Super Cooper

As sad as his story is, he was never really a favourite of the fans or indeed a great player. Also ended his time at the club with a bit of a saga iirc. Saying that, we will probably still go seeing that it's for a good cause and some nice players should be on show.

Very nice, has the makings of a very decent evening.

What if we went into Admin? Was not there a ban on further re-org for a set number of years?

I have no idea Steve. They are obviously desperate.

Decent profit then.

 

Did they pay Corporation Tax on that?

God J, i don't even know what that is!

Whilst I agree with all of them it's obviously easier said than done.

 

But the Hutton signing baffles me, it really does.

 

Who in their right mind agreed to give him a new one year deal at the start of this season (it's ok I know the answer) when they were fully aware of the squad we had in place. We have PLENTY who can play CM.

 

One of Ally's worse singings for sure, although that's a heavy list.

The only blessing here is most of our duds are out of contract in the summer. No one in their right mind would keep any of them.

A high income is only a good income if your expenditure falls way short of this .............

Profit before tax £9.74m

Shite like Faure, Zaliukas, Peralta, Shiels, Mohsni, Hutton, Daly, Black, McCulloch, Foster and Smith etc should all be out the door and it would have kept those poor staff in jobs for life, saved us millions per year and allowed Ally to sign a couple of players too.

I'm not sure Celtic do sell that many and i'd be astonshed if they turnover £60m without Champion's League football but it's a moot point anyway. I doubt the powerbrokers at Sports Direct give much thought to competing with Celtic, that's not why they're here.

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012/10/08/exclusive-manchester-united-and-real-madrid-top-global-shirt-sale-charts-081001/

A “big” club like Ajax in a “small” league like the Dutch league might expect to sell 100,000 shirts and probably fewer in most seasons. Celtic (a Nike club) are believed to be the biggest sellers among Scotland’s clubs, with “good year” sales at the lower end of the top 10, ie: several hundred thousand per year, many of them overseas in North America, Canada and Australia.

https://www.footy-boots.com/europes-top-selling-club-football-shirts-28163/

- Celtic can look forward to sales that max out at several hundred thousand – leaving them just outside the top ten. The strong connection to Irish history and success in the SPL often gives them strong sales in the US, Canada and Australia.

file:///C:/Users/Lee/Downloads/AnnualReport_2013.pdf

£76m in a year with Champions League football. We had to get to a Uefa Final just to top £60m.

Have to agree though with you regards SD, i doubt they have the desire to even try and compete with Celtic.

Rino would be a dreadful appointment. A huge no from me.

The yahoos sell 250,000 shirts every year? They get about £6m for that do they not?

That's from figures a few years back so they may well be selling more these days. They average £5m clear profit every year from merchandising. Under Ashley we will average next to nothing so that's another handicap. Then there is their European revenue, bigger stadium and higher crowds, better hospitality etc etc. We need a board who are able to maximise all our revenue steams to benefit the club enabling us to compete with Celtic realistically.

We sell close to 100,000 just now and we're the worst we've ever been. With the exception of the big two in Spain, Bayern currently and Man U/City and Chelsea clubs don't sell strips to anyone but their own supporters in any numbers that count.

Celtic sell a quarter of a million every year, they turnover £60m on a bad year, how are we supposed to realistically compete with that kind of animal?

Did Chesney know something?

I was told by a cat 2 referee last week that a draft has already been written to make sure Rangers and Hearts/Hibs go up next season no matter what happens. I believe our game will be restructured again should we fail to go up by ourselves.

With SFA approval? Wtf is going on?

Surely he wont be in charge on saturday?

He has kindly lowered his demands to £400k apparently, the gentleman that he is so he may well be gone. £400k out of our current funds may jeopardise the wage cycle for December though so not sure his players/soon to be ex-players will be thanking him.

Not sure whether to be excited about who may be in charge for Livi or terrified of what might be!

I see the Telegraph are running with a story hours after the SFA disciplinary story that Ashley may own both us and Newcastle within the next week or so. Aiming for a 29.9% shareholding at Rangers allegedly.

Everyone seems to be changing their tune now.

Yep, poor Ally.

You're basically suggesting we start playing one proper midfielder.

I wouldn't call Black proper mate!

Could we have the below team for Saturday ? Still a pretty average bunch of players, but a rethink is definitely needed to what we have been served up in recent games. The regular failures should be bombed right out.

 

Robinson

 

Faure

McGregor

Zaliukas

Wallace

 

Templeton

Law

Peralta

Shiels

 

Clark

Miller

Law and Miller should also be dropped in place of Murdoch and Boyd imo. Kind of agree with the rest though i would like to see Sinnamon at right back. Guys like Simonsen, Mohsni, McCulloch, Foster, Black and Daly shouldn't play for us again. they are finished here.

In 1992/93 we weren't horse-sh!t and Ally had just secured the Golden Boot for the second year running.

 

Consequently I'd be amazed if a range of clubs didn't fancy buying him and I'd be amazed if the tabloids at that time weren't running story after story saying so.

 

Perhaps the only reason he didn't move on at that time was because he broke his leg in April 1993.

Very good point, there may be something in that.

You don't think there would've been any offers for an excellent striker who was Europe's best goalscorer two seasons in a row?

I honestly don't Frankie. If there were offers you could bet your bottom dollar we would have known about them. Scottish football would have been looked down on by bigger clubs and the fact we were absolutely horse shit on the big stage would have went against him too.

He was probably on a goal bonus

I was thinking that but didn't want to say it!

Of course Ally didn't know that would happen, eh? What a man!

Believe it or not, at his height, we were at our height too and were considered one of Europe's biggest Clubs. Remember, when McCoist was here we were attracting England internationals including their skipper, as well as England's best talent of his generation in Gascoigne as well as players of the ilk of Laudrup.

 

As GS says, there were very few bigger clubs than us back then. Yes, we all know that we were an abject failure in Europe on most occasions but that doesn't mean that we weren't often fancied to go pretty far with the squad we had. Some of that failure was also due to us not being tested on a weekly basis at home.

 

We were bigger than pretty much every team in the UK for a while and certainly at the forefront of European football too.

 

Watch some of his goals, absolute class. Your Dad may be right in that he needed a lot of chances but guess what.... there were very few players of his generation who instinctively knew where to be and when to be there - that alone made him a class striker, notwithstanding some of the goals he managed to score.

 

Also, as GS says, McCoist really did hide the fact that he was a more than decent footballer - he could comfortably play in midfield too.

We were the biggest football club with the biggest attendances and the highest turnover in Britain until Sky bought English football. Even at that, there were still numerous bigger clubs around the world and many richer too.

It wasn't my dad who said it mate, it was his pal.

I remember him as a class act and Rangers hero and i am happy with those memories.

Haha - you'd have to dig out the Record and Sun from that time but I'd be surprised if there weren't various offers. I should have clarified my post in saying it was my opinion he didn't move because of the above.

 

Given the opinions of some on the motivations of Ally, perhaps he'd have moved away if he'd been a bit younger when the Bosman ruling came in...

Or if there was indeed any offers with big bucks!

Then as now players had a way of letting it be known whether they wanted a move or were settled where they were

Wallace and MacLeod have both made it clear they want to stay here yet we know there have been bids and interest in them. Alan Hutton confessed his love of Rangers and said he was going nowhere, didn't stop Spurs offering £9m for him. Whether he wanted to stay or not played no part in whether a team would bid for him or not. I remember him being brilliant but i don't remember even one offer being made for him.