Tannochsidebear

Our whole model will work better in the top flight, so not getting promotion is not an option for me. If our "billionaire" operator (cant call him owner with only 9%) could not see that and would not pay off the outgoing management team to bring in a new team to challenge for the title, then he has no defence against the charge of mismanagement. I accept that is hardly the worst charge to be levied against Ashley in his period of operating our club! Our first and singularly most important decision to be made by the incoming board is to appoint a new manager. Talk of interim positions and short-term fixes are nonsense. We need to nail down a good appointment to see us through the play-offs and into the top flight with a 2nd place finish in his first season the usual minimum requirement. We will have the second highest wage budget of all Scottish teams again next season so not to finish at least second would be a disgrace. I cant understand bears talking about fighting relegation next season, or preferring to stay another year in the wilderness of the second tier, absolute nonsense. The fans will return under new ownership and new management in huge numbers as we have always done when things are right off the field and with the right manager, and our income will grow with the new Directors working hard to bring in sponsorship, corporate box income etc that I know is already in motion and waiting to happen. We cannot maximise this income in the second tier, so it has to be the top flight for us, and to achieve this we have to make the right management appointment. What confidence does it bring to the players if another temporary fix is in place, knowing they are mostly out of contract in a few months and even bursting a gut for the interim manager might not get them a new deal when a new permanent manager is put in place in the summer. No, a new permanent manager needs to be appointed within a couple of weeks of the new regime taking over to give time for the confidence to build towards the play-offs, and into next season. We can take comfort from the fact that this is the weakest celtic team and manager of many years, and they are light years ahead of any other team in the top flight, so the bar is set no so much at Olympic high jump level, but at primary school practice level, as seen in our matches against top flight opposition this season where sides in the top half of the league were easily brushed aside.

He must have lost a few positions on that list after the massive fine imposed on him by the SFA!

Been really busy all day today so this news is absolutely wonderful. While the confirmation is still to be received, and in business (especially the extremely murky world of Ashley/Green & Co) anything can happen until it is all signed and sealed, I feel really pleased that after 26 years of businessmen running our club for what Rangers could do for them, we now have the chance to have guys running our club for the club's sake. Our future is in our hands, and I would hope that we can jointly, fans and board, move our club forward together and get our club back to something we can be proud of internationally and to leave for our children and future generations of bears. But like I say, I will wait until the documents are signed and sealed before I really believe it. If we know one thing about the scum who have run us into the ground, it is that they know how to fight dirty and get what they want, and I cant see them going this quietly.

Does anyone know who the "campaigners" are. It looked to me it was just yet another social media campaign set up by a random fan in response to Collymore, and the article's jump to them saying they want to meet Sturgeon seems quite a leap to make without any quotes other than what was in the petition. I ask particularly as someone who has done this very thing and met Sturgeon to ask for this very thing in my previous remit of being on the RFWG and would be interested to share my thoughts about the meeting with whoever was going to meet her, but it seems there is no meeting planned, just the paper trying to make a bigger story out of another social media campaign.

I'm sure GS means £20K pw between them

On the day the scum are fined, again, by UEFA, our ever-compliant "governing" (no laughing!) body release an anti-Rangers statement to use up column inches and airplay and deflect from their beloved poops being the bad guy again. Can their be any other reason for the timing of this appeal given the original ban was weeks ago.

It is only 0.5% so not likely to be a game-changer in either direction, and could be just the filtering through of the RF purchase from a couple of days ago hitting the lines. Hopefully these are shares that were in a neutral or pro-board holding that are now in a anti-board holding with voting intentions, but we probably wont know either way.

From their Facebook page. Well done RFB, it is spot on.

Quote: STATEMENT: The Rangers Fans Board will not take lessons in morality from various authorities and bodies who totally ignored an offensive, sectarian banner displayed by Celtic fans at a recent match against Rangers and a song which included the term "Orange bastards" during the Celtic game last Thursday night. When we notice these people exercising parity and equal treatment we will sit up and take notice.

T3B are using his error to create such a scenario, however I feel his masters will get him his full payoff before the EGM, just like Green & Ahmed got full playoffs when both could have been sacked for gross misconduct quite easily and therefore not get anything.

It also stinks a bit like Green and Ahmed that foolish unprofessional comments give them a way out with a bagful of swag.

I now expect Leach to "resign" before the EGM so he can get a full pay-off now that T3B have pretty much told him he is getting sacked for gross misconduct if they win the EGM. Remembering that the EGM will only remove him and LLambias as Directors, their employment contracts as CEO and FD will remain in place.

Wholly predictable made-up nonsense to gain sympathy and start to build a case for the postponement of the EGM due to safety fears. I expected this type of spin from toxic and fully expect another story to follow along similar "fear and alarm" grounds over the coming days. We just have to ensure we question any reporter/paper that agrees to run lies of this nature and ask for evidence to be presented. Hotels usually have CCTV and most certainly would have witnesses in a busy hotel bar so put up or stop lying Toxic, and shame on John Richardson for running a fabrication, if John Richardson even exists and is not a phantom name as is often used in gutter journalism when reporters don't want to use their real names to an iffy story.

Well done to the RST, more excellent news from the fans share purchase vehicle groups.

The Rangers Supporters Trust is delighted to announce it has increased its shareholding by over a quarter of a million shares. The RST has purchased a further 125,000 shares from the market and has also had an amazing response to its offer to donate shares in return for life membership. This has yielded a further 150,000 shares and over 300 new life members. The total shareholding of the RST is now 1,275009 shares and growing weekly. This represents 1.56% of the shares in Rangers. Further share donation forms are being received daily as are hundreds of proxy forms for the upcoming AGM. We would like to thank the fans for supporting the RST in their thousands. Together we can ensure this EGM is a success. We hope to have more exciting news soon. You can proxy to the RST for the EGM by following the instructions on this link. https://www.therst.co.uk/regulatory/how-to-proxy-your-vote/ - See more at: https://www.therst.co.uk/news/rst-increases-shareholding-by-quarter-of-a-million/#sthash.yOTH7ANt.dpuf'>https://www.therst.co.uk/news/rst-increases-shareholding-by-quarter-of-a-million/#sthash.yOTH7ANt.dpuf https://www.therst.co.uk/news/rst-increases-shareholding-by-quarter-of-a-million/

On listening to the various stakeholders discussing the new EPL deal announcement the other night, I couldnt help but think just how different the two countries were. One is run professionally, with great positive PR, broadcasters falling over themselves to outbid each other for the rights, full stadiums, top players, and worldwide appeal. They made a big thing about the fact that the stadiums were full and with large travelling supports in attendance this led to a great atmosphere coming across on tv and this is what worldwide viewers loved. Now move across Hadrians wall and see Ross County play Partick Thistle in front of about 2,000 people with about 100 of those away supporters, no atmosphere, no quality, no drama of relegation and teams desperate to stay up, no 4 CL places for the aspiring teams to aim for. We have a 1/50 favourite for a non-existent title race, the two teams relegated last season are in better shape than at least 2/3 of the teams in the league above them, outwith celtic no side has paid more than £250K for a player in years. In what universe can the SPFL "insider" believe that our country's football can piggy-back onto the EPL deal and get a substantially increased offer for our game, just because the EPL have run their game professionally and can command big deals?

It shows you how far we have fallen when there is general disappointment that our captain has been banned for ONLY 2 games, one of which will never be enforced as he will certainly retire from playing at the end of this season. And before you all start, I know it looks like he retired 5 years ago!

I agree with that assessment BH, and I am guessing they will put out an appeal to their members for one-off top-up payments to keep their percentage at the same level through a rights issue. If we do some guesswork that a rights issue will happen in around 3 months after the EGM to raise funds and to allow King etc to invest into the club, by my calculations RF, holding 1.7% currently (around 1.38M shares) would need to buy a further 1.38M to keep it's percentage at 1.7%. If the shares are offered at around 35p (est current price) this would mean they would need to raise just under 500K to do this. If they do not buy any more between now and then they will have around half of this in monthly contributions in the bank so will be asking around 10,000 members to contribute £25 each on a one-off to pay for the rights issue. I think that would be achievable.

While Vuckic looked ok, he looked far from fit. We also changed our entire midfield formation to fit him in, something we have never done to help Aird, Temps, Shiels or anyone else. We played a diamond on Sunday with Hutton in front of the defence (what defence i know!) Black & Law in the middle and Vuckic in a number 10 pivot role. When he got involved he looked keen, but was on the edge of the game for long spells, which might be expected in his first competitive game in who knows how long, but far from a ready to play players that a loanee would usually be. As for the others, 2 are out mid-long term, and is nearly fit, and one didnt even manage a half a game. I stand by my assessment of 5 injured duds, as on Sunday that is the only adjectives that could be used.

There is no evidence that these players are for free. It was hinted at in an article written by a pro-board journo, so cannot be taken as accurate. The weight of evidence in Ashley's reign so far is that we get nothing for free and pay over the odds for everything, so my guess is we are paying full wages plus a loan fee. I can no more prove this theory than anyone can prove we have these guys for free.

While Bomber has been anti-board longer than just about anyone, it was for the wrong reasons. His consistent "show me the title deeds" nonsense done him no favours and was frankly utterly embarrassing. For him to say "I told you so" is totally wrong as the title deeds were never in anyones hands but the clubs. For all the various boards since Whyte have done wrong, too many to list here, the title deeds was not one of them. But for today, I totally agree with Bomber calling out his former colleagues to up the pressure on the current board/owners and hope he manages to persuade/embarrass a lot of them to finally step up and condemn the charlatans in charge.

I'd forgotten about that Frankie cheers. Hopefully a 10 game ban like Black that will keep him out till the end of the season. Bye Simmo!

We all know something had to be done, and that something was to appoint a manager to bring some fresh ideas, coaching, tactics and a general lift to things. Bringing us 5 injured duds from Ashleys other rape victim does nothing to improve us, as seen on Sunday, and coming soon to a league game near you.

Would it not be just our luck that McCulloch gets off with a ban that only applies to the Scottish Cup!!

What's Simmo up for? I cant recall him getting involved in anything or even being anywhere near an opponent.