Gordon Waddell - Scottish football Feelgood stories all over the shop

[ian1964 10,431]

I thought this deserved a thread on its own.

 

Quite an astonishing article after what has been hitting the headlines regarding child abuse and the covering up of child abuse in Scottish football. The Scottish gutter press are complicit and guilty in the whole cover up of child abuse in Scottish football, yet this clown decides to attack DK and Rangers yet again!

 

 

 

 

It's time for Rangers fans to take control and buy out absent chairman Dave King - Gordon Waddell

 

Gordon reckons now is the time for supporters to act as King continues to show a lack of commitment to the Ibrox cause.

 

You can’t build a reputation on what you say you’re going to do. You earn one by doing the hard things well.

 

Which is why Dave King is sending what little of it that Rangers have accumulated in the past five years – and there ain’t much, let’s be honest – right back down the toilet.

 

His decision last week to flout the Takeover Appeal Board’s order to make a mandatory £11million offer for the remaining shares in Rangers because he’d breached financial rules? Pretty much just ignore it?

 

Another court date set.

 

Between the Mike Ashley battles, the Supreme Court taking on the tax case, the Craig Whyte shambles and now this? They’ve had as many court dates this season as cup fixtures.

 

What did King think was going to happen? That they’d just say ‘Ach, the guy clearly just doesn’t like authority very much, we’ll let this one slide, eh?’

 

Sure, the nuts and bolts of what they’ve asked him to do don’t make much sense.

 

Who will accept 20p for shares they bought at 70? Ashley? The Easdales? No chance. And he needs 50 per cent to agree.

 

And let’s not forget the initial complaint that kicked this off came from former chairman David Somers who was trying to protect the last set of rogues who held office.

 

But the bottom line is it’s the first time in a decade since the panel was convened as a regulatory authority that anyone has taken them on.

 

Of course they’re going to come after him. And yes, it may be a personal obligation. Yes, the Court of Session docket will be in his name, not the club’s or the company’s.

 

But King was quick enough to use the club’s website to issue a statement on it, so anyone who thinks he’s not tying them in for yet another blight on the already disdainful perception of Rangers’ business on his watch is kidding themselves on.

 

He talked enough talk when he arrived at Ibrox two years ago – but at any point since, has he ever walked the walk? Has he done anything – and I mean anything – to enhance his reputation or theirs? Look at the utter contempt he has for even being in the country for starters.

 

He made it clear last month that any appearance he did have to make in Glasgow was under sufferance.

 

He has been at more litigation meetings than matches.“I travel to Scotland more often than I’d like to. People say I’m absent but I’m here far more often than I’d like to be … and it’s not fun but I signed up to do it.”

 

You can feel the commitment coursing through him, eh?

 

He’s at the helm of a dysfunctional boardroom hierarchy making life harder than it ever should be for a managing director who has to communicate via South Africa and Spain before he can even begin to think about making a decision.

 

His lack of a role – even any apparent interest – in the appointment of manager Pedro Caixinha is another case in point.

 

Sure, great leaders delegate but they also understand they have to be seen leading as well.And nothing does suggests he cares a jot about how the institution he’s supposed to be restoring is perceived, as long as he does what he wants. All to the club’s detriment in terms of reputation.

 

You’d also like to think the SFA’s main board would be looking at this latest embarrassment and wondering just how wise they were to use their discretionary powers to circumvent the ‘fit and proper’ guidelines to let King in the door in the first place.

 

This is exactly the kind of disrepute they must have hoped wouldn’t blow back on them.

 

The thing is, look around at the rest of Scottish football.

 

Feelgood stories all over the shop. Celtic playing open training sessions to 15,000 fans, Partick Thistle getting a new £4million training ground.

 

I know we’ve drawn the comparison a lot this season but look at Hearts owner Ann Budge issuing a 5,000-word statement last week detailing every cough, spit and fart of what the club’s fans, their investors and future owners, want and need to hear.

 

They have people from the top drawer of the financial world leading the Foundation of Hearts for the transition phase of their takeover.

 

And they’re doing it on a fraction of the resources Rangers fans could provide if they could unite.

 

A group still having more smoke blown up their “proud and dignified” backsides by King in his attempt to get 43,000 season-ticket holders to renew, words right out of the Charles Green playbook – anyone mug enough to buy it, more fool them.

 

It’ll be interesting to see what happens when the Court of Session bring the hammer down on King for the shares issue and force him to comply with the statutory body.

 

Who knows, he may think he’s got a sound legal footing to ignore it? It’s pretty doubtful and he doesn’t have an impressive track record in the dock anyway.

 

But maybe it’s time, instead of trying to force him to buy everyone else’s shares, that someone looks for a way to galvanise support for actually buying out his.

 

I have no idea what the Rangers support would think of that but, from the outside looking in, it would seem to me to be a step in the right direction.

[the gunslinger 3,366]

Hearts are in freefall. Celtc are mired in a child abuse scandal and partic thistle just got humped at ibrox.

 

Feelgood all round

 

 

[Uilleam 5,465]

Feelgood stories, eh?

Of course; it's all warmth and touchy-feeliness down sellik way.

[ranger_syntax 3,785]

Sure, great leaders delegate but they also understand they have to be seen leading as well.And nothing does suggests he cares a jot about how the institution he’s supposed to be restoring is perceived, as long as he does what he wants. All to the club’s detriment in terms of reputation.

 

We must all be feeling pretty grateful to the Scottish gutter press. All this time they have been looking out for the club's reputation.

[aweebluesoandso 290]

The compliant mhedia and this 'Celtic's new clothes' routine won't run forever, people are opening their eyes to the massive cover up. No amount deception or redirection will stop it unraveling.

[26th of foot 5,845]

To be fair to Gordon, and his brother, Bruce(Editor of the Daily Record for three years); he is only continuing in his(their) preferred prejudice. Five short years past, Gordon utilised his column to inform the ever declining readership that, 'as a club, Rangers had a face you would never tire of hitting'.

 

Come on Gordon, put down that brick.

[StuGers 477]

See to be honest, that article is disgusting and disrespectful to the poor guys who have had the bravery to speak out about their and Scottish football's horrors.

[der Berliner 3,272]

As I asked in the other thread, when did Scum FC held training session in front of 15k people, 1967?

[Uilleam 5,465]

As I asked in the other thread, when did Scum FC held training session in front of 15k people, 1967?

 

Usually, when they play Aberdeen.