Rangers Have gone into Administration

to be fair, when you're getting free kicks against you for feck all and you're trying to pass the ball across a divot-strewn midden, I wouldn't bother my arse trying much either. Especially when it was blatantly obvious how pish the opposition were.

Still, we're all missing it, right? Right?

yeah i took a pass on this one

I fell asleep during the second half

So did Celtic.

to be fair, doesn't require getting much out of first gear to get past that mob these days.

Oh yeah, it's not like 'they could have won that in their sleep' they did[.

http://i.imgur.com/SywKLT0.gif

Ha, good work, gifmakers.

So, Kenny McDowell now admitting that Llambias and Easdale are picking his team for him. He doesn't look terribly comfortable in his press conference, I must say. Also, looks desperately in need of a pair of bollocks when a board member starts interfering in his job. Presumably just trying to hasten his progression to gardening leave.

In fact, STV News just saying the board have released a statement saying that McDowall is talking shite. More to come, hopefully time for me to go and grab some popcorn.

Breathless with laughter

Also, looks desperately in need of a pair of bollocks when a board member starts interfering in his job.

In how many businesses do managers not follow boardroom instructions? I admire Kenny's loyalty to his employers.

I'd be interested in finding out how many times Jason Denayer has been fit but not selected. Once, maybe? (I appreciate his competition is Effin' Ambrose but still)

Is it unreasonable for a Top League In The World team to expect their players to get guaranteed match time when they're sent on loan with the objective of getting match time to develop their careers?

He's employed as the football guy. I'd like to think if I was employed to show my expertise in an area that I'd be allowed to perform my role without guys who don't have my experience deciding they know better. Why would they have hired me otherwise?

I think it's unreasonable to demand automatic inclusion, yes. Part and parcel of developing as a player is realising you need to keep performing at a certain level to keep your place.

my support of the board's handling of McDowell and the team may not be based on what's best for the team...

I realised that :-)

Only 2 out of 3 available from the toon 5 started (and one of them subbed off injured).

So did McDowell lie re team selection?

And the misery continues for the poor old Teddy Bears.

Can't pretend that didn't just slightly redeem my weekend from a football point of view.

That second Raith goal was a marvel of complete fucking uselessness.

Must be 10 minutes since we had a new episode in the saga.

Rangers say they have been forced to search for an alternative venue in London ahead of their extraordinary general meeting on 4 March.
The club has blamed "complaints and false information" that led the Millennium Gloucester Hotel to fear "disruption to guests and neighbours".
Rangers stated that: "The board apologises for any inconvenience."

they couldnt organise a random number at this stage

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-board-slap-ban-daily-5135276

like banning pravda from the kremlin

Yep, Keith Jackson's hard-hitting exclusives are a thing all right.

Happy Valentine's/Jelly-and-ice-cream Day!

http://i.imgur.com/kIhsp.png

Two glorious years of lolling. Cheers Rangers/Sevco!

three!

So it is! Time really does fly when you're having fun.

it was down as two in whytes books

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9z7RNeIIAEFbKD.jpg

Did they not do that with Vladimir Weiss an' all? Clowns.

photo from Ibrokes today

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9z7kK9IYAA7Voc.jpg

https://mobile.twitter.com/GrangeHotels/status/567724002521923584

Jelly and ice cream is off the menu at the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel on 4th March, 2015. #EGM #RangersEGM

That was how the new venue announced its change of heart within hours of the booking being confirmed.

Venue #3 now being sought - presumably "anywhere but Ibrox" is the current selection criterion.

Pretty sure we've all seen this on Twitter or Facebook by now, but anyway: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/11354357/live-football-tv-this-week.html

Friday February 27
Falkirk v Rangers (19.45), Scottish Championship, BT Sport 1 VM 547 / 549 HD, 19.30

Our weekly chance to check on what chaotic nonsense has befallen Rangers and what havoc Mike Ashley has managed to wreak north of the border in the last seven days carries us to a Friday night in Falkirk. Inevitably all the coverage, and most of the crowd, will be interested in the UK's most farcical club (settle down fans of Leeds and QPR, you've got nothing on these guys) but spare a thought for Falkirk who used to yo-yo up and down out of this league quite a bit before they suddenly found Hearts, Hibs and Billy Smart's Travelling Circus joining them at the second tier.

Currently fifth, Falkirk have a great chance to claim a famous win here given how abysmally Rangers are playing football, conducting their business, treating their wives, tending to their gardens, behaving on the way home from the pub and everything else besides.

there'll be a few bears cancelling their Telegraph subs after that

James Easdale's away. I remain baffled at how the prospect of Dave King and his mates coming in is still being punted as a good thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31618423

oh come it's a great thing!

oh come *on*

They should bring back Craigy Whyte and that guy who looked like Alfred Hitchcock.

We need people from failed previous administrations, their experience in what not to do will be invaluable.

It's a good thing for *us* :-)

Chairman Somers jumps before getting pushed at EGM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31687147

"At the risk of antagonising my army of critics, I would point out that Rangers managed to pay its bills and avoid going under during my tenure. These critics might not agree with how we achieved this. I look forward to alternative solutions from whoever is running the club in the future."

dignified till the end

Looks like Dave King's it then.

ALL HAIL HAIL TO THE KING!

I've just read his rap sheet off of Wiki to summarise to the other half why I'm not exactly shitting myself (rather, in fact, pissing myself) about this. Only the 322 charges "including fraud, tax evasion and evasion of exchange control regulations, as well as money-laundering and racketeering". What could possibly go wrong?

NOMAD quits. Shares suspended.

Second tranche of £5m loan drawn down which, I think, means Ashley gets to put his two guys on the board after they get voted out at the EGM.

When I was on the board previously, we had £35m of bank debt and potentially £50m of HMRC debt. So £10m is not a catastrophic number.

can't quite recall how that worked out...

Oh lolz galore, he actually said that!

The lolz continue apace. I might actually rupture something if Sally returns.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31800809