(25-06-2012 18:52 )Scottishbloke Wrote:  Rangers football club and it's supporters are an organisation that took Scottish football at the top of the game for granted for too many years.

interestingly it's been pointed out recently that since the birth of the SPL back in 1998 that's overall it's been a disastrous affair and has had a detrimental effect on the Scottish game aswell as the National team as Scotland has not qualified for a major tournment since World Cup 98.

Jim Mclean former manager of Dundee United during the clubs glorious period of the 80's has gone on record that every single player of his deserved every single penny that they earned. Back in his era Dundee United had a very strict pay structure in place with just the bare minimum of a wage should the team lose, barely enough to live on, slightly more for a draw and about 6 times as much for a win. Infact Dundee United players were earning more than they would playing for the old firm so long as they won the games.

Jim Mclean also famously fined his Dundee United team a week's wages despite beating Motherwell 6-1 in the cup for not being entertaining enough. Jim Mclean was allways of the opinion that aswell as win the team had to do it in style to escape his wrath, he was a hard man to please but like Alex Ferguson with Aberdeen had huge success's leaving Celtic and Rangers high and dry on many occasions to form what was nicknamed at the time the New Firm.

Recently Jim Mclean said he can't bring himself to go and watch his beloved team anymore becuase of the alarming decline in the entertainment factor.

What has happned to Rangers has delighted me. I want to see a complete restructure of the game with all the money from the TV deals and so on being equally distributed. I also want to see a change in the voting system and to see a return to the days when you had at least 4 or 5 teams all capable of winning the league.

Who knows next season could bring about a dramatic change of events, and well who's to say that my Dundee United team can't challenge Celtic for the league. It's happened before so it could happen again.

(25-06-2012 21:47 )Scottishbloke Wrote:  Personally speaking I'd love to have Dundee back in the SPL. The Dundee United v Dundee Derby is a fixture that has a long history and tradition of some great games down the years, also I'd imagine it would appeal to the TV companies too aswell as providing a packed crowd at both Tannadice and Dens Respectively

(26-06-2012 23:49 )bigguy01 Wrote:  more players refusing to move to newco, http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18603617

rangers newco have only the ground and training facilities with no squad and no league football.

scottish football tried to copy the english game and 14yrs later in biting them on the ass. for english football to get to this point it would need man utd to collapse if the glazers to sell to someone like mr whyte. also i hope that sfa, spl and sfl get together to sort out some financial rules like uefa's financial fair play rules.