Big Rangers Administration/Liquidation Thread - All chat here!

[No8.]

How many would want to watch hibs v Sevco on the tv as the centre halves hoof long ball after long ball at each other!

Well more people watched Rangers games on Sky TV last season than any other Scottish club so i think it is safe to assume quite a few.

[lithgierose]

Well more people watched Rangers games on Sky TV last season than any other Scottish club so i think it is safe to assume quite a few.

that'l be all the true blue supporters who post on here during games instead of actually going.

you know,all the expert ones.

Edited May 26, 2014 by lithgierose

[BossHogg]

Well more people watched Rangers games on Sky TV last season than any other Scottish club so i think it is safe to assume quite a few.

ahem..

http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/86670904671/spfl-viewing-figures-2013-14-finale

[dave.j]

Well more people watched Rangers games on Sky TV last season than any other Scottish club so i think it is safe to assume quite a few.

Did they, really?

[AberdeenBud]

Well more people watched Rangers games on Sky TV last season than any other Scottish club so i think it is safe to assume quite a few.

That you just making things up again?

[Ken Fitlike]

this blog only mentions the top 5 games with high viewing figures, the next five not shown might all be rangers games??

so ok celtic v county managed the highest but that's only what's listed, but there's no viewing figures given for all of rangers televised games compared to celtic, there's only average figures given from the premiership also the attached spreadsheet doesn't have the figures for all of rangers televised games. i'm sure rangers were televised in domestic games more than celtic were.

where are the figures for rangers tv?

i'm talking about all viewing figures here

maybe folk are watching 'rangers' games in a fascinated 'catch them before they disappear into extiction' way

Edited May 26, 2014 by Ken Fitlike

[Jacksgranda]

Can some garçon punt this merde tae the French language sub-forum? The rest of us speak English bien sûr.

Mair or less, aye, you're richt.

[stonedsailor]

The challenge to 'the top flight' is simply this: Nae c**t gives a f**k. Celtic will have their procession; Abeerdeen, Motherwell and DU will have a scrap for 2/3/4 place and the rest doesn't matter.

The Championship is where it will be at in Scottish football next season!

The championship will be full of has-beens and ne'er-do-wells, as per usual. What will be different next season?

[stonedsailor]

i'll make this easier by posting the article, since no one wants to admit the possibility.

maybe armaggedon is a slow death rather than sudden for all the clubs without rangers and a semi decent tv deal?

what if doncaster is right, surely he has better access to the facts and figures much more than the so called financial experts on here?

obviously celtic have no ambition when not pushed by rangers, this could weaken celtic into a declining spiral and unable to step up when a motivated rangers get back to the top league.

Rangers' problems played huge part in Neil Lennon leaving Celtic

Neil Lennon has waved goodbye to Celtic after four successful years in charge

With Vincent Hogan – 26 May 2014

It's surely the most striking irony of Neil Lennon's departure from Celtic that the financial calamities suffered by Rangers had a fundamental role to play.

With the Old Firm rivalry indefinitely decommissioned, Scotland's Premiership has shed even the illusion of authentic competition.

Celtic won this season's title by 29 points with a goal difference of plus 77, compared to second-placed Motherwell's plus four. In other words, the league was about as competitive as a crocodile attack on a puppy.

Without Rangers in their faces, Celtic's existence has never seemed less urgent, less relevant. Worse, the board clearly realise they can sell marketable players (like Gary Hooper and Victor Wanyama) without any significant impediment to their chances of stockpiling titles.

This, for Lennon, was wretchedly bad news. He has shown himself to be a bright, tactically astute manager, particularly in the environment of Champions League football.

Yet the Celtic board clearly believes it would be financially imprudent to the point of daftness to pursue anything beyond habitual qualification for that competition.

Lennon's natural ambition, thus, was always destined to become a point of conflict with his employers.

He wanted to strengthen a squad that the board recognised was already strong enough to be deemed certainties for next season's Premiership title and, quite probably, the one beyond.

Without Rangers, Celtic essentially lost the will to grow. Lennon came to understand that. He left because to stay would have been professional surrender.

Aw, poor SNAFU no-one took him up on his offer to discuss a biased opinion piece which points out what the diddies have been saying for over 2 years. When Rangers die Celtic will move into terminal decline. The big news is that it took Vincent Hogan and Neil Lennon two years to realise this.

[lithgierose]

you can post on here from almost every football ground in the country, coverage allowing these days of course.

surely you realise this, surely.

and you can also post pics of said grounds during games when asked.but it never happens :-)

[stonedsailor]

i think you will find there was concern 2 years ago from lennon over missing o.f. games, bit of a u-turn with his later comments over not needing rangers. he knew.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18112713

as for vince hogan, for you this is a tree that fell in the forest that you heard and all trees that fell before made no sound because when they landed since you didn't hear them.

I'll take a quarter oz of whatever you're toking and if it's as good as your post implies I'll be back for the KG.

[weirdcal]

you can post on here from almost every football ground in the country, coverage allowing these days of course.

surely you realise this, surely.

that'll be the Wifi in action at last!!

[WhiteRoseKillie]

i'll make this easier by posting the article, since no one wants to admit the possibility.

maybe armaggedon is a slow death rather than sudden for all the clubs without rangers and a semi decent tv deal?

what if doncaster is right, surely he has better access to the facts and figures much more than the so called financial experts on here?

obviously celtic have no ambition when not pushed by rangers, this could weaken celtic into a declining spiral and unable to step up when a motivated rangers get back to the top league.

Aw, poor SNAFU no-one took him up on his offer to discuss a biased opinion piece which points out what the diddies have been saying for over 2 years. When Rangers die Celtic will move into terminal decline. The big news is that it took Vincent Hogan and Neil Lennon two years to realise this.

What the crayon-muncher, in common with quite a few Orcs on here (especially the pop-up variety) fails to grasp is that we had all these discussions a couple of years ago, and the Horde happily dismissed them as "diddy fantasies" as they embarked on the journey. Nice to see some chickens coming in to roost, even if I'm not confident enough to start counting just yet.

[Sting777]

Did Chuckie and a lot of the Sevco fans not say that they would refuse to play in the top league, if and when they got there! Fine by me as it keeps us as Glasgow's 2nd best club for the foreseeable future! Looks like they are getting heartily sick of "the journey"....lol

Edited May 26, 2014 by Sting777

[stonedsailor]

Did Chuckie and a lot of the Sevco fans not say that they would refuse to play in the top league, if and when they got there! Fine by me as it keeps us as Glasgow's 2nd best club for the foreseeable future! Looks like they are getting heartily sick of "the journey"....lol

Nah, they said the SPL, technically we now have an expanded SPL with three new divisions and a new company running it so they u-turned on that one already.

[lithgierose]

if you are talking about rangers fans, like anyone else no one likes some unknown on a football forum demanding proof they are attending a match. i would tell that person to f off.

and then there's the obvious why spend time messing about on a phone while watching a game, you might miss something

the easiest way to tell someone was at a game is read their posts, simples

Aye ok.

[lithgierose]

Busy morning at Ayebrokes today ....

Deeds ? lol

[lithgierose]

more chance of finding Mr deeds

[No8.]

that'll be the Wifi in action at last!!

I get a worse reception at Ibrox than most other grounds

[timomouse]

this blog only mentions the top 5 games with high viewing figures, the next five not shown might all be rangers games??

so ok celtic v county managed the highest but that's only what's listed, but there's no viewing figures given for all of rangers televised games compared to celtic, there's only average figures given from the premiership also the attached spreadsheet doesn't have the figures for all of rangers televised games. i'm sure rangers were televised in domestic games more than celtic were.

where are the figures for rangers tv?

i'm talking about all viewing figures here

As the person who compiled all that, a couple of things to point out.

Firstly, if a game was televised and it's not on there, then it didn't get enough viewers to be on there. It's compiled from BARB, who publish ratings for every TV channel so it is accurate. This is also how the SPFL track figures as well - they've told me as such.

As Rangers TV isn't on, you know, TV so figures aren't compiled and anyone publishing it wouldn't be verifiably neutral so if you saw any, I wouldn't trust them.

As for the whole "Rangers are more popular than everyone" nonsense, both Hibs and Hearts get more viewers than Rangers, never mind Celtic and, what you can't deny is that interest in the club is down, season in season, by about a quarter - as the stats show.