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I offer these nibbles for your delectation. The first explains the reclaiming of trophies frenzy..
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How can they attempt to get money out of an account that they do not have access to (i.e. it's not an account that has anything to do with Rangers FC) to get funds that are there because of a deal they say was flawed and therefore does not stand up.
If the deal shouldn't have gone ahead, then the money is not theirs!
Exactly, they can't have it both ways. I think Duff and Phelps are trying anything to make sure there's money to pay their fees..
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Be careful what you wish for with voting rights, though. It it was say 8-4, we'd probably have a 10-team SPL starting next season.
Good point, and it was the non OF chairmen who forced through the Setanta deal.
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My reading of the Retard story might suggest that this wouldn't be paid out as the very integrity of the deal is being brought into question (in much the same way that my car insurance wouldn't be paying out for an accident if I had omitted to put it through an MOT).
It did seem weird that they would hand over the £24 million a month before he even had the keys to Ibrox. Either he's a hugely convincing conman or there's some brown envelopes stuffed with cash been passed around.
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You really couldn't make any of this up.
It seems to me that Ticketus either made a truly insane decision in giving Whyte this money even prior to his purchase of the club, or that, as I've previously suspected, there was a lot more to this deal with Whyte being a patsy.
Based on this story, assuming the adminstrators aren't simply making a desperate and probably futile throw of the dice attempt to claw back some funds, then the former scenario applies. This is very difficult to get your head round, and actually now looks as though it is Ticketus that was the patsy, and either Whyte or the puppet-master had this outcome in mind all along.
FFS, talk about murky....
Ticketus will have Credit Default Insurance to mitigate any loss, but the interesting thing would be if Whyte was telling the truth when he said he was personally liable for the debt. Has he been living it up in Castle Grant and Monaco without a pot to piss in, at the same time as bankrupting Rangers? That would be funny as fcuk!
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Queen of the South - Scottish Cup Winners 2008 has a nice ring to it
And Falkirk FC - Scottish Cup Winners 2009...
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Because the SPL were mad.
The fact that they had to join the list of creditors of a busted flush shows the consequences of that madness.
I don't see the mass disruption. The liquidated team's games to date become null and void, the league table is reset and onward everyone else goes.
I think the rules are that each game previously played is considered a 3-0 loss to Rangers, which benefits sides who were unsuccessful against them.
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They should only be bailed out if the leftovers of future ticket sales that Ticketus don't have are shared out amongst the other teams.
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deleted to remove wrong info... My link (didn't notice date)
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As the risk of being pedantic, you may want to pick up a book yourself - a dictionary for a start. It's "Shakespearian", not "Shakesperian".
Table 1. Non-literary references (1564-1616):
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Table 2. Literary references (1593-1616):
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Shakespear
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I hope it is the 15th - then we can be all Shakesperian.*
Rangers fans would see it as a tragedy, the rest of us would recognise it as a farce.
* Message to any young person who doesn't get this "Put down your X-box and pick up a book".
Is Whyte Brutus or Caesar?
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A soggy chip would have given him a tougher interview than Jim White...
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Was Whyte in the studio or on the phone? I'd love to see Paxman have a go at him tonight if he's doing the rounds..
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Hopefully its a case of the printers wanting cash up front and the Admin Duo saying sorry got none.
Is it too much to hope that its the same printers that do their programme.
Could it be no matchday programme on Saturday ??
First of many creditors to look after themselves no doubt. They won't be seeing any milk and papers at the door of Castle Grayskull for a while..
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I'm still hoping for the 5 o'clock rush. A rambling pre-emptive phone call denial from Monte Carlo, followed by a statement from Duffman saying that they have just discovered that all the silverware has been replaced with forged tin counterfeits..
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Disnae work.
Fixed
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I think that the situation can best be summed up in the immortal words of Donald Rumsfeld as follows.............
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."
Thank you Roddy Forsyth.
Rumsfeld got seriously ridiculed for that but it was about the only time he made any sense.
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What happens to a bullet when a gun is fired into the air?
Does it leave the earth's atmosphere or does it disintegrate on it's way back down?
I just have this vision of some guy walking along the street getting hit by a bullet from the sky 
Take your pick
A) A bullet fired directly upwards will travel at a rate of around 7 miles/second, exceeding the escape velocity of earth and continuing into space. Depending on what direction the earth is facing at the point of firing, the bullet will end it's days drawn into the massive gravity wells of either Jupiter or the sun.
B)Depending on what kind of bullet and the altitude it is fired from, a bullet can reach up to 3 miles if fired straight up. Terminal velocity on the way back down can be up to 500 feet per second, at 200 ft/sec the skull will usually be penetrated. Although relatively rare, mortality rates for being hit by a falling bullet are much higher than being hit by a bullet fired horizontally despite the much slower speed, because of the likelihood of being hit in the head.
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(nicked from Zeus)
I never knew that one man could have so much fun with just one pound
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Given the latest revelations in the last few posts, all I can say is... MORE POPCORN! Anybody know who the guests are on tonight's episode of Scotland's favourite soap...or, 'Newsnight Scotland' if you prefer.
Mark Daly says he's going to be on BB1 Scotland news at 6.30 and Newsnight Scotland at 11, but he said he was going to be on Newsnight last night and wasn't unless I missed it..
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Daily Express via BBC rumours, unless Just a Bairn's heard it elsewhere. He hints at it in his post Dundee interview on FTV as well.
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I just have this vision of some guy walking along the street getting hit by a bullet from the sky 
Quick Question Thread
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Posted · Edited by welshbairn
They used to get a pretty modest wage but a big Manse to live in. Don't know what it's like now, I think they've sold off most of the Manses and they still get a low salary. They probably get to go to Heaven though, which you could see as a non taxable benefit on top of a pension, the scammers.
Correction. Looks like they're on £40,000 a year, not bad for one gig a week. My link