The Scottish Football League have dismissed reports that newclub Rangers could be parachuted into Division One.
On Saturday the BBC ran a story that the SFA are keen to push through a merger of the SPL and SFL.
With the prospect of forming SPL2, as suggested by the McLeish report, the new look set up could be seen as a convenient way of re-positioning newclub Rangers close to the top flight.
While the SFA and SFL have looked the other way from the Rangers crisis the SFL has gone about their business quietly bringing in sponsors such as Irn-Bru and living within their means.
The prospect of being bulldozed into a new set up under the direct control of the SFA isn’t welcomed by the SFL with chief executive David Longmuir defending the independence and structure of his set up.
Asked about accommodating newco in the SFL he said: “It would be a newco scenario and the only way we could accommodate any new application would be to create a gap in the Third Division through the play-offs with teams shuffling up.
“We would then judge every case on its own merits. There would be no provision for any newco Rangers to go into the First Division rather than the Third.
“The decisions that have to be made by the SPL and SFA in the coming weeks are far more crucial than the knock-on effects that come to the SFL.
“There are no winners in this situation. The good of the game is balancing sporting integrity with the finances available and to be realistic about the future.”
Last week’s Ramsden Cup draw produced a ‘Glasgow derby’ with Partick Thistle travelling to face Third Division Clyde in the tie of the round.
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Finally someone with some idea of the rules, not rubber ones that have to be twisted inside out or simply create brand new ones to suit….Are you reading & learning Doncaster !!
There are NO special cases, Cuckoo FC are just another club, if fact they are lagging behind other potential applicants who DO have Players, Stadia, Accounts, Fans. I hope that ALL clubs get a fair hearing and no preferential treatment is given to ANY club who request to join.
In the meantime, they can keep playing against Linfield & Chelsea reserves…maybe Gattuso can arrange a game with Sion who will have blank weeks when top class European Competitions are being played.
Exactly, even Rangers in the 3rd division is wrong! If there was. O favoritism, which we all know there is, they would be out of football for a couple years!