keyboards to bring daily accounts of butchery and gangland slayings to the Great Unwashed.

 

It really out be rebranded as The West of Scotland Daily Ned Gazette - with an annual Buckfast Abbey tour for readers who collect enough tokens throughout the year.

[Selkirkhmfc1874]

48 minutes ago, jack D and coke said:

It’s getting seriously draining having to listen to all these tin pot outfits knocking us about. 
I hope it’s this week that’s its made very clear that we won’t let this drag into another week. 
Its decision time or we go legal. 

👍

[colinmaroon]

10 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

"And that would paint an ugly picture of Scottish football being prepared to drop its knickers for the highest bidder – as well as its
principles and what’s left of its sporting integrity." 

 

Jackson quote from last week when JA offering a donation was a bribe and had to be decried as much as possible. Of course that picture no longer exists now that Rangers are offering money to clubs. They are the altruistic saviours of Scottish football and must be worshipped.

 

 

Angry, disgusted but sadly not surprise. 

 

If you were to find someone who embodies all that is wrong with Scottish football coverage, and there are a number of candidates, Jackson would be number one. 

 

He has extremely limited ability and zero integrity.  He gets paid by a national newspaper for pushing a narrow, bigoted agenda, which is pure sycophancy. 

 

 

[Francis Albert]

2 hours ago, Selkirkhmfc1874 said:

Have some patience ! Every Avenue gotta be explored before nuclear button pressed

Are we exploring every avenue or being led down every back street and dead end?

[jack D and coke]

21 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

"And that would paint an ugly picture of Scottish football being prepared to drop its knickers for the highest bidder – as well as its
principles and what’s left of its sporting integrity." 

 

Jackson quote from last week when JA offering a donation was a bribe and had to be decried as much as possible. Of course that picture no longer exists now that Rangers are offering money to clubs. They are the altruistic saviours of Scottish football and must be worshipped.

 

 

Angry, disgusted but sadly not surprise. 

It’s a beautiful thing how quickly Jackoff’s story has already smashed a big custard pie right in his puss. 
Without question the dumbest “journalist” in this country that writes for an absolute ****ing rag of a paper, it’s embarrassing what we have to tolerate here. I’ll dance a jig the day these papers are out of business and people like that knobend are on the dole. 
Once that excuse for a paper is bust he has nowhere to go. He’s a weapons grade ****wit. 

Edited June 8, 2020 by jack D and coke

[Gmcjambo]

16 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

"And that would paint an ugly picture of Scottish football being prepared to drop its knickers for the highest bidder – as well as its
principles and what’s left of its sporting integrity." 

 

Jackson quote from last week when JA offering a donation was a bribe and had to be decried as much as possible. Of course that picture no longer exists now that Rangers are offering money to clubs. They are the altruistic saviours of Scottish football and must be worshipped.

 

 

Angry, disgusted but sadly not surprise. 

The hypocrisy is astonishing at times.     One offer was cash from a philanthropist with no strings attached,  the other is from the 2 largest clubs in Scotland and it is dependent on them getting two 'b' teams into the senior league set up and being treated differently than all other clubs (with no rationale offered as to why).      The irony is that their proposal probably does have merit but I just get so annoyed with the double standards and hypocrisy in the media too.    

[Deevers]

1 minute ago, Francis Albert said:

Are we exploring every avenue or being led down every back street and dead end?

Get the impression that the can is just continually being kicked down the road. If we let this just rumble on without taking decisive action it will be too late. Every effort to effect change is being scuppered by the idiots in charge of diddy clubs looking for their moment in the spotlight or by the others in the premiership who see us as a threat and want to stick a knife into us. The answer to this is getting to court with this now.

[Lord Beni of Gorgie]

10 minutes ago, Deevers said:

Get the impression that the can is just continually being kicked down the road. If we let this just rumble on without taking decisive action it will be too late. Every effort to effect change is being scuppered by the idiots in charge of diddy clubs looking for their moment in the spotlight or by the others in the premiership who see us as a threat and want to stick a knife into us. The answer to this is getting to court with this now.

Suspect we are days rather than weeks from the next chapter 

[Selkirkhmfc1874]

17 minutes ago, Francis Albert said:

Are we exploring every avenue or being led down every back street and dead end?

Time will tell but a do know going to court always last option because once in court your case stronger when you can say explored every Avenue 

[Pans Jambo]

1 hour ago, Newton51 said:

Rangers' reconstruction blueprint is radical but it looks set to be suffocated by self interest - Keith Jackson - Daily Record

Their grand plan may be doomed to fail.

Even in the best of times, getting consensus in Scottish football is like trying to nail custard to the wall and, it goes without saying, these are far from the best of times.

 

So tomorrow it’s almost inevitable that a freshly floated Rangers proposal for league reconstruction will end up dripping on the skirting board, like all the others before it.

But the fact that the Ibrox club have attempted to plot a course for Scottish football out of this coronavirus nightmare should be welcomed and recognised nonetheless.

 

This is the Rangers our games needs, progressive and forward thinking, capable of reaching out to the rest of 
Scotland’s clubs and offering solutions and leadership rather than acting in anger and causing further division.

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That their vision for a new look SPFL is unlikely to get off the ground is unfortunate. There’s much to like about the 14-14-18 blue-print.

Show Player

Not only would it correct all the wrongs which Covid-19 has dumped on our doorstep but it would also see the Old Firm launch B teams into the lowest tier.

 

This is precisely the sort of radical and imaginative initiative that the game in this country is crying out for.

So it is indeed a great pity that it will almost certainly be suffocated by the self interest of the perennial hangers-on who clog up the pyramid without ever contributing anything of substance to it.

The Rangers plan would also allow Kelty Hearts and Brora Rangers to invigorate the lowest tier.

It would breathe some badly needed new life and ambition into an all too stale structure all of which, in turn, would help to raise standards across the board.

(Image: SNS Group)

The most talented and pampered youngsters from the academies of Lennoxtown and Auchenhowie would also be fast-tracked from the sterile, cotton wool environment of pro-youth football straight into the real, gritty world of the professional game.

There’s hardly a coach in the country who doesn’t see the benefits in that.

In the future, other top flight clubs would also be able to place colts sides into the pyramid, either in the Highland or Lowland League, and make men of their best young boys. 

 

Alternatively, they would have the option to forge ‘strategic partnerships’ with established clubs lower down the order and send batches of up to six players on loan at a time, along with some of their coaching staff. 

Given the financial catastrophe of the current global pandemic, this too would seem like a sensible and attractive way forward. 

It has the potential to be a game changer in the development of the country’s most talented teenagers and it could offer a glimpse of a better future for our national team. After 22 years kicking around in the international wilderness, it’s surely about time our game attempts to break outside of the same old box which has kept it caged in and stifled for so long. 

There’s also a fundamental sense of fairness underpinning this Rangers proposal as it would spare Hearts and Partick Thistle from dropping down the divisions while also rewarding Kelty and Brora for winning the Lowland and Highland Leagues.

In fact, it’s difficult to find a single good reason for not backing the Ibrox club on this one, so difficult that even Celtic are on their side, but that doesn’t mean it will win the votes of those clubs who feel most threatened by change, the community clubs who aspire to do little more than exist. 

These are the clubs Gordon Strachan would like to see pushed to one side, perhaps into amateur status, to help streamline the professional set-up and create a fit-for-purpose elite.

There’s much to be said too for Strachan’s vision of what a revolution might look like but such a huge, widespread cull could only be forced through by a breakaway from the SPFL and the creation of an entirely new league.

These are the kind of conversations which really ought be dominating the proceedings now that the bad tempered furore of season 2019/20 is finally beginning to subside. Rangers, of course, will still feel a little raw and bruised by the controversial decision making process which brought the campaign to an end when Steven Gerrard and his player still had an outside shot at the title.

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Theirs is an injustice which cannot be corrected by any reconstruction or even an asterisk.

It may take some time for that particular scar to heal, even if in reality Gerrard and his players were also more than likely destined to come up short.

But the fact that theyhave now stepped into this wider debate on the very future of our game and attempted to take a lead is a sign of a club moving back in the right direction.

For that reason alone, what they have put on the table deserves to be given proper consideration by all 42 of Scotland’s clubs before any final decisions start dropping into Neil Doncaster’s inbox over the course of the next 24 hours.

Those who are minded to dismiss it out of hand should really ask themselves what exactly it is that their own clubs are bringing to the party.

It’s probably a questionthat they would rather not have to confront.

But, at this moment in time, Scottish football is in need of some serious answers.

And, after all the rancour and acrimony of these last few months, Rangers deserve credit for attempting atleast to be part of the solution now.

OUR SAVIOURS!!!!!

 

Aye Right!

[Francis Albert]

3 minutes ago, Sir Gio said:

Suspect we are days rather than weeks from the next chapter 

We seem to have been days away from the next chapter for weeks. I take the point about exploring every avenue but I think we can already show we have done a damn site more than the SPFL and the other clubs to find a solution. I am not as sure as some that we would win in court but I think going to court is the only way of bringing this to a head. We are already disadvantaged whatever the outcome by the uncertainty and not being on an even playing field on starting training and coaching and player recruitment etc

 

[glynnlondon]

33 minutes ago, MCW1976 said:

He (Keith Jackson) comes across as a football Ned, set loose on a keyboard.

 

The Sports department at the Daily Record is an afterthought. The real Record journalists are let loose on their keyboards to bring daily accounts of butchery and gangland slayings to the Great Unwashed.

 

It really out be rebranded as The West of Scotland Daily Ned Gazette - with an annual Buckfast Abbey tour for readers who collect enough tokens throughout the year.

Surely it must be nearly time for another week long expose on the ice cream wars for the weegies to salivate over.

[Nookie Bear]

That Jackson article is laughable. It's like he is trolling Budge and Hearts.

[Dusk_Till_Dawn]

That is just unreal from Jackson. Nothing less than a lickspittle 

[frankblack]

7 minutes ago, Dusk_Till_Dawn said:

That is just unreal from Jackson. Nothing less than a lickspittle 

 

It still hasn't sunk in that his team died.

[NANOJAMBO]

1 hour ago, Newton51 said:

Rangers' reconstruction blueprint is radical but it looks set to be suffocated by self interest - Keith Jackson - Daily Record

Their grand plan may be doomed to fail.

Even in the best of times, getting consensus in Scottish football is like trying to nail custard to the wall and, it goes without saying, these are far from the best of times.

 

So tomorrow it’s almost inevitable that a freshly floated Rangers proposal for league reconstruction will end up dripping on the skirting board, like all the others before it.

But the fact that the Ibrox club have attempted to plot a course for Scottish football out of this coronavirus nightmare should be welcomed and recognised nonetheless.

 

This is the Rangers our games needs, progressive and forward thinking, capable of reaching out to the rest of 
Scotland’s clubs and offering solutions and leadership rather than acting in anger and causing further division.

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That their vision for a new look SPFL is unlikely to get off the ground is unfortunate. There’s much to like about the 14-14-18 blue-print.

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Not only would it correct all the wrongs which Covid-19 has dumped on our doorstep but it would also see the Old Firm launch B teams into the lowest tier.

 

This is precisely the sort of radical and imaginative initiative that the game in this country is crying out for.

So it is indeed a great pity that it will almost certainly be suffocated by the self interest of the perennial hangers-on who clog up the pyramid without ever contributing anything of substance to it.

The Rangers plan would also allow Kelty Hearts and Brora Rangers to invigorate the lowest tier.

It would breathe some badly needed new life and ambition into an all too stale structure all of which, in turn, would help to raise standards across the board.

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The most talented and pampered youngsters from the academies of Lennoxtown and Auchenhowie would also be fast-tracked from the sterile, cotton wool environment of pro-youth football straight into the real, gritty world of the professional game.

There’s hardly a coach in the country who doesn’t see the benefits in that.

In the future, other top flight clubs would also be able to place colts sides into the pyramid, either in the Highland or Lowland League, and make men of their best young boys. 

 

Alternatively, they would have the option to forge ‘strategic partnerships’ with established clubs lower down the order and send batches of up to six players on loan at a time, along with some of their coaching staff. 

Given the financial catastrophe of the current global pandemic, this too would seem like a sensible and attractive way forward. 

It has the potential to be a game changer in the development of the country’s most talented teenagers and it could offer a glimpse of a better future for our national team. After 22 years kicking around in the international wilderness, it’s surely about time our game attempts to break outside of the same old box which has kept it caged in and stifled for so long. 

There’s also a fundamental sense of fairness underpinning this Rangers proposal as it would spare Hearts and Partick Thistle from dropping down the divisions while also rewarding Kelty and Brora for winning the Lowland and Highland Leagues.

In fact, it’s difficult to find a single good reason for not backing the Ibrox club on this one, so difficult that even Celtic are on their side, but that doesn’t mean it will win the votes of those clubs who feel most threatened by change, the community clubs who aspire to do little more than exist. 

These are the clubs Gordon Strachan would like to see pushed to one side, perhaps into amateur status, to help streamline the professional set-up and create a fit-for-purpose elite.

There’s much to be said too for Strachan’s vision of what a revolution might look like but such a huge, widespread cull could only be forced through by a breakaway from the SPFL and the creation of an entirely new league.

These are the kind of conversations which really ought be dominating the proceedings now that the bad tempered furore of season 2019/20 is finally beginning to subside. Rangers, of course, will still feel a little raw and bruised by the controversial decision making process which brought the campaign to an end when Steven Gerrard and his player still had an outside shot at the title.

(Image: SNS Group Ross)

Theirs is an injustice which cannot be corrected by any reconstruction or even an asterisk.

It may take some time for that particular scar to heal, even if in reality Gerrard and his players were also more than likely destined to come up short.

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Jackson says ending the leagues early and denying his beloved Rangers is an "injustice" - but Hearts relegation doesn't even get a mention. 

 

 

[gashauskis9]

4 minutes ago, NANOJAMBO said:

Jackson says ending the leagues early and denying his beloved Rangers is an "injustice" - but Hearts relegation doesn't even get a mention. 

 

 

I can’t believe they still let this permatanned prick anywhere near the crayons tbh.  That’s the 3rd week on the bounce he’s written about reconstruction being doomed with no evidence whatsoever.  Desperate, desperate little man.

[Dusk_Till_Dawn]

Just now, gashauskis9 said:

I can’t believe they still let this permatanned prick anywhere near the crayons tbh.  That’s the 3rd week on the bounce he’s written about reconstruction being doomed with no evidence whatsoever.  Desperate, desperate little man.

Also, to pretend that the arse hadn’t dropped out of Rangers’ season is honestly laughable. The only injustice where they are concerned is that they didn’t finish 20 points adrift 

[Hungry hippo]

Would be impossible to tell the difference if someone set up a Keith Jackson parody account.

[The Verminator]

Where did Niblick go - presume we wont see him until the next full moon?

[NANOJAMBO]

Just now, The Verminator said:

Where did Niblick go - presume we wont see him until the next full moon?

I think he had a busy night. Actually there was quite a few about last night. 

[The Verminator]

1 minute ago, NANOJAMBO said:

I think he had a busy night. Actually there was quite a few about last night. 

😆 - he could start a fight in a telephone booth