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    McMurdo's blog today. Oh dear ... http://billmcmurdo.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/wallace-to-go-in-boardroom-changes/ Wallace To Go In Boardroom Changes September 8, 2014 / billmcmurdo Divisions in the Rangers board will mean big changes in personnel in the near future. My understanding is that Graham Wallace no longer has the backing or confidence of the majority of shareholders and that he is on his way out. Along with others from Rangers Supporters Loyal, I met with Graham Wallace a few months ago and found him to be a no-nonsense, fairly approachable guy. One of the things I found refreshing was his statement that he wasn’t a Rangers man. I had and have no issue with this. For me, being a big bluenose could actually be a minus in a job with such responsibility.. I just appreciated his honesty. A few months down the road and Wallace is no longer regarded as the man to lead Rangers off the field as far as shareholders are concerned. Many Gers fans have lost faith in him, though it has to be said that others still think he is doing a decent job. I am aware that Wallace has been at odds with other directors on the way forward for the club. Apparently Wallace was the lone supporter on the board of the present rights issue as the board favoured an alternative and far more lucrative funding option. Wallace’s alignment with Dave King and the South African-based businessman’s plans to take control of Rangers has helped to distance him from the regime. As I blogged recently, he has been “Matherised” and is thought to lack the ruthlessness necessary to drive forward with necessary changes in the club. A glimpse at the fan forums reveals that fans view him as weak and incompetent in terms of curbing spending on the squad. The pressure on Wallace to be a strong, broad-shouldered leader is enormous and it looks like his own quieter approach has failed. The present situation calls for a man of the people who will take crap from no-one and who will engage everybody boldly. Wallace’s technocratic approach to things means he tries to manage from his desk and ignore things more than is advisable. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that what Rangers need is for Graham Wallace to be a bit more like Charles Green at times. The opposite could also be said, of course – that at times Charles Green could have done with being more like Graham Wallace. It’s easy to make Wallace the scapegoat for all of Rangers’ troubles but that would be both unfair and inaccurate. We are not talking about some dumpling here. Wallace is well-thought of down south in the game and his resume is very impressive. Having said that, for a CEO to allow himself to be associated with people who are rivals to his employers is not clever and he only has himself to blame. This Rangers board is crying out for a leader who will engage with fans – both supportive and recalcitrant ones – and a hostile media, as well as generate revenues and keep a tight limit on costs. A tall order but it is what the club desperately needs. As far as Wallace’s replacement is concerned, I understand the smart money is on David Longmuir – a man who knows Scottish football inside out and who understands what fans want.
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    Untitled Rant

    barca72 replied to Zappa's topic in Rangers Chat

    That is a very difficult question to answer. I would say, depending on my level of frustration at any given point, I have answered 'yes' to each of the three parts of the question.
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    Untitled Rant

    barca72 replied to Zappa's topic in Rangers Chat

    Good rant, Zappa.
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    Do you have a link to that report?
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    History is written by the winners. We are not dead - yet.
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    Uh huh. That'll do it.
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    No. I asked you what you did better than anyone who was taken in by Green. What did you do with your insight, that saved us from Green, that a person who was taken in by Green did not do?
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    That has nothing to do with the question asked, that's just being argumentative.
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    That's probably true, but if you're gloating about it, tell us how much more those who were not taken in by Green were able to do about the situation than those who were taken in by Green.
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    That is just about the most negative and depressing post I have seen on here. You have Rangers dead and buried already - " When the lights go out at Ibrox, or when they become so dim that they can barely be observed, ask yourself - how will Scotland remember Rangers? Fifty years after Rangers' passing, how will our children and grandchildren remember the football club that is so much part of our lives?" Are you trying to get the Rangers' support to accept that the death of the club is inevitable? Not a chance is that acceptable. You are trying to infer that the Rangers' support is responsible for this situation - " If the same can be said of the governance of football clubs, the Rangers support must have been guilty of something dreadful, or maybe we're just not that bright." Again that is completely wrong and unacceptable. The Rangers' fans are in no way responsible for the club's present plight. You are even trying to implicate Rangers for the condition of the C1888c fans - " Celtic fans are living in a monochrome world where the competition is either walkover material or too good for them. It is a bore." Again unacceptable. In 2011 their own CEO, the man mostly responsible for engineering Rangers fate outwith Whyte, said that they were no longer a part of the Old Firm, that they had a strategy for going forward, and that they would flourish as a club on their own. Tell that to the C1888c fans. Also, if you are looking for a reason as to why - " the intensity has disappeared, the temperature has cooled ", maybe you should think on The Lurgan Bigot having disappeared from the picture. There is no way we are responsible for, nor should we waste time on being empathetic towards, anything to do with the C1888c club or their support. If there are any Rangers' fans so affected by your post that they would consider not going to any more games, would you be happy? You are entitled to an opinion but if you publish it then you can expect it to be challenged. Really, and this is only a personal observation, if the present situation of the club has you that depressed maybe you should talk to someone.
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    Then why are you still touting the RST share plan?
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    I thought the reason they acquired the £1.5 loan was for this very possibility. This is probably why Letham extended the loan period.
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    You could be correct. The point is he was unregistered with FIFA until they approved C1888c'c appeal. As a consequence he was unregistered with UEFA. This in turn means he is ineligible for the group stages. C1888c are using the argument to UEFA that his registration should be backdated to the time FIFA have now accepted. This is where the facetious few minutes comment came from.
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    FIFA have granted the appeal such that the deal can go through, he is now a C1888c player. Now they are petitioning UEFA to have his registration backdated to before the deadline so that they can have his services in the group stages immediately. Those few minutes beyond midnight, you see, would mean that he was not a registered player with UEFA and so he would not be eligible for a UEFA tournament until after Xmas. Ask Legia about a few minutes and an unregistered player.
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    Since we don't know the terms of the tv contract, it makes it hard for the club to make an argument that the SPFL in their acquiescence to the tv companies are destroying fan participation to our detriment financially.
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    The question is "Leave with what?"
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    In all truth, those are not the only two choices though. I would be entirely hesitant to answer that question as asked.
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    It might be a reason why they would not let King look at the financials. Another point that bothers me is Green's role as a director. Is there not some kind of market rule that the director of a board must act in the best interests of the club? Even if he argued that to get Ashley to underwrite the share issue he had to give this deal as an incentive, why would he try to pursue legal action to have the deal quashed? Maybe a shareholder could ask the police to investigate this. Don't go away, Chuckles.
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    Brown envelopes work better in FIFA.
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    I have said before that I am not opposed to fan ownership. However, with our support fractured the way it is right now, I would say the first priority is to find leaders who can make us believe in the message rather than us having to consider their own selfish interests. Achieve that objective and the unification of the fan base, then you might stand a chance of having your dream become a reality. Until then, unfortunately, I wouldn't be interested.
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    If it was such a good idea 10 years ago, why don't they have a controlling interest in shares by now? Could it be that some fans don't trust their leadership? I don't know of a single fan left standing who has blind faith in this board, or it's recent predecessors.
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    Actually, I don't think the fans are naive any more. This has been an object lesson in how to be vigilant to threats to the club. The efforts of the various fan groups are, for the most part, to be lauded whether you agree with them or not. At least they are trying to do something. The fact is, however, that for the moment all the fans can do is to call the board's attention to perceived problems from the outside. It would take years for the fans to buy the club, and then only if the present owners wished to sell it to them. I don't know where you get the idea that I am clinging to a bygone era, you can't go back. To think that a fanbase like we have could buy the club, and they won't do that anytime soon, and run it without a professional board may be more naive. Look at the RFFF, as an example. It will not be easy to wrest control from this existing ownership, and at a reasonable price. I don't know how it will be done, but we must at least continue to believe that it will be.
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    Of whom do you speak when you use the term 'we'? Do you mean SoS, UoF, or the whole fanbase in general. Irrespective, it is not the fans' responsibility to right the ship, whether it be by fan ownership or fan representative schemes, that responsibility is entirely the board's. Surely if the board had income streams available to them other than ST income they would have been able to buffer the effect of this downturn in one income stream? Is it not a function of the board to be fiscally responsible while offering an attractive product? The responsibility of a fan is to enjoy what he pays for, and hopefully come back for more ( and that includes an emotional stake in his team ).
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    Actually 3 of them did play; Walsh, Gasparotto and Halket. There were also four young guys from the first team squad; Faure, Aird, Andy Murdoch and Hutton.
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    How do you mean, that the guys themselves don't see much of a future at Rangers?
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