buster.
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WH Ireland seem to be carrying on the Daniel Stewart 'baton'..........and are excelling themselves. Their first announcement, including the McCoist 'numbers'. Of course under Toxic instruction from RIFC. #Nest of Vipers
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When and when were Rangers informed ? Are Rangers annoucing this in a timely way or is it 'strategically timed' ? I'm not inferring anything, I simply don't know but have seen this and other RIFC board(s) use regulatory notices 'strategically' in the past and so ask the question.
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Misleading and deflectionary bullshit coming from the boardroom is a wee bitty more important wouldn't you say ? The sooner you realise this, the sooner you will stop getting so much, so wrong.
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I can't seem to find out When did the SPFL actually inform Rangers that they'd withold broadcast revenue ? Anyone know ?
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What is it they say is the first victim of conflict ?.....................the truth Who has that suited in the past and who would that suit now ?
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I am in part agreement with that. For me, emotionally the husk isn't yet completely empty but it's certainly driving full speed towards it.
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I see you want to return to your past 'days of glory' following Whyte and Green as they waged war on the BBC, SFA, SPL etc. Ask Santa for a deflector shield
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Rules were changed post Vlad and the SFA are 'well within their Articles' to bring charges against Ashely.
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. The board has had it's eye's open. The RIFC/TRFC directors could have settled for a lesser amount of Telfer money in the summer as per Wallace but apparently Sandy Easdale insisted in taking to a tribunal. Then there was the vanishing statement on the day of the Telfer verdict. Now we have the timing of this announcement. When did the SPFL actually inform Rangers that they'd withold broadcast revenue ?
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I've seen the (original) film before,............."Siege mentality 4" Who is playing the Charles Green role this time ?
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The post below is from a Newcastle fan on FF. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally Posted by magpieranger "We played over 100 games in Europe in the 10 years previous to Ashley buying the club. We were Man Utds nearest title rivals for a while, qualified for the Champions League, beat the likes of Barcelona and Juventus in said competition, got to 2 FA Cup Finals, broke the World record transfer signing and were a team a lot of neutrals enjoyed watching so just imagine how much we enjoyed it. It was hardly the doldrums to be fair. Ok we never won anything, but we came very close and had the time of our lives in doing so. The hope, expectation, anticipation and downright excitement even just waiting for the fixtures to be released in June was something else and then that used to build up to the beginning of the new season. Great times and they were for me what being a football supporter is all about. I know i'll never see the like again. If anything it shows Ashley for what he is. He has all the raw materials there in front of him, not to compete for the title of course, but to be more than just aiming to be a mid table club that sells its best player every year (money which Ashley trousers) and that sees a cup run a hindrance to the real goal which is Premier League survival and another season on the gravy train. It's boring now. You turn up to have your eyes hurt by tatty Sports Direct signage wherever you look. There's no ambition, the hope has gone and there's nothing to get excited about. Win, lose or draw in the grand scheme of things it's unimportant. If we're looking like making the top 6-7 by next month Sissoko will no doubt be sold because we can't risk getting into that Europa League and those extra games next season and as far as safety is concerned Ashley will see it as job done so he'll cash in. Sadly a lot of fans I know would be happy for the team to struggle over the next 6 weeks as it's gives us more chance of keeping the squad together. If i'm being honest I don't know why I bother. I suppose it's because there's nothing better to do with my Saturday afternoons (shopping, DIY, cutting the grass etc) and I get to have a few pints with mates, some of whom I only get to see on match days. There's 50,000 just like me and Ashley knows it."
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I've always found Geordies as friendly and decent folk but you have to get used to the accent, but as with this article, it's usually worth it. It's good to read something written that is honest and comes from the heart of a fan. This being an important part of why your Open Letter resonated and went 'viral'. The spinning dysfunctional circus that is RIFC needs to go straight, be honest and become meaningfully transparent.,....it won't with the current lot in and around the boardroom.
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I posted this article from a Newcastle United fan within a thread (now deleted) but it got lost in there and deseerves prominence. Well worth a read and relevant to our situation today and the ghost of the future. "The Great Betrayal".............Mike Ashley and the cheapening of the Newcastle dream "Along Stowell Street and up to Gallowgate, hemmed in by the illicit, everything mam would scold you for; men weaving through traffic, a chuffing of tabs, the ****etty-twat, rat-a-tat swearing, pie-flecked gobs crooning mayhem. A half of orange squash at fart height outside the Strawberry and it is ten to three and tears are prickling and panic clenches and you cannot swallow but the rush is on and you bolt it. Moved and buffeted, onto tiptoes, Dead Sea swimming, but a sea alive, afroth with yanking current, past the walls to the turnstiles though pockets of meat smells, piss and ale. Step-dad on one side and a neighbour on the other – his tickets, his offer, an eight year old’s queasy nod – but nobody had told you it would be this affront to childhood, to responsible parenting. This obscenity, this stench, this first time, this only time, this cesspool. A struggle up some steps and then a struggle to comprehend, a long field of emerald bordered by grey, fringed with concrete, by black and white. Glorious green in a monochrome landscape, vivid and out of context, too vivid to wrest your eyes from. It is what you remembered stuffed between the adults, packed so tightly that you rose when they did, arse-down when they sat. The rest of your view: the back of someone’s parka. No teams, no scorers, no specific date, just a pressing of eyes and that flash of green. Nothing else brought you back, nothing else made sense, certainly not the invisible, middle-distance game you did not witness. Nor the shouting or the scuffle for the bogs at half-time, the leaving five minutes early and the dull, distant cloud-burst of two late goals (you would never do that again). Just that big grey city green. That was how it began and that is how it remains; arrive at a stadium and search out the grass, man-made but natural, defying the stanchions crowding in on it. There would be human heroes – Keegan as a player, Beardsley and Gascoigne, with his chip-fat shine and bagatelle feet – but the tingle of that feeling, eyes wide at the incongruity of an urban savannah, the darkness of encroaching terraces, is what burrowed inside..........................." Full article at https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/articl...reat-betrayal/
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Telegraph "Ashley dual ownership in weeks"
buster. replied to aweebluesoandso's topic in Rangers Chat
This CL line is spin that is pushed & repeated constantly so as to become a 'mindset', an automaticly accepted response. You will note it is never accompanied with an explanation or outline of how it is to be achieved, that's because it's bullshit. Same with the European angle in general. There are much cheaper, more targeted and effective ways for SD to advertise in Europe. -
Telegraph "Ashley dual ownership in weeks"
buster. replied to aweebluesoandso's topic in Rangers Chat
If Ashely was to get this over the line and we became Sports Direct Rangers it wouldn't be changing in the forseeable. My principles wouldn't let me go near a cockney corporate vehicle shaped by dishonest scheming from a line-up of rogues. Nevermind the soulless mediocrity that would follow. -
Telegraph "Ashley dual ownership in weeks"
buster. replied to aweebluesoandso's topic in Rangers Chat
It would do for me. Better things to do with life/spend money on. -
Yes, really. You constantly see cabals, Fullerton, DK, UoF etc instead of seeing what is going on. Add to that your perception of the various incarnations of executive management as they went through Ibrox with their swag bags and you have little room to use irony. You are the type of supporter who has been 'manna from heaven' to profiteers in the boardroom.
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The club and it's ongoing state of Omnishambles+, is the fault of the various incarnations of Executive management (board) that come to further their own interests, period. - Had we been run properly Ally McCoist would have been replaced some time ago. - Had we been run properly we would have seen investment in the footballing operation infrastructure and presently be in a better place with better prospects both on and off the field.
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This whole charade has been carried out mainly in the 'Grey Lane'. Not in the Black of complete evil or in the White of positive good. With most decisions or apparent policies, the various incarnations of the boardroom have pointed to and used the part of the backstory or future vision that would register with at least part of the support. They cling onto this without going into the full picture and trade their snake oil for your blue pound. Easiest and most simple example being the argument that the club need our money to survive, yes it does......But so do the sp.ivs, shark and onerous contracts..................... So what you have is in effect a sp.iv tax on your blue pound. Rangers need to cut costs and a new business model, yes it does.......... But we don't need to become a Sports Direct Commercial Vehicle which is what may well happen. As generations pass and attitudes become more subservient, it may work for some but not me.
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This board are currently in a process that not only cuts costs but are taking some of the layers of 'traditional Rangers' from the club, which they probably regard as a negative from their POV. (I refer more to other areas of the club/ the manager of the football club can come from Mexico, if he's good enough) It is also a demonstration of ruthless power that warns any others that are left to 'behave'. As I said a month or two back, if Ashely comes out of this running 'Sports Direct Vehicle (Scotland)', I'm finished with it all as the club as I knew it will be dead.
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Gattuso linked to succeed McCoist (Clarke joins Reading)
buster. replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
This week Jack Irvine will be 100% hands-on matters Rangers. Trying to manage the news, the direction of your attention, aswell as shape and influence your thoughts. -
Are you a contract lawyer or are you a punter on a messageboard who doesn't quite know the full details of what may be involved and are taking a stab in the dark that you believe overules what actually happened ? ps. excuse my directness, I'm in a bad mood
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RIFC is supposed to be a 'business' with a football club attached, it even has it's shares traded on the AIM market. Well just do your business, respecting the agreements that you have signed and if you can negotiate a settlement, fine......... ..........but f**k off with the airing it in public to escape what you signed up to.
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What part of "subsequently amended" don't you understand ?
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I can't get my head round this Could you please explain in laymans, step by step terms, how the "1M" profit becomes worth XXM to the SD share price. Or point to somewhere I could read up on it.