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Dear Sir forlanssister.

 

I, like all those thousands of others who backed Whyte, had no inside knowledge, HMRC connections or the like. All what you wrote back then was info or opinion that could not be verified by anyone but you (or those others who claimed to be in the know). For me, and all those thousands of others, you were but a name on the internet. Whyte got his hands on the club after dealing with the SFA, ADM/Lloyds et al, i.e. people you would assume that they did due diligence on him. By now we know how little was done at the time and we have to take that in. And move on while hoping that those who let us down will face consquences.

 

You can now smugly sit there and tell us what fools we were or I was. Shows - IMHO - a certain lack of dignity, but so be it. Yet now you go on and say SDM could have stopped it, or Donald Muir. Of the latter I cannot say much (I know that he was pulling major strings in the boardroom on behalf of HRBoS/LLoyds), but how much SDM had to say at the end is anyone's guess, given that the credit crunch wrecked his entire business. And your guess is as good as mine, at least in my eyes. And there is no amount of disrespect involved here.

DB, the information was widely known from the day after Whyte bought Rangers. The manks were going ballistic that none of the press were using the story. I got thrown off a Rangers forum for trying to warn. Nobody wanted to listen mate. They were too carried away celebrating Whyte and the chancers he surrounded himself with. Warnings were also given about Green.

While I delight in a shower of scum getting relegated. Now that it's done can we now forget about them and some no mark who sometimes talked about them ?

from what i seen it was very safe to stand there last season!

You could have taken a four poster bed in and slept on it with no danger whatsoever.

Labour were the party who introduced the act that made most of the offences law. The SNP tacked on other rubbish about abuse on the internet but it was entirely a Labour law for years before that colin.

Still, here's hoping.

I was interested to hear on the STV news tonight that the question of how to distribute the increased tv receipts is now up for discussion.

I wonder if a larger share going to the minor leagues will be one proposal put forward.

I hope Paatelainen demands every penny he is due.

I now await their fans holding a "boycott" with the result only a dozen or so tickets are sold.

Just saw on the news Paatelainen has gone.

EIGHT Rangers Academy players will depart the club this summer to play their football elsewhere next season.

Dylan Dykes, Luca Gasparotto, David Brownlie, Darren Ramsay, Mekhi McLeod, Jamie Brandon, Tom Lang and Jamie Mills who all played in the clubs development squad this year or on loan will now develop their footballing careers at another club.

Head of Academy, Craig Mulholland commented: “It is always a difficult time of year when informing players that they will no longer be at the club.

“Some of the lads such as Dylan, Darren and the two Jamie’s have been with the club from a very young age and it is an emotional time for the staff and the players.

“We wish all the boys well in their future careers.”

http://rangers.co.uk/news/academy-news/eight-academy-players-leave/?

It is very disappointing that BBC Scotland are getting a renewed contract. That is going to be worth its weight in gold to celtic in coming seasons.

 

The editing, pundits views, and highlighting of issues within games that involve either us or them is slanted in such a way to cause as much harm to our chances as possible.

 

For example, a celtic player takes out an opponent off the ball. Sportscene will not show this incident. A Rangers player does the same, it will be dissected and calls for the compliance officer to take action will be overwhelming. It is not paranoia when it is true.

There is also the issue of volumes being turned up, down, or muted completely depending on which set of fans are acting in an "offensive" manner. Mind you, the BBC are not alone in that respect.

Yes, in hindsight it was a massive mistake not to try when they were recovering from their European ban. Football can no longer thrive in a small population country - and we've chosen that disadvantageous side of our duel existence.

I thought that's what you meant Cal. Imo there would've been no point trying in any case. As has been pointed out on several previous debates here and on other forums, the SFA know what side their bread is buttered on and control all aspects of football played in Scotland. Quite simply, they would maybe in the end have let us play in an English league [if the English had accepted us], but we would've been playing our home games outside Scotland. There is no way they'd have let us play at Ibrox.

This was the bit that REALLY got me......

True our game isn't amazing, but surely they can afford to pay the Scottish game more than one presenter in Engerland.

 

The BBC receive approx £325m per year from Scottish license payers. BBC Scotland receives approx £102m back from HQ. (source) Yet the most they can afford to Scottish football is £2.8m????

 

As someone said previously....the more money that is invested into the game, the more money clubs should have to spend on better players, producing a better product on the park and therefore boosting attendance/viewing figures.....

I don't think the BBC could give a monkeys what the viewing figures for Scottish football are mate. They get the same amount of money from licence payers whether the whole country or nobody at all is watching.

Also , given the totally amateurish way programmes are produced, presented and broadcast here I'd be wary of wasting another penny funding the gang of sloths at Pacific Quay.

We will never get much from Sky due to Scots watching English football. So many already subscribe without Scottish football, so Sky just want the SP games to keep them sweet, but with as minimal outlay as they can get.

 

Scottish fans of the EP have been slowly killing the income of Scottish football for decades. If we like it so much why didn't we join while we had a chance? Although we know the answer is hubris.

 

I've never had much interest in English football. I could probably count on one hand the number of matches or indeed highlights programmes I've seen in the past year.

" If we like it so much why didn't we join while we had a chance? - am I misunderstanding you cal . Do you mean joing the EPL ?

Sidenote ... anyone knows how much money the SPL got from the BBC in days gone by? Say 2010?

Setanta were reaching the end of their deal with the SFA in 2010 mate.

It is not about them it is about the victims that is the difference. We can't talk about the victims in our case but forget them in their case.

We're not talking about the "victims" in both cases mate.

In one case we are talking aout the deliberate covering up of the crimes against the victims.

In the other they are insulting the memory of the victims.

I totally disagree with you. The whole paedophilia affair is also being used as a way to noise up the Celtic support. If it was being used to get answers that would indeed be different. Many victims of paedophilia wish they had died. The grief for the families is just as high. Let us not kid ourselves on that we are the defenders of right fighting against paedophilia. The whole "Big Jock Knew" is just a wind up to the Celtic support. Personally I find both despicable and the fact that grown middle-aged adults are walking around with HA Ha 66 on their backs makes me sad to be honest. If it was a kid you could put it down to childish behaviour but middle=aged men is unbelievable. I hope and still believe that this is not a large part of the Celtic support that think like this.

I promise there is no noising up from my part Pete. I was asking the same questions many years ago. I am also not wearing a cape or have my undies outside my tights. Paedophilia is a serious matter. The covering up of that crime is even more grave. The millions spent investigating Saville proves that, given the scumbag is dead. Again I would put to you that chants at a football match on the subject are in no way to be equated with serious questions being asked on an internet forum, especially when the forum is hosted by a solicitor, albeit a disgraced one who is microscopically examining the whole history of Rangers.

At Hampden we all knew that the dead club/new club/sevco rubbish would appear. Some of us also awaited the banners proclaiming criminal or conspiracy behaviour involving Rangers, the SFA, UEFA, FIFA, masons, orangemen, referees, tellytubbies, anybody not deranged - it was pointed out to the opposition fans that some things are real, they happened. Other things are fiction.

I for one, am glad that occurred.

As for the graffiti, have a look on some of the mank sites - it was our fans who did it to discredit those over the river. Sad to say, that has always been their way of working.

At around 17/18 the vast majority of youngsters stop progressing for a variety of reasons most of which coaches can do little about

I knew 3 who went on to play first team football. One was committed and went on to reasonable success here and abroad. At 17/18 it was obvious the other two just didn't have what it took to act like athletes and ended up catching the Scottish disease before the inevitable spiral downwards career wise.

You can only give these guys a chance , it's up to them to take it or on this case not

A guy I knew who was involved in dealing with kids at youth level told me that just about every single boy taken on by a club does possess the ability to become a footballer. He said what lets the majority of them down is that they show no improvement in understanding/learning/listening to what the coaches are trying to teach them and continue to make the same mistakes they were making the day they arrived.

To be honest our Paedophile flag at the SC game did not show us in good light either. Unfortunately we both have supporters we would be better without.

I used to get comments along those lines while debating with McConville on his site. He could not see that I was not "glorifying" paedophilia but merely pointing out the systematic cover-up of child sexual abuse that went on at Parkhead. Questioning why that cover up passed without examination and celebrating the deaths of 66 football fans are not even in the same ball park Pete.

" I am determined to return this Club to the top of Scottish football as soon as possible "

----------- but will not hesitate to flog the club to the first shady character who turns up 5 seconds after this statement is released .

We've had bursts of great play from several in our squad. But for sheer effort it has to be Wallace - a player I wanted put out the door when McCoist and similar were in charge. Some guys above have commented on the improvement in some of our players. Imo none come close to how Wallace has got better.

I would hope that King is taking a close look at the tarred ones latest blog where he takes the earlier snide and desperate rumour from mank sites and more or less accuses King of forging the document from the S.A. tax authorities .

its a crying shame that they never made the cup final. we could have sent them down in style!

I'd rather we denied them 50% of the gate money mate. That'll hasten their eventual demise.

Yes, they made a profit of £1.2m one year. They did that by selling off their best players to a league rival. This directly led to todays situation where they have a squad of donkeys and they now face lower league football with the risk of hundreds of their fans staying away.

That one worked out well, didn't it ?

I don't think so tbh Ian. Unless it's in a cup we won't be seeing that mob again. I think they'll go to the wall.

2-1 ya beauty !!

Cork pulled !

KARMA !

2-1 ya beauty !!