TheWeeBlueDevil 0 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 (edited) I copied this article from RM, I think it's worth posting in here. Link from Sky Sports. Middlesbrough owner Steve Gibson has told Rangers and their fans that starting as a new company will have little impact on their club. Gibson helped save his hometown club in 1986 when they went into liquidation, which is the way it seems Rangers are heading. Boro emerged as a new club, but Gibson insists that they lost none of their identity as a result. "What happened with us in 1986 and is about to happen with Rangers is effectively the same. And my own view is if the SPL allow Rangers to stay in the top flight nobody will notice any difference," he told the Daily Record. "Celtic fans might want to rub it in a bit but that will only last 12 months. People will get bored with that. The best thing for Rangers is to beat Celtic twice or three times and the fans will be as happy as can be. "Chairmen, managers and players all come and go. But you're situated in the heart of your town. The club is the people who come to watch it. It's not a technical piece of paper. It's being in your town with the people from the town supporting the club. "I know Glasgow's different because you've got two very different clubs but you've got two very different communities, each of which determines the type of football club it is. "Within weeks, as long as Rangers survive, the technical things will disappear. It's all paperwork behind the scenes. Rangers Football Club will go on just as in the past and that's the most important thing. Local "It's a bit like your local pub. The landlady changes and the name above the door changes but it's still your local pub. It's still got the same feel. The technicalities of it are minor. "For me, there was no change in moving to a newco. The fabric of the club was still there. We still had Ayresome Park and our old training ground so for me it was just a technical change. "In our case we could have actually saved the old club but we couldn't get agreement with the shareholders so MiddlesbroughPosted Image Football & Athletic Company was changed to Middlesbrough Football Club 1986. "There was no emotion whatsoever when we changed the name. I wasn't even there for the signing of the papers which changed the name so that shows how minor it is. We just got the lawyers to do it. "Nothing during that process made me feel I was signing away 110 years of Middlesbrough history. It wasn't as if I was tossing away memories of what Middlesbrough had achieved. "It's the same with Rangers, albeit I suppose Rangers have a much more distinguished history than Middlesbrough. "I understand individuals would still have their own personal memories. I stood on the terraces of Ayresome Park for the first time with my dad for a game against Peterborough in 1966. But I have to say, nothing changed for me. "And when I watched Boro win the Carling Cup, their first ever trophy, in 2004 I just saw it as the exact same team I'd watched for the first time in 1966. "Forget worrying about the technicalities that nobody will ever see." Edited June 15, 2012 by TheWeeBlueDevil 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovanAllan 0 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 He didn't have the SFA/SPL and a country of hate filled bawbags to deal with. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,263 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Unless I am mistaken, both the SFA and the SPL will register Rangers the club, not Rangers the company. Even if they nitpick on technical and legal stuff, Rangers the club won all the trophies, not Rangers the company, else many a teams' history and records would look very different. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gisabeer 409 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 If the sfa can carry over punishments to the new co from the old one then surely this is an acknowledgement that the team is still the same one 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim1955 12 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 If the sfa can carry over punishments to the new co from the old one then surely this is an acknowledgement that the team is still the same one That's a very good argument. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWeeBlueDevil 0 Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 If the sfa can carry over punishments to the new co from the old one then surely this is an acknowledgement that the team is still the same one As far as im concerned it's not even open for debate, Rangers football club was here for 27 years before the company, and it will be here long after the original company has gone . New company but the football club is still the same football club that first kicked a ball in 1872. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,428 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Off topic I know,but where does the JJB sports deal fit in with a newco? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Off topic I know,but where does the JJB sports deal fit in with a newco? The administrators had the power to rip up the JJB & Azure/Elior deals, but since there was no mention of them doing that, then I think we need to assume that Green's consortium will want the deals to continue over with the newco as they have a lot of other things to deal with right now. It's probably worthy of a dedicated thread to discuss it. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,268 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Think we're stuck with JJB for time being. We don't exactly have Rangers shops anymore do we ? (except megastore at Ibrox) 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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