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Notice of Claim | Ryan Porteous, Player, Hibernian FC Monday 4 October 2021 Notice of Claim | Ryan Porteous, Player, Hibernian FC Player: Ryan Porteous, Player, Hibernian FC Match: Rangers FC v Hibernian FC on 3 October 2021 Competition: Scottish Premiership Offence: A1 Serious Foul Play Claim: Wrongful Dismissal Fast Track Tribunal Hearing: Wednesday 6 October 2021 Outcome: Claim dismissed. Original sanction re-applied.

I remember Jim Steele - he wouldn't last five minutes in today's game. Re Porteous, I think it was telling that SG said he was reminded of himself at his age, but whether he can sort himself out remains to be seen; at any rate there is the makings of good centre back in there.

Jim Steele helped Southampton to the FAC Cup in 1976 then was loaned to Rangers at the start of season 76-77. He played five games and was cautioned in everyone. The Rangers News summer special in 1977 announced Jim had won three RSCs Player of the Year awards. If we go on to win the Championship this season, Gernet should award Ryan Porteous an award, thanking him for his contribution?

The Talk o' the Toon - Tommy Doc'. Lanarkshire School Sports were well organised. If you had a forty mile trip down the County to play Biggar High School in the Intermediate league, the Rugby Union first fifteen and, Girls' Hockey eleven piled in on the coach. You were rubbing sleep from your eyes boarding the bus, kick-offs were 09.30hrs. A quiet journey ensued until a mate brandished a newspaper with the back page headline - "Doc takes in Tynecastle". The newly appointed national manager, Tommy Docherty was assessing Hearts and Rangers players for the upcoming game against Portugal. The consensus was Jardine, Cruikshank and, Donald Ford was as far as the Doc would gaze. A teammate who had already signed a 'S-Form' at Motherwell gave us the bad news-good news routine. His older brother who drove a Tunnocks wagon and regularly took in our games, was not trapping. Obviously, the good folks of Biggar were carmel wafered up? The bad news was no chance of getting to Tynie, the good news was he could get two of us into the Fir Park Boys' Enclosure for the game against Hibs. A free pie too; however, an opportunity to view Turnbull's Tornados was not to be passed. Hibs had Stanton, Cropley, Brownlie and, Blackley in contention for Scotland. BBC Radio Scotland's coverage of football did not start until 15.30hrs. There was a quick update on scores, then live commentary of the selected match began at twenty to four. Changed days indeed? You had thirty minutes to find someone cradling a radio in the crook of their arm and was not concerned about battery life ie prepared to turn it up loud enough for all to hear. David Francey boomed, "welcome to Tynecastle, you join me and thirty thousand others enjoying a glorious day in the Capital". The teams were, Hearts : Cruikshank, Sneddon, Kay, Brown, Anderson, Thomson, Townsend, Murray, Ford, Wnchester and, Lynch. Rangers : McCloy, Jardine, Mathieson, Greig, McKinnon, Jackson, Henderson, McLean, Stein, MacDonald and, Johnston. After Francey's greetings, we were straight back for a goal at Tynecastle, Tommy Murray had notched for the Boys in Maroon. The half time report was all Hearts, we were barely up the park. 'Well and Hibs were at it hammer and tongs with the game going into the last few minutes tied at 1-1. We craned in to hear a fading commentary and were told Billy Brown had added a second for Hearts. A consoling bag of chips was necessary and the chippy had a TV above the till. Whilst waiting the classifieds told us Bud Johnston had pulled back a last minute consolation. There was no forgiveness, courtesy of East Fife we were second bottom of an eighteen team league. The Daily Express had the then doyen of Scottish football reporters, John McKenzie. He savaged the club, "The most pathetic performance that I can ever remember. This was the most lifeless, the most stereotypical, unimaginative team I can recall in Rangers colours. Rangers and Willie Waddell have reached a crossroads". There were no radio phone-ins in those days but, the Express opened, 'a Rangers crisis call line'. There's a familiar theme in the given suggestions, "too much emphasis on physical fitness", "deplorable tactics" and, "a non existent youth policy". The then players were castigated and the Board were urged to sign Drew Jarvie from Airdrie, Jim Steele from Dundee and, Donald Ford from Hearts. The Potuguese paper, a Bola sent a reporter to the game too, he stated, "everything runs, the players, the ball and, the brain. Further, the Portuguese blat wondered aloud about Tommy Docherty? It was pointed out his 15 month spell managing Porto had been no threat to Benfica and Sporting. The next game would decide whether we went into the Sporting tie as bottom club. We had to draw with or defeat East Fife at Ibrox to at least remain second from last?

This appeal characterises the petty distractions that permeate our game constantly. Utterly pointless

There was a time when as often as not I didn’t have five bob for the ‘bus to Ibrox so I was a regular attender at Tynecastle and Easter Road. I never had any trouble at either venue despite the colours of the scarf I wore, so I don’t hate either of them.

.... Ibrox or Murray Park.. and taking McCoist advice James Mulholland 16:07, 6 Oct 2021 Updated: 16:51, 6 Oct 2021 TWO FINANCIAL experts whose actions in trying to save Rangers fell below an ‘ordinarily competent’ standard have been ordered to pay £3.4million to the club’s liquidators. Judge Lord Tyre found on Wednesday that David Whitehouse and Paul Clark breached their duties whilst acting as administrators at the then ailing club. In a judgement issued at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Lord Tyre ordered the duo to hand over £3,404,500 to financial services firm BDO. The company had won the sum following proceedings which were heard at Scotland’s highest civil court earlier this years. BDO’s legal team told Lord Tyre that both Mr Whitehouse and Mr Clark failed to cut costs sufficiently well enough after they were drafted into save the club almost 10 years ago. Advocate Kenny McBrearty QC claimed the pair could have stopped the club from being liquidated and made it more attractive to potential buyers by making staff redundant. Mr McBrearty also told the court that both Mr Whitehouse and Mr Clark could have sold on players like Steven Naismith, Steven Whittaker, Maurice Edu and Kyle Lafferty. He also said that Mr Whitehouse and Clark should have considered selling club assets like training ground Murray Park. The lawyer said the pair should have thought about a deal which would have seen Ibrox being sold and being leased back to the club. In a 125 page judgement, Lord Tyre agreed with the submissions made by Mr McBrearty. Writing about the way Mr Whitehouse and Mr Clark considered redundancies, Lord Tyre wrote that the men relied too much on a report which had been provided to them by manager Ally McCoist. He wrote: “I address firstly the steps taken by the respondents to inform themselves of the factors relevant to their decision-making in relation to player and non-player redundancies and player sales. “In my opinion the respondents’ actings in this regard fell below the standard reasonably to be expected of an ordinarily competent administrator in a number of respects. “I am satisfied that the respondents acted without having taken independent advice on certain critical matters about which they required to be informed. “As regards player redundancies, they relied upon the opinion of the manager, Mr McCoist, whom they ought not to have regarded as being in a position to offer a dispassionate opinion as to the number of possible redundancies that could be made while leaving the club with a squad capable of fulfilling its fixtures, or the identities of the players who could be released. “It is noteworthy that his list included only four players proposed for release from contract, three of whom were in any event out of contract in three months’ time, and one (Alexander) in the twilight of his career. “The respondents regarded Mr McCoist’s proposal as insufficient but failed to follow through the implication of this, ie that they needed to obtain advice from someone else. “The consequence was that by the time of the negotiations of wage reductions, the respondents did not have a reliable list of potential redundancies to use when making a comparison with the savings obtainable from wage reductions.” Mr Whitehouse, and Mr Clark - who were employed by financial services firm, Duff & Phelps - were appointed by the Court of Session as administrators after HMRC took Rangers to court for £18m of unpaid tax in February 2012. The two men went on to sell the business and assets of the Oldco to Charles Green’s consortium for £5.5m before BDO were appointed to liquidate the old company. The three men were later among seven indicted over fraud allegations relating to Rangers - before the case against them was dropped in June 2016. Both Mr Whitehouse and Mr Clark raised a multi million pound action against the police and prosecutors last year. Prosecutors admitted the case against the duo was “malicious” and conducted “without probable cause”. They both received multi million pound settlements. Prosecutors also admitted that Mr Green, who was also arrested during the probe and eventually acquitted, was wrongfully taken to court - and that the prosecution against him was malicious. At proceedings earlier this year, Mr McBrearty told the court that the two administrators acted negligently. He said: “What we have said is that a hallmark of negligence is the failure to take advice. What we have said is that a common hallmark of negligence is a failure to take specialist advice from people experienced in the business of the company.” Both Mr Whitehouse and Mr Clark denied the negligence claim. Their legal team claimed that they didn’t want to sell players on, make redundancies, or sell assets as they feared that these moves would put off potential buyers. However, Lord Tyre rejected the claims. He said the evidence available showed that by not selling on players or making redundancies, they had failed in their duties as administrators to minimise costs and maximise revenues. He wrote that both Mr Whitehouse and Mr Clark could have sold on players to clubs outside the transfer window. The court heard such a measure was possible providing that clubs agreed that the moves weren’t completed until the transfer window opened. He wrote: “I have already observed that I do not accept the respondents’ evidence that they considered and rejected a strategy of player sales because they wished to keep the squad intact for prospective purchasers. “It is in my view much more likely that they did not fully investigate player sales because they proceeded on the assumption that none could take place except to clubs playing in countries whose transfer window was open, but which were not markets in which Rangers players would usually be sold. “The evidence..demonstrates that sales outside the transfer window, although uncommon, are not prohibited, provided that both clubs and the player are content with a situation in which the player remains unregistered with the purchasing club until the opening of the next window.” Lord Tyre also wrote that the administrators should have accepted a £1.7 million bid made in April 2012 from West Bromwich Albion for Steven Naismith. The court heard that the administrators refused the bid on the basis that Naismith had a £2million buy out clause in his contract and that the bid was too low to activate it. But Lord Tyre concluded that Mr Whitehouse and Mr Clark acted incorrectly. Making reference to calculations made by Duff & Phelps employee Simon Shipperlee about the impact of accepting the bid, Lord Tyre wrote: “In my opinion the respondents were in breach of duty in failing to decide to accept the final offer of £1.7million made on 13April. “As Mr Shipperlee calculated at the time, the offer to relieve the company of Mr Naismith’s wage bill meant that the offer was worth about £1.85 million, as compared to the figure of £2 million in the buy out clause which in practical terms was the highest amount for which the company could have sold the player.” Lord Tyre wrote that the administrators should have done more to consider selling on Murray Park and selling Ibrox to lease it back. He wrote that these moves could have also helped the club’s financial position. This was because the bids being made for the club wouldn’t have allowed it to meet its financial obligations. Lord Tyre wrote: “It ought, in my view, to have been apparent to the respondents at least from the time when indicative bids of around £10 million were being received, that there was a likelihood that a sale of the entirety of the business as a going concern would not maximise the return for creditors. “Exploration of other options would have lengthened the period of the administration, with cost implications, but in the predicament in which the respondents found themselves, it seems to me that it was something that had to be done, and that the respondents were in breach of their duty in failing to do so.” In the judgement, Lord Tyre broke down the £3,404,500 on the following basis - £977,500 for failing to sell on ‘marketable’ players, £827,000 for failing to sell on Steven Naismith, £750,000 for failing to consider the ‘lease and sale’ of Ibrox, and £850,000 for the ‘loss of chance’ of selling on Murray Park. Lord Tyre concluded: "I hold that the noters are entitled.. to an order that the respondents contribute the following sum to the company's property by way of compensation for breach of duty.” https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/7809664/rangers-administrators-ibrox-murray-park-mccoist/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1633532939

No. I believe he has a two game suspension, reapplied, and, thus, will return to face the fhilth, if selected. Personally, I think the panel should have doubled his ban, and fined his club, heavily, for a capricious time wasting appeal.

Forgot about this:

They weren't missing. It was clear exactly where they were. It just wasn't where Scott Nisbet was when he scored that uncontested header.

Still went for Lundstram as he,like Bassey,is not a central or out and out defender.Central defense posted missing not for first time this season.