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[ian1964 10,761]

[Waltersgotstyle 307]

I don't mind Jackson as I always thought he was pro Rangers (in fact I am led to believe he is/was a Rangers fan) but he is starting to irritate me with his obsession on holding Dave King accountable for every comment he has ever made.

[Bearman 9]

I don't mind Jackson as I always thought he was pro Rangers (in fact I am led to believe he is/was a Rangers fan) but he is starting to irritate me with his obsession on holding Dave King accountable for every comment he has ever made.

 

Yeah...the 'empty promises' piece alongside the filth banners is just unbelievable !

[SiamBear 0]

Yeah...the 'empty promises' piece alongside the filth banners is just unbelievable !

 

A filth banner in which they have misspelled Lawwell. I also saw what looked like a shower curtain made into a banner from the same game where they also misspelled Lawwell. What is with yahoos and spelling?

[Bearman 9]

A filth banner in which they have misspelled Lawwell. I also saw what looked like a shower curtain made into a banner from the same game where they also misspelled Lawwell. What is with yahoos and spelling?

 

They didn't know what it was mate, they stole it!

[compo 7,216]

Wouldn't worry about Jackson a fourth rate journalist ,as for the other outfit it reminds me of the Brady days when they were throwing chocolate bars at their directors box

[aweebluesoandso 290]

Big negative tim story in the rebel, so Keech has been told to balance it up by shit stirring.

[der Berliner 3,808]

A filth banner in which they have misspelled Lawwell. I also saw what looked like a shower curtain made into a banner from the same game where they also misspelled Lawwell. What is with yahoos and spelling?

 

Perhaps done on purpose to show how poor and illiterate these greatest fans in the world are?

[der Berliner 3,808]

The actual headline ain't that provocative, but the article itself is full of it ...

 

... in essence though, he regurgitates stuff we've heard before and which has been addressed by King and Warburton and club. But the high art of listening is not exactly a virtue amongst Scottish journos.

 

Keith Jackson: Cash is King for Rangers chairman ahead of Premiership campaign

 

KEITH says that while Dave King and co have done a lot of good work at Ibrox there are questions that still need to be asked.

 

IT’S ironic that Rangers have a man with a magic hat in the dugout because this summer will reveal if the old smoke and mirrors culture of the boardroom has finally come to an end.

 

Mark Warburton may have lifted the Championship trophy on Saturday with a Scottish Cup Final to come but the manager is not fooled by his own success this season. He knows exactly what will be required in the transfer market this summer if he is to deliver a sustainable, credible title challenge to Celtic and he must now put his faith in Dave King to back his own shrewd judgement with hard cash.

 

Saturday’s 1-1 draw with relegated Alloa provided Warburton with all the evidence required to copper bottom his assessment that he needs at least five good quality additions to his squad if he is to make a proper fist of in next season’s top flight.

 

Given the meticulous nature of this particular manager, it is more than likely that he has already identified those targets and jotted them down on a list for King’s attention.

 

He will also have a reasonable idea of the probable costs involved and will believe all of these deals to be perfectly achievable.

 

Which is why what happens next will be so intriguing and maybe even illuminating.

 

Let’s be clear here. King and his regime have done a great deal of good for Rangers in a remarkably short space of time. He has rescued a club which, for four years or so, was being brutalised by the very people who were supposed to be looking after its interests but who, in fact, were motivated by all manner of conflicting agendas.

 

Unlike them, King has Rangers very much at heart. That is without question.

 

But the fact remains, since making his push for power he has been full of contradictions and some of his inconsistences have been glaring.

 

The concern here is that, in King, Rangers have a chairman who can make his own promises disappear before the eyes of his club’s supporters.

 

Remember the £30m of his children’s inheritance that he had already set aside for this project when he was standing on Edmiston Drive throwing stones at the windows?

 

King would probably prefer that his quotes from the time would vanish into thin air too but they were recorded for posterity not just in a Q&A with this paper but also in several similar interviews he granted to our rivals. In each one, the total sum seemed to rise. In fact, on the same afternoon, he told the Daily Mail he was willing to plough £50m into restoring Rangers to the top of the Scottish game.

 

It took hubris to a whole new level and there will have been many Rangers supporters, those still recovering from the true cost of last era of reckless spending, who may have been left shaking their heads in disbelief.

 

If so then they were the smart ones because it appears King has little intention of spending anything like that amount and, in many ways, that’s a very good thing for both the continued modernisation of this club and also it’s long term health. In order for Rangers to prosper they must be self sustainable and managed with prudence.

 

But, never the less, it does raise serious questions about King’s intentions because key parts of his big blue manifesto were at best fanciful and perhaps deliberately misleading.

 

In fact, King has a nasty habit of saying the wrong things at the wrong time and although he enjoys the absolute trust of the vast majority of the Rangers support, these fans have learned the hard way when it comes to misinformation from the top of the old staircase.

 

For example, King has taken to using one particular soundbite which really ought to send a shiver down the spine of these fans. When he talks, as he has done, about ‘enemies of Rangers’ it all sounds frighteningly familiar.

 

Very much like the sort of rhetoric upon which the likes of Craig Whyte and Charles Green once relied when they were attempting to whip up a siege mentality and use it to shield their own intentions. It wasn’t paranoia on their part, it was cunning and deliberate sleight of hand. A classic diversionary tactic.

 

If anyone inside that boardroom has King’s ear then they ought to be strongly advising him against spouting off with the same old cliches because it will merely add to the feeling that now he too might be trying to hide the truth.

 

He promised them honesty and transparency and, over the next couple of months, he will be expected to deliver on it even if, by and large, the fans will be prepared to cut him some slack.

 

In the same Q&A King talked of a need to treble the Rangers wage bill for the first season back in the top flight. In fact in his own words ‘depending on how Dermot Desmond responds, it may have to be quadrupled’.

 

That almost no-one seriously believes Warburton will be allowed to raise his current spend from £6m per annum to £24m is another indication that King is not always expected to be as good as his word.

 

In that respect, his bluster is as unnecessary as it is unconvincing. The Rangers supporters believe his primary concern is to look after their club’s best interest and that is really all that matters to them after the carnage and alleged criminality of these last four years.

 

However, even though he has almost unanimous backing, he may soon find he has his work cut out not just to keep them all on side but also to satisfy the demands on his own manager, who has spoken repeatedly of his need to bolster his squad with significant numbers over the summer.

 

The decision to appoint Warburton remains the single smartest achievement of King’s coup.

 

But the hard work - the really expensive part of this rebuild - begins now.

 

So far, Warburton has seemed untouchable but he is not the sort of man who takes a knife to a gun fight.

 

In January he expected to be tooled up for the rest of the season by signing Michael O’Halloran from St Johnstone and Brentford’s Toumani Diagouraga. That only one of those deals materialised will have been a source of some frustration to the manager.

 

But if this 50 per cent success rate is extrapolated out over the coming transfer window then Warburton is going to need a bigger hat.

 

If he suspects his own reputation might be damaged because of a lack of financial backing from those above him, then he may be forced to think twice about the wisdom of putting his neck on the line.

 

The Englishman knows his stock remains high down south which is exactly how he wants it as his ambitions extend way beyond Glasgow’s city boundaries.

 

A torrid campaign in Scotland’s Premiership, with one hand tied behind his back, will not be part of the plan.

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/keith-jackson-cash-king-rangers-7825825

 

Make no mistake, even if we would win the title next season, something like the above would be drawn out of the beggar's hat and levelled at King or us, whether to get a story or to even the score with bad Yahoo press.

[Frankie 8,663]

He makes one or two fair points but generally it smacks of a gratuitous piece attempting to level out the negative Celtic coverage.