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  1. calscot
    Quickly looked up "elected monarch" as that seems to be the system that some people here would like to abolish the hereditary monarchy and replace it with. Ironically the most prominent elected monarchy is the Holy Roman Empire. So some Rangers fans would like to replace the traditional British system with one similar to the Papal system... Very amusing.
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    I thought Lafferty was a bit like Lovenkrands - showed flashes of great potential but never quite performed on anywhere near a consistent level and usually a passenger. Both came across as too big for their boots and neither had any adaptability in their game. They both didn't seem to be able to play striker OR winger when a decent forward should be able to do both - like Laudrup.
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    To be fair it's said quite often after these goals but it you take stuff like this out of the game then what's the future for the popularity of football? Why can't an opposition manager just praise a wonder goal that will probably be goal of the season. Hopefully he be cringing about this afterwards.
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    I doubt many CEOs get a whopping bonus for the type of financial results we've had. Some do due to greedy directors fleecing the shareholders but it never goes down well. If we'd made a 10m gross profit then maybe a 200k bonus might be in order...
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    I don't think that's all that fair as it's a subjective award which will take into account that it gets dull and meaningless to keep giving it to the same person. Our team is expected to win due to our resources and so the achievement will lose some of its shininess. Other managers will be rewarded for doing the unexpected. Anyway, I'd rather he just concentrated on winning the league and perhaps the bonus of the Challenge cup and some sort of run in the Scottish cup. This award is nice but not a necessity by any means.
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    So you're saying you have no loyalty to the heir to the throne? If popularity becomes an issue then the Royal family will have lost its integrity, dignity and relevance. It will be the beginning of the end and we may as well make Posh and Becks the king and Queen - or how about the winner of celebrity big brother? I find it strange that you don't get it.
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    Why would he be unpopular? And what does it really matter? You won't see a president of the US resigning because he's unpopular. I can't see someone turning down something they've been born and bred to do and been waiting a lifetime to fulfill. Why nullify your whole life? Heads of state, like heads of businesses, are not there just to be popular.
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    It's all about lineage not a popularity contest where we all have a vote, that would more describe a president, and the desire for that pretty much makes you a Republican... Maybe we should skip the next 20 million odd in line to the throne and make me king, or my cat. After all if we're making up our own arbitrary rules then I should get a say too. Either we follow the basic rules of royalty or we may as well just abolish it. And if we're going to change the rules then it shouldn't apply until the next unborn generation. That would be like changing the rules of football halfway through the season.
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    For supposedly being royalists lots of people on here don't even get the basics of how royalty works works and seem to be mixing it up with something like Britain's got talent.
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    Surely if it goes to court then Mather will have to justify all of what he has said, written and done to prove his case? Seems it could be worse for HIM if he goes to court.
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    It seems more than that, if they don't accept it then is it not inevitable that the requisitioners will call for an EGM as soon as possible thus incurring the 80k cost the board so proudly said they had avoided? They really are a bunch of clowns...
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    How come the same rules don't apply when we're in the dock for the Billy Boys or Super Rangers. F****n pretty much means a group of violent, Irish republicans who resort to terrorism. How can that be sectarian? Anyway, maybe we should sing, "Some people say they are F****n b*****ds". How can they punish us for that? (I'm totally against this stuff but the hypocrisy and double standards make my blood boil). So for us the ruling is "we know what you mean" (even though they don't) which should for consistancy apply to Spence (even though we do).
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    PS It looks like we could save about £3.7m already on the wage bill for this financial year.
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    To be fair to him he signed the contract when we were in the SPL and that was the going rate for an OF manager and less than many players. At the time if he was offered less than that many would have seen it as the club not living up to its status as the biggest club in Scotland. I find a lot of the time it's the same people who moaned when we missed out on a player because we wouldn't meet their demands who now complain wages are too high. Whyte was lambasted for offering too little. There's not one of us here who would turn down an excellent wage package put in front of us, and I suspect none of us would volunteer a pay cut after "tuping" especially when you are clueless about the finances - as everyone including the board seems to have been. in hindsight, the board should have possibly given Ally the projected income and negotiated a wage cut for the good of the club - but they could harldy do this while awarding themselves super-normal and outrageous remuneration. So for me it's all down to a dysfunctional board and now Ally has seen the poor state of the finances that the board have taken us to, he has admirably taken a huge pay cut that it was within his rights to refuse. How many would take a 50% pay cut tomorrow for the good of your company (albeit, it's easier when you earn as much in a year as the average punter earns in most of his career).
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    Can I also point out that Killie are suffering from having NO OF income. Rangers are gone and Celtic fans perpetually boycott their ground - something that not surprisingly NOT reported in the mhedia.
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    I don't see how this would work in a stadium that is 22.8% full. There is absolutely no incentive to buy early and so everyone waits for the price drop. I don't really think the Germans have achieved it. They have very low ticket prices BUT their ticket income is a small fraction of their turnover and almost insignificant. You're talking around 10% of total income! Their model mostly relies on TV, retail and commercial income.
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    Is the average attendance for league games or overall? I think the league was actually 45,750 (including non-attending season ticket holders) which gives an average of 7,750 over season ticket income. At say £18 average a ticket, that would make an additional £2.5m. Then there are the cup games although some of that money is given to the opposition. We had seven cup games at home at say an average of 24k @ £18 * 0.6 is about quarter of a million. Say 50k from the other fixtures and that's £2.8m to add on. Then there is hospitality which we've not yet included... How much is that? £2m for 25 games? That would add up to £12.8m although it's all speculative.
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    As someone said recently that this is a bit of a wilderness year - last year was the first and so the start of the adventure, next year has the excitement of re-qualifying for the top league, while this year is a bit flat. So I think the board took that on and kept the prices the same this year to keep up the fan-base who go to games (with maybe the small drop that we're seeing), and they are planning a "double" increase next season which could be significant (50%?).
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    Don't Bayern spend fortunes on players? I think they do...
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    Must admit that when I read Two Brothers by Ben Elton his description of the Nazis kept reminding me of Celtic fans. The most uncanny one was that the Nazis ironically felt that they were the victims who were conspired against and abused so that any atrocities they did were always justified.
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    PS We could be Scottish first as we're in the Scottish leagues and British second while we're part of the country. But why be ordinary British when you can be Scottish-British which is a bit more special? That, along with inclusiveness, this is represented in our squad with mostly Scots plus a smattering of other-British (and an Irishman) and few foreigners.
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    We keep going on about them being obsessed about us, why can't we just forget about them? Treat them as an irrelevance. That would annoy them more, but give them no cannon fodder and show there is only one bigoted club. We need a secular set of values that everyone can get behind eg: sporting excellence, fair play, integrity, inclusiveness and charity. If we're going to play up anything then perhaps it should be our Scottishness. Scotland needs a football champion as it's an apparently non-Scottish team that has manipulated and cheated its dirty way to dominance. Why not let Rangers be the super-hero to the rescue against the evil ones, instead of another perceived king-pin of hate crime?
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    We seem to be really small fry these days. One wonders if our potential would increase somewhat if we ditch our controversial baggage...
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    Here's the top shirt sponsorship and kit supplier graph:
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    Here's a graph of the top commercial revenue earners:
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