Super Cooper

Did Smith and Gough honestly say those things? I could go on and on here. Richard Gough, one of Rangers' greatest ever captains, wrote in a newspaper column: "The club I gave blood, sweat and tears for is dead." Walter Smith, one of the greatest figures in Rangers' history, and now the club's chairman, said of Green's consortium taking over: "I wish the new Rangers Football Club every good fortune."

Very good point.

Has he not since retracted that an said after he read more about it he was wrong?

Thanks that's why i asked the question. I wasn't sure. I would like to think Ally had enough brains to know salaries were too high and that his was ridiculous? We all could and we are just daft fans on the outside. Surely not hard to work out.

As a shareholder though, should he not have a responsibility to himself to know those sorts of things?

Yep, we never learn. It looks like the club are more than willing to continue our ethos of constant short term fixes and accept 3 or 4 years of financial losses in order to get back to the top asap. Of course in reality there is absolutely no need for such a plan when the same goal can be achieved for a fraction of the outlay. As i say, we never learn. All that money raised from an IPO and where has it went and where will the rest go? On bloomin' operating costs! So frustrating.

Yep, we never learn. It looks like the club are more than willing to continue our ethos of constant short term fixes and accept 3 or 4 years of financial losses in order to get back to the top asap. Of course in reality there is absolutely no need for such a plan when the same goal can be achieved for a fraction of the outlay. As i say, we never learn. All that money raised from an IPO and where has it went and where will the rest go? On bloomin' operating costs! So frustrating.

That is exactly what we should have done. Put the business first for a change. No. That man is a conman who we are well rid of and i am 100% certain he knew we could never afford these players, manager or their and his bonuses for that matter. He didn't care.

If you had Rangers best interests at heart and knew the state the club were in, could you go into work every day and then face tens of thousands of fans every match day whilst taking home money you knew the club cannot afford? I know i couldn't. No matter how much i love him as a Rangers legend and a boyhood hero of mine i personally think he has a brass neck and a cheek. Martin Bain gave Ally his contract i am sure? which at the time would have been normal for any Rangers manager but these days, this is not normal times. No one at our club right now should be taking home anything like that kind of money.

How many tourists go out of their way to visit that area miles outside the city centre? Even Glasgwegians, there will be people who simply cannot be bothered taking the tube away over to Ibrox to go to the megastore. It's about giving the consumer what they want and they want shopping made as easy and simple as possible.

Great move for him though i can see him leaving shortly after Rino is sacked again.

I have a feeling any CVA offer will be accepted. Walker and Paterson are two players i hope they have to release.

A presence in the city we claim is ours should be a no brainer.

Maybe mate but it sounds like just another excuse.

There always seems to be an excuse. Hundreds of other clubs changed manufacturers this year and many of them have their new kits on sale already. There is no dressing this shambles up. There is no excuse.

A couple of good posts there. Well said lads.

Sadly i think you may be wrong here mate. Both accounts attributed to Green and Ahmad on another forum gave details of staff salaries and other inside info not many, if any, other people could have known. Information which ultimately led to at least one of their departures.

Irrelevant in my opinion. We have been told by the club the kit will not be out until August. Not good enough in my opinion. Lindsay Herron ‏@rfc_lindsay 43s Had some questions/comments on kit. Reason home kit is not on sale til August is production time due to timing of Puma deal (1/2) Lindsay Herron ‏@rfc_lindsay 46s We will have shots of all three kits on site later next week (2/2) We will be losing all sorts of money right now.

Fathers day, kids summer holidays, marching season, good weather, feeling of a new season beckoning....... It is very poor from the club.

Woeful business. I would love to know the real reason why it has not been released yet.

It may be the going rate for a Rangers manager but our turnover and income is not the going rate for a Rangers football club so all salaries should be in relevance and with that in mind, no one person should be earning almost £1m per year with us right now. As for UCFs post above, guys like McLeish, Advocaat and PLG were earning top dollar because the club was bringing in top dollar, i'd imagine our turnover this year is about a 1/4 of what it would normally be, maybe slightly more. We cannot afford players on £10k-£15k per week right now and we certainly cannot afford a manager on £750k per year. I fear the club is going to accept 3 or 4 huge annual losses until we get back to the top and i think that is wrong. We have learned nothing from previous regimes.

I am exactly the same with my son Craig. Sometimes it is hard separating us being friends to me being his dad but he is growing to understand the difference and i am managing both aspects better too. It is such a joy. Now i have another wee boy to bring up as well with our youngest who is just 6 weeks old. Again, i know what you mean, if mine isn't asking me to play split screen with him on some RPG, it is Fifa, playing in the same team against Celtic or playing cup competitions together. He loves winning cups with his daddy! Strange you talk about guy time because even with my Mrs being here, my son has really become much closer to me than he ever was, he is a complete daddies boy where as for his first 5 or 6 years he was a mummies boy. He loves spending time with me just now. Last night he was in his room creating a fathers day poster for me and writing out my card, he came into the living room and said "daddy i have a couple of things for you in my room but you cannot see them until tmrw morning" I had honestly forgot about fathers day and this morning he was up before me and ran into our room with his poster, card and box of chocolates for me. He was so happy with himself. The poster was of him and i in the park playing football. That is great that you are trying to help kids out Craig. You sound like a really nice guy. Your wee boy is so lucky.

Who are media house and what did we pay them for?

Absolutely. Parents must also take their share of the blame. I admire your dedication to your sons life and future, it is very impressive but sadly not nearly enough people work as hard as you, or even i do, to work with their kids properly. As you rightly point out, computers are a good get out for parents who can't be bothered spending time with their kids.

I seen someone on twitter say it was in a prospectus or IPO document or something. You could add up every salary for every manager of every club in SFL1, 2 and 3 and their TOTAL wouldn't come near what Ally takes home himself. It's everything that is wrong with our club. Are the club getting value for money from that outlay? The same can be said for the money we are paying executives, directors and even players. We are losing money faster and sillier than we ever did under David Murray.