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Our second goal was a thing of beauty. You forget just how good a player Durrant was. Did all of the Village People play for Aberdeen then or only construction worker and traffic cop?

Do we know if he's still doing that job? Still the feeling of 'press management' about a lot of this.

You watch a lot of the youth games and so speak from an informed position. So in your opinion how important is winning matches at that level? I've not noticed ICT bringing through many good players of late, perhaps that'll change in a few years time.

Amid all the uncertainty and disinformation I think we can all agree he didn't sell the club to someone with its best interests at heart. So the point Grant makes is valid. SDM has denied knowing Whyte didn't have the money, and King has publicly backed him on that. Surely someone at Rangers was approached by Ticketus before they agreed this. It seems unlikely it was Bain or McIntyre with what Whyte did to them after taking over. His point being was it Muir? If it was how does that stand legally with the FSA and the Banking Code of Conduct. If Muir knew Whyte didn't have the money to buy the club then he has surely breached his position as a director of the club?

Google isn't helping me with this although as you correctly say the noise of the last month has made it difficult. I did find a denial from SDM that the club owed Ticketus any money before the takeover, but not what he was responding too in that denial. I also found Whyte's claim that Ticketus didn't fund his takeover of the club. The more you go back and look at his statements the more you realise he is probably a sociopath. On my original point and the point Michael Grant was making in the article, someone at Rangers must have known about the Ticketus deal, the question is who? Do you think David Murray knew?

Did he? I don't remember reading that, certainly puts a different complexion on things. Do you have a link for that?

I'm not sure I understand all of that, that's probably due to my shortcomings rather than yours I'd add. The statement that Duff and Phelps are acting in the club's best interests is the one I'm questioning. Forgive me but I'm still not sure why you are stating they are? I understand what a CVA is and why it's a potential way out of Administration for us, time will tell if one can be agreed or not. Do the pension fund and Wavetower have to agree any potential CVA then?

When you say "won the battle" I take it you are referring to the 'race to court' when we first went into administration? If so I thought HMRC had dropped their objection when it became known Duff and Phelps were the chosen firm? I may have misunderstood that. Surely with Duff and Phelps claiming that Whyte has no floating charge over Rangers and is not a preferred creditor their actions should be no different to an administrator appointed by any other creditor? My confusion in this is the claim that they are working in the best interests of the club, is their any evidence of this, or indeed to the contrary?

Actually he's not, he's an Aberdonian Aberdeen supporter. That's not much better to be fair.

Are the 'best interest of the club and it's creditors' the same thing?

There is a serious allegation in the piece, one I've yet to see proved, but which many of us have wondered about. It's that someone at Rangers smoothed the Ticketus deal path for Whyte. Either by suggesting them as a finance vehicle, by 'having a word' with Ticketus on Whyte's behalf or by turning a blind eye to the deal Whyte struck with them. Michael Grant hasn't come right out and said that but that's the allegation he's making. If someone on the Rangers board did any of the above then that should become public knowledge and that person held to account. They might not have fired Whyte's gun but they certainly helped him load it.

Donald Muir's fanboys won't like this....

Why don't the SFA pay Utd whatever they are owed by us and tell us we can pay them when we are solvent and out of danger. That way they help two member clubs.

That's an astonishing thing to say. BTW we're not guaranteed to come out this, full stop.

I quite like this idea. Well done to those behind it.

Whilst blame lies with others too I agree with this. These people govern our sport, how can they bear no responsibility for this.

Frankies speaks for me. Where's your pride?

He's not a Tim.

Peter Mclean certainly claims to be Naismith's agent and has done for a while now. He is a FIFA registered agent certainly.

Peter McLean is Naismith's agent, Russell Kyle works for Peter McLean and is an ex-journalist. Despite his 'Celtic' associated past Peter McLean was a bluenose and wouldn't deliberately harm our club. In the end his job is to protect his client not make life easier for the Administrators.

He clearly hasn't had a look at Dundee Utd's books of late. It astonishes me with all that's happening to us that the supporters of other clubs aren't involved in a little introspection, over half the SPL is technically bust, including Utd.

I think the SFA issued that statement in response to media questions rather than because they actually had anything to say. Whilst the fault for all of this lies with Rangers directors, past and present, at some point the SFA should have questions asked about their involvement in all this. As the governing body of the sport in this country they have allowed its largest and most popular club to reach the verge of bankruptcy. With Clydebank, Airdrie, Livingston, Gretna, Motherwell and Dundee all experiencing varying degrees of financial incompetence in the last decade or so you have to wonder why the SFA didn't tighten rules or introduce some sort of governance that would have made this harder to happen. Someone, somewhere has been negligent on this. Ultimately they control the game in this country, Rangers can't operate without their agreement, what did they do to safeguard our club?

Bloody hell, where do you start with that kind of thinking. Irony is that Jim Sinclair is even smaller than Tommy Wilson! What puzzles me about it is it's not showing up in the players that are coming through. Yeah some are bigger lads but no more than you'd expect and they tend to be defenders too. When your captain is Davis and your best player Naismith you'd think the penny would drop with regards physique.

Didn't Craig Whyte go to Kelvinside Academy too? Aha, the pieces are all falling into place!!

I'm not doubting what you say I'm just curious as to the context. It's a surprising edict and doesn't square with the players who have actually came through into the first squad in recent years. McCoist, McDowell and Durrant are all living proof you don't need to be a 6 footer to be a professional, you'd have hoped they'd have more understanding. But who knows, I remember seeing an interview with Gordon Strachan of all people where he bemoaned the lack of height and strength in Scottish youngsters so anything is possible!