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Shite, maybe. But as these are weegie kids in Glasgow that would be suitable

Girl in my daughters class is called Elle. Which is fair enough. Her younger sister is called Grazia. Her mum is currently pregnant so wondering which magazine will get used as a name if it's a boy. I sometimes wonder if people pay attention to what they're calling their kids. Two girls who I was at school with in the dim & distant past were sisters with the surname Hoare. First names - Audrey & Emma.

there's some decent Scottish acts out there - Hector Bizerk, Loki, Stanley Odd haven't really taken to Young Fathers but pleased to see they're having some success

He's also one half of The Unwinding Hours

At this point they're just pissing around playing games, right? There's no real desire to do what's best for the club or its fans just a mad scramble to get in/stay in the boardroom

For €6m is the figure being quoted.

Luxury flats in Govan proper regularly go for upwards of £75 sometimes even reaching a dizzying 3 figures (before the decimal point). The problem with Ibrox is that it's situated outside of salubrious central Govan in one of the grim satellite areas. Posted from my luxury waterside penthouse flat in the Bohemian quarter of Sunny Govan.

Awww

Price freeze on season tickets? Nice gesture.

You can delete that bit before replying. But in our hectic lifestyles who has the time for that? Sent from the moon using semaphore

The only thing that occurs to me is the mysterious "heads of terms" document that did the rounds last year where the end sum of a lease and buy back of the stadium, training park and car park was £8.5m I'll leave the debate around whether there actually was such a document to the learned scholars of this thread

I'm sure I read somewhere that Green said it wasn't the ideal time but he promised the IPO would be this year and so had to forge ahead. I can't help but think most Rangers fans would have been happy for him to have "broken" that promise and left it until the new year.

Do we actually know for certain that PFA Scotland are doing this? Or is it based purely on the stuff from the prospectus?

Total owed (from D&P Final Report) = £54,696,214 + £7,736,000 (bond holders) = £62,432,214 so Ticketus (£26,711,857) + bond holders (£7,736,000) = £34,447,857 or 55.17% HMRC excluding BTC = £21,376,767 or 34.23%

lol +1 for effort

Because Gav is a legend and people want to be like him....... give it a while and there'll be loads of Sheerins, Falkingham's and Doris' Or is that Dori? Aye... Anyway. Actual answer - genealogy isn't my strong point but I believe its for the same reason there's lots of Spinks and Cargills - prosperous fishing families that married and bred lots.

No. I'd rather it managed to stay vaguely on-topic (which, I acknowledge, is difficult with so many different aspects to the story) with a lack of personal insults and tit for tat playground spats so nobody would have to take any shite other than the usual robust piss-taking that goes on. But that doesn't happen in real life so why should I expect it to start in here? Hopeless idealist, that's my problem. And now I'm contributing to the problem of off-topic, vacuous crap. It's so easy to get sucked in. And so, in conclusion - 'mon the Lichties.

Wow. For a brief moment there we were having a wee discussion. And then it went away. *sigh*

HMRC were still owed enough that if they voted "No" and everyone else had voted "Yes" there couldn't have been the 75% for it to be agreed. Even without the fabled "BTC millions". That said, if the result had come well before the CVA proposal went out then who's to say HMRC wouldn't have voted yes or abstained and it would have gone through.

http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/item/2811-green-on-tax-verdict Charles Green there, saying it was "the club" (not "the company" you'll notice) that went into admin. Who's he trying to curry favour with now? And if he mis-spoke or the writer of the piece made an error you'd think it would have been sorted fairly quickly to put a stop to the sniggering at the back of the class.

I agree that HMRC shouldn't have been the largest creditor and am surprised the D&P adjudicated that they were. But even without the possible extra debt from the BTC it looks like they had enough to block the CVA. From the Final Progress Report to Creditors we get this: Add up the debt and we get £54,696,214. Ticketus were "owed" £26,711,857. HMRC were owed £21,376,767. So Ticketus had 48% of the debt and HMRC had 39% Even if the percentage of the debt is diluted by adding the debenture holders (£7,736,000) the numbers only change to 42% for Ticketus and 34% for HMRC still giving either of them an effective veto. I also agree that there are certain aspects of this that need investigating. Disclaimer: I'm not an accountant. Figures came from D&P's statements so if I made a mistake somewhere in the figuring I'd be happy to hear about it.

So it's 59% of a victory?

In which case I thank you for the kind offer* and hope you get your wish. *you can hold on to them. I'll just use the set that our youngest has when he's done with them. If you have any handlebar streamers or spokeydokes though I'll take them.

I'm hoping for a bike from Santa. I think we're both going to be disappointed

Just what we need - more di Stefano around the place Phew.