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  1. SteveC
    And if we do, so soon after a season where we are more than 25 points ahead, the timing would be insane.
  2. SteveC
    No and it is hard to see what other revenue streams there are. Other than maybe stadium naming and I get the feeling that would help Ashley's accounts, not ours
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    But if we have sold/sell 23 or 33,000 instead it still changes little except the actual month we run out of money. Something like 13,000 = before the season starts, 23 000 = before Halloween, 33,000 between Guy Fawkes and Easter. ?
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    McMurdo corrected his blog when it was pointed out to him that RoI had not qualified for the WC. No apology or sign of shame over concocting all the lies based on this mistake ("up in arms" ..many believe") though. Perhaps lying and inventing are the way of this blog, it is taken for granted. A warning for Bears who read it when it is all about the 'Gers then..... ================ "Roy Keane’s loyalties are again in question over his possible appointment to the Celtic hot seat. Republic of Ireland fans are reputedly up in arms over the matter, seeing Keane’s walking out on the Irish World Cup campaign as being form for him after the notorious events of the Saipan incident in 2002. Many Irish supporters believe that Keane is loyal only to himself and that his departure would be a betrayal of the nation and national team boss Martin O’Neill, especially at this late stage in the team’s preparations for Brazil. Should Keane leave the World Cup camp to take up the reins at Parkhead, it would very possibly create an awkward split between Celtic and the Republic. The club’s connection to and identification with ROI could be undermined if Keane was to be a pariah figure to the Irish supporters. Of course, such a potential conflict of interest would be the ideal reason cited by Celtic bosses for bypassing Keane and choosing a candidate of lesser profile and salary. The tactic of talking big names while signing lesser lights is well-used by the club. Should Keane be the man Celtic are after, however, he would sign knowing that he had brassed off his own countrymen yet once more. The whole matter puts Keane between a rock and a hard place but if Celtic’s interest is genuine, he will have no better chance to resurrect his career in football. It would also give ITV’s football department great kudos as the stable for nurturing upcoming Old Firm managers. Roy Keane, like Ally McCoist before him, is becoming a decent pundit with a sharp eye and great insight into the game. Both men are proof so far, however, that successful football management is not a smooth transition from being great players and decent pundits. Funnily enough, if both men fail to prove themselves as managers they could be sitting together in an ITV football pod rather than in different dugouts. Not a bad fallback… "
  5. SteveC
    I yearn for the days when I discussed Rangers FOOTBALL club on the internet rather than everything we have had to go through for what seems like decades. I'm beginning to think we'll never get back to those days though.
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    I'd missed that comment completely - it is on the bottom of the previous screen (for me) and must've come in as I was typing my own.
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    der Berliner - I am coming dangerously close to agreeing with you for once. (I know, I am sorry - I promise I won't do it again). There is a larger question behind all this "what are the season ticket numbers now?" questioning - and that is, how much do these numbers actually matter? With season ticket sales of 38 and 36,000 over the last two years we ran out of money/burned through tens of millions of other dosh (which we now don't have to re-burn, as it were). So, even if every season ticket were sold by the end of next week it wouldn't really solve anything. We'd still run out of money. Perhaps after Xmas rather than before, but we would still be Donald Ducked.
  8. SteveC
    Sadly true and hopefully my last response did not accuse you of any said muddying and compensated for my previous one implying it .
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    FAir enough, pmu - I missed fully answering that aspect in my previous reply as I think the main question is the important one. So, in this case - and I say this despite being "on the side" of the uof - the lack of transparency is actually very transparent as, were the numbers high, we surely would have heard.
  10. SteveC
    I would imagine the number is very low indeed as it has been branded a non-starter by those in charge of our club, whoever they are. the answer to your question might of some interest but only academically since the board turned down all hope of security over Ibrox or Auchenhowie being granted. Also it is not a pre-requisite that your question re this matter is answered before the club answer the one re season ticket sales figures. It is, in other words, a different question that does not answer the question the thread title relates to, nor necessitates silence on it. I must admit to being far more interested in the club's status, though if someone were to start a separate thread on the "King Gough thingy" sales, I would read that too.
  11. SteveC
    Well they both love us and have brought us much joy - but I guess that wasn't your meaning, SBS. McLeish is an odd one - terrible games, terrible memories but also brilliant memories: some of, if not THE, best ever. And beat O'kneel while downsizing despite the demented, disgusting leprechaun's prestige.
  12. SteveC
    Talksport programme with big Eck is now available to download. References to Rangers are probably through-out, certainly some at the start (best moment type thing) but the main segment on us kicks in some 62 minutes in https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/my-sporting-life/id777692680 You need to install/have installed itunes as far as I can see
  13. SteveC
    Read back over your posts degending the boards and owners of Rangers post David Murray. Or even just count them. "Obsessed" hardly does it justice.
  14. SteveC
    Maybe, maybe not - but the question of whether, as seems to be the case form these documents and in the case of knowing his salary just common sense, he deliberately engineered a situation to obscure his earnings from the fans and then lie about it when he could not, seems worthy of an answer either way.
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    This seems an almost limitless "attribute" he 'brings' to the 'job' - nonetheless at the moment, it's way down the list of threats to us as a club. As a team it is fundamental. As a going concern in all senses - morally, legally, financially, defensively against incessant external attacks - way down the list.
  16. SteveC
    Kettle. Pot. Black. Mr OCD...
  17. SteveC
    This is what makes the OP's question so difficult to answer. There is a huge "IF" hanging over us. Well, more than one huge "IF", but the chance of running out of money before Hallowe'en makes expectations for the season hard to quantify.
  18. SteveC
    Fair enough, Craig. My last post on him re his salary was bitter in tone because he has always meant so much to me. I couldn't believe the way he said he didn't know what his salary was and never looked at his bank statement so didn't know his monthly income. It rankled. It still does. However he was a great goalscorer, a Ranger and a very good ambassador (still is that - witness the recent "Goals on Sunday"). I thought he would be a terrible manager on the pitch and he has managed to make that look an optimistic forecast, sadly. His post match interviews are a disgrace, they go beyond insulting out intelligence. This is, as you rightly state, still no reason for abusive name calling etc. I really cannot see any chance of him being moved out by the board nor of him resigning in the foreseeable future. Something might force the issue, Admin 2 or no chance of promotion by Xmas but that aside I fear he will stay and the current "disrespect" you correctly speak out against, will seem tame in comparison with what it will grow to become. Which is very sad indeed. That's what we are nowadays though, a never ending source of sad stories.
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    Ah but to be fair you have to remember that he couldn't have known that. Remember he said "to be brutally, totally, completely honest with you I didn't know what I was being paid. I have never looked at a wage slip." Luckily he somehow managed to know what he could afford and what he could not...
  20. SteveC
    But if you had it would have been relevant, crucially relevant in fact. The people who were in charge - you know those ones who are never to be known - appoint boards to do their bidding. So far those boards have pilfered the coffers . The current board have given every sign that they are either similarly pilfering on orders of their pilfering masters = surely fundamentally relevant in the debate over whether they are to be trusted with cash without any guarantee of it not being pilfered and the club left penniless despite yet more tens of millions poured in by fans?
  21. SteveC

    Hibs Relegated

    SteveC replied to SteveC's topic in Rangers Chat

    How would the avowedly anti-fascist Groin Brigade react? Surely this would challenge even their 'proclaim one thing, act the opposite' modus operandi'?
  22. SteveC

    Hibs Relegated

    SteveC replied to SteveC's topic in Rangers Chat

    Apologies Ian, sorry Admin - never saw that thread - and yes I looked! Oh dear........
  23. SteveC
    EDIT: thread was already in motion here: http://www.gersnetonline.co.uk/vb/sh...084#post491084 Hamilton win on penalties (scored all 4 of theirs, Hibs missed 2) Hamilton were by far the better team from start to finish. Playing some lovely football, unlike Hibs. I know this is not Rangers - but it is relevant to next season
  24. SteveC
    No need to trouble yourself, you've made yourself clear enough from Whyte through Green to now
  25. SteveC
    WE WIN. LIAM KELLY utterly brilliant Went all the way to the 11th player taking penalties
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