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  1. bluebear54
    We'd be better served with a Board of fans within Ibrox performing an oversight function.
  2. bluebear54
    If he's due anything he should have been paid. As is usual with the media, the piece is pretty vague so I m not clear what he is looking for exactly. PFA seem to be always very keen on taking Rangers to court.
  3. bluebear54
    He probably feels at home with alligators and snakes.
  4. bluebear54
    In post #183, Forlan pasted a piece from VB which accused MD of breaking the DPA. Mark would have to be extremely silly to go to Police Scotland himself to open up a whole can of worms if he was indeed guilty as accused.
  5. bluebear54
    Where do the SFA/SPFL stand on this. Surely they have a duty to ensure that their articles are being followed. How do they know that the anonymous beneficiaries don't have controlling interests in any other football club?
  6. bluebear54
    His final words are the most telling. "These people do not own Rangers - it does not belong to any one person. "They may be in charge for the time being, but the club belongs to the people who support it. They are the only ones who matter, nobody else." Well done Donald.
  7. bluebear54
    It'll be a bitter pill to swallow, but if there's a will, the fans could stop the money flowing inwards.
  8. bluebear54
    Unified support? I have a feeling that's years of struggle away. We seriously need to put aside the smaller picture and put aside the egos.
  9. bluebear54
    Rab - I honestly can't recall if it was Mather, Wattie or Murray. I don't believe that past boardroom decisions have been on the square as in other companies. Who was chairman is an irrelevance. The puppet masters are the key. If you can't see that we are being taken for a ride, then so be it. We should be deposing those who are running Rangers into the ground. The means to the end is a side show. I don't care if either Murray is on a future board or not.
  10. bluebear54
    And was it not Malcolm Murray who made that decision when he was chairman? He's one of the requisitioners now unless I'm mistaken Whether inadvertently or by design, you're missing his main point, Rab. He said that "the notion that a financial director should be given a £200,000 bonus for winning the Third Division is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous." That is the key point - would you like to defend it ?
  11. bluebear54
    Well, as an outsider with no interest apart from being a Rangers man, Findlay's comments are quite illuminating. I'm waiting for the first attack dogs to start nipping at his heels.
  12. bluebear54
    Rab Surely you don't believe that everything will turn out rosy if the Board remain? In that eventuality, strap yourself in - what we're witnessing at present will look like a side show.
  13. bluebear54
    Quite correct Steve. We may end up in a bleak place. However, no matter where or who we play, I'm quite sure we will take our fan base - no matter what level. Where are the tyrants who are running Rangers going to get their money from then?
  14. bluebear54
    I apologise Brahim. I took it to mean the issue that was being discussed, and which has been driven into the public domain. However, I would debate whether the RST is high profile or not. When we're talking about national press, the overwhelming majority in Scotland would have never heard of MD, RST or have the slightest inkling of what it all means. They will associate RST as meaning the whole Club. Actually, I wonder if every Rangers fan knows who MD/RST are. Creating falsely engendered associations by misrepresentation is after all how Goebbelsesque agitprop functions, despite how abhorrent how it is. Pedantry aside, I would like my main point not to be sidetracked, and that was that this issue is happily being used politically by various interests for disparate purposes, and that I don't feel that it is in the interests of the Club.
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    Being a bit pedantic, it's not high profile. I remember other cases in the past of individuals of fan organisations of football teams indulging in embezzlement and other criminal activity, which weren't high profile at all. This RST thing is high profile because it's been proactively driven to be high profile by certain people with agendas, including briefing the press and carrying out an agitprop campaign on the forums. It has been - and still is being - used politically by various interests for disparate purposes, none in my mind for the immediate benefit of our Club.
  16. bluebear54
    On the RST thread, I mentioned McMurdo's latest blog, which I find pretty distasteful. Here it is - make up your own minds: (copied and pasted from FF - McMurdo's site seems to crashing on my computer?) As pointed out in an excellent article by Tom Farmery in today’s Times – and despite the desperate ramblings of one or two rebel spokesmen – Thursday’s AGM will be a resounding victory for the board at Ibrox. Farmery has canvassed the people who matter i.e. the shareholders and, including very tellingly Artemis, has discovered unassailable support for the directors among investors. Artemis initially backed the requisitioners but have been impressed with strong boardroom appointments such as Graham Wallace. In fact, my understanding is that a certain requisitioner is no longer welcome at the offices of Artemis Investment – if City gossip is to be believed. Supportive as I am of Ally McCoist, I admit to being dismayed by Super’s proxying of his shares to Calderwood Loyal Rangers Supporters Club. Apart from it looking like a snub to the board and that in itself being the wrong signal to send, it also, in my opinion, cheapens the value of those shares – as if they don’t matter enough to vote with in one’s own name. Of course, if the message from Coisty is that he wants his shares to be used against the board, proxying them in this manner makes it look like a sneaky, cowardly move – not the Ally McCoist way and not the Rangers way. Even opening oneself up to such criticism is a dumb move for the normally astute Super Ally. My dismay in the whole matter is that the Rangers manager will still have to get the team ready for the next game after the AGM. How will it be if the team run out under a manager whose shares were given by him to be voted against the board – if, indeed Calderwood Loyal use them in this manner? It will still be a divided Rangers and this is unacceptable for a lot of bluenoses going by online and offline comments made. One serious City player called McCoist’s proxy to Calderwood Loyal “an incredible abdication of responsibility.” Given the seriousness of this year’s AGM, it would be hard to argue with that assessment. Another managerial casualty is Andre Villas-Boas, bulleted from the Spurs hot seat after yesterday’s 5-0 drubbing by a rampant Liverpool. AVB is one of those managers that seem to start well but lose themselves up their own backside. He lacks the gravitas necessary for the job, it seems to me. While this may be an age thing, it could be he is just not steely enough to deliver at a high level consistently. Davie Moyes took some heat off his own position by navigating Man U through potentially choppy waters at Villa Park but in the process may have turned up the heat on fellow Scot Paul Lambert. As I said in yesterday’s blog, who would be a manager? Of course, as I said, the money helps – and that includes the big pay-off when the axe falls so there is that cushion. Ironically in Ally McCoist’s case, the shares he was given – those shares that may be voted against the board on Thursday – may prove to be a very luxurious cushion in future years. Should the board win on Thursday and manage to achieve their long-term goals and dreams for the club, Mr McCoist’s shareholding will be worth a tidy fortune one day. Given the serious intent of the Easdales to implement their vision for Rangers, coupled with the very considerable wealth of the investors backing the club, it is far more than professional suicide to vote against the board – it is potentially financial suicide as well. Rangers fans may have bought shares in Rangers to help the club but investors did it to make money. They seem satisfied with the Easdales and the directors in place. It is time for all Rangers fans who want to see the club flourish to follow suit and get behind the board. Back the board and sack the rebels.
  17. bluebear54
    Excellent piece again. We do really need some true fans inside Ibrox scrutinising what our custodians are up to. Not that this present lot come across as anything like custodians.
  18. bluebear54
    The RST one seems to be fairly indicative of what I believe is the majority of opinion, but maybe I'm keeping the wrong type of company. Totally agree that a members only poll is a better method than one like FF's. There are so many tims and agent provocateurs on FF it's quite a silly place at times.
  19. bluebear54
    The Board, the management and in particular the PR machine have made themselves an easy target. Not the Club.
  20. bluebear54
    It's FF Slinger, so not representative of the whole support. The red card display is probably more indicative of what lies ahead in the future if the AGM goes the way of the Board. That they can't see that as inevitable is strange. Perhaps, their confidence leads them to believe that Toxic and Merlin can dissuade the fans with carrots and sticks.
  21. bluebear54
    McMurdo uses the same techniques as some other posts I've read across the forums. I find unverified auto-suggestion to be very transparent, and in my case it engenders an intense dislike against whoever has written it. His latest blog about Ally (which is an ineptly hidden threat) is about as low as anyone could get and is full of auto-suggestion and unverified quotes. You just wonder why McMurdo himself doesn't bother posting on the forums to get his point across. He's missing a magic trick there.
  22. bluebear54
    RB is a problem position. Given his contract length he's worth a punt to see if he can come up with the goods.
  23. bluebear54
    Brahim. You can put your house on the Tim's getting hold of what you've just written, or worse, the snakes that infest our Club. However, this is an RST problem. It's for them to sort out and regroup so they can contribute to the debate, and the AGM. There sure are some thoughtless people around who are clearly lacking in foresight. There are also some around whose modus operandi leaves a lot to be desired. Actually, cancel that last bit. it's putrid. It's easier to attack who you want under the cloak of internet anonymity. It's like the fucking Spanish Inquisition. If MD , RST or both buggered up, so be it. It's up to them to sort it out or not. It's up to each forum member on here to make up their own mind about all of this. It's about RST - not the whole fanbase. I'll make up my mind about MD/RST when I am good and ready. I don't need to be spoonfed to make my mind up. I've already made my mind up about one poster on this thread.
  24. bluebear54
    This whole charade saddens me a great deal. The internal bicker-fest has certainly upped its game. Unfortunately with no winners all round. Just losers. I get the feeling that this is orchestrated. The English were masters at the divide and rule concept, and I'm convinced that this is what we're seeing. I'm more swayed by the timing of all this as opposed to any background.
  25. bluebear54
    Well, if he just does what he's told, why doesn't someone just tell him to go and never darken our door again?
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