Club Statement
[Friday, 13 July 2012 18:44]
There will be few within the footballing family who have not heard the news that at a meeting of all thirty Scottish Football League Club today at Hampden Park, Rangers Football Club were admitted to the Scottish Football League as Associate Members. Furthermore it was decided by a vast majority of the clubs that the Ibrox side would begin life within the league structure in the third tier.
The Forfar Athletic Directors like many in the game have found recent weeks to be trying and testing. It was our duty to look at the all the options and to decide as we have always said to look at what was best for the club and the game itself going forward.
These discussions in fact continued with our representative at the meeting by phone even this morning as more information came to hand and in the end we feel that the correct decisions were made after three hours of further talks at Hampden Park prior to the vote taking place.
Sadly the SFA and the SPL might not be willing to accept these decisions, but we will only find this out in the next few days.
As a club we hope that all matters can be fully resolved and that the competitive season can commence for the ‘Loons’ on July 28th with either Dunfermline Athletic or Rangers visiting Station Park and gracing our superb looking new playing surface in the Ramsdens Cup.
Throughout the past couple of weeks the Directors at Station Park have not rushed as others have done to make rash statements in the press or on social media sites. The Directors really do appreciate the fact that our supporters seem to have understood this course of action and remained with us throughout this trying period.
Hopefully and we all keep our fingers crossed we can now all move on to a period which we all realise will not be an easy time, but nevertheless a time where the ‘talking’ will be done on the park and not in print.
Finally the Directors of Forfar Athletic would in particular like to thank David Longmuir the Chief Executive of the Scottish Football League for his tireless efforts on behalf of his clubs over the past few weeks and also bid a warm welcome to Rangers FC into the SFL.
