BrahimHemdani

As a Fund Manager I knew (no not HIM) once famously said at a seminar "Don't forget to tell your clients that the price of shares can go UP as well as DOWN"; of course he was managing a Technology Fund.

There has been a marginal tick up in the price and the fact that it was possible to sell that number albeit in 4/5 tranches without dipping to the levels seen in the last couple of weeks might be significant. It's possible we have seen the bottom. The title of this thread might need to be changed.

Perhaps he's got a friend in the CIA?

I well remember Sevilla scoring against us at Ibrox from "a cleverly worked free-kick on 51 minutes Lolo shaped up to shoot from almost 40 metres on the left, then switched the ball crossfield to the unmarked Navas and his teasing cross was met by Konko who headed home." http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=soccer&id=4517249 if you need a painful reminder. It really was unbelievably simple, just a pass to the right instead of a shot and Navas hit the bye line and the cut back left us wide open. It wasn't like an American Football move with everyone running in different directions. Do our entire coaching squad lack the imagination or ingenuity to try something like that; seems like it.

Approx 2.25 million shares sold this morning at 27p. 2 deals totalling 591,736 then another for the same number, which could be an error/duplicate early on. Then 700,000 + 300,000 just after noon.

Not if it's a rights issue and they take up their rights. That would enable current shareholders to maintain their proportionate stake in the company. King might be prepared to underwrite the issue but that would be at the offer price.

It's hard to argue against what you say; but even if he walks away, he's unlikely to do it for nothing. Do you think they have someone in mind, if so who? Perhaps it would be a bit unedifying to discuss that?

I think the answer to that is fairly obvious and it is not achievable for at least two reasons which have been well rehearsed on these forums. It is also noticeable that (perhaps understandably) he does not say how much he is willing to invest. The figure of £20 million keeps getting bandied about; who knows if this is even remotely accurate? What I don't understand about his position is if he was so keen to invest and such a big fan why didn't he buy the Club from SDM or buy it out of liquidation. I realise that the tax case was ongoing but I am sure that a skilful businessman like him could have found a way.

I don't see any chance whatsoever of the current Board asking him to invest, IMHO they see him as a threat to their positions not the answer to Rangers financial problems. Where I do think he might be wrong is about the existing investors. IF Wallace gets the house in order, then a rights issue at around 20p - 25p may well prove attractive as it would allow them to maintain their percentage holdings and average down the price.

What does this have to do with Celtic supporters?

That's only part of the story and he needs to come up with a positive plan and a business model to match.

When was the last time anyone can remember Rangers trying a move from a free kick?

The targetman, nicknamed ‘The Beast’, tweeted: 'McCoist is a p****, game against Stenny should be midweek?... Why, so we are f****** after working all day whilst your boys can lie and get a massage for three days before checking their £5k a week wages are in? Away and ****off #Embarrassing…Just fed up listening to guys like McCoist moaning when they’ve got the best job in the world.' Gemmell quit Twitter soon after his rant, claiming he was forced to shut down his account due to online abuse. But a good-natured McCoist embraced the Stenny forward at the end of Rangers’ 2-0 win in Stenhousemuir but he accused the 29-year-old of missing the point of his festive fixtures outburst. 'I get called worse in my own house,' McCoist laughed at the time. 'The concerning thing was that about 60 per cent of our dressing room agreed with him!' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2544989/John-Gemmell-dock-Ally-McCoist-tweets-despite-Rangers-boss-laughing-off.html#ixzz2rJgiCXwm Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Gemmell was dealt with internally by his Club who were obviously and rightly embarrassed but there is no need for the theatre and expense of an SFA prosecution. Not in the (football) public interest, is a phrase that comes to mind.

http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/item/6052-squad-is-working-hard JIM HENRY has praised Rangers’ players for reaching the high standards he wants them to be at and says they have been doing that all season long. The Light Blues’ work pattern has attracted criticism from some quarters as certain parties have claimed they should be doing more at Murray Park in between games. But head of sports science Henry refutes such suggestions, insisting Ally McCoist’s squad follows a schedule in line with those at other clubs he has been with previously. The work Gers have done since regrouping of the start of their pre-season programme last June has led to 26 wins from 28 competitive games so far in 2013/14. With only two points dropped in 21 League One fixtures, the team is 20 points clear of nearest challengers Dunfermline with 15 matches still to go. Monday’s 2-0 victory at Forfar was also the 25th away league outing in a row Rangers had been unbeaten and that run goes all the way back to October 2012. Henry has mapped out how a typical day at Auchenhowie will pan out and maintains the players are conducting themselves properly and professionally. He said: “A lot of the boys will come in and do their own individual stuff first. There are lads here who have specific programmes with the physio they need to stick to. “They will start around 9.30am doing their own thing and we then take the whole group in at around 10.15am. “They do a lot of pro perception work, balance work and exercises which are designed to prevent injuries. “That’s a group session and it’s only after that that they go out to do their football training on the park. “We are always analysing the football sessions so that we know if they need to be made harder or indeed easier. “I’ve got to say the output in terms of work we have been getting from the players has been high. “The players will then come in and a lot of them will then go into the pool and do recovery work before they eat. “There has to be rest factored in and recovery is part of the training process because we need the players to be at their best at the right times. “Some clubs might have their players in every single day of the week but a lot of those days will be filled with recovery work and rest. “They’ll definitely not train every day the way some people expect they will. Instead, they’ll do injury prevention programmes or they’ll recover in the pool. “What we are doing is a work in progress. We always want to improve and we are always striving to do that. “We know when the boys come off the training pitch what needs to be worked on and that’s something we are focused on. “We’re trying to make the boys more powerful but it won’t come overnight. We are making progress though and we’re definitely moving in the right direction.” Some have complained it has often taken Rangers until the second half of games to break their opponents down in recent months. But Henry feels respect should be paid to opponents in such instances and stresses that just because many other players are part-time, it doesn’t mean they aren’t fit. Gers have usually been stronger in the long run because it’s in the latter stages of games that their higher overall levels have shone through. Henry believes the right amount of effort is going into training and games from the players and has the statistics which prove it. He added: “All I can do is judge training on a day-to-day basis. We have GPS units and we look at the distance covered by the players and the loading they do. It’s all very high. “They are covering 140 to 160 metres a minute in their training programmes so they are working hard enough. “Looking at the stats we are seeing, they’ve not dropped all the way through and that’s a good thing. “The players are putting the effort into the gymnasium work we are doing and we have good professionals at the club. “Some people look at our games and think we should be running over the teams we play but that’s not the case. “The players we come up against in other teams are still fit lads as well, regardless of whether they train full-time or part-time, and it’s not as straightforward as just overpowering them. “Sometimes it takes time to grind teams down and for our overall superior fitness levels to show through.” This appears to be a direct response to the leaked training schedule and comments on here (and perhaps elsewhere, I don't read any other forums); and if so shows the power of internet comment. McCulloch also makes the point http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/item/6057-gap-isnt-so-big McCulloch feels the pre-season Rangers went through last summer was one of the toughest he has experienced in his career. And he says the squad continues to work hard now to maintain the level of fitness achieved back then before the campaign began. The 35-year-old acknowledges Gers have struggled at times to kill off their opponents despite going on to win 20 of their 21 league fixtures so far. In a third of those games, the Light Blues have either been drawing or behind at the midway point but have then gone on to triumph each time. McCulloch feels that’s because other sides are giving everything they’ve got initially and it seems the Ibrox team’s superior fitness then shines through in the latter stages. He added: “We had a pretty tough pre-season and it lasted about six weeks. Big Jim Henry was pretty rigorous with us but he’s fair. “It’s hard work and at the moment we’re still working hard too, albeit we’ve got to get our recovery in as well. “We’re working pretty hard and that’s telling in games now, although teams we played against treat playing us like it’s a cup final. “That’s especially the case in away games. A lot of the boys are playing on adrenalin and that’s why the first halves are as hard. “The amount of times we’ve come in drawing at half-time then gone on to win in the second half has been quite high. “A lot of our opponents are playing at a really high tempo and you can say they’re only part-time but it’s amazing what adrenalin can do to you. They make it hard for us.” However, I still don't see anything about when we discuss or plan tactics on the training field or view video of past games or discuss future opponents".

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Stated to be 45662 here http://www.football-lineups.com/tourn/SPL_2012-2013/Stats/Home_Avg_Atte/ might be a little higher if you include European games.

IF next season was spun correctly by our media consultant then we would be hyping up: See Rangers strive to return to our righful place in the Premier League Every game a cup tie along that road Probably six of the nine teams we will be playing against in the League will have played in the SPL Two home games against Edinburgh rivals Heart of Midlothian and perhaps two against Glasgow rivals Partick Thistle Can McCoist take the team 3, 2, 1 and Up! See our young prospects (Clark, Aird, McKay, McAusland and Gasparotto) develop into first team regulars alongside our brightest rising star McLoed and all for a very modest rise in season ticket prices (hopefully) and perhaps even one or two shiny new faces With a marketing strategy like that (and I am sure some more that I can't think of right now) I don't see why we shouldn't be looking at record ST sales.

Time was both Rangers and Celtic were in the top 20. The rise of the Turkish clubs (and the fall of Man Utd) is probably the biggest current phenomen. Overall the rich are getting richer and the rest...........

amms;461589 Up until he took the 50% pay cut I would have agreed with you, effectively voting against the re-election of your employers to the company Board would piss any director off; no matter our views on the personalities involved. However, I'm not so sure now he's seen to have done his bit in terms of salary; reluctantly or not, it seems he was well advised. Of course a 75% cut would have been much better from that point of view and brought his salary to something that might at least be justified balancing Rangers as a Club, finances etc, with our current station in this football life. If he's been clever then his contracted salary may still be the higher figure (even if it's a temporary cut not a deferal), so it might still cost around £1.5 million to get rid of the entire coaching staff; but even if the total is half that, can anyone really see this Board paying him and his colleagues off? So long as he does the job of winning the leagues (regardless of the quality of football we are playing) the Board will not be able to dismiss him for cause.

He'll get a slap on the wrists, might even cite Ally as a witness to the fact that he wasn't offended.

Exactly what I've been saying for ages.

Niraj, if you do not raise the full £7,000 needed; will backers get their money back? Also do you have a budget that you can publish to bring out the £7,000 total?

Interesting portfolio http://www.sdmcproductions.com/factual.html

Niraj, I suggest you contact Robert McElroy, the Rangers Historian, if you haven't done so already.

Me neither I'm happy to say.