Oddquine I think you gave yourself the answer to asking why thy didnt have a plan for this. The SFA/SPL/SFL have hardly been the best of buddies, and all were probably burying their head in the sand. I do hope that if The Rangers get out of this mess and end up in the SFL somewhere, these useless administrators do not put new rules and laws in place which would mean the next ones to go into admin dont suffer from the new regulations, as they will likely only end up in admin due to The Rangers no longer being in the league.
They have all chased the money, all clubs, and stretch their clubs to try and get success. Everyone of the top clubs in our country have had money problems, and hey look at Europe, Real Madrid in over £1000 million of debt, Man Utd were £ 860 MILLION in debt etc etc etc.
Without the SKY money Scottish football will fall down a casm, teams will have to cut back huge amounts of money, teams will become poorer, fans will grumble even more about the lack of quality, and soon it will be Celtic looking at englandshire lower leagues, whereas the rest will lose players to the englandshire non leagues even.
It is a very very brave decision from the spl chairmen, for sporting integrity, which is likely to have very serious consequences for our national league, and the possibility of 2 or 3 other clubs going into administration too. 3rd, 2nd and 1st divisions should be the beneficiaries of Oldco mismanagement, at least here's hoping.