SCOTTISH Football League clubs expect to be presented with proposals outlining how the game will be restructured should they agree to admit Rangers newco into the First Division, during a meeting on Friday.
The SFL, SPL and SFA will this week try to finalise a package regarding changes to how Scottish football is governed, structured and financed.
The majority of SFL member clubs would seem to prefer that Rangers are made to start out in the Third Division next season. However, they may be swayed by the promise of new measures such as the introduction of play-offs between the First Division and SPL, a new financial distribution model and the introduction of a pyramid league structure.
The notice for Friday's meeting states "that Rangers FC shall play in the Third Division of the Scottish Football League during Season 2012/13 unless the board shall have to its satisfaction negotiated and reached agreement with The Scottish Premier League and The Scottish Football Association on a series of measures which the board shall consider to be in the best interests of the game - How it is structured, how it is governed and how it is financed, whereupon the board shall be authorised to provide that Rangers FC shall play in the First Division of the Scottish Football League during season 2012/13".
As yet there is no such offer on the table but a package is expected to be put forward at Friday's meeting for the approval of the clubs.
"We are fully anticipating that our executives, together with the SFA, will come up with a package of measures, including restructuring and a better financial model, and there will then be a vote by the clubs on that," Hamilton chairman Les Gray told the Sunday Herald.
"That would place Rangers in the First Division if the clubs voted for that. At the moment, that isn't on the table.
"I think there is not enough support for Rangers to play in the First Division as it sits now. I think that is the overwhelming view of most of the clubs."
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