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And of RR boycott continues?

So the UB get a move say, do TBO stay put ?

Can you please explain how by not buying SD goods we are actually strengthening SD position?

Ll Could not agree more. Usually sit in Broomie Rear but going game by game had a few visits to Broomie Front, UB seem to think their the most important thing about match days.

http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/item/9487-warburton-headed-to-euros RANGERS manager Mark Warburton has travelled to Prague for the European under-21 finals after spending his first full day at Murray Park yesterday. Englishman Warburton was unveiled as the new Gers boss on Monday at Ibrox Stadium, with Light Blues legend Davie Weir joining him as his assistant manager. Both men signed a three year deal and their priorities shifted straight away towards planning for the new season with the fixtures set to be released tomorrow and the draw for the first round of the Petrofac Training Cup on the 29 June. With eleven players leaving the Gers at the end of the season, the Light Blues, under the guidance of Warburton and Weir will need to rebuild the squad. Plans for preseason matches are yet to be confirmed too, with the players due to return from their close season break at the end of this month. Warburton tweeted: "Sincere thanks for the warm messages of welcome. Facilities are outstanding and I'm looking forward to meeting up with the staff and the players." The Light Blues manager has travelled to the Czech Republic and will take in some of the latter stages of the tournament which started yesterday and will run until the Final in the Eden Stadium on the 30 June. It is the first time the Czech Republic – championship winners in 2002 – will have staged the U21 finals, and the country's first national team event since the 2008 UEFA European U19 Championship.

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/former-brentford-manager-mark-warburton-to-travel-to-european-under21-championship-as-he-ponders-next-move-10297700.html GIUSEPPE MURO Published: 04 June 2015 Updated: 15:50, 04 June 2015 Mark Warburton will travel to the European Under-21 Championship later this month as he considers his next move in football. Warburton is out of work after leaving Brentford and has held informal discussions with several clubs including Rangers about a job. While he thinks about his future, the 52-year-old will spend nine days in the Czech Republic as part of the FA UEFA Pro Licence coaching course. "It will be a good experience," he said. "I am looking forward to continuing my education, that is what the course is about. We will watch a number of games out there and there are a lot of people you can learn from and pick their brains. "We get back from there on June 24, then if discussions go any further then very good. If they do not, then you have to put head down and hope opportunities come up."

As title, left after being at MP today.

P Repayment via shares would not be a problem to most of us. Ok it dilutes our shares ?

Paddy McCourt!

When will us boycotters be allowed to purchase a ST ?

No relevance to the guy selling his books. Thought the Father's Day connection was apt though.

http://www.therst.co.uk

Ask Ashley.

Sounds good listening to this.

How many and at what price?

Jeez have we come to that! How we have fallen if it's back to a McCall fallback position.

It would have been the easiest thing in the world to have appointed a manager before now. I would prefer they get the right man though.

http://ashleyout.com/campaigns/embargo/outside-nufc/

https://www.change.org/p/mike-ashley-sports-direct-cancel-your-merchandise-contract-with-rangers-fc

RST Statement on Ashley Court Action Today we have seen the absurd spectacle of Mike Ashley taking our club to court to stop the Rangers board from informing shareholders and fans about details of the Sports Direct contracts. This despite the fact that the board had already publicly stated they would not break those confidentiality agreements. At the same time Mr Ashley demands clarity from the board at an EGM called by him. It seems that Mr Ashley’s hypocrisy is matched only by his avarice. In his panic to stop Rangers fans from knowing definitively about his questionable dealings with our club, Mr Ashley has done them a valuable service. There can now be absolutely no doubt that the Sports Direct contracts with Rangers are of benefit to one party and one party only. We call on the hundreds of thousands of Rangers fans who have already stopped purchasing official merchandise to continue to abstain from an arrangement which benefits only Mr Ashley. We also ask them to spread the word to their friends and family and those remaining few who may as yet not be aware of the disgraceful retail arrangements which are holding our club to ransom. Figures published many months ago showed that Rangers received only 70p per £10 spent on merchandise by fans. In the last accounts reported the club received nothing from the retail agreement with Sports Direct. We also now have confirmation from the court that new contracts and undertakings were put in place by Mr Ashley’s lieutenants in the days leading up the last EGM whilst they were acting as directors of Rangers Football Club PLC. Mr Ashley, with his call for an EGM and the cost of today’s hearing has, by conservative estimate, cost the club the wages of a first team player for 6 months. The judge in the latest case called the expenses claim by SD “shocking”. Mr Ashley must think the Rangers support are suffering from some sort of mass delusion if he expects us to buy merchandise despite his continuing attacks on our club. Our message is simple. Unless the current contracts with Sports Direct are negotiated to the satisfaction of the Rangers board, and that satisfaction is clearly communicated to fans, then we urge Rangers fans not to buy any official merchandise from club shops, Sports Direct or any other outlet. Purchasing from other shops does not solve the problem. In addition to this we will be publishing and maintaining a full list of the companies owned by Mr Ashley or in which he has an interest. We would request that fans spread the word to their friends and family and ask them to boycott these stores and brands also. Quite apart from Mr Ashley’s questionable business practices he is bleeding the club you love dry and taking money from it that could be spent getting Rangers back where we belong. The only thing Mr Ashley understands is money. Take action and let’s make sure that in the near future both players and fans can wear the Rangers jersey with pride again, knowing that it is a true symbol of our club and not a testament to one man’s greed. - See more at: http://www.therst.co.uk/news/rst-statement-on-ashley-court-action/#sthash.IORNiDOu.dpuf

Are you a RST member? If yes why not go onto RST site members area and ask away.

http://www.therst.co.uk/news/rst-response-to-mike-ashley/ RST Response to Mike Ashley The Rangers Supporters Trust notes the statement by MASH today and, given that Sports Directs and MASH have felt the need to attempt to justify their untenable position with regard to Rangers Football Club, we felt it would be appropriate to respond in similar detail. First of all we would like to announce that our members have voted overwhelmingly ahead of the upcoming GM to support the Rangers board recommendations on the resolutions put forward. We will be voting against the MASH Resolution 1 and for the Rangers board Resolution 2. MASH has laid out its concerns about the delisting from AIM. They seem to be ignoring documented fact and attempting to insinuate that the loss of the listing was down the incoming board rather than the previous board, effectively controlled by MASH, which had mismanaged the club over the preceding months. Mr Llambias and Mr Leach, lieutenants of Mr Ashley and appointed by him, as well the Easdale brothers, Mr Ashley’s shareholder allies, managed the club with disgraceful disregard for its fans, staff and well-being over a period of many months. Simply put they ran it into the ground. They ignored concerns of their customers and shareholders and at times deliberately antagonised them. If MASH was concerned about the AIM listing then they should have chosen their boardroom placemen more carefully and ensured they ran the company with proper levels of corporate governance and not simply for the benefit of Mr Ashley. In short, Mr Ashley may well know how to make money for himself at any cost but as can be seen at both Rangers and Newcastle he doesn’t have a clue how to run a football club properly. On the retail side we note Mr Ashley’s points and would make several of our own. 1) Rangers has historically had one of the most profitable merchandise brands in UK football. This was the case up to and including the JJB deal prior to Mr Ashley’s involvement. 2) At no point in the past 20 years has Rangers made as little money from merchandise as they have since Mr Ashley became involved. 3) Sports Direct claim to be experts in retail and indeed they are. They are experts at making money for Mr Ashley however, not his “business partners”. 4) Mr Ashley talks about a “far reaching distribution network”. Ask Rangers fans abroad how that network is working for them as they ask friends and family to post strips to them. 5) Mr Ashley may have a profitable business but it is one that specialises in low price goods. Sports Direct does not have a clue how to grow, market and improve a premium sports brand like Rangers and frankly shows no interest in doing so. In fact, Sports Direct have hugely damaged the Rangers brand through Mr Ashley and his associates antagonistic attitude to fans. 6) If Rangers were to repay Mr Ashley’s loan, recover all securities and revert to the previous Rangers Retail split they would still be the victims of the contracts put in place by Mr Ashley’s lieutenants and would continue to make a pittance whilst Mr Ashley enjoys virtually free stadium advertising and Sports Direct make money at every stage of the retail process. Mr Ashley talks of being a “supportive business partner” yet has called a spurious General Meeting to vote on a resolution that he knows has no binding effect and which will be defeated. He is costing the club more money having already secured assistance from previous board members to hand him ridiculous merchandise deals, virtually free stadium naming, virtually free advertising space at Ibrox and the granting of security over club assets when much more favourable loan arrangements were on offer. Repaying the loan and “equalising profit arrangements” as Mr Ashley disingenuously puts it, does not solve the underlying problem that the contracts he has entered into are solely for the benefit of Sports Direct. It is our position that, unless Mr Ashley renegotiates the current contracts he holds with Rangers Football Club, on terms which are vastly more profitable to the club, then Rangers fans should not purchase any official merchandise. We would also suggest that they should boycott all brands and companies that Mr Ashley is involved with. Mr Ashley’s business practices have been the source of much public debate recently and we fully expect that to continue. Rangers Football Club has suffered as much as any company at the hands of Mr Ashley and his greed at all costs mentality. We will continue to liaise with any interested party to expose exactly how Mr Ashley conducts himself and look forward to making further progress in that regard in the very near future. Share with your network - See more at: http://www.therst.co.uk/news/rst-response-to-mike-ashley/#sthash.gYcEeE0n.dpuf

RST Response to Mike Ashley The Rangers Supporters Trust notes the statement by MASH today and, given that Sports Directs and MASH have felt the need to attempt to justify their untenable position with regard to Rangers Football Club, we felt it would be appropriate to respond in similar detail. First of all we would like to announce that our members have voted overwhelmingly ahead of the upcoming GM to support the Rangers board recommendations on the resolutions put forward. We will be voting against the MASH Resolution 1 and for the Rangers board Resolution 2. MASH has laid out its concerns about the delisting from AIM. They seem to be ignoring documented fact and attempting to insinuate that the loss of the listing was down the incoming board rather than the previous board, effectively controlled by MASH, which had mismanaged the club over the preceding months. Mr Llambias and Mr Leach, lieutenants of Mr Ashley and appointed by him, as well the Easdale brothers, Mr Ashley’s shareholder allies, managed the club with disgraceful disregard for its fans, staff and well-being over a period of many months. Simply put they ran it into the ground. They ignored concerns of their customers and shareholders and at times deliberately antagonised them. If MASH was concerned about the AIM listing then they should have chosen their boardroom placemen more carefully and ensured they ran the company with proper levels of corporate governance and not simply for the benefit of Mr Ashley. In short, Mr Ashley may well know how to make money for himself at any cost but as can be seen at both Rangers and Newcastle he doesn’t have a clue how to run a football club properly. On the retail side we note Mr Ashley’s points and would make several of our own. 1) Rangers has historically had one of the most profitable merchandise brands in UK football. This was the case up to and including the JJB deal prior to Mr Ashley’s involvement. 2) At no point in the past 20 years has Rangers made as little money from merchandise as they have since Mr Ashley became involved. 3) Sports Direct claim to be experts in retail and indeed they are. They are experts at making money for Mr Ashley however, not his “business partners”. 4) Mr Ashley talks about a “far reaching distribution network”. Ask Rangers fans abroad how that network is working for them as they ask friends and family to post strips to them. 5) Mr Ashley may have a profitable business but it is one that specialises in low price goods. Sports Direct does not have a clue how to grow, market and improve a premium sports brand like Rangers and frankly shows no interest in doing so. In fact, Sports Direct have hugely damaged the Rangers brand through Mr Ashley and his associates antagonistic attitude to fans. 6) If Rangers were to repay Mr Ashley’s loan, recover all securities and revert to the previous Rangers Retail split they would still be the victims of the contracts put in place by Mr Ashley’s lieutenants and would continue to make a pittance whilst Mr Ashley enjoys virtually free stadium advertising and Sports Direct make money at every stage of the retail process. Mr Ashley talks of being a “supportive business partner” yet has called a spurious General Meeting to vote on a resolution that he knows has no binding effect and which will be defeated. He is costing the club more money having already secured assistance from previous board members to hand him ridiculous merchandise deals, virtually free stadium naming, virtually free advertising space at Ibrox and the granting of security over club assets when much more favourable loan arrangements were on offer. Repaying the loan and “equalising profit arrangements” as Mr Ashley disingenuously puts it, does not solve the underlying problem that the contracts he has entered into are solely for the benefit of Sports Direct. It is our position that, unless Mr Ashley renegotiates the current contracts he holds with Rangers Football Club, on terms which are vastly more profitable to the club, then Rangers fans should not purchase any official merchandise. We would also suggest that they should boycott all brands and companies that Mr Ashley is involved with. Mr Ashley’s business practices have been the source of much public debate recently and we fully expect that to continue. Rangers Football Club has suffered as much as any company at the hands of Mr Ashley and his greed at all costs mentality. We will continue to liaise with any interested party to expose exactly how Mr Ashley conducts himself and look forward to making further progress in that regard in the very near future. Share with your network - See more at: http://www.therst.co.uk/news/rst-response-to-mike-ashley/#sthash.gYcEeE0n.dpuf

Edmiston Drive!! I had almost forgot about my old opponent and you two remind me of him:swear:

DK stated that he had not interviewed any of the managerial contenders but said there would be no announcement this week. Yet another director who is involved in the selection said it would be this week. They need to talk to,each other.