Rangers alternative proposals are laughable!

[34064 Fighter Command]

The only team that have a case for joining the Football League are BERWICK RANGERS.

" In 1963/64 the club reached the semi-final of the League Cup only to be beaten 3-1 by Rangers. A team with which they were soon to become renowned. In late 1964 Rangers tabled a motion that the league be reorganised which would have resulted in five clubs, including Berwick Rangers, being expelled from the league. The motion was successfully fought through the courts and the Rangers of Berwick exacted their revenge on 28th January 1967 when they defeated the Glasgow Rangers 1-0 in the first round of the Scottish Cup, a feat still regarded by many as the greatest ever Scottish Cup shock. "

" A period of decline followed with the club twice near extinction during the eighties and early nineties. However, the club fought back and finished Second Division runners-up in 1993/94 only to be denied promotion due to league reconstruction. "

So Glasgow Rangers have history when it comes to 'roughing up' the small clubs. They should be reminded that it's their results on the pitch that count, not the bully boy tactics in the courts that govern promotion and relegation. All they're trying to do is ensure they can continue to make money, which seems to be more important to them than representing their community.

 

[Pavilionaire]

I see what you are saying but just can't see it happening - when has merging clubs/creating new clubs ever worked in football? In Dublin there are already several clubs with as much history as any in this country, in my opinion their fans aren't going to drop them to see a new "super-club", or even worse see their side get axed or merged with a bitter rival. Likewise in Belfast, there is another thread running about the bitter hatred lingering there, and dare I say that football probably brings out the worst rather than the best of it a lot of the time (although Glentoran already are a bit cross-divide). And when you take Swansea, Cardiff and Wrexham out of the equation, the Welsh Premier is non-league clubs in non-league towns (or even villages), I don't see any scope for enlargement.

It's a very positive idea but I don't see it being one the big clubs in Scotland would have any need to buy into.

Domestically, merging / creating new clubs has worked very successfully for Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Dagenham & Redbridge and, until they went budget-crazy - Rushden & Diamonds. Also, 'new' club Milton Keynes Dons are doing fine and now established as a League 1 contender.

Internationally, FC Copenhagen was created by merger of 2 clubs in 1992. They are now the dominant team in Danish football and are Champions League regulars. FC Twente and FC Utrecht in Holland were also formed by merger, with Twente being especially competitive in their domestic league and, again, regular European football. Dutch and Danish football is comparable to Scottish football, so I certainly think there are teams out there who should consider it.

As for the big clubs in Scotland not having any need to buy into it, isn't the Rangers Chairman is making public statements about the alternatives to the Scottish domestic leagues testament to the fact there is systemic dissatisfaction with both the present set-up and the proposed set-up in Scottish football?

 

[Vicar!]

Maybe Blackburn and Rangers should set up their own unique league. They both appear to be living on other planets.

and take Portsmouth with them.

 

[sully]

If you're doing a Celtic league you also invite teams from Brittany in France seeing as it's a Celtic province. Outside chance of nabbing a team from Galicia in Spain for the same reason.

This could be Truro City's big chance, too.........