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Bar Frankie's "mysterious" twitter copy, nothing official suggests that it is in fact his bid that will succeed and not the other, even more mysterious bid. About either we know next to nothing, only that both have had about 14 days to check the data, even though Miller was named PB. That is what was - unless I am mistaken - said by the admins themselves.

... as posted on twitter today:

IMHO, FF is currently infested with quite a number of shyte-stirrers and Hooped Horrors. In general though, the patience of the support is wearing thinner by the day and emotions running pretty high. And this will not cease as long as we are out of admin and on some safe standing. You do wonder, in all of this, that people like AJ or Walter keep rather quiet when it comes to getting wealthy people involved. Not that we know what they do or whether they can actually do something. But still ...

Just found this informative post over on FF: So this admin is not court-appointed and the admins essentially can do as they please? News to me and somewhat worrying a read.

On a sidenote, D&P are still pursuing Collier Bristow for 25m, while Ticketus apparently wants 27m from Whyte now. If this goes through, what would that mean for Rangers?

Can't see a point in relying on Euro games. They can whip up half a dozen friendlies for more income, create a membership scheme, or call in the support to back up the pledges they made in hard cash. They can sell the naming rights of Ibrox for 5 years, get in more shirt sponsors and whatnot. It ain't that hard ... As of CVA. Why does time run out? Because CVA can not be delivered by the start of next season? So what? A 10 point deduction? Or possible new penalties according to the SPL fantasists?

As I said in the other thread, the money TBK offered for the club and the creditors, on face value, looks pretty low. If the other chaps come in and put almost twice as much on the table, D&P are essentially duty-bound to accept them for the sake of the creditors - no matter the morale or emotional value behind TBK and Co.. Had BK or someone else with the cash not entered the bargain basement-type of scrambles, we would have new owners long ago. IMHO, and new bidder should e.g. try to get a decent brand name for Ibrox and even more so a decent sponsorship deal for the shirts (look at Holland et al, where they have about six different shirt sponsors) and try to secure some real money to get his deal through, without investing all too much of his own money, which can be saved to restore the club itself. And while we are at it, someone of note should have actually whipped up the Save Rangers scheme and collect those 10m plus of money pledged by supporters in a save account, money to be used by a new owner to steady the ship (i.e. getting players signed or the running costs of Ibrox et al).

The discredited twin has already responded, cynically asking Naisey at which time he last spoke to his agent. Grade A tosser who should be earmarked for the persona non grata area in front of Ibrox.

... ouch. Another discredited journalist, right?

So we have essentially two bids left and very advanced, while TBK and/or Brian Kennedy linger on, with Kennedy saying that Saturday morning 9.00 am is his deadline. On the face of it, despite all the mudslinging, the BK bid on the table does not look that great, especially when looked upon by the admins and, consequently, the creditors.

@BBCchrismclaug: Ex Chief Exec of Sheffield Utd Charles Green fronts bid for #Rangers. Deal at an advanced stage. International part to the deal too

Later today ... grand. I'll be at work as we* entertain "Celtic Woman" tonight. Will have to get my text message connections working again. :-/ *For most of winter we do sports events and more recently crowned .

The point remains that the club as such, the manager, the players, and the support, could not do anything about this, yet they it is who get punished first and foremost? While doing everything fine in 139 years? Well, well ... Of course, you won't want to even think about the reasons why they did not kick us out of the SFA in the first place. BTW, have Olympique Marseille been stripped of any titles (incl. CL crown of 1992/93) because of match fixing? Can we relocate to Ulster for a season and leave a message at the SPL & SFA's door proclaiming: "We'll gladly watch you die!"

Ahem ... UEFA is looking at clubs trying to solve their debts but ignores those who openly keep getting away without paying TAX and social insurance? Who will play in Europe these next few years, I wonder?

Maybe I am wrong here, but methinks we shed much of the religious baggage - not least as a club - during the Souness and Smith eras. Sure the songs were sung, but they had already become Ibrox tradition that the real meaning only came to the fore during the Old Firm games ... and probably subsided with 80% of the support after 90odd minutes. We signed so many Catholic and whatnot players by then that their argument about a no-Catholic doctrine sounds hollow, for it essentially stopped 30 (as in THIRTY) years ago - IF there ever was one in living memory. Did someone ever answered the question why Irish Catholics or Ulster Catholics (people like Ray Houghton) never signed? Not because of themselves, but because they feared for their families on the Emerald Isle. After years of ineptness on the park, the Scum saw their opportunity in 2007/2008 and if you'd ask me, that is the time when they stirred all the shyte up again. It is, IMHO, them who portray themselves as the Irish Catholic side so much that like a description of twins, each time the topic Old Firm is on the agenda the old stereotypes come to the fore, whether they are true any longer does not matter. Where there is smoke, there must be fire. What is utterly baffling and ultimately annoying is that the press and politics rather hunt this fire and try to put it out than to actually check where the smoke is coming from.

What's this "noon or bust" garbage now? Will their milk run sour at 1 pm? Strange game of mind poker this. As has been said before, these people should leave their mouths shut and get it done, rather than talking behind closed doors and throw insults and threats at one another when the door opens. BTW, people should abstain from laying into D&P time and again. While criticism might be due, none of those people on here - I reckon - have any clue about administration work (including TBK and BK), not least when it is such a heap of horror as Whyte and Co. left behind. As D&P have said recently, while this can and should not go on any longer, the club is actually only a rather short time in admin - compared to other administrations. We all want this to end yesterday, spouting bile time and again is sure not a way to get it done though.

You do wonder what these chaps haring after us say to the team who won yesterday's Europa League trophy? Euro 130m in the red books, not paid tax and social insurance for their players for ages, spend 40m on Falcao and whatnot in wages on Deco ... and will have any repayment of tax debts suspended till 2020 - according to the SPanish government. Much like the rest of the Spanish league. Because ... it is their national sport and in the national interest. What's Scotland's national sport again? Curling? Golf?

Long before this starts, the Edinburgh Evening News team has produced ... and I for one can take the banter in there. Good luck to them!

... and we should keep those in mind barking loudest these days. For the pendulum swings in both directions and one day or another ...

Could very well imagine Walter - in his dignified manner - taking people like McColl in for a glass of whisky and talking him into spending a few million to keep this institution of football alive and well.

I'll happily blame forlanssister for that!

A Scottish millionaire with 300m to 750m pounds to burn (pending your yource) ... who did not want to get involved directly though.

See, it wasn't that hard!

Looks like we are in for some better news and some hectic couple of days ahead ...

Who would not if one is served such stuff like the above and more gloom-singing in the next thread. As has been said before, we soon need no enemies with friends like these.