Hildy
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Maybe it's the cynic in me, but I can't help wondering if Gough is being paid for his services or if he has been promised a position at Ibrox in the event of King taking over. Over the years we have lambasted people like Derek Johnstone for articulating certain opinions because they are in the pay of the club, so it would be useful to know what has stirred Gough into action at this time. Was it because it was the right thing to do, was money a motivating factor or was it both?
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You misunderstand. Watching Rangers every week does not give the discerning football fan an adequate football fix. He has to go elsewhere for that, even if it's just to change channel. Ibrox is no place to take the serious football lover these days. There's more entertainment to be found watching workmen digging up the road.
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I don't know how good this young Hearts team is, but they have been blooded at the highest level and appear to be making progress. They will be hungry for success next season and may find their squad strengthened if they can put their problems behind them and attract large crowds. It will be interesting to see if they are capable of going the distance with us. If they are, it will at least inject some life into our lives after two seasons of pushing against an open door. Quite simply, we have to win the second division. If we fail, it will be our biggest onfield disaster ever.
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Goodness me - so many questions. I think it's healthy to have pertinent questions ready for any new initiative, and there's certainly no shortage here. Obviously, whoever wrote this is in favour of fan ownership. With fan ownership, we ask questions of potential club presidents before we elect them. The alternative, what we presently have, only allows questions to be asked after a new owner comes in, and by then it's too late. What good is it asking questions of someone like Craig Whyte after he has taken ownership of the club? This very thorough approach is much more sensible.
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Many will not strap themselves in. They will chuck it. When the spectacle before people is so crass, so crude, so unimaginative, so one-dimensional, so difficult to endure and such poor value for money, they will give up on Rangers, and they may never return. With top level continental and English football being piped into every home, Rangers cannot afford to play in a fashion that that makes a day trip to Ibrox feel like a chore. Rangers is to the beautiful game what sectarian schools are to inclusivity.
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I don't think he possesses a single original idea and I don't believe his ambition for Rangers is particularly high. Incredibly though, he seems secure in the job no matter how the near future is played out. The present regime will likely retain him and a King-led Rangers would probably do the same. Even the Blue Knights would have kept him on. Rangers needs regime change, but it needs a managerial change too.
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We've been without football for a lot longer than that. I'm looking forward to the World Cup and CL Final to get my football fix. I certainly don't get it at Ibrox any more.
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If Rangers had employed the guy on a £600,000 plus salary, there would have been an understandable outcry. Instead, he is reported to be on half this figure and this is reckoned to be about right. Add in a 100% bonus though, which is paid out when relatively easy conditions are met or when a committee nods it through, and the true payout becomes absurd. Two words come to mind: 'smoke' and 'mirrors'.
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Imagine if it was Celtic who had endured what we are enduring. Imagine if they had done everything exactly as we have. Who would not have criticised them for being hopelessly incompetent; for massively overpaying top-end staff, for giving non-football people 100% bonuses, for making inaccurate public statements, for making redundancies, for asking players to take 15% cuts and for being embarrassed into disclosing remuneration figures by a concerned shareholder? We'd have been laughing like drains as we watched Celtic fans parting with their cash to people not quite up to the job of adequately utilising it. It isn't Celtic, though. It's us. Rangers is no longer just a national joke. It is now a long-running national joke. What has happened, and is still happening to us, is way beyond the fantasies of even the most bitter and deeply-entrenched Rangers-haters. For them, our predicament is better than winning the lottery.
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How many season tickets does it take to pay this guy his salary, his bonus and his annual increase? And how many tickets will have to be sold to find £180,000 for the kit man and his assistant? We are a joke. Everyone else is having a belly laugh at our expense - again.
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This is the extent of your ambition for the club? It goes without saying that we need to be back in the top tier and winning it as soon as possible.
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What's your ambition for Rangers? Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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I'm always intrigued by the horror that everyone feels when it is suggested that Ibrox could be lost to us, and yet we put no barrier up to anyone owning the club, which includes Ibrox. As a consequence, we're witnessing a new desperation as we attempt to somehow 'secure' it. The madness that is abroad is the madness of not wholly owning our club.
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Would that finally convince you that the current ownership is inappropriate - and if it did take everything with it, wouldn't that have been its likely intention all along?
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No-one is pretending that there is an easy solution to our predicament, but when people see their money being blown on exorbitant salaries and the club being poorly run, they feel that they are being taken for mugs, and understandably, they don't like it. As fans they should be highly regarded, but instead they feel alienated and marginalised as an Ibrox inner circle has a party at their expense. It's high time this gravy train hit the buffers. The club will never flourish under this kind of ownership so it's far better to sort things out sooner rather than later. The longer we leave it, the harder it will be to recover. When there is little or no trust between fans and the club's ownership, the ownership has to go. It has lost the little credibility that it had.
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He'll have his reasons, and he may not be inclined to go public with them, but Rangers is not going to recover under flawed and greedy ownership and bad management. We either limp on to oblivion pretending that better days will come, or we bring this matter to a head with no guarantee of success. It's a tough choice but I prefer the latter. Rangers FC is rotten to the core. It will slip away in time anyway so we might as well operate now, stop the rot and try to rebuild in a meaningful way.
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BuyRangers has over half a million shares. It is doing the right thing. It could have many millions though if it wasn't for those fans who dislike and distrust their fellow fans for trying to get fan representation and ownership. There is nothing - nothing - more dangerous than standing aside while the club is freely available for charlatans to buy. We invited disaster - and we got it. In spades.
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I believe he should buy the club rather than having a protracted and damaging campaign, but whether he does or does not, he is showing up the current regime for what it is - and that is a good thing.
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The current regime is getting hammered. It is getting outclassed by its critics at every turn. It has been so discredited that there is no way back for it. It doesn't matter whether people like or loathe King. He is winning the argument. I wish the team would play with some of King's aggression.
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It's not good enough for quite a number of people. If a CEO says that a business has enough cash when it actually doesn't, there is no-one to blame but the CEO. It would be strange if he was not being criticised for making such an inaccurate statement.
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He said there was enough cash. There wasn't. How can a highly-paid CEO get this wrong? There are no excuses here. People feel that they have been misled. There is a good reason for that. They have been.
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City of Glasgow Cup Final: Celtic v Rangers - Past Win Can Help Us
Hildy replied to Zappa's topic in Rangers Chat
It is the Rangers way. Smith started it, McCoist followed and like a virus it has spread through the club. We need new management to give us a new direction - urgently. -
This gets to the crux of the matter. Instinctively, you just don't like to see a fellow fan speaking for others. You see fans reps as self-important and self-appointed and you dislike them for getting ideas above their station, and you are not alone. This attitude is quite common within the Rangers support and it is holding us back. If we are a group that cannot function as a democratic entity, we will get walked over by shrewd men in suits who understand only too well that your attitude is shared by others and that it makes us ripe for exploitation. We really have to move on from this. We need representation which means we absolutely need fan representatives.
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This is the point that keeps getting missed. How could he err when he's talking about cash? Did he miscount?
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