Rangers: Ally McCoist promotion call over league shake-up
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Manager Ally McCoist believes Rangers should be promoted to the second tier, if the 12-12-18 league format is implemented.
Rangers are closing in on the Third Division title and SPL clubs will vote on reconstruction on 15 April.
McCoist told Rangers TV that the club should earn promotion in the event of winning the title.
"Scottish football's in a sorry state so we have to do what's best for the benefit of the game," McCoist said.
Eleven votes are required for a move to a structure of two top leagues of 12, which would split into three leagues of eight midway through the season.
McCoist expressed concern that Rangers may be in the league of 18 despite closing in on the Third Division title.
"In our eyes, if 12-12-18 is implemented and we are in the 18 then I don't see us getting promotion," he said.
"The argument would be that we would in the third tier but I don't buy that because every other team in the league would be getting promotion with us.
"I don't think that is fair - especially when a precedent has been set. Stranraer won the bottom tier in 1994 and were promoted two divisions due to reconstruction.
"All we have ever wanted is fairness and if the precedent has been set then we imagine that it should be applied again."
McCoist believes promoting Rangers would benefit the game in Scotland.
"Dunfermline are clearly in trouble just now, Hearts have troubles too and we have obviously had our well-documented problems so we must do something that is mutually beneficial to Scottish football," he added.
"If moving us into the second 12 means that there will be such a benefit then surely it has to happen."
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Look I'll try and make this simple. You are in the 4th Tier and that would amalgamate with the 3rd Tier meaning that if you put both those Tiers together then the top team would be QOS who would be promoted and there would be a play off between the bottom team of the Div above and the next three in the 3rd Tier. So where does Rangers fit in?
It's just that everyone else is being promoted alongside them...
Why can't you just say that you want special treatment because that is clearly what you want?
Two SFL Chairmen commented last week that that they would wait until they saw the New rule book before they voted.
What straws are they clutching?
Do you live in a parallel universe where sporting businesses operate on the back of a matchbox?
In either scenario you will go from a Div4-level status to a Div3-level status. You will be promoted whatever happens, do you want special treatment?
Get a grip, you are being dealt with JUSTLY and respect is earned, not demanded. Take your medicine and play the game, like the 41 other teams in the leagues.
Oh and Sally, try to act with some dignity
If the leagues are reconfigured they will play in the third tier of Scottish football.
What exactly are the moaning, cheating gets bumping their gums about?
surely you realise that outside the SPL there is no OF ripple effect. Money brought to the SPL stays in the SPL and transfer fees have all but disappeared. The SFL clubs have to fend for themselves and while Rangers are bringing a wee bonus to the lower leagues at the moment it's an all too brief exception before normal service is resumed. All this 'good of Scottish football' is baloney.