Creag Robertson to leave Rangers

[RANGERRAB 4,058]

  On 09/10/2024 at 15:34, compo said:

There’s always someone somewhere who fancies themselves as a club owner it’s up to our board to appoint someone to find a buyer other clubs have done it this way .

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There’s probably one already on the board 

[Bluedell 6,053]

  On 09/10/2024 at 15:34, compo said:

There’s always someone somewhere who fancies themselves as a club owner it’s up to our board to appoint someone to find a buyer other clubs have done it this way .

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We've done it too and ended up with Craig Whyte and Charles Green.

 

#betterthedevilyouknow

[compo 7,841]

  On 09/10/2024 at 16:13, Bluedell said:

We've done it too and ended up with Craig Whyte and Charles Green.

 

#betterthedevilyouknow

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I don’t think the present board are trying to dodge their responsibilities like Murray 

[RANGERRAB 4,058]

  On 09/10/2024 at 16:13, Bluedell said:

We've done it too and ended up with Craig Whyte and Charles Green.

 

#betterthedevilyouknow

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Both of them were forced upon us

[Gonzo79 15,299]

  On 09/10/2024 at 16:13, Bluedell said:

We've done it too and ended up with Craig Whyte and Charles Green.

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It's very much a 'be careful what you wish for' scenario.  Some seem far less careful than others.

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[buster. 5,558]

It'd cost more than a pound coin this time.

 

Hasn't it been said that (some) current board members aren't keen on the idea of one person coming in and taking a controlling stake?

 

If someone did want a controlling stake, he/she would need to make a big outlay to buy up the requisite amount of shares and I think, would also need to make an offer to buy the shares of the others.

 

Can't see a long queue of investors keen to throw their money down what is our longstanding black hole of a business model.

 

That would leave those with emotional attachment. Some of those have already had enough. I think Dave King coined a phrase, "investor fatigue".

 

The only way that I can see us becoming attractive to investors is if there was a European league restructuring where we increased revenue streams markedly. ... As it stands, not happening in the short to medium term.

 

 

 

 

[buster. 5,558]

  On 09/10/2024 at 16:13, Bluedell said:

We've done it too and ended up with Craig Whyte and Charles Green.

 

#betterthedevilyouknow

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Craig Whyte, then Charles Green & Co.

 

That is to say the vast majority of the support weren't just fooled once, but twice, in short order.

 

I don't have any doubts that the vast majority would willingly buy into more of similar spinning bullshit. 

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[26th of foot 6,215]

Craig Whyte owes the Rangers support.

 

Keith Klaxon Jackson informed us that he possessed, "wealth off the radar". Craig owns a highland castle, perhaps he could sell it and donate the sum to the club. On E-Bay, similar bouncy castles are fetching £100.

[RANGERRAB 4,058]

  On 09/10/2024 at 17:36, 26th of foot said:

Craig Whyte owes the Rangers support.

 

Keith Klaxon Jackson informed us that he possessed, "wealth off the radar". Craig owns a highland castle, perhaps he could sell it and donate the sum to the club. On E-Bay, similar bouncy castles are fetching £100.

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Unfortunately Craig ‘wealth off the radar’ Whyte has been banned sine die from Scottish football 🤓

[JohnMc 3,157]

It still depresses me that so many still yearn for a sugar daddy to make everything good again. I do wonder just how many in our support would accept literally anyone in control of the club if it guaranteed we'd win the league and beat Celtic. 

 

It's always worth casting your mind back and remembering why you became a Rangers supporter. Was it simply because you expected us to win the league every season? Most seasons? I started 'supporting' Rangers at primary school, mainly because most of my pals, my dad and my big cousins did. It was a north Glasgow primary in the late 1970s, you'd the choice of Rangers or Partick Thistle, no other clubs were available. But the relationship was cemented in the 1980s, when I was old enough to go to games. Here's the thing, in the first half of the 1980s there wasn't a lot of winning going on. We weren't just behind Celtic, we were behind Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and even Hearts for a while. Don't get me wrong there were some good times, a couple of League Cups, a Tennents Sixes too (well it excited me at the time!), but mainly it was a struggle on the pitch. But then going to the football isn't just about the football, is it? It was meeting up with your mates, a common shared interest. It was the ritual of going to the game, lucky omens, lucky clothing, buses or trains, the programme, the pie, I was too young to drink but clearly that was important to many guys too. Then the game itself, the singing, the noise, the smell, the chance to share every emotion, publicly. Football and gigs were probably the only places you could be emotional without feeling stupid or being ridiculed. Winning was always great, a bit of magic from a player a bonus, and a defeat met with anger. 

 

Our club is going through the most turbulent period in it's long history since the late 1800s. We're not out of it yet, we're hopefully towards the end, but who actually knows. Football is a very different sport to the one I started watching, but the essence of supporting a club, the things that cemented that bond I don't think they've changed, although pricing of tickets and timing of games does make it harder. Our club is still perfectly capable of being stable and solvent as well as competitive, some stability would help that happen, I think.