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The latest turmoil to engulf the League One club came after Mr Green, who resigned as chief executive in April amid a probe into his links to the oldco club's owner Craig Whyte, was appointed to advise the board on its financial affairs yesterday. Within hours of the announcement on the London Stock Exchange, a group of shareholders demanded the removal of key executives and the appointment of two new directors led by ex-Rangers oldco boardroom figure Paul Murray. He ran a failed bid by the Blue Knights consortium to save the former club after it went into administration last year. It is understood the revolt is supported by leading Scottish businessman and entrepreneur Jim McColl. Mr Green resigned from the board of the club's operating firm, Rangers International Football Club (RIFC) plc, on April 19 during a probe into his links with Mr Whyte in the lead-up to the Green-led takeover last year. It found no evidence of collusion. Mr Green had also come under fire from anti-racism campaigners after the blunt Yorkshireman allegedly used a racist slur to describe boardroom colleague Imran Ahmad. Now some shareholders, including Mr Murray, have launched an official bid to join the board and have called for the removal of new chief executive Craig Mather, financial director Brian Stockbridge and non-executive director Bryan Smart. The statement says the RIFC board received a notice demanding a general meeting of shareholders. It also calls for the appointment of Frank Blin, the former executive chairman of *accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), who it is understood is being lined up to conduct a forensic investigation into Rangers' finances. The dissenting group of *shareholders, who include both Rangers fans and investors, have "concerns over the corporate governance" at Ibrox and feel they have the best interests of the club at heart. Rangers Supporters Association general secretary Drew Roberton said: "The situation beggars belief. A lot of supporters will be wanting some serious answers about what is going on. Is there ever going to be an end to this? It has more intrigue than any TV soap and it is becoming ridiculous." Earlier this year, Mr Whyte made allegations that Mr Green and his group were acting as a front for him during Sevco 5088's £5.5 million deal for the club's assets last summer. The deal came after Mr Whyte led Rangers oldco into administration in February 2012 before it was eventually placed into liquidation when HMRC rejected a Company Voluntary Arrangement over an outstanding tax bill. Mr Murray's Blue Knights, backed by businessman Brian Kennedy, submitted a conditional offer for the club before acrimoniously pulling out weeks later. It is understood Mr McColl has put his name to the call for a general meeting, but is unlikely to back financially any attempts to buy a controlling stake in the club. Rangers fan Mr McColl and former manager Walter Smith formed an ill-fated attempt to put a rival deal together to take over the club before Mr Green took control. Rangers Supporters Trust formed a partnership with the Blue Knights, which attempted to buy Rangers from administration while talking of fan representation on the board last year. The trust bought £250,000 of shares on behalf of members in a recent Initial Public Offering championed by Mr Green, which recently raised around £22m. The trust said in a statement: "Recent events have proved that credible, competent and professional individuals should be the basic criteria for sitting on the board and deciding the club's fate, and not faceless investors looking to maximise their return through carefully designed soundbites and false dawns which amount to nothing. "No Rangers fan is greater than the other and the importance of our collective contribution is still underestimated. "Would you prefer to have an influence on fiscal policy, or would you rather place faith in men you don't know?" Rangers said in a statement: "Mr Green's role will be to promote the interests of Rangers Football Club, specifically assisting with shareholder relations and advising the company on its capital structure." http://t.co/TQerBVqLeO

I think we will have to beat Everton to get Davie.

I'm worried about you !!!! I've edited the post, is it ok to put exclamation marks at the end??!!??

They're making money and Rangers are where?

All he needs to do is get others to invest.

Won tonight 2-1 first game in the League, played good football ball on the floor. Last season and a few before Wednesday supporters were fed up with the football they were playing, looks like Davie has changed things.

Crawford would get claustrophobia in the middle.

Former Ibrox director Paul Murray, who fronted a group called the Blue Knights, attempted to buy the club in the spring of 2012. Along with businessman Brian Kennedy, they submitted a conditional takeover offer for the Glasgow side before pulling out in May 2012. Blin is the former executive chairman of accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and it is understood the dissenting group have lined him up to perform a forensic investigation of Rangers' finances if successful in their bid to install him to the board. It is understood the action has come from a group of shareholders, including both Rangers fans and professional investors, who have "concerns over the corporate governance" at Ibrox and feel they have the best interests of the club at heart. One shareholder, a London-based professional investor who is a season-ticket holder at Ibrox, told Press Association Sport: "I want to know the costs inside Ibrox and know that they are under control. I would like to know exactly how much money Craig Mather is being paid, in fact I would like to know all the figures at Ibrox. "The fans and investors deserve to know. The fans are the lifeblood of the club and they have been kept in the dark for too long. How much is Charles Green getting paid? And, if he's here to represent the shareholders, then what are the stockbrokers doing and are they on a retainer?" http://news.stv.tv/west-central/234870-shareholder-group-moves-to-oust-rangers-chief-executive-craig-mather/

I like the sound of that, lets hope if they fire it isn't blanks.

Just a thought. Someone going to make a bid and wants a couple of board members he can trust to look at the 'books'. They are told only if they replace people who would be on the same side.

So stoopid question, who wants Murray in?

So the Paul Murray etc. what is that expected to do to the SP?

I think we better get used to it.

So is the end game nearer than we think?

This. . . Personal opinion , nothing more he`s here to make sure those he talked into investing with "him" get the maximum outlay on their money the time for that is coming up If he`s back here for the right reasons then let him release audited accounts of his time at Rangers so far I`ve got more chance of walking naked on the moon than that happening From FF

Be interesting if he turns up at Ibrox how the Fans will react.

In what way?

Made up of who? I should know, but forget.

Can I ask, or can anyone tell me, who would actually make this appointment?

AMcC - Cribari is out for tomorrow. Perry had his cast off, but is still not ready. Hutton is even further away.

I wonder who's behind this, just can't see it being Walters doing.

''I'm available at reasonable rates and time and a half at weekends '' Is it 'French Lessons'

Love reading these kinda stories.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/david-weir-ready-to-cut-his-teeth-in-the-steel-city-8742913.html There was a time during his playing days at Everton when David Weir's phone would regularly ring late at night. On the other end would be Paul Gascoigne, his Goodison team-mate then caught up in a craze for the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? computer game, who saw Weir â?? with his US college degree in advertising and PR â?? as the ideal friend to phone. There may come a time as the 2013-14 season unfolds when Weir, freshly embarked on his first job in management at Sheffield United, is tempted to phone a friend himself and, fortunately, he will not be short of sound advice. Not only does he have Walter Smith, the manager who helped him prolong his playing days at Rangers until after his 41st birthday, but also David Moyes, another old boss and fellow Scot under whom he learnt the coaching ropes at Everton until May. "He has told me any time to give him a call and I'd be a fool not to," Weir says of the new Manchester United manager. "I don't want to be bombarding him every day and asking him questions â?? I've got to be myself and that's one of the biggest things he said: 'Be yourself and get your personality across.' Walter said the same and, like Walter, he's somebody I'll speak to and ask questions to if I think it's right." The former Scotland centre-back kicks off his managerial career in the inaugural fixture of the Football League season tonight, when his United side face League One rivals Notts County in front of the Sky cameras at Bramall Lane. There may be some butterflies but it is a challenge the 43-year-old is eager to embrace. He was confirmed as Danny Wilson's successor in early June, one door opening shortly after another â?? the vacant manager's job at Everton â?? had shut. Weir was one of three internal candidates considered for that post before Bill Kenwright, the Everton chairman, opted for Roberto Martinez, yet Weir's reportedly impressive interview was the moment that told him he was ready to stand on his own feet as a manager. "When I came out of that meeting I thought my time was now. I thought possibly it was going to be Everton but if it wasn't going to be Everton it was definitely going to be somewhere else," he says. "I felt I could have talked all day with regards to my ideas and how I wanted to work. It brought home to me the time was right to go and start doing my job." So Weir rejected the opportunity to remain on Everton's coaching staff and was soon signing a three-year contract in Sheffield. Weir's insightful autobiography, Extra Time, shows a man of forthright opinions beneath his polite demeanour and he has been quick to stamp his mark on his new club's Shirecliffe training facility, moving the first team down to the academy site to bring all United's players together under one roof. He has also ordered better food (and TVs) for the canteen to ensure players eat lunch together â?? seemingly a small thing, but from Moyes he learnt the importance of "attention to detail". For our interview, he sits in his training gear in that same canteen before heading off to oversee morning training (another Moyes lesson: be a coach first, manager second) with his two assistants, Lee Carsley â?? his old Everton colleague, who has League One experience from coaching at Coventry City â?? and Adam Owen, a fitness and conditioning specialist lured south from Rangers. "We are trying to individualise training as much as we can, pulling people out of sessions if we feel there is a chance of getting injured, or working people a little bit harder if we feel they need it," he explains. Weir believes the modern manager has "a responsibility almost" to play "possession-based football" and an eight-match unbeaten sequence in pre-season augurs well for a United team defeated in the play-offs two years running. Yet the division's only rookie manager plays down expectations. "There are some big clubs and some big budgets in this league â?? Wolves, Bristol City, Peterborough," he says. "There is a lot of competition so it is going to be a really tough league. The fans will always have the expectation of going up because we're a really big club in a league where a lot of people feel we shouldn't be, but we are and we're here for a reason." United may have been League One's best-supported team last season yet their budget is not the biggest and Weir's only cash signing has been the £250,000 Falkirk forward Lyle Taylor. That said, his six new faces, also including the England Under-20 captain Conor Coady, loaned from Liverpool, have added pace up front and youthful promise. "My idea is to do something that's sustainable and that over time will lead Sheffield United back to being a successful club again," he adds. In the meantime it will be intriguing to see if Weir has what it takes to join the long list of successful Scottish managers. "I am a long, long way off that," he stresses, although he has been long preparing for his new post, filling notebooks with observations while still playing. By the time Weir appeared in the 2008 Uefa Cup final for Walter Smith's Rangers he was 38 and already "coaching to a certain degree on the pitch. That was a massive learning tool for me, just seeing how things develop on the pitch and working with a great manager with the ability to ask him questions and ask why he did things and him explaining why". If Smith provided lessons in man-management â?? with his "sixth sense in regards to what people needed at a particular time" â?? Weir's education continued during a 16-month spell back at Everton as he helped out Alan Stubbs with the Under-21s. Weir speaks with admiration of Moyes' infectious work ethic and organisation, and cites his move to Old Trafford as a source of encouragement for all home-grown coaches. "It's shown that if you do the right things, there is a pathway," says the man gearing up for his first step on that same road tomorrow night.

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