SteveC
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Good for him, well done Luca
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Or three streets for 1p and the relocations paid for by Glasgow taxpayers? Bet the chnts have a lot of deflecting defence tactics in place already. We'd need someone powerful to investigate - they have the media and the political side sewn up
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I see they are claiming that they paid going market rates in their press release tonight.
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Yes, sorry - it was clear when I wrote it but not when it arrived, now amended
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what a sad, sad thing to have to read (that Sons of Struth have to close due to bullying from those complaining about being called bullies)
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Perhaps, perhaps one could deduce something from folk who only seem to post re RST and its hierarchy rather than RFC though, no? This is GERSNET forum not antiRST forum. Or was until about a month ago....(still is, mainly, of course!) Rangers matter - individual fans, fan groups, fanzines, bloggers and (sorry admin!) fan web forums do not. All of the things mentioned are supposed to revolve around the football club, not around each other.
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Thank you, Zappa, i'd rather write openly if I may because this is a forum that supports that. I am grateful (see previous comments) for the relatively sane and fair way things are here.) I am no "flag waver" for FF, I've been banned twice and resigned once in a mere four years after all However the treatment it gets on other forums (not here) is so vile as to be akin to a trip to a tarrier hole in the Gallowgate. I will never understand the passion with which we attack our own - especially as we laugh at "tim on tim" fall-outs. I guess what I wrote above was mainly propelled by a fear this forum was going the same way. inching that way, perhaps, but still.... One comment against to me (admittedly only my opinion) a poisonous forum with free rein to bring down Rangers FC and, a an albeit mightily flawed forum for mostly Rangers; fans - treated very differently, and not just on this thread. The last month has seen a discernible of personal agendas being driven all because of an RST "storm". Rangers are what matters and we are at a crisis point (again!) in our history, I spent/have spent years in fandom in other spheres (science fiction and music); running magazines/clubs/fan sites on a worldwide basis - in every case I have walked away when the commercial/audience side was at its peak because everyone I was involved with had become obsessed with the magazine or site rather than the authors or musicians we had started out supporting. Fandom seems to have an inbuilt curse.
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And so yet another thread I have started on a Rangers' forum, about the governance of Rangers, descends into, disguised at times behind the thinnest of veils, an anti- Mark Dingwall thread: another rehash of personal grievances and vendettas beckons, nothing to do with the governance of the club or related to the team we are all supposed to support. I note also that I had a post about RM deleted last month that was less critical of that forum than a host of posts re FF have been both before and after my post, yet they were left to stand.
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Also astonishing was not overturning the 11-1 voting rule and resetting gates receipts back to 50-50. why wild any businesses not go for such control and revenue? Fear or bribery.... Or both carrot and stick?
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Which he's never even bothered taking down, just as he has not apologised to Greig, He hates Rangers fans and legends....and he's in charge
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Ta - and here's one I converted to text: Subject:Excluded Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 20:09:03 .0000 From: Sandy Easdale To: Craig Mather, Brian Stockbridge Dear All I now feel very exclude from any info going on at rangers I don't get info at all Nothing I don't get to any meetings or involved in any planing I am total exclude . this board dose not recognise my share holding and the important place I would have in any decision making process but expects me to back you's without question I don't know how I can do this on the way I've been exc This Paul Shackleton of DS makes the rules and you's listen this is not the case we tell him we need people include you have lawyers PR people rangers employees in these calls and meetings Nomads and the whole world Of people But not me I demand to know why as this is not working for me . Regard Can some one pass this in to Brian Smart as I don't have his details Sandy Easdale Director McGill's Bus Service Ltd
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earlier, from same newco-CF twitter account as above, there was an extraordinary - if true - exchange between Sandy the illiterate thug and Toxic the pissed, semi-literate hack. I can't paste in images, sorry - for some reason they did the last exchange in text
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Strange email discussion on 2 October 2012 between Sandy and the CEO. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig Thanks for your email some parts were not asked for but if the papers have misquoted you should we not rectify The rest I will wait to see you face to face as feelings seem to be running high on certain matters . Just one point I have not moved page nor being influenced by anyone though some of the things that have been said are very close to what has happened . Yours Sandy Sandy Easdale Director McGill's Bus Service Ltd On 2 Oct 2013, at 11:59 AM, "Craig Mather" wrote: > Morning Sandy/All, > > Regarding Ally, I was asked to comment on Ally's wages in the accounts. I said I cannot comment on what wages where offered to Ally by the previous regime however I have asked Ally to consider his wages and take a significant pay cut. I said nothing has been agreed yet and no contracts have been signed however Ally has come to the table to discuss a pay cut which is good because we cannot make him take a pay cut. Nothing is in writing but Ally is aware of his wages and the associated costs when we are playing in the division we are in. I never once said he had taken a pay cut. > > I also believe Frank Blin has been stirring up trouble and talking rubbish creating a divide yet again. > > I am happy to talk on the phone or equally if the board believe they would be better served by a different CEO (which has been said to me by a number of people). Then as I have said numerous times I will give notice to the board and will stay until you find a replacement. I cannot do more than I am doing and am permanently critiqued by every side at every opportunity. > > It is not a good position when every side including at least one member of the Plc board is making statements to others about my abilities or the lack of them. > > The old saying divide and conquer comes into play here and if we stay solid then great, if not then the obvious will happen. > > I thought people maybe positive about how critical of Malcolm Murray I was and also defending Brian for his cost cutting efforts and the defending of the IPO costs. > > For clarity I will not change my allegiance and will not go back on my word. > > I won't be taking or encouraging contact with the requisitioners as they are not what this club need. > > Best as always > Craig > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 2 Oct 2013, at 13:55, "Sandy Easdale" wrote: >> >> Dear >> Craig I was amazed that you have been quoted saying that Ally has took a significant pay cut . >> >> It would be good to share this with us if this is the case as we all agreed that was not what we were saying because there has been no deal struck on his wages . >> >> If so what is the cut as I am being asked to quote my self on these matters and must defend all these pays >> >> Which frankly I can't . >> >> Sandy from: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rvdg36
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Agreed with all of that, but have to admit our case would be stronger had we not postponed games from Saturdays because two or three players were away on international duty v. teams with less resources than many Junior clubs. The care and consideration for the punter was sadly lacking when those games were added to our midweek kick-offs.
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When I was going to games, as the 60s became the 70s, Rangers fans often wore Rangers and Liverpool (separate) scarves. I had a traditional Rangers scarf round my neck, a blue and white scarf on one writs and a red and white one on the other. Septic fans, for obvious reasons, did not carry Everton scarves but there was no doubt that we tool Liverpool's side and they Everton's or, as TV highlights drove things: they took Busby's Rags while we took Shankly's Liverpool . Our highlights in those pre live TV games' days were two channels each with an English and Scottish game - very often this was Liverpool, Man U, Us and the unmentionables.
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Numbers don’t add up for Rangers boss Ally McCoist
SteveC replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
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A lovely post, many thanks for it . While I agree with this: "Follow Follow is no longer just a song, it has become our standard." I wish it was being sung to the words I first learned (I know there are variant claims as to what was original) but when I first went to ibrox, 40 years ago and for many, many years thereafter it was sung loudly and proudly, home and away it was sung without references to Derry Walls or the Vatican. They cheapen a great anthem, imo - our central hymn, in fact.
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The lead we were "defending" was courtesy of a criminal decision by the ref. Jeezo what a depressing day
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1-1. utterly predictable given the performance. Uncannily accurate replay of horrors from last year.
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All the very best to one and all - have a great Christmas and a fabulous 2014
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He shouldn't have said he didn't know what he was getting paid though, to say you don't know your monthly wage after so many months being paid it was ludicrous. We'd crucify Somers or Stockbridge for lying as barefacedly as that. (I say that in loving Ally as a Ranger, btw. I will always love him for that even though I don't rate him at all as a manger)
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This is the problem with those saying "don't boycott" - they seem to think it would deprive Rangers of money, rather than the more obvious thought that it would lower the ridiculous amounts the directors are personally making from us. I just sent this, a sad thing to have to send --------------------------------------------- Dear Sirs, I would like to now cancel my subscription to Rangers TV. The last straw being the announcement of £2.5 million paid for financial advice to a board that awarded themselves grotesque bonuses and share deals and blew the IPO and two sets of season money in just over a calendar year. One wonders what good advice would have cost. Please confirm when my cancellation is completed.
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They would not be in the same state as they are now (which is still way ahead of us, poor though they are) They would invest if we were our very presence would motivate them to improve their team and the players they keep to try harder. The other thing is the 20 million might be wasted. Many of those bought have not been a success - 20 million isn't that much to gamble with, for wages alone on 4 year contracts, far less buying fees - a couple of Cribari and Sandazas and you've blown the lot
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It was even worse than that, if he had got schooled he'd at least have learnt enough not to repeat the mistakes in the League and Scottish Cups ever since.
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I just saw it on SSN ticker news said "serious foul play". Is that an automatic two or three game ban? If the latter he won't play again before he is back! Edit ...according to BBC (so probably wrong): McAllister's penalty secured the points after Rodgers had been hacked down by Luca Gasparotto, who was sent off.