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Is there a deadline for release of the financial review report? Or a deadline when they need to make a decision to see if they need to extend the deadline for release of the financial review report? Deadlines .

We all know that the reason for the SFA fudge in 2012 was Financial Armageddon, they didn't want to lose 30,000 plus spectators every other week from total crowds. If they had stated that it was a new club, the Orcs would have deserted in droves cos their new club didnae have any History. Now it won't matter so much cos Armageddon didnae happen. Mibbe this time it will be, officially, a new club.

I guess with Easdale's statement yesterday, and with the quote from an inside "authoritative source" re. life-support, Ally's chance of a war chest for next season is feck all. If they have to cut costs, they'll have to dump some of their current "superstars", so obviously won't get out of the Championship at the first attempt with Hearts plus the play-off losers in it. What if they actually got relegated next season due to poor performance with mibbe admin penalty points thrown in (if required)? MELTDOWN!!!

How's the share price doing now, btw?

"Additionally, a senior source at Ibrox has told BBC Scotland he believes Rangers are "on a life-support machine". Ally's war chest, being kept going by an iron lung.

Whit, nae Rangers Pools any mair? Nae Rangers News? Celtic Pools, Celtic View? I never noticed they'd gone. Jist assumed they were still running.

Rangers' finances are 'fragile' warns shareholder Sandy Easdale http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27142340 Quote "the club won't survive another administration." FYI Sandy, it didn't survive the first one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27099576 "We demand transparency, we need to know who these people are." Maybe this will finally bring out into the open the movers and shakers behind The Rangers' financiers, Blue Motion, Blue Rinse, Blue Do, Blue Moon (Blue Pitch, I know) whatever the hell they are called.

No, running a phoenix company is. btw it's

Does that mean that if I divorce my wife then transfer my marriage licence to make my girlfriend Mrs Buddie 2, I can continue to count more anniveraries as Mrs Buddie 1's husband? No, that would be a new licence, even though it's a transfer of Buddie Clan membership from MB1 to MB2.

From BBC News "Wallace embarked upon a 120-day review of the business following December's annual meeting of shareholders. The deadline was Thursday 17 April, but an update will not be released to supporters until 25 April." Another deadline, remember back in the summer of 2012 how we used to love deadlines?

Somebody earlier brought up the term "phoenix company", which, if it was a double-glazing company or a building company, of which we've heard thousands of dodgy examples, would mean that the directors would be subject to prosecution. So, in the end, mixing my wildlife metaphors, the leopard hasn't changed its spots, still bending, if not breaking, the law to pursue the goal of world domination. They are not the old rangers, they are pnoenix Rangers, having walked away from all the commercial debts of the old Rangers, the phoenix Rangers only responsible for footballing debts in order to get a new licence to play under the authority ( ????) of the SFA. For further educational hints, see definition of a phoenix. It destroys itself (TOTALLY) in order to be re-born!!! from the ashes of its FORMER self, not the same self.

All along I've suspected that United's moaning about it being unfair to have to play "Rangers" at Ibrox was a con to fool them into thinking United fear them. I remember watching them play last February/March when "Rangers" were reduced to 9 men, as they lost the plot owing to inability to maintain/get possession. Du destroyed them that day, and I don't see "Rangers" as being any better now. It's a bit like a Bugs Bunny cartoon when he's giving it wobbly-knee fear facing Elmer Fudd, whilst having a boxing glove with a horseshoe in it behind his back.

How could they possibly even be thinking about any transfer targets, far less "premier league title-winning " players? Where is that money going to come from?

Reminds me of a joke: Roman Centurion walks into a bar, holds up two fingers and says "Five pints, please."

I guess even he baulked at the level of sycophantic (elephantic?) bullshit he'd have to come up with to put a positive spin on all the bad vibes around the place. (or he wisnae good enough?)

Just as an aside, is Jabba still at Ibrox? He's been unfathomably quiet of late.

Where are they staying this time? The Dakota? Even though it involves going past Coatbridge on the M8/A8, it is nicer than The Hilton at Bellshill, and a wee bit further away.

I miss the old Grandstand teleprinter, sniff, sniff

I quote from the article linked above "Meanwhile, since the club entered administration just over two years ago, it appears there has been minimal stream-lining of our other operations." Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it liquidated? Still that same old blinkered, fingers-in-the ears la, la, la, it didnae happen, head-in-the-sand attitude, too proud and stupid just to say what we all know. I suppose one positive thing, that this guy, even if only subconsciously, accepts that something happened to the CLUB (not the COMPANY), and if the CLUB went into administration, then, logically, it went into liquidation a few weeks later, so the CLUB must have ceased to trade, so it cannae be the same one that currently exists. Mibbe he'll be branded a traitor and outed as a Terrier for speaking untruths and not sticking to the script. .

If the car was worth 500 quid, I could alway have spent £5000 on a personalised number plate such as ADM 1N or L1 QDN, then touted it around as a brand new motor so it didnae need to cope with the debt involved in an MOT for the first three years of its new life.

Reminds me a wee bit of a car I had a few years back, nice Mercedes, but a bit run into the ground, full leather interior, but costly monthly expenses on fuel and insurance. On what turned out to be its last MOT I just got it through, but the mechanic provided me with a list as long as my arm of recommendations, which would give me problems at the next MOT. Anyhoo, I decided to keep it running as long as poss, then when it did eventually get due for the next MOT and the running expenses looked prohibitive, I found out that I could actually make a few bob breaking it up for parts. Funnily enough, it was a light blue.

Dahlings, OMG, this is getting sooooooooooooooooo.......2012. Financial meltdown....... please, berrs, trust the board........Dave King making noises aboot loads o' money, but never putting up........asking for a season ticket boycott......Where's Psycho Broon got to? It's like deja vu all over again.

So, not so much an investment as a donation. Soft investment = don't expect to see any money back........ever.

For what it's worth, a few years ago I got involved in a game with a chimp at Drayton Manor Park, involving a very long, very thin twig, honestly, it was one of the best moments of my life, lasting around 45 minutes, and we really made a connection. The poor bugger was in a huge enclosure, all on his own, he must have been bored shitless, and he was utterly distraught when the wife came to find me and dragged me away from my new pal. Anyhoo, is it not obvious that The Rangers real financial problems currently stem from the fact that they are a diddy club trying to kid their fans, themselves and the rest of us (but we're no biting) that they are the biggest club in Scotland (or the world, depending on who you listen to).