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  1. BrahimHemdani
    It's free in Malaga Tapas! Can I take that as a firm commitment to attend?
  2. BrahimHemdani
    A very good, dispassionate analysis of the current situation. 1 (a) RF have said that they would hold back part of their investment so as to avoid a dilution but at the moment I doubt they have £50,000 in total to invest probably more like £20,000 - £30,000; so pretty meaningless. The initial uptake was good but it seems to have stalled over the past month or so. BR would need £100,000+ to avoid dilution of their 0.86% and I doubt they have more than £20,000 quite possibly a lot less based on a maximum of 200 people paying in monthly since December. I agree that it would take a major disaster to get significant additional numbers into either scheme. 1 (b) "All of King’s actions seem to be aimed towards trying to force the existing shareholders and directors out without him having to spend any cash in doing so He has built up a degree of animosity between him and the board and as such he has made it less likely that the board will turn round and make it easy for him to get control." A very important point that is oft overlooked. In fact it will increase the Investor's/Board's resolve not to allow him to achieve his objective or gain any form of control. IMHO the existing investors will take up all their rights to avoid any dilution. If possible one of them or a "friendly" new investor or institution will underwrite the issue so as to avoid King even being able to pick up the scraps. (I say that without knowing the rules about how these things are structured.) King COULD invest through BR or RF or both and it is possible that discussions have taken place behind the scenes. The silence on this from RF in particular may be telling or it may just indicate that there is nothing to tell. 2. "Does anyone seriously expect a quoted PLC to give security of its main assets to a third party company that apparently doesn’t have a season ticket holder or Rangers shareholder on its board or as a shareholder? There is no connection between this company and the club. As it stands, there’s no connection between the ownership and control of Ibrox 1972 Ltd and the support either. It’s almost as if King has come up with a vehicle that makes it impossible for the club to grant security, not that they would do it anyway. Perhaps that’s what King is hoping for?" Answer to your first question is - YES, GS! I agree with your conclusion and am sure that even if King was serious his lawyers would have told him that he was in no position to tell Rangers how or to whom they could sell ST's and on what terms. Much more knowledgeable people that me have described the whole scheme as preposterous. Again I have said as often as I could that the existing directors will do their best to return the Club to it's former glories with whatever resources the fans give them and they can raise in a rights issue; fans not renewing just makes it all the harder for them to rise above the mediocrity that GS and others complain about. I have a very good source and I mentioned somewhere in the disappeared "Amoruso" thread that the directors are out of touch with the views of ordinary fans. They just "don't get it". They are trying to run the Club as an ordinary business and aren't taking account of the fact that a any football Club is no ordinary business; far less one with the history and fan base of The Rangers. I am reminded of the story about one potential Middle Eastern investor in 2010 who pulled out when he discovered that it was Glasgow Rangers not Queens Park Rangers in which he was being invited to invest. Where we differ is in your conclusion. I hope that Mr King realises the truth of what you say, withdraws his scheme, encourages fans to buy ST's, possibly invests himself through BR or RF (unlikely due to OMOV) or even buys a large block of ST's himself. Me, I've renewed and will be applying for a transfer. May even join you in the comfy seats; if you are not in the Directors Box.
  3. BrahimHemdani
    I never said that at all.
  4. BrahimHemdani
    It "Doesn't matter" that King has no plan, now who's kidding who? You don't think that more than a couple of thousand will sign up for Ibrox 1972, why do you think that is?
  5. BrahimHemdani
    Most of the time I find something to argue with in your comments but this post is just nonsense. GreenCo doesn't "haunt" me and I don't challenge your past allegiances; they are of no interest to me. I have stated clearly that I think this Board are committed to doing everything they can to improve the future of the Club and I have also stated that I don't think they understand what ordinary fans think.
  6. BrahimHemdani
    That statement may well come back to haunt you.
  7. BrahimHemdani
    You are going to be waiting a very long time if you still think that Kingco is going to put up £50m or anything like it.
  8. BrahimHemdani
    Why do I need to come up with a plan; I already have one, I have renewed my ST and am encouraging as many as will listen to do the same. Your man King has no plan or at least none that he's prepared to share with the fans on whom he is relying for support. "rangers fans will not fund mediocrity." is a catchy phrase but the antithesis of the truth because by not funding the Club with their renewals fans will deprive the Club of the means to rise above that mediocrity.
  9. BrahimHemdani
    Daly against 6 at the back, that should keep them busy enough for our lightening fast midfielders to scamper through all the gaps and score a barrowload.
  10. BrahimHemdani
    Well, I for one have already conceded that I was taken in by CG at least until the tapes were revealed. But the point you are missing, if I may say with all due respect, is that that is history and so to some extent is the reason why the Easdales are involved. Actually you're missing another point. Well I don't think you're missing it; you just chose to ignore it. Doing what you regard as necessary to "to change what is becoming a Coventry/Leeds Utd dynamic, even if it means acute short-term pain." won't actually change anything except make the Board more entrenched. You see, they don't get your logic, they don't think like fans think, well some fans anyway. That's where you are making a mistake. You assume that the Board think as fans when we all know they are not fans at all. We are where we are and no amount of hand-ringing is going to change that. One man has the ability to do something about it apparently or so I keep getting told on here, the other suspects seem to have given up long ago, if they were ever genuinely in the hunt, which I doubt. So absent that man anteing up the only people who can save the Club from the future you predict is the fans themselves. Rather than continue his futile campaign, Mr King ought to acknowledge that and do a quick u-turn. The fans need to support the Club, no one else is going to do it for them.
  11. BrahimHemdani
    I am sure you are correct with your last statement but you need to realise that for the likes of R&M it is small potatoes. I think you seem to be coming round to the view that King isn't putting his hand in his pocket and his scheme is doomed to failure. If 15-20,000 renew (and I wouldn't argue with that number by the time the season starts and Hibs as well as Hearts will give it a boost) then that will be enough to see us through the summer and the big issue then will be how many turn up game to game. I don't agree with you that " the rest just won't go" I think they will be selective. So if it's Hibs or Hearts, I'd think we'd get 40,000+, others say 25,000 - 30,000. A lot will also depend on the quality of football, as is clear from posts on here and elsewhere that is as big a factor if not the biggest factor in folks decisions right now. If we get through next season and make it back to the SPL, then the prospect of the first old firm games in 4 years will see an ST sell out, no danger at all; in fact I think if it was allowed Rangers could sell out the entire stadium with ST's and create the ST dynasty we discussed on here before.
  12. BrahimHemdani
    I am sure you are correct with your last statement but you need to realise that for the likes of R&M it is small potatoes. I think you seem to be coming round to the view that King isn't putting his hand in his pocket and his scheme is doomed to failure. If 15-20,000 renew (and I wouldn't argue with that number by the time the season starts and Hibs as well as Hearts will give it a boost) then that will be enough to see us through the summer and the big issue then will be how many turn up game to game. I don't agree with you that " the rest just won't go" I think they will be selective. So if it's Hibs or Hearts, I'd think we'd get 40,000+, others say 25,000 - 30,000. A lot will also depend on the quality of football, as is clear from posts on here and elsewhere that is as big a factor if not the biggest factor in folks decisions right now. If we get through next season and make it back to the SPL, then the prospect of the first old firm games in 4 years will see an ST sell out, no danger at all; in fact I think if it was allowed Rangers could sell out the entire stadium with ST's and create the ST dynasty we discussed on here before.
  13. BrahimHemdani
    If you had been loaned out from Rangers to Morton and forced to play under Kenny Shiels, would you be excited about playing for them?
  14. BrahimHemdani
    I don't understand why you are so disparaging about one of our most talented youngsters. Do any of those you describe have professional contracts?
  15. BrahimHemdani
    The current Board will not be "starved out", withholding ST money or paying game by game will make their job more difficult but they are committed to the work in hand and they will be there so long as the current group of investors are in place. So Jackson is right and of course King knows it full well. The only way to get the current Board out (if that is what you want to do) is to buy out the investors. Since King has said he won't do that; he may as well say, the game's a bogy; buy your ST's directly and support the Club you love.
  16. BrahimHemdani
    Definitely has the skill to play wide left or in the "hole", when he gets his head down and runs at a defence can be pretty much unstoppable. However, questionable attitude by all accounts and like many would perhaps blossom under a better manager.
  17. BrahimHemdani
    Could almost guarantee you that if fit we will start with Foster, McCulloch, Mohsni and Wallace as our back four. (Management justificatiojn - only 18 goals conceced in 36 games). Aird should be our RMF because he makes more chances from there especially if, as I also suspect, Daly will still be up front. (Too much wages to sit on the bench or in the stand.) Law and Black will be in CMF with Shiels/Templeton on the left again if fit, those four challenged by McLeod; or McLeod in LMF and Shiels/Temps behind the striker. Clark to be on the bench and get the odd start. Sorted, no new players needed apart from a striker perhaps if we could get a swap for Daly!
  18. BrahimHemdani
    Someone else can organise Dorset, I'll do the US Tour.
  19. BrahimHemdani
    Of those mentioned Cuellar would be top of my list, he's 33 in August but should be good for the next two seasons at least. Lot of decisions to be made half way through next season.
  20. BrahimHemdani
    In other words they are paying Levein so much that they can't afford to pay a manager as well. In effect Levein will make all the important managerial decisions. Neilson will be cheapr than Locke presumably and whoever they bring in to help him will be cheaper than Brown. One wonders if they offered Locke the job at less money or if he refused to work under Levein. Either way it's two steps back.
  21. BrahimHemdani
    I agree with that. I wanted to say something like that in my post but you have expressed it very well.
  22. BrahimHemdani
    If I was McCann, I'd stick to TV, this job is a poisoned chalice. They'll have a lot of applicants that's for sure. McLeish? Not saying Hearts can't win it but realistically the best they can hope for next season is a play-off place and failure to be promoted will probably see whoever it is sacked. As with Man U at a different level, the job AFTER the next manager is the one to get.
  23. BrahimHemdani
    It isn't going to any company, so no need to speculater on which one.
  24. BrahimHemdani
    Or Rangers? Hope Wallace gets back in for the campaign but probably needs rest right now.
  25. BrahimHemdani
    Two terrible decisions by Hearts, what exactly was Locke supposed to do with a bunch of kids. If it wasn't for the points decuction, Hibs would be down automatically and Hearts would be in the play-off by one goal. I wonder what qualifications they think Levein has for DoF?
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