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POLL RESULT: RIFC AGM 2019 Dear Member, Over the past week, Club 1872 members voted on the resolutions for the RIFC AGM 2019. The results are as follows. 1. To approve the Company’s audited Financial Statements, the Director’s Report, Strategic Report for the financial year ended 30th June 2019 Auditors report to be received and adopted. For – 98.4% Against – 0.1% Abstain – 1.5% 2. To reappoint Graeme Park as a Director of the Company. For – 97.5% Against – 1.1% Abstain – 1.4% 3. To reappoint John Bennett as a Director of the Company. For – 97.8% Against – 0.5% Abstain – 1.7% 4. To reappoint Alastair Johnston as a Director of the Company. For – 98% Against – 0.8% Abstain – 1.2% 5. To reappoint Campbell Dallas as the Auditors of the Company to hold office until the conclusion of the next AGM. For – 98% Against – 0.1% Abstain – 1.9% 6. To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of its Auditors. For – 98.3% Against – 0.6% Abstain – 1.1% 7. To authorise the Directors to allot equity securities on the basis set out in the Notice. For – 97.4% Against – 0.6% Abstain – 2% 8. To authorise the Directors to dis-apply pre-emption rights in respect of relevant securities allotted pursuant to Resolution 7 on the basis set out in the Notice. For – 95.1% Against – 0.5% Abstain – 4.4% All the shares held by Club 1872 Shares CIC and Club 1872 Projects CIC will now be voted in accordance with members' wishes. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our members for their ongoing support. Club 1872

There will be further incidents, not necessary at the cup final but it will happen again. The people to blame are the club board who could have stamped out this nonsense long ago but prefer for some reason to have cosy chats with those responsible.

Some people are more interested in attacking political opponents than they are in seeking justice for the victims.

Mourinho.You heard it here first.

POLL: Women and Girls Football Project An opportunity has arisen for Club 1872 to support the Women & Girls Football Department at Rangers Football Club through creating memorable matchday experiences for the Rangers community. This project would aim to: Provide local schools and community groups with the opportunity to experience women’s football at a Rangers Women FC match day Inspire young people to take up football and lead an active lifestyle Create a ‘Fanzone’ at selected matches to improve the match day experience for the supporter community at Rangers Women FC matchdays The project will also enable Club 1872 to support young female players who experience financial hardship/poverty with essential equipment to allow them to participate in football. Matchday Experience Groups of children and their teachers/coaches/carers from local school and community groups will be invited to experience a match day at the Hummel Training Centre. A group of up to 20 will be invited on selected match days and will be transported to and from the HTC by bus. They will be given a tour of the centre (an experience not available to the public) and the opportunity to watch the game from the balcony above the pitch. Afterwards, the group will be able to meet the Women’s 1st Team and have a photo opportunity with them on the pitch. The group will also receive a thank you letter from the Captain and a signed team photo as a momento from their day. The aim of this is to promote young people taking up football as part of an active lifestyle, but particularly to promote women’s football to young girls. In addition to inviting local groups, a fanzone would be created on selected match days to enhance supporters’ match day experience. This would include transport to and from Ibrox and entertainment at the Hummel Training Centre. The location of the training ground is prohibitive for many fans to get to by public transport and there is an opportunity for Club 1872 to provide transport for fans to get to and from matches from a pickup at Ibrox. Equipment Fund There are some players that face difficulty in being able to afford the kit (boots, shinguards etc.) required to be able to take part in football. Rangers current campaign Everyone, Anyone promotes equality for everyone, and everyone should have the opportunity to play, regardless of their financial circumstances. This project would provide players with the opportunity to apply for funding if they are in a position where they are struggling or unable to meet the costs for equipment to play. Costs The total cost for this project will be £10,080. £8,330 of this funding would go towards transport and entertainment for ten matches in the coming season and the attendance of local schools and community groups at three matches in the coming season. The remaining £1,750 would be used to provide the equipment fund for those in financial hardship - as assessed by Rangers. The member poll will close on Satuday 23rd November 2019 at midnight. To vote please click the link below, enter your login details and you will be redirected to the poll page. If you are already logged in to your Club 1872 account please logout first before clicking the link and then re-enter your login details. VOTE HERE Club 1872

Queen's Park: Scotland's oldest club vote to go professional after 152 years as amateurs By Stefan Bienkowski BBC Sport Scotland Liverpool's Andrew Robertson is one of the talents Queen's Park could not benefit from financially Queen's Park's members have voted to end 152 years as amateurs and Scotland's oldest club will now move towards the professional ranks. The Glasgow club are the last remaining amateur side in the Scottish Professional Football League. But 91% of members accepted advice from the club that change was needed to compete with their rivals. President Gerry Crawley said: "It's a historic evening. 152 years of history. There's a degree of mixed feelings." With Hampden Park being sold to the Scottish FA, and a move to neighbouring Lesser Hampden in prospect, Queen's Park also recognised the growing threat of Highland League and Lowland Leagues keen to take their place through promotion to the SPFL. Thursday's motion, which needed a 75% vote to proceed, at Hampden Park means the League Two club will, within a matter of months, be able to offer paid, part-time contracts to their first-team players and earn a financial return through transfer fees or compensation when players move on. "The committee of the club plotted a course to try to defend ourselves against the threats of other ambitious clubs around about us wishing to become a senior league club," former Queen's Park striker Crawley told BBC Scotland. "We are keen to arm ourselves to fend that off and progress ourselves. It was head against heart. The heart of a lot of the membership would be we really don't want to do this, but we have to do it." Since the club's formation in 1867, Queen's Park's club motto has been 'Ludere Causa Ludendi', which translates from Latin to English as 'To Play for the Sake of Playing'. As amateurs, they were unable to sign players on long-term contracts, which meant losing their best talent for free to professional clubs. Liverpool left-back Andy Robertson, Dundee United striker Lawrence Shankland and Ross County midfielder Blair Spittal are just three of the most recent products from the Queen's Park academy. After the vote, Queen's Park thanked "members and supporters" via Twitter for their input in recent months. "We recognise the difficulty in introducing this resolution," they added. "However, we believe this will enable us to plan for a bright future as we face up to the challenges of moving from the national stadium and maintaining our senior league place."

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He looks slow at times to me, makes up for it in experience/positioning possibly.

0 - 2 Morelos

Andy Walker sounds really happy.

Aribo...;

Morelos must score, he didn’t.

Prominent poster shown there.

Tonight a Scottish Government spokeswoman said: “We have made no judgments or conclusions as to how the redress scheme should be established or operate. “We would encourage as many people as possible to respond to the consultation. Their views will help inform this hugely important work.”

McCoist not sure Rangers deserved the lead!

POLL RESULT: Proposed Major Share Purchase Dear Member, Club 1872 is pleased to announce the result of our recent poll regarding the purchase of a further 2.5 million shares in RIFC. Members have overwhelmingly authorised the use of funds from Club 1872 Projects CIC to purchase a portion of these shares and the full purchase will now go ahead. The result of the vote was as follows: For - 99.4% Against - 0.6% This purchase will mean that the combined Club 1872 shareholding will rise to 16,202,838 shares in RIFC representing 6.47% of the company. This will move Club 1872 from the 6th to the 4th largest shareholder in RIFC and increase our current percentage shareholding by 1%. Club 1872 Director, Laura Fawkes said: “We would like to thank all our members who made this major share purchase possible. Club 1872 has now provided £1.5m in funding directly to Rangers over the past 14 months and, in doing so, managed to maintain our position amongst the major shareholders in RIFC. This is despite the massive levels of investment into the club over the past few years from Dave King and other investors. Our aim now is to continue to grow the organisation and remain amongst the major shareholders for years to come.” “This level of participation would not have been possible without the fantastic support of our members and we hope that this purchase can once again demonstrate the potential of Club 1872 to the wider support. We would urge supporters who have not yet signed up to Club1872 to do so and to allow us to continue to grow the supporters shareholding and contribute even more to the club in future years. We have only scratched the surface of what can be achieved for Rangers through Club 1872.” “Club 1872 is the only viable vehicle for supporters who see the value and security which a major supporter shareholding provides for Rangers both now and in the years to come. It is also by far the best way for Rangers fans to support the club financially outside of traditional methods such as ticketing and merchandise.” Club 1872

I received an answer from Gordon yesterday in which he seemed to accept that there was a anomaly in ticket pricing and that he would take it up with senior management. Today I received refunds for the 7 games in question. The problem is with the software system used for CCCS ticketing.Thanks again

Cannot be many of them coming over, I wondered why we were not being moved in Family Section.

I assume it’s my post you’re talking about? I’ve never heard of the guy, just saw the article online.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemeehallwood/2019/11/03/steven-gerrards-rangers-announce-11m-lossin-a-manner-designed-to-hide-them-from-the-media/amp/?__twitter_impression=true 53,228 views|Nov 3, 2019,11:45 am Steven Gerrard’s Rangers Announce £11m Losses, In A Manner Designed To Hide Them From The Media Mike Meehall WoodContributor SportsMoney I write about sports, politics, money and the points where they meet. Rangers FC announced accounts at 6.45 p.m. on a Friday, conveniently after the majority of people have stopped looking at the news. This, too, before a huge weekend of Scottish football, with two League Cup semi-finals as well as a full English Premier League program to distract attention. It’s not quite releasing them 15 minutes before kickoff in a crucial league match, as they did last year, but it is certainly not releasing them in a way that makes life easy for anyone in the media who might want to report on them. This is, of course, not an accident. I wrote a piece for this very site last year that questioned quite why Rangers might have chosen such timings to release vital information to their supporters, and posited that good news is rarely proclaimed in such a manner. That is as true now as it was then. Last year, the headline news was that the club had lost £14 million, and in a sense, the news this year shows an improvement, as this season Rangers only lost £11 million. Rangers’ Alfredo Morelos celebrates his second [+] SNS GROUP Hidden deeper in the report was that the club needs £10 million to keep going to the end of the season, the sort of thing that Rangers fans—who saw their club liquidated in 2012 and relaunched as a new club in the fourth tier of Scottish football—might want to know about. That the club’s Twitter account was silent on the issue, and one would have had to have been perusing Rangers’ website at an unusual hour to be made aware of this, should trouble fans tremendously. Tucked away in the second to last paragraph of the report, it reads that: “The Board acknowledge that the uncertainty over the level of additional funds that will be required and a lack of a binding debt facility indicate that a material uncertainty exists which may cast doubt over the Group’s ability to continue as a going concern and therefore its ability to realise its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business.” Worrying stuff. The big positive is the increase in turnover by 63%, which is unquestionably a good thing. More cash going through the club represents more opportunity to make cash, and turnover is now close to what it was in 2011, the last year the club filed accounts before going bust in 2012. Back then, the major issue hanging over the club, and the one that ultimately led to its demise, was their tax problems and mammoth list of creditors. Now, it is their ongoing losses and continuing reliance on share issues and generous benefactors to merely keep the club going. Revenues jumped, as increased sponsorship and UEFA Europa League qualification boosted the coffers. Crucially, however, Celtic also qualified for the Europa League, and generate plenty of sponsorship themselves, as well as player sales, meaning that the competitive edge of such growth is blunted. Football is unusual in that the success of the business is judged on other factors than a balance sheet. As Rangers fans will tell you, making money doesn’t matter if that means watching Celtic win their record-equalling ninth title in succession, or even worse, a record-breaking tenth. The simple reality of the matter, however, is that the funding gap to Celtic is essentially insurmountable within the time required to stop the ten unless someone is willing to consciously and deliberately lose tens of millions of pounds to do so. Dave King, the major benefactor of Rangers, is currently losing upwards of £10 million a year to watch Celtic win every trophy, and no matter how big a fan of the club he claims to be, that is completely unsustainable. Now, he must find another £10 million to keep the club solvent until the end of the season. In the pursuit of Celtic, the Ibrox club have nearly tripled their staff costs in three years. That is way too much for a club that loses as much as Rangers do to keep up, unless they qualify for the Champions League, which would require winning the Scottish league. If they did that, it would justify it, but that is a huge if. Gamblers are plentiful in football—both Rangers and Celtic are sponsored by bookies, as is the Scottish Premiership itself—but currently the odds are 2/1 against Rangers winning the league. Should Rangers not win the league this year, or next year, Dave King would be well within his rights to question the point of it all. Without him, there is nobody else. The club also spent an estimated £9 million on legal fees, largely on battling Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct for the control of their own merchandising rights. Without going into the incredibly complex details of the case, Rangers lost and now must stump up. That is unusual for most clubs, and Rangers will hope that the worst is now behind them. The inward investment into the club has come via share issues, with the club admitting that the cash was designed specifically to purchase players. Buying players is nothing out of the ordinary for a football club, but for clubs in the Scottish Premiership, it is vital to sell to maintain a healthy balance sheet. Rangers cannot realistically generate much more revenue from sponsorship, TV broadcasting, match day revenue or merchandising. The only route open to the club—well, the only one other than a wealthy benefactor losing money hand over fist—is to make up the shortfall via player sales, which cannot be squared with their stated goal of winning the Scottish Premiership. Titles are not won by selling your best players halfway through the season, but there is a legitimate threat that the club might not make it to the end of the season without someone departing for cash. Celtic’s financial figures, for example, reflect the reality of Scottish football in 2019. They turn a profit based on the sale of players or qualification to the Champions’ League, which in turn allows them to reinvest in the squad. Kieran Tierney was brought through the club’s youth academy and sold at a huge profit, while Moussa Dembele, Virgil van Dijk, Victor Wanyama, Stuart Armstrong and others have come through the club and then left at a profit. Next summer, Odsonne Edouard or Kristoffer Ajer could move on to keep the wheels in motion. Rangers fan media, in response to their poor accounts, has played heavily on the line of “if Celtic hadn’t sold XYZ, they’d be losing £10 million too,” without countenancing that selling players is an essential part of the business plan. Currently—and despite investment similar to Celtic’s—Rangers lack anyone who might represent any significant sell-on value to the club. Alfredo Morelos, their most obvious cash generator, is seen as toxic due to his horrendous disciplinary record, while Ryan Kent, the club’s record signing, has barely featured since joining three months ago. James Tavernier, club captain, is touted as an asset, but has been found out consistently at a higher level than the Scottish Premiership and a significant portion of the Rangers support would question his place in their team, let alone an English Premier League club’s. Throw in that all three are older than Odsonne Edouard and Kristoffer Ajer, Celtic’s most sellable assets, and the outlook becomes yet bleaker. Inexplicably, in the time since the announcement of their financial reports, stories have appeared that suggest that Rangers will offer new contracts to Allan McGregor, Jermain Defoe and Steven Davis. Parking for one second the irony of McGregor and Davis’ situation—they were also offered new long-term deals in the summer before Rangers were liquidated in 2012—it makes absolutely zero financial sense for a club that should be predicated on selling young talent to the riches of the Premier League to invest valuable wage expenditure on players aged 37, 37 and 34 respectively. The youngest member of their first team squad is 22 and the average age is 27, while Celtic’s is 25 and includes the likes of Jeremie Frimpong (18), Ajer (21) and Edouard (21). The obvious tribal rivalry and pressing need to stop ten-in-a-row aside, Rangers fans could probably better stomach their team coming second if it looked like the club was growing sustainably. This current team needs to win now, or else.

That's why fans buying shares is not a waste, either through Club1872 or not.