ian1964 10,625 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 IT is now just 24 hours short of a fortnight since I speculated that senior Daily Record executives may have ordered a witch hunt against Rangers. Since then, evidence has mounted which may give a number of people further cause to believe there is now an orchestrated campaign inside the fast fading Record â?? a newspaper which is tied to Celtic in a commercial deal â?? to do damage to Rangers. The latest example of this was this week when a story, written by £90,000-a-year chief football writer Keith Jackson, claimed that chief executive Charles Green was ready to quit Rangers if controversial chairman Malcolm Murray did not resign. Thatâ??s absolute bunkum and balderdash! And I cannot, for a moment, work out why Jackson would chose to write such a story, especially when I know for certain that he has been aware of the facts of the matter for almost a month. Surely it could have had nothing to do with the fact he did not appear on the Rangers DVD, The Rising? For that sort of thing would be petty beyond belief. Not to mention, entirely unprofessional. However, the fact of that particular matter is that Jackson was filmed for The Rising, but his contribution ended up on the cutting room floor. The Sunâ??s Roger Hannah, however, did feature in The Rising. Evidence is, though, mounting of a campaign within the Daily Record, with Keith Jackson now in its vanguard, to try to destabilise his former colleague, Rangers recently appointed Director of Communications, Jim Traynor. That is the only conclusion this old observer can reach, based on the events of the last few weeks and the way Daily Record has chosen to portray them Such as the astonishing way credence was given to a story about Traynor, filled with lies and first published on his Channel Four blog by Alex Thomson. The Record, without applying the sound journalistic principle of checking the claims out and establishing their own sources, simply rehashed Thomsonâ??s tripe, quoting the Channel Four manâ??s un-named sources. Or at least, that is the way it appeared in print when the Record splashed on the story. Unless, that is, the Record actually knew the source of Alex Thomsonâ??s story. There was also a piece by Jackson which took aim at Charles Green, Imran Ahmad, Brian Stockbridge, Jim Traynor and manager Alastair McCoist. That was when he wrote that Rangers had no class on and off the park. A crescendo was reached in the Recordâ??s campaign to de-stabilise Rangers â?? by foul means not fair â?? with the Jackson story about a rift between chief executive Green and chairman Murray. It was cunningly written to create the impression that the story had been leaked by the club. It was not! I can assure you of that 100 per cent. Take my word for it. It is the copper bottomed, unalloyed truth. There was another aspect of Jacksonâ??s Daily Record story which was far from true. He hinted that one director, former manager Walter Smith, was ready to throw his considerable influence behind Malcolm Murray. Nothing could be further from the truth. But I leave Walter to take that matter up with the man who wrote the story. Walter Smith has never needed anyone to take up his cause for him. He is more than capable of fighting his own battles. Twenty four hours after Jacksonâ??s story in the Record appeared, Richard Wilson in the Herald, a man with good, close, confidential and trustworthy sources inside the Blue Room, made it clear that it was Malcolm Murrayâ??s public behaviour which was causing concern in the Blue Room. Malcolm Murray may think the time he spends in London is time when he is not on public show as the chairman of Rangers. That is not the case. My information, from an unimpeachable source, someone I have known and trusted for more than 30 years, is that Keith Jackson was aware of all of this, yet chose to apparently deliberately misrepresent the facts and slant what he wrote to make it appear to those who are not aware of the complete breakdown of his relationship with Rangers, that the leak came from within Ibrox. As I have said before, it did not! I do not know where the leak came from, but I do know where it did not come from. What I am also not completely aware of, yet, is exactly how much pressure is now being placed on Daily Record sports writers and reporters to dig the dirt on Rangers and bloggers who take up the Rangers cause. As I said, I am not aware of how much pressure is being applied by senior Daily Record executives for them to do that. Yet! As to how the situation regarding Malcolm Murray will play out? My prediction is that there will be a negotiated departure with kind words spoken by both sides. Anything else could perhaps prove to be too dangerous to Malcolm Murray for him to contemplate. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilledbear 16 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Andy Kerr ... Rangers Assembly. http://t.co/GwZi9VwXN1 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovanAllan 0 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Andy Kerr should look in before throwing stones, word is he refused the resignation of Ross Blyth and the muppet is still there. Time for the pointless assembly to fall on its sword. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilledbear 16 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Andy Kerr should look in before throwing stones, word is he refused the resignation of Ross Blyth and the muppet is still there. Time for the pointless assembly to fall on its sword. We have more spokesmen than Labour and Tories put together. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovanAllan 0 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 We have more spokesmen than Labour and Tories put together. And most of them talking nonsense like a politician. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 leggat is talking shit Kerr is spot on imho. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluedell 5,472 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 It was cunningly written to create the impression that the story had been leaked by the club. It was not! I can assure you of that 100 per cent. Take my word for it. It is the copper bottomed, unalloyed truth. I do not know where the leak came from, but I do know where it did not come from. So Leggat doesn't know where the leak came from but he can speak for every single person employed by the club to state that it didn't come from any one of them. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluedell 5,472 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 leggat is talking shit Kerr is spot on imho. Certainly can't argue with Kerr's comments. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluedell 5,472 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Andy Kerr should look in before throwing stones, word is he refused the resignation of Ross Blyth and the muppet is still there. Time for the pointless assembly to fall on its sword. I have been extremely impressed with Andy Kerr in any dealings I have with him. He always talks a lot of sense. I do believe that there should be a total revamp of the Assembly and turn it into a proper vehicle for representing fans, but I'd certainly be happy with Kerr as its head. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,564 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 leggat is talking shit Kerr is spot on imho. Hear Hear. I'd assume that Leggat is closer to the press chaps at the papers and some people at Ibrox than most of us, including Andy Kerr et al. Hence I assume he does know much more than a Kerr can ever hope to do. "People could lose confidence with Charles Green" ... shock horror! If I look at this board alone, we sure have more Green-sceptics than Green-followers (if any). People make up their minds on what Green and Co. deliver. Maybe I am wrong, but the latter have delivered more in 8 months (while starting from scratch) than other chairmen and CEOs in the last 4 years. That this does not satisfy the Green-sceptics can be read on here on a daily basis. No wonder that a pro-Rangers anti-press bit is getting flak ... again. While Leggat sure is not a source you would trust per se, the willingness to rubbish him is a bit odd. Whereas "we" spent hours on the quite possibly equally rubbish stuff by Jackson and Co. this week as if it was "fact". Strange days, but suum cuique. As long as the club does not deem it necessary to speak about it, we have lots to talk about again. One does hope that no-one gives the DR any more hits. While we are at it, it would be nice if the give the source for the Leggat article, both out of principle ... and to give him hits. NB: I'd like to point out that I have nothing against Kerr or the Assembly ... why would I anyway? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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