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McCoist simply wasn't up to the job whichever way you want to look at it. When you see a Rangers starting XI this season which includes only one player who played last season(Wallace) that speaks volumes. Thankfully we now have a management team we can have confidence in. The team may still be W.I.P but the improvement is there for all to see & we're at last heading in the right direction

Rene Higuita was columbian not mexican

'that the new Rangers be stripped of titles the old Rangers won' :roflmao:

EBT's illegal? Since when? Who's getting charged with tax evasion then? AFAIK Spence has a law degree. Worrying isn't it?

This is the point everyone is missing. BDO do not seem to think the tax liability is anywhere near the figures quoted in the mhedia. Tax wasn't paid at the time because during the time the EBT's were used no one paid tax as it was a tax avoidance scheme.

This is a good point. They should be asked how they managed to get these Co-op bank loans at such a low interest rate. And who arranged them & the security on them. EBT's were there for anyone who wished to use them. These Co-op bank loans weren't. I hope our club's next statement goes nuclear and mentions these Co-op bank loans.

Clown of a man. If it were illegal someone would be getting prosecuted. No one has been charged AFAIK. Which team does SNP Bill support I wonder? My guess is Dundee Hibernian

Rangers used a tax avoidance scheme ????? Don't they know tax avoidance is perfectly legal?? It's tax evasion which isn't. And didn't they use a tax avoidance scheme in the 2000's themselves where parts of their players' salaries were paid into bogus film companies thus avoiding paying tax??

Yes it does. Wilson is telling a pack of lies & should be brought to task over it. Who says there should be an asterisk next to titles Rangers won during' the EBT years' ? Wilson himself? Or any other of the biased yahoo-supporting pondlife at the supposedly unbiased BBC Scotland? CHange of subject but I always laugh when I see Wilson's wee glaikit yahoo face on the television. My fondest memory of him was during our 4-2 victory at the San Giro a few years back when tried to pull Daniel Cousin's Jersey near the halfway line as he ran to score the first goal. Big Cousin simply dragged him along for a few yards until wee Mark couldn't hold on and let go as Cousin went on to beat Fatty Boruc easily at his near post. watch it again & you'll see what I mean

You mean Zaluska the polish keeper who used to play for the yahoos ( not often enough unfortunately. He was hopeless). It was he who got in the fracas with Paul Paton the DUTD player & got a sore coupon in the process. Maybe ur mixing him up with Marius Zaliukas the Lithuanian who played for us last season.

GCC certainly helped Shellik did they not? Who paid for the work outside their ground?

I don't think restricting a club to 20 players over 30 years old would necessarily mean youngsters at a club would have a better chance of getting a game. Looks to me Brown spat out the dummy when it got KO'd.

Perhaps chickens are now coming home to roost for some clubs who are now realising the financial implications of not having Rangers in the top flight. Who knows maybe 'common sense' might prevail.

Did he say that? Last time he crawled out of hibernation he seemed to be calling Rangers a new club IIRC. At least if he says we should keep titles he seems to accept we're the same club now. Wonder if he still looks like a plump version of Harry Potter?

LOL you've got be having a laugh? Wee Roger the music man? The man who tried to take on SKY TV to get a better deal & We ended up with a BBC one about a quarter of the value of the SKY one? :laugh:

Going back to the original post am I missing something in all of this? As a tax avoidance scheme run between 2001-10 tax wasn't paid nor did HMRC ask for it until mid 2010. Since then it has been appealed via both the FTTT & UTTT and not paid because of this. And, of course, HMRC lost these appeals. Now three old duffers masquerading as judges with little or no knowledge of tax have found in favour of HMRC based on something called 'common sense' instead of deciding whether tax laws were broken or not. But if the tax bill is as low as Jackson suggests then BDO will pay that bill( providing they dont appeal).Especially if Whyte's convicted and D&P have to cough up like CB did and the creditors pot increases even more.

' BDO went into that hearing believing a defeat was likely to carry a liability of between £5m and £10m' if that is true then it is a game changer...........

He's not an out & out striker though. If we get a quality striker to play alongside Waghorn this team will improve considerably

I'd reserve judgement on this current team until we get a top drawer striker, hopefully in January.

Would like to see some sort of comment from the SPFL but that would be too much to ask wouldn't it?

I think it's bit too early to compare this team with previous ones because rebuilding is not yet complete. I've said before and I'll say again a top drawer striker is required in January especially if we're to have to win the SC to get into Europe next season. One or two other positions certainly could also be improved upon I suppose. I also think we have to remember that when we return to the top division the standard will certainly have dropped quite a bit since we left. The so-called best team in the country is now out its depth in the EL as could be seen by getting beaten home & away by a Norwegian team who were fourth in their league last time I looked. Other teams competing in Europe don't last beyond August normally.

The sporting sanctions we got were as a result of Whyte not the EBT's. If Whyte gets convicted of fraud one would have to wonder what might happen regards those who administered punishments which were effectively punishing the victim of a crime

There's a lot of truth in that.

How they became public knowledge is something we should be told. My faith in the plod in this country disappeared long ago & I frankly don't think they investigated this as they should have done or were told not to do so. I've maintained all along there was political involvement in this and still believe that to be the case.

And maybe the 5,000 other UK companies who had EBT's too? This judgement (if it is allowed to stand & isn't appealed to the Supreme Court) could have serious financial implications for some or all of them I'd have thought. I say again: this is the only EBT court case HMRC have won courtesy of three brain dead Scotish LawLords whose verdict was based on 'common sense' rather than whether tax laws had been broken or not