The Scottish Football Association have confirmed Rangers boss Walter Smith faces a four-match touchline ban if found guilty of misconduct for his sending off in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League game at Kilmarnock.
Smith was sent to the stands on Saturday for reacting furiously to Killie players he mistakenly thought were trying to encourage referee Steve Conroy to show Pedro Mendes a second yellow card.
Smith admitted after the game he was in the wrong for the incident and looks unlikely to appeal if charged by the SFA.
Under the governing body's disciplinary rules, Smith faces an automatic two-match touchline ban beginning 14 days from the incident in question.
However, two games are added to the punishment for every prior case of misconduct during the previous three years.
Smith served a two-match ban after being sent off in a Scottish Cup game against Hibernian in March 2008.
A four-match suspension would see the Ibrox boss sidelined from the October 4 Old Firm derby and games against St Johnstone and Hibs.
If Rangers beat Queen of the South in the Co-operative Insurance Cup on Wednesday night, Smith would also sit out the quarter-final.
If they lose, he would miss the November 1 SPL trip to Dundee United.
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Hey GUS, lets here you make comments bout hysel & hillsbourgh then???????
Tim Todd No brain No talent !! With a vocabulary of a dozen bigoted words ! What a sad Pathetic wee man !!
metz whos top in scotland?th real bigots are in th shadows,this is mild, due to th fact th hoops are top, and scotlands shame are not!i hope it stays that way fail fail
#47 the f*cking h*n sc*m on here short f*cking memories they are the lowest life of all,and as for rankers f*cking rotten we all know there just PURE SHYTE
$46 you got a f*ckung brain bawheid .
rankers rotten NO MONEY & NO F*CKING TALENT LOL.
poor jim todd..
a kinda like the guy he's got alot of valid points!
Typical of tim todd ! He cant come on here and make one comment thats not racist abuse and the lowest of the low! If i were a decent cellic supporter i would be cringing in ma boots watching one of mine posting sic.ko comments like he does !! Yes todd NO BRAIN AND NO FU.CKIN TALENT .. THATS YOU PEA BRAIN !
well said Stuart - we've had a decent debate this afternoon with no requirement to resort to name calling or make bigotted comments - we can all do without the sad, uneducated comments from 'heid the ba'. It just signifies an inadequate amount of brain cells and lack of vocabulary in saying the same old p1sh that we've heard all too often from that @#$%.
Yes..but dont tar us all with the same brush...Todd its a footie forum m8, not a bigot forum
jimtodd get a life you sad wee feck,does the name jim torbett mean nothin to you???? YOU the shame would you make comments about Hysel??? Hillsbourgh???? why dont the true tic fans come out & chastise this subhuman scum???? or are you all in agreement with this low life?????
there u go stuart - thats what i've been going on about all afternoon - another quality, well thought out comment from him, borrowed from some other dumbass
AYE WILLIE WADDELL KNEW STAIRCASE 13 AND ONLY 66 OF YOU SC*M PERISHED NOT ENOUGH
SC*M OF SCOTLAND ORC CHIMPS AND RANKERS F*CKING ROTTEN
Pt38, He will play all his big guns in the CL, then injuries etc will kick in and your squad will not handle the domestic side of the season. When will u get this? Or will he nobody knows!!!!
J. Rothen, K. Miller, S. Smith, K Thomson, A. Little, D. Wilson, N. Alexander - thats the subs from Sat's game. So you tell me....would that have looked better last year because Barry Ferguson was there or Christalmighty Dailly? Finally if the squad has got rid of deadwood then boys like Little will come through, ffs hes played more times for N.Ireland's international side than he has for Rangers! Bout time the @#$% was replaced by yonger hungrier players, Id take them with poorer quality than hasbeens any day of the week.
#36 obviously not in the C/L though,but that no count does it????
oh u reminded me of another comment that baffles me - when they say the title is coming home this season - how can that be when we've won it more times?? Clearly it already is home.
Andrew, thats the point...7 of the 12 played a min of 4 games last year for the gers. Have u looked at the subs bench lately. Celtic squad may not be strong but it has numbers and players that can come in and do a job. Would Wattie play Weir or Boogie or Davis against QOS if he had a bigger squad?
Andrew,from what I can read between the lines from these sad deluded tic,is they are runnin from the truth,we not bought anyone,we got lots of debt,yet still,we the current champs,still in C/L,Still the team too beat this season,52 & counting big man,52 & counting
I havent called u a bigot and Im not one either - surely u can tell???
And of the 12 released, which ones were first team regulars and would have featured if everyone was fit? So if the mainstay of the team was good enough to win the league last year, why is it being written off so easily this year? No its not strong enough and the lack of quality will finally tell in the Champ Lge, most genuine Gers fans are happy to be there and that they gave a good account of themselves in the 2nd half last week. Those who think we'll finish ahead of Seville are deluded or write off Stuttgart and Unirea are the ones who are nuts. I'd also argue Selleck's squad is weak and won't challenge on 4 fronts, though many believed the Europa league was there to be won before last week's game in Israel.
feel free to copy and paste that last part on any subsequent posts - thats what they do!
Andrew...dont lump me in with the bigots m8 cause I aint one. Also last season Rangers spend nearly 20 million on players to win the league, this year nil and you released 12 players since then too. If you think your current squad will survive 4 comps with that squad your nuts.
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