RANGERRAB

Yes, but does it have to be that way? Remember the golden generation of ManU (Beckham, Scholes, Giggs etc?) That surely wasn't just down to luck but to a conscious decision to invest in youth. RFC should be looking to take promising talent from the lower Scottish leagues or grab players like Kenny McLean from St Mirren before big guns like Fleetwood and Brentford beat us to the punch. We can then build a transfer budget by selling on the best types for reasonable fees. Look at Southampton; they sold an entire team but have been enabled to buy good quality replacements.

Is Kenny McLean of the standard we want? I mean if the mighty Fleetwood are after him then that says it all does it not?

I think this only reinforces my point about producing players from a youth set up good enough to play at the level we want to be at. And that level is Premiership champions and in Europe beyond Christmas. Getting players for that level is easier IMO who have played for another club and whose level can be easier assessed. An untried youth is different and much harder although not impossible

Go on any Geordie fans forum and you will read a lot worse said against Rangers and Rangers fans!.

Do they not like us ? The Newcastle fans that is

A Youth Set Up is ultimately a gamble.There are always a couple of issues as I see it-

1) It may not produces players good enough for the first team at the level we want to be at i.e.Premiership champions and doing well in Europe

2) How can you be sure were signing the best youths and those at other clubs arent betterthan ours ?

D'Art mentioned Steven Pressley. He came thro at Rangers but was never of the standard we'd hoped for.And if the lad Urquhart is so good why is he in the third tier of Scottish football?

So often nowadays a manager will want to recruit players who have gained experience elsewhere. Introducing youth into a first team is dificult at the best of times which is why I think putting the likes of McKay and Gallagher out on loan will be beneficial to Rangers in the longer term.Very few youths will get into the first team. We need to remember that.

If I were Blue Pitch / Margerita, I'd seriously consider heading for the exit sooner than later.

 

They are probably still sitting on a tidy profit now, but there's not a cat in hells chance of a dividend in the foreseeable future. Moreover, If the good guys get to 50% without them, then they (BPH / Marg) will be an irrelevance and there will be no need to buy them out.

How are they sitting on a tidy profit? The share price has gone from 70p to 20p.

I'd be more interested to find out who the people are behind BPH & Margerita.Could it be Ashley?

Won't happen. He resigned of his own accord. There is no obligation now to take him back

I have noted in the last few hours, that Phil McStupidnames, Ms Haggerty, and Brian McNally have all seen fit to comment on share action at Rangers. Combined with Chris McLaughlin NOT receiving the required answers from Doncaster and Jum Spence presenting several Sports Bulletins in a row this afternoon on BBC Radio Scotland and leading with MacLeod's transfer cash going straight to the role of working capital ....................... There will be NO positives today for Bears.

 

Funny that, I am increasingly filled with a sense of immense well-being.

 

Get it right up the lot of you.

What answers was McLaughlin looking for from Doncaster?

Oh Angie Babe how I sense your hurt.....

As you like to think of yourself as an Investigative Journalist (stop laughing at the back.....)why don't you investigate the club that used political connections to secure ultra soft loans from a now basket case bank ?

Or you could investigate the appointment of the SFA chief exec? Surely he wasn't recruited (for the last time stop laughing at the back..) by a recruitment agency in which your team's chairman's son was employed? And was anyone else interviewed for this position?

Plenty others too. Or do you only do Rangers stuff ????

obviously

but they're smart enough to know what'll be necessery in the future

In my view the supporters have laid down a marker

we don't like, we don't buy

that's where the power lies

And there needs to be an improvement on the park as a top priority for them.Otherwise people won't turn up to support the team.

I agree - their work is cut out for them

they are capitalist bastards but they know they'll make nothing from us

they're doing it because they are the people

they can afford the luxury of saving us

 

King might be a capitalist who has our interest at heart, but others don't.

Ashley for example....what if he bought us outright !

 

Fan ownership is the only way forward for all our teams........and you know what, I reckon our new custodians know that fine well

You mention fan ownership. Wouldn't you consider Park, Letham, Taylor and King as fans?

LOL. Someone should ask McNally about Dermot Desmond. When did he last pay tax in Oirlund? And how about his former betdaq company getting thrown out Australia for being a 'rogue operator' ? That ok Brian is it?

And do our SFA chums still do the same 'fit and proper persons test' Whyte must have passed?

Surely you'll be there to welcome the new investors including your pal and confidant, Mr King.

I dont see much bigger crowds until the product on the park improves considerably. And we get a new manager who actually seems to want the job

We most certainly are.

Off the park yes.

On the park we have a very long way to go and should not under estimate that.

thank you Capitalist bastards who are 'Gers men

thank you Lawell and the SFA for actually caring about our club

 

There is a god...(even though I'm an atheist !)

And to Dumbcaster for confirming what we all inew anyway that we're the same club...

If the timz keep posting on social media about this at the rate they're currently doing they'll burn out a satellite

If the board don't give them places then I expect so yes.

But wouldnt they need an EGM to do that?

In all seriousness what does this mean after PArk, Letham and Taylor buying out Laxey and King today? An EGM?

I was just thinking the very same

Im here. Great news. Taken my advice at last

Excellent news ! He's taken my advice at last

In the grand scheme of things that game doesn't mean a thing.

 

Getting our act together off the field will hurt and terrify the filth far more than some poxy one off game.

No game against them is meaningless.

As I said earlier unless the team shows a drastic improvement no one will support it regardless of who is in the boardroom

Good point. I suppose it would be nice if someone would start a thread about how poor the football is.

People arent going to turn up to support a dreadful side regardless of who is in the boarroom. The team needs addressed as soon as possible.

And whilst we're all quite rightfully jubilant at Park,Letham & Taylor acquiring this 16percent shareholding we must not lose sight of the poor standard of the team on the park.

Hopefully we'll see a few arrivals this month(loan signings possibly) otherwise I fear a mauling in the OF game on Feb01 not to mention not getting promotion

well done them if only we had someone like ms dempster at ibrox

Doubt very much if she'd have wanted our CEO job.....

you wont see this story in the DR.

Does McMurdo actually write that stuff? Wouldnt happen to be a former newspaper editor would it?

This is actually true and why it is utterly futile anyone putting their hand in their pocket to buy shares unless you gain 51% and can effect change.

How do they need to get 51 percent themselves? Them and other shareholders who back them may soon have more than Ashley, the Easdales and the Easdale proxies. Its a case of doing the arithmetic

Is anyone surprised at this if true?