andy steel
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They might do, but I wouldn't lump English in with Yahoos.
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Ah come on, he's not that bad. Poor old Graham.
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Tom's agression re.King is weird to behold, it really sounds like he hates him. For why I dunno, maybe there's something personal. Wilson's dissection of where King stands re. fit & proper and precisely why he released his statement of the day left Tom looking a bit incoherent & blinkered:I can't for the life of me work out why such a good writer and analyst is quite so one-eyed on this topic.
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Not that I know anything about it, but recent history suggests the only people who benefit from strangely beneficial share dealings are not the good guys.
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A Sad Tale of Woe From a Local Business Type
andy steel replied to andy steel's topic in Rangers Chat
I admit this has wound me up, which no doubt was the intention. But anyway: Why act like a bouncer at the AGM, then? If you want calm don't stir the pot. We know who you act for and why. It's neither Rangers nor Rangers best interests. Possibly related to the unprecedented level of incompetence, mendacity and stupidity emanating from the boardroom. I suppose a generic agreement is called for here, but really, if you make your bed you have to lie in it. No, you don't. You want the best outcome for yourself and MASH. -
The day I take lessons from Easdale on what is and isn't in the best interests of Rangers, there'll be proper fiscal responsibility in Ibrox. Can it be that even after everything he doesn't grasp how detested he is? He lost his right to tell fans what is in Rangers best interests when he started hocking the club off to Mike Ashley. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-30922826 Rangers director Sandy Easdale has said police are investigating threats made against him amid the ongoing and acrimonious battle for the Ibrox club. Officers are believed to be monitoring his home after internet posts allegedly urged fans to attack his house in a bid to remove him from the club. Mr Easdale, 47, said he had also received threats by email and letter. Last week, several hundred fans protested outside Ibrox stadium against the current Rangers board. In a statement released to the BBC, Mr Easdale said: "I have received several threats that are now in the hands of the authorities and I am confident that Police Scotland will get to the bottom of this. 'Violence and intimidation' "I appreciate that feelings are running high but I would like to make an appeal for calm. "This sort of behaviour is not in the best interests of the club, its shareholders or its true supporters." Mr Easdale said members of the Rangers board had been "subjected to an unprecedented level of abuse". "People are entitled to air their views but I hope that all parties will agree that violence and intimidation are unacceptable," he said. "All I want to see is the best possible outcome for Rangers." Police Scotland said it did not comment on operational details. Various fans groups have voiced opposition to the Rangers board for some time amid ongoing financial problems. It is understood that the club cannot pay this month's wage bill and needs immediate funding. A £10m loan has been offered by Mike Ashley, the owner of Sports Direct and Newcastle United, who holds an 8.92% stake in Rangers International Football Club - the football club's holding company. In return, Mr Ashley wants security over Ibrox stadium and its Murray Park training complex - a move that has enraged some fans who say the stadium should never be in danger of being taken away from the club's control. About 600 supporters demonstrated before and after the club's abandoned Championship game against Hearts on Friday. Following reports of disturbances, police arrested one man and said they expected to make more arrests after studying CCTV footage.
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Since his lips were moving, I assumed he was lying.
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I think you're being generous saying fellow fans treat the RFB with contempt. I doubt if most have even heard of it. Reckon 'oblivious indifference' would be nearer the mark.
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Gersnet Lifetime Membership of Rangers First and RST/BuyRangers
andy steel replied to Mountain Bear's topic in Rangers Chat
Tbh I think the amount will be reached by the end of the day. -
The board ignores it, a tiny number of fans contact it, and those who do are brushed off. Huzzah! It's another triumph.
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Reckon there might be a dearth of predictions! I couldn't type what score I think will happen anyway, a step too far.
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Hard to believe anyone could think Charles would be a good man to have on your side at this stage?
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I have to admit the toolbar passed me by completely. All it involves is going onto Amazon or Asda or Waterstone's or wherever via the RF site, and they get a % of the total spent. Perfect for anyone who doesn't want to do a regular contribution.
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Apropos of nothing whatsoever that may be happening elsewhere, while pedaling my heavy way around the icy hills of Renfrewshire this morning it occurred to me that some businesses are very reluctant to reveal details of their doings, to the point where the uncharitable onlooker might think there was something a touch suspicious about such reticence. I'm sure that, in 99.9% of such cases, everything is entirely straight forward and it's simple business confidentiality which prompts some City types or business big guns to keep their cards ever so close to their chests. One way to get a look inside any such secretive body is through the courts, of course. Should people either take a company to court, or, crazy though it sounds, should any business take a customer to court, it does offer the legally minded pursuer or defender access to the information they might have been after in the first place. Law! Crazy words, crazy system. It's weird how sometimes it works out that those who rush to law find themselves on the sharp end of her sword, hoist on their own petard. Jonathan Aitken springs to mind, likewise Jeffrey Archer. These, and other less boring thoughts, occupy me this dull January afternoon.
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Are you going to suspend the predictor for the semi-final?
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Might be rubbish, but even the idea of seeing the inside of a remand cell might help to focus a few minds when it comes to voting intentions. Deals have been struck before, after all.
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Aha! It's a worldwide conspiracy!
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First point: Brain most certainly doesn't always beat brawn, history tells us that. However, it is, to all but the most excitable, the preferable route. If Rangers are to go down, I would prefer her to go down with a bit of dignity and not in a maelstrom of depressing images. 2nd: No.
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By diverting attention away from them. I don't buy the thinner skins, man up rationale you're putting forward - its the sort of thing I'd expect from someone of an Easdale's intellect. As to it 'changing nothing', someone better tell the rather large PR sector that they're wasting their time. As with so many questions about the deals of the last four years, I have no idea. Certainly, on a business level, it is straight from the hara-kiri book of management.
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We would be as well admitting some Bears are fuds.
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Well, I'll repeat - it's not so much the level of 'assault' as the damage it does to the movement. Although even a tiny amount of unpleasantness to staff, & in old fashioned though it be in particular to elders or females, is certainly not welcomed by me. Not a question of manning up, it's a question of using your brain rather than your body.
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Taking the fight physically to the thieves only helps the thieves. Whether every fan on the face of the planet says well done to the fans won't change that.
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Do you expect them to praise us for the state we are in?
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In all honesty, drawing up yet another blacklist has to be near the bottom of any new board's to-do list. King putting himself forward, this...I'd hoped for eyes to be more on the ball than this.
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No-one - well, I'm not anyway - is arguing that Argyle House is more important than the boardroom. The argument is that because of the scenes of Friday, we've lost control over the narrative, The counter argument to that seems to be 'fuck them all', which may sound stirring or glorious but will achieve precisely nothing beyond more division. We need to be in control of the narrative, we must be. There should be a pinned thread at the top of this and all other Rangers boards asking anyone who knows anyone involved to get them to either fess up or to pass their details to a fans group for chastisement and being dragged along to apologise - not because it was civil disorder on a scale hitherto unseen, but because nothing would kill this distraction quicker than the sight of Rangers fans self-policing. And because it would be the grown up thing to do, which I suppose rules out a great swathe of our fans doing it. If you want to really annoy the media, that's how to do it. If you want to really annoy Jack Irvine, that's how to do it. If you want to help Rangers, that's how to do it.