Rangers: Ally McCoist promotion call over league shake-up

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Rangers boss Ally McCoist

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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  • Comment posted by Freenonbrit, at 13:47 21 Mar 2013

    Since the financial collapse caused the club to fail in its obligations to the rest of Scottish football, at every opportunity Rangers and a large proportion of the supporters have demanded, often with threats, the granting of privileges and favours which no other club would have the gall to expect. It shows a lack of moral integrity, dignity, propriety and honour - just low-life yobbery.

  • Comment posted by DeepingDavie, at 13:18 21 Mar 2013

    I think this is quite simple. Let's say Arbrouth finish the 2nd div in 5th place - I think around 26th in the overall pyramid, and Rangers finish as champs in div 3, or 33rd in the pyramid. Surely we can't have a situation where the former ends up in the bottom league of 18 and the latter goes into the second tier?

    Thoughts?

  • Comment posted by U14097593, at 21:10 22 Mar 2013

    I feel like Bamber Gasgoine ......

    It's nice being in control

  • Comment posted by Greenlichtie, at 13:56 23 Mar 2013

    Surely Stirling Albion have a case for being in the 2nd tier now.......they've taken 5 points off rangers this season. And Arbroath's draw at Celtic in the scottish cup should at least get a european place.....eh?!?

  • Comment posted by OddJobLot, at 10:07 23 Mar 2013

    Rangers should not be automatically given the slot. It's preposterous to suggest that simply because they are a big side they should get the nod. There are a whole host of older more established clubs than the newco that should get consideration first. Also this would represent a short circuiting of the righty applied process applied to all new clubs and would be a travesty.

  • Comment posted by J Tull, at 22:54 22 Mar 2013

    @347 time for bed ,aye right, this is your life 24/7 watchin new rangers? probably never been , just like the other 95% of so called rangers fans. pathetic glory hunters. brainless and you are the proof

  • Comment posted by U15655235, at 18:27 21 Mar 2013

    I can see where The Rangers are coming from, If they Yell, scream and spit the dummy out often enough then the powers that be will buckle and let them join the second tier. Much in the same way they Yelled, Screamed and spat out the dummy about having titles taken off their old club. Scottish football is all about buckling of late, all for one brand new team.

  • Comment posted by A Bhoy from Cults, at 17:51 21 Mar 2013

    'For the good of Scottish football'... It's pitiful to hear a club that used every tick in the book to promote its own self interest now try to peddle a line about protecting the collective interest.

  • Comment posted by J Tull, at 17:50 21 Mar 2013

    @173 they have had special treatment in actually being allowed into the league in the first place. unless they paid all debts to all parties they should not have been admitted. ask the many businesses and individuals who were unpaid. And if we are to use a precedent then lets cite the case of Third Lanark. other clubs should have been put up for election with rangers that was another disgrace

  • Comment posted by U14431877, at 17:47 21 Mar 2013

    @175
    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?

  • Comment posted by J Tull, at 17:29 21 Mar 2013

    Rangers are in the 4th tier and will be promoted to the 3rd tier, end of story, so whats the problem. IN THE FOURTH TIER PROMOTED TO THE THIRD. Cannot leapfrog other teams or Scottish football will be an even bigger laughing stock than it already is. No bribery No blackmail No threats No shame, oh of course we know they have no shame

  • Comment posted by U15450578, at 17:29 21 Mar 2013

    I don't know what they're complaining about really as they ARE being promoted, from the 4th to the 3rd tier.

    It's just that everyone else is being promoted alongside them...

  • Comment posted by U14431877, at 17:24 21 Mar 2013

    How can any fair minded Rangers fan want to get promoted like that. Tainted or what?

  • Comment posted by Rob04, at 17:22 21 Mar 2013

    #165
    Why can't you just say that you want special treatment because that is clearly what you want?

  • Comment posted by U15616013, at 17:14 21 Mar 2013

    Never happened with teams during previous reconstruction, I really don't see why it would be any different here. Thought Green didn't want to play in the SPL anyway?

  • Comment posted by Wis aye now naw, at 16:54 21 Mar 2013

    If rules are changed to accommodate NRFC it will only go to prove what people have suspected for a long time, that Scottish football was run in a way that the former RFC and CFC could thrive to the detriment of other clubs.

  • Comment posted by Rob04, at 16:50 21 Mar 2013

    #152
    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?

  • Comment posted by Greenlichtie, at 16:43 21 Mar 2013

    If the league wasn't reconstructed this year, rangers would be promoted to the 3rd tier........the same as being placed in the league containing 18 teams if reconstruction goes ahead.
    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

  • Comment posted by ysocks, at 16:41 21 Mar 2013

    If they win the league they are in they will move to the third tier of Scottish football.
    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?

  • Comment posted by dungolfin, at 16:32 21 Mar 2013

    @133

    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.

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