Stimpy
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Fan board elections now closed as of Saturday 20 September
Stimpy replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
Likely that people will try and steer the committee in the direction away from difficult questions. For example, Jim Hannah attending meetings and saying to the likes of FS that the club's fiscal policy isn't in the remit of disabled fans area. Repeat and rinse for all other sections. -
Newcastle have become collateral damage in the battle for Rangers: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-become-collateral-damage-7943767
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Yeah - for spin purposes the BBC are willing participants.
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I thought King had secured BPH and Margarita's support in this. If so does not mean Easdale's proxy is no longer the main concern? King could face opposition from other shareholders but I'm not sure how relevant Easdale is now. Unless I've read it wrong or the papers are talking nonsense?
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Not sure if anything has changed, but the club stopped cooperating with BBC Scotland after the Ally image Jumping from Ibrox. They're allowed into pressers but no questions.
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Thing with the rumours is that 99.9% of the time they're bullshit. Time and again the 'deal done day' is Friday which builds up many hopes. In my own head I call it bullshit but a little part of me gets excited at the thought of moving on from this mess. Baws and claw hammers for peeps passing on third hand info or just making it up from now on.
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Best compliment I can pay BIll is that he's nothing better than an online agitator. The shite about a call from London cancelling the meeting is just bullshit.
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After last night’s extraordinary scenes in Belgrade, where the Serbia-Albania match was called off when a drone flew a pro-Albanian flag over the pitch, we look at sport’s other great incendiary political gestures, from Souness to Gazza. • Souness plants flag on enemy territory Graeme Souness was never one to back down from conflict and he certainly found it while managing Galatasaray in 1996. Facing fierce Istanbul rivals Fenerbahçe in the Turkish Cup final, Galatasaray, who had won the home leg 1-0 at home, secured the cup with a 1-1 draw in Fenerbahçe’s Sukru Saracoglu Stadium. Souness, perhaps emboldened by the victory, decided to celebrate by taking a gigantic Galatasaray flag and planting it in the middle of Fenerbahçe’s pitch. The incident sparked a predictably violent response from the home fans who rained objects down on the pitch, while medal presentations had to be temporarily halted after the Turkish President was hit by a bottle Press reaction was equally furious. Souness was condemned for his insulting gesture and considered responsible for the Fenerbahçe supporters’ riotous behaviour. Funnily enough, Souness didn’t have his contract renewed at the end of that season, having lost out on the Turkish title . . . to Fenerbahçe. Souness though was unrepentant. “One day I would’ve got round to planting a flag at Celtic Park if I’d stayed on as manager of Rangers,” he said later. • Gascoigne plays the pipes Paul Gascoigne could hardly be considered a political animal but he managed to stir up some serious controversy after he played a mock flute during an Old Firm match at Celtic Park while warming up as a second-half substitute. The gesture, which is symbolic of the flute-playing of Orange Order marchers, is considered a Loyalist symbol insulting to Catholics. Gascoigne first made the mime after scoring his first goal for Rangers in 1995 with the suggestion he had been egged on by team-mates and knew nothing of its significance. But this time the gesture infuriated Celtic fans who had been taunting him and Gascoigne was fined £20,000 by Rangers after the incident. He also received death threats and left Rangers at the end of that season. • Baghdatis sparks furore Marcos Baghdatis, the Cypriot tennis player, found himself at the centre of a storm at the at the 2008 Australian Open when a video posted on YouTube almost a year earlier showed him holding a flare chanting slogans such as “Turks out of Cyprus” at a barbecue hosted by his Greek Australian fan club. The local Turkish Cypriot community claimed it was a “racist attack” and a “straightforward provocation of our community”, and called for him to expelled from the tournament. However, he was allowed to play on with Baghdatis claiming he was not calling for Turkish Cypriots to leave Cyprus, but rather an end to Turkey’s military occupation since 1974. • Football goes to war Perhaps the only time that a sporting event has resulted in conflict, the “Football War” between El Salvador and Honduras was sparked by best-of-three World Cup qualifiers in 1969. Honduras, who won the first match 1-0, lost the second 3-0 in San Salvador after Honduran players endured a sleepless night before the game, with rotten eggs and dead rats allegedly thrown through the broken windows of their hotel. Honduran fans were also attacked at the game By the time of the third match, won 3-2 by El Salvador after extra-time on June 27, tension had ratcheted up so much that Honduras broke off diplomatic relations By July 14, El Salvador had invaded Honduras. When the conflict ended on July 20, between 1,000 and 2,000 people had been killed and 100,000 had lost their homes. It took 11 years to negotiate a peace treaty. Ironically El Salvador hardly shined in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico either. They lost all three of their group games without scoring. • Black power salutes In perhaps the most famous political protest made in a sporting arena, Tommie Smith and John Carlos both raised a black-gloved fist during their medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City in a silent demonstration against racial discrimination. The Afro-American pair had finished first and third in the 200 metres with Smith triumphing in a world-record time of 19.83 seconds. Smith and Carlos also wore human-rights badges on their jackets along with Peter Norman, the Australian silver medal-winner. “If I win I am American, not a black American,” Smith said later. “But if I did something bad, then they would say I am a Negro. We are black and we are proud of being black. Black America will understand what we did tonight.” The response from the IOC was swift, banning both American athletes from the Games and dubbing their actions as “an act of racial protest.” The pair were largely ostracised on their return to the US and Norman was also censured by Australian athletics for his involvement. But their brave action is now regarded as one of the most eloquent statements ever made in the fight for racial equality.
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Four weeks to respond I think and it's extraordinary General meeting. Not emergency.
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Indeed but we were weak and the likes of the Easdales were invited to the 'suck on the blue tit' party So are King and co in the knowledge that Ashley's deal is watertight and cannot be cancelled? Bite the bullet and accept Ashley's shite for seven years.
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IF Ashley is going to work with King then I fancy both of them are toast. It won't be immediate but I can't see Rangers men steeped in Rangers traditions willing to work besides two oafs in the long term. Their influence will lessen overtime.
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Please let their be an end. I'd even take the beginning of the end, renew my season ticket and walk back into Ibrox smiling from ear to ear. Is that too much to ask for?
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TRS: Rizvi - Lawyers ready to "tuck into the RFC carcass all over again"
Stimpy replied to Stimpy's topic in Rangers Chat
Incredible how this whole saga has unfolded. Long the day normality comes back to our club. -
"The Rangers Standard has received documentary evidence which appears to prove the links between Charles Green, Imran Ahmad and Rafat Rizvi and reveals the extent to which Rizvi was involved in the purchase of Rangers. The documents show the three men arguing over payments due to be made from the club and detail which shareholders Rizvi introduced. There are also claims from Rizvi that Green and Ahmad are holding shares for him and requesting that these be transferred to another entity." http://www.therangersstandard.co.uk/index.php/articles/current-affairs/329-rizvi-lawyers-ready-to-tuck-into-the-rfc-carcass-all-over-again
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Eight questions that reveal the real Mike Ashley to Gers supporters
Stimpy replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
http://www.nufcblog.com/2014/10/14/former-rangers-players-miss-the-point-about-ashley/ Geordies claiming that Gough's words aren't exactly correct. -
Coming Soon:....'Ashely and the Vanishing Commercial Revenue' ??
Stimpy replied to buster.'s topic in Rangers Chat
Read the article and look at the Spurs comparison. Both similar sized clubs with successful owners but only one club has progressed in terms generating income. Ashley runs a tight ship in terms of spending which is no bad thing from our perspective, but Ashley also takes and downsizes the operation whilst he appears to get richer. -
T4C's post on FF is quite interesting: http://forum.followfollow.com/showthread.php?p=22264109#post22264109 Basically Ashley rips the heart out of commercial revenue. Hope it's okay to link in other forums?
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That muddies the waters further. Something tells me that this is the last throw of the dice. If it fails Ashley will pump in some money via loan and tighten his grip with little benefit. No share issue for others to invest either. All IMO of course.
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Talking to Rangersitis (nice meeting you btw.) on Saturday afternoon we both debated whether it can be stopped via Sandy Easdale's proxy bloc and Ashley's holdings. Few things: 1. Will it be considered a resolution or just a simple loan authorised by the board? 2. Or will Ashley and Easdale bloc this through their voting rights on special resolutions? 3. By blocking the loan if it is seen as a resolution will concert party rights be triggered 4. By calling the EGM it looks to me as though the voting percentages won't matter here and that's why Ashley's calling the EGM in an effort to prevent the vote going through at a typical board meeting Would any of our more informed Gersnetters like to set us right?
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Not sure mate. Another article - Record I think - stated the top 7 leagues will see their champions qualify. Can't us being in the top 7 though a few decent result could propel us there.
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Not sure if it'll benefit us when we do eventually play under the lights of Ibrox in the CL again. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29562047 One can only hope!
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Go off line for a few hours and with Frankie away too, we can have another stramash.
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I used to go in every game but got fed up with queuing and poor beer. I'm a fussy cunt though. Watching the Ulster bears get leathered on the drink is good fun.
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The pint in the WRC is boufing mate. I'd go as far to say they shouldn't be allowed to sell beer until they've cleaned the pipes and stop watering down the beer. The food is cold too. WRC are not moving forward with the times. One look at the service provided by the Louden shows that. So, anyone else who fancies saying hello hello can do in the Ibrox bar next Saturday.
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N Can the board approve such a large deal that coverts into shares? Looking at the board make up it appears that would go through 3/2. Maybe 4/1 depending on Somers' position. Very clever if that's the aim.