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My sleep is actually much better now, man, fully cured and all that but for wee blips like the last wee while. I fecking hate to admit it, but exercise has been worthwhile. I think much more clearly and have so much more energy and get to eat more. Its been a great thing. Anyway, enough subverting the purpose of the thread - Boumsong is excellent in that video. I think McLeish done a wonder turn selling him though. I hated it at the time, but its almost like he knows more about football than me

Tell you whats horrible, man - going to the gym after 48 hours without sleep. I honestly thought it would give me energy. It just crushed me.

Mate, thats makes perfect sense and was really the sort of thing I was trying to ask for. Cheers. I dont visit any other rangers sites so have no real idea about general consenses and poster histories or anything of that sort which tends not to interest me in any case. I share your intuitions about a middling owner being better than our current one, and in cases where we necessarily cant know all the facts you are best to go with your gut - rationality often takes the long road round to where our instinct was naturally heading.

"I wrote a fair bit on FF saying that despite him being a developer we should hear him out etc and when the penny finally dropped about our mutual contact I had a good 3 weeks posting history of being 'open' to the whole idea. I cold called him, nothing more nor less the first time." I was refering to that. Maybe I am misreading the significance of your three week history of openness, but it certainly seems you are taking up - be it in a devils advocate sense or not - the possibilities and scenarios in which he is a good thing. I am really not asking anything other than what it is that gives you this positive perspective. I am not saying I wont share it or trying to catch you out in anyway - the whole business just looks a bit suspect to me, I cant fathom why he would want the club, and imagining scenarios in which he could technically get out of lying about having backers seems like the actions of someone at least pragmatically taking a postive stance. Do you feel like I have mischaracterised you in some way? If so, just say where. I am not trying to make a point here, just ask you a question.

This worries me, and I am not sure I would be as happy to picture a scene in which this was the case. I realise there is clearly big money involved, and this a big boys game, but NI your support for Ellis seems quite disproportionate to the facts we have. You said you supported him on forums before you talked to him, and obviously after talking to him. Is it loyalty because he is a friend of a friend, or is it a bit of star struckness or the prospect of being on familiar terms with the guy should he become the owner? None of these are bad, obviously, they are perfectly natural, but they are no reason why anyone other than you should be similarly optimistic. I realise you are not trying to convince people of anything, but I want to be enthusiastic, and so far all there appears to be is platitudes, with no clear reason why he wants the club or what he intends to do with it and for whom. You seem to have set out a stall to defend the guy when there is no real information one way or the other why anyone primarily interested in rangers and the good of the club should be similarly enthusiastic. Do you know something we dont? Or is it a hunch or a good feeling?

Thats just evillllll!!!! I had the going-over-speedbumps-stomach feeling just thinking about it. If P done that to me I would divorce her. Not posted something on facebook, obviously, just got pregnant.

Mate, I am supposed to be the techical ninja. I have written bespoke content management systems that run on the vbulletin engine and hacked code that.... no, wait, I will stop while any street cred yet remains. Yeah, I can do that - its just frankie is around more

I will add you to the writers forum m8. ETA: Extra forum should appear down the bottom for you now. Upload articles there and you can get feedback and the article uploaded to the main site.

The wee hing at the end. I still dont think Wattie rates him to be honest. I think if he really felt wanted at rangers he would still be here. Still, here is hoping...

Ah, the old become-adamant-against-something-no-one-has-actually-said trick. How unlike you. You can jump in all you like, and I will keep telling you I dont need you to start producing your crystal ball and explaining other peoples intentions when I can just ask them. I am sure he will answer, and did, and there you go - how magically it got resolved without your input.

The wee hing at the end seemed to suggest he was pleased at the prospect. I am quite sure he doesnt need you as his interpreter, which is why I asked him.

are you happy he is going to the epl?

Aye, the question over profitability bothers me. I think deep down we like to think that if we just done the business stuff right - I mean, we all pay a fortune dont we? - we would turn a profit. If we just somehow appealed to our global brand etc. I dont think for a minute if it were possible to turn a profit SDM wouldnt have done it already. Maybe it owuld be possible to turn a profit but not compete for some years - dont think that would be acceptable. So the question remains - how will buying players be financed? What happens when we need to write off more debt? etc

Have you been talking to Pauline again? She's a big fan of this notion, she thinks I could be a good earner.

I have no idea where I would get the �£600.

MF will quote anyone, no matter how rancid, if they agree with his tastes and preferences

i wonder how many rst members knew about this before they read it in the papers.

Alrighty! Welcome aboard the boards!

I would agree with all of that. So does it mean you dislike him and want him as far away from our club as possible?

Wabash, out of interest - are you happy Murray is in charge? Do you think he is a good chairman? I know maineflyer thinks he is always in charge, but he thinks its a bad thing. I think you similarly think he is in charge, but not sure what your assessment of his stewardship is.

the dream team!

^ is that what that phrase really is? no way.

and so say all of us. :robbo:

dont mistake those for sincere beliefs.

i honestly think, deep deep down, celtic fans prefer losing. their noble oppressed complex runs deep - the craving to play the rebel and decry injustice just doesnt get satisfied when they are winning.