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  1. andy steel
    It's not spitting foam, it's cold, calculated contempt, and it won't affect negotiations one iota, especially since Easdale prime & secundus will be limited to bringing in the tea and biscuits. They've always been gophers for others and will have nothing to add to any business beyond 'd'ye waant shoogur?' Man, I'm going to look really stupid if they're still there in a week!
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    Many thanks to Mr Thompson! By delaying payment he has forced the club to the point of disaster, which in turn has opened the door (hopefully) for actual grown ups to get into the Blue Room. Doubtless United fans think he's putting the boot in, but I can see his plan clearly. Just as when he helped us out by lying about ticket allocations discussions with the SFA over the Cup semi, he's plainly helping us out by starving the board of much needed funds. I say we rename the Broomloan the Thompson Stand!
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    Correcting puerile press releases which completely misrepresent the situation is neither 'stupidity' nor 'goading', it is establishing fact over bullshit. That said, when you have your boot on the enemy's throat you do not lift it.
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    No, it wouldn't help all concerned. Easdale, from what we can tell from his public appearances & pronouncements, is living in a complete fantasy world where he is helping Rangers over some local difficulties, and eventually, he'll take his place in the proud pantheon of Rangers bosses down the centuries. The sooner he realises he's held in contempt by supporters, excepting a very small and in some cases quite frankly inexplicable minority, and will never - as in, NOT EVER - be accepted either in the stands or in the boardroom and, in short, fucks off, the better. How the people involved can keep themselves from a lot worse than a sharp response to the latest lies, obfuscation and pitiful attempts at misleading supporters is beyond me. How some fans can take lies, obfuscation and pitiful attempts at misleading supporters in their stride is also beyond me. This man and his friends have us, again, at the point of being wound up. A few sharp words are the very, very least he deserves and believe me, if I ever cross his path he will get a lot more than a few and they will be considerably more venomous than 'sharp'. It's time to call a spade a spade. What will it take, Berliner?
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    The only negotiation should be deciding how many people get to kick Easdale's arse down the Marble Staircase.
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    The best we can get regarding Ashley is people on the board who don't ask 'how high' when he says jump. We can't oust him entirely unless he sells all his shares and rips up his onerous contracts.
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    Yes, they might not have had the letter at that point but they'd have been aware that things were teetering on the brink. But hey - when David Somers is chairman, he can do things his way.
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    Penny pinching is exactly what we need. Money will have to be spent, but not thrown, at Rangers.
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    The only way Ashley would need to fund a loan is if everyone involved - present board(s), shareholders, potential investors, a new vehicle, even RFFF and so on - refused to offer one. Knowing that someone, somewhere will stump up the relatively small amount needed to keep things going until changes can be attempted, he can sit back, contracts signed, and let other people pay to cover the mess his actions have helped create. He's probably more interested in striking accords with the people coming in. You don't need to see through walls to see how things are going at Ibrox, so he can hang out his useful idiots and get on with coorying in with the new lot. Even if all this pans out best case scenario, we'll still be stuck with Ashley for years in some way, shape or form.
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    No doubt the nit will expect people to be grateful that one of the architects of our crisis is temporarily helping a bit. I'm not.
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    While I have no doubt The Record is accurate enough regarding the dismal financials, it reads more like a shot across Ashley's bows than reportage, though I have doubts as to how likely Mike Ashley is to use The Record for anything other than bog roll. The Telegraph seems more like an accurate summary of the situation and a far more likely precis of events to come. In all events, it's now clear that anyone who resists the new front of investors is either actively trying to destroy the club, or protect themselves from potential ramifications in future. Other than a level of stupidity which seems unlikely for most of the people involved, there's no serious explanation for the actions of the present or previous boards that can be read as acting in Rangers' best interests. Hats off to the fans for keeping the club going, then forcing the issue.
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    I'm in a cranky bastard mood but what's the point in posting that if you're not going to expand?
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    Well, she (or the poor real life lassie) never found him, all they got was loonballs...God knows what we're getting into bed with here. Frankly it sounds far too good to be true.
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    Fuckin 'ell, Mr Goodbar.
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    That would be fine, because then the whole lot of them can sod off, including Wallace. Not a single one is Rangers class.
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    Sounds great, but the worry is that the stupid contracts 'under the hood' will maybe put such people off.
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    And it's far from just Rangers fans. Football, in Scotland anyway, seems to attract total idiots. And they want to let the idiots get bevvied at the the game again, genius.
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    See the references to homosexuality which lard your posts, 26th: is there any chance you could grow out of it sometime?
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    [video=youtube;Qr3-ScLFG4w] While it's far too early, and things remain far too murky, to even whisper about some kind of bryter layter for Rangers, we can probably all agree that last week was the first time in, oh, three years or more when hopes were raised without being swiftly crushed again. The temptation is to rush headlong into dreams about good things happening next: Ashley snapping his fingers, tearing up his contracts and ruefully reflecting he'd have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for those meddling Three Bears. Somers getting unceremoniously booted down the marble staircase and out onto Edmiston Drive. Easdale...well, hate crime laws are very strict in Scotland, so suffice it to say a more appropriate position, like sweeping out one of McGill's garages, would suit him better. It's hard to believe no-one in his circle has made him aware that his ongoing connection with Rangers is only making his public persona even less popular than it was previously, but it seems self-awareness is not a strong suit among Rangers board members, who have only stopped short of signing and appointing Ched Evans as clup captain in their litany of grossly self-destructive moves. But, in all truth, self-awareness is not a strong suit among fans, either. Even allowing for the natural, emotional response to all that has gone on in recent years - to defend what we perceive as the club, and to reject those who bring bad news as enemies or traitors - we've not covered ourselves in glory, Never mind what fans of other clubs say or think, they are (or should be) irrelevant to us, and we have to come to terms with ourselves and our club in our own way. Disharmony has been the prevalent key - if we actually do agree that the last week has been good it is a rara avis indeed, a very occasional visitor to these shores. Everyone has their own pet theory about why our fan base failed to act collectively or effectively during our - and I use the present tense, since we're far from out of the woods - predicament. In that use of the expression 'fan base' there lies the nub, for although we have the numbers we really don't have the unified power of a fan base,we have lots of fans who have different priorities. I've complained about people adding things onto Rangers often enough and won't repeat those arguments now, since there are more important matters to hand. But it's worth remembering that if we want people to stand shoulder to shoulder, the more colours we add to the strip, the less appealing it's likely to be. Keep it about The Rangers and only The Rangers and I fail to see how any Bluenose could possibly object to any fan body, or at least do so in any credible manner. Anyway, as fans we stand revealed as having serious self-identification issues. We've welcomed in, at first with some enthusiasm, then with more caution, and finally with dull, numb acceptance, a series of cheap tricks, none of whom have been able to replace Sir David Murray, who was not exactly the ideal partner himself. Beaten and battered, you can find fans who yearn for a strong owner, fans who want complete OMOV fan ownership, fans who have no clue, and all points between. Asking such a constituency to come up with a popular plan which will garner universal support is, to put it mildly, wildly optimistic. Maybe the shareholders who have emerged in the last seven days will turn out to be our Mr Goodbar after all, a strong reliable type who will do right by the club and us. Plainly a little bruised myself, I'm not even close to giving anyone one iota of trust until they've emphatically earned it. If we do emerge from these sick years with a club still intact, I hope at some stage we do the introspection thing, and come up with a different identity to the one which has proven next to useless over the last years. People who could have stepped up and helped us when we desperately needed them too have avoided us with a barge pole: no use denying it, we see people with Rangers connection investing in other teams. No doubt some will feel too attached to change, but if you survive a life threatening illness, the least you can do is examine yourself to see where you could maybe do better, should the worst happen again. Time enough to worry about that if there's nothing more pressing to be getting on with. And that day, sadly, is some way off yet. The best we can say is, at the end of each week, we're still here.
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    Virtually nil, I would think. We'd have to assume the people involved in this have been unable to see the dire quality of his teams, but it's an unlikely assumption. Everyone knows a fresh start would be better for every possible reason & I can't see the 3 Bears, Dave King or anyone else not knowing it as well.
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    God, the minute I say something nice about him he's at it again.
  22. andy steel
    If he is scuttling off, it's not because he is sick of the hassle, it's because he's been, or is about to be, rumbled. Utterly classless to the (hopefully) last.
  23. andy steel
    Of course there is a way back for them. Plenty of trains leave Central for Greenock every day. I wouldn't recommend taking a bus though, the service is shit.
  24. andy steel
    Hard to believe that, even after everything that's happened, some fans are still concerned about "fb's". No wonder we are pariahs.
  25. andy steel
    It's a relatively slow tome for sports news, especially in Scotland. So a fan statement with a nice juicy word count is a God send and likely to be more welcome at newsdesks. Also, the RST know that neither Llambias nor the board will so much as shrug in response. The point is not to force answers, since we know they are totally contemptuous of fans and, like the Somers email, will simply ignore it, but to drive home again and again to fans that the club is being run only to provide financial benefits to a group of corporate raiders. Not only well meaning but pretty smart.
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