The likelihood of Sevco being unable to play football in the new season has increased with Charles Green admitting to issues with the SFA over being granted a licence.
A week on Saturday Sevco are due at Glebe Park to face Brechin in the Ramsden Cup but with a number of issues, not least the lack of players, hanging over the club it could be a last minute decision whether the game goes ahead.
Soundbites are already going out highlighting the 12 month signing embargo as the stumbling point to Sevco taking the field but there are bigger issues for Green to deal with as he attempts to launch the club.
Encouraged by John Brown and with the memories of Craig Whyte still fresh in mind season ticket sales have been minimal with various deadlines missed and no facility for taking standing orders.
Despite today’s announcement that Dundee will replace Rangers in the SPL the SFL have still to put Sevco into their fixture list with Stranraer listed as Peterhead’s opponents on August 11.
In order to play in the Third Division Green must obtain membership of the SFA with that issue appearing to be at a stand-off.
An SFA statement tonight admitted: “The new season begins in less than two weeks and it is incumbent on the Scottish FA to conclude all outstanding issues relating to Rangers FC.
“To that end, we aim to meet with the club this week with the intention of achieving a satisfactory outcome for all parties so that we can focus on football in time for the new campaign.”
The SFA are treating the application as a membership transfer and wishing to attach the punishments of the old club to the newco including the outstanding appellate tribunal which Rangers successfully challenged at the Court of Session.
Applying for a new membership would be less complicated but would require three years of audited accounts.
Speaking to STV Green admitted: “I don’t think there’s a time limit on it (the membership) but we definitely need it as soon as possible but there’s still a number of issues outstanding between Rangers and the SFA and we’re working on them now.”
With FIFA watching the issue closely the SFA can’t be seen to compromise their position with suspension or expulsion the only punishment open to the tribunal.
If there is no resolution to the matter the SFA and SFL will have to decide if they wish to invite applications to fill the vacancy or attempt to run with a nine team league.
The last thing that Scottish football requires is for Sevco to start off in Division Three but be unable to complete their fixtures.
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the gift that keeps on giving lol
“Rangers” have been punished enough!! I’m a Celtic fan & believe that they should b allowed 2 start from the 3rd division without anymore sanctions….time 2 get on with things cause this is just dragging out!!
No danger. They deserve to be punished severly.We have had to suffer all their arrogance and sectarian abuse.And here, they have not been punished at all yet.How have they been punished?
For them to start fresh in division three with no sanctions, they have to start acting like a new club/company. But its a double edged sword as mentioned above. No audited accounts means they can’t start over right away, but the media and governing bodies have to stop calling them “rangers” as if nothing has happened. If they want to reincarnate the ghost that is RFC, they need to face the music and be punished severely.
Agree 100%. Get them punished. They have only been related because of liquidation. Hammer them I say. They have cheated and now deserve to be hammered albertz style ha ha
We can’t have this both ways guys! Either rangers are dead and a newco is just that, a newco, or they are still rangers. We have to decide what we really want this to be. We are starting to be as bad as the sfa! Make a bloody decision. Which is it to be?
I think this has all been a big ploy to get rid of Rangers, perpetrators er Rangers! Get my drift! LOL.
Agreed!
Baron Greenback has no interest in running Frankenstein FC. He has ‘Assets’ he wants to sell (well, if you can call Mordor and Ego Park ‘assets’?).
He’ll be content to make his coin with or without a baw getting kicked.
And whoever is gonna buy back the deceased has their cronies at the SFA/SPL assisting in the facade.
But Hector hasn’t gone away. And neither has PC plod.
This is gonna keep on rolling.
Hail hail!
I agree with big chick green. Sevco shouldn’t face a transfer embargo as they’ve done nothing wrong… In fact they’ve done nothing ever. Rangers are deid!!!!!!
Absolutely on the money. We can’t have everything just because they had.
rangers are no more, pan breed! oot the gemme, finished!
Newco/sevco or whatever the hell they call them selves, are new, but I do believe they should have had to apply with the likes of other non-league clubs.
They sevco / dead rangers f.c should NOT be allowed to take up a place in the Third Division if they cannot see out their fixtures. The vacant place should go to Spartans or ‘Third Lanark’ . . .well why not? They have as much chance and resources as dead rangers.
how can rangers/zombie fc/ hundead fc etc have any say in the matter ?
they either comply or are refused membership.
i agree that a new company should be free from punishments etc but green is trying to peddle the myth that its the same club. So unless a public statement is made (perhaps jointly with the sfa) that this is a new start for a new club. Otherwise they must take everything they get.
p.s. it is a new club no matter what they try to claim.
New club . No history . And soon to be stripped of all titles and cups won by default.
Suddenly the rule book is being applied.
If only this had been done months ago then it is possible that Dunfermline would not have been relegated as Rangers would have been unable to fulfill their fixtures.
Just when you thought things were getting clearer the problems continue to mount for Charles Green. If, as he is currently doing, he insists newco is a continuation of the old Rangers then they will have to accept the verdicts handed down by the SPL and SFA as well as paying outstanding football debt.
If he now turns round and states that they are a completely new club then all of the above goes away but they morph into a new set of problems. Newco does not have three years audited accounts, shakey funding, almost non-existent business model and possibly worst of all he alienates the support that he is desperate to get on his side.
If the fans don’t buy tickets because the club that they invested so much faith in no longer exists then Charles Green and his backers better have really deep pockets.
Again the sfa leadership is not there. so much indecision.
Agree with Kevin Barry THEY are deid newco have done nothing wrong.They should be allowed to do anything any other diddy team is allowed to do.But i am a fair guy, the deid rangers still owe millions,so moonbeams park has to be sold,and the auld govan stadium cold make enough pennies to pay of some of the debt,to the butcher the baker and the candlestick maker.
Regardless how they get on they wont last until the end of the season, they will be liquidated, and yet again they will have scottish football in a shambles again as wont be able to finish there fixtures, a total shambles
Just get rid of the scum
Duff & Phelps were Administrators not Liquidators appointed by Craig Whyte (normally a director of a company has no say in who the administrators should be).
It was Duff & Phelps main responsibility to avoid the company from going into liquidation by imposing strict budget controls and try to see if another management team could rescue the ailing company. The main responsibility of an administrators job is supposedly to represent the best interests of the CREDITORS (those who’s bills have not been paid).
Green’s consortium offered to buy Rangers FC as a going concern by investing about 8 million pounds but that would mean buying Rangers with all its debts which they don’t have enough to pay off, so as part of the package / conditions of the sale they offer a CRV to the creditors.
A CRV is Certificate of Reasonable Value stating they are prepared to offer the creditors part payment of their bills but in Greens case they were offering something measly like 6 pence in the pound so the creditors of course rejected it (Green knew it would be rejected but pretended to be disappointed). This meant Rangers FC had to go into liquidation (i.e. a liquidator comes in to sell off all the assets so that the creditors can be paid their bills in full or part of).
It’s the liquidators duty to investigate the company and recommend criminal charges if he feels there was irregularities in the management of the company leading up to the liquidation (of which there were many). As soon as the CRV was rejected, Duff & Phelps should have stepped aside, but they were owed 2.8 million pounds in fees.
They therefore sold off the assets to Green on the cheap for 2.7 million plus 2.8 million for their fees, a total of 5.5 million quid. So Green effectively paid Duff & Phelps 2.7 for Ibrox, the car park, Murray Park and supposedly the players contracts. These assets had previously been independently valued at 106 million pounds.
The assets should have went on the open market. Duff & Phelps should have stepped aside and let the liquidator try to get the most money from the assets to pay the creditors. The liquidator starts his duties on July 31st. He represents Her Majesty’s Tax Office so one might presume he will be ruthless in his endevour to claw back as much money as possible.
If he feels Murray Park and Ibrox were sold to Green on the cheap, (as they obviously were), he has the duty to challenge the sale and recoup the assets for the creditors.