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It certainly wouldn't surprise me if Ashley tried to do that.

Yep, it doesn't matter whether we're getting 51% or 25% when it's being fiddled so that we're getting a percentage of next to nothing because the 26% difference is a quarter of next to nothing.

Edmiston House is a prime spot for a shitty Sports Direct superstore.

Even if we're extremely generous and round the figures to £5m p/a from JJB compared to £500k p/a from SportsDirect it's still an absolute disgrace to be getting 10% of what JJB were paying us.

His 18 league goals in the third tier in the 13/14 season weren't enough by a long shot given the number of games he played, especially when you consider that 7 of those goals came in just 2 games when he scored 4 against Stenny at Ibrox and a hat-trick against East Fife. In fact, despite not playing much at the beginning of the 13/14 season he actually scored 10 goals in 8 games (all competitions) over the first 3 months of the season, but then went on to play in another 30 games and only scored a paltry 11 goals. Not exactly what you'd call consistent.

Raygun, when posting an article or statement please copy & paste the article or statement into your post along with the link and don't just post a link on it's own. I've edited your OP to do this.

Have to agree and would also add that scouting based on certain individual stats could be misleading in other ways as well. In reality, something like pass completion stats can have as much to do with the way your team plays (shape, movement etc) and the quality of your teammates as they do the actual passer of the ball.

DK might have just contradicted PM because he wasn't very happy that PM had allegedly been flapping his lips too much at NARSA.

I suppose this news is quite good for us too because it means we should be able to do it as well, but I doubt very much if this type of thing will be anywhere near our Club's list of priorities for the next few years.

Oh aye, and for a grand he could have had a state of the art speed camera, radar & cop car detector which can detect cop cars up to 1KM away. I wonder why he was driving a Mini Cooper countryman?

I think it's strange that he was originally charged and forced to make a court appearance at all, so no wonder he didn't turn up in court. For doing 81mph in a 60mph limit he should have been given a speeding fine and possibly 3 points, but shouldn't have had to go to court. If he had to go to court because he didn't pay a simple speeding fine when he's a millionaire, then he's a very stupid millionaire.

I hope you're wrong stewarty.

There's absolutely no way I'd believe for one minute that they would make those decisions based on the renewal uptake over the first week.

I was only differentiating between the two in response to dB because I agreed that it's the total number of ST sales come the end of July/beginning of August which is the important number, not the number of renewals come the 30th June deadline.

Yes, via a share issue. Keep up FFS!

That's exactly my take on it. There isn't going to be a share issue for maybe 3-4 months or more, so the cash required over the next 3 months of the transfer window is going to have to come from ST sales.

Maybe not as late as mid-August, but yes, you're right. What's needed is a large number of ST sales, not just renewals and obviously by a point early enough to invest in rebuilding a good 1st team squad.

You said you thought few people would renew until they knew about those two points, but the bottom line is that if a large number of people choose not to renew or choose not to buy season tickets it would adversely affect the Club's ability to actually go out and sign the quality of players we want. It sounds like the approximate schedule for a share issue is 3-4 months away, so it will be well into the start of the new season and certainly after the transfer window closes, so it would be extremely foolish of fans to be waiting for investment money to fund the squad rebuilding process when it's pretty clear that season ticket cash is going to be required to do it.

Renewal deadline is over 3 weeks away, so your first point would only be an issue if the board make an unpopular manager appointment.

Monday, 08 June 2015 17:30 King: A Club For Generations Written by Rangers Football Club DAVE KING urged Rangers fans to renew their season tickets at a press conference and exclusive interview with RangersTV from Ibrox Stadium. Season tickets for season 2015/16 are now available to be renewed and speaking today, the Rangers Chairman has intimated how important it is for fans of all generations to back the club. He said: "I think from a Rangers fans perspective they've been through a really difficult time and we've seen a great club that, I think one of the things all Rangers fans will understand about the club they've supported as what I've called before this generational hand down. "I went to the club because my dad took me there when I was a six-year-old boy and he, in turn, went there because his dad took him as more or less a six-year-old boy. "I felt we had kind of lost our way a little bit with this whole disconnect from the fans and what's been going on with the club. "So I really felt there was a nice theme to say to the fans 'look, let's just get back to that core value and make ourselves once again this generational club'. "I think we have been through most of the history of Rangers that just, unfortunately, have maybe been ignored over the last couple of years. "If you look at the history of Rangers, Rangers have had some key investors over probably the last ten, twenty, thirty, forty years. "Certainly when I was growing up you had the Lawrence family, I think it was John Lawrence and then the Marlborough family came in and then David Murray came in. "All of these investors have assisted the club from time to time in giving much needed cash flow for signing players. But ultimately the success of Rangers over all of the years has been the support of the fans. "It's the fact that the fans have consistently bought the season tickets and consistently supported the club with the commercial and retail revenue that has made Rangers consistently the number one club in Scotland. "Unless we get back to getting the fans back on board and getting full support from the fans for their club then these short-term investments are not going to make Rangers long-term sustainable. Only the fans and the support of the fans can do that for us." Season ticket prices for the new campaign will be increased by a modest 5% and renewal forms will be posted out to supporters this week. The full amount of the increase will also be invested in the team. Chairman Dave King continued: "What I am hoping the fans do, and I understand that it's very demanding given the last couple of years, but I look back to that day when Rangers played their first game in the Third Division three years ago and I was over in South Africa. Friends of mine were astounded to hear that Rangers had the biggest crowd in the UK in the opening season for a Third Division game. "I pointed out to them that that's just what Rangers fans do when the club is in trouble, the Rangers fans came to rally to support of the club. “The fans have now seen a couple of years where they may say 'Okay we were there three years ago but we had a bad year two years ago and then a bad year one year ago'. “I'm really saying to the fans 'please go back to that time, this is genuinely a new beginning. “I think we now have a board in place that you can rely on and all money that is invested on season tickets will go into the football side of the club so you know where the money is going to go’. We have a commitment to invest but it is absolutely vital that the fans come along and support the club as well to make it sustainable long term." "I think that it's important because the fans put us there. Having put us there, it would be nice to see them supporting us there because they are a big part of my being here today - without their support we wouldn't be here.” "The other thing from the fans point of view is that if you have looked at what has happened in the last couple of months, myself and the other dirctors have done what they said they would. "We said that if we get involved in the club that we would provide the funds that would be required to operate the club. We've done that. I've put money in and the Three Bears have put money in, so we've met our obligations. "I am giving the fans a very firm statement of intent for what we are going to do going forward. We are going to continue to fund, but we have to co-invest with the fans. “Rangers can never be sustainable just by relying on third party investments. “We need the fans to come back and support the club, but at least what they know this time is by making the funds available all of the money will be going into the football side and they will get a better experience on the pitch this season than they had last season." http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/item/9433-king-a-club-for-generations

It'll be posted online pretty quickly, so it might only be 10 minutes before anyone else!

It's just a platform for sharing short videos which run on a loop. AFAIK, it's directly linked with twitter, possibly even created by the same folk. It won't be of interest to all of us, but since someone asked about posting vines on the forum and I knew that the Rangers TV or digital media team have been posting quite a lot of short behind the scenes video clips as vines, then it seemed like a worthwhile addition even although it might not get used all that much. The forum already supports YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Metacafe etc video formats as well as SoundCloud audio files, all of which can be embedded into posts, so we might as well have vine support too.

That's quite an interesting sentence, especially the part I've made bold.

The timing is unfortunate, but it is what it is. They've got a lot of work to do in a very limited time frame and this is now the 2nd week in June, so it was probably imperative that they got the ST launch done ASAP. They'll no doubt speak to the managerial candidates again this week, as I'd imagine Dave King will want to speak to them himself and in person and then we'll hear what the board of directors jointly decide on that front when it's a done deal.