Since Rangers officially went into meltdown last week there has been even more time and space devoted to them in the media than before - something I previously didn't think possible. And while no one seems to know what will happen to Rangers - opinions range from coming out of administration in a fortnight to going to the wall - you get the impression that if the latter happens Scottish football won't be far behind it.
This is complete nonsense. Just as most of us who are having a chuckle at the plight of Rangers know that the club will always exist in one form or another, there will always be a Scottish football. It will just be rather different - and it's hard to say whether it will be for better or worse, although the media pundits seem to have decided it will be awful. And that's just the ones who are willing to acknowledge the game would go in without the gears.
Thanks to their latest piece of business genius the SPL have agreed a TV contract that guarantees both halves of the Old Firm will be present in the top league. If Rangers go so does that TV contract and various sponsorship deals will probably follow (although Clydesdale Bank are already on their way anyway). Without both of the big Glasgow clubs the game will be less attractive to investors - but the continuing presence of Celtic should ensure there will be a new TV deal and a new title sponsorship, just on lesser terms.
This will lead to cut backs - but for Saints that’s not a problem as it could be, partly because we have no doubt. Our current board have proven themselves pretty good at working to a budget in the last decade or so and will continue to do that. I can't talk for other clubs, but considering lots of them seem happy paying bigger high wages despite being millions of pounds in debt then I'm sure they'll somehow find a way to continue with even less TV income. It might even lead to more teams turning to their own players rather than stumping up big wages for a random foreigner or a veteran who is past his best.
We may even be able to look forward to an increase in crowds - and I'm not talking about former Rangers fans suddenly doing anything crazy like starting to support the team that plays five minutes form their front door. With one of the Old Firm gone there's more chance to win cups and more chance to finish higher up the league and get into Europe. Success brings crowds - when Hibs got promoted back in 1999 they had some huge crowds and that was in the first division!
But while there would be more chances of Europe and cups the chances of someone other than Celtic winning the SPL would be slim for many years. They're far better than everyone else at the moment and even if there were less lucrative TV and sponsorship deals they would still dwarf everyone in terms of resources. They'd continually make the Champions League (well, the qualifiers) and continually have more cash. It would take a long time for someone to overcome them - but that's hardly different to the way things are at the moment. The only difference is we have Rangers to challenge Celtic.
But Scottish football could continue quite happily along. It's certainly not the doomsday scenario being painted everywhere else. The main problem would be how to deal with the new Rangers - but we'll come onto that one next week.
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