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Greg Stobart‏ @gstobart 1h1 hour ago More More changes to THFC's recruitment staff. Paul Mitchell now gone & David Webb left role as 'head of elite potential identification' last wk https://twitter.com/gstobart

Ashley and Sports Direct are probably the only entities on the planet that make our PR seem remotely competent by comparison. Anyone who thinks for one second having Ashley and his acolytes control Rangers is the path to glory needs sectioned.

The Patsy? furfuxake.

Not quite. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/dec/13/tottenham-hotspur-paul-mitchell-recruitment-notice-period

As Mandy Rice Davies once said....awh f*&k better not go there

Sky Sports Scotland‏Verified account @ScotlandSky 7m7 minutes ago More WATCH Graeme Murty- Rob Kiernan's red card against St Johnstone worth an appeal.

From my view in the WE I have to agree, if that's the standard for a red we should be seeing a lot more of them in Scottish football. You know as soon as Clancy is confirmed as match ref he's going to screw us over.

http://www.gersnetonline.co.uk/vb/showthread.php?77975-Rangers-sue-Green-Imran-Stockbridge-Llambias-Ashley-amp-Sports-Direct

They assumed the risk themselves didn't they? Ostensibly to avoid the farcical situation of suing Charles Green in Civil Court whilst simultaneously paying his legal fees and to avoid paying his legal fees in any criminal case he faces That's a black hole as sadly we're not privy till things like a shareholder attempting to jail the Chairman, writs being served on Directors etc become public. I imagine that would be perfectly possible but don't know if it's feasible (though I lean towards it being so).

Pardew is such an uninspiring option even without his ties to Ashley and Llambias. If he is anywhere near the top of the list then it's clear the fans ambitions are higher than the Boards. I'd like to think the Board are more progressive than that.

I'd prefer to see truly independent non-executives on all the boards including the subsidiary companies but concede that is extremely unlikely to happen.

Aren't Stewart Robertson and Andrew Dickson accountants too?

Undoubtedly they should be remunerated at the commensurate rate for the job and their experience but asking them to do so without liability insurance in the current climate is a hell of an ask and would severely curtail the pool of potential candidates. I don't think anyone would have a problem with truly independent directors being remunerated. I'd also prefer them to come from a business background rather than an accountancy background as there's plenty of them there already.

Scandalous decision.

David Bates was a loan signing.

Collective responsibility eh? Obviously only when it suits.

I assume they are big hitters or were when you were on the RST Board because if they weren't it would have been rather pointless trying to get them to invest financially in backing the RST's attempt to gain control of the Club wouldn't it?

Indeed that would be the preference but as much as I'd like to see that happen I don't see it arriving till there are changes to the current set up within the Boardroom and real independent non-executives are introduced.

I tend to agree in the most, it's clear the Board were dealing with the decision but there was little they could do when the management team decided to indulge in their own version of the Hokey Cokey and left the Board as hostages to fortune. Where the shambles part comes in imo is in the delivery of the message i.e the PR or rather what masquerades as PR at Rangers. That is a long term problem but one that has been stressed to the Board ad infinitum from virtually every possible angle .You pay peanuts you get monkeys but I'm all for phoning PG Tips to see if they've any of the chimps left as I doubt they could be any worse than the current set up.

I'm sure we'll find out if that is indeed the case or if there is some substance to it, fwiw I think it has as we've reached the stage where is an absolute necessity and contrary to popular believe the Board are far from stupid, there is no way on earth we can go forward without additional capital.

I assume you mean independent non-executive directors if so then I concur. I'd certainly like to see a couple of strong independent non-executive directors on the Board and not necessarily Rangers fans either as we need them to have the ability to say no if the rest let their hearts rule their heads. However as King pointed out rightly (whatever your opinion of him) that as desirable as that is it's simply not possible until some legacy issues have been addressed namely in this instance the Directors liability insurance problem which means we don't carry any Directors liability insurance due to Charles Green writing into his own contract that he had to be insured for a period (5 years or so iirc) on the same basis as any current Director. The current Directors are taking quite a personal risk operating without such cover in place more so given the various court cases, unfortunately I don't think it's possible to ask any potential independent non-executive director to do likewise.

You mentioned fiduciary duty didn't you?

Yes it's the price I pay for being a Gooner.....