It's a good thing for *us* :-)
― ailsa, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
Chairman Somers jumps before getting pushed at EGMhttp://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."
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 2 March 2015 08:34 (nine years ago) link
dignified till the end
― there can be only (onimo), Monday, 2 March 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
Looks like Dave King's it then.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
ALL HAIL HAIL TO THE KING!
― there can be only (onimo), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
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?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
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.
― there can be only (onimo), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 20:03 (nine years ago) link
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...
― there can be only (onimo), Friday, 6 March 2015 09:04 (nine years ago) link
Oh lolz galore, he actually said that!
― ailsa, Friday, 6 March 2015 11:49 (nine years ago) link
The lolz continue apace. I might actually rupture something if Sally returns.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31800809
― ailsa, Monday, 9 March 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
Stuart McCall in until the end of the season? So says the internets.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Also, Chris Graham, what an utter fud.
― ailsa, Thursday, 12 March 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link
Aye, when the 8NP come out in support you're doing it wrong.
Also the 'can we fix it' guy who's been attempting to assemble an army of bluenose tradesmen to repair Ibrox for free has been recommending ethnic cleansing as the solution to Muslims and posting a whole other bunch of horrible ANGRY WHITE AND PROUD shit.
― there can be only (onimo), Friday, 13 March 2015 12:29 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, saw that last night. What a bunch of charmers all round. When Dave King's not even top of the fud list for one day, there's something badly wrong.
― ailsa, Friday, 13 March 2015 13:07 (nine years ago) link
The McCall thing is also hilarious in its own way. They're paying THREE MANAGERS and basically hoping for a new manager bounce to sneak them into the play-offs. Because I've watched them. They're terrible, and no-one is realistically going to make them better.
― ailsa, Friday, 13 March 2015 13:08 (nine years ago) link
Anyway, these fuds are all lucky that Scott Brown went out for a pint on his day off and knocked them off the front of the papers.
― ailsa, Friday, 13 March 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
That'll teach him to go out drinking with Charlie Kennedy.
― Walking Close to Melton Mowbray (Tom D.), Friday, 13 March 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link
They're terrible, and no-one is realistically going to make them better.
I don't think it's unrealistic given the squad and budget that they could/should be better than Hibs, Falkirk and QOTS, if not Hearts. Anything resembling a bit of form should secure second and you'd then fancy them with a trailing wind, huge support and a couple of refs behind them to have a chance in the play-offs.
― there can be only (onimo), Friday, 13 March 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
Several of that squad could have been deemed capable a few years back. Pretty sure Hibs, Falkirk and QOTS are operating far more sensibly and don't have a ton of overweight past-it losers and talentless cloggers filling their squad. I think given the budget McCall could have assembled a better squad than Sally did, but that ship has sailed.
― ailsa, Friday, 13 March 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
Never underestimate a Hibs team's ability to go tits up under pressure.
― Walking Close to Melton Mowbray (Tom D.), Friday, 13 March 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
That new manager bounce effect working out well for Sevco then.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
http://howcanoneknow.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Dead-cat-bounce-graph-yahoo-finance.gif
― there can be only (onimo), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
Stuart McLol
― ailsa, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32127566
Rangers manage to cut their losses to £111,000 a week.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 12:26 (nine years ago) link
They're on their way to where they think they belong! I'm scared*!
* I'm not scared, unless you count nightmares induced by prolonged exposure to Lee McCulloch's face
― ailsa, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 13:04 (nine years ago) link
Should Rangers gain promotion to the Premiership this season, they must pay Newcastle United £500,000.
^^^ for the use of one out of five loaned players so far ^^^
Total prize money for finishing 2nd in the Championship: £342,000, of which £90,000 has already been paid before Christmas. Leaving £252,000.
Whatever happened to this? http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl-lower-divisions/spfl-rangers-are-liable-for-250k-ebt-fine-1-3636492
STV reported at the time that the SPFL would withhold £250,000 prize-money. If that's still the case, promotion leaves them with £2,000 from which to pay half a million to Newcastle for borrowed crocks.
― there can be only (onimo), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
Ahahahaha. Ha.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
key issues
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBiYlt6WQAE6ejz.jpg
― there can be only (onimo), Thursday, 2 April 2015 12:29 (nine years ago) link
Ah, not allowed to be racist or sectarian any more, so we'll revert to sexism instead. Nice.
― ailsa, Thursday, 2 April 2015 12:36 (nine years ago) link
http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/rangers/315947-rangers-delisted-from-stock-exchange-after-failing-to-find-new-adviser/
Rangers have announced they will delist from the Stock Exchange after failing to appoint a new nominated adviser.
kinda think King wanted this all along
― there can be only (onimo), Thursday, 2 April 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
In a statement to the Alternative Investment Market, Rangers say the failure to find a Nomad is down to "the well documented failings in corporate governance and management of those who previously controlled the company."
Uh, the last board cut the losses and secured funding. King said he had a Nomad lined up before the takeover.
― there can be only (onimo), Thursday, 2 April 2015 13:14 (nine years ago) link
"There is no reason why delisting should adversely impact on the value of the Company's shares or on the Company's financial condition or prospects.
can't think why Nomads and auditors not touching your company with a barge pole then you being forced to delist from an exchange would impact your share prices
― there can be only (onimo), Thursday, 2 April 2015 13:16 (nine years ago) link
https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmownerid/search?domain=1&id=48839&app=1&name=SPORTSDIRECT&postcode=
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the whole kit, caboodle and bear
― not content (onimo), Thursday, 9 April 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
Dave King is fit and proper. We're all doomed (again)!
― ailsa, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
yasss
― There was Bjork from Iceland and Alanis Morissette from Canada (onimo), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
have they said anything about Ashley's move for EGM + cashback?
― There was Bjork from Iceland and Alanis Morissette from Canada (onimo), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
lol
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Sunday, 31 May 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
I've just had to look for the vine of the first goal, worse than any description could make it.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Sunday, 31 May 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
i didn't want to post during match for fear of kiss of death but molto lol
― probs with the skag (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 31 May 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
Hopefully, come the end of next season, Hibs and AN Other will have prolonged this most hilarious of exiles.
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Sunday, 31 May 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
The board really didn't want to pay that £500k "promotion bonus" to Newcastle, did they?
― michaellambert, Sunday, 31 May 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
St Mirren ftw. The post-match punch up was lolz in excelsis. Moshni totally gets what being an Ibrox legned means.
― ailsa, Sunday, 31 May 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
pls summarise for non scots: why are rangers still so shit?
― Dravidian Miss Desi (nakhchivan), Sunday, 31 May 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
No money, refusal to live within means, Ally McCoist, colossally shite players who fans seem to love despite being even shiter than they were when they loved them first time round, no sense of requirements of being a lower league team.
― ailsa, Sunday, 31 May 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
That maybe doesn't make sense. They are skint and have chosen to spend limited resources on past players who are past for a reason. Mostly because McCoist was a shite manager, and partly because it cheers yr average WATP bear. Now they are a ragbag of crap old average players whose best days are behind them, Newcastle loanees on some weird deals, and kids who are having to fit into whatever gaps are left. Zero team spirit as far as I can see, which I guess would be a huge asset in a scrappy league.
― ailsa, Sunday, 31 May 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
oh god just saw that first glorious goal
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 31 May 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
Hilarious, innit.
― ailsa, Sunday, 31 May 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
Compare the Vision from two years ago to today's reality.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22400088
― There was Bjork from Iceland and Alanis Morissette from Canada (onimo), Monday, 1 June 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
So:
Whyte, Green, Clark & Whitehouse all arrested as part of an investigation into the takeover. Popcorn at the ready.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 13:31 (eight years ago) link
Quality entertainment
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link