The DA

Good on you, Thompson

You silver-tongued cavalier, you.

DeadRangers/ZombieRangers fans want success brought to them on a plate. The thought of actually having to do something other than to raise a pint to their team fills them with revulsion. Or confusion.

Up a drainpipe?

Again, it depends on timing. Assuming The Rangers get to start in the SPL, he'll persuade the majority of the mid-range players to stay on. And it's those transfer fees that he'll realise if he sells up a few weeks into the season.

I'm starting to believe that this might happen quite naturally. If Green doesn't get the team into the SPL or if he gets too much angst from the support along the way, he might just call it a day and walk away. Sell the ground, the players, make a small profit and say feck 'em. I don't think he would even give any other groups the chance to buy them - he'll get £15-20M for transfers and property sales, compared to £5-6M from a Cardigan Consortium. It's not the most likely scenario yet but it's getting more likely all the time. Dare to believe - the future isn't ORANGE.

This feels like a timing issue. I feel that the SPL/SFA/whichever, will have to have found against Dead Rangers on the dual contracts issue before the vote on admission is processed. If not, how would the admission be worded? Would The Rangers apply for membership and be told "yes, but here are the conditions cos we think we would have found against Old Rangers"? Or is it more likely that it will be "Yes, in you come but watch this space" and then wait a few weeks for the EBT-related sanctions to be processed and applied? In the latter case, I can imagine them going to court. The wording will have to be spot on.

Noted. But the end game is just the same.

Disagree. They still exist, they're just in liquidation. So a) they can have their membership share stripped (what then, Newco?) and b) the people involved should still be investigated and, if neccessary, banned from involvement in Scottish football. There are also general lessons to be learned. How do we prevent this happening again and, if we can't, how do we ensure that the appropriate SPL rules are fit-for-purpose?

I'm not sure where the money would come from to allow Rangers 2.0 to buy someone out. They'd have to bung a few million to the victims, pay redundancy to the victims' players and then splurge out on their own new players. (I'm assuming that they couldn't go through that process quickly enough to ensure they hang on to the majority of DeadRangers' better players.)

He writes a gossip column. I now see him and Chick as Cissie and Ada, leaning across the fence, massive bosoms supported by folded arms, gnashing their gums, mouthing the unsayable, talking absolute mince.

I was trying to imagine what effect that would have on Glasgow on a Saturday afternoon. Would there suddenly be thousands of Orcs blinkig their way up Argyle Street, pointing at shop window displays and grunting 'feck's that?'.

You've been reading Dan Brown again, haven't you?

The Infirm?

Working his way up through the leagues and learning his trade as he goes would be the perfect apprenticeship for SAlly.

At the risk of repeating myself, I can't understand Green's logic regarding TUPE. Either he expected the players' contracts to transfer over to the newco, in which case £5.5M is a criminal undervauation of the company's assets, or he didn't, in which case, why is bleating now? I wish one of the papers or TV reporters would ask him exactly that question.

You seem awfy keen to let us know you're a nurse. Is there a punchline coming? BTW, if you really are a nurse, I hope they don't let you administer any of the prescriptions.

Not sure about that. When I was TUPEd, I had the choice to transfer to the new company (same terms and conditions) or leave. There was no option to stay with the old company and no option to be made redundant. The role wasn't redundant - it had just been moved to a new employer.

He can't have his cake and eat it. If he's right, then he's getting a squad worth £30M or so for only £6M. Haudit & Daudit would be sued from here to Barlinnie for selling them off that cheaply.

I don't believe that it's in the adminstrators' gift to make that sale now that the goalposts have moved. While the CVA still had legs they could at least argue that no one else had made a bid for the team. Now that the team no longer exists, I believe that it's the liquidators who will dispose of the assets. If Haudit & Daudit try to sneak a sale' through before BDO are appointed, i think they'll find themselves accused of professional misconduct or worse.

Thanks for the link, Chico. Green's comments are full of so much gobbledegook and non sequitors that he's not really saying anything. That last quote you listed, for example: What does 'we need to be unified in the product' mean? And, guessing at the meaning, why do the Honest 11 have to be 'unified' with Rangers (2012) rather than with, say, Dundee or Dunfermline? The rest of that sentence is just a string of words.

*Was* Rangers.

So, anything happen today?

I'm in. I'll have 3 of those posts. Have I mentioned I'm in administration?

It did back in the 60s. I remember St Patrick's Day rammies between St Columba's and whichever local 'Proddy' schools were looking for a fight. I suspect we didn't know WHY we were fighting, though - we just did it because it was what the Catholics and the Prods did!