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  1. buster.
    Sports Direct Reserves A football club losing it's soul.
  2. buster.
    Shows how little Ashley cares about the Newcastle players (FIVE) working under a poor coaching set-up. Sports Direct FC..=..Newcastle Utd Sports Direct Reserves..=.. Rangers
  3. buster.
    Five coming in one go from the same club and the fact they are on loan may mean they or most of them keep to themselves a la clique. Dependent on how Kenny McDowell sees them regards first team starts, it may bring the matter of his position back into sharp focus with the club trying to push him into leaving with as small a settlement as possible. We now have 17 players in our promotion drive who are leaving in the summer and you have to question how motivated they'll be.
  4. buster.
    Coincidence or what And nearly three years ago the serial liar, Green gave away half the retail operation, voting control over it's finances and the stadium renaming rights over Ibrox to Mike Ashley for a pound coin. Green, Llambias and Ashley, as thick as thieves
  5. buster.
    McCoist has under 11 months left and McDowell just over 11 months. I don't think Durrant has handed in his resignation, he was told to stay away for a couple of weeks IIRC. Not sure of amounts involved.
  6. buster.
    If the board don't agree a settlement with KMcD or send him on gardening leave then I think this potential 'group signing' will lead to further friction with the board hoping that Kenny will settle for a relative 'lucky bag'.
  7. buster.
    Poor lad, he won't get over that in a hurry.
  8. buster.
    The first point in the OP was that if these loans were to materialise on the Monday then they were at least a week too late but more importantly, to keep a caretaker manager in charge despite not wanting to be there etc.,....... was negiligent of the board and representative of the way they run the football operation.
  9. buster.
    This is another area where dual ownership comes into question and particularly who it is that is designed to be the main beneficary regards the financial dealings. I think that this may be 'sold' as a plus point for Ashley involvement although the reception to any such 'sale' would depend on performance, if involved. On the latter point, I would think it likely that a new manager would be drafted in soonish.
  10. buster.
    Do you refer to Sports Direct merchandise or a wholly justifiable jibe ?
  11. buster.
    I think we have to focus on the next meeting of the RFB rather than debate individuals. There are understandably many doubts over the RFB and how it may be used and exploited by the RIFC/TRFC boards. We can list the motives behind those doubts but we have also seen actions from the RFB that have responded both to actions by RIFC and concerns of the general support. As we rumble towards a possible EGM, we need the RFB to make the very most out of their next meeting that will apparently have Derek Llambias and Barry Leach attending and to that end we will need to formulate questions and submit them by e-mail. As I see it, the test for the RFB as a body is to to ensure they receive transparent answers to all pertinent questions and that they don't allow the RIFC, TRFC and Rangers Retail Ltd directors (both DL & BL represent all three) to navigate their way through a meeting without due scrutiny, including secondary questions. If there are questions that may need some research doing before answering then they should be submitted prior to the meeting so as to give the directors time to have the full answers prepared. I feel we have reached a stage that will include the Ashley men and where the RFB will have to perform,...and perform well.
  12. buster.
    I've seen a trend wrt Newcastle that is the letting go of various rumours that seldon come to fruition. The big one that has often been repeated over a number of years is the sale of the club at strategic moments. This suggests spin at play, directly from the Ashley camp. This present rumour regards players only has a certain amount of time to run before it happens or not and for that reason, there is little value in it for the Ashley camp in being a deflectory tactic. In fact it would work against him so I wouldn't be surprised if something happens.
  13. buster.
    We know you get nowt from Ashley for nowt,................ even if at a first casual glance it may seem as you do. The devil is usually in the detail and that sometimes comes to the light 'X' amount of months later.
  14. buster.
    There are many contracts and many actions since 2012 up until the present day that have been questionable regards the interests of Rangers. These have involved all facets of the company and football club. The different boards have been 'stages' within a process that have had to work within certain guidelines that aren't in the interests of the football club. After the Long Business Review of April 2014, this board could have spent some of the scarce resources available at the time to make some the necessary changes but instead went 'with the flow'. There wasn't loads of money with which to work (despite the Easdale assurances/instead he met up with Ritzvi, apparently the new Asian youth development man) but there was some and had they been seen to be addressing the situation in a constructive way, ST numbers would have increased a little.
  15. buster.
    It was the board that allowed this situation to develop and fester. Good executive management should look to be proactive rather than reactive. Our board would appear to be neither where the interests of Rangers are concerned.
  16. buster.
    In the aftermath of yesterday, I'll give this thread a bump because I think it is very much to do with what we saw at Hampden on Sunday.
  17. buster.
    Trying to take a step back and look at the last few days...... 1. RFB board pass by majority a 'Vote of No Confidence' in the RIFC board (this appears to spark the RIFC board into communication). 2. Correct me if I'm wrong but it appears as though RIFC quickly look for a meeting with RFB under the condition that one or more of the members don't attend due to Rangers Board Members not trusting the individual(s). (Why not put it back 24 hours and have more members attend) 3. The notes from the meeting seem to repeat and produce more holes regards the RIFC position and on the whole are unsatisfactory answers that don't even begin to address the issue of 'No Confidence'. 4. Forlan: Stick in there and don't let them provoke you into leaving at an important juncture. 5. Rather than division and squabbling that will get us no-where, let's push for transparency whilst RIFC are on the backfoot.
  18. buster.
    Quite apart from the issues of who did and didn't attend, there are many holes in what makes up what was discussed at the meeting.
  19. buster.
    Not all members of RFB were aware of or participated in the meeting due to a number of mitigating factors, such as: - a request for confidentiality by Rangers Board members - the timelines in which the meeting was called - RFB member availability - communication challenges --------------------------------------------------------------- Unless FS was on the moon and 'incommunicado', it would seem as Rangers board members don't trust or want to engage with a Fans Board Member who is clear in his wish for more transparency. This might be considered as an unsubtle push to provoke RFB member(s) into a cycle that leads to them leaving the board. -------------------------------------------------- Rangers Board Members:.... 'Communication and engagement with whom we deem suitable' Now it's some elected representatives that aren't included, never mind other fansgroups.
  20. buster.
    If I'm reading that correctly, it sounds like it might be the first step to individuals on the RFB getting marginalised or even sent on their way.
  21. buster.
    CB, you hit on what is the main issue amongst many. The executive decisions aren't being made in the football club's best interests, short or long-term.
  22. buster.
    Yesterday morning there were rumours from several 'in the know' posters on FF suggesting that there are a couple of loan signings on the way from Newcastle Utd. Obviously, nothing happened on Friday and if such deals were to go through it would have to be at a date when they could have no influence on the League Cup semi-final. Let's go with the rumour for a minute and say they were to sign on Monday. I'd have to ask why not sign them on the previous Monday prior to the semi-final at Hampden ? You could ask a similar but more important question about Kenny McDowelll and why is he still in the dug-out despite resigning, patently not wanting to be in the job and having been prepared to infer that the RIFC board were misleading the fans when making their statement about Novo ? The board have recent previous when it comes to pitching an unhappy McDowell into the hotseat for a vital match. We know what happened at Easter Road that day, we were lucky to come away with a 4-0 defeat. So coming back to tomorrow, the boards, whether it be Sandy Easdale, chairman of TRFC or the collection of what many regard as malfeasent numpties who sit around the RIFC table,.... don't seem to be that interested in allowing or giving Rangers a fighting chance in Sunday's game. Not appointing a new first team manager in present circumstances is to my mind negligence. Are they writing off the Celtic game and preparing the ground for next week and a new manager with a couple of the only thing that comes from MASH/Newcastle, 'loans' ? Or perhaps my imagination doesn't grasp the scale of their disinterest at a time when John Carver is confirmed as caretaker manager of Newcastle for the rest of the season following four straight defeats. Maybe I do the board a disservice, as I forget for a moment their all too obvious priorities. Perperation for the League Cup semi-final started some weeks ago with the Sports Direct commemorative T-shirt for reaching the semi-final. I don't imagine many reading this will have bought one but don't worry, I'm sure the 293rd richest person in the world will have Rangers paying for unsold stock. Maybe he could make enough money to offer us another loan with largely what should be our own money,..... again. Bottomline is that we have a rudderless, discontented football club (other than for the interests of Sports Direct) and the board not only haven't lifted a positive finger but seem intent on pissing off supporters and staff to boot as we head towards Hampden. We might aswell of had a board of McNally, Phil3names and Haggerty. They couldn't have fecked things up as badly for Rangers as recent RIFC boards have, both generally and particularly going into this game.
  23. buster.

    SoS new info

    buster. replied to BEARGER's topic in Rangers Chat

  24. buster.

    SoS new info

    buster. replied to BEARGER's topic in Rangers Chat

    The post quoted below was made an hour or so ago on TSFM by a Hearts supporter who is as objective as you could reasonably hope for and is no fool. It points to moves being made by someone to have documents removed from the web. Aswell as subject matter, what is interesting is the timing, after they'd been sitting there for months.
  25. buster.
    I think this is a time to focus and look forward, playing the ball from where it is currently situated. The RST are presently very active, aware and seem to be providing leadership at an important juncture.
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