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  1. buster.
    Thank's for going to the bother of setting it up Zappa ! I'm in.
  2. buster.
    Whatever it "should be", the simple fact is that it isn't. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another thing is that when corporate sharks/players/operators/vultures* get control of a distressed business they don't let go easily or until they have sucked/earned* sufficient or maximum return. This would usually include positioning the assets to their advantage. * delete as you see fit
  3. buster.
    I wasn't privvy to the actual conversation but John Brown said on national radio that he had warned McCoist and others about Green&Co in the summer of 2012. It wasn't only Bomber who at the time felt that they had good reason to be fearful of the motives behind Green&Co, there were other prominent Bears with similar fears. John Brown did know of certain details / things going on in the background that placed his knowledge somewhere between speculation and enough concrete presentable evidence. Bomber wasn't the best man to articulate the matter but he seemed the only one willing to stand-up at the time. Personally I think that there were two important aspects to this. 1. There wasn't absolute knowledge of what was going on. Along the lines of, enough to know that there was something very wrong but not enough to put your finger on the precise plan(s), (Motive not ongoing detailed MO). 2. The club needed revenue if it were to go forward and somewhat similar to what the situation is today, the option to starve the club wasn't an attractive one to the great majority. When I say similar, it would seem today if the 'starve them out' option is now on the agenda of many more than in 2012. All things considered you can see why this is the case. So you could say that many of those 'prominent'/knowledgable (to a degree) Bears 'held their wisht' and undertook a watching brief with varying degrees of dread. They watched Green attain a powerful position through mostly empty bulls**t and many hoped that the club would benfit from the wave being rode. The more cynical had less positive expectation.
  4. buster.
    There was an alleged document re. S&LB doing the rounds in the second half of 2012. IIRC, it was first put up on the CQN website. There was certainly a poster on FF who aluded to the S&LB way before the above document. "Chosenblue" ??
  5. buster.
    McCoist was told about Green. John Brown being one of those voices and the only one who went public at the time and since saying he told AMcC, amongst others.
  6. buster.
    From a business POV I can't see a financially handicapped Rangers (with large rent to pay) being viable in the longterm. That's not to say a S&LB or transfer of asset and subsequent sale of TRFC won't happen, more that they'd need to have a plan B.
  7. buster.
    The term "a perfect storm" may be apt regarding our current situation, very much including the questions and motives surrounding the ongoing ST situation. Every dynamic surrounding the ST situation except (blind) loyalty points to the word, no.
  8. buster.
    1. Real (opposed to perceived) credibility. I say 'perceived' because he gambles on 'blind loyalty' shown towards himself as an individual. Those who are more objective will see something that doesn't sit right. Note. Club is (should be) bigger than any individual. 2. To be able and stand up and say what he often does without feeling a degree of embarrassment.
  9. buster.
    Time will tell. A time when AMcC may need good PR is if/when the club decide to terminate his 12 month rolling contract and he insists on wage deferrals being paid in full aswell as the 12 months salary that his contract entitles him to. The RFFF was poorly thought out and is indictative of our capability to organise without any vision.
  10. buster.
    What I have seen over the last few years is a willingness by some (who could be catogorised as pro-board) to make efforts to justify or see as reasonable, actions or plans from said board going forward. Up until this point, they have invaribly been wrong. Curiously this doesn't stop them from coming along again with similar 'strong' views or opinions a little further down the line. As far as the current situation is concerned, I can't see daylight either way. However, perhaps that is only natural given what has led us to this point or how deep the hole is that we find ourselves in.
  11. buster.
    Given he decided to continue throughout the ongoing soap-opera, I agree that he has been in a very difficult position wrt the politic's. In this particular area we have heard continually mixed messages to suit the particular moment in time. IMO some have been based on a lack of knowledge but others have been disengenuous for varying motives. I agree what I think you alude to, that regardless of his salary, the 1 million shares at 1p each given timing and circumstances, smell like old fish. IMO a gesture that would actually reflect the theme of what Ally often preaches upon would be to give or sell for 1p per share a large percentage of his 1 million shares to the support shareblock, eg. BuyRangers. Re. agent : don't know !
  12. buster.
    As a seasoned observer of the misleading spin and worse that has come from the boardroom alongside the money that has been syphoned off, one way and another and another. It would be an unbalanced view if I didn't say that the gravytrain is multi-layered and that Ally McCoist has spun and misled, allbeit in a different way but with at least in part, the same end goal. When people use "the securing the family future" defence I think you have to balance it up against what can be perceived as reasonable whilst considering if his actions have any relation to what he says.
  13. buster.
    Ironic that the most valuable player is one who refused to be transferred. Our negotiating position in a market where outside the bigger clubs relatively little money is spent, is a poor one. Bearing that in mind and looking at our squad, I don't think we could realistically raise much money via player trading. Given our monthly cash burn-rate, the sum total wouldn't cover a month.
  14. buster.
    When SDM took us into the hole from where daylight could not be seen and was prepared to take a pound coin from CW for an escape, it's turned out to be a long running nightmare, from which the only uncertainty regards the assets is the timescale. I'm afraid all the 'cunning' has thusfar been shown by the sp.ivs.
  15. buster.
    IMO this question should come before the one about on-field exploits. There are many things to take into consideration and perhaps the Financial Bears could map out what they see as a probable/conditional route through the next 12 months. Some of the obvious questions that scream out are:- - Where is the money coming from to keep the lights-on? - Will there be an insolvency event? - What will be the final ST number? - Will game by game maintain it's attraction? - How long will it take to get a share issue up and running and will it be successful? - Is there money to carry out plans mapped out in business review? - How deep could austerity hit us? - How exactly will austerity hit ut? - How will severe austerity be paid for? (pay-offs) - When do the assets go? - Do you trust who is in control of the board (including the Easdale proxy block)? etc.
  16. buster.
    Aye,...... Same process........Different Stage.
  17. buster.
    Dress it up whatever way you like, those one million shares and what went on at the time never have smelt good. I said a while ago, that as he so often talks about the support and the club being theirs,......why not give or sell for 1p a share his stake, or a large % of it to the supporters block vote.
  18. buster.
    It's the only option this board have and that is presuming that they get fresh investment in to finance the cuts and enough ST money to keep the lights on. As regards League performance, it's difficult to say at this point in time. Partly because of the Edinburgh clubs being in an uncertain place that leads to unpredictability but moreso down to our own 'Omnishambles' that is very much up in the air. The proposed arrival of a 'football operations officer' or DoF might kick off a chain of evens that sees some significant change but this appointment and any subsequent actions (including pay-offs ?) will depend on their being enough money to fund them.
  19. buster.
    I think you only have to look back at the CV of Butcher to see a polarised picture that points to why he has failed at Easter Road. If he can bring his players in, I believe he can turn it around full circle, or at least have a chance of so doing.
  20. buster.
    Rangers has served for many years as a disproportional gravytrain to those involved in the football operation. This contributed greatly to lay the bases for the problems that came along and the sp.ivs who have taken advantage by adding another 'line' for Rangers to become a multi-layered gravytrain. The business model and football operation at Ibrox/Auchenhowie should be torn up and started again. However the faultlines are deep-rooted and that is why light cannot be seen in our particular tunnel. The support argue back and forward but mostly, either one way or tuther, it's a route that keeps us in the dark. The real challange at present is to find a way that leads to the prospect of 'light' being spotted and for that light to be of benefit to the club, not individuals.
  21. buster.
    Whilst it may make for unpleasent reading, the truth or something near to it has to be faced. If we are honest, we have over the years been the subject of deep spin (mindset changing), ongoing spin, misleading and lying to an extent no other team in the UK has ever known. The truth of matters tends to be buried away so deep that it often doesn't even see the light of day and we are left arguing over interpretations, until another wheel comes off and we see the end result. In the case of Ally McCoist and the politics (forget on-field), I believe that the way that most of the media have portrayed him over the last few years has been in part, inaccurate. We as a support have needed something or in this case someone to believe in, Ally stepped up and filled this role. However, over the piece (re. Ally/club politics), there has been good, bad and ugly. Only the good is on the agenda of the support, they don't even want to contemplate anything else because when someone is up on such a high pedestal and you've invested so much emotion in him, blind loyalty kicks-in. Without getting into details, I think it pertinent to mention that Rangers FC are bigger than any individual.
  22. buster.
    Hibs would probably be better off if Butcher is allowed to stay and put his own team together. I think the reason the team fell off a cliff was in many ways down to Butchers style of management. It needs players to buy into it completely and collectively, there are no half way houses. It seems to me as if the old HIbs problem surfaced and there was a downing of tools from too many and Butcher wasn't prepared to massage egos. If he creates his own team, he could be still a success at Hibs. For years Hibs have needed a major player clearout of the malcontents, perhaps yesterday was the start of a new dawn.
  23. buster.
    I think it's difficult to call at present as there are many things that may or may not happen at all three main clubs before August.
  24. buster.
    Some Europeans that may figure higher up the list.. R 2-0 Bayern Munich R 3-2 Moscow D R 2-0 Juventus PSV 2-3 R Leeds 1-2 R R 2-0 D Kiev Within that treble of 76 was a SC semi-final comeback that was notable R 3-2 Motherwell One Cup Final replay to be remembered in 1981 R 4-1 Dundee Utd Thank's to the late Ian Redford for missing a last minute penalty on the Saturday, as we got to enjoy a DavieCooper inspired Rangers 4 days later.
  25. buster.
    January 2007 proved to be a crossroads that determined and committed Rangers to the past. There are 101 issues within this and not all were without benefit and a degree of short-term logic given circumstances. But the specific I refer to here, was Ally being provisionally told he would be the next Rangers manager. From that day to this, seven and a half years later, I'm still to see any evidence, let alone a case, that suggests Ally McCoist has the qualities to be a football club manager or has shown that he is able to learn and improve through experience.
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