chilledbear

They could tell us that they are digging through tons of paperwork, to get a picture of how this all came about. They could even tell us once they have finished they will tell the Supporters as much as they can. They could even tell us what their plans are for the future of the Club. Perhaps they could tell us that the contracts that have been signed in the last 2 years will be looked at to see if Rangers are getting the best deal possible. It actually looks as if the present Board couldn't care less if the Fans vote for them or not, which perhaps is the most worrying aspect of the whole thing.

Well said gunslinger, this lot know nothing about Rangers. Good interviews, pity the current incumbents cannot/will not or are not allowed to speak to us. It's a bit of a disgrace if truth to be told.

Unless their is a majority on the Board after the AGM, who want to go over the Deals and Contracts, everything will stay as they are.

It would be good if we had some clarity from the Club about, well anything!!

Surely what is important is looking into contracts and deals, if Stockbridge is the only one to leave would this be done?

The poster says he has a good source, which is well known on FF as he has mentioned the name before. [Anyone know?]

I would think the Board would be happy enough with that result D'Art, Stockbridge out and Irvine riding into the distance with a nice bonus in his pocket. Whether it would bring peace would depend on the defeated. I should have said, the problem I see with only Stockbridge leaving, will the deals and contracts that have been done come under enough scrutiny?

If you buy wine in the Supermarket noticed today Sainsbury has 25% Discount. Nice timing for Christmas, if it lasts that long.

Well said super. I was just thinking last night watching the game, those Journalists and Commentators who said we would be playing in front of a few thousand at most, they haven't a clue about us.

I think Frankie has joined GS on the 'hate' List. Why can we not disagree without insults?

According to the article SOS want the current Board replaced, yet the protest tonight only mentions Stockbridge and Irvine.

Can understand this..................never say never.

The 4 new board candidates will publish their's today.

elf You heard anything about this?

http://davidleggat-leggoland.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/the-threats-to-jim-mccoll.html JIM McCOLL’S revelation of sinister threats, when he spoke to last week’s meeting of Rangers supporters, told only half of the story. Now I can reveal more. More of the shocking, shady and deeply worrying things that have been going on in the background since the Requisition was first moved on August 2nd. I can reveal McColl admitted that he had been the recipient of two phone calls from two northern English cities. McColl admitted this at a meeting I and a dozen or so others attended at his Clyde Blowers headquarters in East Kilbride in mid-September. His revelations that day about those deeply disturbing phone calls came in the wake of the news that Frank Blin, the City big hitter who McColl and Paul Murray had lined up to become financial director, had withdrawn from the campaign to change the board. And that, in turn, followed a public statement by the then newly appointed board spin doctor, Jack Irvine, that McColl and Blin and the others should be warned that they were now fair game. Many took that to mean Irvine would be behind a dirty tricks campaign. Certainly there were plenty of red herrings planted by Jack Irvine in the Press concerning whether or not Paul Murray would pass the Scottish Football Association’s fit and proper person test – he will – and claiming Dave King would not be acceptable to either the London Stock Exchange or the SFA, disgracefully inaccurate allegations which King blew out of the water. It is interesting to note that since King’s visit, Jack Irvine has not mentioned Dave King’s name again. But now, newly appointed chairman David Somers has taken up the cry that Paul and Malcolm Murray, along with the other two Nominees, Alex Wilson and Scott Murdoch, men of the highest integrity and probity, men whose credentials are above reproach, may fail any Stock Market and SFA tests. Somers has put his name to this scaremongering in the official Notice of Annual General Meeting document, signed by him on November 25th and sent to all shareholders. Entirely separate from that, Jim McColl then followed Blin in withdrawing from the campaign, sparking suspicions by those who he told about those initial phone threats, that he may have been subjected to further outside pressure. McColl seemed reluctant to discuss the threats in great detail after the meeting with fans on Thursday night, though Friday’s newspapers carried the statement he made to the supporters’ meeting which touched on them. That was the first time the threats which McColl told me about in September, entered the public domain. But at the midday meeting in the Clyde Blowers boardroom on September 13th, which I attended, when the news of the threats was first revealed, McColl was much more candid. He revealed that he had taken two telephone calls – one from someone in Manchester and one from someone in Leeds – and that he was advised by both callers that it would be better for him if he stepped back from the whole affair and took no further part in the campaign to oust the board. McColl assured us all that he would not be put off and for the next 10 weeks he was as good as his word. Then, after the meeting with supporters last week, Jim McColl announced he would play no further part in the campaign by the four Nominees to win seats on the Ibrox board. Now McColl has followed Frank Blin and left the fight and he made that announcement on the very night that Paul Murray was able to lift the lid on the influence the disgraced Charles Green is still exerting with shareholders in the background and the power Green continues to exert over those with a stake in Rangers. With that Charles Green active influence now known to extend to more than merely handing the proxy for his shares to the Easdales, the spectre of money-grabbing, greedy Green and his power, now hovers over the Annual General Meeting. posted by leggoland @ 09:11

FalkirkPolice ‏@FalkirkPolice 12m After a flare was set off at Westfield Stadium at the weekend a 15 y/o male has been reported to the childrens reporter

KEITH reckons Rangers fans should remember that Paul Murray has always had the best interests of the club at heart ahead of agm on December 19 AFFAIRS of the heart can be complicated things. There must have been times over the last two and half years, for example, when Paul Murray will have wondered why he bothers. When loving his club may have become altogether just too bruising. When negotiating his way around this unrelenting Rangers saga must have exhausted him. As if he was playing five-dimensional chess. Trying to disseminate the filthy lies of the Craig Whyte takeover, see through all those murky, multi-million pound deceptions, get his head around the shameful cheating of the public purse and then suffer the eventual agony of watching his club being tipped over a financial abyss. It must have messed as much with his head as with his emotions. From day one Murray cried foul but found hardly anyone who was willing to listen. He was denounced as a trouble- maker, derided as a fantasist and turned upon by Rangers fans who had no wish to be confronted by such unpalatable truths. That kind of brutal abuse would have been enough to make most walk away. But when Murray’s nightmare scenario actually became reality and Whyte called in the administrators on February 14 last year he summoned up the will to keep on fighting. Then when his Blue Knights were blocked by Duff and Phelps from saving the club from Whyte’s clutches, Murray was savaged again for allowing his consortium to be trumped by Charles Green who had appeared on the scene at the very last minute, as if from nowhere. The rancid stench from that closed-shop sale – and the crescendo of criticism which came his way after – should have been enough to sicken Murray for life. He was humiliated. His credibility called into question by the very supporters he was trying to help. Many thousands of them hailed Green as some sort of gruff- talking, big-handed messiah. Perhaps they know better now because, finally, after all this time the fog of confusion around this Rangers debacle is beginning to lift. At last, Murray’s place in all of this is becoming clear. In fact, with little more than two weeks to go before the long-awaited and defining agm, it has never been so straightforward. On December 19 he will either be voted on to the board or he will not. The club’s shareholders must now decide if they trust Murray and his fellow rebels Malcolm Murray, Scott Murdoch and Alex Wilson – or if Rangers would be safer left in other hands (be they big Yorkshire ones or otherwise). Perhaps, with the benefit of hindsight, now would be an ideal moment for some reflection on Murray’s role in all of this. They say you can judge the calibre of a man by the company he keeps. In Murray’s case, perhaps it’s even more pertinent to consider the enemies he has made over the last two and a bit years. Let’s start with Whyte, Duff and Phelps, David Grier, Green, Imran Ahmad, Craig Mather and Brian Stockbridge. None of them has a good word to say about Murray. Which might be his biggest single validation of all. This is the definitive Who’s Who of the bogeymen in this unrelenting Rangers narrative. With that in mind, it is interesting to note Murray has expressed support for the club’s new chief executive Graham Wallace, whose appointment has been broadly welcomed by all sides. But while it is entirely possible that these two – and new non-executive director Norman Crighton – might yet find common ground, Murray has beaten most of the rest of them into retreat if not entirely into submission. Now two men are fixed firmly in his sights – Stockbridge and the PR consultant who helped bring about this whole collapse by acting in the interests of his client Whyte. Or, if you prefer, the onset of the Cuban Heeled Crisis. Last week it was alleged publicly by Murray’s team that this master of the dark arts is currently being paid £40k a month to spin on behalf of the Rangers board, with another £100k bonus to come for a favourable result at the agm. The man himself denied these figures on Twitter but declined numerous invitations to clear the whole issue up by declaring his real bottom line. There is no doubt whatsoever, though, that his company has been handsomely rewarded by the Whytes, Greens and Ahmads. As a result, at one time or another some or maybe even all of these characters have enjoyed a certain amount of backing. But at no point did they receive Murray’s. That’s chiefly because their priorities clashed directly with his. While they have all sought to exploit Rangers for financial gain, Murray’s motivation has always been to protect the club. Perhaps understandably, even now there will be Rangers supporters out there who cannot take to Murray, possibly because they think he has brought their club nothing but trouble. Perhaps, though, it is time for them to stop and think about why Murray bothered. Maybe now, in retrospect, they may wish they too had done more to stand up against this cast of opportunists and mercenaries. Murray bothered because of his love for Rangers and his deep-rooted determination to do the right thing. The rest? They have dipped in and out of this long-running debacle with the common goal of getting out with as much of the club’s money as they could stuff into their pockets. He clashed with all of them because his good intentions jarred with their greed. There are other central figures around this story who, with good reason, have lacked the courage to speak out in public about what they have known to be going on behind the scenes. Some of them have secretly reached out to Murray from within the heart of Ibrox and pleaded with him to continue his pursuit of the truth. Maybe one day soon these people will find their voices but, then again, some of them have been placed under enormous levels of intimidation, like the former senior employee who reported Rangers to the Serious Fraud Office earlier this year – offering information on alleged irregularities around last December’s £22m IPO. In an ideal world, this individual and others who are far more familiar to the Rangers support, will break cover and tell all before the shareholders go the vote. After all, a great deal more than just Paul Murray’s reputation is about to go on the line. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/keith-jackson-ibrox-whistleblowers-must-2874396?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Should be the way, perhaps they already have right enough. Always wonder who makes the decision on something like this, what are THEIR qualifications and expertise on youth football etc. Does it in the end come down to friendship, word of mouth and currying favours.

Hopefully something will happen.

Anyone know anything about this guy? Only on twitter at the moment. Ian Cathro is the name being touted as the man, who will be brought in to see over Auchenhowie new youth development programme.

This is what angers me. ''I have opposed Jim McColl’s involvement at Ibrox because he is a prominent separatist and I am one of those who still see Rangers as a Unionist club.'' Over my years of supporting the Gers, I have known Communists, Trade Unionists, Scottish Nationalists and Right Wing Bigots all good Rangers Supporters whatever their personal or political leanings. Since when did politics determine whether you were a Rangers Supporter or could be involved with Rangers, have we learned nothing from the past.

Do they sing the sash everytime Daly scores? I didn't know that, idiots if true.

By association, are supporters of many years standing also rebels if they support them. I think tb64 should tell us.

Thanks Frankie, I have read a few times about putting meat on the bones, I may be wrong but without more knowledge of the financial situation, can we expect more meat at this time? You also say.....''Scouting, PR, fan representation, director pledges, break-even budgets and asset ring-fencing may all sound impressive ideas but it would be argued anyone could highlight the same areas for improvement.'' Anyone could, but the present Board don't....why? Agree with the rest, just a couple of queries I would like answered.

You can understand why Irvine would be on a £100k bonus, look at all the posters he has to pay.