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It is a brilliant idea. Yesterday was my 4th trail and I learn something new each time. If you want to know who is on the committee then e-mail them at thegallantpioneers@googlemail.com although I fail to see why that's important. The committee is chaired by Iain McColl who has been the driving force behind this project. His only motivation is to get our story out there to as many of our support as possible.

Maybe he could confirm who paid his fees.

He's based in Edinburgh I believe but apart from that.......

I said 'the person' as it was not confirmed to us who it was. Also, the SH article said who was representing him.

Frankie, we were told by the person's representatives that any leak and all bets were off.

I agree but there you go.

Frankie, I do not condone lies nor abuse no matter where it appears.

The document was passed to his representatives who passed it on to their client. I believe he then took it to financial advisors and the bank. It was leaked from there I think, whether SDM was behind it, I have no idea.

Frankie, i'm perhaps taking this off topic again here but what is your opinion of the post several weeks ago on Rangers Media regarding 'Secret Meetings'. It was posted by the site owner (although clearly not written by him) and contained completely inaccurate information regarding a meeting between the RST and SDM. It was along the lines that we were trying to keep the meeting secret. It was only when I e-mailed him the facts and said I could prove it as I still had copies of e-mails from the time that it was removed (but not before it had 1000 views). It was aimed at discrediting the RST, what was his motivation for posting it? You are part of the team on there. Was it discussed? If you don't know what I'm talking about I'm happy to e-mail it to you.

I have no idea what this means but may your God go with you.

Not to you Maineflyer because if I said that the RST had personally spoken to every Rangers fan on the planet and had secured �£100m per year for infinity, you would still find fault.

We were made aware of what was going in the SH on Saturday evening. That was the first time the name was mentioned.

Maineflyer, if I wanted to throw personal insults at you, I'd do much better than Post 118.

The press release referred to general discussions with individuals and groups. The particular document quoted in the SH had been in preparation for a few weeks.

Point out the personal insults please. I don't know how many times we have to say that these proposals were leaked to the Sunday Herald. We did not go running to the press with this, why would we?

Frankie, the 6 month thing is nonsense. It's been a matter of weeks rather than months and the document is not ready to go to the fans. When it is, we will be doing as you suggest.

Frankie, we will talk to our colleagues in the Assembly and Association on the best ways to consult as many people as possible. We can hold information sessions, fans forums. We have had enquiries from all over the world about this but we have to wait until the time is right and we have something credible to go to the fans with. We have received a lot of feedback on messageboards such as this (the grown-up posters that is) and there has been a lot of encouragement. However, feedback suggests that the �£600 up front may be a problem for some people so we have to look again and find a way for evryone who wants to be involved to join.

Yes, I believe Stephen Smith confirmed this in an interview on Moday.

Mmm. Quoting Spiers one day and Tom English the next. Now what do they have in common?

Sorry Bluedell, but the only comment I saw on FF about who we are dealing with was the denial that David Low was in any way involved with our document. This was posted on here which is why I didn't bother. If I've missed something then you'll have to forgive me. We've tried very hard recently to ensure that our members are e-mailed first then put things up on our site prior to anything going on messageboards. We only found out late on Saturday night about this leak and on Sunday and Monday our media guys were inundated by the press looking for information. We'll issue a ststement in due course but other than the above I can't see anything else on FF that hasn't been available elsewhere.

Things were changing on an hourly basis yesterday (and today). I'll wait for our media guys to decide on timing.

There is a press release being prepared.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obKeQB68XrU]YouTube- The Gallant Pioneers - Rangers Founders Trail[/ame] I'd recommend this to anyone who wants to know about the formation of the Club.

There have been some really good comments on here. I've spent most of today getting things ready as we will shortly be sending out renewal notices. With there being a game tomorrow and it being Mother's day then it might be the beginning of the week before I can respond properly. I would like to point out one thing though. The RST has not backed any proposed bids. People will quote the interview in NOTW with David Edgar. This was a phone call to David where he made a comment about Duffy being the only party to have come out and publically stated his plans and suddenly it was quoted as 'the only show in town'. This was never stated but we have to live with these things.

Same old, same old. Firstly the Trust was not formed to 'speak up for the interests of Rangers fans'. It was set up to promote wider share ownership and supporters' representation at Board level. We took on the role of defending the fans as the Club weren't prepared to do it. In terms of accusations from Celtic FC, I think Walter is doing very well in getting our point across. Lafferty and Mcgregor, surely it's up to the Club to address this but neither player exactly helps with they way they live their lives, do they? Sectarian singing? I, as much as any fan, deplore these accusations but while a number of our fans bastardise the words to Follow, Follow with the Dundee, Hamilton and what follows, how do you defend that when someone points it out. I know all the arguements about what they sing, but think about it for a minute. You can try to do battle with the media but you have to pick battles you can win. I'll ignore the sarcasm in the rest of your post. Glad to see it's now 48 hours to save Rangers and not 48 days. Funny, I was at that conference and all I can remember was that it was 48 (or thereabouts) days until the transfer window opened. This was before it was announced that an agreement had been reached with LBG. Still, keep on posting what you believe to be true, it just isn't.