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Salary caps may punish Rangers, and prevent us from signing who we want.

From what you have said, there is nothing to prevent a county from employing or playing whoever they want, so it doesn't fall foul of employment law.

Murray surprised me by giving Walter a transfer budget of around �£11m last year after a fairly dismal season, particularly financially. It will therefore be interesting to see what he does this year. Will he take the same level of risk and spend big? Will he try and steady our financial position by keeping some of the funds generated last year to reduce the debt? Will the �£700m redevelopment plans have any impact on our spending? Somany questions, so few answers (at the moment). I haven't a clue where Murray is coming from on the spending front, but some of last year's spending was to try and snap up promising Scottish players (Whittaker, Naismith) and perhaps as there isn't the same level of players available this summer, that might keep the purse strings a bit tighter than many would hope.

"Celtic called for the match to be postponed because some of their players were close to the Motherwell captain, who collapsed during the Dundee United game on Saturday and died soon after." No mention of overshadowing O'Donnell's death, and if they did feel like you suggested, why not come out and say it? It's as "valid" an argument as the one they ended up using. I'm not suggesting that I expect everyone to "bow to my certain knowledge", but I still think your suggestion that Peter Lawwell et al sat down and genuinely decided that they would ask for the game to be called off because it would overshadow his death, but hide the real reason and instead use the excuse of their players being close to him as somewhat unbelievable.

Last time I try and make a humourous post on this site...

I don't think that this is a possibility because:

Sorry boss. Didn't mean to offend your sensibilities. To me, it's such an outrageous suggestion that it didn't need any explanation. I thought my previous comments of being "100% certain" would be enough, but in case they aren't, please see the post below.

:D Wish I was on whatever you've been taking

Dundee Utd players were on the pitch when O'Donnell collapsed. Dundee Utd requested twice that their next game be postponed but this was rejected. Yet Celtic only had a tenuous link to the player and they managed to get their game cancelled. Hmmm.

I think that Celtic did not show respect by using O'Donnell's death for their own means. I am 100% certain that if it had happened at a time when Celtic had no injuries or suspensions then they would not have asked for trhe game to be cancelled.

The Record.

McCurry's house attacked in 2003: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_prem/2817715.stm Threatened with violence in 2007/8: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football-news/scottish-football/spl-football/2008/04/26/former-old-firm-referee-mike-mccurry-admits-i-nearly-quit-86908-20395355/ i believe Ian Brines has been messing around as well. No sign of him on the front page. I wonder why?

The problem was that it wasn't just the Aberdeen game. There were about 6 games in a row that Celtic benefited from "dodgy" refereeing decisions. Some of the games during the season were outrageous, including Falkirk away and the second Rangers game. Note the difference in the press treatment of the referees. All these games and hardly a whimper, but yet Michael McCurry ends up getting his personal life platered over the papers and there are 8 page specials on his decisions. His house gets attacked on more than one occasion, and he has been hit by coins from celtic fans twice I believe. Intimidation works.

"As Rangers took on Zenit St Petersburg in the Uefa Cup final, shouts of "We're gonna deep-fry your vodka!" echoed around the City of Manchester stadium." I don't remember that being shouted.

It should fail again, due to EU employment law.

I agree, but these things are not always as straightforward as you would imagine.

Every time he played for us a CB he has been crap. He looks a far better LB than CB and I would not be happy with him playing in the middle.

Fair enough. I'm sure that it hasn't been easy for the Board to get together to decide on a way forward given the commitments as I explained earlier on this thread. The resignations may have come as a shock to the rest of the Board as it did too everyone else. To expect the rest of the 16 remaining members to drop everything and find a mutually agreeable date may have been difficult. The issuing of a statement would not have been too easy either given that Frankie was on holiday and the passing over to a new web-master would have been impossible. However, in my opinion, there is a big jump between that and suggesting fraud.

The Trust and/or the people who resigned may or may not have their reasons for non-disclosure, but it does not mean that there is any financial impropiety as you are trying to imply. The Trust Board members are hard-working guys and gals and for you to try and suggest that there may have been dishonesty or fraud is a serious accusation and is totally out of order.

The signing of Miller is minor league compared to the signing of Mo Johnston.

The RST should be subject to the same scutiny as the Government? One is running the country with tens/hundreds of thousands of staff. One is run by volunteers in their spare time who have full time jobs and who have spent much of the last couple of weeks following their team in their spare time.

So the fans should have the final say over who Walter signs?

I find it difficult to criticise Smith's tactics, given where they had got us to a month ago. Likewise selling Hutton. We were doing OK without him until a few weeks ago. I can't blame Murray for selling Hutton in January. As for Barry, he's a conundrum. Can't figure out if he isn't good enough, inconsistent, or just playing through an injury.

Victims of bad refereeing Victims of an organisation that gave us a schedule of games that could do nothing other than punish us Victims of a club who would use the most immoral of means to try and win the league

They weren't for extending the season any further, and I reckon it would have just been the same.