SteveC
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yes, for which thanks - but I don't know what it means. Mind you we don't know what this news means either - may just be making Stockbridge a scapegoat
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Presumably though he may have some form(s) of compensation written into his actual contract and this could mean nothing over and above that? That's still good, right enough
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Ta for the news!
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You cannot deliver what has already been received, it is their's "lock, stock and barrel", already I wish Ally had walked at some point in the past when he would have been in control of when and why he did so. An announcement as to the reasons could have been dynamite - not necessarily saved us from the spivs but then him being there does not either. He seems kind of lost now, stuck - it certainly doesn't not seem credible that him leaving would be a good thing (football standard aside for now) but he seems increasingly like a lame duck, far removed from reality with every passing "I must be brutally/100%/totally honest with you" interview.
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Rangers manager Ally McCoist believes the long-term future of the club is secure, despite uncertainty over the financial situation at Ibrox. The Scottish League One side have reported running costs of up to £1m a month and last December chief executive Graham Wallace warned the money 'could run out by April'. Last week Wallace asked Rangers players to take a 15 per cent wage cut and has since sought other avenues of cost-cutting after the request was rejected out of hand. But McCoist, who met with Wallace on Thursday, said: "I think Graham has obviously gone on record as saying the problems that we seem to have, the problems that we are facing, are short-term. "Graham's went public and has told meetings that I've had that the mid to long-term future of the club he is very, very confident and fairly happy with. "So I think the financial problems we face would certainly seem to be more short term than anything. What they are and how we handle them is certainly I don't think for me to say. I think that is for other people to say." Former oldco director Dave King, who is reportedly keen to invest in the Ramsden Cup finalists, has claimed the club needs to bolster the squad at the moment rather than think about trimming numbers. But McCoist refused to be drawn on the South Africa-based businessman's remarks, claiming: "I have to be 100 per cent honest and say I haven't read Dave's article' "People who have been involved in the past obviously still care about the club, People like Dave, Paul Murray and Sir David Murray, and I am quite happy they still want to comment on the club. "They are well entitled to have their views but I can't comment on them. The chief executive is the man I am supporting at the current time, I think I have to do that. He has asked for 120 days and we have to get behind him." http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...medium=twitter ---- I could have done without bloody SDM being mentioned in that light, but thought I should share.... Not sure what to make of it to be honest
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The bit about the pre-season rings true. jig said that back at the time, before the recent "leak/fake leak". I also wrote here that I had heard from one of the players after it got going and it was really demanding, much more so than the year before, the "morning after" was sore due to bodily exercise; not a post "boozegate" head, but post hard training legs....and this was not from a slacker but from someone hard-working by nature Though I confess I see no evidence of it in the first team and, into the bargain, absolutely no evidence whatsoever of anyone working on technique, throw-ins, passing or crossing.............and hardly at all on free kicks and corners (the odd routine apart, very much the exceptions which prove the rules)
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Indeed "tempus fuckit" as the Romans used to almost say. Lets see 1992 is now 22 years ago so stands equidistant between 2014 and 1970. In 1992 us "baby boomers" must have thought 1970 was aeons earlier....odd thing time perspective, gets odder the older you get
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Yes, all very true - far too much common sense here for it ever to happen. Old Grumpy, Cynical Loyal
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The lowest there being higher than Cowdenbeath usually get in the league above ours. Our presence obviously increases the overall gates in the league we are in, last year's totals/average attendance figures between Scottish League One as it is now called - 3rd Division in old money) and the Conference would, I am sure, show that the Conference is very much better attended. If someone can supply these and prove me wrong I will apologise. Attendances aside, I saw three games in the Conference last year and the teams were fitter, faster and all round better than any I have seen us play this year (which is why we are so far ahead, of course - I am not saying where we are, frankly I think it is impossible to judge but I am sure we are paying at a lower level to the Conference.) EDIT: i found these stats on the Scottish tier 3 last year: "part-time clubs survive thanks to devoted and loyal support from supporters: average attendances last season ranged from 463 to 833 with just a handful of games attracting more than 1,000 supporters." the conference would have far outstripped that. the population is just so much bigger, Cambridge is almost the same population as Dundee, Luton's is bigger than Aberdeen. Plus some teams in the Conference have loyal followings over many generations (the juniors were like that when I lived in Glasgow - long time ago, that was, pre Souness......are they still?)
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The Conference has better, much fitter, teams, bigger crowds and a lot more income than all the teams we currently face.
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A DEAL to transfer Ukio Bankas Investment Group’s 50 per cent shareholding in Hearts to the Foundation of Hearts has been agreed, the Evening News can reveal. The agreement needs to be ratified legally in Lithuania, but would see a token £50,000 payment for the shares made to UBIG’s administrators, allowing the Edinburgh club to exit administration with the Foundation as their new owners. Hearts’ administrators BDO are proceeding with caution in the hope that the deal can go through despite UBIG’s assets being frozen. Foundation of Hearts already have a £2.5million Creditors’ Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) in place to secure 29.9 per cent of the club’s shares from Ukio Bankas, who are also in administration. The CVA is conditional upon the fans’ umbrella group getting UBIG’s 50 per cent stake. BDO have been in talks with UBIG’s administrators Bankroto Administrativo Paslaugos for some time trying to negotiate the handover of shares. This is the only remaining hurdle to Hearts exiting administration after the CVA was voted through last November. There is now a verbal agreement between both parties for the transfer of shares at an agreed price.
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Keith Jackson: Rangers want players to take a pay cut..
SteveC replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
This was never going lead to anything from the Scottish mhedia, nor is anyone at Fifa or Uefa (whichever of those ridiculous organisations it was) at all interested. They stressed in their one comment about it that they had to look at it because they had received complaints. That struck me as a rolling of eyes to the ceiling, a deep sigh and a "now we have to pretend we are doing something in that meaningless backwater that we keep getting e-mails from." -
http://www.thecoplandroad.org/2014/01/graham-spierss-lovely-fake-ladies.html?m=1
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It was good overall but this bit was wrong and keeps re-appearing in the press: By any objective analysis, the problems at Rangers have one root cause – the club continues to operate as if it is in the top tier rather than in the third tier of Scottish football. So should Rangers have downsized to, say, Championship size? yes we pay too much in wages for the league we are in but not compared to the size we are or our income over the last two years. it is elsewhere we've lost the tens of millions (had stolen) that is the root cause
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I think that counts as a success for Charles Green lovers.
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Andy Mitchell contract terminated "by mutual consent"
SteveC replied to SteveC's topic in Rangers Chat
Thanks Zappa, was stupid of me not to, I had been reading the same thread all day, I think, every time I popped in and just posted it without thinking it through. -
Andy Mitchell contract terminated "by mutual consent" http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/item/6024-mitchell-leaves-club
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But if they said they were taking a 15% cut, who'd believe them? the could show "proof" they had while making up the difference by increasing their normal robbing and share scams. Their utter disregard for how they come across is shown in that they haven't even bothered with this kind of pretence.
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tweets re press conference - not much about how we'll approach the game......... Alison Robbie @AlisonRobbie 1m #rangers Ally McCoist says he "100%" backs the players decision to reject a pay cut Alison Robbie @AlisonRobbie 30s #rangers Ally McCoist says he's been "categorically assured there won't be another administration" Raman Bhardwaj @STVRaman 2m McCoist sasked chief exec Wallace if others such as Stockbridge would be asked to take cut 'its something we are looking at' was reply. Raman Bhardwaj @STVRaman 4m Re money spent on players' wages, McCoist says he shouldn't be held accountable for this, others perhaps.
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Wallace says that: " you have to remember that, all things going to plan, we will have a successful season next year and then we will be back into the top flight. We have two summer transfer windows before then so there is plenty of time to make sure we have the right footballing capability, relevant to the competition we are in." So, at best, after 3 years in lower leagues we will go back to the top (crap though that is) with a thrown together squad who won't know each other, many of whom won't be able to settle at Ibrox, some of whom will simply be too poor to play (we managed to sign players not good enough for the bottom leagues after all) . Whatever is left will have to "gel" immediately and someone somewhere will have to teach them how to take throw ins, corners and free kicks, how to defend and maybe even how to pass the ball. "Plenty of time", ffs......
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And IF Ally will still be around then.
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Meanwhile we pay another financial consultant, presumably megabucks, to do what our financial director should already have done/be doing/the board should be............? Where's the sense?
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When Whyte was allowed to appoint his administrators we were doomed to this horror scenario, familiar from other clubs at the mercy of circling vultures. They share out the carcass amongst themselves, each gorging in turn and then lease back the carcass for guaranteed dinners for evermore.
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Especially not when kids of the same age are sent over the top in combat zones, or work long hours stacking shelves, doing manual labour etc. Anyway, the usual self-centredness of the football world aside, he makes some good points here. Pity he had not been so strong re what happened to us when it started to happen though.
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it's a clever quote that one, D'Art. It is well worded: it is correct - they are both equally ludicrous. They are both also true ....but it is ludicrous they got away (have so far got/will sadly almost certainly get away) with them