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SFA chief Stewart Regan has revealed that league reconstruction is still being planned for next season — in a move which could see Rangers fast-tracked to the second tier of Scottish football a year ahead of schedule.

Regan will kick-start plans to revitalise the professional game on Thursday when a working group, featuring representatives from the SPL and SFL and headed by an independent chairman, are tasked with devising a new structure.

The exact model is yet to be determined but the starting point for discussions will be proposals for a 16-team Premier League, with two divisions below, which would give the Ibrox club a quicker route back to the top flight should they navigate their way out of the Third Division as expected.

This plan, which included play-offs and a fairer distribution of income among the leagues, was overwhelmingly rejected 25-5 by SFL clubs last month as part of Regan’s botched bid to parachute newco Rangers into the First Division.

The SFA confirmed at the time they would push on with a reform agenda, amid widespread scepticism that it would ever see the light of day. But Regan insisted on Wednesday that a new league system will ‘ideally’ be in place by the start of season 2013/14.

He said: ‘We have a meeting on Thursday and the plan is to put a working party in place to come up with reconstruction proposals that can be implemented ideally from next season.The joint proposal put forward (in July) was not something the SFL wanted to take forward but reconstruction remains part of the agenda for Scottish football.

‘The (SFL rejection) was accepted because it’s a democratic process and now we move forward.

‘The SPL and the SFL will take new proposals back to their respective members and it will require a 75 per cent vote from the SFL and an 11-1 vote by the SPL to vote change through.’

Meanwhile, Regan would not be drawn on whether Rangers owner Charles Green will face fresh disciplinary action following his latest outburst towards the SFA, in which he accused them of persecuting the club.

But he called on the outspoken Yorkshireman to draw a line under his ongoing war of words with the governing body and suggested they were purely designed to sell season tickets.

Green is up before the SFA next week after suggesting bigotry was at the heart of his club’s banishment from the SPL, while manager Ally McCoist also faces a charge relating to comments about the organisation’s judicial panel in April. ‘Charles Green has his own reasons why he’s making the comments he is,’ said Regan. ‘But it’s clear Rangers have galvanised their fans behind the club and sold a huge amount of season tickets.

‘They’ve used the situation to get the fans behind them but it’s important for Scottish football that we move on now and restore focus on the football itself and look forward to league reconstruction and helping produce good young talent.’

Regan also admitted the Scottish game was in a ‘better place’ than he feared when he famously claimed that Rangers’ demotion to the Third Division would lead to the ‘slow, lingering death of Scottish football’.

But he did not regret the rhetoric which prompted calls for his head.

‘I think we have to move forward,’ said Regan. ‘We are in a better place than could have been imagined in terms of the negotiations between the SPL and its commercial partners.

'I’m not sure the contracts have been signed yet but the feedback about those renegotiations have been positive. We will have to wait and see but everyone is doing their best to move on and try to build a stronger game.

‘Do I regret some of the language? I think at the time, the information put forward by everyone was based on knowledge we had of the get-out clauses that existed in contracts for commercial partners.

‘What was done at the time was to draw attention to potential consequences for the game and that has now been progressed to a stage where those contracts are in a slightly better place.

‘But we don’t know what the consequences will be until they play out in the coming months.

‘The greatest opportunity for the game right now, in terms of revenue, are discussions with UEFA to secure income for international matches between 2014 and 2018.

‘All 53 nations have given UEFA a mandate to negotiate centrally for the sale of television rights across Europe.

‘If that can be delivered successfully, that will give us a substantial boost of tens of millions of pounds over a four-year period and we’re confident that will happen.

‘That money would help underpin the infrastructure of the game and the development of young players.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2192271/Rangers-fas-tracked-second-tier.html

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Tell this roman bastard tp fuck off.................................one one hand he mentions it was a democratic vote.....................then says bit we have moved on, so fuck those people who dared to vote against me.

The says CG come out with the stuff he did to see season books ...........well you roman bastard what about the statements those 11 bastards made to get their cuntish few fans to buy season tickets................you not going to sya anything bout their " sporting integrity" comments.

o'regan is nothing but a typical papistin that he lies and lies and is and out and out bastard...............we cannot let this bastard away with this.

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I said it yesterday and I'll say it again.

Fuck the SPL.

Fuck the corrupt, hypocritical, bigoted fucks who were good enough to toss us to the lower leagues and kick us when we're down. If they can't handle the outcomes of their fucking stupidly short sighted actions, fuck them.

There is Scottish Football without the SPL, there is not Scottish Football without Rangers.

We should work through the leagues and refuse promotion from SFL1, using this unique opportunity to force through REAL institutional change. We should allow this shaped by the SFL, the only footballing body in Scotland left with a shred of dignity and respect.

30 outvote 12, the SFL should remember this.

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I believe Green signed up to this with Petrie that we would be back in a SPL2 within the year.

No way will the SPL teams or Sky allow us to win our right way back up the leagues. Sky deal is for 1 year with a 4 year option that has us dealt into it.They need us more than we need them

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Its all well and good to say we will make these grand gestures of refusing promotion etc but back in the real world this will not happen

This will play out one of two ways. A group , like the SPL which was formed of the top teams in the country,, will form a break away league and invite Rangers and the other spl clubs to join along with selected clubs from the SFL and they will accept as that will be where the money is and how there clubs will survive or the SFA will take over total management of the game from top to bottom with similar league formed and a pyramid system from the bottom league that will allow club to come up from the juniors.

It is possible we will be in the second tier, there will be no second division anyway to get promnoted to from ther 3rd due to reconstruction. Promises have been made to sponsors and broadcasters to ensure we are back in the top flight next season or at the very latest 2014.

I still think we will be in the top league next season as too many clubs have too much to lose if we are not.

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I believe Green signed up to this with Petrie that we would be back in a SPL2 within the year.

No way will the SPL teams or Sky allow us to win our right way back up the leagues. Sky deal is for 1 year with a 4 year option that has us dealt into it.They need us more than we need them

This unfortunately

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No "sporting integrity" in ignoring democracy if you don't like the result.

Hopefully the rest of the SFL will see the benefits enjoyed by Peterhead, East Stirlingshire, Falkirk, Brechin etc and stay loyal to the vote they made.

Why is Regan even there?

Can Liewell not just announce this shite himself?

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It certainly explains the quality of signings we've been making for campaigns in SFL3 and SFL2.

I'd be stunned if Charles Green refused to move up to a new second tier,first and foremost it's more money for Rangers.

Unfortunately it means bailing out the shower of shite that stuck the boot in but Green's consortium aren't here to finish teams off,they're here to rebuild Rangers.

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What the fuck is next?Iam content to watch the fitba we have just now instead of the backstabbing shyte we were playing against and what fucking difference does it make we are out of Europe for 3 years.Cunts like United charging double price for tickets?And then they vote us out and begin acting like fucking Prom Queens and laughing at us?No rush I say and we can always get friendy games with other teams while we wait for the FIFA and UEFA pricks to let us back in the big show.

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Reading between the lines. Regan is saying we have punished Rangers but we cannot live without their fans and money.

We have indicated to our sponsors and Sky we will make sure Rangers and their money are back in the second tier of scottish football next year even if we have to upset everyone and do a complete revamp of the competitions.

Fuck Regan and all the other clubs that kicked us continually when we were down.

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No "sporting integrity" in ignoring democracy if you don't like the result.

Hopefully the rest of the SFL will see the benefits enjoyed by Peterhead, East Stirlingshire, Falkirk, Brechin etc and stay loyal to the vote they made.

Why is Regan even there?

Can Liewell not just announce this shite himself?

If we go to two leagues of 16 the majority of clubs due to play us still will...unless we get put in the top league

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The fallout from sponsors and broadcasters wasn't as bad as you expected because you've guaranteed reconstruction you fuckwit. I hate the spl

Lol yup. These corrupt fuckera tell that many lies and half truths that they cant keep up with them.

Shower of cunts. I hope we and the rest of the sfl vote no to this bollox

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