Do Rangers Fans Trust Charles Green?

[North Rd 2,860]

Good Article

The initial question most bears asked when businessman Charles Green was heavily linked with a club takeover of Rangers was quite simply: "who?".

A bit of background digging revealed he had been involved in football before, with a spell at English side Sheffield United in an executive role, one which had led to significant dislike for him from Blades' fans. He had been involved with sales of top strikers such as Brian Deane for the pure purpose of raising funds, something which naturally displeases supporters; no fan wants their best players sold. The fact Green had effectively escaped United via the backdoor in the end rather led Rangers fans to be wary in the extreme of him, but despite this, administrators sold the club to Green and his consortium for a sum of £5.5M.

It has to be said, the early days of his tenure as Chief Executive Officer at Ibrox were anything but lauded by supporters. Objections were raised as to the lack of identity of his investors, plus the nature of Zeus Capital, a corporate holding firm who helped Green take Rangers over. Questions were also asked of Green himself, wondering if he was 'another Whyte' with nothing but malevolent intentions. Indeed, many fans quite simply wanted Green out, and using social media network Twitter and other sites, installed anti-Green avatars to sum up their objections.

When the CVA Green and the fans had depended on was rejected by the creditors, it only made matters worse. Around 1-3p in the pound was being offered, a rather miserly attempt at compensation, and unsurprisingly HMRC did not accept. The present company, Rangers PLC, consequently ended up liquidated and it only served to stoke up the anti-Green feeling among swathes of fans.

Fast-forward to the present day, and look at the photoshop images fans are now posting online:

Quite a turnaround. So what has led to the mass change in the tide of ill-feeling? It appeared to begin when Green appeared on Sky Sports News, being interviewed at Ibrox, and giving a great deal of information regarding the state of play at Ibrox. He condemned the players who had abandoned the club, something which supporters completely agree with, and stated further information would be forthcoming over the next week. The following day, chairman Malcolm Murray released a massive statement on the official site, clarifying the names of many of the investors:

"The consortium includes, Zeus Capital, Chris Morgan, a UK-based businessman representing family trusts; Glenmuir, the renowned Scottish clothing company, Alessandro Celano of Blue Pitch Holdings, Jude Allen, Mazen Houssami, Elias Kaisar and Mr Jean Haddad."

He also announced a great number of other comments about the club's financial position, season tickets, league status, investment and asset ownership.

The transparency supporters had been crying out for for years was substantially arriving. Not everything could be revealed, but a great deal was.

The big marquee moment, however, which seemed to categorically turn the tide and inspire the majority of supporters to be wiling to trust him was when he very accurately described the decision to reject the newco from the SPL as one based on 'bigotry'. Someone within the club was stating the hate in Scotland for all to see, and those outside the club did not like it one bit. Indeed, so infuriated and irked were many by his bold comment that they caked it in religious values and deluded themselves into believing he was making some kind of comment about religious sectarianism. Clearly he was not, clearly his comment held water about the fact Scottish football hates Rangers, and supporters of the club were delighted to see someone as high up in his position make a comment as close to the bone as this was. Bigotry does not have to be religious, not unless you decide it should be.

And the latest episodes in supporters' increasing good feeling about Green:

Applauding Rangers supporters at the Brechin match who sang in protest at Stewart Regan and the SFA.

His desire to fight any stripping of SPL titles.

His statement confirming Rangers are still Rangers, plus accurate observation that Celtic's corporate structure is infinitely more complicated given their emergence in 1995 as 'Pacific Shelf' and 3 company history, which was a nicely acidic dig at Peter Lawwell's original snipe where he described Celtic's 'unbroken years'.

The signings of Ian Black and resigning of promising striker Andrew Little.

Stating we will fight any challenges presented by the EBT investigation.

And the most recent human touch, personally standing with supporters in the ticket line who awaited their turn for a season ticket, chatting away to them. Something which gained a huge ovation from fans.

No one would pretend Charles Green is 'one of us'. He is not. He is a businessman who was approached by investors who wished to take over the club. He has withstood pathetic takeover attempts from club legends who came in with feeble bids (or no bid at all), and who were never heard from again.

But the simple fact is Charles Green is doing all the right things to steer this club. With the help of Ally McCoist, with whom any differences are now clearly a thing of the past, Green is running the club in the way it needs to be run right now. And he is being supported by the fans, delighted to see two men defending the club in face of extreme adversity; one a club legend who has defied superlatives, another a hard-working businessman who says it like it is and does not suffer fools gladly.

This is not to say we all implicitly trust Green - we do not; he could still turn out a bad 'un. But he is slowly earning our trust now, and in time,

with more good actions, he will gain more.

http://ibroxnoise.blogspot.com/2012/08/do-rangers-fans-trust-charles-green.html

[Marco polo77 0]

Said from the start got a good feeling about this guy the way he has been conducting himself,after defending us all against the blatant crap thrown at us fae sphell and sfa,the guy's ready for the fight and am positive he'll knock these taig bastards clean oot! No surrender mr green!

[Allanger 625]

I will never trust any owner/ceo of Rangers but while I can look on and see them making an effort then I will support them

[nvager 498]

I think he is doing great just now and long may he continue to fight the good fight for us and for any profit his investors make because if they make a profit Rangers will be doing well.

[King_gazza 1,065]

I'm starting to warm to him,he's saying all the right things just now.

But after that last arsehole who owned us,i don't think i can trust anyone with our club 100%.

[doncaster loyal 7]

so far so good lets wait and see.got to be better than the last cunt surely.

[*Manticore* 1,893]

I wouldn't trust him for a moment, but it's Rangers I support, not him.

[RFC Rob 112]

It's early days. I was suspicious at first, him coming out of seemingly nowhere and "saving" our club despite not being a fan. I guess he thinks there's some money to be made, hopefully alongside the primary objective of sending Rangers back to the top of the Scottish game.

Basically I've got no real reason to trust him but no real reason to distrust him either. Time will tell. He has my support by default.

[elephants stoned 2,994]

Hes done as much as i think we could realisticly expect from him. Lets remember though its not all about Charles Green, theres alot of other people in the consortium, and if they all do their bit, Rangers will be strong and healthy at the top of Scottish football once again

[BlueVanguard 6,599]

I can see him becoming a decent Chairman for us maybe one of the best

Thanking fans at the Ticket Office for long waits

Never have seen any Chairman do that but then again you never know.

[Tiebreak54 151]

Posts praising Charles Green to the hilt are a bit premature. In recent weeks there has been a notable improvement in the handling of key issues by Green and co, but he has only been here a matter of months. Wholesome praise of the new regime at Ibrox should only come after a minimum of 12 months, as currently if everybody was honest, we still have no idea if Green will actually be good for the club in the long term. We can be optimistic about the Green consortium but caution is still essential.

[bazzl82 2]

I trust him he hasn't put a foot wrong n has done more n said more than any other leader who's owned the club,

But I know why many won't because of that weasel bastard that had us last year

[glesgabear81 24]

I don't mistrust him, I'm a bit wary of trusting him so soon into his tenure but not because of who he is or what he has done, more to do with what happened with whyte. I like what I've seen and heard from Mr Green so far.

A big test will be the share issue, its one thing buying season tickets to watch the team we love but another buying shares in a newly formed holding company. As things stand I'm definitely buying shares so to me, thats a vote of confidence in what he is doing.

[Bertent 2,081]

more than i trust the trust

[Dennis 1,011]

He still has a few unanswered questions.

[real boydie9 17,571]

It's a yes from me

[liquid111 51]

My perception of Mr Green so far is that he's a bit of a brawler/scrapper and that he gets things done.

That is definitely not a criticism.

[PedrosHeroes 26]

I trust Green more than that Fat Dingbat

[ger50champ 300]

Good Article

The initial question most bears asked when businessman Charles Green was heavily linked with a club takeover of Rangers was quite simply: "who?".

A bit of background digging revealed he had been involved in football before, with a spell at English side Sheffield United in an executive role, one which had led to significant dislike for him from Blades' fans. He had been involved with sales of top strikers such as Brian Deane for the pure purpose of raising funds, something which naturally displeases supporters; no fan wants their best players sold. The fact Green had effectively escaped United via the backdoor in the end rather led Rangers fans to be wary in the extreme of him, but despite this, administrators sold the club to Green and his consortium for a sum of £5.5M.

It has to be said, the early days of his tenure as Chief Executive Officer at Ibrox were anything but lauded by supporters. Objections were raised as to the lack of identity of his investors, plus the nature of Zeus Capital, a corporate holding firm who helped Green take Rangers over. Questions were also asked of Green himself, wondering if he was 'another Whyte' with nothing but malevolent intentions. Indeed, many fans quite simply wanted Green out, and using social media network Twitter and other sites, installed anti-Green avatars to sum up their objections.

When the CVA Green and the fans had depended on was rejected by the creditors, it only made matters worse. Around 1-3p in the pound was being offered, a rather miserly attempt at compensation, and unsurprisingly HMRC did not accept. The present company, Rangers PLC, consequently ended up liquidated and it only served to stoke up the anti-Green feeling among swathes of fans.

Fast-forward to the present day, and look at the photoshop images fans are now posting online:

Quite a turnaround. So what has led to the mass change in the tide of ill-feeling? It appeared to begin when Green appeared on Sky Sports News, being interviewed at Ibrox, and giving a great deal of information regarding the state of play at Ibrox. He condemned the players who had abandoned the club, something which supporters completely agree with, and stated further information would be forthcoming over the next week. The following day, chairman Malcolm Murray released a massive statement on the official site, clarifying the names of many of the investors:

"The consortium includes, Zeus Capital, Chris Morgan, a UK-based businessman representing family trusts; Glenmuir, the renowned Scottish clothing company, Alessandro Celano of Blue Pitch Holdings, Jude Allen, Mazen Houssami, Elias Kaisar and Mr Jean Haddad."

He also announced a great number of other comments about the club's financial position, season tickets, league status, investment and asset ownership.

The transparency supporters had been crying out for for years was substantially arriving. Not everything could be revealed, but a great deal was.

The big marquee moment, however, which seemed to categorically turn the tide and inspire the majority of supporters to be wiling to trust him was when he very accurately described the decision to reject the newco from the SPL as one based on 'bigotry'. Someone within the club was stating the hate in Scotland for all to see, and those outside the club did not like it one bit. Indeed, so infuriated and irked were many by his bold comment that they caked it in religious values and deluded themselves into believing he was making some kind of comment about religious sectarianism. Clearly he was not, clearly his comment held water about the fact Scottish football hates Rangers, and supporters of the club were delighted to see someone as high up in his position make a comment as close to the bone as this was. Bigotry does not have to be religious, not unless you decide it should be.

And the latest episodes in supporters' increasing good feeling about Green:

Applauding Rangers supporters at the Brechin match who sang in protest at Stewart Regan and the SFA.

His desire to fight any stripping of SPL titles.

His statement confirming Rangers are still Rangers, plus accurate observation that Celtic's corporate structure is infinitely more complicated given their emergence in 1995 as 'Pacific Shelf' and 3 company history, which was a nicely acidic dig at Peter Lawwell's original snipe where he described Celtic's 'unbroken years'.

The signings of Ian Black and resigning of promising striker Andrew Little.

Stating we will fight any challenges presented by the EBT investigation.

And the most recent human touch, personally standing with supporters in the ticket line who awaited their turn for a season ticket, chatting away to them. Something which gained a huge ovation from fans.

No one would pretend Charles Green is 'one of us'. He is not. He is a businessman who was approached by investors who wished to take over the club. He has withstood pathetic takeover attempts from club legends who came in with feeble bids (or no bid at all), and who were never heard from again.

But the simple fact is Charles Green is doing all the right things to steer this club. With the help of Ally McCoist, with whom any differences are now clearly a thing of the past, Green is running the club in the way it needs to be run right now. And he is being supported by the fans, delighted to see two men defending the club in face of extreme adversity; one a club legend who has defied superlatives, another a hard-working businessman who says it like it is and does not suffer fools gladly.

This is not to say we all implicitly trust Green - we do not; he could still turn out a bad 'un. But he is slowly earning our trust now, and in time,

with more good actions, he will gain more.

http://ibroxnoise.blogspot.com/2012/08/do-rangers-fans-trust-charles-green.html

You on a roll today mate .Well done and another superb post

[TheBoyDave 123]

I trust Charles Greeen a lot more than I distrust him.Trust has to be earned and it is only natural to be wary.So far Charles Greeen has not put a foot wrong and if he continues in the same vein then I will be pleased.If Charles Greeen and the investors treat Rangers right they will get respect,admiration,success and will make good money too.Perhaps Charles will be as true a Ranger as anyone at the end of his tenure.

[foghorn leghorn 608]

Yes,I do because he was the only one to come up with a deal that suited the admin.

He applauded the fans last Sunday.

He implied spl fans are bigots because they all hate us. I can feel a song comming soon....

[WilliamFyfe 1,438]

I we do. Fuck!

[ger50champ 300]

I'm starting to warm to him,he's saying all the right things just now.

But after that last arsehole who owned us,i don't think i can trust anyone with our club 100%.

To be fair even Charles Greens biggest critics can't even compare him to Whyte .Charles is doing a fine job by me in restoring us to our rightful position .It isn't going to be easy but he stood up to the plate while many shameful others haven't to be fair

[Claddie 53]

Not yet but backing him.