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That's impossible. P.S. I do hope I've contributed sufficiently to the debate now. :box:

Bluedell's going for spelling lessons in the morning.

Go on then, the floor is yours .....

Offensive posts are being deleted when spotted. Timothy will soon get bored - but they are still contributing to the overall numbers even when their posts are deleted. They aren't very bright.

What we want to ensure is that Lloyds back off sufficiently to allow an orderly takeover without them forcing a firesale. As the banner said: Simples.

Please sign and fire a warning shot across their bows - see if they like it up them. http://www.petitiononline.com/gers52/petition.html Please copy this across to all other forums and forward the link to every bluenose in your addressbook. Wording of the petition: We, loyal supporters of The Rangers Football Club, express our dismay at the apparent lack of support given by the Lloyds Banking Group to our Club. We appeal to your commercial good sense (to the extent that such still exists within your discredited, 43% state-owned company) to continue to provide Rangers with the necessary facilities to ensure our success. We will have no hesitation in calling for a nationwide boycott of all your brands should such support be withdrawn: Lloyds TSB, Bank of Scotland, Halifax, C&G, Black Horse, Intelligent Finance, Scottish Widows, Clerical Medical, Birmingham Midshires, Lex, St James's Place Bank, Insight Investment.

Article posted in another place but thought the learned GN posters would appreciate it also: MURRAY INTERNATIONAL EXTENDS ITS ACCOUNTS YEAR END Murray International Holdings Limited will not now need to make public its Accounts until 30 April 2010, five months later than normal. Until now, the year end of the company has been 31 January and the most recently published Accounts are to 31 January 2008. Private companies like MIH have 10 months from the accounting date to publish their Accounts (soon changing to 9 months by the Companies Act 2006), usually meaning that MIHââ?¬â?¢s Accounts are available from Companies House by 30 November each year. But not so this year. MIH will now be preparing Accounts for the 17 month period to 30 June 2009, which will not have to be lodged at Companies House until 10 months later i.e.30 April 2010. Other companies in the MIH group, such as Murray MHL Limited and The Premier Property Group Limited have similarly changed their year ends to 30 June. For the avoidance of doubt, extending the accounting period up to a maximum of 18 months is perfectly legal and, sometimes, appropriate. This does not affect Rangers directly as our accounting year end is already 30 June, as are those of other MIH group companies directly connected to Rangers, such as Murray Sports Limited. We are, though, listed on the Plus Market and its rule book states that our Accounts must be published within 5 months of the year end. So at some point between now and 30 November we will see just how much of a whopping loss we made last year. Be ready for some bad news. So why did MIH change its year end? The simple answer is ââ?¬Ë?because they canââ?¬â?¢. It keeps some presumably dreadful numbers private for another 5 months; out of view of the media, the public, competitors, suppliers et al. The bank will have access to MIHââ?¬â?¢s management accounts and will be well aware of the situation so it is unlikely they will have any problem with the change of year end. Indeed they might even welcome it ââ?¬â?? they as much as anyone will be interested in nursing MIH through the credit crunch. Who knows, by the time 30 April comes around it may be that Rangers has a new owner. And no-one cares what numbers MIH then publish. I guess that is the hope for many, not least Sir Dave.

How do you know that? That is right, indeed the full text of the relevant PLUS rule is: "final results in respect of each financial year must be announced as soon as possible and in any event not later than five months after the end of the period to which they relate". I have emboldened the text above. Seems to me that Rangers know, or should know, by now the results and so may be close to breaching the 'as soon as possible' bit of the rule. However, no doubt they will use some flimsy excuse as a get-out.

Bluedell is right. And I don't understand either. The 'second incident', for which he got sent off, was appealed under Section 6 Paragraph 2 (page 38) of: http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/resources/documents/SFAPublications/SFAHandbook/14DiscProced.pdf The 'initial challenge' was referred to the Review Panel under Section 6 Paragraph 3(i) on page 39. Can someone advise me what powers the Review Panel have under either section to issue a yellow card for either incident ?

Moni Moni, we are Malawi boys Moni Moni, you'll know us by our noise We'll buy some flip-flops, chickens too And build a school as well We'll give the kids some apples, sweets and toys. (can you groan at your own posts?!)

I knew he'd be sniffing about and copy it here straight away

Great find Frankie.

You mean you didn't get a vote ? Everyone else did.