RANGERS fans today urged Ibrox chiefs to reject any offer to join a breakaway SPL 2.

Eight rebel First Division clubs and Second Division champions Queen of the South are set to resign from the SFL. And they could be joined in a new league by Dundee after the Dens Park club were relegated from the top flight yesterday.

SPL clubs meet tomorrow to vote on whether they should join forces with their disaffected lower league counterparts. If they approve the move – and there is significant opposition to the proposal – it is possible that the Irn-Bru Third Division champions will be asked to be part of the division.

Plans to move to a controversial 12-12-18 set-up that could have resulted in Rangers being fast-tracked into the second tier have been shelved. However, the possibility of Gers being involved in the new league has been discussed by the rebel clubs.

Promoting the Glasgow giants to SPL 2 would raise attendances, help land a sponsor and increase revenue from a TV deal dramatically.

But there is a lingering resentment towards the SPL among Light Blues fans as a result of their treatment last summer.

Their former rivals voted against allowing them into the league and they ended up in the bottom tier of Scottish football.

Gers fans met with club chairman Malcolm Murray last week to discuss a wide range of off-field issues. And with talk rife of the long-awaited formation of an SPL 2, they stressed they were keen to remain in the SFL.

Rangers Supporters Trust chairman Mark Dingwall said: "Amid the ongoing turmoil, we are hoping to move into SFL2 next season and continue to play our way up the leagues.

"We don't think people should have their expectations artificially inflated and nor should they have realistic hopes dashed.

"The chairman basically told us that the SFL have been great to work with during the past season when we have been in the Third Division."

Manager Ally McCoist wants his side, crowned Third Division champions on Saturday after beating Berwick 1-0 at Ibrox, to go up a division as normal.

He said: "As far as we are concerned, we are playing in SFL 2 next year. In an ideal world, we would know where we were going to play. If it was SFL 2 then that is what we would go and prepare for."