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It's also entirely legitimate to leave said question blank.

Had it been adequately planned and resourced by the SFA there would have been no public order. They have everything to do with it as the judges showing clear bias against Rangers fans are the same judges you want to judge Rangers for the behaviour of their fans, if you think that bias will evaporate then you're deluded if anything it will get worse. References to the season being extended etc are references to the bias shown against Rangers by the very institutions you want to implement strict liability. The poll on Club 1872 is running something like 94% against to 6% for the adoption of strict liability.

Why don't you go up on a supporters bus and you can regale them with the virtues of strict liability?

Simon Jordan ‏@Sjopinion10 41m41 minutes ago More I see #rangersfc have not answered the LMA questions about Warburton, Here's perhaps why ,LMA have no standing and rangers don't have to

Imaginary tours of Japan so you can't extend the season fair? We've got a couple of suspensions and injuries and a player we didn't deem worthy of offering a contract to and then died playing for another club so we want our game postponed fair? The early payment of Gretna's prize money for going into administration and the theft of Rangers prize money for doing likewise fair? Is that the scrupulously fairness you want to see because that's the kind you'll get?

The people who dispensed "justice" in those cases and there ilk are the people you say will be doing likewise in the cases of strict liability. I don't think any young boy should have a criminal record, be sent to jail and have his life ruined for singing a song no matter which football club he supports. You're so out of touch with the average fan that it beggars belief.

They are all examples the reality of being associated with Rangers in the Scotland we now live in. They will be deciding guilt and the punishment. Ultimate responsibility lays at the door of the SFA, it was their ground and their competition. They conducted a whitewash to clear their own arse and that of the Police. Because I live in the real world not Cloud Cuckoo Land. You've yet to produce any evidence it will be implemented in a fair way while all the anecdotal evidence indicates it most certainly won't. Yes strict liability has really worked in their case, really changed their behaviour hasn't it, been a real hindrance to them eh?

No doubt this is the kind of judge you want to see dispense justice. https://themanthebheastscanttame.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/the-auld-firm-song-remains-the-same/

How many judges have sentenced someone for using the word Hun compared to using the word Fen.ian? What proportion of Rangers fans on the Hampden pitch last May compared to the proportion of Hibs fans have been lifted? One Club will be picked to make an example of and we all know what Club that will be.

Aye right, in dreamland perhaps but not Scotland.

Oh aye and justice be dispensed with even handedness and without fear or favour? Do you want to buy a bridge?

Iain Sked ‏@skeddy1985 Follow More @RFC_Rab can we get a 'we've went 4-4-2'. Gif That was biggest talking point of the game

I'd certainly take for the interim period before many of the other names being bandied about.

He didn't gain control he was just part of a group that did. There are plenty of sticks with which to beat King with but I think there are many to used before this particular semantic, I'm far more concerned why this situation was allowed to fester the way it was reaching the point it did and far more concerned about the shambolic way it's been handled than whether the initial share purchase can be considered an investment or not.

When I buy shares in a company I consider it an investment the fortunes or more likely in my case the misfortunes of said company and certainly consider the purchase of the shares as part of my investment portfolio. If King were to sell the shares he purchased in the market back on to the market and reinvested the money in a new super duper rights issue would that be considered an investment?

So basically all the times I've bought shares in companies I've never actually made an actual investment in the company the only times I've actually made an actual investment is when I took part in any rights issues they had, is that correct?

Remove his wisdom teeth.

Apologies it was when the Toral/Hodson substitutions were made that Waghorn did that. It was 4-4-2 .

When Waghorn came on he signalled to the whole team FOUR-FOUR-TWO even holding his fingers up to make the point.

If it is him will he beat his record of 10 games without a win?

The Board gave them the increased contract last summer, this incident isn't about their pay at Rangers. They have been talking to other clubs since months after taking charge at Rangers, they've been talking to NF for a month, this didn't come out of the blue on Monday. The Boards actions have been reactive, the Board took to long to reach a decision (albeit undoubtedly the correct one).

Nobody comes out of this looking clever, the Board shouldn't have let it reach the stage it did and the 9pm website statement was not the way to release the news. As for the Three Amigos que, sera, sera.

I went to a training session last season and there was no defensive work being done other than the goalkeepers with their coach's. Everything save the warm up was attacking focused.

I have issued a select number of statements to give supporters a reliable update on the progression that your board committed to almost two years ago. Some of the content relates to a subject matter that the Club would normally only deal with at our AGM or results announcements. However, under the circumstances, I feel that inclusion is appropriate to ensure that supporters are properly informed and don’t have to rely on uninformed media speculation. For the avoidance of doubt, I repeat the key elements; We would invest sufficient resources to ensure immediate promotion to the SPFL. In season two we would further invest to be competitive in the SPFL and qualify for Europe at the end of the season. Our realistic expectation was to come second. This was to be achieved by signing five or six players of a quality that improved the squad that won the Championship. In season three we would again invest in five or six players that further improved the squad to compete for the title and progress in Europe. I personally estimated that we would require an investment of £30 million over that period to achieve our stated objectives. I now comment on each of these elements; We hired, at short notice, a relatively untested management team that recruited a number of players and introduced a style of play that was pleasing to our supporters. Significant investment was made on and off the park and the Championship was ultimately won in some style. The season was an unqualified success and the management team was rewarded with a vastly improved contract. This season we did not stick to our plan of signing five or six players because the manager appealed to the Board for additional signings. Despite the concern about departing from our plan of prudent phased investment, the Board backed the manager’s request for accelerated investment. This placed us significantly above the football resources available to our competitors (other than Celtic) and was expected to ensure that we finished a strong second in the league and had a squad that could be added to, close season, to make a strong impact in the Europa League qualifiers. While I still believe that we can finish a strong second, I am stating the obvious to admit that we are not where we anticipated we would be at this stage of the season and we have not repeated the success that we had with our signings from the previous season. Following from the above it is clear that we are behind our target for next season but, given that we recognise this, it is the duty of the Board to take steps to get things back on track. That is what our supporters trust us to do and rightly demand that we do. We remain 100% committed to the plan we commenced with and that the supporters continue to endorse resoundingly. £18 million of the originally estimated £30 million investment has already been made. Ultimately, the overall investment in any football team is driven by the net player spend and, given that we are behind target with our squad, there may be a further need to accelerate investment at the end of this season. It is my present personal view that we will, in all likelihood, invest more than £30 million before we are where we want to be but this will be revisited once we have a new permanent management team in place. The vagaries of running a football club are not new to your Board. It is our job to react to and manage these as they arise during any season – and from season to season. Despite the relative disappointment of this season so far, the bigger project remains firmly on track and we will take whatever corrective measures are necessary. On this point, I want to deal with one issue that has recently received wide coverage in the media. It is a vital obligation and fiduciary responsibility for any Board to continually monitor the progress of the company’s financial and operating performance against its budgets and plans. This is done at regular Board meetings where all aspects of the company’s business is reviewed and evaluated. What is stated and dealt with during those meetings is confidential and governed by a number of rules, regulations, laws and ethics. Put simply, what is said in Board meetings stays in Board meetings. Ahead of the Board meeting at the end of January, I advised the manager that the Board wished to review our recruitment plan and performance over the previous two windows. This was a routine request and was timely given the concerns that everyone at the Club has with regard to the high level of wages we were paying relative to the performance on the pitch. In particular, a large portion of our wage bill was not even seeing regular playing time. Under normal circumstances such a review would remain confidential. However, in this instance, your Board’s routine questioning of management was leaked to the media and conveyed as being a negative reflection of the Board’s attitude to the manager and the recruitment department. It was confirmed to me that the leak did not come from a board member. Irrespective of who leaked confidential information, it is clear from subsequent media comments that the manager did not respond well to the Board reviewing his recruitment activity. This is a strange position to adopt and, in my personal experience, is not a position that a more experienced manager would adopt. No manager in the world can reasonably expect to be beyond scrutiny. Things moved quickly from that point. There were rumours that the management team (presumably their agent) was negotiating with English clubs and, in one instance, I was informally approached to ask if the Club would waive compensation if the management team was to leave. While this was unsubstantiated by direct confirmation from the Club in question, I was alert to a conversation that Mark Warburton had with me after joining the Club in which he advised me that his long-term ambition was to manage in the EPL and he viewed Rangers as a stepping-stone to achieve this. His comments to the media simultaneously reinforced his present unhappiness at the Club. I was therefore not surprised when the management team’s agent approached the Club’s Managing Director Stewart Robertson to request a meeting which was held in Glasgow on Monday this week. The outcome of this meeting was that the agent subsequently offered that Mark, David and Frank would resign with immediate effect without compensation as long as the Club, in turn, agreed to waive compensation from any new Club that they signed for. After discussion the Board accepted this offer and employment was immediately terminated. In order for us to achieve our ambitions we need employees that, like your Board members, will always put Rangers first. While we were dealing with the admin and press releases relating to the resignation the agent again contacted us and asked to defer the resignation until the management had secured a new club. I assume that the new deal had somehow collapsed at the last minute. The Board met to consider this request but resolved to hold them to the original agreement. We are now in the process of reviewing the best interim and long-term solution for ensuring that a modern and robust footballing structure is put in place that will continue with and entrench the footballing philosophy that we have in place. We also must protect and support the marvellous work that has been achieved by the Academy over the last two years. Dave King 11 February 2017 Forgot to add link so here it is: https://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/statement-dave-king/

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