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    Raman Bhardwaj ‏@STVRaman55s Dave King says he is utterly convinced both the SFA and the city would ratify any potential position on to Rangers board.
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    http://news.stv.tv/west-central/243278-rangers-opposition-group-forces-delay-of-annual-general-meeting/ PM interview
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    Graham Taylor ‏@ted14128614m Paul Murray on SSN. Says he was offered board place last week in exchange for withdrawing court petition. He declined.
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    Kenny Macintyre ‏@bbckennymac4m #BBCSportsound 6.10 tonight - .@RFC_Official fans questions to me please for Paul Murray who will be joining us on prog.
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    King may take Ibrox throne! Talks could see return of former Gers director as chairman Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2451569/Talks-return-Rangers-director-Dave-King-chairman.html#ixzz2hIbHVU9r
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    ​​Tycoon Dave King set to return to Rangers as chairman and is expected to plough cash into the Ibrox coffers straight away 10 Oct 2013 07:12CHIEF executive Craig Mather flew to Johannesburg at the weekend for talks aimed at bringing millionaire King, 58, back on board. King could be back in charge before the club’s AGM on October 24. ALLY McCOIST last night welcomed the move to bring exiled millionaire Dave King back to Ibrox as chairman. And the Rangers boss hailed King’s return as a masterstroke that can help steer the club back to the top. McCoist knows South Africa-based King well from his previous stint as a director of the club under Sir David Murray and he accepts the 58-year-old will do his all to bring back the glory days. Record Sport understands King is ready to complete a sensational comeback as chairman before the annual general meeting on October 24. He has been locked in talks with chief executive Craig Mather, who flew to Johannesburg for a face-to-face meeting at the weekend in a bid to bring the businessman on board. Those discussions appear to have borne fruit, with an announcement expected soon that King – who poured £20m into the club during the Murray era and lost it when the club went into administration – will invest significant sums of money which will effectively see him take the reins at Ibrox. McCoist believes that having a “Rangers man” in a position of power can only be good for the club and praised the board, which has been under fire from fans, for making the move. He said: “Dave has already invested vast sums of his own money into Rangers and that tells me he’s the kind of investor we need at this club again. “The recent accounts have been well documented and the fact is we will need reinvestment at some stage in the future. If we are going to get reinvestment it would be good to get it from someone who has the best interests of the club at heart. “Dave has and clearly the board also believe that to be the case. “The fact a member of the board has flown to South Africa for talks would indicate they feel it would be hugely beneficial to have Dave back on board. It can only be a good thing for Rangers. “I believe the board deserve credit for making such an effort to attract someone like Dave back to the club. “This is a message that they are trying to do their best for Rangers. “They have a difficult and important job to do and it is encouraging to think we are talking to someone who could help move the club forward. It would be a great thing for us all.” Despite losing a fortune in the club previously, Castlemilk-born businessman King has never hidden his determination to return when a long-running tax dispute with the South African government was resolved. That issue came to an end last year and King is now free to become a director. Record Sport understands King has decided that the time is right, although a number of conditions have still to be met. But last night it was looking increasingly likely King was on his way back and with a shareholding and influence that would dilute the power of the directors, who have been under fire for the manner in which the club has been run since Charles Green arrived in May 2012. The Ibrox support has been protesting fiercely against the current board and stepped up their campaign following the publication of accounts last week which showed Rangers had lost £14m over the past 13 months. That is the period in which Green, who has now left the club, and finance director Brian Stockbridge took massive executive salaries and pocketed huge bonuses for winning the Third Division. Fans want the removal of the current board and shareholders are expected to call for dismissals at the agm. But if as expected King joins as chairman, many of their fears may be allayed. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/tycoon-dave-king-set-return-2356060
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    taken from FF I wrote to HRH Charles, Prince of Wales, extending to him an invitaion to the RSEA Dinner and informing him of the magnificent work done by the Rangers Fans for Erskine, the Charity for Ex Service Personnel of which he is Patron I notice he doesnt decline the dinner invite in the letter, so fingers crossed - lol this letter is a thank-you to every single Bear who has helped Erskine via the RSEA or otherwise anyone who has ever bought a badge, walked the walk, sponored someone else, danced, zip-slided, abseiled, cycled, treked, quizzed, golfed, kicked a baw, booled a bool, entered a raffle, bid a bid, bought a polo, calendar, hat, scarf, keyring, tie, tee shirt, book or attended a dinner, modelled, donated a prize or cash, downloaded a song, rattled a can or bucket and to those who put Xmas parcels together. It goes beyond FF and extends across VB, RM, DTB, CRO, TRS, (and others I may not even be aware of) facebook, loyal orders, RSC's, Pubs and various masonic Lodges and many people within Rangers Football Club the dinner will see us through £500,000 Please accept my sincere thanks WATP users of other forums please pass on my gratitude in a similar manner to your members
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    IT’S not been the greatest of weeks – for me or my old club. On Monday night I was having my ankle sliced open. The surgeon found I had torn a muscle in my ankle and that it had come off the bone completely. And because of that the bone was moving as well. So that’s it. I’m all pinned and wired together, looking at 10 weeks on the sidelines and so full of pain killers I can hardly spell my own name. But it’s just part of life as a footballer. It happens so you just take your horse tranquilisers and get on with it. The thing is, though, I’m not the only one who must be full of drugs this week given some of the things that have gone on in the last few days. Rangers? They put out their financial results on Tuesday and unless I’m losing the plot I’m sure financial director Brian Stockbridge was trying to talk up the fact the club had lost £14million in a year. Seriously, is this guy for real? Then again, I’m not the one who thinks blowing £14m in a year is a sign of a healthy business. Which brings us back to Stockbridge. As a fan, I’m tearing my hair out at what’s going on. Stockbridge is also the guy who received a £200,000 bonus for Ally McCoist and his players winning last year’s Third Division. Can someone please explain why the guy in charge of finance is getting bonuses for winning titles? Let me tell you something, I was captain of Rangers in a UEFA Cup Final. If we had won it my win bonus would have been nowhere near £200,000. When we won the Treble my bonus was less than half that. The money Rangers have spent is actually frightening and all I want to know is where it’s gone. Rangers fans deserve some honesty and transparency and, most of all, they deserve people they know they can trust in the boardroom. People like Stockbridge could start to earn that trust by handing back his bonus and showing he cares more about the club than he does about his own bank balance. I won’t be holding my breath though. In the meantime I’m going to make a bad week even worse for myself by standing up for Celtic’s Scott Brown, right, who has had a rough few days. I managed to watch the Barcelona game on Tuesday night even though I was half-tuned to the moon. I felt for him when he was sent off. I’m not condoning what he did when he aimed a sly kick at Neymar. It was stupid and the Celtic skipper will know that himself. But, really, you’d think it was the crime of the century given the reaction we’ve had. On Wednesday night I turned on the radio to hear Peter Grant filleting Brown in an interview with the BBC. Yes ... PETER GRANT. Did he never do anything similar? Was he some sort of angel as a player? I know I’ve done plenty of silly stuff like that in my time. I’ve kicked out at people in the heat of the moment when I should have known better. I’ve been red-carded for it. I’ve let my team-mates down. Has Grant never done the same? I remember watching him when I was a kid and there were plenty of incidents he got involved in so for him to have a go at Brown is quite incredible. Listen, Brown was daft. So be it. He’s come out and apologised for his mistake so let the guy get on with it and move on. But no, we’ve got Granty slaughtering him in the media. It makes me so angry I can actually feel my mouth going dry just thinking about it. Because Granty has been there too and knows what it’s like. Let’s get one thing straight here. Brown made a crazy mistake. I tell you what, he’ll make another four or five of them before his career’s over and I can say that speaking from experience. It doesn’t matter how many times people tell you that you’ve been bang out of order or you’ve let everyone down – you know that. Believe me, no one will be feeling worse than Brown. It wasn’t as if he took Neymar’s head off – or broke his left arm in two places. It was just a silly flick and I know these things happen in the heat of the moment before you’ve even realised it. It’s almost like a natural reflex. Ask any football player, they’ll all tell you they’ve done something similar. Two or three seconds later Brown will have thought to himself: Oh no, what an idiot. He will have gone into that empty dressing room and realised he’d dropped his team-mates right in it. I was sent off at Parkhead 20 minutes from the end of an Old Firm game and I can tell you it felt more like 20 hours. The first people you think about are your fellow players, your manager and your fans. You’ve let them all down and it feels horrible. But for Granty – who was Celtic’s assistant manager under Tony Mowbray – to come out and stick the knife in? For him to say Brown has a “screw loose” and that he never considered him to be first-team material, never mind a Celtic captain? That was way over the top. He even said he’d have driven Brown over the border himself if someone had made a bid of £4m for him. It was nasty and uncalled for. Let me tell you, I’ve also worked under Granty when he was the assistant manager at Birmingham City. I’m surprised at him because he is a Celtic man and was a feisty player himself, just like Brown. He’s entitled to his opinion, I suppose, but I can’t agree with it. Maybe I’m the one with the screw loose? Like I say, it’s been a bad week all round. Nurse, pass the medication.
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    FERGUSON says the £200,000 bonus financial director Brian Stockbridge pocketed for the club winning the third division was more than double what he received for winning the treble. FORMER Rangers captain Barry Ferguson has launched a stinging attack on financial director Brian Stockbridge and says he is tearing his hair out at the latest figures to come out of the Ibrox boardroom. Ferguson responded to the club's annual accounts, in which they posted an operating loss of £14.4million, in his column in today's Record Sport. The midfielder claimed the £200,000 Stockbridge pocketed for Gers winning the third division title last season was more than double what he received for leading the club to the treble of SPL title, Scottish Cup and League Cup 10 years ago. Ferguson claimed the bonus culture at Ibrox is bleeding his old club dry and said: "Unless I’m losing the plot I’m sure financial director Brian Stockbridge was trying to talk up the fact the club had lost £14million in a year. "As a fan, I’m tearing my hair out at what’s going on. "Stockbridge is also the guy who received a £200,000 bonus for Ally McCoist and his players winning last year’s Third Division. "Can someone please explain why the guy in charge of finance is getting bonuses for winning titles? "Let me tell you something, I was captain of Rangers in a UEFA Cup Final. If we had won it my win bonus would have been nowhere near £200,000. When we won the Treble my bonus was less than half that. Barry Ferguson helped Rangers win a treble Alan Harvey/SNS Group "The money Rangers have spent is actually frightening and all I want to know is where it’s gone. "Rangers fans deserve some honesty and transparency and, most of all, they deserve people they know they can trust in the boardroom." Ferguson went on to urge Stockbridge to hand back the bonus to prove to fans he has the club at heart.
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    Board Statement Written by Rangers Football Club Thursday, 03 October 2013 16:45 THE Board of Rangers Football Club takes serious issue with grossly misleading statements made to The Scotsman newspaper by the club’s former chairman Mr Malcolm Murray. Mr Murray claimed in an interview that Ibrox Chief Executive Craig Mather’s assertion that he (Murray) decided the controversial levels of executive salaries at the club was “misleading and vexatious.” Mr Murray also claimed he “joined the Board on the recommendation of the institutions to instil a high level of corporate governance at Rangers.” These are the facts: Mr Murray was appointed by Charles Green on June 14 2012 to Sevco Scotland (now Rangers Football Club Ltd). There were no institutions in the Club then. The Club IPO was on December 19 2012 so it is grossly inaccurate to say Mr Murray was put there by said institutions to oversee corporate governance. Mr Murray proposed Craig Mather to the board. Mr Murray agreed Brian Stockbridge’s salary and bonus. Mr Murray agreed Mr Green’s salary and bonus. Mr Murray negotiated Mr Green’s compromise agreement and signed it off. Mr Murray was removed from the Pinsent Masons investigation by the board after leaking information to a third party. The Board of Rangers Football Club are appalled and saddened at the current demeanour of Mr Malcolm Murray and the damage that he is causing to the Club and regard his behaviour as totally unbefitting a once respected practitioner in the City of London’s financial community. http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/item/5213-board-statement
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    Board Statement Written by Rangers Football Club Thursday, 03 October 2013 16:45 THE Board of Rangers Football Club takes serious issue with grossly misleading statements made to The Scotsman newspaper by the club’s former chairman Mr Malcolm Murray. Mr Murray claimed in an interview that Ibrox Chief Executive Craig Mather’s assertion that he (Murray) decided the controversial levels of executive salaries at the club was “misleading and vexatious.” Mr Murray also claimed he “joined the Board on the recommendation of the institutions to instil a high level of corporate governance at Rangers.” These are the facts: Mr Murray was appointed by Charles Green on June 14 2012 to Sevco Scotland (now Rangers Football Club Ltd). There were no institutions in the Club then. The Club IPO was on December 19 2012 so it is grossly inaccurate to say Mr Murray was put there by said institutions to oversee corporate governance. Mr Murray proposed Craig Mather to the board. Mr Murray agreed Brian Stockbridge’s salary and bonus. Mr Murray agreed Mr Green’s salary and bonus. Mr Murray negotiated Mr Green’s compromise agreement and signed it off. Mr Murray was removed from the Pinsent Masons investigation by the board after leaking information to a third party. The Board of Rangers Football Club are appalled and saddened at the current demeanour of Mr Malcolm Murray and the damage that he is causing to the Club and regard his behaviour as totally unbefitting a once respected practitioner in the City of London’s financial community. http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/item/5213-board-statement
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    Struth on the 1938 Military Services Display at Ibrox 'One of most spectacular forms of entertainment ever offered'
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    Close[h=2]Photo[/h] RangersFACTS ‏@RangersFACTS Warrant Officers/Senior Rates Mess of HMSDuncan celebrate 1st MessDinner,May 2012 .Guest of honour SNO Cdr Phil Game
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    And here is Mr. Newbigging in his Rangers days on the way to Rothesay in 1907. Front, 3rd from Right
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    Alex Newbigging, a GK signed in 1906 by Wm. Wilton is given a 99th Birthday cake by John Greig in 1975.
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    Chris Graham ‏@ChrisGraham763h Worth repeating few times today. This board are also trying to block nomination of new directors at the AGM. Slipped it out with accounts
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    RangersFACTS6h Property of Mr. Struth! Speedy the Ibrox Mascot!
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    Charlotte Fakeovers ‏@CharlotteFakes1m Rangers lawyers spring into action this evening and successfully remove docs from Scribd.http://i.imgur.com/E0nOqaP.jpg
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    20 September 2013 Rangers International Football Club plc("Rangers", the "Company" or "Club") Holding in the Company Further to the announcement on 17 September 2013 regarding Alexander Easdale's holding in the Company, the Company announces that it was notified on 19 September 2013, that on 10 September Alexander Easdale also acquired voting rights over 12,641,338 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Share") representing 19.42% of the issued share capital of the Company, pursuant to the terms of proxy agreements entered into with other shareholders of the Company which remain in place until further notice. As a result, including the Ordinary Shares held directly by Mr Easdale, being 2,842,957 Ordinary Shares representing 4.37% of the issued share capital of the Company, Mr Easdale has voting rights over, in aggregate, 15,484,295 Ordinary Shares representing 23.79% of the issued share capital of the Company http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail.html?announcementId=11716976 http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail.html?announcementId=11716980
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    TO add to matchday experience, season holders and match ticket purchasers can now enjoy pre and post-match drinks in the Ibrox Bar, located in the Ibrox Suite, adjacent to the Rangers MegaStore. Opening 2½ hours prior to kick-off, it’s a great way to beat the crowds and meet friends for all the pre-match build up. With food and drinks available to purchase, large flat screen TV’s streaming live games and the chance to catch any pre-match First Team interviews and appearances, it’s the perfect way to enjoy your stadium visit and get the most from your ticket. Open to all fans when presenting a match ticket, season ticket Smartcard or hospitality ticket and although closed at half-time, the Ibrox Bar will re-open post match for up to 2 hours after the whistle has blown for those of you who aren’t in a rush to get home. Fully licensed cash bar Open 2½ hours pre & 2 hours post-match Capacity to hold 250 people Music and live match streaming Food available to purchase First Team pre-match interviews/appearances Team sheet announcements by in-house MC Ladbrokes betting facility and announcement of latest odds Programme sellers pre and post-match Broxi Bear pre-match visits Kids are welcome when accompanied by an adult at all times and with Broxi Bear popping in to visit before kick-off; it’s great for young fans to get the chance to get their photo taken. Opening Times: Saturday 28 September: Open 12.30pm - Rangers v Stenhousemuir KO 3pm http://www.rangers.co.uk/tickets/the-ibrox-bar
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    RangersFACTS12 Sep The sign in the old Ibrox Boot Room!
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    RangersFACTS ‏@RangersFACTS11 Sep In 1893,Rangers 2nd XI went on strike as Committee refused ultimatum to pay them before match v Linthouse. They were sacked, we won 12-0!
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    Willie Waddell's younger brother, Walter, played for Rangers from 1946-48, at the same time as Deedle, but never made a 1st team appearance!
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