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  1. calscot
    It seemed a very gleeful piece. Just because you're enemies are correct about the mess you know you're in, doesn't mean you need to respect them for enthusiastically shouting from the rooftops about it. The veracity of a roast doesn't give cause for endorsement.
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    It seems that in the business world, making mistakes is very lucrative. The more people try to justify the business world the more it comes across as a seedy, corrupt underworld full of criminal minds clever enough to just about stay within the very indulgent laws.
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    Is it only 3 months? That makes it £375k for his time or £1.5m per year remuneration. So now we sack Stockbridge for mismanagement in this case and give him the same... £1m left in April? I doubt there will even be any office pens left when that thieving lot are done.
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    I find AJ a bit like Mystic Meg. He's always coming out with vague and unsubstantiated predictions of the future but never tells it straight and never provides any evidence or indeed a good argument. It's all just innuendo. When things don't tally with what he's said you don't hear from him, when thing happen that can vaguely be interpreted as what he predicted then he comes out with a "I told you so." But when you think about it properly the answer is usually, "No you didn't really."
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    Totally different. Imagine a top paid player saying, "I don't want to play for you any more, now give me a year's pay with bonuses and I'll be on my way."
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    Actually, I can see alcohol being tentatively reintroduced in controlled areas where you can't see the game and of course for hospitality suites. They do it down south and the Friday night games have not been too bad in Scotland. It would be some welcome revenue in an industry that's dying a slow death...
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    As we have about five in that category maybe we're better example than Ajax?
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    I think the greater point is to have all weather training with low maintenance costs and low risk of injury.
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    Don't remember that bit...
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    Is it not harder to refute our detractors when a big chunk of what they say is either true or at least superficially true? Those you mention are seen to be "normal" by the population at large and that will continue as long as we act anything like the nutters they say we are. Most people don't understand this stuff so when we're vilified in the press for singing unnamed "sectarian" songs, people believe it. The problem is that we have no defence as we actually do sing songs that can be interpreted as sectarian and quite a bit IS overtly sectarian. If we cleaned up our act there would be no problem in suing these guys into submission. When they lose court case after court case, the general population will get the drift and the payouts they will have to make will be a deterrent for the future.
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    Should help us when playing on these types of pitches but I think the more important aspect is that we have the nearest thing you can get to grass to train on in any weather and long term it saves money on grounds-keeping costs.
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    A bit off topic but the thing that gets me is that all these guys seem to be able to use potent legal threats to protect their reputation from falsehoods (and sometime stuff that isn't too far away from the truth) but the fans seem powerless in the constant lies, propaganda and libellous bile that comes out of the press and media about us and the reputation of the club...
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    In hindsight, he seemed to have been giving the warnings of what was to come.
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    I really don't think the problem is spending on the players, it's the spending on the board, the missing millions AND a massive shortfall in income. Even with all the greed and other stuff, the board have been pathetic in the latter regard and totally relied on ticket sales which in this day and age is usually a small fraction of the potential income. We should easily have a turnover of around £31m instead of £19m. Yes we have less money from TV and sponsorship and no European money but with all that we were up at 60 odd million. We might be in the lower divisions but we still have 45k supporters filling the stadium and a pro-rata greater number loyal to the club and so the commercial earning potential shouldn't really have diminished to less than 10% of what it was. As mentioned before, despite bringing in almost 80k supporters, Dortmund's income from gate receipts is less than double ours, yet their turnover is about seventeen times our amount (about £340m)! They get over £100m from commercial income alone. Surely a club our size with the support we have we can bring a paltry tenth of that? When it comes to local marketing you'd actually expect us to have the potential of more than 50% of Dortmund's income - we have more than half the fans. Maybe the trouble is that by having a partnership with Dormund you don't alienate the rest of the country and become despised by a quarter of the population... We definitely seem to be doing something wrong...
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    He doesn't have to - he does, however, have to gauge the opinion of the majority or at least a sizeable minority.
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    Incredibly fallacious reply. You're saying we should not sing Rangers songs but sing about murdering gangs so as not to look like we're bowing to people? How about just being half decent and reasonably sane?
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    Seems like something aimed mostly at us... Most teams in the Prem would be relegated with the points deduction and financial controls after entering admin. We're pretty much the only one guaranteed to survive. Celtic are financially stable and so have no fear of it affecting them for the foreseeable future. We've been subjected to predictions of a second admin and they suddenly come out with this... I used to believe in coincidence but when it comes to Rangers, the odds are just too great and the evidence is plain to see that they are definitely out to get us.
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    Should they be able to sing it very loudly outside your house at 3 am?
  19. calscot
    1. No it isn't. and 2. Stopping singing one harmful song and not others still shows a lack of wit.
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    I think when Rangers are offering a contract, the win bonuses will be coming fast and free and so a player will take that into account when comparing with some offer from a bottom half English Championship or Scots Premiership club. Take the bonuses away and the basic wage doesn't look so good and so you have to increase them to the level of what the player would expect to previously earn - but then you don't pay them less when they don't meet expectations...
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    It's difficult to lower ticket prices without the express permission of the opposition... They are, after all, due a slice of the gate money. I think it may get a reasonable crowd for a cup game if it's played on the Saturday at 3pm but otherwise it's an extra expense for season ticket holders against less than glamorous opposition - whom we will face another four times in the league this season. It may also be crap weather in November and there will be a fireworks night to take the kids to. Half time entertainment is rarely very interesting and hardly an incentive to go. I think we're looking at the usual 20-25k we normally get for a lower league cup game. Maybe lowering the ticket prices will increase the crowd but if the projected income is less, it might not go down well with Airdrie. If you chop 40% off the entry and only increase the crowd by 25% (say 25k moving up to 30k), there's an obvious, significant shortfall in income while costs remain pretty similar. So I'd expect about a £15 ticket price at the minimum. The kids thing may be something to play with, especially as Airdrie fans don't exactly have to travel far and so could take advantage of it. They may be put off, however, by Rangers supporters' big and bad reputation... It's a good opportunity to give the armed forces (or some other section of society) free tickets.
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    Bonuses can be looked on in two ways. Firstly it means you pay more when you do well but the flip side is you pay less when you do worse. If you don't have bonuses, what does the wage offer become? You might have to offer the higher amount no matter how well the employee performs. But I think we all know that football is a motivational game and we are all wary of paying someone the same dosh whether they win, lose or draw.
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    Perhaps King is waiting for the next share issue to spend his money - after all if he's already spent his money on buying shares on the open market, who will provide the extra finance we need to survive?
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    I think there is a difference between paying the going rate for a top footballer and deciding what huge bonus to pay yourself as a director of a newly trading company that has still not made a profit and indeed is making a loss. I thought usual thing in to do in this situation in business is to give share options, so when the business does well so do the directors, when it doesn't, they don't. Bonuses otherwise are often related to the balance sheet. Shareholders and directors usually share in the profits of a company, not bleed it dry and cripple it when it is making a loss. There isn't even the situation here where the loss was lower than expected due to director performance - the directors didn't even meet their own expectations. I think when Barry Ferguson was given his bonuses he actually achieved what was expected of him to earn them.
  25. calscot
    And your point is?
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