Londoner Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 That article says the payment due in august to SPL clubs could be shredded...on what grounds?! Because Doncaster and Regan got defecated on by us all? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wunfellaff Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Thats bollox. Its been on the cards for a decade. Even The Rangers Tax Case blog started March last year http://rangerstaxcase.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/what-is-rangers-tax-case-all-about/ Rangers’ tax problem goes back to the 2000-2001 financial year. A tax plan was purchased from the Baxendale-Walker law firm and Rangers dipped their toes in the waters of a tax scheme which would, a decade later, place a cloud over the solvency of the club. The scheme, an Employee Benefits Trust (EBT), can be operated legally. So let us look at how an EBT is supposed to be operated. Then we shall look at what Rangers FC have done. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FFC_GJS Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 You have to laugh at some of the pish in the gossip column today: 5 clubs in administration, £120m lost to the Scottish economy as a result of no old firm derby, Giovanni Di Stefano saying Rangers should never have gone into admin and the funniest one Rangers being in division three making us vurnable to match fixing. The media in this country really is a joke. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Stewart Gilmour is always someone I've quite liked. Okay, he's at our rivals, but he's always seemed to me to be an excellent chairman who's done good things for St. Mirren, the kind of chairman most fans would like to have at their club. Someone who cares about the club and gets them living within their means. After this though, complete and utter c**t. At least Johnston was perfectly honest about not wanting to lose Rangers. Petrie and Gilmour are coming out of this looking much worse, having paid lip service to sporting integrity to appease their fans then proving that they couldn't give a flying f**k about it in their shameful attitude towards SFL clubs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 That article says the payment due in august to SPL clubs could be shredded...on what grounds?! Because Doncaster and Regan got defecated on by us all? I think we're all supposed to believe SPL has no cash in the bank *and* Rangers being in SFL3 not SFL1 will cause every TV firm/sponsor to pull out, meaning the £645k basic pay-out ceases to exist. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkYardley'sNo.1Fan Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Is there any chance we could somehow see Rangers oldco resurrected? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagmaster Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Don't know if this has been posted before. Apologies if it has. From Dumfermline Extra: Kelty Hearts stalwart Stefan Winiarski will have completed more than 10 years at Kelty this season and a deserved testimonial match has been arranged against The Rangers which will be played on Wednesday 27th July at Central Park. This match is sure to catch the imagination of the people of Fife and Scotland as this could be one of Rangers first games of the new season since their demotion from the SPL. Stefan and Kelty Hearts have also decided to donate a percentage of the gate money to the Rangers Fans Fighting Fund which is a great gesture. ------------------------------ Looks like Sevco's pre-season is getting them prepared for life at the bottom. You'd think the RFFF would be too proud to take a man's money from his own testimonial but hey, every penny counts when you are skint. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilPar72 Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-view/rangers-leaked-email/2305 and here is the email 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagmaster Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Polite question: Are you guaranteeing that Ross County do not get relegated? If so, then the logical next step is to consider whether the SPL is in fact a rigged league, a bit like WWF or its 1970s equivalent on ITV..... I am sure Mr Doncaster Cockwomble wouldn't allow such a thing to happen. We are now living in the 2010s, not the 1910s, after all..... With kind regards, PA We will never be relegated, We Are The Sheeple 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p&b is a disgrace Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Honestly can't believe I'ld never heard of Turnbull Hutton before he told the currants to do one, the guy's become a legend and the more you read of him 'telling it as it is' the more you have to admire him. He's always said exactly what he thinks - and its not always been popular with some of our fans. But I don't think he's ever not be right on the money ( ..... cue a series of Rovers fans proving me wrong! ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marty_j Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Any social unrest today? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FFC_GJS Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Any social unrest today? Aye massive riots have been reported accross the country. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I've always maintained that you should have 2 bodies... an association and a league... for exactly the reasons of checks-n-balances. Not only can they concentrate on different areas of the game where they specialise, but the association can act as a watchdog on the league, while the league - by merit of its independent sovereignty - guards against untrammelled dictatorship from the association. Agreed, and you can't have the league appointing and placing referees, and adjudicating on appeals. Killing off the failed SPL experiment is all that's required. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Are Newco members of the SFA? Are Newco members of the SFL? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Kowalski Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Any social unrest today? Someone left an empty Stella bottle on my wall last night, it's been safely dealt with now though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Leitch Loyal Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Someone left an empty Stella bottle on my wall last night, it's been safely dealt with now though. b*****d. They might have left ye a full one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I think we're all supposed to believe SPL has no cash in the bank *and* Rangers being in SFL3 not SFL1 will cause every TV firm/sponsor to pull out, meaning the £645k basic pay-out ceases to exist. More scaremongering pish i'd imagine. Surely they realise that the SFL chairman aren't going to be cowed by this nonsense now? From your knowledge of such things HJ, are the SFL likely to lawyer-up and take these fuckers on, should they attempt to renege on this payment? Is it actually contractual? Cheers in advance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Algorithms Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 John Baird Not only the fact that he's signed for Dundee, but also the fact Baird and his brother are Celtic daft make this hilarious. NewCo fans: clamouring for ex-Raith players... Quite funny to see the reaction for the chairmen. Most fans seem alright with any financial cutbacks, but the chairmen have been living in their own wee world thinking us SFL1 clubs would jump at the chance to have a giant global brand like Rangers in our league. Throw in league construction to benefit the whole of ten or twelve clubs or such for a season while maintaining their own statuses, how could it go wrong? Have they not thought through that first division clubs like Raith and Falkirk have had massive cutbacks in the last few seasons, and the last thing we want to see is the vile club waltz in at our level debt free? They only have themselves to blame for this mess, had they addressed the issue of reconstruction earlier and in a more positive light (instead of proposing an even more closed shop) then they might have been alright. Now, they just look like fannies who've failed to get their moneys worth from sky! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Kowalski Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 b*****d. They might have left ye a full one. Even some dregs would have been appreciated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Any social unrest today? I was woken up at 3am by some barely intelligible drunk guy in the street outside my flat shouting and greeting about his bird dumping him. Come to think of it,might well have been fat Sally after being handed his playing budget for next season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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