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Dave Cormack's Rangers TV deal criticism is a joke as Aberdeen wouldn't have a £30m Sky offer without them - Hotline

The gloves are off with Aberdeen owner Dave Cormack squaring up to Rangers chief Stewart Robertson over his criticism of the SPFL’s plans for a new £30million Sky TV deal. The Dons boss released a scathing statement on Sunday hitting back at Robertson’s claims that Scottish football is being undersold. But the Hotline callers reckon Cormack hasn’t scored the knock-out blow he thinks he has.

Gavin MacLeod, Renfrew, was first on the blower, saying: “Dave Cormack ’s comments on the TV deal tell you two things. A, he doesn’t understand we are signing away all 228 games to televise 48. And B, he feels fans would no longer attend games. He desperately misunderstands the passion fans have for their teams and selling the TV short to cover for it is not becoming of a representative of the league.”

Willie Mercer, Dumfries, added: “It makes you laugh when the Aberdeen chairman comes out and criticises Rangers for their position on the Sky offer of £30million per season. Does he think this sort of money would be on offer to an SPFL without Rangers and Celtic? Does he think his club would get the £500,000 average fee per game without the Old Firm? Dream on.”

Jimmy Mac, Glasgow, isn’t a fan of the new deal either, emailing in: “We have those who are complaining because Rangers won't sign the Sky TV deal but what those people don't see is the fact that Sky TV ruined Scottish football financially by elevating English football to unreachable levels.

“Before the Murdoch's came into football, both Old Firm teams could compete with England's top clubs financially as well as on the pitches due to their fan bases.

“But Sky ruined that by giving England hundreds of millions of pounds with those figures rising to billions, while

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