compo 7,192 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 don't like this talk of cutbacks what will happen at the end of the season if we have to make even more cuts keep going at this rate and there will soon be no more to cut 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 5,199 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Black ... is probably the most consistent player next to Wallace that we have. Keeps the midfield together and backs up Macleod and Law. That aside, he's (8) more assists than Wallace (7) this season. If there was a "core" that I would defo maintain, it would be ... Goal: Bell, Gallagher Defence: Foster, Faure, Mohsni, Wallace (plus Smith, McAusland, Gasparotto, Mitchell) Midfield: Peralta, Macleod, Black, Aird (plus Crawford, McKay) Strikers: Daly, Clark, Little No Nicky Law ???? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,803 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 No Nicky Law ???? Edited in now. These people with three-letter names are so easily overlooked, you know?! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Dynamo 128 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 We should've made cuts from day one and built ourselves back up 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Barristan Selmy 222 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 If the board gave back the money they stole from us that might be a start. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrahimHemdani 1 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 If the board gave back the money they stole from us that might be a start. Apparently Green and Khan are starting a new team with their loot and have offered Whyte a job as financial controller. The proposed new Club is to be named FC Rangers of Sheffield and has been granted provisional membership of the Barclays Premier League which is being extended to 21 clubs for that purpose. FCROS have negotiated a 5-year no relegation clause, a golden hello and double parachute payments in the event of relegation at any time between year 6 and year 25. The “free” club each week will play Celtic FC in a glamour friendly for the Commonwealth Trophy. All proceeds from these matches will be donated to Celtic’s favourite charity, Glasgow City Council. All Celtic matches will be played at the newly renamed Celtic Commonwealth Stadium. Celtic have been granted a free weekend every weekend by the SPFL and will play all SPFLP league games midweek but no home fans will be allowed and all Celtic season ticket holders will be divided up and counted as spectators at the other SPFLP games on a pro rata basis to average attendances. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrahimHemdani 1 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 (edited) I should add that the new club are in discussion with Sheffield Council to buy the site of a former steel works but negotiations are proving difficult. A source close to the Council tells me that the Council want £1 but FCROS are only prepared to pay 1p. What is clear,however, is that the Council will build the state of the art stadium with a levy on business rates and lottery funding and lease it to FCROS in perpetuity for a peppercorn rent, which could rise to £100/year over the first hundred years. The staium will be named the Charles Green Stadium in recognition of Mr Green's contribution to football in the UK. The Council will also provide a fleet of buses to transport FCROS fans for free to and from their home cities anywhere in the UK to Shefffield for all home matches. The Council have done a deal with a firm known only by the code name James & Sandy to provide executive luxury buses complete with massage tables, roulette, blackjack, slot machines a private betting suite and separate male and female toilets to encourage family travel. Full 5 star meals will also be provided at meal times. Edited January 16, 2014 by BrahimHemdani 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,803 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 We should've made cuts from day one and built ourselves back up Now, unless I am mistaken, we had enforced cuts anyway, those 20odd players who left the club, most without compensation. Thus we saved tons of wages, as nigh all of these people were on bumber deals, were they not? Just as food for thought. We might have shed those 5 full-time first team professionals too ... only that the money saved would have found their ways into the silver coffers of Ahmad and Co. too, don't you think? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Dynamo 128 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Now, unless I am mistaken, we had enforced cuts anyway, those 20odd players who left the club, most without compensation. Thus we saved tons of wages, as nigh all of these people were on bumber deals, were they not? Just as food for thought. We might have shed those 5 full-time first team professionals too ... only that the money saved would have found their ways into the silver coffers of Ahmad and Co. too, don't you think? Possibly and Probably but with our income severely reduced we still continue to spend like we are challenging for the title in the SPFL. That is insanity and a big reason we are in trouble again. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,803 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Possibly and Probably but with our income severely reduced we still continue to spend like we are challenging for the title in the SPFL. That is insanity and a big reason we are in trouble again. Do we and are we? The media still flings that making "1m loss each month" about, when Rangers people (methinks Stockbridge and Wallace) have since said that this was a state a year ago? Projections about us running out of money are repeated as well, with Rangers saying that this is not the case. Now, you can trust whomever you like, Rangers folk with finance sheets or reporters working on hearsay. The point is that we do not know. The next point is: what do we want? Decent players, decent performances, quick return to the top tier. Each Gersnetters opinion on the first two points can be diametrically different, as we have seen. The club knew that securing STs for this season and next required a massive shake-up of the squad, as performances were well below Rangers standard, even in the fourth tier. We could not shed players signed on long-term deals the summer before last either. So we had to bite the bullet and find a middle way. I reckon that while we are well short of the income of previous seasons (that said, except Europe, are we though?) and having a wage bill that dwarfs anything in our league (as do our crowds, though), investment in the squad was needed. It is the job of Wallace and Co. to get us over this and next season making only a marginal loss, which will be a challenge. But it was always a challenge, no matter who would have been at the helm. It would be more interesting to finally hear from our head honchos not solely about how cutting the costs, but how they intend to bring money in? Signing up a loan-agreement with a low-key English team (that would be able to cover more of the wages than e.g. Stirling Alblion) perhaps? A naming-rights deal for Ibrox? More shirt-sponsoring (as I noted, all our opponents have ads on the back of their shirts too)? Membership scheme? You name it. Obviously, the constant media pressure regarding cost cutting sets the supporters on the edge. Some objectivity would be helpful. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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