buster.
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There are priorities in life and the order of my particular list has changed over the years with football suffering a significant drop................. However, a 'beautiful girl' is still a 'beautiful girl'.
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I'm all for it. (note: aslong as appropriate legal age criteria is met)
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Ready To Listen - Focus Group Update ... from our HP
buster. replied to der Berliner's topic in Rangers Chat
I'd forgotten the direct money making potential. However I see creating the perception of communication and engagement, broadly controlling 'conversations' and marginilisation of what they will call 'radicals groups' as being an important step into neutralising 'opposition' / keep money flowing in. I think they'd be prepared to take a hit of X,000 giving up attending games. They will have a break-even number in mind so as to try and keep the show on the road and the ongoing payment of 'onerous contracts and similar. Whether the whole shooting match is viable and sellable at this point is another matter. -
Ready To Listen - Focus Group Update ... from our HP
buster. replied to der Berliner's topic in Rangers Chat
Plastic Engagement Broadly Designed by Spin-Doctors for Sp.ivs to give Perception of Communication but actually Better Control Dialogue and Marginalise the 'Awkward Questioning' of the Support. -
Allow me to jump in. In recent times we've been subject to subtle but steady short-term downward expectation management from AMcC, who has done so for his own interests come the time when supporters judge performance. At the other end of the scale we have had/have CEO's who talk things up regards expectations and their timescales, to the extent that they are plainly not realistic if you take the time and analyse how these are supposed to be achieved. However I'd venture that the multi-layered gravytrain that is a Grade 'A' Omnishambles doesn't in it's present form, deserve to be listened to given the personal agendas and serial misleading that goes on. More important than expectations is present reality and until we sort that out, we can only expect to continue on the road to no-where (at best).
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A relatively bigname with good experience being linked is something we are not used to anymore and it's effect will be to generate interest. However there are many questions to ask. The obvious one is financial. If you take the monthly McCoist salary, add the mounting deferrals (since salary was cut/defered) and then add what Nerlinger would want. Take that increased total and ask: - can we afford it and any further infrastructure required by Nerlinger (scouting etc.) in times of austerity - how does it effect player budget - if McCoist wants final say on players, would it actually be of proportionate benefit - would it result in a clash re. club politics - can we afford to pay-off McCoist / how powerful is his position
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There is such a gulf between Rangers and Celtic in terms of how and for whom the respective football clubs are run that IMO you can't currently put them both together when considering the making of medium to long term strategic plans.
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I don't think there is any doubt that the 'best days' are in the past regards what has been, being reasonably competitive at a European level for on average one season every decade. It's not only our very own 'onerous omnishambles'. You have to take into consideration Scottish football as a whole, the wide gulfs in TV revenue and the marginalisation of the middle to smaller size leagues. I think it likely that there will be a steady lowering of attendance averages over the next few years as the generations change. The youngsters becoming increasingly more disinterested in Scottish Football. Many talk of the 'magicbean' being a move to a European league. I don't buy it. I haven't seen one viable and realistic plan that would be a gamechanger and that's not to mention the fact we're not going to be in any state to do anything for the forseeable.
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The club has a ban of sorts regards BBC Scotland so whilst a licence payer can have his say over the national broadcaster regards coverage of Rangers, it brings to mind the old line about 'you can't have your cake and eat it too'. I'd argue that what's more to the point and another show of ...'say one thing and do another'... is how the club may have such a ban in place but via spin-doctors, place leaks in the public domain (BBC) or indeed allow themselves to be doorstep interviewed in 'fagile moments' by those who they 'ban'.
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Over the years I've heard many say that Ze Germans were infallible but then you read Der Berliner trying to shoehorn his general views into whatever may come along. It only leads me to speculate that 'Vorsprung durch Technik', not unlike the Spanish football XI.............. has ceased to be.
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It'll be Dumbarton (H) then Hibs (A).
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Sandy Easdale Reported to Financial Authorities
buster. replied to chilledbear's topic in Rangers Chat
Well done to Mark and Billy Paterson for taking on the metaphorical 'fight' to have the club run properly. -
Look's to me as if the G 2-3 P was a 0 pointer Taking into account the red card and Ronaldo's knee, Portugal were playing Germany with 9 and a half players, which has never been a good idea. Real Madrid players had a pretty miserable match, just as they did with Spain the other night.
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Scenario: You are Jim Traynor, you are on twitter and don't want your ID to be revealed. What's more likely ? a) You tweet about goings-on in Airdrie. b) You don't think it a good idea to tweet about matters in Airdrie. c) You tweet about Airdrie thinking that people will presume you'd never be so stupid to do that and will presume double bluff and that is someone else.
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You could try Iran 5 Nigeria 4 and if it comes up I'm sure you'd go top.
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Suddenly no-one wants to take responsibility for passing on Jack's brief. It's getting a wee bitty confusing as to the plays within.
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1972nd place has a nice ring to it
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Zappa, I see bonus points have been awarded. Am I missing something ?
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Perhaps they are competing in a race to the 'bottom'. 'Omnishambles' doesn't seem to be a strong enough word anymore. ps. Uruguay would have been better off with the Sister of Forlan in their attack the other night.
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Rangers International Football Club plc (“RIFC”, “Rangers”, “the Company” or “the Club”) http://www.rangers.co.uk/images/staticcontent/documents/RangersBusinessReview.pdf
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I'd be curious, all things considered at this point in time.........who would contemplate giving Green financial support. There seems to be a lot of confusion regards the share issue(s). IIRC the headlines in the Record last week (Irvine briefed story) about the 8M referred to an issue to existing shareholders. Any prospective consortium would have to invest in a share issue that can't be conducted without a successful EGM vote. I mention both because both the Daily Record (11/06/13)* and today's BBC piece smell of Jack Irvine (MH). IMO, this is spin and bluster. * http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-board-set-launch-new-3672935
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Jack (MH) tends to use BBC Scotland for this type of story. eg. for when the Easdales were being put forward by the 'proxies'. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/22270973 Remember the interviews 'in the bus' and 'on the doorstep'.
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Sandy, What about the usual MO.....................why not get your lawyers onto the case ? Did Profesor Watson (Levy & McRae) advise you and his old mate Jack against it ? Don't you want the truth of the matter being found ? So instead we have to take the word of a convicted fraudster with a 'colourful reputation' who has needed to employ spin-doctors to try and paint an acceptable public image. How are your 57,043 shares getting on in a 'Fragile' PLC ? You were lucky that you got them so cheap, about a week after publicly saying the PLC was in a 'fagile' state. You must keep your ear to the ground given you aren't an office bearer in RIFC. Maybe Jack would have been able to congratulate you on last week's flight to London. It was a curious co-incidence that one of Jack's go-to men at the BBC, Alasdair Lamont just happened to be at the Ibrox doorstep with a camera in tow that morning....and that you just happened to break habits and do a 'spontaneous' and Fragile TV interview. If I was a cynic, I might have said that it was all engineered and it included Jack briefing against Graham Wallace around the same time. Didn't take you for the comedian, Sandy but that line about "highly-professional with rigid financial discipline" was a good one. You have a long record in doing so, or was it just a 'record'.
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One year contract x3 Miller McGregor Hutton