Official Club Statement
Club chairman Stewart Gilmour has contacted us on his way home from Hampden and asked us to publish the following statement on behalf of the club;
As you will now be aware St.Mirren FC today voted against the application by the Rangers NewCo to be admitted to the SPL. This vote was part of an overwhelming rejection of the application by the SPL member clubs.
It will now be left for the SFA and SFL collectively to decide where the Rangers NewCo will play it's football next season.
Those organisations will make their decision in due course without any pressure from the SPL or it's member clubs and we will fully respect whatever decision they make.
We now hope that the St.Mirren support will get fully behind the club and team as we prepare for the new season and start once again to focus on football matters.
Unfortunately due to the clubs media officer being in hospital today we are unable to post a detailed update to the official site, so my thanks to Black & White army for publishing this update.
Comments
The club has done the right thing and justice has prevailed. All we can do now is get on with preparations for next season and get behind the team. Any decisions made from this point onwards is out with the clubs control.
Tonight in Bangkok, I raise a glass to you.
St Mirren will have to make multiple redundancies and cut backs and we still may not survive...
Well done? Well done for caring more about Rangers than the future of St Mirren...I think its a terrible decision. Rangers should be in the spl with huge signing restraints...that would be a punishment for them not for us...
Now it is up to the SFL and the SFA to finally finish the job off by teaching all the clubs in all the leagues that they MUST now play by the rules.
I am however sick when I read in the press that Stewart Regan of the SFA is trying to bully and cause panic by saying there will be "social unrest" if Rangers are not allowed into the 1st Division.
Surely that is "threatening behaviour likely to cause a riot" and that is an arrestable offence. So maybe the police will move in and get him to shut up or even arrest him.
If the Rangers fans do "go mad" when they are put into the 3rd division (what a wonderful thought) they can plead in Court that they were encouraged to do so by Stewart Regan!
And MLS..where is the money going to come from to sign those players we need? Are you funding them cos with the budget about to get slashed we'll be losing players not signing them...
Rangers fans now want to be in the 3rd division cos they know it will bring everyone down with them...
It's about refusing to pay for a product which is defective.
Why pay to watch the SPL, when it would have been rigged by Neil Doncaster & Co. for the benefit of one club?
there appears to be something on face book about the 11clubs in SPL outwith celt*c trying to fill there stadiums with there own supporters how we do it doesn't matter but do it we must.
we must all know people who used to follow the saints this is the year we must get them back
we need innovative idea's now! we need st mirren park rocking for every home game. the family section should be full every game
Matt's dad
I would love to see Rangers in the 3rd division but unfortunatelty by doing this we will essentially be punishing ourselves. I dont want to see players being made redundent and st mirren employees losing thier jobs...st mirren surviving and prospering is more important to me.
Don't live in a dream and think Rangers can drop down to the 3rd division and we will still be the same club because we won't.Surely St Mirren's survival means more to you than the blue bigot brothers punishment...
I dont blame st mirren....we have a small budget and have to stretch it as far as possible...
So why can we not also move into the transfer market and make a couple of signings?
Because our Board are more intent in washing their hands of the club that spending money on new players. We are equally as financially strong ( if not stronger) than many of the other clubs in our league so we must look to the future and strenghten the team.
And finally, I am certain that Sky etc will not desert the Premier League as if vthey do that would be the end of them in Scotland.
The TV deal is going nowhere, and there are no mystical money men waiting to pump money into a club in the Scottish 3rd division.
Rangers FC cannot be punished, they are no longer in existence.
This is about now allowing a club formed three weeks ago to skip two divisions, while SPL fans pay for the privilege.
Stewart Regan tells us, and the SFL teams, that it will be "melt down" as he believes there will be no Sky and no sponsorship but nothing has been heard from Sky or other sponsors on that matter !
I can guarantee that if justice is done and the Newco are allowed to play in the 3rd division, that after a couple of weeks ""Lying Regan" will announce that he and his fellow SFA directors have miraculously saved the Sky deal and he will be looking for " a pat on the back"!
He will be even more vociferous if the SFL stupidly allow the Newco to "queue jump" and play in the 1st division.
He will claim he has saved "the future of Scottish football"
craig burley - why let muppet masters pull the strings..
SFL minnows MUST vote rangers into first division.
Gordon smith - it's time to get real
and finally
new twist in newco vote saga - the sfl 's longmuir stated last week that all lower league clubs would get a vote now that it is becoming apparent that they will not win that vote it will be left to the board to make the decision. absolute disgrace.
matts dad
Do you really want to see Rangers in the 3rd division even if it brings down Scottish football??
What a scandal !
And who is Craig Burley to make such statements........... a has been manager
And who is Gordon Smith.............. a lacky who was in the pocket of Craig Whyte at Rangers and openly admits he did nothing whilst at Ibrox, a failed member of the SFA and a failed assistant at St Mirren.
You mark my words................ Sky/ESPN will not desert Scottish Football and if they do somebody else will take their place.
One final thought............... If New Co are dropped into the 1st division and they have a points penalty and an embargo on signing players (until they have paid for the players the bought without paying for) what happens if they do not gain promotion?
I do hope so... as soon as possible
GIRUYs
Club chairman Stewart Gilmour has contacted us on his way home from Hampden and asked us to publish the following statement on behalf of the club;
As you will now be aware St.Mirren FC today voted against the application by the Rangers NewCo to be admitted to the SPL. This vote was part of an overwhelming rejection of the application by the SPL member clubs.
It will now be left for the SFA and SFL collectively to decide where the Rangers NewCo will play it's football next season.
Those organisations will make their decision in due course without any pressure from the SPL or it's member clubs and we will fully respect whatever decision they make.
We now hope that the St.Mirren support will get fully behind the club and team as we prepare for the new season and start once again to focus on football matters.
Drums if you don't mind! One's even a Tube Drum.
I think I'll call it whyer...
If that happens .................. then Scottish Football will be finished as far as I am concerned as that would undermine the whole voting process that we have just witnessed
Now our chairman is voicing his opinion that several premier division clubs could be in trouble this season......... can we still trust him ............ or will he be a "turn coat" for money and vote for the Newco to be admitted into the SPL so that he has a better chance of selling the club to anybody.......... even that con man Atkinson.
Hopefully on Monday The Cheats will still be in the 3rd division and we can concentrate on supporting St Mirren again
The distribution from the SPL to the clubs in respect of the season 2011/12 should not be affected by all this talk of doom if Rangers are in the 3rd division as the monies for that season have been ingathered by the SPL
Let them make the distribution of that money ( which should have beenj done by now) and then everybody will have 1 year to re-adjust and allow those "in power" to re-negotiate the various sponsorship contracts etc.
Surely given a year they will be able to sort out some beneficial new contracts.......... if not.... they should leave their lucrative post NOW.
St Mirren may be in administration within 5 weeks if Rangres end up in the 3rd division.
I just want to ask you 1 question, do you want to punish Rangers more than seeing st mirren survive and prosper???
Put them in the 1st division with huge signing player bans but the 3rd division is scottish football suicide.
Oh well, when 4-5 spl team(including our beloved st mirren) go into administration because you guys are so hell bent on bloody rangers don't come moaning on here about it....
Stewart Gilmour is definately NOT the financial brains of Scottish Football and all he is doing is trying to cause panic amongst the teams and the supporters so that his little scheme to sell the club will not be scuppered.
If 5 clubs do go into administration (which is an absolute impossibility) and then perhaps liquidation, there is nothing to worry about as ALL 5 will be allowed back into the Premier Division just like Rangers............ or is that not what happens to all clubs but only to Rangers !
Stewart Gilmour should shut his mouth and act in a proper and diplomatic fashion.
He is totally unreal sometimes. Clubs won't go bust they will simply cut their cloth which in my mind is about time they did. He is scaremongering and clubs should never have depended on tv money to such an extent anyway. Bring in a train local kids and even Rangers could learn a thing or two if they remember when nearly all their great teams used to come within a 5 mile radius of Ibrox. Bring back football for FOOTBALL sake and NOT for the sake of MONEY.
The directors will all amend their fancy budgets and survive.
Maybe the quality of football will suffer for a short period of time but so will that of every team and thus we will all be in the same boat.
One final point for Mr Gilmour and the board to respond to:-
Why if the club is in such a precarious financial position has it spent all that money taking a full squad of players to the Costa del Sol for pre season holiday and training.
20+ persons at £1.000 each is quite a tidy sum when you are supposedly "skint" and trying to economise.
Or is dear Stewart Gilmour talking through the "wrong end of his body" about the finances at St Mirren
Or did he personally meet the costs of the wee trip to Spain himself ...... Ha Ha Ha
Or is he just a bloody liar and scaremonger.
SG is, all of a sudden, the spokesperson not only for Rangers but for the whole of Scorrish Football. I wonder who is putting him up to this change of heart as he is the only Chairman who is making these predictions.
He does not know the finances of the other clubs and thus should not speak for them.
Only recently he told us all that St Mirren were one of the strongest teams in the league,financia lly, so how can he now be "the messenger of doom" by saying that in a mere 5 weeks we will all be in administration ! That is some very quick transformation.
On 5 August the SPL should be distributing the monies for the season 2011/12 ( which they have received from Sky, ESPN etc) and what should be voted upon today is that all the funds that are due to the various teams are FULLY distributed to them and not withheld by the SPL as has been reported in the press
He is only trying to "cosy up to Rangers"
He was such a chancer that I do not understand how anybody could have fallen for it.
Not so stupid:- get the supporters to put in their cash, you put in nothing, and you take over the club "on their behalf"
Anyway in a couple of weeks the season starts and all this rubbish regarding Rangers will be forgotten.
Have you read in the papers today that those "supposedly in charge" of Scottish Football are now saying that "the expected doomsday" as a result of Rangers demotion to the 3rd division may not now be so bad for Scottish Football.
What have you got to say now Stewart Gilmour !!
Good bye Rangers !
Good bye Richard Atchinson !
Hullo season 2012/2013 !
Surely there must be enough money in the kitty to buy a left back ! They are not as expensive as a good striker !
Danny says they had a great training session in Spain. Well maybe he has "discovered", within our midst, a left back. We will find out in a few days time when we play Morton. Not the greatest contest but at least it will be a competitive game where both teams will be trying to win.
Well at least I hope we are.
Now where is my St Mirren scarf and hat ??
Once the dust settles the redundancies will commence...i'm not sorry to see rangers in the 3rd division but financially the spl have screwed themselves in punishing rangers.
Basically, rangers do the crime, scottish footballs pays for it!
In fact at this time there is a clamour to show on TV the first game that Rangers arae playing in the 3rd division !
I do believe there was a lot of scaremongering in the hope that the SFL members woiuld do what the SPL and the SFA did not have the guts to do.......... ie say to Rangers ......... you were naughty boys but all is forgiven and welcome back !
Just you wait........... count the 5 weeks to administration ...........that will be on 23 August .!!
Lets all wait for the demise of Mr Gilmour's 5 or was it 6 teams !
If that is the case then, in my opinion, that is Stewart Gilmour just being pig-headed and saying" I am going to prove to all you disbelieving supporters that when I said "please allow my pals into the First Division or we will go bust": that he ment it and that if you don't then "I am taking the ball away".
No other club chairman is making the same noises as our chairman and I wonder why !
Is he so pissed off with being chairman that he no longer cares what happens to the team so long as he can get his money out!
A very sad state of affairs.
Come on now, don't bury your heed in the sand and imagine this situation will go away!
We are not the only club worrying about what the future holds, only last week Invernesses board had an emergency meeting to discuss the financial issues and problems. Even the green biggot brothers have said unless they qualify for the CL they won't be bringing anyway in.
Whay do people on here continue to think that financially all is swell and that we should be adding to the staff
I read that the Board were meeting yesterday to discuss the future and it would be helpful if they told the fans, share holders and season ticket holders (all of which I am) what the immediate future holds for Saint Mirren and it is not Administration !!
They must be positive and not pessimistic. Do they really think that by selling a couple of players that all their problems will vanish out of the window. That is such short term and inward looking..
Do they not realise that a winning team generates its own income by increased support.
We must not talk of "doom" but of the future which will be bright without Rangers.
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