Macshimmy
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If you want to be a frilly unicorn with the neck of a giraffe then you are.
Nah, life doesn't work like that. You are what you are, no matter what you say or think you are:
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I don't know I think he was having a joke with you . because you said it will broaden your mind and he stated it didn't help you ?
in regards to what you are saying, I am perfectly happy being a rangers fan, not happy with the way the club is but happy to be a fan
a rather interesting tale regarding raith rovers goal . at the point where you's had scored I was half way through a pish and actually thought it was rangers who had scored
I had made my way at 0-0 to relieve myself so that I could watch what I thought was the inevitable penalty shoot out in a not needing a piss comfort. half way through the flow a huge roar went up and I actually assumed I had missed rangers scoring along with a few others who were emptying their bladder at the same time.( I was in the new East stand and the toilet was down near the raith end) so I quickly nipped it and made my way quickly out the toilet only to be met by raging fellow bears , so I joined the unhappy throng rather angry bemused and upset in leaving the stadium .my feelings were only made worse when I remembered that I had nipped the before mentioned piss and the place was full of police and my bus was a rather uncomfortable twenty minutes away. all in all a miserable experience.
Sounds like you are enjoying the journey. (Fair play for sharing that though - you aren't beat if you keep your sense of humour.)
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he meant it hasn't broadened your mind
Hasn't it?
It's made me realise that a lot of people don't ask enough questions, and are too afraid of change.
Don't let fear of the unknown keep you in a miserable situation I say. If you aren't happy, think with your feet.
After all, how much loyalty do the players/board/owners of your club have to you these days?
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Hasn't helped you.
What do you mean? It hasn't helped ICT?
We are doing better than some other clubs I could mention - bringing kids through the youth system, establishing a squad on long-term contracts
with the intention of filtering these youngsters into the first team.
I'm very happy the club has the good sense to live within it's means.
My father in law has spoken to me at length about how scunnered he was with what happened at Rangers - to him, they were a symbol of good working class values bringing success - but now he's seen the kind of corruption and greed which lay behind all that, he has no liking for the "Rangers brand" at all.
It could have been very different - If the new club had embraced the chance for a fresh start and set out a manifesto similar to the one Rangers actually set out with when the old club was founded (which had nothing whatsoever to do with all the religious pish, they just wanted to play football, and encourage people in an area struggling with poverty to take up a sport which required little equipment to play.)
If they had done this, and genuinely attempted fan ownership, I'm sure he would have invested in the club.
His decision to walk away is entirely a principled one, and one I respect.
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You're not an ICT fan.
See, I think you are confusing two things here. Are we talking 'fan' in the sense of:
- Somebody who provides financial and pitch-side support for a football club.
- Somebody who does the above, but thinks this involves them in a dimly understood 18th century religious conflict, which for some bizzare reason they are attempting to continue into the present day.
I don't think I've met any of the second kind at ICT, fortunately.
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I wonder if Mr. King would pass Zebra Finances credit checks?
I never realised this before, but it wasn't Dave King who 'invested' in oldco - It was 'Ben Nevis' - the Guernsey-registered vehicle he used to
run his insider trading/tax evasion wheeze in South Africa.
So - oldco was an integral part of that scam - and a key component in his money laundering operation.Makes you wonder what other actions might follow BDO's report on the oldco
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Sounds like some minor technical issues still ongoing at the ticket office:
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Just trying to make it easier on you, I think you might have to choose a new team before too long
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any football fan who changes their team in my eyes is a cretin, hence why I said I would have more respect for even the most bitterest Celtic fans before tits like him.
Nah, that's just blinkered frankly. Just because you are too small-minded to change teams on a matter of principle, it doesn't mean others can't.
I was a Celtic fan when I was a kid, but I came to understand that it was bad for the game to have people just following their team by sitting on their arse in the pub in a different corner of Scotland.
So, I made myself follow my local team instead - and after a while it feels perfectly natural.
My father in law is from Ayrshire, and grew up in a community where everyone supported Rangers, but he's moved up North and I've just bought him a season ticket for Inverness. I confidently predict in one season he will be an ICT fan. Broaden your mind.
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Interesting to see if Craig Gordon joins "The Rangers" now there is a goalkeeping vacancy at Hearts under Levein.
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hmm.
So sales are 'slow, and also 'gathering momentum.' re-assuring :-)
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Sore one losing Charlie Telfer, could be the next Charlie Adam so they say. And a season-ticket holder at Ibrox, so I guess that's one less renewal.
Still holding the fort against the slings and arrows of Reality on RM though:
Still, one door closes, and another one opens, eh?
Carlisle United will be relegated to England’s League Two next season & as a result the club is cleaning house. The club the imminent departure of twelve players, among those cuts will be former Rangers forward Nacho Novo.
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Ah... FFS!! (deleted wrong post like a total muppet!!)
serves me right for posting at work I guess
Anyroad. In the course of stumbling round like a total cretin, I realised one moderately interesting thing about the renewal docs Ra Bears just sent out.
The dates the documents were uploaded tell you that the club was fully expecting to get credit facilities as recently as 9/4/14
That's curious in light of the stories going around about First Data issuing it's demands about security back in January, no?
Suggests to me that the board were planning to take the deal First were offering, and it was pulled at the last minute.
http://www.rangers.c...cuments/st1415/0 -
Sounds like they have a few minor 'technical issues' with their ticket purchasing process,
the existing season ticket holders who were paying by credit card cannot use the online renewal process,
suggesting the credit provider didn't just withdraw the facility in an orderly fashion, they pulled it in a panic!
also reports that the account name for BACS hasn't been registered properly on the bank's systems, so it's effectively just a regular bank account
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What was the word TK came up with again?
a disingenuone, think that was it.
Aw naw, no a disingenuone on an aw noo!
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Wonder how that meeting went?
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When have rangers ever been about entertaining?
Oh, I'd say they have been the most entertaining club in Scotland the last couple of seasons.
The old club gave me a fair bit of merriment towards the end there as well.
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I've watched Rangers under Scot Symon, right through until the present, seen some great and not so good teams. This current situation is soul destroying, as a club we are the laughing stock of Scottish football, from the boardroom down to the team. I don't get home as much as i used to, to watch Rangers, probably a good thing though. The way things are i can't see the club at the top of the Scottish game for many years to come. We had a great opportunity to instill a playing ethos in the club two years ago, with the right managerial team that is, that chance has gone. A great chance to try and change the mindset of the support, instead of playing to the gallery as Green did and with McCoist as manager, as long as he is then the club won't progress.
You never know your luck, way things are heading you might get another crack at starting afresh :-p
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Statement from Wallace in the Herald:
On the half year results
"What you have seen in the six month period we have announced is a step forward. What we are trying to do overall here is put in place a very stable, professional way of rebuilding the club and taking it back to where it should be. Part of that is looking at how we are managing the business from a cost perspective and from a cash perspective but also equally importantly how we are putting in the right drivers to grow our commercial revenue and how we can grow that top line revenue as well as managing the outflows.
"A large bulk of the money raised from the IPO had already been spent and what we are trying to do is put the business on a very firm footing to build from."
Retail joint venture with Sports Direct
"I think it is performing in line with expectations. It is still early days as it has only just had over a year of it operating. Being in partnership with Sports Direct, one of the premier retailers in terms of being able to focus on the ground at a retail level in a way that a standalone entity would never be able to do, is helpful for us. As we look forward the results to date are in line with what we had hoped for but still give us a sense of optimism that there is considerable growth to be achieved going forward."
Staff costs
"Part of what we have done in the review is look at the areas of expenditure and question and challenge everything we have been doing within the club. We have made some changes in the past few months and we just continue to work away, as you would expect in any business, on how we can improve our cost base and the efficiency and effectiveness of the business.
"That certainly continues but in a fashion you would find in any leading business. You are constantly challenging what you are doing and what you are spending and it forms part of our overall business review that we are closing in on."
Growing commercial revenues and the Rangers By Appointment scheme
"There are a number of companies now signed up to it and getting benefit from it. It sits quite nicely into my vision about re-establishing Rangers as a brand, as a club, as a company that leading organisations want to be part of. If you put it against a background of what this club has had to deal with over the past two or three years getting leading organisations partnering with Rangers has been a challenge and is still a challenge when the external environment is one of potentially suspicion or instability or questions about the long term strategy or survival.
"The business by appointment scheme for the local business community has paid dividends but I view that as just a start. We have initiatives going on now [for] a completely fresh look at our commercial partnerships, looking to target and attract leading blue chip businesses to partner with Rangers. Again to help us grow our top line revenue. If we can grow the top line revenue then the more headroom we have in terms of investing back into the team and other areas of the business."
Further spending on improving infrastructure/Ibrox
"Without putting a definitive number on it we would constantly be wanting to look at the standard of what we have. There are areas of the stadium that do need a bit of a refresh. When you put it against the background of some of the financial challenges the club has had it is probably understandable why some of those investments have been pushed a bit further down the priority list. As we look at trying to create and deliver a match day environment and experience that Rangers fans enjoy then it goes without saying that we need to have a rolling programme that will look at levels of investment in order to pay attention to some of the areas that have been neglected in the recent past."
Full-year performance
"We would expect full year performance at a revenue level to be ahead of last year. At an operating profit or operating loss level we have reported a near 50% improvement in the half-year and I think you can be looking for a similar measure of improvement in the latter half-year. It is very much moving towards that kind of break even [or] profitability segment."
Material uncertainty noted in the accounts about season ticket money
"We put in place the short term facilities to give ourselves some additional headroom following a detailed review of the business plans and assumptions we inherited. We realised there were some changes that needed to be made so we did that to give ourselves some additional headroom.
"The key material uncertainty we disclose about the timing of season ticket money. To my mind that is no different to virtually every other football club in the land where you have your season ticket money flowing in at a comparable rate and comparable timing year after year. If all of a sudden you were to introduce changes to significant elements of that it would be quite reasonable for people to say there could potentially be an impact on the cash position if significant chunks of the season money was to flow in at a later stage. What we can say in terms of how we are running the business now and managing the cash and how we are managing our ability to run the business I am very comfortable with where we are and I am very comfortable with the processes we have in place now to give us a proper level of comfort and assurance on the way the money is being spent."
120 day review and seeking further investment
"What I wanted to do was come in and stand back and take a strategic view of where the club needed to be going, what we needed to deliver that and the organisational structure and the cost base. We have just been working through the business so we have a clear view of what we think the next five years could look like for Rangers. From that what does that mean in terms of our ability to generate income and our need for investment. We have said several times the business will need investment. What we need to do as a board is finalise the size of that investment and the timing of when it is needed. We are going from the third tier to the second tier clearly with an aspiration to be back in the top division the year after.
"Once the board has determined what we need and when we will have a series of conversations with existing shareholders and other interested parties. That is absolutely fine. What we are trying to do is the right thing for Rangers, the right thing for supporters and the right thing for shareholders."Put it side by side with the statement from the Sons of Seethe about being 'a club' not a commodity, and it starts to look like a pretty major
clash of worlds I would say.Popcorn?
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Interesting - Season ticket holders at Ibrox who signed up to pay over four months actually signed a rollover clause,
So their bank accounts are at the mercy of TRIFC. Unless they actively cancel that contract, TRIFC can take as much money as they like, whenever they choose.
I thought those clauses were illegal now actually, Vodafone and BT lost a case last year?
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Maybe Green wasnt lying when he said he was in the States last year. Maybe Houston are a feeder club for Sevco judging by the logo on the back of the shirts.
http://www.football-shirts.co.uk/fans/houston-dynamo-2014-adidas-away-kit_25380
A subtle touch of class is added where Houston’s slogan “Forever Orange” is stamped on the upper left shoulder and the Texas flag is added on the jock flag of the shirt.
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He was quite highly regarded at Arsenal, then 'head hunted' by Liverpool - left for 'family reasons' after being there five years.
Questions which come to mind...
- Can The Rangers afford to pay their executives similar wages to top PL clubs?
- Does 'family reasons' really mean something else? (Liverpool fans seem to think so)
- How did Phil go from being 'head hunted' by Liverpool to this?
Intriguing.
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Getting exciting over on The Rangers Media - They have a mystery deep-throating source who likes quoting Robert Frost:
http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=265314&st=80
Ah, comedy gold. You would have thought by now they would have got tired of following such well travelled paths :-)
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I've submitted this as our supporters club logo. I think it captures the gravity of the situation very well.
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Big Rangers Administration/Liquidation Thread - All chat here!
in Celtic v Rangers, Rangers v Celtic
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It's a serious business the BRALT. Well, it's been seriously shite of late, but I'm hoping for another summer of serious entertainment out of it.