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The effect will be a financial hit incurred this year in clearing old debts and an inability to buy new players until Sep 2013. I hardly think these sanctions will be held to have crippled Rangers in years to come.

...Paul Murray, Douglas Park, Jim McColl, Bomber Brown. Not to mention Martin Bain, who was praised publicly by the RST for dropping his legal action against the club, right around the time it became clear his involvement in dual contracts might see him jailed.... We can live with a transfer ban while in Div 3, the fines and monies owing can be raised. What he won't accept is stripping of titles. If he wins that battle, he's due praise.

He's just succeeded in restoring Rangers' license to play football. Which makes him a hero of sorts, no? I'd say he's far more prasieworthy than the gaggle of would-be purchasers who kept insisting they would do anything to own Rangers. Except pay the asking rate. Green is currently the man. Like him or not, he's here until he chooses to leave.

As Admin always say, let's not resort to personal attacks. We're all delighted this saga is finally over and we're all firmly behind Green and McCoist. Aren't we, Gunslinger?

I'm detecting a lot of bitterness on this thread from posters who had expected Green to crash and burn by now. Loving your pain, guys. While you keep fuming about Green, mentioning Whyte every few posts and dreaming of "rrrrreal Rrrrrrrrangerss men" buying the club, the rest of us have a team to support. Have fun. We will.

An inappropriate smiley tagged onto a weak rejoinder. Let's leave it there.

Admin may choose to turn a blind eye to it but you're very transparently starting threads in order to sneer at other posters. This is trolling, pure & simple. Very disappointing that this is allowed. Call the laughable CL clause a "bonus" if it pleases you but making the payment (£1m) conditional on Rangers reaching the CL reduced TBK's CVA's value from £5.5m to £4.5m. As a result, TBK's CVA was felt to have a lower value than Green's, which is why Green's was chosen. TBK had months to prepare a bid, they had most of the fans' backing, they had more than enough money but they failed to offer enough to secure the club. Brain Kennedy can harumph all he pleases and you can fawn over every pronouncement he makes but it changes the facts not one jot. I respectfully suggest you accept that fact and move on.

The insistence on withholding 20% of their bid's value unless Rangers reached the CL 1/4 Final is what cost TBK, in terms of their bid's success and their own personal credibility. If you can't accept that, it's clear your continued support for anyone but Green is just mischief making.

CL qualification was never going to happen, it was a complete red herring. We'd failed to reach the Europa League the year before with a full squad, how could we reach the CL group stages one year on with what was certain to be a stripped-down squad of players? Let me give you a parallel. There's a boarded-up detached house on the sea-front in Troon. It's hit bad times but it's enormous and could be a real investment opportunity. I could make a bid to buy it, based on the money I'll receive on Friday night when I become one of the UK's 100 new millionaires. Reckon the estate agents handling the sale will go for that? No? But D&P should have bought a fantasy tale exactly like that from TBK? TBK & Kennedy failed miserably to convince D&P that they were prepared to come up with the appropriate funds to buy Rangers. Green made a more convincing case, came up with what was ostensibly at least a higher offer and TBK lost out. Kenendy is still embarrassed about being outmaneouvred, especially after all his big talk. That's what happened. No conspiracy, no shadowy figures. All down to cash on the table.

No I don't. By inserting a nonsensical proviso on 20% of their CVA's total value, TBK/Kennedy left D&P with no choice other than to select Green's offer. What's happening here is you, by pretending that Kennedy had nothing to do with the CL clause, are inventing stories to make the current most likely bidder look a little less ridiculous.

Ah yes, CL group qualification in 2013/14. Yes, that was equally likely. Oh yeah? If TBK (aka Paul Murray, Ticketus and the RST) dreamed up that idea on their own, that reveals a lot about their own grasp of reality. Only someone who knows and understands nothing about Scottish/European football could ever have dreamed up a payment scheme based on a Scottish team reaching the CL 1/4 final for the first time ever. No wonder they were laughed out of the place by two accountants.

We have been liquidated, didn't you notice? It happened shortly after Kennedy, the man worth £360m, bleated about how unfair it was that his bid, 20% of which was dependent on Rangers' qualifying for the Champions League 1/4 finals, was refused. Brian Kennedy would be the ideal Rangers owner for you. He has a similar relationship with reality.

"The Flashing Blade". Saturday morning, dubbed French childrens' series from the 60s.

In what way does our acceding to these illegal sanctions in total constitute Green "brokering a deal"? I have a better idea for a settlement. Why doesn't Regan accept a deal where he drops this idiotic idea of Lawwell-prompted sanctions? Then he can resign in disgrace and fuck off back home to get his lisp fixed with the proceeds of his payoff.

Don't feed the troll, mate. His handlers on his favourite site are giving him lines to use on here and everyone knows it. Why admin allow it is beyond me.

We were given extensive minutes from the last RFFF meeting, a guy from Vanguardbears produced them.

Only among the active participants, not spectators. In any case, I thought the whole point of today's meeting was to provide much-needed transparency, not yet more secrecy?

The correct terminology is "troll". Sadly, the site owner chooses not to see it or if he does, he doesn't act on it. Shame, it's ruining a promising site.

Hahaha. Bless your little heart!

Talking of which, I wouldn't be surprised to see Bomber talking into a telephone with no audible answer as part of today's act.

As soon as you stop telling us all with great admiration how the Tims got it right a year ago, I'll stop replying to you. How's that?

To summarise your opinions and your input on this thread: A bunch of Rangers-hating Tims got lucky last year as their wishful thinking paid off beyond their wildest dreams when Rangers' new owner proved to be a crook. Now they're praying the same thing happens again with the new owner. You and and your pseudo-intellectual compatriots from another site are fervently hoping the Tims are right again. You're keeping very poor company.

Why doesn't he just have a live Q&A session on, err, another Rangers website with a live feed to, err, a certain fans' group's FB site? Any attendees who stray too far off-message with their questions will be instantly life-banned. Perfect for a man who loves casting stones at others but comes up massively short each time when questioned himself.

Yes, Whyte was a wrong 'un and Daly, Phil McStupidname, Keech Jackson & the doubters from within the Rangers support were proved right. Given that, it follows that anyone else who tries to buy the club must also be corrupt. Unless they're called Paul Murray. Or Jim McColl. Or Douglas Park. Or if Walter Smith backs them. Or if John Brown and Andy Goram like them. Then their bid should be waved through without question. But if it's just some smart-arse from Yorkshire, he's clearly at it and it would be for the best if he sells up ASAP.

Plus of course HMRC would really have hit the jackpot when we reached the Champions League 1/4 Finals in 2014/15. Isn't it amazing TBK didn't get the gig? It sounds like you still can't believe it didn't happen. But then as we all know, D&P stood to make far more from a liquidation than from a CVA, so they handed the club to Green, who is of course just a front for Whyte, who in turn is just David Murray's fall-guy. They would have got away with it if it wasn't for that pesky, meddling John Brown and his awkward questions. Have I missed anything?