The Scottish Football Association's annual general meeting will take place on Wednesday with talks likely to focus on preventing another crisis like the one currently engulfing Rangers.
Events at the administration-hit club are set to be one of the talking points at the Hampden summit. It is expected that one of the main items on the agenda will be a resolution that gives clubs more responsibilities regarding incoming directors.
More onus will be placed on clubs to show they have carried out the necessary due diligence and investigation relating to new directors in terms of meeting the SFA's 'fit and proper person' criteria.
The move is effectively an attempt to prevent a repeat of Craig Whyte's ill-fated tenure at Rangers following his takeover of Sir David Murray's majority shareholding last May.
The SFA ruled in March that owner Whyte was not 'a fit and proper person' to run a football club following an independent inquiry into the stricken Glasgow giants.
Rangers were also charged with bringing the game into disrepute, resulting in a 12-month ban on signing players, which was ruled unlawful in the Court of Session last Tuesday. As a result of the court action, the SFA have referred their disrepute charge back to their internal appeals process, with a date for the hearing yet to be determined.
In the meantime, SFA chief executive Stewart Regan is anticipating "plenty to discuss" at the AGM.
He tweeted on Tuesday: "Back up the road tonight. Scottish FA Board Meeting in the morning followed by AGM. Plenty to discuss, that's for sure!"
Despite the problems surrounding the game north of the border, the meeting is likely to be less eventful than last year's AGM, when a number of radical reforms won unanimous support.
All 93 member clubs supported each of Regan's proposals to streamline and modernise the governing body's decision-making process on that occasion.
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dear jim i apologise to you but not those others
Dear Malcolm - got my religion wrong I am afraid - but other than that your response was totally predictable and unrelated to anything I said!
kenneth yet again verbally w anking stop it youll go blind
dear jim all WE want is for your club to apologise to the weans raped in your name Humility you wouldnt even recognise it if you saw it
john 18 can you tell me what the word bifots mean?i,ve never saw it in any of my dictionary,perhaps you should go back to school and learn how to spell properly.no chance of you being champion speller.or at least not for a few years yet.WATP.
of course rangers are bifots remember the video of the flute being played , was it martin bain or something, then you have fattie healy up front, any way hail hail the champions forthe next few years at least
Dear Gordon - I have never disputed your history - all I want is for you and your club to show some humility, own up to your debts and repay them NOT at 1p/£/ Then, and only then, will I repay you with a modicum of respect. Until you and your like stop your incessant gloating as to how you are going to get away with repaying almost NIL of your debts and how you are going to take on everyone who dare to disagree with your views, then I am afraid you will find yourself in a very lonely place. It won't be fun, believe me, to be treated as a the pariah of Scottish football.
Is any club looking for a first team coach??????? Please contact Back Stabbing Squell Lemmon at Septic FC
Boo Hoo :(((( to all you poor fans off the small clubs of the SPL!!!! Long live the Glasgow Rangers the most sucessfull club in Scottish history!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh by the way the rest of the SPL have lived off the Gers support for 100 years..... so where would you lot be without the Gers??????????????? yip OUT of Bussiness
Linda at least we did not sack any of our management team... what you got to say about that then?????? muppet
Good to see Rangers employes enjoying there hols and then geting ready for pre season with trips to England and Germany with top facilites at there disposal .Hope all the people they owe money to can have such a great time this summer with all the financal dificulties that Rangers have put them in.
Tom - please take time to read Kenneth's comments - and highlight where you feel he is referring to Ranger's fans as bigots!
kenneth take a short ferry trip back to your own like minded people and stop calling rangers fans biggoted and take a minute to listen to your own rantings
well said jim for 2 long the bigoted brothers have had there own way kick them out and rip the tv deal up
To be honest no SPL doesn't really concern me - what does is the reputation of football and sport as a whole.
What annoys me (and the majority of other self-minded supporters) is the total lack of acceptance, by either the club or the supporters at Rangers, that they have (in any way) done anything wrong. Indeed the gloating of how they are going to screw the creditors with (probably) as low as 1p/£ makes you ashamed to be associated with the club in any way (they are even talking about who they are going to sign now that the embargo has been lifted - you should be paying off your debts first and foremost). And this nonsense that it was the doings of one man - you CANNOT separate the footballing side from the business side - who supplies the money for the footballing side to operate? They are one and the same.
Rangers get meaningless sanctions and punishments they wont except so the SPL and its members have lots of meetings on how to punish them SELFS in the future and these clubs havent even had half the revenue to work with that Rangers have.Its like the lynch mob hanging themselfs for the crimes of the ACCUSED
unionbear did those other clubs fail to pay their taxes? rangers cheated and its caught up with them, oh and dundee re entered admin couple years go and were deducted 25 points
Does this meeting mean they are going to ask the members to consider the punishment and rule changes that Mr Green thinks is appropriate for his club that he has not bought yet and will the board ask Mr Green if he wants to tell them who his freinds are who want to chip in with him to buy Rangers.
why didn't they discuss all this when Livingston, Airdrie, Dundee and Gretna were dealt with? me thinks they didn't give a damn, now it's rangers and they bend over backwards, not only to save them, but shockingly keep them in the top league in the country, even the Italians have more courage than the Scots, they put Juventus down, the Scots are a gutless bunch, and the whole world is now aware of it, the world used to just think we were greedy misers, now they know it.
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