SPL plans for reconstruction would involve asking the SFL to disband and merge with them to create a new governing body or invite applications from the SFL clubs, with applicants' league position the key factor.
"Sadly, only one Scottish football body has offered us any help or assistance – the SFL – and I would like to thank David Longmuir, Jim Ballantyne and 29 of their 30 member clubs for inviting us into the SFL.
We are not the hammer-throwers that people painted the SFL players out to be".
The SFL clubs, however, would welcome amalgamation of the present three governing bodies into one.
The SFL relegated debt-ridden Livingston from the First Division on Wednesday for breaching the league's insolvency rules.
Irn-Bru has also promised to indroduce new grassroots and community development initiatives in partnership with the SFL".
There can be no doubt that the catapulting of Rangers into the SFL would boost lower-league revenue.
We are looking forward to the challenges ahead, making new friends in the months ahead and having a positive impact on the SFL.
"And having said they don't want us – they do want a bigger share of the TV money that our presence will bring to the SFL and its clubs.
Annan failed in their last attempt to join the SFL when they lost out to Peterhead and Elgin City in 2000.
It gives redistribution to the SFL which actually transforms, financially, the majority of the SFL clubs.
