BBC Radio Scotland Interview with Sandy Easdale

[Frankie 8,150]

Have reread the interview over lunch and I'm still completely confused at the decision to go ahead with it.

 

What was Easdale (and those who instructed him to do the interview) trying to achieve? I genuinely have no answer other than it was a complete own goal.

[forlanssister 3,050]

I doubt I could forgive many of my fellow fans if they openly push for a second admin event.

 

A second administration would be the fault of industrial scale misfeasance in the Ibrox boardroom starting with your bumchum Chuckles, to try and pass the blame to the fans is utterly ridiculous.

[simplythebest 0]

A second administration would be the fault of industrial scale misfeasance in the Ibrox boardroom starting with your bumchum Chuckles, to try and pass the blame to the fans is utterly ridiculous.

 

Regardless of the previous mismanagement, if you're holding back millions of working capital that the club needs every year I don't see any other way to describe it.

[stewarty 1,876]

"We don't want to go back to the dark days of administration. Everything is a possibility at the moment..." (Mr Easdale)

 

I may have taken this out of context as I am quoting from the BBC article and didn't hear the actual interview (I don't think so, though), but it seems pretty clear that he's warning of administration 2 if we don't renew season tickets.

 

I presum this has been notified and disclosed to AIM given that its clearly price sensitive information. No doubt our NOMAD will clarify soonest.

[stewarty 1,876]

A complete non-entity, most widely known for being jailed, who imagines leeching onto Rangers will somehow catapult him into the Chair of the Scottish CBI. Sandy, you are well out of your depth.

 

It would be expert timing actually. The Chair of CBI Scotland is getting a bit of a pounding at the moment...

[Frankie 8,150]

UoF response:

 

“We note Sandy Easdale’s comments to the BBC today and would like to clarify some matters for him. Firstly, his attempt to blackmail the supporters is both transparent and expected. The financial position of the club is not down to lack of support or loyalty from any of our fans, it is down to two years of mismanagement and the squandering of huge sums of money, which Mr Easdale has been a part of for the past 7 months.

 

Mr Easdale, despite his apparently intimate knowledge of the PLC’s financial position, was unwilling to provide the club with a loan without taking security on it. He now urges fans, who are completely in the dark regarding this board’s ability to take the club forward, to put their money in to sustain the current regime, fronted by him, on behalf of nameless, faceless shareholders of BPH and Margarita.

 

We would like to know why Mr Easdale is being pushed out to speak on behalf of a PLC board he is not part of. Mr Easdale’s comments about the financial position of the club are share price sensitive, as are his comments about possible administration. These comments directly contradict those of the CEO, Graham Wallace, who is on record as saying that a second administration is not a possibility.

 

Why is the PLC board allowing Mr Easdale to make these comments on their behalf and why does he have access to such information in any case when he is not a director of the PLC? Once again huge question marks are raised over corporate governance at Rangers by Mr Easdale’s role at the club, which has never been clarified.

We would also like to state that we will not be lectured by a Greenock Morton fan on loyalty to Rangers. We have fans in our ranks who have had season tickets for over 20 years and have contributed more to Rangers over the years than Mr Easdale ever will. It is a measure of the distrust and complete disillusionment with this board that people who have devoted most of their lives to following Rangers have already cancelled their season tickets.

 

Perhaps, rather than meaningless sound bites, veiled digs at those opposing Mr Easdale’s regime and unfulfilled promises about investment, Mr Easdale would be better clarifying what his position at the club actually entails and why he has access to sensitive PLC information when he has been unable, despite trying, to get himself onto that board. Perhaps he could also tell us what has happened to the investment he said was lined up for the club prior to the AGM in December? Did it ever actually exist?

Maybe he could also clarify why Jack Irvine is still attempting to brief journalists on Rangers’ stories? Is it on Mr Easdale’s behalf? The board have stated that he has been removed and we are not aware of any previous philanthropic work carried out by Mr Irvine on behalf of Rangers.

 

Finally we would question why Graham Wallace has just recruited another highly paid, PR spin doctor, Paul Tyrell, to replace Jack Irvine when the club does not even have a Chief Scout. We have moved from a PR man who disgracefully denigrated club legend, John Greig, to one who likened his own fans to the Khmer Rouge when at Liverpool.

 

It is interesting that this new spin doctor arrives a week after Mr Wallace refused to clarify the position with his 100% bonus, and the suspicion is that this is another appointment to help the board rather than the club itself.”

 

I've criticised UoF recently but that really tears Easdale apart. And correctly so.

[forlanssister 3,050]

Regardless of the previous mismanagement, if you're holding back millions of working capital that the club needs every year I don't see any other way to describe it.

 

Direct me to the memo that says, "Thou must give Sandy Easdale and his cronies £500."

 

You like the one with the dodgy barnet are confusing blind faith and loyalty.

[Frankie 8,150]

"We don't want to go back to the dark days of administration. Everything is a possibility at the moment..." (Mr Easdale)

 

I may have taken this out of context as I am quoting from the BBC article and didn't hear the actual interview (I don't think so, though), but it seems pretty clear that he's warning of administration 2 if we don't renew season tickets.

 

I presum this has been notified and disclosed to AIM given that its clearly price sensitive information. No doubt our NOMAD will clarify soonest.

 

Yeah, a few people have made the PLC point on Twitter - and they're not board critics by any manner of means.

 

I remain stunned anyone trying to excuse this car crash of an interview.

[Frankie 8,150]

Regardless of the previous mismanagement, if you're holding back millions of working capital that the club needs every year I don't see any other way to describe it.

 

So supporters must renew their ticket regardless of any other factor? Righteo!

[the gunslinger 3,366]

Regardless of the previous mismanagement, if you're holding back millions of working capital that the club needs every year I don't see any other way to describe it.

 

what if your holding back 50 million of it?