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Once all the half-decent players do walking away in the near future, there won't be anyone left in the team that gets selected for Scotland anyway. So it's kind of a moot point.

Sorry - bollocks, mate. You lads should get it out of your head that anyone who has an objective view of this whole situation hates Rangers. We don't. We sympathise with you supporters. However, sooner or later you're going to have to realise that Rangers did bad stuff and are partway through the process of being punished for it. The punishment so far hasn't been nearly as bad as it could have been. Kicking out against that punishment, simply because you're Rangers, isn't going to help you. The legal situation is watertight - that's why the Appeal lasted only a couple of hours. Not a Rangers hater!

How could the lyrics below possibly be taken as "vile, vicious and racist"? Sounds like a perfectly reasonable request for Irish immigrants to GTF out of Glasgow to me, whilst in no way accusing them of generally being kiddy-fondlers, perverts, rapists and Nazi-sympathisers. Nothing vile or racist about that.[/sarcasm] I often wonder where they would have been If we hadn't have taken them in Fed them and washed them Thousands in Glasgow alone From Ireland they came Brought us nothing but trouble and shame Well the famine is over Why don't they go home? Now Athenry Mike was a thief And Large John he was fully briefed And that wee traitor from Castlemilk Turned his back on his own They've all their Papists in Rome They have U2 and Bono Well the famine is over Why don't they go home? INSTRUMENTAL Now they raped and fondled their kids That's what those perverts from the darkside did And they swept it under the carpet and Large John he hid Their evils seeds have been sown Cause they're not of our own Well the famine is over Why don't you go home? Now Timmy don't take it from me Cause if you know your history You've persecuted thousands of people In Ireland alone You turned on the lights Fuelled U boats by night That's how you repay us It's time to go home.

Blinkers off time, lads. Has anyone here actually looked up the rules, and the punishments due under Section 94.1? Go on, look it up, then come back and tell me what the maximum punishment is. The Rules are directly linked to from the SFA website page that contains the original ruling. Personally, and no ill-will against you bears, I think you should take the transfer embargo and run. You got off pretty lightly. At least until the dual contracts case comes up, and then the BTC. The transfer embargo is actually proportionate, if you think about it. Rangers have had an unfair advantage by registering players they either couldn't afford, or didn't pay tax and NI for (the latter beyond any doubt). So attempting to redress the balance by stopping new registrations for a while is reasonably fair. The Rules allow for discretion in handing out punishments. And as I say, given that Rangers were hit with the maximum fine, then the maximum sanction could also have easily been applied because it's mentioned in the same sentence - and not as an option, either. If Rangers have any sense, they'll accept the lighter sanction and try to fade into the background a bit for a while. Further appeals will leave no punishment option open but termination of membership. Good luck - you're really going to need it. How long until Mr Green does walking away? I do not support Celtic.