Irvine returns according to McMurdo

[TheTinMan99 0]

As a matter of interest what are Brian Stockbridge's political beliefs, or Mather, or Ahmed or Green for that matter? I demand they state them publicly, the thought police should get onto this right away.

 

Tories, obv.

[TheTinMan99 0]

Apologies for the terminology used, what else do you call someone who states.

They came from another country and took control, it's time to drive them out.

How would Mr McColl feel if the people of Monaco referred to him in the same manner.

As for his political leanings being relevant, I don't want to see an independence seeking Scottish Nationalist ex pat controlling the direction of our club

 

If Mr McColl bought the local football team, and started bleeding them dry, then I'm sure the locals in Monaco would have something to say about it. We, on the other hand, tend to welcome them with open arms, until the shit hits the fan. Why any Bear wouldn't want someone like McColl involved in the club is baffling. Even if he doesn't invest a penny in us, I'd rather have the contacts/potential investors in McColls wee black book, than the dregs that are in Greens.

 

Your comment about a nationalist ex-pat controlling the direction of the club, just shows how detached from reality you are, and doesn't even merit comment.

[forlanssister 3,050]

Tories, obv.

 

They're classic Socialists just look at the way they're redistributing the wealth !

[chilledbear 16]

They're classic Socialists just look at the way they're redistributing the wealth !

 

To the wealthy, classic Tory.

[ian1964 10,416]

[Bluedell 5,329]

As much as I want Irvine away from the club, I've heard similar comments about Greig from many good bears.

[trueblue 64 53]

As a matter of interest what are Brian Stockbridge's political beliefs, or Mather, or Ahmed or Green for that matter? I demand they state them publicly, the thought police should get onto this right away.

 

A mans political beliefs are his own business right up to the minute he choses to discuss them in public, that's why ballot boxes are sealed and voting booths have partitions.

[Frankie 8,150]

As much as I want Irvine away from the club, I've heard similar comments about Greig from many good bears.

 

Sure but when conducting business, sometimes it's better to say nothing - even in supposedly private memos.

[chilledbear 16]

I think it says something about themselves, when they call others thick.

[ian1964 10,416]

Leggat:

 

CRAIG MATHER has managed to do what many thought was impossible. He has virtually united the Rangers supporters in a campaign aimed at Media House spin doctor Jack Irvine.

 

And in doing so Mather has also put himself in the firing line as far as Rangers fans are concerned.

 

Irvine, the man Mather agreed should be hired by Rangers, even hijacked a photo shoot for club legend Sandy Jardine by shoe horning his two other clients, the Easdales into it. That is the sort of cheap stunt fans can expect from Irvine, the man who has branded John Greig as thick.

 

I wonder what Irvine’s private thoughts about Jardine and Alastair McCoist may be.

 

Employing Irvine, someone who is reviled by Rangers supporters, was the most incredible own goal possible. Almost like lobbing your own keeper from inside the opposition half. But Rangers chief executive officer Craig Mather has managed it.

 

And in allowing the announcement of Irvine’s return to the Rangers payroll to be announced in a bizarre fashion, complete with sinister and threatening quotes from Irvine on the web site of Imran Ahmad and Charles Green’s favourite blogger, Mather has made a worse blunder than a mere own goal.

 

He has shot himself in the foot.

 

For now the man who has been brought in to act for the current Easdale dominated board, Jack Irvine, has become the story. And when the spin doctor becomes the story it’s time for the spin doctor to quit.

 

And as if all of that was not bad enough, as if that catalogue of sheer bungling incompetence was not enough, Craig Mather has also made himself a very bad and powerful enemy.

 

He has earned the enmity of the most trusted and principled man to have been associated with Rangers for the past half a century, Walter Smith.

 

My information is that Smith is livid at what Mather has done and that the man real Rangers supporters trust, Smith, sees Mather’s actions as a personal betrayal. Craig Mather and Jack Irvine must now be holding their breath in fear that Smith may speak out. Which he just may do.

 

Remember, when Smith stood down as chairman on a matter of principle, he recommended that Jim McColl should be backed, but added that he believed Craig Mather should be given the chance to prove he could be trusted to act for Rangers as chief executive.

 

By condoning this return to Rangers of Irvine – on a year’s contract worth £100,000 – and by implication condoning the threats in that sinister statement made by Irvine about how he would subject Jim McColl, Frank Blin and Paul Murray’s private lives to media scrutiny, Craig Mather has got down into the same sewer which Irvine threatens to trawl.

 

Perhaps Mather will now claim that he was against the return of Irvine, but that the rest of the board – perhaps railroaded and bullied by the Easdales, who Irvine also acts for in a paid capacity – bulldozed the lucrative deal through.

 

But that just won’t wash. For Craig Mather had an alternative. He could have made this a resignation issue. If he truly did not want Irvine and his gutter threats back inside Blue Room he could have walked away and left a board, which is already without a chairman, also lacking a chief executive.

 

That would have been the act of a man.

 

Maybe it is not too late for him to behave with that sort of honour and integrity, just as Walter Smith did when he resigned as chairman and left the board.

 

For the moment, however, Craig Mather remains as chief executive, on a board which has shown its complete contempt for Rangers supporters by taking the fans’ season ticket money and using it to pay Jack Irvine to fight Jim McColl against the express wish of those Rangers supporters.

 

And that is just as immoral as Jack Irvine’s guttersnipe threats aimed at Jim McColl, Frank Blin and Paul Murray. Tactics which are unworthy of the Blue Room.