BrahimHemdani
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I am equally "happy to laud these personnel for their contributions to the services", as you put it; so long as it is not misunderstood as something else and have no intention of getting between you and RPB about the whys and wherefores of the wider issues. On your second point I take the view that If the troops are in uniform then it IS a formal occasion hence the presence of the most senior officers in Scotland and in that context I would much prefer some kind of military display than the good natured exuberance shown at the Stenhousemuir game. If it was kept to a disciplined and formal occasion then I don't think that there could be any issue about the purpose.
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A bigger profile can be for all sorts of reasons and in Gazza's case many of them were negative; that doesn't make you a world class player, though he might have been briefly earlier in his career.
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Completely agree with you on that, the only reason Laudrup didn't cost more was that he was out of favour at Milan (who did have a genuine world class team)/Fiorentina at the time. He was aged 25 and at his peak when he came to us; Gascoigne was past his peak or getting past his peak. Laudrup made a more consistent impact at Rangers playing 116 games in 4 years compared with Gazza's 74 in 3 years; albeit Gascoigne had a higher goals per game ratio; I'd think (but can't prove) that Laudrup created more chances for others whereas Gazza was more of a soloist. I'll standby Laudrup and Baxter as the only the truly world class players we've had.
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I'm not sure that you could rate Numan and Gough in the same league as Messi and Maradona or defenders like Franz Beckenbauer, Giacinto Facchetti , Franco BARESI or Paolo MALDINI? Out of your choices: Baxter and Laudrup (accepting that his brother was a better player) are the ones for me.
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I'd tend to agree with that if you add Laudrup based on FIFA rankings.
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By all accounts Alan L Morton,. "the wee blue devil" would have been rated world class in his day but it is very hard to tell. I think we also have to separate players who WE might consider world class and players others might regard as such. In terms of genuine WORLD class i.e. would the player have got into a World XI at his peak, I reckon Frank de Boer, Laudrup who "was named by FIFA as the 5th best player in the world in 1992 and was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers at the FIFA 100 ceremony in March 2004" (source - Wikipedia), and possibly Gascoigne (rated 4th in Europe in 1990), although his peak was very short lived, are the only major candidates and Laudrup is the only genuine certainty. Ronald de Boer had the best football brain of any player I've ever seen and Baxter the best natural ability so they are both worth a shout IMHO. In fact Laudrup is the only player we have had since 1990 who made the FIFA top ten http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/fifa-awards.html#player10 You really need to look down this list to think about what constitutes genuine "world class". Interesting debate about Goram v Kloss never mind Goram v The World; but was he in the same class as European Goalkeepers of the Year such as: Lev YASHIN, Oliver Kahn, Gianluigi Buffon and Dino ZOFF, perhaps but "world class"? Equally interesting debate about van Bronkhurst but you really need to be at the Johan Cruijff, Ruud GULLIT, Marco VAN BASTEN, Ronald Koeman, Dennis Bergkamp type of level to get in the top 5 in Europe; I'd suggest that if you're not in the top 5 in Europe, you can't really be genuine "world class". Denis LAW is the only Scottish player ever to have won the European Footballer of the Year title and he plus: Jimmy Johnstone, Gordon Strachan, Billy Bremner and Kenny Dalglish are the only Scottish players to have featured in the Top 5. Johnstone is the only player in the Scottish Leagues to have won a medal (bronze) and he and Strachan were the only Scottish players actually playing in Scotland, to have featured. http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy.html#top5 So you have to be thinking about players at that level at least if not better in terms of true "world class". I'd chuck in Willie Henderson at his best, as being at least as good as Johnstone (bearing in mind that they played in the same Scotland team) as worth a shout; but world class, I'm not so sure. Going down the European list, I'll throw in a wild card: Alexei Mikhailichenko [/b] was rated 4th in Europe when he was with Dynamo Kiev in 1988. Laudrup largely kept Mikhailichenko out of Rangers team in 1993/94 thus enhancing his (Laudrup's) claim to world class in my view.
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End of story hopefully; but a lesson learned perhaps.
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If you have a job that pays £300k pa plus bonuses, then I'd hang on to it if I was you. Jobs like that don't grow on trees.
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I think your analogy is very thin. Wrong on that anyway; a lot of them were Celtic fans. I take it you would pay tribute regardless of which team they support? Therefore in reality it has nothing to do with football.
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And that has what do to with football?
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Spot on. And he was a very nice person as well. I met him a few years back when he was back to doing basic joinery work for a neighbouring business.
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That IS a legitimate point; but can you please explain to me what it has got to do with football or Rangers FC?
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That's ridiculous and totally out of order IMHO. Where did you get in RPB's posts that he has "something against soldiers personally" just because he doesn't agree with them marching up and down Ibrox. I have the greatest of respect for our fighting men but I still don't agree with it either. Yes, we are honouring them; but it is open to the suggestion that they are being used for pseudo football/political purposes and my personal opinion is that that is not right. As I suggested earlier, if we do continue with the Day, then I feel it should be a much more formal affair and I do not think that the soldiers should be allowed to break ranks and run about the pitch waving scarves and banners of any description.
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I'm not sure that politics and football mix all that well.
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Irrelevant if it was succeeded by a permanent contract; as you have already said 12 months notice is normal for a CEO at this level. Unless he was caught with his hand in the till, I don't see that sacking him as BD suggests was a realistic option.
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Wasn't he confirmed as permanent CEO?
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He would be an excellent choice not least in respect of his knowledge of Scottish football, government contacts etc and from what I know of him would absolutely relish going in to bat against Doncaster and a great deal cheaper than Christian Purslow though not with the anything like the same international reputation.
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As Craig and Darther (thanks for agreeing with me) have pointed out the Compnay has fullfilled its obligations to give 12 months notice or pay in lieu and no amount of extrapolation can change that. I would be very interested to know the wording of and does anyone really think that if we are able to attract someone of higher quality than Mather e.g. Purslow, he would settle for anything less than the same 12 months notice, or that level of salary for that matter.
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Pleased to note you've taken my admonishment to heart!
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Honesty prevents me from agreeing with you; but thanks anyway. Just stupid spelling on my part, for which my old Latin teacher would turn in his grave.
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Whoops! I could say it was a deliberate mistake (a cross between the singular and the plural even?) to see if you were awake but, I have to and I didn't look at the one on my shelf either.
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That's a bit off, Craig, David Holmes was responsible for bringing Souness to the Club and the revolution that followed after years in the wilderness and ever dwindling crowds. He does not get the credit he deserves.
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Perhaps so; and you will have the opportunity to vote out those responsible at the AGM.
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No, with respect, you're missing out the "by mutual agreement". On the contrary, if he was sacked for gross misconduct, he would have been entitled to nothing except perhaps any notice in his contract. But that would have been extremely difficult to prove and costly in terms of lawyers fees and at the end there would most likley have been a compromise settlement. Better to get it over and done with now, however much the amount irks.
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I'd have him back in a heartbeat; who else can you think of in recent times who you could say that about. Another who stood up to be counted and opposed the sale to Whyte; and paid for it with his position at the Club. And BTW, the man responsible for bringing back the black & red socks when he was a relatively unknown lowly director.
