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We invite all Rangers fans to sign up and state how much money they would invest if the opportunity for meaningful fan ownership occurs in future.

An awful lot of people seem prepared to pledge money towards a highly qualified eventuality that has almost no chance of happening. I couldn't pledge anything on this basis. I would be happy to GIVE some money today if it was to help Rangers through a defined period and purpose but what is being asked is to lend financial credibility to some future proposal by God knows who and for a fan ownership scheme that has yet to be determined. I'll help Rangers but not the RST's latest political meandering.

I'm sorry BH, I respect your posts & opinions, but you completely missed the point of my ramblings.

Not everyone did. Your points are entirely valid

There you have it Craig. From the little anyone can see and considering the process in hand it looks as though CW has behaved impeccably. The one thing you learn in these events is that what you see probably isn't what you get.

Why would Craig Whyte tell everyone of his intentions ?

Why ? "Yes, hello, I'm Craig Whyte I'm going to buy the Club for a pound and take it into administration as soon as possible"

Can anyone offer up a valid and positive reason why he wasn't "economical" with the truth ?

Not only the HMRC breathing down our neck, tim bloggers, bbc tims and mhedia tim bastards all scratching for dirt as well as the last board(and they have turned out to be self serving, greedy incompetent arseholes.

 

What was he supposed to do ? Tell the support what he was going to do but make them promise not to tell anyone !

Look what happened yesterday. Within hours, yes hours, of an intention to apply for administration, HMRC were on the case trying to appoint for their own administrator !

Even tonight on STV news, every item about the issue was slanted against CW because of the £9m tax etc..very little about Murray's £75m "dream".

 

The game is off, the game is off !.said STV....and then near the end of the sport they said it was on. Either very incompetent or trying to "sexy" it up! I knew the game was on mid afternoon for fucks sake as did all who twitter.

I once lost my job and went to College. I was due mortgage payments which I simply could not pay. I knew I was going to lose my house no matter what. Should I have tried to pay whatever I had to the mortgage, leaving us with nothing for food, power etc. or should I just have waited to the inevitable bankruptcy and be able to eat etc. and have the outstanding mortgage written off ?

£9m outstanding. Pay or wait for administration to reduce the amount ?

Business is business.

So far, I think Craig Whyte has played a blinder in the face of slander, muckraking, threats, and intimidation both legal and illegal.

I for one, am quite happy where we stand.

However I will reserve overall judgement when the Fat lady gives us a song..please let it be Tina Turner.

 

When are we going to listen to our own advice and kick the media in to touch.

I think you have it by the balls Biggordy. Well said.

I suspect that given administration was the intent all along that he felt some of the above lies were necessary evils. But from what we are seeing he is no better than his predecessor.

Don't get me wrong, i don't like whyte nor trust him, but this IS starting to look like a witch hunt against him by pacific quay.

Only "starting"?

You can thank Murray's method of wage funding for that. Who knows about Whyte, I certainly don't. But the only thing that has us on the edge of an abyss is Sir David Murray, and the fact that he ever existed as part of that 140 years history. All the good things, and all the good times, he gave us, are infinitely undermined by the fact that he has singularly led to our possible tax doom.

Great post.

There's a theory being voiced that Whyte is trying to back Murray into a corner where he (Murray) will have to accept the tax liability and that Murray is orchestrating a media campaign against Whyte in return. Hence the BBC interview of AJ and Walter - and the Daily Record spread that was more or less commissioned by Murray. It seems Whyte may not have been nearly as idle or as passive as people think. Of course, I couldn't possibly confirm any of this and wouldn't even try to.

Thanks Pete.

Either change the topic title to something more appropriate or delete the thread. Ridiculous.

How do you "mistake" something like this. You either know or you don't and the source clearly didn't know. In which case he/she is a total shit.

Isn't really something us Rangers fans didn't know, but still good to get it out there to a wider audience.

Knowledge is silent. Communication is not.

I'd suggest it's either a straightforward scheduling matter .... or the case against us isn't as firm as HMRC would like and they're looking for time and cashflow to push us towards offering or accepting a settlement deal.

I wouldn't get excited by any of this. It's fairly standard practice to establish your client has acted reasonably by attempting to find a resolution short of going to court. I'm almost certain this will have been done on the specific advice of Carter Ruck, without much expectation of the BBC accepting the offer.

Sadly I think scenario E is the most likely outcome, and what a f*&king mess that will be!

The unseen part of his plan may be the introduction of other investors, who obviously cannot reveal themselves until the tax position (and therefore the likely remedy) is established.

posted this on ££ , it lasted 11 minutes , if that doesnt sum up Dingwall then nothing will

Hell, are they still doing that. They don't have much confidence in themselves.

Appreciate there's nothing ground-breaking but a number of questions were put to Gio and he was given the opportunity to answer which ones he fancied. We're not really in a position to force him to talk about stuff he doesn't want to.

 

I'm not Paxman...

ha! Don't give me that bullshit, I've seen your exchanges with Andy Muirhead on twitter.

Quite a coup for Gersnet but my overall impression is that I could have read it in the old Rangers News - very tame questions and learned nothing I couldn't have predicted before reading, whoever the guest was.

Stinks of some smart arse trying to limit our naming options if CW did have to rename the company, but the likelyhood of having to rename the club is probably quite slim anyway.

How many times has the club been renamed already? Regardless of the formal company name, the club will always be known as Rangers

I agree, but that doesn't alter the fact that they're not exactly lynching the club as a whole. It's Whyte himself and his past they're having a go at. Which is why I'm a little disquietened that he's pulling rank and censoring everything about the club to the BBC. Including threatening to sack anyone who talks to the BBC, no matter what they're talking about. So if Ally McCoist accidentally gives an interview to Chick Young, Whyte will fire him.

 

I just find it all a bit messy.

Of course it was said in the heat of the moment. But something has to be done about the internal enemy at Rangers. The signal has to be sent that the leaking has to stop and that the Rangers company (reasonably) expects its employees to act in the company's interests. I would do the same. The BBC, or at least the bheasts that have hijacked it, is indeed attacking Rangers. It's all about Rangers, Whyte is just the vehicle available today.

He's not defending the club though, he's defending himself. The BBC haven't really attacked Rangers in all of this, their entire case has been Whyte.

Do you really think the BBC would be investigating Craig Whyte if he didn't own Rangers?

Neither do I.

Anyone know the name of the scumbag who writes this blog?

Scott McMenemy

Don't think Whyte ever said BBC were banned from Ibrox.

Actually, the proof will be in the eating, not the pudding.

It has nothing to do with any attitude towards Craig Whyte. If anything, quite the opposite of what you infer. If Whyte can take us successfully through administration then he'll have achieved plenty.