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  1. Hildy
    Having a manager who seems like an ill fit in the job could certainly trigger an exodus. If the management position isn't addressed, the football side of the club could descend into chaos.
  2. Hildy
    I'm not aware of another club that has done this, although it may well have happened somewhere. It would be nice if we were the first. What are your concerns and fears?
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    The technical aspect shouldn't be simplified and it may come about in a variety of ways, but the shareholders would not be out of pocket. They would be bought out and the company dissolved. The club would then enjoy a new legal status that would see it owned by the membership. Fans would become members of Rangers rather than shareholders in a company that controls Rangers. We would not have a chairman - we would have an elected president. Basically, we would look at fan ownership models from Barca to Real to Bayern and select what is best for us. I would quite like to see the RST doing some serious research on this to let people know exactly what it would be like - could be like.
  4. Hildy

    2015

    Hildy replied to rbr's topic in Rangers Chat

    Happy New Year. The first green shoot of recovery has appeared. In time, we may blossom again. Hopefully we will be able to talk about the football again too - and fan ownership. Don't forget about fan ownership - the key to a more satisfactory future.
  5. Hildy
    If one man or the three bears chose to sell the club to the support for a fair price, that would be fine by me. I don't want or expect gifts and I don't want or expect anyone to be out of pocket. If I bought Rangers for £20m I would offer it to the support for that exact sum. The last thing I would want is be the sole owner of Rangers but I would love to co-own it along with 100,000 other Rangers fans.
  6. Hildy
    Barcelona is member-owned. So are many top German clubs. You can't buy Barcelona - you can only be a member. We have to engineer that situation at Rangers. It is a difficult and complex thing to achieve but it is possible if enough people want it. If they don't, we'll end up in the hands of the wrong people again - and in crisis.
  7. Hildy
    Having a greater say is all very well, but if the ownership of the club is always up for grabs, another crisis is inevitable. It might be nice to have a say in what colour our change strip is going to be, but in the grand scheme, it is nothing compared to having the club owned and secured by the massed ranks of the support. That has to be the goal and if the good guys triumph, they surely cannot ignore this very harsh lesson that has cost us dearly.
  8. Hildy
    Thousands of fans holding a handful of shares in their own name didn't achieve much when David Murray was the main man and it isn't making much of a difference now with individual fans owning around 12% of the company. A fan-owned club needs to be a member-owned club where every member has one vote - and there are no shares in it at all. This will involve a major change in thinking but it will put the future of the club in the democratic hands of those who care for it the most. No-one will be able to buy ten or twenty per cent of the club because only a club membership in the name of one individual will be available. The company has to go - the club has to become just that - a club - fully owned by the membership.
  9. Hildy
    One of the three bears is on the RST board - George Letham. The RST wants fan ownership. With Letham in such a prominent position, the club will hopefully look very seriously indeed at making this a reality.
  10. Hildy
    Looking ahead, if the good guys eventually take control, I wonder what their plans will be, if any, for fan ownership? They must surely realise that the club could fall into the wrong hands again in the future, and the best way - the only way - to guard against this is fan ownership. There's no point in winning the day only to lose it again somewhere further down the line. The good guys are going to have to throw the club's ownership open to everyone - not on day one - but over the course of a few years. Done constructively and harmoniously, the club could finally achieve the stability that fan ownership will bring, and let it plan for the future in a meaningful way.
  11. Hildy
    Newcastle: an exercise in mid-table stagnation. That just about sums it up.
  12. Hildy
    Those fans - and pundits - who lauded the arrival of Mike Ashley because of his billionaire status - how do they feel now when a promising young player is being sold off for a million quid? If Mike Ashley needs Rangers to be successful, why are we letting talent leave for such a modest fee?
  13. Hildy
    Interesting article. Thanks for posting.
  14. Hildy
    Let me just say that I'm not making a wild guess. Hopefully new ownership, if it happens, will be more enlightened than I expect it to be, but I reckon a Dave King-run club will consult Walter Smith before appointing anyone to the position of manager - and remember, Ally was Walter's choice. Remember too, Ally McCoist is still a Rangers employee - and Walter Smith is his biggest fan.
  15. Hildy
    Any half-decent footballer with ambition will want to move on from Rangers the way we are just now. McLeod should look at his options and pick the one he thinks is best for his career. Templeton is another who could resurrect his career elsewhere, and Boyd too. He should have gone to Aberdeen when he had the chance. He was never going to fit in at Ally's Rangers. People say that we should forget the football and sort out the board. A consequence of that is promising players wanting out. We do need to sort out the board but while the club is in the charge of a management team that looks as though it would rather be somewhere else, the talent, such as it is, will want to depart - and so it should.
  16. Hildy
    There is no evidence to suggest that Ashley does not want to make us kings of Europe, but it doesn't take a genius to guess that this is not on his agenda. If we had to submit hard evidence and provide sources for everything we put down here, it would be a much quieter place. It is my belief that those waiting to come in, and I hope they are successful because the alternative we are experiencing is quite repulsive, are likely to look back rather than forward when it comes to the actual football. If they do, they will be making a huge mistake.
  17. Hildy
    I don't think King is a chancer. I think he will run Rangers in an honest fashion and that his heart is in the right place. We could do a lot worse, but if he and his allies win the day, he will be making a big mistake if he relies on old and familiar faces to carry the football operation forward. If he comes in, or indeed if his friends come in, Rangers will need to to start all over again on the football side and that means steering well clear of Walter and Ally. We need to embrace the future rather than dragging the past along with us.
  18. Hildy
    No-one can be sure what a Kingco Rangers would be like, but having spoken to a number of people closer to him than I am, I am left with the impression that Ally McCoist would have been kept on and that he'd have been given time to prove himself in more 'normal' circumstances. I choose to believe that. You are free to believe what you like.
  19. Hildy
    As things stand, I think it would be helpful if King and friends took control of the club. This present ownership is intolerable, but if 'Kingco' finds a place at the club for the usual suspects or allows them to become overly influential, I believe the new dawn will turn dark unnecessarily quickly, and no-one wants that. Watch out for excuses being made for why 'substandard staff' performed so poorly.
  20. Hildy
    Over a period of time, there has been a desire by the King camp and the UOF to deflect criticism from McCoist to the board of directors. It's my belief that McCoist would still be the manager if the King consortium had won the day and that he'd be secure in the job indefinitely. King and co are right to attack the present ownership of the club but the price of their success would almost certainly be a jobs for the boys approach across the entire football operation. We want honest ownership at the club and those trying to win control would doubtless provide it, but their big weakness is likely to be unquestioning loyalty to people who have yet to discover the 21st century when it comes to football - the core of the club's existence. Gough has said something he was under no pressure to say, and it shows him to be distant from the reality of what is going on at the club. If is worrying that someone so lacking in judgement is so close to a major player in the game.
  21. Hildy
    It's a direct quote from Gough. If he's positive that this management team will come good, I worry about his judgement and also have a concern that he is in a position to advise people who might one day become influential in the running of the club.
  22. Hildy
    A post that sums up why we are where we are - waiting for Santa - and he might never come. Meanwhile, the club crashes and burns.
  23. Hildy
    Says the guy close to Dave King: "That’s not a slight on Kenny, Jukey or Lee — I’m positive they will make a good management team." Oh dear.
  24. Hildy
    The management of the team has been unacceptable. People are entirely within their rights to raise this. The board of Rangers is a huge problem, but appointing a good manager is not beyond it if it made it a priority. If new ownership arrived tomorrow, could we trust it to identify a good manager? I'm not sure that we could. Appointing a manager can be a risky business, but I suspect that the guys who want to buy in to the club would probably appoint Smith or McCoist as director of football - and that would be absolutely infuriating. Somehow, we have to leave dark age football behind, because if we don't, discerning punters are not going to waste money on a day out at the football that would be better spent doing something more useful / entertaining / satisfying. The brand of football we play is turning people away from Rangers. The board is too, but if a club like Rangers can't offer its huge support a decent level of football, its popularity will suffer, even with a trusted board in charge.
  25. Hildy
    People want fans to rally to the cause but when the club is so dysfunctional, so devoid of know-how and desire, so incompetent at all levels and so blatantly heartless, all that is left to do is to walk out on it until change eventually occurs.
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