[Official] John Bennett steps down with immediate effect for health reasons

[buster. 5,186]

29 minutes ago, CammyF said:

I don't think anyone is advocating going back to this. However, to create a viable club, with the correct people in charge, with a working Youth Academy and player trading model, it requires investment. 

 

There has been a lot of investment over the years of one sort or another. We have nearly always used most of it for short term temporary fixes. Not forgetting how the 2012 IPO money was used !!

 

John Bennett was the first to actually put into practice some of what was really needed. Lets say it wasn't appreciated.

However, he lacked the cojones, delayed communication to TELL the support what was going on and why. Not to mention being too late (Beale summer 23).

 

The other side of the city got it right but their support didn't like the medicine either. But upstairs didn't care, they did what needed doing. 

That kind of leadership has been lacking at Ibrox for decades.

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[buster. 5,186]

5 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

An effective player trading model along with a more sensible wage policy is the way ahead. Youth academies don’t guarantee anything. 

That gets said every AGM, never happens

[Rousseau 10,607]

1 hour ago, CammyF said:

I don't think anyone is advocating going back to this. However, to create a viable club, with the correct people in charge, with a working Youth Academy and player trading model, it requires investment. 

 

I think it just requires us to utilise our capital better, rather than relying on more and more investment. 

[CammyF 8,089]

3 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I think it just requires us to utilise our capital better, rather than relying on more and more investment. 

Which is exactly what Dave King has said. The current board have shown they are incapable of spending what little we have wisely ; I'd us NEH as an example - over budget, smaller than designed, project overran and completely under utilised. 

 

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[Rousseau 10,607]

5 minutes ago, CammyF said:

Which is exactly what Dave King has said. The current board have shown they are incapable of spending what little we have wisely ; I'd us NEH as an example - over budget, smaller than designed, project overran and completely under utilised. 

 

I actually think NEH is an example of the board spending wisely, tbh - outwith the issue @Bluedell has brought up, re selling assets. 

 

From what I've read, King's main goal would be to find new investment. That's not utilising what we've got more wisely, that's just bringing in more short-term money - which, I suspect, is largely self-serving. 

[CammyF 8,089]

4 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I actually think NEH is an example of the board spending wisely, tbh - outwith the issue @Bluedell has brought up, re selling assets. 

 

From what I've read, King's main goal would be to find new investment. That's not utilising what we've got more wisely, that's just bringing in more short-term money - which, I suspect, is largely self-serving. 

NEH will end up an empty shell like the old one did. £12M (at last count) that has no real function other than housing a shop and museum. 

 

It was a vanity project for the board that was over budget, underdelivered and overran - it sums up the current board. 

 

King said that the days of the board giving the club loans and investments are gone, the well is dry, there is no more money.

 

So, then how do we finance a real football CEO? Or a new Director Of Academy? Or even a new Chairperson?

 

How do we finance the scouting system and purchases of young, exciting talent that we can develop and sell? 

 

All takes finance and that finance has to come from somewhere. 

 

We have gone past stagnation and are spirling out of control (don't expect many others to see ot that way, but I do) and the current board are squarely to blame for this. 

 

They have shown they have no path out of it, so it's time for change or its time to accept that Rangers Football Club will become just another run of the mill Scottish Club. 

 

I'll vote for change. 

[Gonzo79 15,293]

11 minutes ago, CammyF said:

NEH will end up an empty shell like the old one did. £12M (at last count) that has no real function other than housing a shop and museum. 

The shop, museum and venue will provide a regular income stream - are those not real functions?).

[Rousseau 10,607]

21 minutes ago, CammyF said:

NEH will end up an empty shell like the old one did. £12M (at last count) that has no real function other than housing a shop and museum. 

 

It was a vanity project for the board that was over budget, underdelivered and overran - it sums up the current board. 

 

King said that the days of the board giving the club loans and investments are gone, the well is dry, there is no more money.

 

So, then how do we finance a real football CEO? Or a new Director Of Academy? Or even a new Chairperson?

 

How do we finance the scouting system and purchases of young, exciting talent that we can develop and sell? 

 

All takes finance and that finance has to come from somewhere. 

 

We have gone past stagnation and are spirling out of control (don't expect many others to see ot that way, but I do) and the current board are squarely to blame for this. 

 

They have shown they have no path out of it, so it's time for change or its time to accept that Rangers Football Club will become just another run of the mill Scottish Club. 

 

I'll vote for change. 

We'll need to agree to disagree on NEH.

 

I go back to what I posted above: "I think it just requires us to utilise our capital better, rather than relying on more and more investment." We must become self-sustaining. We shouldn't be going cap in hand to the next Tom, Dick or Harry. 

 

I would vote for change, too.

 

I don't think King is that change.

[Rousseau 10,607]

In The Herald, King is quoted as saying he has 'two major objectives - one to reintroduce the operational policies that have gone missing and to find new investment.'

 

What's 'reintroduce the operational policies'?

 

We know the latter is 'somebody buy my shares!'  

[CammyF 8,089]

18 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

The shop, museum and venue will provide a regular income stream - are those not real functions?).

How much income has it generated? And the shop and museum accounts for just over 50% of the space in NEH. The shop and museum would generate income no matter where they were housed (inside Inrox footfall as an example).

 

Edited September 16 by CammyF