Mountain Bear

We can meet at the end of your street and fight for the rest.

[emoji120] Peace man, we'll ensure that the cash equilibrium is restored and everything is, like, groovy.

Do we get a any badges? i need to keep my collection up to date lol

Not sure. Have a gold star from me though!

I'm delighted to announce that as of this afternoon, Gersnet is the proud owner of one Club 1872 lifetime membership of Rangers First (see below).

The grand total of pledges currently stands at £1435, the vast majority of which has already been collected, so Bluedell is in the process of purchasing the promised FIVE BuyRangers Community Shares at £125 each via PLGsArmy.

Once we've collected the outstanding monies we should have a further £310 to split between the schemes.

Massive thanks to Bluedell for picking up all the payment admin and to everyone on the Forum for their cash and words of encouragement. What a great start to the weekend!

One up front dude.

Probably for the best. The other one might get red carded. [emoji10]

Mountain Bear and Bluedell inspired me to do similar on FF.

Good luck mate. Are you going for the twin RF / BR strikeforce, or playing 1 up front?

Paypal address sorted. Thanks to those organising it for their time and effort.

Thanks Calscot.

If you've gone direct to Bluedell with a pledge / payment could you PM me the details, so I can keep track of the running total please?

Cheers. MB

Share Information at the club's HP has been updated

It may have been updated, but it's now showing King AND Artemis / Miton, even though that's who he bought out!

Yeah my usual forum approach, find somewhere that you get good accurate information and debate free from the usual trolling or other nonsense then stick to it, but with everything that's going on with the club right now I saw the forum share collection and felt I had to contribute and that meant I had to register :-)

Welcome and thanks for the pledge!

There's a good bunch of guys on here and it tends to stay fairly civilised even when there's a disagreement, so you should feel right at home.

He's clearly been preparing for our job for a while...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2764231/Gennaro-Gattuso-former-AC-Milan-midfielder-loses-plot-OFI-Crete-press-conference.html

Total standing at £1385.

Thanks to those who have already sent Bluedell their cash.

We'll confirm as each purchase is completed.

Cheers.

The Rangers Supporters Trust is delighted to announce that following a further share purchase we have now moved over the one million share mark. We now hold 1,000,009 shares in the club.

This purchase has been possible due to the huge support we have received from fans in the past few weeks. We have seen thousands of new members and contributions to Buy Rangers ranging from £5 a month direct debits to £10,000 one off purchases. With the continuing support of our membership, and what we hope will be a continuing stream of new members, we will endeavour to further increase our shareholding in advance of the crucial upcoming EGM.

You can join us and set up payments via direct debit or a lump sum. We are particularly encouraged by the number of overseas fans using our new direct debit facility. Please support the RST and let's take back our club together. http://www.therst.co.uk/buyrangers

- See more at: http://www.therst.co.uk/news/buy-rangers-hits-1-million/#sthash.whtX4Wjm.dpuf

Outstanding!

And presumably a massive increase in proxies for the RST too.

Ok, so a quick update for those who have pledged so far.

We're now at a grand total of £1340 as at noon today.

Bluedell has a list of those who contacted me and a note of their pledge amounts, plus any stated preference regarding which scheme to support. He will contact everyone by PM in the next 24 hours.

I'd be grateful if you'd keep an eye open for that PM and try to act upon it promptly, so that we can make the donations to RF and BR, giving them as much time as possible before the EGM to actually use it for share purchases.

The plan is to use the first £500 collected for the Club 1872 membership.

We'll then use the next £625 to purchase 5 Community Shares via the RST.

That leaves a residual £215 at the moment and we'll leave the thread open for a few days to see if we get any more donations through, before deciding what to do with the balance (i.e. Another Club 1872 membership, more Community Shares or a straight forward cash donation). Whatever we do, we'll try and stick to a rough 50/50 split between the schemes.

I'm proposing that Bluedell, as a long standing and well respected member of the Forum, will be the Gersnet point of contact with both Schemes. I trust that's ok with everyone.

Finally, I've asked Bluedell to send me images of the receipts so that we can post them on here and also on Twitter to give the Forum a bit of publicity (which I'll do under my Twitter handle which is the same as my Forum name).

That's it for now, but if you have any questions, just PM myself or Bluedell or post them on the Thread.

Once again, thanks to everyone for stepping up and doing your bit to help get our Club back.

That is fantastic. Well done and thanks for getting this off the ground.

Pleasure.

Final total for the day was £1270.

So [drum roll] we have a total of £1200, plus 2 as yet unspecified additional amounts.

I'll be logging off shortly, but I just want to commend you all for a monumental effort today. Thanks.

I'm speaking to Bluedell tomorrow about the logistics and we'll be back in touch re payment details very shortly.

I really hope Jack is reading this...

Back after a couple of hours -revised total coming shortly.

This is just like Children in Need, but without the dancing newsreaders!

£940.

£1000 (and a 4th Community Share for BuyRangers), by midnight?

Okay, executive decision from me. If you buy three Community Shares then I will donate a Life Membership to the forum. Just don't tell anyone.

Thanks PLG, it'll be our little secret [emoji8]

We've already got enough for three without the membership fee.

Let's see if we can reward your generosity with a fourth one. Only £110 to go.

£890.

Speaking to Bluedell tomorrow about the logistics of collection etc, so please don't spend that pledged cash elsewhere!

Fantastic effort, but there's still time for anyone else who wants to take part.

Thanks again.

I agree that that is the best way to collect the money but BD is going to have a bit of a job on communicating the details because from memory with the dinner the system only allows 5 or 7 names in one PM

Thankfully the average sum pledged is a bit higher than I originally expected, so the numbers should be manageable.

One of each would be lovely.

So. We're now looking at pledges which would get us:

1 x RF Club 1872 lifetime membership @ £500

1 x RST lifetime membership @£100

2 x BuyRangers Community shares @£125 each

We've already done Gersnet proud. Can we do 1 more Community Share tonight and even it up?

Up to £840 now.

Cazenove look the most likely sellers to a novice. Are these some of easdales purchase perhaps.

See post 98. I believe they sold to Laxey way back.

£815. That second Community Share nearly has our name on it....

We could possible look to do this every say 3 or 4 months , that way everyone isnt getting hammered and people could stick a couple of pounds away each week , even just save the change out their pockets into a jar etc

I think if people want to make a regular contribution, there are probably easier ways to do so rbr, certainly from an admin perspective. For me this is about getting in a lump sum now. Happy to listen to feedback though.

In other news, we're now at £795, so BuyRangers will be getting a life membership from Gersnet and we're working towards our second Community Share.

Should maybe keep this open for a few days so we can get as much investment as possible into both schemes. Great progress considering it's only been open a few hours.

Thanks, I'll discuss with Bluedell. I'd rather it was short and sharp, but It'll take a few days to collect in the cash anyway. Once we're over £725, anything else can go to additional Community Shares and a pure donation to one of the schemes for any residual amount.