Mountain Bear
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How on earth can any rational person be against Paul Murray's record as a Director, but supportive of Stockbridge's?
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Well that's ok then.
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Definitive. The end of the road for the New Club zealots / obsessed.
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Me too. The early voting was overwhelmingly in favour of the requisitioners.
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Did Laxey rule out voting for one or more requisitioners as well as the existing directors they have pledged to support?
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Perhaps not, but if the owners of a business ignore their customers, then it's unlikely to end well for them in the long run.
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I see Stockbridge commands an overwhelming 3% support on the RST online vote so far. Are you listening to the fans as you said you would Laxey?
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But do you accept that a large percentage of Rangers supporters want Stockbridge, Jack Irvine and to a (slightly) lesser extent the Easdales and now also Mr Somers out of our Club? Some posters elsewhere seem to think it's only 10-15%. Would you agree that number is ridiculously low? Personally, I'd accept a compromise where Stockbridge goes, Irvine's contract is terminated and Wilson & Murdoch from the requisitioners side are elected to the Board. I'd prefer the Easdales and Somers to go as well, but I could live with them as long as a couple of people I believe I can trust are elected. Do you think a compromise would be appropriate? If so, what would you suggest?
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I miss the evenly balanced Old Firm games. The ones where you were on a knife edge between utter dejection and pure elation right until the final whistle. I don't regret not playing them for a few years while we regroup and (hopefully, eventually) strengthen for the challenge. The thought of an emaciated Rangers receiving regular humpings from them is too awful to contemplate, but that of course is what Celtic actually wanted when they were helping to shape the original 5 way agreement.
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Lloyds Change Attitude Towards Football Clubs!
Mountain Bear replied to amms's topic in Rangers Chat
What do you think would have happened to LBG's personal banking business north of the border if they'd had to put Rangers into administration? -
1200 responses. Even allowing for the odd Timposter, that's a pretty decent sample. If (and admittedly it is quite a large if), Gersnet members are representative of the wider Rangers support, we can say with 95% confidence that between 85% and 89% of supporters want Stockbridge out. Also quite impressive that Mr Somers has managed to make himself almost as unpopular as Stockbridge in such a short spade of time. Not an easy task. I hope someone attending the Laxey meeting tomorrow takes those stats and some photos from Saturday along with them.
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DB, we are to believe that Mr Somers did no research into the organisation he was agreeing to join as Chairman and then within a few weeks had forgotten how, and by whom, he was appointed? I'm prepared to give people the benefit of the doubt most of the time, but those comments stretch credulity too far for me I'm afraid.
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Spot on Andy. Either Somers lacks the statesman-like qualities of a good Chairman entirely, or his strings are being pulled by others. I actually had a brief email exchange with the head man at Laxey recently in which he agreed that some form of compromise with the Requisitioners would make sense. After Somers' initial statements, the guys with the olive branches are going to need bloody long arms now. The implacable denial of legitimate concerns combined with a failure to engage with mainstream fans groups worries the hell out of me, as it just isn't the behaviour of a rational, independent, newly appointed Chairman faced with deep unhappiness from at least 28% of his shareholders and by my reckoning 60-70% of his customers. Add to that the nonsense about him not knowing anything about any of the key players in Rangers' recent history, nor being able to remember how or by whom he was appointed to his job and I'm already at the point where the guy has zero credibility in my eyes. Frankly, I don't care whether he is incompetent, lying or just a puppet, he's not behaving like a Rangers Chairman should.
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My son and I were a few minutes late getting into the ground and there was no-one left handing out the cards at the time, so those on RM can increase their risible estimates of the numbers protesting by 0.00005%.
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financial figures on PM history, taken from RM.
Mountain Bear replied to j1mgg's topic in Rangers Chat
I must say Mr Murdoch's Green Dust Ltd directorship made me smile, however that was all this financial "analysis" was good for. -
So he wants future board members to be "Professional". Like your statements then Mr Chairman? Deeply unimpressed by Mr Somers' first few communications.
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In fact this thread prompted me to sign up tonight.
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Outright ownership isn't necessary, but the fans should hold sufficient shares to ensure they have boardroom influence and cannot be easily ignored or kept in the dark on issues of substance. I subscribed to the one-off BuyRangers scheme at the time of the IPO and will seriously consider making a regular commitment.
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Fans meeting analysis – Between a rock and a hard place
Mountain Bear replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
You saved me a lot of typing there Chilled Bear, as I was going to make a virtually identical post. And by the way, there was a hell of a lot of detail in the IPO prospectus and the then Board have delivered precious little of it for our money. -
Spot on? In what way are the actions of McColl's group likely to lead to Administration and another relegation as the statement suggests? I thought that the AGM result was a forgone conclusion given the number of statements about how many shares the Easdales control? Do you think the Serious Fraud Office story is made up? Do you think that statement is likely to reduce infighting and heal the divisions in our support? Do you know anything about equity capital markets and normal levels of risk premium? And more than anything, the language and tone of these statements are simply unbecoming of an institution like Rangers and are themselves damaging our reputation.
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It's not just embarrassing it's complete b*****ks. That statement quite deliberately confuses the original capital raising by Green & his backers, when there was indeed a significant degree of risk involved, with the position at the time of the IPO, when Rangers did have a licence and 38k season ticket holders. The risks incurred by the initial investors were amply rewarded by penny shares and mitigated by the fact that they paid a fraction of the underlying asset value. Tell us specifically what costs were incurred for the AIM listing, by whom and for what. Then I might start to accept that this isn't some sort of smokescreen.
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Perhaps due to the obvious conflict of interest involved in hearing Rangers' complaint, the SFA should appoint an Independent arbiter on this occasion. I'm sure Harper McLeod's fees would be reasonable...
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Absolutely pitiful. We are paying handsomely for the privilege of having our club embarrassed on a daily basis. Perhaps Jack will be scouting players for us next.
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Maurice Edu and Kyle Bartley 'shocked' by racist tweets
Mountain Bear replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
Oh and btw, check out the left hand side of Ian1964's screenshot, for the words "similar to Michael Convery - Nelly Furtado"! I don't think so... -
Maurice Edu and Kyle Bartley 'shocked' by racist tweets
Mountain Bear replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
What a fud. He can't even direct his vile, inarticulate rantings at the right person. His first tweet abuses Kyle Lafferty for being black...