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  1. buster.
    Kelly Brook has just called to ask me if she can come over and stay the night.
  2. buster.
    That depends on what your 'goal' is. We've been an omnishambles but the spi.vs by and large have achieved their aims. Sp.ivs are interested in filling their pockets, period. There will be different MO's dependent on sp.iv but they all lead in the same direction.
  3. buster.
    Look for initial gestures, heavy spin about 'the future' and then a little further on, copious amounts of 'expectation management'.
  4. buster.
    In the absence of X willing to throw XXM at sp.ivs before the XXM needed at the club the situation is next to 'chronic'. What was needed as a matter of priority was firstly, for the support to come together (both monied and masses) to force a change in the dynamic regarding executive control in the boardroom. For various reasons this didn't happen. Now we are the preverbial 'scud book' being handed down between the sp.ivs or in other words, a corporate vehicle from which to make money, rather than a football club. If it continues, we'll simply fade away as a competitive force compared to years gone by, by which time the 'scud book' will be a next to worthless mess.
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  6. buster.
    Once the sp.ivs got a hold, they weren't for letting go unless X was willing to pay through the nose for it. It's far too simplistic to just say to X that they should have chuked XXM at it, then chuck another XXM at it. A situation had been engineered so as to lay a financial minefield and develop a process that used Rangers as a corporate vehicle to extract value from. They aren't for giving up executive control until they there is little or nothing left to extract. This process has stages, between which there is always a heavy propaganda effort to make the new stage appear more palatable than the previous.
  7. buster.
    He's the one who has been in with the sp.ivs from 2012 and looks to me as if he was very much an option to keep the sp.iv roadshow on course. - links with Green who saw SD (Ashely) get more than one 'onerous contract' on board. - Naming rights for a quid - SD financial control of Rangers merchandise - Margins to suit from said merchandise - His spin doctor (Bishop) getting paid contract with Rangers in 2013 (for what ?) - etc. Ongoing Process.............. just another stage
  8. buster.
    The general substance of what lys behind said conversation has been hugely damaging to Rangers and overtime has been fundamantal in creating an enviroment that could be exploited by sp.ivs. It's difficult to overestimate the damage it has done.
  9. buster.
    Don't forget the other 'players' in our soap opera. Some of the others would like to see CW held up as the one and only villan and that includes Sir Duped of Murray.
  10. buster.
    Because of the interest I have in the subject matter, I have overtime developed my own take on certain individuals involved from various angles. One of the first being the Dark Devil of Ibrox Spin, Jack Irvine who I prefaced with 'Toxic' and then further down the line his poodle, Bill McMurdo who I named 'Merlin'. These, more especially 'Toxic' come from the 'calculatingly devious' camp. Toxic alongside Sir Duped, sowed the seeds of the division within the support and has been carefully nuturing it ever since. So you could say that I have been busy 'spinning' myself which would be true but I am independent of group, have no monetery interest and only have the well-being of Rangers alongside my opinion of the current situation at heart. Now, you want me to comment on you specifically, fair enough. IMO you are, not unlike myself or many, in that you are convinced of your own take regards certain ongoing matters and take an active role in trying to explain your opinion and influence others accordingly. You write well, shape your blogs well and provide interesting material that is often almost 'politicaly presented'. So I woudn't say you were deliberately lying but I would say you were in part, feeding 'propaganda'' to the Rangers support. Let's try and keep this discussion constructive.
  11. buster.
    I'm suggesting that supporters should take due care when interpretating any post, article, blog, media report to do with our ongoing soap opera. And rather than immediately dismissing the 'usual suspects' who X may have grown to dislike/not trust,....they might also like to be critically & anayltical of those who they have grown to trust or like the style etc. Our soap opera has been so full of misleading spin that it will probably used as a 'case study' one day. The spin itself has all sorts of categories, from the carefully planned and devious to the more innocent and unthinking. I have done a fair bit of study and observation regards the use of spin in todays society and find it both interesting and worrying.
  12. buster.
    I don't think the "suggestion" carried enough weight or evidence to be termed as significant. For anyone who cared to dig, it was clear what kind of financial MO that CW brought to his projects. And even if one didn't dig, come the document he was forced to publish (by IBCommittee) and present to shareholders in June 2011 his MO was spelt out clearly in the English language.
  13. buster.
    Back in 'Cold War', the Russian Politburo would feed their citizens a lot of propaganda. However, it wasn't effective because the people knew it was mainly bullshit, although there was little they could do about it. Today, in the UK and other such 'democracies', the citizens are fed a great deal of subtle and effective propaganda. Effective because a great deal of people lap it up and have grown to trust the outlets.
  14. buster.
    IIRC A. 3rd v 4th B. winner of A v 2nd C. Winner of B v SPFL1, 11th place If it were today, we'd play the winers of Raith Rovers v QotS...... and if we were to through would play Motherwell in play-off final.
  15. buster.
    Mike Ashley takes the Sports Direct route to running Newcastle United Guardian Link, click below http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/03/mike-ashley-sports-direct-route-running-newcastle-united?CMP=twt_gu
  16. buster.

    Sdm

    buster. replied to Ruff's topic in Rangers Chat

    I think Sir Duped of Murray will be hoping that it blows over without another word mentioned,......... fat chance ! I'm hoping he gets collared himself.
  17. buster.
    Bump for Saturday Morning
  18. buster.
    No it's not a competition, that would be absurd.
  19. buster.
    As a supporter, which way concerns you more ?
  20. buster.
    So which would you consider the more serious ? RIFC corporate goverance, TRFC director and the English Language, RIFC regulatory Notice Correction Time/NOMAD competence. or The spelling of the name of a Hotel by a poster on Gersnet
  21. buster.
    Would you apply that to the club's corporate governance, regulatoy notice's, Sandy Easdale, NOMAD etc., etc ?
  22. buster.
    Can I take the opportunity to remind folk what this thread highlighted.
  23. buster.
    Should prove interesting for those lucky enough to be able to go.
  24. buster.
    Ask some questions indeedy ! Isn't that a bit forward after your own refusal I can't comment on what precise return or intention DK might have. What I would say is that the significant difference would be that there is a genuine emotional attachment to the club and that there is a precedent that shows very significant monies being invested into Rangers by him. I would also say that I don't see him as a 'magic solution' and do recognise issues that may or may not come with him, especially how he would look to have the football operation run within a sustainable business model. Many of those who criticise the UoF / those who have chosen not to buy or renew ST's, tend to classify them all as 'Dave King supporters' which is inaccurate. They also try and dismiss or limit the effect that the lack of transparency and therefore trust from those in and around the RIFC board(s) have had on the heavy reduction in ST numbers, this is also inaccurate. What I think is accurate, is that the support want real change from the ongoing sp.iv process which Ashely would continue. With King that would be possible. Much of the support would like fan ownership, that would appear to be off the agenda and parked for the future. FWIW I'd prefer a club with a strong and active element of fan ownership. It may be that Dave King is the only realistic possibility to break the present cycle, I don't know if there are others waiting. However, I fear the 'game' is stacked against him as Ashely has been on the sp.iv inside since 2012 and is being lined up as the next stage. Regards Ashely, there is already much out there that points to why I think as I do (some material posted in the last few hours) and I may look to open a thread on it in the next few days. Be patient.
  25. buster.
    Can't reconcile it at all
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