Charles Green last night submitted the paperwork required for the Scottish Football Association to process the application by newco Rangers for membership status.
The documents will be studied on Monday, with the application itself not officially adjudicated on until after the club has been granted a league place.
St Mirren became the seventh club to declare that they will vote no to Rangers' request to receive a league share from the Scottish Premier League, when the clubs meet on July 4, and so the likelihood is that the team will line-up in the first or third division next season. Green had already made a request for membership of the SFA, a week ago, but did not provide any of the supporting documents, which includes a list of all shareholders and full details of all office bearers, who must pass the SFA's fit and proper person test, as well as a business plan.
"We have received an information pack from Sevco Scotland relevant to their membership application," said the SFA in a statement.
As part of the process to reintegrate the newco Rangers in Scottish football, Green must agree to certain conditions, including accepting any sanctions arising from investigations into the oldco, paying all football debts, and agreeing not to launch any legal challenges. Green has, though, intimated that he is prepared to accept these requirements, not least since to refuse them would leave Rangers unable to play professional football next season.
"Did you refuse to pay the price of membership of your golf club?" he said in an interview with BBC Scotland. "My opinion upon right or wrong doesn't matter. We will continue to work to ensure Rangers play football next season and that we can look everyone in the eye."
Green also described the different factions attempting to gain control of the club by buying his consortium out and the resulting protests against him by the Ibrox club's fans as "vicious and gratuitous blood lust". John Brown, the former Rangers player, has launched a supporters' buyout and called for Green to reveal the major shareholder in his consortium, with Green only having named some small-scale individual backers and funds whose investors are anonymous.
"It's not right that a proportion of Rangers fans continue to attack my consortium and try to undermine our rescue plans," Green said. "It's not right that every two weeks a Mel Gibson appears, delivers a Braveheart statement, then doesn't deliver anything."
St Mirren added their voice to the rejection of Rangers' attempt to remain in the SPL, and there was further bad news for Green when Hamilton Academical and Dunfermline Athletic joined Raith Rovers, Falkirk and Morton in stating that they will vote against Rangers entering the first division.
Stewart Gilmour, the St Mirren chairman, did though call for a 16-team top-flight and for Scottish football to take this opportunity to radically alter the structure of the game.
Rangers did agree a one-year contract with Northern Ireland under-21 defender Chris Hegarty, who was one of 13 players to return to Murray Park for fitness tests on Thursday.
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