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Every comment on him that I've read from people who have watched says no, he's not.

Or are we not reliant enough, given that injuries are still occurring regularly?

You didn't put any provisos on who they should sell to in the posts that I quoted/read, but I haven't read the whole thread. Agreed that they both have (large) risks and the current incumbents don't fill me with confidence either, but the downside risk of new owners looks too large to me. at least at present. At least the current guys appear to have acknowledged their short-comings by bringing in what appears to be a competent CEO.

Nobody is saying that the existing board haven't messed up things but at least they have the club's best interests at heart and are continuing to fund us out of their own pockets. You appear to want to sell to anyone that is willing to take over, and what's to stop someone coming in and financing the purchase through debt. You think that the Whyte situation is totally different but I'm not sure why. If an American venture capitalist came in, for example, they may appear to be wealthy and the deal looks good on paper but what's to stop them selling Ibrox and using the cash from that to finance the deal and not put a single penny of their own into it? The Glazers did something similar with Man Utd, albeit with a different set up for finance, but the club has ended up financing its own purchase. It's virtually impossible for the current shareholders to put safeguards in place to ensure the club isn't financially raped post-sale. I can't tell how the current board can get us out of the mess we're in, but I can show how new owners could make things even worse. You haven't shown why you think any new shareholders would do any better than the current ones, and wouldn't put their own interests before the club's. There's a huge risk in getting new owners and given what's happened to us over the past 25 years, is it really a risk we should be taking?

I doubt existing shareholders will want to spend cash buying existing shares.

You have no confidence in the board but yet you want them to be the ones to find a new board/owners?

We wanted Murray replaced and ended up with Whyte and Green. The "replace them" message isn't helpful when the likelihood is replacing them with someone worse for the club and is not interested in "keeping the lights on". Keeping the lights on is a fairly major point and the alternatives are to sell players and vastly reduce the wage bill and therefore the squad quality, which is the easy answer and may end up having to be the solution as you are correct in that it can't go on indefinitely, but kudos to the board for delaying the inevitable as long as they can. Yes, we all want better players on the park and better in the board room but we don't have any quick fixes. In terms of external debt we owed around £3m to Premier Division Support Fund and under £1m to a bank. Just asking for a replacement board, who would probably be worse for our club and may end up selling players or selling the ground, is dangerous. Be careful what you wish for.

Butland and Tav straight back into the team when fit.

Ah OK. Apologies @Blue Moon. I misunderstood your post

Nothing? Seriously? There was me thinking he was integral part of a league winning team and helping us reaching a European final.

Yeah, i heard the same.

Hibernian 0 - 1 Rangers FGS Igamane

Great performance today. I thought there's around 8 players in with a shout for MOTM.

Rangers had an xG of over 2 today. Celtic's was around 0.07.

Delighted to have got this one wrong 🇬🇧🇬🇧

Still free...or else I'll have to take the wife 😂 Ticket now gone. Taking Jim Hannah, for those of you who may remember our old ticket office manager.

Rangers 1 - 2 Celtic FGS Igamane

2-1 to Rangers Tav

Looks like I'll have a spare beside me for the OF game, if anyone's interested.

St Mirren 0 - 1 Rangers Igamane

FFS. The guy has been in the door less than 2 days and will still be in the early stages of his information gathering, and has also been dealing with the SFA on the VAR issue and you expect him to have something of substance and can already form an opinion that he hasn't got what we need?

So if it's Umbro, it's still Castore but with a different badge?

Great idea, although need someone who appears neutral and doesn't have an official connection.

I find it hard to blame Beaton for the penalty incident. That goes on VAR. Agreed, although it needs to be done in a clever way. It can't be seen to appear as if we're just poor losers. Celtic used ex-players in the press, plus I firmly believe that the refs are being intimidated away from the pitch by the extremist parts of their support..

(3) John Walker on X: "Penalty Narrative Dismissed - Beaton Whistles after play stops - It was for the pull (that was inside the box) - Freekick taken from Edge of Box (Not the corner where some are claiming) https://t.co/zXz73ueXJL" / X Not sure why the above link doesn't embed, but it shows clearly that the whistle goes AFTER play stops so there's no reason for VAR not to intervene.