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    Summing up after 10 pages, 3 people who had made it pretty clear they weren't interested anyway are now even less interested. I won't join in the booting of BH here, though. Either he imagined or made up the suggestion that BR will be swallowed by RF or someone said it. If its the former, he needs to get more sleep. If it's the latter, it would be a good move to use the reaction here as a warning to everyone else involved to be careful about stepping on other peoples' toes. Certainly the people making the most noise about this are the ones who wouldn't have joined anyway - but if it happened again that would maybe leave people questioning the professionalism and attitude of RF. Could be a hard lesson learnt, but a worthwhile one.
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    Sad to hear on the radio last night the suggestion, more or less, that if the game were held at Ibrox the Tartan Army would become slavering bigots, blasting out the full songbook to annoy the Irish.
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    It;'s a fair point but a risk that some will decide is worth taking, some will decide not. There is a real risk of losing your investment, so ffs don't go into it thinking you will come out the other side richer! This is not any sort of money making scheme but an attempt to use fan power to twist the arm of our current operators - we saw how effective that could be with the publicity over the loan which was KB'd. You can decide to either gamble a bit with whatever you can afford, or choose to hold back - and while I have massive reservations about fan ownership the alternative, leaving our present charmless lot to oversee things, is terrifying.
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    Even by the board's standards, that would be a super dumb plan! Re. the request for Mr Letham to come across with the readies that day - I didn't see that as expressing chronic cash flow issues at Rangers as much as trying to put an obstacle in his way he couldn't possible overcome.
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    Just change the name to 'Offensive Behaviour at Ibrox and on Rangers Messageboards Bill' and all will be well. While I have little problem with our own ubers being forced to give up the songbook, I don't see why other people should be allowed to say or sing whatever they like - kind of, I dunno, not very fair.
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    To keep our club alive? The idea is not to kill Rangers, but to save it!
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    That's something of an overreaction, unless you know more than has been posted on this thread (which is all I know). That'll learn you to quit smoking!
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    Sorry, I didn't mean to cause any trouble. Much as I liked the response from King, I suppose he needs to be avoid being dragged into a tit for tat and appear kind of statesmanlike.
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    I don't see that we have much of a choice but to trust him.
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    I can play it on guitar, but no way can I sing like Glen Campbell!
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    Yep....that's a paddling.
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    A normally sane guy I know on Twitter was going dan about this, insisting that Chris Graham was only in it to further his own business interests. Seems unlikely to me - publicly defending us would be a kiss of death, I'd say. The hating had to pull in its horns at some point. Unreal that it took over two years of constant abuse to work its way out the system of all but the most bitter celtc fans, kid-on journalists, Jim Spence etc, but like the weather we can see slightly brighter times ahead. If we can just get some kind of progressive footballing manifesto into the club itself we might be ready to breathe again, at last. We'll see.
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    Now you've changed it to a real hero, I confess I'm curious as to who the other lad was.
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    Well, that would be perfect. But I see on another thread that TRS story has made the back page of the Record, which ensures most Bears (not just online obsessives) will know about this. It's credible, well written, mostly sourced and can't be ignored, except at the price of even less credibility. Perhaps they can actually come up with an answer why they took the loan which costs the club more - I hae ma doots!
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    Fun anagram competition! CUKF FOF
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    AMMS! The man with someone I thought was Mr Motivator but turned out to not be as his avatar in Rangers messageboard land! Remember, I thought my Jocky Wilson avatar was cool. It's maybe not a title many would fight over.
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    Redford! The man with the coolest avatar in Rangers mesageboard land.
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    I can think of another two I'd like to say to quite a few people.
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    This is excellent (if terrible as well, if you see what I mean). Exposure of incompetence at best, corruption at worst. At last professional are willing to put their heads above the parapet and their names to outright criticism of the board and their financial deals. At last the momentum is well and truly building so that every single move they make which benefits not the club but individuals with a tie on is revealed - who knows, some might turn out to be good! The lights are being shone on the nooks and crannies of Ibrox now. I know some are willing to give the board more chances and they are entitled to their opinion. far as I'm concerned it's all out war from now until they are out the door...and I baggsy kicking Irvine's arse down Edmiston Drive.
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    Awkward - I'd want to see them face to face to let them have it, but I certainly wouldn't come running when they click their fingers.
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    Tbf it's a neat title. Inaccurate, but sharp writing. I liked it anyway.
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    No, I'm sorry - I know we should know what is going on but I'm not reading his stuff anymore. He's just an embarrassment to Rangers fans.
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    I notice Phil didn't have the guts to email King something like 'do you believe the entity now trading as Rangers but which is ACTUALLY SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AND IN NO WAY THE SAME HUNBAGS AS BEFORE YA ORANGE GETS is a distressed company facing a critical cash flow crisis?' Shitebag. I quite like King's one word answers. It hardly constitutes an interview, but neither do I see it as spun by the board. Just manners, something the interviewer wouldn't understand.
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    http://www.thecoplandroad.org/2014/02/jack-irvine-loyal-rangers-man-just-ask.html?showComment=1393670088079#c356451074580151189 We’ll just leave this here. Jack Irvine, loyal and principled Rangers man and PR guru, in his column from The Mirror, 3 June 1999. Don Row Smacks Of Hypocrisy SHOCK! Horror! Rangers fan sings The Sash. Forgive me if I vomit at the stench of hypocrisy surrounding the Donald Findlay affair. Many people have long thought that the Ibrox vice-chairman was an anti-catholic bigot. Presumably the Rangers board were aware of this. If they weren’t, they are either remarkably stupid or unbelievably arrogant. Even before he took on the vice-chairmanship of Rangers, wasn’t the highlight of Findlay’s New Year house parties to give The Sash big licks in front of his guests, many of them embarrassed Catholics and fellow lawyers. Did the Law Society or the Faculty of Advocates take action. No way. Indeed, one reeled at the Faculty’s myopia when they ruled out an inquiry earlier this week and stated: “No complaint has been made at the moment against Mr Findlay. The Faculty’s procedure involves a complaint being made against a member and that hasn’t happened yet.” This is a strange viewpoint from a body which scours the newspapers to check whether journalists have transgressed the laws of libel and contempt by the most minute margins. Could they perchance have missed the Findlay story on pages 1 through to 64? Sadly for the ostriches in the Faculty it now appears that they have received telephone complaints with letters to follow. Get out of that m’learned friends. The truth of the matter is that both the Rangers board and the legal bodies are guilty of gross hypocrisy. They were willing to turn a blind eye to Findlay’s antics. It was only when a newspaper splashed him all over the front page that they realised they too are now compromised. The game was up and the hypocrites started mouthing platitudes about how a man like Findlay couldn’t be allowed to sully the fine name of Rangers, which as everybody knows is doing its best to root out sectarianism. Aye, sure. What’s that they sing on the terracing nowadays - Julie Andrews’ greatest hits? I don’t know how much Findlay was paid by Rangers but it would be a nice gesture if his director’s fees were sent to the family of murdered Celtic fan Thomas McFadden. It won’t bring Thomas back but it would at least be a concrete gesture. One last point which intrigues me. Somebody shopped Donald Findlay over his broken romance with TV journalist Paddy Christie. Somebody shopped him over his antics at the Edmiston Suite. I’m no criminal lawyer Donald, but tell me, do you think somebody’s got a grudge against you? CRO commented - Can you imagine it?! A party shopping one's name around to pursue a vendetta?! And Jack speaks on this as if he's discussing it from a position of authority, as if he's practiced such tactics before. SHOCK! Horror! By the way, Jack, that's not a Julie Andrews tune. It's Roy Orbison they're singing these days.
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