ian1964 10,413 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 One of Scotland's foremost business figures, the Clyde Blowers chairman Jim McColl, believes Rangers will prosper under the new regime running the club. Dave King, Paul Murray and John Gilligan ousted the previous board in early March. "I think it's in good hands now," Rangers fan McColl told BBC Scotland. "It's a relief to see we don't have people in there now that are looking to exploit the club for their own benefit, and that's what was happening." In late 2013, on behalf of a group of disgruntled shareholders, McColl questioned the appointment of David Somers as the new chairman at Ibrox. In recent years he offered potential investors in Rangers financial guidance and in January he donated his 10,000 shares in the club to fans' group Rangers First. "It's on solid ground now in terms of the financial backing," continued McColl of the Championship club. "It was in danger of going down the lower leagues for a long, long time." The Rangers Supporters Trust and Rangers First increased their shareholding in the build-up to the extraordinary general meeting on 6 March when King and his allies took control. "My idea was what is happening just now; you build up the fan ownership," said McColl. "You can't come up with that money overnight. They are slowly building and they have been very good in terms of what they've been able to do in the past year with the Rangers Trust and Rangers First. "They've got quite a good shareholding now and that will continue, I'm sure. "The current major investors - the Three Bears [Douglas Park, George Letham and George Taylor], as they call them, and Dave King - are very supportive of that approach. "I think a good model would be a third being owned by some rich individuals, a third being owned by the fans and a third owned by the public." On Tuesday Rangers announced losses after tax of £2.89m for the six-month period to 31 December 2014. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32131416 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aweebluesoandso 290 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I shook his hand at the big meeting up the west end hotel. Nice guy and he would be a major asset on our board. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WATP_Greg 0 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I shook his hand at the big meeting up the west end hotel. Nice guy and he would be a major asset on our board. My dad had a meeting with him and spoke very highly of him - seems to have the club at heart and explained his reasons for not being able to invest heavily in the club whilst offering support for fans and RF specifically. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplythebest 0 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 McColl's opinion is as relevant to me as Desmond's to be honest 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,258 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) My dad had a meeting with him and spoke very highly of him - seems to have the club at heart and explained his reasons for not being able to invest heavily in the club whilst offering support for fans and RF specifically. And these reasons were? Can u tell us? Edited March 31, 2015 by RANGERRAB 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 McColl's opinion is as relevant to me as Desmond's to be honest Still upset he ruffled chucks feathers. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Deedle 0 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) Nothing against the guy and hope he might invest now but find it hard to think very highly of a billionaire bear who seemed to always be involved in cheap bids for the club and said he was too busy to save Rangers. Maybe they couldn't do much because of the administrators and subsequent shareholders but he always seemed half hearted to me. Edited March 31, 2015 by The Deedle 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplythebest 0 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Still upset he ruffled chucks feathers.More his pissing about. Helping try to break the country up didn't help either 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoodyBlue 0 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 The bullshit billionaire when it comes to Rangers. And he can stuff his Nationalist ideas ! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,258 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 McColl has absolutely no interest in becoming involved in Rangers financially or otherwise. Some of us still fail to realise this 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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