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  1. andy steel
    It's late but I will have another go. 'Doing their job' would not involve lying about the need for more cash at the AGM; it would not involve taking a bonus (not a salary) when redundancies are being made; it does not involve insulting fans' intelligence with 'Mr Easdale was speaking as a shareholder' bullshit. I cannot make you agree with me, however, if you consider the above three examples of Mr Wallace's behaviour since his appointment as 'doing his job' I am at a loss to know what to say. a) The presence of Easdale within the corridors of power at Ibrox is a disincentive to credible people to touch us with a bargepole. This is so obvious as to be axiomatic. You apparently, from this post, agree with him that it is fans who find him a disgusting, repugnant individual with about as much right to be inside Ibrox as Neil Lennon who are to blame for our cash woes. I level such accusations at Mr Easdale, and the people for whom he acts as proxy shareholder. There is no way to reconcile the two positions. b) No, don't be daft. But a bonus while making redundancies and highly dubious statements is stomach turning. Possibly I am letting my left wing bias creep in but that is the behaviour of the hideous business class that has left this country a shambles. I would love King & Co to put on the record that if and when they gain access to the paperwork, they will publicly and in minute detail announce where every fuckin penny has gone. I think a few tickets to non-extradition countries would be hurriedly purchased.
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    Bollocks to King! He isn't inside Ibrox any more than we are. We have a club which is spending more than it earns and cannot raise credit because of the actions of this, and previous, boards. King! Until he's in the door, if he ever steps up, it's got fuck all to do with him. Blaming people who aren't running the club for the shambles that is the club is, to borrow an expression, very peculiar logic indeed. To describe the present board as 'doing its job' is just amazing. I know you are a fanatical Bluenose. But I cannot see why you are ignoring the sirens which are wailing over Govan ever louder, not because of Dave King and his mythical millions, but because of Sandy bloody Easdale and his hedge fund masters!
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    Well, no, credit companies are not refusing us credit on the grounds the club desperately need the money. That would be a dream scenario for credit firms: sign here, and we'll have the house & kids as security! They are refusing it because the club has so royally screwed up running the business that credit firms won't touch us without conditions they know, as you have pointed out re. the Trust Fund, that the club won't agree to: it is a de facto statement of no confidence in the board from some of the shiftiest sectors of the entire UK economy, which is really saying something. Not the fans, not Dave King, not Chris Graham, not the UoF, not the Sos, not Brahim Hemdani nor Andy Steel. The board. And only the board. OT, but apologies for all the typos in my earlier posts. I have no shame in admitting I was in total bits this morning.
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    I don't quite agree with that, I think he's at least helped provide the idea of an alternative to swallowing our reservations and handing over our money. That alone, intentionally or not, has flushed out some facts and characters: Easdale front up for the club revealing where the power lies (as if we didn't know) despite not being legally in situ, a cosy wee arrangement if ever there was one; Wallace apportioning blame while withholding fairly major facts about the loss of the credit facility; the appointment of yet another PR wallah to try to cover the spoor of incompetence which goes up to the door of the stadium. If you mean he hasn't coughed up and bought the club, then you're right, but I see that as a seriously last resort and tbh, anyone who actually did that at this moment/in the last wee while would worry me as to their financial acumen. But it's last chance saloon for the 'Rangers men'. If they don't get it together this time, hopefully with the addition of a supporter based fraction like RF or BR, we've had it.
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    Your views may not, as you say, be popular, but there's no reason not to discuss them. I do feel you're taking a good deal 'on faith', though. They are. Dave King is using the Record to get across his agenda. And that's an issue I have changed my mind on recently, even including the Pacific Quay CSC. We've made our point, I actually think the media has been brought to heel with only one or two exceptions who are being protected by their employers, as we would pretty much all do for a colleague unless we hated them. To go from a 100% hostile media to Spiers (irrelevent) and Cosgrove/Spence (Tayside Axis of Imbecility) is a result for me. If King is using the media for his own ends, I think that's hardly surprising. Your objection to 'bare-faced cheek' asking for renewals is misplaced, though. It is not bare faced cheek to ask for renewals, it is bare faced cheek to (a) ask for renewals while (b) making highly dubious statements about fan loyalty and (b) continuing to draw salary and bonus from what they themselves describe as a 'fragile' business. That is cheeky, like it or not. Frankly I would use another word, implying dishonesty. As above. The break down consists of 'we wasted money, but that was before. Not saying how, or who, but we're different.' That is it, with no proof, no black & white facts and figures. So to say is entering the realms of the fantastic, from my perspective. I received neither clarity nor plan yesterday and since they had nigh on 5 months to come up with both, it leaves me looking at them askance wondering whether they are just a bit rubbish or whether they are at it. I don't see the evidence of change. I had hoped Mr Wallace might be change, but as it stands this morning he's been extremely flexible with the accuracy of why the finance company bailed out and when. That hardly sets him apart from our previous incumbents. As to the intellectual genius who preceded him into the media on Friday night, if he's the change I'm not paying in the first place. King may not be the answer, but at present the alternative is even worse.
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    Absolutely correct, I don't know it. But... I don't know how far away the moon is from earth, but I know it's quite a distance. I don't know how my car moves, but I know it does. I don't know for certain we're going into administration again, but, really, I do. Giving Mr Wallace more chances after this week requires a level of faith I don't have. I do struggle to reconcile the legend at the bottom of each of your posts - a sentiment I agree with, at least as far as the manager's office goes, but would never, ever put into writing - and the amount of chances you are willing to give people who have performed at least as poorly.
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    It does kind of ignore the point as to why we would be paying Rangers direct.
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    In 'Play Your Card Rights' the apparently immortal High King of low rent TV, Bruce Forsyth, used to hold up a warning hand to the audience when it came to the show's grand finale, sternly asking for 'no help from our audience in this, the nitty-gritty part ofthe show.' It was just one of his many catch phrases...here they come they're so appealing, OK dollies, do your dealing!' as the admittedly extremely cute lady helpers laid out the cards...'higher than a five, you say', or whatever...and right at the start of the show, 'What a wonderful welcome! So much better than the audience last week!! They were awful!!!' We need to decide whether we want to be like last week's audience and be awful, or whether we can sum up some courage and get through this, the nitty gritty part of our Rangers lives. It has come down to two choices, more or less: admin now, and find a way to get King & fan ownership up and running, or admin in a while, after limping forward while injured, putting back any return to health every day we delay. It is going to happen, even if every ST holder renewed the club has no access to money beyond that - no credit, no overdraft, no sign that present shareholders wish to invest a penny let alone a million or two - and show no sign of ceasing to draw great chunks of money in the form of wasted salaries for what are laughingly called professionals. There is a third way, which is for the present shareholders to realise they are killing our club and sell up to Rangers men: but Rangers men will need to step up, and they will need to sell. A lot of ifs, buts and maybes. We can't affect that, really. But it's not 'do I help the club with money now or do I withhold and stave off admin II' anymore. It's 'do I get the wheels of change moving now, or do I (for the best of intentions) help to put off the evil day as long as possible'. It's risky, no-one is saying otherwise, but we might as well get on with it and get change started. What point is there in dragging things out?
  9. andy steel
    Some people are highlighting the large wage bill we've spent in D3 & 2 or whatever they're called. I shall present a multiple choice question to highlight the scarlet nature of this red herring. Rangers spend £500,000 instead of £6m on players in the last two seasons. Does the extra £5.5m a) create a new infrastructure to develop youth and see a Tartan Ajax bestride the Scottish game or b) disappear like the other £60m odd into a black hole.
  10. andy steel
    Getting seriously fed up with this shit. As unconvincing as Pacific Quay's regular reports on the robust health of Scottish football.
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    Tbf to Ledg, he's just been on the wireless saying how Sandy fancied playing for his boyhood team before he finished and wanted the move.
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    Wallace speaks well but he is wrong on three counts: one, his pay is very much up for public discussion and not answering will make a lot of people assume that he's in for a hefty bonus, which is not on given the circumstances; two, that our problems are being caused by external debate - fans didn't just wake up one day and think, 'ach, I think I'll go and piss off the board' for no reason: our problems are entirely board caused and need addressed by the board in a quicker, stronger and more mature manner than 'it's a' somebiddy else's fault!!' and three, waffling about the player-staff split on the payroll. You can't refuse to answer about board salaries and/or bonuses, refuse to answer where the monies have gone, and then claim to have set fans' minds at ease. I think he could do a job for us as he seems very professional, but I'm tired of being bullshitted.
  13. andy steel
    While it may be more convenient for some, I doubt they would have hoped to be accommodated in a way that makes the club look both in trouble and amateurish.
  14. andy steel
    This seems to highlight that as long as we have extensive share ownership by hedge funds it will be their interests, and not those of the club, which takes precedence. If they can't see that it has been the years of corporate mismanagement which have created operating difficulties then they truly deserve the epithet moron. However, they do know fine well where the problem lies and it is up to them to solve it - in one easy step, sacking both Easdales. They will be issuing redundancies elsewhere, well business is business and their tea's oot. Hopefully someone conversant in this field can work this out. The finance company only told Rangers what, yesterday? Or was it last week? Or last month? Why on earth is something of this importance included in a review, rather than being communicated ASAP? Why go through the whole process of the last few weeks re.renewals, then lob in this grenade, if they knew? And if they didn't know until let's say last night, what does that say about the view of the finance sector about the present incumbents? They can blame the fans all they like but they are the ones in office. When they talk about external pressures being to blame, they should look at how they've handled this unimportant little morsel of news and maybe look in the mirror.
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    Some fair points and some hopeful steps but nothing very tangible. Not really a surprise I suppose. I know we've wasted shitloads of money, I was hoping to find out how and by whom. I need to re-read the ST payment farrago because something isn't right about that. Anyone remember that blueprint that a fan drew up about a year/18 months ago? Other than the bits blaming everyone else for our problems (previous boards, King, the fans) it reads rather like that - positive but vague. The overall impression is that some people could do a decent job on the board, but that one or two really do need to be sent packing to restore confidence in the company as a whole.
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    In hindsight, you have to admit he's got a sense of humour. Using the expression 'steady as she goes' to describe a club in fragile financial health and which is apparently a stroppy, non-renewing fan away from administration is unintentional irony worthy of great Richard Milhous Nixon himself. Plus, we can now call him a moron as much as we like, and when he takes us to court we just play this interview. Case dismissed!
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    That photo of Sandy, he's wearing the first Rangers top I ever got, age about 12 or something. I remember going to the chippy in it and some person of another persuasion sneered 'don't worry son, it'll wash off' - if it was meant to be be insulting it failed, I felt about 20ft tall, because I felt like I was in a club with people like Davie Cooper, and Bobby Russell, and Sandy Jardine. Even when he went to Hearts (we should never have let him go, in hindsight) he was class. Man, I was just watching a game from '87 in the downloads forum and he was there in the Hearts defence, oozing ability. Another link to the past gone. I want to express my sadness, but I don't know how to. How do you explain to people you never met that they made you feel special? Thanks anyway, Sandy, although I never met you I will miss you terribly.
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    Wasn't meant to be an insult, although I see that's how it looks. No offence intended - tbf, it'll generally be obvious when I'm having a go at the Orangemen!
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    Why so? I thought his support for the No campaign (hardly unexpected from that source) would have ushered him speedily toward the old knighthood. Unless he has one already...I confess I have no idea who it is. Jackson Laidlaw?
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    Because, like the pitiful marketing effort by Timothy above, it plays up to the worst in the fan base and makes us look like we're still fighting the wars of the past. Which said, I didn't mind the Orange top since I completely bought into the Dutch tribute side of it. If haters insist I did it because I am a knuckle dragging Orangeman, that's their worry. Times must be hard, right enough.
  21. andy steel
    'I have realised I am a millstone around the neck of the club, and have tendered my resignation. I will now wait for a surly driver on one of my scabby buses to whisk me down the road to Greenock'. I'd struggle to find anything negative about that.
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    'Fraid it does, me old lank haired bus wallah. A while ago I would have been a bit riled or angry that a nobody like Easdale would have the nerve to define loyalty to the Rangers fanbase. Now I just shrug it off and file it away under 'Reasons why Easdale should be nowhere near Rangers FC'. A complete non-entity, most widely known for being jailed, who imagines leeching onto Rangers will somehow catapult him into the Chair of the Scottish CBI. Sandy, you are well out of your depth.
  23. andy steel
    It sounds like you are looking for reasons to object to these people. If you expect Jesus Christ Almighty to step up and play, you'[re in for a long wait. As long as it is ordinary Bears, you're going to have to suffer people being arrogant/shy/positive/negative and so on.
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    I'm sorry bud, but I do. is not the kind of attitude I am looking for as we move forward (there's a (hollow) laugh)). If that is Mr Tyrell's modus operandi, it means he can publish or say on or off the record anything he wants to and never, under any circumstances, be held to account for it. Even in a business like the Barclay Bros. that level of non-accountablity would raise at least one eyebrow; in a business which has chronic trust issues between club and fanbase, it's just asking for trouble. Who knows, he may prove me completely wrong. But as a mission statement, it stinks. Already! Can't we ever just employ people who are fans of Rangers, are willing to be as open as is feasible - no-one, despite posts to the contrary, expects every single detail to be made public - and if there's bad news, say so? It's not that fucking difficult, it really isn't. It's heartbreaking and infuriating in equal measures to see Rangers run in such a cack handed fashion, year after year. However, as I say, the guy isn't even in the door yet so fingers crossed.
  25. andy steel
    If it is the RST, well done them, and I don't remember typing that very often. As long as it's Rangers fans, I can't see what the problem would be.
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