I have been receiving quite a bit of unflattering mail about the “agenda” being pursued on this blog. Depending on the correspondent, that is defined as either denying people their civil right to gloat, hiding the “truth” that people of the RC faith are welcomed and encouraged to come to Ibrox, or indulging in Chamberlain-style appeasement with the banning of the “H” word and other incontrovertible rights-to-insult.
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Our view is that the blog will only have cross-club support if we stick to what we can substantiate by fact or reasonably infer from the way things proceed. Further, we feel that if we are to gain credibility as an alternative source of news and comment to the MSM, that we need to cut down on the fansite type comments. There is no dignity (a word often used here) in calling the Rangers manager or their fans names. We need to maintain higher standards of impartiality than football fansites, because we know that a united fan base can actually make a difference as RTC did when the SPL chairmen were gearing up for a parachute for the new Rangers. OT discussions are fine, and often amusing, but they shouldn’t become the main reason to come here.
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There is real corruption in Scottish football. It is based not on religious rivalries but on greed and acquisitiveness. The only thing that matters is that we identify that corruption and help put an end to it.
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georgiovasari says:
September 22, 2012 at 19:05
Heard SC also addressed Jabba as “Jabba”!!
georgiovasari says:
September 22, 2012 at 19:05
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In my opinion, and based on nothing else, without a significant injection of capital the new club is heading towards administration. Now that could be from more investors, sale of assets, borrowing, or a share issue. However without one of those, or some mixture, I do not see how administration won’t happen.
I just don’t see how enough income can be generated to run the business, based on what we think the income streams are, and what the likely running costs are. there simply won’t be enough money over the course of the year.
On this Rangers were offered a deal malarkey. CG had to turn it down otherwise he wouldn’t have sold any season books. No other reason would have entered his head than he wouldn’t have had a business to sell on if he accepted a deal.
Think about the deal. You dont offer unless you know there is interest from the other side in accepting it. Green wanted SFL1, he was negotiating to get in. This wasn’t a dodgy deal, this was a negotiation but the price was too high for Green to accept. What he would have accepted we will probably never know. 1 title going, 2 maybe?
I’m also fairly sure Sevco would have to prove the SPL independent panel was unduly influenced by an SPL offer in order to get any sanctions revoked. Just saying it’s pre-determined doesn’t make it so. Highly unlikely there will be procedural erros with a judge and 2 QCs sitting on the panel.
The only time in this whole sorry saga that RFC(IA/PL) got anything like a fair punishment for its reckless actions was the transfer ban, albeit subsequently altered, from the independent SFA panel.
I look forward to the FTT clearing up this dual contract business and the independent panel acting swiftly, fairly and within its powers.
There will be no more subterfuge, obfuscating or procrastination.
The day is coming.
Justice will be done.
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Agrajag @ 18:38
The very one, he also claimed he was positive that HMRC had agreed a pennies in the pound deal with rfc(iastbil) and that the ‘ history ‘ had been transferred etc etc he tries to portray a serious sports journalist but if anyone challenges his ramblings he turns into a wee teeth-gnashing ‘come ahead’ ned, it’s actually very amusing, he is one of the most unprofessional pundits on SSB and believe me there’s lots of competition
TFSM, I don’t really understand all this wordpress stuff…..do I have to do anything? Sorry for being a thickie!
For clarity here is the EBT declaration in Ranger’s accounts (thanks RTC) :
“The Rangers Employee Benefit Trust and Murray Group Management Ltd. Remuneration Trust were established to provide incentives to certain employees and other service providers. Payments to these Trusts are charged to the Group Profit and Loss Account in the year incurred.”
The aim was thus to provide ‘incentives’ to unnamed employees and ‘other service providers’.
Nowhere is there any indication that the EBTs have anything to do with player or staff compensation – ‘incentives’ is the word used.
These ‘incentives’ of course had to have been non-contractual otherwise they would have become liable to tax and, in the case of players, subject to declaration to the SPL/SFA.
Having said that the very idea of paying ‘incentives’ via an EBT appears to call in to doubt the supposed ‘arms length’ arrangements required for the proper operation of an EBT by independent trustees.
The addition of the phrase ‘and other service providers’ is also interesting as it may have been inserted to add further distancing from the idea that ‘compensation’ may have been involved – or it may simply point to the use of the EBT vehicle being used to make payments to third parties who could conceivably be described as ‘service providers’ to Rangers FC.
‘Advisors’ on transfer matters perhaps?
Could the SFA not have seen the dual contract payments because they weren’t there?….maybe they were in the MIM accounts-of which they have no access.
I see Clegg the Condem Pluralist/Apologist was live on BBC24 hijacking the efforts of Olympiad gold medallists to win over the majority of Liberal sceptics within his party to the true path of Grant Schapps bullshit conservative ergonomics.
I’m certain I saw Sally in the audience..taking copious notes on how to play the long ball game of 4th tier strategemsl whilst fiscally tethered to the more tactical and uglier side of Zombie politics.
Even them most simplistic of time machine enthusiastic pie munchers must be worried his credentials and abilities to manage their ‘Don’t walk away’ back to the future flight to any given point in time before the era of prospective title stripping.
Brenda says:
September 22, 2012 at 19:37
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He is basically a proven liar.
HMRC never agreed a pennies in the pound deal, that is now perfectly clear. He did say that he had seen two contracts. So either it was a lie he saw them or it was a lie when he said he didn’t. It was definitely a lie when he claimed not to have said it.
That is what we have claiming to be print and broadcast journalists in this country.
People like him, Traynor, Young and Keevins. Change their stories constantly, “report” based on an agenda rather than investigation or facts, twist things to suit themselves.
The Sun is still talking about the HMRC Tribunal release it’s results soon, I mean FFS, that’s basic stuff. So it’s being written by someone with no understanding of the situation, or who wants to twist it to their own ends.
They are a disgrace to their profession. I think we have grown to know who the exceptions are.
Making people get a wordpress login to comment will kill the blog.
1. taxmancometh says:
September 22, 2012 at 11:42
Goosy would this be a clever way of D&P to give the creditors hope … i.e. they will get something if they win the 25M court case they are pursuing – hence the unknown quantum at an unknown date possibly in an unknown dimension?
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Unfortunately no
The numbers in the CVA document implied there would be well under £1m possibly nothing in the liquidation pot after D&P and BDO get their fees paid.
So with a £27.5m floating charge for Whyte and an unknown( but surely many £ms) floating charge for Close Leasing, even winning the £25m Collyer Brostow court case still gives the unsecured creditors nothing as the pot would be swallowed up by the floating charge holders. In addition, I`m no lawyer but it seems legal to me that D&P could not offer unsecured Creditors any hope of a dividend based on winning the CB court case without stating this as a caveat.
What may be possible is that D&P have agreed a significant cut in their fees with Lord Hodge freeing enough for the liquidation pot to make it positive. Indeed for all we know, D&P may even have agreed to do the entire administration job for nothing in order to rescue their reputation.
Agrajag @ 20:26
Your comment pretty much sums him up, the sad thing is I think he actually believes what he’s saying 🙂 like if he says it often enough it’ll be true 🙂 sad, pathetic wee man with a voice nearly as annoying and whiny as keevins 🙂 🙂 🙂 happy days it’s all coming together nicely 🙂
(Really a test message) Well, I managed to watch the Sevco vs. Queen of the South game on BBC iPlayer today. This time, there was no warning about language and I did not notice anything on the broadcast. Has it been edited for family viewing?
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Interesting photo tonight on RM on the puff piece re Sevco’s squad having a go at the crossbar challenge.
There to have a go in suit and dress shoes was none other than Brian Stockbridge, suggested by many as being Ticketus’s power behind the throne.
Although the RM faithful describe him as a member of the board, how many know the real reason for his presence in Glasgow for all these months.
Is the blog not dead? I went and got a wordpress login but you seem to be still here
Sugar Daddy wasnt allowed, I will henceforth be sugardadee
Any chance of a link to the WordPress login site?
Agrajag says:
September 22, 2012 at 18:59
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September 22, 2012 at 18:42
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So nothing whatsoever to do with the Judge and Jury, it’s the PF and defence lawyer who discuss it before the trial starts. Is that it.
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Truth be told, I’ve not yet been involved in a case with judge and jury, though I imagine a similar procedure as in the Sheriff Court applies there.
There are intermediate diets where prosecution and defence attempt to sort out the facts of the case, ask for more information, decide on which parts they agree on, etc. It’s usually fairly apparent to both whether the accused will be found guilty, or whether a particular charge is insufficiently backed-up with evidence. If nothing can be agreed plea-wise at that point, the case goes to trial.
On the day of the trial, when the case is called, the defence may put forward a suggestion of a “deal” and see if it’s accepted by the PF. The PF may then counter-offer, with reasoning. This deal is then put to the Sheriff to agree to, which he will. If no agreement is reached and a Not Guilty plea is still in place, witnesses get called and the case goes ahead.
It is entirely up to the Sheriff to decide on the punishment from what is laid down in relevant legislation. The PF only seeks to establish guilt.
Today, on a beautiful sunny day Celtic pulled in a crowd of 41.073, 61% of the total attendance of todays SPL.
On the same beautiful sunny day, Hibernian, at home, could have went top of the league, Dundee Utd were at home against Hearts, two of the bigger supports in the league, yet these games together with Kilmarnck v St Mirren and Ross County v St Johnstone pulled in a total of 25,488 spectators. Inverness travelling support was 60, yes 60.
No wonder discussions will take place about league reconstruction, and I suspect Celtic will be complicit in this, something has to done.
The more than optimistic picture that was painted by Jim Spence, Cosgrove and others about fans coming together and season ticket sales holding up and even going through the roof
has proved to be as false as Nick Cleggs promises regarding student loans.
I wonder just how many on here that have spouted sporting integrity have actually increased their attendances this year. Not on the figures so far this season.
What is there to be excited about now in the SPL?
Celtic representatives like Matt McGlone can poo poo Rangers not being in the league and claim that 60,000 will still turn up at Celtic park, but it is obvious that the discerning punter at Parkhead, according to the attendance today is giving his answer. You can’t fool an audience.
66,500 today, how many for nearly the same in two seasons, I would guess 50,000, if lucky?.
You can quote sporting integrity all you want, but realism will have to come to the fore sometime, no sport in the world can afford to alienate 50,000 customers.
I’ve now heard 2 Celtic greats, Murdo McLeod and David Hay say ‘enough is enough’, I suspect
the same might be heard in the Celtic Park boardroom and definitely in others.
The SPL investigation.
What’s the bets that the end result will be that Rangers FC are prevented, with immediate effect, from being in the SPL for a period not exceeding, um, hang on a minute… two and a half years?
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Webster says:
September 22, 2012 at 20:43
Thanks for that.
Seems pretty cut and dried to me.
Darrell King knows that the players had two contracts.
ianb1547, on 22 September 2012 – 11:51 AM, said:
The powers that be dont neccesarily go along with this. The reason I say that is because I asked SFA why we were in the 2nd round of the scottish cup (when teams that were in SPL in previous season dont enter until a later round).
This was the email I got back from the SFA.
Thank you for your email the contents of which have been noted.
The Club to whom you refer no longer exists i.e. Rangers FC and
therefore the rule highlighted by you cannot be applied.
The newco club, The Rangers FC, as you know operate under the auspices
of the Scottish Football League Division 3 and, as a consequence of
their position in that league, enters the competition in Round Two.
Thank you for taking the trouble to write
Got this from RM it seems that the SFA are in fact treating them as a seperate club if so the bears are not going to like it.After this was posted the thread went very quiet no doubt they are begining to realise that they are well and truly f****.
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For clarity here is the EBT declaration in Ranger’s accounts (thanks RTC) :
“The Rangers Employee Benefit Trust and Murray Group Management Ltd. Remuneration Trust were established to provide incentives to certain employees and other service providers. Payments to these Trusts are charged to the Group Profit and Loss Account in the year incurred.”
The aim was thus to provide ‘incentives’ to unnamed employees and ‘other service providers’.
Nowhere is there any indication that the EBTs have anything to do with player or staff compensation – ‘incentives’ is the word used.
These ‘incentives’ of course had to have been non-contractual otherwise they would have become liable to tax and, in the case of players, subject to declaration to the SPL/SFA.
Having said that the very idea of paying ‘incentives’ via an EBT appears to call in to doubt the supposed ‘arms length’ arrangements required for the proper operation of an EBT by independent trustees.
The addition of the phrase ‘and other service providers’ is also interesting as it may have been inserted to add further distancing from the idea that ‘compensation’ may have been involved – or it may simply point to the use of the EBT vehicle being used to make payments to third parties who could conceivably be described as ‘service providers’ to Rangers FC.
‘Advisors’ on transfer matters perhaps?
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Redlichtie…thank your for a most succinct summary of the accounts…if only the Scottish MSM would be so concise.
I have posted on here on two occasions that I have heard Andrew Thornhill QC speak at a tax conference where he said that “…poor Rangers got the administation wrong…”
This was after the FTT(T) had finished hearing evidence….!
Surely, this indicates that no matter how the legislation re EBTs is interpreted, in favour or against RFC(IA), the assertion that the trusts (and remember there was one for each “beneficiary”) were not adminstered correctly, surely points in the direction of only one possible verdict from the FTT(T)…?
PS I may be wrong in my recollections, but did not Trident Trustees, the original trust administrators, either threaten to or actually resign their administration agreements on account of the shortcomings of RFC(IA) or MIH…?
Here’s Chick flip flopping, charlatan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVidZsNCx6o&feature=relmfu
Can you remember how much Chick considered as a wee night out.
Chick Young’s “name names” moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsk2zc41w4E&playnext=1&list=PL27A0344EE7166CB6&feature=results_main
jmaclure @ 21:46
Probably not a good weekend to carry out a survey……… Bank holiday weekend …….kids off school (some till Wednesday) people may have been on holiday? Unless you want them to have dual lives and be in 2 places at once?? On a serious note football attendances are in decline but so is everything else ……….can’t get blood from a stone 🙂
It was £95,000 apparently.
Not a bad wee night out.
New name in operation previously known as Brenda!!
[TSFM – Brenda, you can change your “public display name” on your WP profile back to Brenda if you like]
Apologies, my last post from youtube was totally the wrong one, there’s no way for me to delete it.
Admin, please feel free to do that for me, it was a genuine mistake, the intended clip was Chick Young raving about naming people who had emailed the show.
weebrenda says:
September 22, 2012 at 22:24
Well here is some other figures to ponder
Up to and including the Rangers v Celtc match on 18/9/11 there had been 567,173 people at 45 matches, an average of 12,604
So far this season 382,875 have attended 39 matches, an average of 9,817
I would say the alarm bells are ringing very loudly.
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You can change your displayed name if you want, it doesn’t have to be the same as your login name. So if you couldn’t get the one you want “Brenda” that shouldn’t really matter.
jmaclure @ 22:41
Fairly meaningless comparison to be honest
Would you like to give us the figures if you exclude RFC’s(IA) crowds from last seasons numbers, and exclude Dundee’s from this season
jmaclure
Alarm bells are ringing all over, football is the least of some people’s worries ie they can’t pay their mortgage and feed their families! That’s slightly more important than going to a football match!!! If the SFA want higher attendances bring the prices down and put a stop to teams not paying what they owe to other teams for a start. Scottish football is dying on it’s ass but who’s fault is that?? If everyone paid the tax they owe I think maybe our country let alone our football assoc and the teams involved would be much better off.
Interesting comment from Mr James [Jabba] Traynor on your call tonight – Mr Doncaster and Mr Regan are only following the instructions of their respective boards.
If that’s the case – to what extent is Mr Olgivie pulling the strings – when potentially in conflict of a payment from the SFA (his wages) whilst owing monies to MIH via a [EBT] loan?
campsiejoe says:
September 22, 2012 at 22:54
If you can prove there is not a problem fair enough.
I just happen to think there is, and attendances aint going to get better , want a bet?
Agrajag
Won’t let me change it 🙁 but new name ok thanks anyway 🙂
weebrenda says:
September 22, 2012 at 22:56
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The family comes first, always, Brenda, no argument.
Just a little bit miffed about those wildly optimistic prophesies made of attendances not suffering.
Re average attendences in the SPL , now that rangers are not there you would expect the average to go down. Why ? At this point in time rangers would have played around 3 home games at say 45/50,000 at rangers games i.e. 125/150,000 supporters all income from which would belong to rangers so what is the problem ?
campsiejoe says:
September 22, 2012 at 22:54
jmaclure @ 22:41
Fairly meaningless comparison to be honest
Would you like to give us the figures if you exclude RFC’s(IA) crowds from last seasons numbers, and exclude Dundee’s from this season
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So average attendances have dropped from an average of 12k to 9k when Rangers died and were replaced by Dundee. So 3k per game.
If there are 6 games that would be total lost attendance of 18k, per week, would that be right.
So does that mean that Rangers attendances were averaging 18k more than Dundee.
That cant be right, can it.
Oh well, we are just going to have to live with it, given that Rangers aren’t about any more.
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looks like there is nothing green wont do to sell shares
jmaclure
Very true but when have we ever had that thing called truth from anyone in ‘power’ they make it up as the go along for the most part 🙂
What’s new, pussycat?
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Fell victim to the new procedures. i think i’ll need to get some whizz-kid 50-year-old computer geek in to post my posts!
Result :s I hope 🙂
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Re average attendences in the SPL , now that rangers are not there you would expect the average to go down. Why ? At this point in time rangers would have played around 3 home games at say 45/50,000 at rangers games i.e. 125/150,000 supporters all income from which would belong to rangers so what is the problem ?
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“All income from which would belong to Rangers”
And none to HMRC !
anyone else see Green with his latest advertising for the share issue ?
the tangerine top
jmaclure says:
September 22, 2012 at 21:46
I’ve now heard 2 Celtic greats, Murdo McLeod and David Hay say ‘enough is enough’, I suspect
the same might be heard in the Celtic Park boardroom and definitely in others.
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Dream on.
As for McLeod being a “Celtic great”, he lost that accolade the morning he wrote off the antics of Diouf and Bougherra as just players caught up in the atmosphere.
Or the comments he made in another Retard column concerning Neil Lennon and why he deserved his touchline ban after the spat with McCoist.
Or even his nonsense today about an Atlantic League, agreeing with those genii Traynor, Young and Dodds, right after having the utter gall to plea for the last twelve years of chicanery from the G51 basket cases to be virtually written off.
McLeod has virtually no credibility as a pundit these days – try asking a cross-section of Celtic fans on their opinion of him these days.
Just wondering about where this European Club Association Supranational cup etc etc story has come from.
It doesn’t seem to have been an agenda item for the recent meeting and apart from Chris McLaughlin there doesn’t seem to be anything else emerging on the web.
I could be wrong but the only person in Scotland who has beenpublicly banging on about the ECA Geneva meeting has been Charles Green.
Just wondering who fed McLaughlin the story?
Jmaclure
I’m interested to see your research and proven analysis that the reason for reduced crowds are wholly down to the demise of Sevco (that were once were RFC) and not due to the recession or the fact that most households are earning less to pay more for their day to day bills. The arrogance of that post is astounding.
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A wee reminder that the WordPress login thing starts at midnight tonight folks.
I think the voting has been reasonably conclusive on that.
For information, the poll is hosted by polldaddy independently, can’t be tampered with, and voting is restricted to one vote per computer, so it is a reasonably true refelction of views.
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Apologies for last post, TSFM, about Harry Redknapp commenting on the ‘lack of integrity’ in the Chelsea game. Just pull it.
I actually think Ol’ Harry is the dog’s bollox. Apparently, so does the dog’s bank manager.
Shame about the attendance drop in SPL games already. Now let’s do a similar calculation for SFL3.
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My point is, has there not just been a redistribution of the attendances over the leagues or divisions involved?
Testing for MikeC
redlichtie says:
September 22, 2012 at 20:11
For clarity here is the EBT declaration in Ranger’s accounts (thanks RTC) :
“The Rangers Employee Benefit Trust and Murray Group Management Ltd. Remuneration Trust were established to provide incentives to certain employees and other service providers. Payments to these Trusts are charged to the Group Profit and Loss Account in the year incurred.”
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So when Souness received his EBT loan whiel at Blackburn/Newcastle, was he an employer or service provider.
Note that Celtic’s EBT statement mentioned ex-employees – that was Juninho’s status so no issue there either.
Lord Cardigan at Everton and Scotland – employee or service provider?
What was the service they were providing? Transfer fee inflating provider? Money Investment Adviser? What was the service – what were you beng paid for boys?
Jmclure – your argument is bogus – no one said at any time that SPL teams would make up the difference in SPL attendences from the abscence due to their actions of Rangers-NIL. Given that Rangers-NIL had at least 40+K for their home games this was never going to be made up by Dundee. No one ever claimed it would be. What was claimed is that the rest of the SPL clubs income from Rangers-NIL from their homes games would be made up by extra supporters – either Dundee plus the difference – or a few thousand. However as others have stated, the way the authroities have bent over backwards to help the new club has angered many people who won’t attend due to disgust at the levle of backroom deals to keep CG sweet.
Since Rangers-NIL kept their money form the 40K and never paid any taxes on it – no one else in Scotland will suffer the loss of it. If anything the taxes paid by the new club will be a boost to the economy. The rest is pocketed by Charlie for Ticketus.
So please add up attendences as you want every week – although not sure you could know that 600 Inverness fans were there at Easter Road – but you are illogical in your theory of impending doom.
If I were you I woudl be more worried how your new club will make it to the end of the season…..
We will be fine – the clubs playing in SPL will all be around long after the current T’Rangers club has folded again, if I were to bet on it………
andy says:
September 22, 2012 at 23:24
anyone else see Green with his latest advertising for the share issue ?
the tangerine top
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Do you have a link for the picture on a website so we know its not a photo shop thing?
TUPe’d over test test
Is your Call with Cosgrove and Jabba on Itunes?
alan280170 says:
September 23, 2012 at 03:07
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mwv12
Your Call
Also tuped over…… purely as a lurker though..
Oh, and Jabba said in response to Sir Cosgrove, ‘i don’t know why they call me Jabba ‘ lol.
Mr Spiers has been busy reading too …
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/sfl-division-three/newco-rangers-must-answer-oldco-charges-insists-commission-chief-1-2542646
exciledcelt says:
September 23, 2012 at 02:36
Do you have a link for the picture on a website so we know its not a photo shop thing?
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Mr. Charles making himself look a proper Charlie.
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww211/CharmSkoolReject/17EFD2FD-783F-4559-9F74-C58C9B688F57-609-0000003475994F7E_zps82b95c2b.jpg
http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?s=afab68c58de4ba4ad028b8f289614fca&showtopic=238931&st=0
Yep – he is an idiot officially!
Anyone pandering to the Bears in an orange top (or tangerine as SDM said at the time) needs educated on what he is encouraging in the WoS cesspool……….
If, in spite of the current media blitz highlighting the ‘injustices’ Rangers have suffered, the share thing flops – then what? His 20 investors will have to keep the ship afloat, I take it.
The Dog Whistler trying to have us believe Sevco are ‘clear underdogs’ against Motherwell. 🙄
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/ally-mccoist-death-by-a-thousand-cups-1-2542683
How’d the wage bills compare then Ally you buffoon? He’d actually be pretty amusing if he didn’t encourage threats against innocent people now and again.
DP – the finances of a football club are front loaded – the ST money comes at the beginning of the season – since he has had a very good ST campaign there will be very few additional walk ups for Ibrox going forward. Plus the away support will be inconsequential in the SFL3. His hopes for extra money if the IPO flops are pretty dire.
He is going to have a few other options
(1) Sell some players in January – but there is no MacGregor or Naismith or Davis that would give him the millions – I think that is where his plan went awry – he did not realise they could walk away. His plan was to sell the big guns in July – that source of money has vanished much to his chagrin.
(2) A long cup run at home getting draws against SPL teams – many draws/replays – but these are all shared with the other clubs so not a major source – plus you have Swally who has a penchant for losing in cups.
(3) Friendlies against European or English teams – could be a few but this won’t keep them going for long.
(4) Tap existing investors – they already put up money on promises of a quick return – they are nto going to give more money easily.
(5) Find other investors – no one came in before – and if its a lot of money, they won’t let him run the show or get the money
(6) Sell Ibrox or Murray Park and lease it back – unless this is being done already 😉
I think none of these will replace an IPO – so his eggs are in one basket – he can walk away now or try for an IPO – he will give the IPO a shot – he may try for a quick IPO but he needs to do a full disclosure of his financial dealings and status for the city investors to come in. Unless he wants only the Grannies to put in 10 bobn each much like The Producers, but that won’t yield enough. He needs the city to coem in for a successful flatation – and that is not goign to happen with the current status.
Other than that, he has not many options to last the season in my opinion.
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exiledcelt says:
September 23, 2012 at 05:15
Anyone pandering to the Bears in an orange top (or tangerine as SDM said at the time) needs educated on what he is encouraging …
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I agree. But to be fair it looks as though someone has just pulled it over his head. Isn’t that top a bit dated? Mind you, if there’s nae money for Charles in fitba branching out into orange leisurewear might be just the thing to bring in a few quid – from those who like this type of thing.
DP – its the top from 2003 that SDM claimed was nto orange but tangerine – note the sponsorship. However, as the likes of Donald Findlay would agree, you need to be careful what folks encourage you to do. In today’s internet world, the se pics will get out there – it took Andy Goram’s wife to get bitter with before she releashed his treasure trove of dodgy pictures with Norn Iron types.
He has said before he will have an orange 3rd top as he promised at one of these fans groups – as you can see from the reactions from the young and hard of thinking types over on RM, he is now a hero. Playing to the correct gallery for sure.
Instead of impressing them with a realistic business plan and being open and transparent – its easier to tell them nonsens about European summits, Disney and Dallas Cowboys and then wear an orange top.
Very sad they are not questioning him at all