RANGERRAB

So do you think it's perfectly acceptable for HMRC to go round issuing tax bills to companies for amounts to which they are not entitled?

Receiving £1m from LBG for the sale of Rangers to you-know-who.

Contingent liability ? LOL. You mean a non-existent EBT tax bill

Come on Craig...............MIH had bank debts of more than £750m yet LBG were more focused on Rangers £18m bank debt. What does that tell you? When you look at who was running LBG's Scottish business division at that time you realise why

And there was me thinking banks were supposed to support businesses..................................... It was both LBG & HMRC who caused a chancer like WHYTE (& subsequently Green) to appear on the scene. A chance to make a quick buck then depart. Or so they'd hoped

The 'dodgy geezers' you refer to were just the small time crooks. It is the real villians who mis-used their power & influence we should really be after. It's a pity many such as yourself couldn't see this

LBG forcing SDM to sell to Whyte then withdrawing all bank credit once Whyte got control. You couldn't make this up ? deliberate sabotage

Just ban him for life. Don't let the little weasel set foot inside Ibrox ever again.

Give this vile, bespectacled rhodent a life ban from Ibrox. This is deliberate. If he doesn't know the club continued by now then he's been living on another planet for these past few years. Every legal ruling has stipulated the club continued. BAN HIM FOR LIFE.........NOW

you know that for sure?

Not if LBG forced him to sell to Whyte. That was never in Rangers best interests. AJ & PM said so vociferously at the time. They were proved correct.

The politicians in this country will do all they can to prevent a public enquiry. Especially lhabour ones. We know who they are though.

If Whyte,Green & others are charged & found guilty then I hope they face the consequences for what they did. But we cannot overlook the roles played by both LBG & HMRC in all of this. Had it not been for these two organisations then there wouldhave been no Craig Whyte or CharlesGreen.They effectively made Rangers unsellable to reputable buyers Did LBG force SDM to sell to Whyte? If so why, especially when thereafter they withdrew all credit facilities to Whyte making the business virtually unworkable. And did Muir get £1m in the process? Why? Consider too that Rangers £18m bankdebt was around 3 percent of the MIH debt of £750m And what of HMRC chasing a fictitious EBT tax bill of anything between £24m to £75m depending upon which paper you read? So flawed it failed both its own internal FTTT & UTTT appeals. The real villians are those within these organisations IMO with a passionate hatred of our great club who mis-used their positions to inflict damage. And, of course, the political influence too. Nearly forgot that

Very interesting indeed if true but how would McLaughlin know this?

No it wouldn't. We don't need an out and out target man just someone who can hold the ball up which would mean a physical presence Ideally a jelavic-type.

FWIW I always dread a Rangers game refereed by Craig Thomson.

The current budget may well be the same as Brentford but will undoubtedly increase when we're back in the top division competing for the title & playing in Europe again.

I don't see this truce lasting long. A successful, vibrant Rangers is not what these people want to see. It won't be long before their hatred manifests itself in their Rangers reporting again.

Up until now, the pondlife they employ at Pacific Quay have been totally incapable of doing that when it is Rangers. Their blind hatred & anti-Rangers bigotry has shone thro' for all to see. Whilst some of us may find this decision disappointing I hope our board stressed to BBC Scotland that if McLaughlin & his fellow pondlife revert back to reporting Rangers in the way they had been doing so then the ban will be reinstated.

Eh? What do you mean? I thought the hooped hordes all supported Barca?

Collins' statement about players in this country not being able to give Ra Sellik a challenge will come back to haunt him in the same way Alan Hansen's 'you can't win with kids' did to him.

If MW doesn't want Vuckic then that's fine by me. We now have a manager who knows what he's doing & what type of player he wants to use in a system which has so far worked well. If Vuckic doesn't fit into that system then so be it.

The idea that Van Dijk has trebled or quadrupled his value after two seasons in Scottish football is hilarious.

I don't ever expect to see Lewis McLeod back if he gets himself fully fit. He is a box to box midfielder who chips in with a few goals who should be well suited to English football. It's only now he's gone I think we're beginning to realise how good he was & did anyone notice how the team deteriorated even more in the second half of last season after he left?

Their finances make interesting reading that's for sure. Not least three years ago when we got put into SFL3 & Liewell said they didn't need us. A couple of years or so later he said it was costing them something like £10m without us in the top league !!!! Some difference from zero to £10m ! I'm always dubious about the alleged fees they get for players they sell too. It seems to me these figures often include signing on fees, agents fees, sell-on fees etc. The idea, for example, that Southampton paid them £12m( or whatever) up front for Wanyama is laughable.