Rangers Have gone into Administration

He needs to learn to pronounce his apostrophes as well, aid whoever was transcribing that.

Anyone voting them back in if it comes to that can fuck off, btw. Condoning cheating is NAGL.

otm
but chairmen rarely do what the fans want.

They will if the fans stop going because the league's a fucking bogey.

Administration isn't the worst-case scenario, liquidation is. 10-point penalties are neither here nor there in this tbh.

Question: if the tax bill comes in at even, say, £30m, and gets added to whatever the other liabilities are; how are they ever going to generate enough to achieve any sort of acceptable settlement?

He needs to learn to pronounce his apostrophes as well, aid whoever was transcribing that.

― ailsa, Monday, February 13, 2012 4:56 PM

oh come off it, no need to make fun of me for not putting apostrophes in

They aren't.

I can't see them trading their way out of this one like Motherwell and Dundee managed.

There's a suspicion that Whyte has put Ibrox and/or Murray Park up as security against the Ticketus loan.

xpost - I thought you'd cut and pasted it from somewhere!

but chairmen rarely do what the fans want.

Like the assumption than fans of other clubs all want to see Rangers suffer. You mean like the Killie fans that were celebrating Rangers winning the league last season?

^ first sentence came out as gobbledygook

well some clubs have some fans who do like Rangers some who like Celtic and some who hate both. That's Scotland.

and clubs like airdrie and killie who have more than others

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but i know a few killie fans and they all hate rangers and celtic.

jellyandicecream?

Just got a phone call from a mate of mine, said he passed Ibrox on the way home from work and there was an 'ugly crowd' gathered outside. I said they're usually inside and there's even a song about it.

Celtic fans have been singing "jelly and ice cream when Rangers die" for weeks. Some have even made things like this

http://thecelticblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tricolour-jelly-150x150.jpg

btw, tv money is relatively shite, and attendances suffer because of it necessitating travelling to the other end of the country for a noon kickoff, or a 6pm on a Wednesday or whatever.

Fuck the TV money, fuck Rangers, fuck cheating, fuck everyone assuming Celtic will break for the border as soon as Rangers go down. Let's give it a go without them, if it happens. Which it should.

xpost Jelly and icecream when Rangers die (also "having a party", "doing the conga", "passing the parcel" and last weekend's new addition "pissing on Ibrox") Reappropriation of a song about Thatcher.

Actually........ When you go into administration, you basically have to accept most bids for players. Transfer window is shut , so unless some russians fancy Rangers players then as long as Rangers come out of it by the transfer window , they wont need to sell anyone.

xps

ahh ok

Fuck the TV money, fuck Rangers, fuck cheating, fuck everyone assuming Celtic will break for the border as soon as Rangers go down. Let's give it a go without them, if it happens. Which it should.

totally with you here.

When you go into administration, you basically have to accept most bids for players.

So what players do you fancy, Celtic fans?

McGregor gets on great guns with Thommo

hes the only one worth buying tbh.

I can see a lot of people losing jobs here, even amongst the playing staff. If you're an administrator who's just taken over and you have to pay e.g. £7.5k a week to first team player Daniel Cousin, what do you do with e.g. fringe player with "limited ability" Kirk Broadfoot?

btw i was wrong re the precedent being Motherwell. Those cunts got off scot free, it was Gretna who received the automatic 10 point deduction.

as long as Rangers come out of it by the transfer window , they wont need to sell anyone.

How do you propose they trade themselves back out of administration? (I predict they don't, with a firesale at the end of the season and redundancies galore before that to get shot of the wages from the shit guys xpost, what onimo said)

Wouldn't take any of them, tbh.

Excuse me, Scotland international Kirk Broadfoot (xp)

Rangers players I'd have in Celtic's first XI: McGregor (mibbe, big Fraser's been good lately - even preventing actual goals that have gone in) & Bocanegra.

I can see a lot of people losing jobs here, even amongst the playing staff. If you're an administrator who's just taken over and you have to pay e.g. £7.5k a week to first team player Daniel Cousin, what do you do with e.g. fringe player with "limited ability" Kirk Broadfoot?

pick him for scotland then make fun of him

How do you propose they trade themselves back out of administration? (I predict they don't, with a firesale at the end of the season and redundancies galore before that to get shot of the wages from the shit guys xpost, what onimo said)

i don't know how. I can just see the reasoning why they did it now rather than before or later on in the season, it just gives them the maximum amount of time to try to solve it without having a firesale

rangers have released a statement. Something about it's not guaranteed they will go into administration (im paraphrasing here) and its business as usual

they havent decided yet if they will proceed with it

and he's had a go at murray and the previous board

Seriously? I'm convinced the reason they did it now is to pre-empt the taxman taking what's left and assure Whyte's status as preferred creditor over HMRC.

xpost The guy is an unreliable asset stripper. I'm inclined to not believe a word he says, tbh.

well yeah that's also possible

I think if they had enough money to tide them over or had any feeling they'd win the tax case they'd have hung on until being granted a UEFA licence for next season. As it stands I can't see them being out of administration in time to apply, meaning Motherwell and Hearts could be fighting for a Champions League place. Let's ask them if they want a strong Rangers.

OK RANGERS YOU'VE MADE IT PERSONAL NOW. DO NOT LET THOSE CUNTS FROM MOTHERWELL INTO THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE!!!!!!!!!!!

"its the first step on the road to ending the uncertainty thats surrounded Rangers for the last 2-3 minutes"

apparently there's been great gifs posted on Pie And Bovril about all this, but i'm still not reading that shite, so feel free to post any you come across.

The Club has put forward a CVA proposal to HMRC in which creditors would be paid and provision made for the legacy HMRC case, commonly known as the 'big tax' case.

a few months ago Whyte was saying the rangerstaxcase.com blog was a load of old shite, now he's using their shorthand.

The Rangers FC Group, the majority shareholder in the Club, is prepared to provide further funding for the Club on the basis the funding is ring-fenced from the legacy HMRC issue.

"we want to buy more players without paying tax"

hyphen is the strongest zing i've seen in some time, kudos

Billionaire Craig Whyte, lest we forget
https://p.twimg.com/Ali0kWUCQAAP6Sa.jpg

Wealth off the radar!

https://p.twimg.com/Aliw0aQCQAAJe5Y.jpg

Billionaire Craig Whyte, lest we forget

Was that the unimpeachably even-handed Daily Record by any chance?

I do love pfunkboy's adherence to the idea that proven crook and fraudster and venture capitalist Craig Whyte might be doing things in the best interests of Rangers though.

Yes indeed. They reported last week on their own journalistic standards by saying "Craig Whyte's PR told us 'just call him a billionaire' - so we did!"

xp

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We were the people! Hahaha! Love it.

Tesco bringing the lols

https://twitter.com/#!/UKTesco/status/165867627229626369

@hendybhoy Yup quite a few offers on ready to eat & blocks of jelly & tubs of ice cream. All the makings of a #JellyandIceCreamExtravaganza

Anyway, I was a wee bit down in the dumps as I came into work this morning but am leaving this evening with a pronounced spring in my step all thanks to the Most Successful Club Team in the World

I might quickly retrain myself in laser tattoo removal, lot of extraneous stars might need taken off shortly.

also

http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/rangers/1331979-rangers-await-panel-verdict-on-outstanding-lord-nimmo-smith-ebt-fine/

This is all very delightful but is anything going to come of it?

Germans have been shocked in recent days by two anti-refugee protests in the eastern state of Saxony.
Dozens of protesters blocked a bus carrying families to a shelter in the town of Clausnitz on Thursday night, hurling abuse and chanting "we are the people".

Errrrrrr...

The gift that keeps on giving

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

This is what happens when a ventriloquist's dummy takes over the running of a football club.

Craig Whyte has been cleared of fraud but that "doesn't exonerate him from his villainy towards Rangers Football Club", according to Alastair Johnston, the man who was chairman of the Glasgow club at the time of its sale.

In an interview with BBC Scotland, Johnston said: "Candidly he should have been charged with murder, murder of an institution.

"Destruction of people's passion, destruction of the spirit of hundreds of thousands of Rangers' fans. That's what he should have been charged with. Then it would have been a no brainer."

Prosecutors, instead, charged Whyte with fraud relating to his takeover of the club in May 2011 and a jury acquitted him.

He may have lied his way into Ibrox, concealing the true nature of how he was funding the takeover and his entrance signalled the beginning of the financial collapse of Rangers but his behaviour was not considered criminal.

How can it be 'murder*' if Rangers still exist and are not a new club?

*lol

the motherwell-born billionaire justly exonerated.

Seen a few tweets suggesting that it was confirmed under oath during the trial that Rangers lied to get a UEFA licence in 2011. I haven't been following the trial because life's too short and I don't really care, but does anyone know what that's about? Googling getting me nowhere and I'm fucked if I'm wading through a bazillion posts on forums.

I see Alastair Johnson's been appointed to the Sevco board today though.

the resolution 12 patter just makes my eyes glaze over. doubt anything will come of any of this (in terms of punishment from uefa, the sfa).

Prosecutors, instead,

v nice deadpan reporting

Happy <s>Valentine's</s> Administration Day xx

Stupid tags. Where's a mod when you need one

Hello! Comical ineptitude very much in keeping with the thread content imo

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