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  1. Hildy
    It's true that we are not a new club but when thousands of people are saying that we are, often aided by broadcasters with their own sinister agendas, it is damaging and hard to ignore. This 'advert' says more about them than us, but we should not kid ourselves - the 'new club' smell is going to stick to us for many years to come, even though it's not true. The SFA's compliance officer should be chasing those clubs whose official publications contain misinformation on this subject - and Rangers should be reminding them to do so.
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    If only. When these fans are in positions of influence, they can damage the club. Look at the Livingston programme debacle. Rangers are supposed to be pursuing this but if the whole thing just fizzles out, it won't be a surprise. Look at BBC Scotland - would you say that they have implied that we are a new club?
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    It's true. Fans of clubs other than Celtic have convinced themselves that Rangers is a new club. They are completely wrong of course but facts are of no interest to them unless they are consistent with their muddled thinking.
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    Lets assume

    Hildy replied to compo's topic in Rangers Chat

    New management is essential. This has to be the first priority for a new board - or the last act of the old one.
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    I could see it happening too. McCoist is already being paid as the manager of Rangers. A new board that knows him and likes him may well bring him back unless he really wants out and is happy to settle for a lump sum. It's hard to see his gardening leave continuing with a friendly board running the show. He could even return as a director of football, and Walter Smith is surely odds-on to become a director again - or maybe he could become director of football.
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    They must surely have made a decison on this. Things cannot continue as they are.
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    I'm hanging on to my sense of humour - just . . .
  8. Hildy
    What do you think the 'good guys' will do with regard to the management of the team if they take control in the next few days?
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    We'd start with one posse and soon end up with five.
  10. Hildy
    There isn't a captain in the entire squad, including Lee McCulloch. There isn't a manager on the bench either.
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    RST statement

    Hildy replied to BEARGER's topic in Rangers Chat

    RST board member and BuyRangers contributor, George Letham, has come out of this situation with his personal reputation enhanced. Plenty would like to see a place for him on the club board.
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    What would Souness bring? He is a man with a certain gravitas but what would he actually do? What would Walter Smith bring? He was chairman of the club and was miles out of his depth. McCoist? Director of football? God forbid. I'd only use them to front up a fan ownership option but I'm not convinced that any of them actually believe in the concept. They never seemed to in the past.
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    If they intend for the club's ownership structure to continue unchanged, it will be an act of negligence and leave the door open to another crisis in the future. Of course this won't be addressed on day one of them arriving on the board, but it has to be addressed and it has to be addressed while the board enjoys the approval of the general Rangers populace. To continue with a situation where the ownership of Rangers is random is not just negligent, it's crazy. Lessons have to be learned.
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    The club has to be fixed as a matter of some urgency - no disagreement there - but I'd like to see real progress made on fan ownership - enough to actually deliver it while the current good guys are in position.
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    The opportunity may well soon exist for enlightened new owners to change everything - if they want to. Buy out the entirety of the company and then make the club fully member-owned. Let's see just how enlightened the good guys are. Large parcels of shares can end up in inappropriate hands. People used to genuinely believe that SDM would never sell his shares to the wrong sort. They found out the hard way that commercial pressure can make people do things they might otherwise not have done.. The shares that are currently with the good guys - where will they be in twenty or thirty years? We now know what rogue ownership feels like. We surely don't want to take this risk again. We should endeavour to have fan ownership from the top down because, sadly, it hasn't worked from the bottom up.
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    The good guys could sort this out once and for all and as some of them are strongly linked to the RST, they must have some sympathy for fan ownership. If one man bought every Rangers share, just as an example, including those held by fan groups, he could create a member-owned club instead of a shareholder controlled company. You know this is complex and difficult to do, but if the will, the desire and the appetite are there, it could happen. We need good guys running the club, but if it happens in the next few weeks, it will only be a temporary solution. Eventually, the shares will be scattered every which way and who knows what will follow - maybe more of what we have just been through. First we need a temporary solution. That appears to be on the way - then we need a permanent solution - full fan ownership.
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    That's what's wrong with us - we cling to figures of the past and delude ourselves that they still have something to offer. During the worst years this club has ever had, Smith and Souness did next to nothing, and yet when blue skies return we should suddenly welcome them back? Not for me. I want a re-born Rangers to be a Smith/Souness/McCoist free zone. Leave the past in the past. Get some new blood in.
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    If the good guys held a press conference, having already taken control of the company, and if they announced that they wanted to sell the club to the support for £20m(an example figure), I think the appetite amongst the fans would be strong as long as the idea was well presented and detailed. If they then declared that they would put back in at least some of what the fans pay over, it's popularity would be enhanced. The failure of fan ownership schemes is not necessarily an indication that people don't want it. Apathy tends to reign and the confusion of different groups gives out mixed messages. If Dave King, for example, said that fan ownership was the future, that would be enough to attract people who are not normally interested in the idea into the fold.
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    Language, dear boy!
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    So the total outlay for the entire company would be what exactly, including purchases already made? If the new buyer(s) bought every share available, they could get every cent back by selling the club to the fans - in a properly organised formal buyout. They could then gift all, none or part of their return back to a fan-owned Rangers. This would be done over a period of time of course - not on day one. If Dave King was happy to give £30m to Rangers simply to benefit the club, he may be happy to lob a few quid into the hat when the club is fan-owned, or perhaps stand for president!
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    If either or both of the new buyers had to make an offer to buy all shares, what would the bill be if everyone agreed to sell?
  22. Hildy
    I don't want Ally back, although I'm not ruling this possibility out, and I don't want Souness or Smith back either - in any capacity. Until Rangers learns to face the future with new blood, it will never be all that we want it to be. These names distinguished themselves in the past, and that's where they belong. No more Smith, no more Souness and no more McCoist. Close these chapters for good.
  23. Hildy
    "chasing away a billionaire" What is the point in having a billionaire in control of the club when the most promising young talent is sold off and a novice is appointed as manager?
  24. Hildy
    It's true that ownership is already open to all but fans becoming shareholders is a fairly modern trend. All the older fans I know never dreamt of owning shares in Rangers. It was a bit of a luxury, something the well to do could afford to do but not the guys who were on ordinary incomes. It's only in relatively recent times that fans could buy shares in Celtic and the RST popularised the notion at Rangers when a share was given away with every membership. The west of Scotland has a large working class culture where share-buying was seen as 'not for the likes of us'. As for example clubs to look at, a number have been given. We should be looking at these clubs because our own situation has been nightmarish and could repeat again in the future. Do we really want Rangers to bob around on the open market indefinitely according to the whims of hedge funds and rich individuals, or do we want to bring Rangers into the care of a democratically organised support? I think we have to be open-minded and, if necessary, groundbreaking in the way we look after Rangers. The situation the way things are has sailed us far too close to the rocks.
  25. Hildy

    Reds Fan In Peace

    Hildy replied to a topic in Rangers Chat

    A few years ago, a young player at Rangers showed great promise. Unfortunately, he was frequently played out of position and his lack of pace got fans on his back and the management tended to hook him when the team was under-performing or leave him out in favour of lesser players who were perceived to be grafters. He had loads of ability but it was hard for him to produce his best in positions not suited to him. The boo boys eventually decided he was a candidate for the worst Rangers player ever, which was absurd, but this was how a number of highly critical fans saw him. Eventually, he was sold for a modest fee to an unfashionable English club where he was widely expected to bomb. When a player leaves Rangers, the only way is down, or so we have long chosen to think. The player in question was Charlie Adam. I'm told he's done quite well in England for a player that was expected to disappear without a trace. Brentford fans should make up their own minds about McLeod. If he does half as well as Charlie Adam, they'll have no cause to complain.
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