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Dermot Desmond has a business history no one wants to question. So why do these guys getting questioned?

they always forget to mention that after O'Neil left in 2005, Ra Sellik were £30m in debt. Looks like they couldn't afford the players they had during O'Neil's era.

Now is the time for Longmuir to show how good he is at his job. With Rangers in the SFL subsidising the SPL via the SKY deal, he has to get the SFL a much bigger share of that deal due to these SFL1 rebels. It will mean serious hardship for some SPL clubs as they'd get less money(and hopefully the SFL1 breakaway rebels too).

Mark Daly proved wrong yet again. Surely he'll need to hand back that BAFTA now won't he ?

Do you think SDM willingly sold out to Whyte ? I've never bought that one. Just ask yourself who was in charge of LBG at the time of Whyte's takeover & where their allegiances lay? Whyte's business history wasn't difficult to find out about. Certainly AJ seemed to have done just that.

This investigation is being overseen by Roy Martin QC. Love to see the SFA try & get someone to challenge him if they don't like its findings. Who would they get ? Fat McKenzie? don't make me laugh

whyte was a kamikaze businessman who should never have got near Rangers in the first place. SDM was blackmailed into selling to him. Virtually no one would touch Rangers because of the potential EBT tax bill. Whyte got the club(by deceiving ticketus into funding the takeover) but was depending on 2 things:- 1) CL money for 2011/12 2) an early BTC verdict after which he'd either sell the club or liquidate blaming SDM if the outcome wasn't favourable. He got neither and hadn't the funds to run the club so he put it into administration hoping to get it back after administration and sell it making money for himself. That wasn't possible as D&P found out the accounts were all over the place and PAYE/NI hadn't been paid. HMRC blocked the CVA leading to newco being formed of which Whyte wasn't part of. This investigation will prove that.

If Hertz are in an insolvency situation, can someone explain to me why there's no talk of them being thrown out the SPL and having to apply to the SFL for membership ? have the rules changed since last summer ?

I'm still surprised some Rangers supporters questioned the need for this investigation. Had it not been done then you could almost guarantee Regan 's SFA would have launched their own investigation & sent the bill to Rangers. It doesn't bear thinking about who they would have appointed onto their investigating panel. Fat MacKenzie for one maybe?

No idea. Who was it?

You forgot questions regarding Craig Whyte i.e. 1) at what point was the SFA aware of Whyte's business history? 2) at what point were the SFA informed Whyte wasn't paying over PAYE/NI deductions? In response to q1 do not believe the SFA were unaware of Whyte's background. I believe Regan said he didn't know of Whyte's business history until Daly's documentary which I don't believe. In response to q2 I believe our JT informed the SFA about 4 or 5 months before administration PAYE/NI wasn't being paid. Did the SFA know & what action was taken ?

Regan is liewell's puppet at the SFA. Doncaster is Liewell's puppet at the SPL. That's how Scottish football is run these days

Regan is liewell's puppet in the SFA. Doncaster is Liewell's puppet in the SPL. Both do as instructed. That is the way Scottish football is nowadays and it is literally falling to pieces.

if the parent company are insolvent then Hertz must be booted out the SPL (as happened to us last year) and they must apply to the SFL for membership. They will duly receive membership but will be told to start in the lowest division i.e. SFL3. That's the precedent set last year. If it goes any other way then we must take legal action. Dundee must be relegated too. That's what happened to Dunfermline last year. That was the precedent set last year. If it goes any other way Dunfermline should take legal action too.

There will be 2 league bodies:- Celtic & the SPL and Rangers & the SFL. Now is the time for Longmuir to stand up to the SPL and demand all the TV income and advertising Rangers bring to the SFL stays with the SFL & not a penny goes to the SPL any longer. The SPL wouldn't survive for long after that I wouldn't think.

People need to get this idea out of their heads that we could go back to the top with a team of youngsters. That would never work. We need experienced players too & that's why Daly has been signed. We also need to realise not all the youngsters we've seen over the past season will make it. Even if only 2 or 3 of them are still with us in a couple of years that may well be considered a success

The main point is we should force them to renegotiate our TV rights with us. Without this everything else is dead in the water. Rangers must not subsidise the parasites of Scottish football any longer.

No it would not cost 50million or anywhere near it. Old co is a worthless, empty corporate shell with no assets.

Will Neil be in with a shout for the Man City job ? Will he ?

Rangers' SFA membership & licence was transferred from oldco to newco and the club's history was preserved intact. The SFA, UEFA, ECA etc all recognise this. Only those of an extremely low intellect cannot grasp this fact. Perhaps it's their upbringing.

Not necessarily. Might never happens. Newco might buy oldco so as no one else gets the company & its name

Welcome to Rangers Jon Daly. You strike me as an articulate, well-educated young Irishman who has spent almost all his adult like life in England & now Scotland who probably considers yourself to have more in common with us than the screaming yaboos from the east end of our city who have a somewhat fictitious affiliation with Ireland which they use both to provoke & antagonise. Just ignore them Jon.

We don't have a big squad so if we do get Daly then I believe he'll be an excellent signing for us(injury permitting) as he can play at the back & up front. I'd still like to see a couple of midfielders coming in along with a CB.

Most SPL clubs will need to follow the example of Falkirk who are basically just an U21 side with 2 or 3 older players thrown in. The standard in the SPL will undoubtedly plummet over the next season or two. Just watch their crowds next season (they'll probably need to start handing out loads of free tickets again to massage crowds)

The whole concept of the BBC where it is funded by a national licence fee is outdated and should be abolished. There are so many TV channels around nowadays that it wouldn't be missed one iota. If it is to remain then let it find funds by itself. It would then need to produce programmes people would want to watch meaning its biased inaccurate documentaries such as Daly's fictional nonsense about 'the men who sold the jerseys' would be a thing of the past if it wanted to survive.