BigAl

Nail firmly on head

There is to be no vote on this today, merely face to face discussions. Given the fact that SPL vote is tomorrow, then guess this makes sense. Jim Spence on Radio Scotland saying that categorically neither Aberdeen or the Arabs are involved in any behind the scenes discussions with Green, and that both clubs remain 100% committed to their previously stated positions.

"a".......you've got that wrong mate

Not in the slightest

Who ? Does anyone know anything about him ?

Nothing like cranking up the pressure on him

Fair steam rolled through that fourth set last night meeting the deadline of 11pm to get the game finished saving him having to finish it on Monday.

Looks like the devil has possessed him...... Reckon any Hun standing within twenty foot of him during his rant would have just had their first shower of 2012

FFS would you trust this man ? A fool and his money and a' that.................. http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/4400806/Tom-first-to-stump-up-money.html

Yep club statement on official site now Hold firm Stewarty

This please

If i'm honest, I was finished with that a long long time ago

So lets put this into perspective then. Huns announce that they wish to fight with all parties against them and then think that we should all support any move to bend change the rules for their assistance. To me that is it in a nutshell. Corruption, bullying cheating and serious lack of integrity is alive and well in Scottish football, but then again I guess this is not something that everyone of us haven't known for some considerable time. My initial euphoria of fair play coming into it with our club and others standing up to them has well and truely evaporated My feelings towards Scottish football are swinging back into the no longer give a fuck as it is patently clear the Huns will not pay the same price for their crimes as any other club other than the other cheek of the same arse would have to do No much wonder my colleagues south of the border are pishing themselves laughing at this carry on.

Got to laugh at all these alleged Rangers superheroes rushing to their defunct club now. Where were they in the hour of need Happy to line up with rescue plans now that someone else took their club into liquidation and oblivion. Frankly John Brown having anything to do with any New Co would just give us a reason (if any were needed) to hate them in their reincarnation. Sure he'll be guaranteed a warm welcome if they were to find their way back to playing us again

Nice sentiment ST, but guess it only really relates to one year....all the other years they were normally out before August was finished

Interesting article taken from the Scotsman: IRONY will be at the forefront of the minds of certain members of the Scottish Football League with long memories when they vote on the future of ‘The Rangers’. Five clubs which will be involved in determining which division the Ibrox club will play in next season – Albion Rovers, Berwick Rangers, Brechin City, Stenhousemuir and Stranraer – may think back 48 years when the boot was on the other foot. In 1964, this gang of five survived an attempt to oust them from senior football in a move led by Rangers. The Glasgow giants wanted to reduce the number of clubs in the then top two divisions from 37 to 32 and proposed that the minnows should drop out. Rangers proposed that the five clubs with the smallest gate receipts should be kicked out and were at the vanguard of moves to make it happen, including sending out correspondence to the other member clubs and deliberately excluding the targeted clubs. Amid much legal wrangling, the smaller clubs – supported by Celtic and their chairman Robert Kelly – survived the move. SFL Operations Director David Thomson recalled: “The book that was launched to mark the centenary of the SFL in 1990 records what happened. The five clubs were in danger of being voted out. However, Stenhousemuir committee member Robert Turpey, who was also a lawyer, and strongly supported by the other clubs, was successful in raising an interim interdict on their behalf.” The matter was eventually resolved out of court in November 1964 amid promises that the clubs would remain in the SFL and any new league that was formed. Thomson added: “That decision probably marks the start of a move to three professional leagues that started a decade later when the Premier League along with Divisions 1 and 2 were created.” However, Rangers’ role in the wrangle caused a lot of anger at the time, especially in Stranraer. Present-day committee member Shaun Niven said: “I know that a lot of people in the town were unhappy with what had gone on. Stranraer are Scotland’s third oldest team as we were formed in 1870 after just Queen’s Park and Kilmarnock. We waited over 80 years to be admitted to the old-style Division Two and to be told after ten years that we were not wanted caused a lot of resentment. The clubs that had been targeted rallied round to win their case and remain in the SFL to this day.” Looking at Rangers’ present predicament, Niven added: “This situation is another of the great ironies that football throws up. We could now determine whether Rangers get into the SFL and what division they come into after they tried to throw us out all those years ago. “This whole situation is full of issues going full circle as it has probably accelerated the amalgamation of the SPL and the SFL 15 years after they were spilt apart by SPL sides led by Rangers and Celtic. Now one league body is seen as the way forward.” Berwick, of course, took a measure of revenge on the park less than two years later when they defeated Rangers 1-0 in a Scottish Cup tie, and now the fate of the club that wanted to expel them and four others could sit in their collective hands. If it comes to a vote at the SFL, Stranraer would have to balance the prospect of placing Rangers in the First Division for the good of the game overall against their own promotion to the Second Division, as they were the losing play-off side last month and weigh up the benefit of eight local derbies against Queen of the South and Ayr United to an overall package that benefits the SFL overall. Niven added, “Nothing will be pre-judged based on what happened nearly 50 years ago. If we have to make a decision we will do that based on what is best for Stranraer FC and Scottish football overall.”

Norway is he going to let you have the last word

Couldn't have put it better myself MBT A full ten years before the Simpson/Durrant accidental clash and yet still "they" point at the 1988 incident as the start point of the ill feeling between our club and their defunct one

Would love that to be true

Aye right Good signing if we actually utilise him correctly

Actually hadn't thought of that when I posted it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNpx7CWLbCk

Dear Stewart So glad that you read my post and decided this was the time to act Yours Al.

If they're lucky and manage to get more votes than Spartans or Cove