Playoff row – SPFL threaten to withhold Rangers’ TV money

Within the last hour it has
emerged the playoff season ticket row engulfing Rangers and the SPFL is set to
escalate with Neil Doncaster’s men once again threatening to withhold vital TV
income if Rangers go ahead with their plan to allow season ticket holders in
without charge during the vital tie with Queen of the South et al.

Like in 2012 when the SPFL
decided to withhold £2.4M of Rangers’ prize money from the Ibrox side winning
the SPL in 2011, based on Rangers’ being a ‘new club’ (despite later admitting
we are not yet failing to later deliver that prize cash), Doncaster and co are now
attempting to hold Rangers’ fragile coffers to ransom and withhold an
undisclosed number of thousands of pounds to force the Govan side to charge
entry for the playoffs.

It is the latest in a number of
ad-hoc punishments dished to Rangers by the governing bodies, and the fact
Hibernian were allowed to do it last season, by the same authorities, has been
completely dismissed.

This move threatens to cost
Rangers money they cannot afford to lose.