Gonzo79 13,855 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Has Mad Phil McMadeupname been on the bath salts again? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuGers 477 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 See my post on the Rangers Fake News thread - I think we will see a ramping up of this kind of thing this year (as we have already seen). 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rousseau 9,587 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEARGER 1,829 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 A contribution to the debate on the power of internet paranoia.https://www.followfollow.com/forum/threads/the-club’s-not-going-into-administration-rumours-of-administration-and-the-power-of-paranoia.15511/The club’s not going into administration - Rumours of administration and the power of paranoiaThe club’s not going into administration despite internet gossip and text messages.The club’s debt free, investors have put in millions and between the club board, football board, senior management and the Three Bears we’ve got more chartered accountants involved in the oversight and ownership of the club than you can shake a stick at.The latest wave of rumour has resulted in a couple of bookies suspending the market in Rangers going into admin - great publicity for the website that broke the story but it still doesn’t have the credibility of being in touch with reality.You want the club to deny the story? Well, they’ll have to issue statements every day of the week and provide the media with that old staple “the denial story” which can be used to justify any nonsense they choose to print - for instance, ‘Rangers today denied Dave King is an axe murderer.’ The current rumours are stoked by a text which claims that a director told his mate that not only was the club going into administration, but the date of administration, the points deduction, that the club would still stay in the league and that it was all being done to get rid of Dave King. Really?A director is going to give all that sort of info - and how could he know exactly how the governing bodies would react? - to a mate who helpfully puts it into a text that circulates around the internet?More peculiarly the text just happens to be exactly like other texts and emails which have surfaced every couple of months since the good guys won control of the club back in March 2015. Uncanny!Apply common sense and caution. If the board want rid of Dave King they just vote him out - he might be the biggest shareholder but he’s got nothing like a majority of shares. People who have fought Green, the Easdales and Mike Ashley to a standstill and then victory are going to put it all at risk by going into voluntary administration? Have a look at the accounts - after all the woes the club has been through in the last five years they are as clean as a whistle. If you extrapolate forward how much it will take to run the club in the next few years then it’s clearly manageable.Leave the hysteria to Timothy and his allies 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuGers 477 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 5 minutes ago, BEARGER said: A contribution to the debate on the power of internet paranoia.https://www.followfollow.com/forum/threads/the-club’s-not-going-into-administration-rumours-of-administration-and-the-power-of-paranoia.15511/The club’s not going into administration - Rumours of administration and the power of paranoiaThe club’s not going into administration despite internet gossip and text messages.The club’s debt free, investors have put in millions and between the club board, football board, senior management and the Three Bears we’ve got more chartered accountants involved in the oversight and ownership of the club than you can shake a stick at.The latest wave of rumour has resulted in a couple of bookies suspending the market in Rangers going into admin - great publicity for the website that broke the story but it still doesn’t have the credibility of being in touch with reality.You want the club to deny the story? Well, they’ll have to issue statements every day of the week and provide the media with that old staple “the denial story” which can be used to justify any nonsense they choose to print - for instance, ‘Rangers today denied Dave King is an axe murderer.’ The current rumours are stoked by a text which claims that a director told his mate that not only was the club going into administration, but the date of administration, the points deduction, that the club would still stay in the league and that it was all being done to get rid of Dave King. Really?A director is going to give all that sort of info - and how could he know exactly how the governing bodies would react? - to a mate who helpfully puts it into a text that circulates around the internet?More peculiarly the text just happens to be exactly like other texts and emails which have surfaced every couple of months since the good guys won control of the club back in March 2015. Uncanny!Apply common sense and caution. If the board want rid of Dave King they just vote him out - he might be the biggest shareholder but he’s got nothing like a majority of shares. People who have fought Green, the Easdales and Mike Ashley to a standstill and then victory are going to put it all at risk by going into voluntary administration? Have a look at the accounts - after all the woes the club has been through in the last five years they are as clean as a whistle. If you extrapolate forward how much it will take to run the club in the next few years then it’s clearly manageable.Leave the hysteria to Timothy and his allies It is easy enough for fans to debunk but the damage has been done - reputationally we will have taken a hit even if there is zero truth in the story, so, as long as Rangers don’t take legal action, the perpetrators goal is complete. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 4,840 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Redtops in social media (now includes all press outlets in Scotland) are all about looking for clickbait and anything to do with us will often be the busiest pages on their site. Yahoos will probably bypass stories on their own club and prioritise clicking on the latest Rangers news, with many leaving a trail of predictable comments . They aren't going to stop anytime soon and our board need to be concentrating on taking the club forward, not getting into a shouting match with that lot. Especially when our statements have a tendency of adding fuel to X or Y. ------------- Our finances aren't healthy and there seems to be an impass of sorts wrt leadership and strategy that I had hoped would be sorted around the time of the AGM. This and the TOP/COS problem for Dave King provides a vacum of sorts that is being filled by the celtic-minded. This probably all needs to be sorted before the club can say anything meaningful and informative. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotjo 19 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 If all the money the yahoos threw away on rubbish like this was cobbled together and sent to Rangers we would probably be self sufficient. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 2,499 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 7 hours ago, cooponthewing said: My Avatar is Green Ffs! Seriously......? Can we change the colour Admin please? My eyes get sore as it is Changing your own avatar would be better for you. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,190 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 7 hours ago, cooponthewing said: My Avatar is Green Ffs! Seriously......? Can we change the colour Admin please? My eyes get sore as it is You can select your own avatar in your profile options (top right of screen). 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franc Ergs 1,389 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Oddschecker are trying to generate business. The quotes from the sun story are from oddschecker spokesman George Elek, who also happens to be a journalist,.. so you can see where this one is going. You take a load of incredibly thick and gullible punters , tell them something that they want to believe is true, and hey presto !.., job done. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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