quinty

Given that McInnes is a lot of people's choice to replace Ally
and given that McInnes has tried very hard to sign Boyd
and given that lots of posters have expressed reservations about us signing Boyd
Does that mean that McInnes is no longer a candidate to replace McCoist?

USA shirt against Ghana was an absolute peach.

The irony is that urquhart has gone to Coventry City under Pressley, remember him, one of our youth players who wasn't good enough for the first team at Ibrox.
The fact is that there are hundreds of players who are good enough to play for hundreds of teams, but very few who are good enough to play for Rangers. It's a fact of life that Rangers will have an abundance of talent available to us, very few have/will make the break through into the first team.
The circumstances at the moment dictate that we must win the Championship this season, just like we had to win Div 3 and Div 1. At Dundee Utd, mediocrity is expected and delivered. Not here.

The irony is that urquhart has gone to Coventry City under Pressley, remember him, one of our youth players who wasn't good enough for the first team at Ibrox.
The fact is that there are hundreds of players who are good enough to play for hundreds of teams, but very few who are good enough to play for Rangers. It's a fact of life that Rangers will have an abundance of talent available to us, very few have/will make the break through into the first team.
The circumstances at the moment dictate that we must win the Championship this season, just like we had to win Div 3 and Div 1. At Dundee Utd, mediocrity is expected and delivered. Not here.

To be fair, it's not just Ally who has squandered youth, I mean Gordon Ramsay was one of ours and look at the career he went on to enjoy

The irony is that urquhart has gone to Coventry City under Pressley, remember him, one of our youth players who wasn't good enough for the first team at Ibrox.
The fact is that there are hundreds of players who are good enough to play for hundreds of teams, but very few who are good enough to play for Rangers. It's a fact of life that Rangers will have an abundance of talent available to us, very few have/will make the break through into the first team.
The circumstances at the moment dictate that we must win the Championship this season, just like we had to win Div 3 and Div 1. At Dundee Utd, mediocrity is expected and delivered. Not here.

WSHA used HMRC District Valuer & Thought They Were Compromised in Land Dealings with Celtic. WSHA now in Arse Protection Mode.
Posted by footballtaxhavens ⋅ May 29, 2014⋅ Leave a comment
Filed Under Celtic FC, District Valuer, Glasgow City Council, HMRC, Margaret Curran, West of Scotland Housing Association





The map above is the land Celtic used as security in December 2013 to prop up their Co-operative Bank loan & overdraft. This was the subject of a
previous post. The red area on the RHS is the West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) land which was transferred to Celtic.


A WSHA Committee Briefing document dated 20th January 2014, excerpted below, highlights several points on their view on the process which resulted in the land transfer to Celtic:



1. WSHA suddenly became aware of the EU State Aid case against Celtic which seems to have spurred them to protect their arses in case they are pulled into the investigation.



2. WSHA used the local District Valuer (DV), a branch of the HMRC, as a valuer/agent which you would expect would work solely for the WSHA but according to the document there appears to have been ‘a history between this individual DV and Celtic’ such that compromised their dealings with Celtic. This is highly important since, at one point negotiations take place in private with the DV & the Celtic agent completely un-minuted. It looks like the DV, instead of stating & defending the WSHA case, acted like a mediator moving the case toward Celtic’s and rolling over in negotiations.



3. Another Site Investigation document disappears like the Westhorn Geotechnical document of GCC. Seems to be a pattern of documents disappearing.



Using the DV should have provided WSHA with piece of mind that they were getting a professional neutral negotiator but it looks like WSHA were facing Celtic, Shadow Secretary of State Margaret Curran and the DV on the other side.



The DV naturally would have a lot of contact with Glasgow City Council being the largest city in Scotland therefore their transfers of land including the ones to Celtic, to such an extent that ideally, local DV personnel should have been substituted by others from down south to prevent accusations of familiarity.



Given that the HMRC’s Scottish tax investigation team case leaking of Celtic main rival, Rangers, tax case details, contributing to the latter’s witch-hunt in the main stream press including BBC Scotland, it doesn’t seem a coincidence that here is another branch of the Scottish HMRC, the office of DV, also appearing compromised.



Note Again: This dodgy land was used as Security for Celtic’s dodgy Co-operative Bank loan & overdraft. End to end this transaction stinks and deserves investigation.



The WSHA land discussed above was not the only parcel of land that was transferred to Celtic in December 2013. The GCC sold land that was previously owned to the WSHA and Compulsory Purchase Order.



How GCC & the DV contrived not to return that land to WSHA and re-direct that land to Celtic is the subject of the next post. This corruption runs deep and the digging is now mining the mother lode.



Many thanks to pzj, The Engineer & several others for the source material.

WSHA Committee Briefing document 20th January 2014






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Very noble of you, mate. I mean that sincerely.
But we simply can't let being the bigger man get in the way of the OP's repeated attempts to have a dig at Derek Johnstone.

ill give you the first part but not the second.you are either confident or you aint. Ally making signings shouldnt change this.

Fancy a bet on if Ally wins the title next season?
20 quid to the charity of the winners choice?
I am 100% confident we will not only win the league next year, but we will walk it.
i'll even give you a 5 point start.

Heart of Midlothian, we are going to pay you back big time next season you c###s
Get in. WATP!

I agree and I am not blaming Wallace entirely but Wallace was the person to state that he would wait until after his 120 day period, before pursuing money and then when reminded of that, stated it was always part of the business plan. It is that which started my doubts - a high interest loan to bridge the gap is not part of the business plan, in my eyes. The Easdale loan might have been, but not the 15% fee and £5m security.

Good summary of the thread.
A sad footnote is that it has descended into Bear v Bear again (with the odd agent provocateur mixing it to vile effect).
Knock of the hefty abuse guys... I like a laugh and have the occasional bit of needle with some guys on here (you know who you are) but one thing I could never argue with them about is their absolute passion and love for Rangers. So let's hope there are no casualties of war tonight as we aspire to tear each other to cyber-shreds, post by post.
I do not like the emotive language that Dave King has chosen in the statement; not one bit. But I do not trust and have no great love for some of the current board either. To coin a phrase, often used by us about players, the Brothers Easdale are not 'Rangers Class.'
Like any Rangers fan, because of the past couple of years, I wield a shield of scepticism... and it is a heavy shield. Sometimes it can be a weary burden. We all want the same thing... so if we can have these differences of opinion and still remain brothers with the same ultimate aim, then perhaps we can move forward, even a little, as a fanbase.
This trend I see on here of wishing (almost willing) someone to be wrong about these huge issues just to point-score is starting to become pathetic. The very fabric of our great club hangs by these issues. So, let's keep the raging, flaming pseudo-telekinesis by keyboard at a minimum.
To wish bad karma on a fellow fan is to wish heartache upon yourself.
Stop it. It's stupid.

Here's an idea, why not just apologise?

You have been calling Rangers fans scum for months.

Here's an idea, why not just apologise?

Don't know what to believe, I do know that it's fucking despicable that someone can get called taig scum on this forum for having an opinion. Sick to the back teeth with wee Neds and keyboard warriors, who as Stuart has pointed out, have ruined this site.

Would you or anyone else on here go into a Rangers pub and call a bear a taig for disagreeing with them? Or scum? Course not, so why is shite like that allowed on here from people that hide behind phones and laptops? We are all meant to be Rangers fans, there are differing views wherever you look. Calling someone taig scum for disagreeing is the type of character you see calling Ricky Foster a "prick" at games.

This is not my beef but I have to agree in that I read his response in the manner you took it.

You can wordplay as much as you like, I said I'd no doubt be called a taig and you piped up with "taig or scum, same thing". Therefore you were calling me scum and a taig. Again, you've given me the opportunity to defend my position? To you? So I've got to reply to you properly when you were unable to converse with me like a normal human being originally? Is that it? I'm replying to you as I want to highlight the problem this site has at present, and weeding out characters like you will get this site back to being great again.

Your willingness to have Green back has removed any credibility from your argument.

I'm not conversing about the topic at hand, I'm quoting you to reply to the sheer horrible attitude myself and many others have had to endure, thus forcing us away from what was once a great forum.
Avoiding your points? What points? That I'm a taig scum for not agreeing with whatever opinion it is you hold? Yes, in that case I most certainly am avoiding your points and will continue to do so. Discussing this subject with a person of your mindset is not in my interests.

Whyte, green, ahmed, mather and christ knows what else is round the corner.

Are admin on this site still not understanding that allowing this type of post on here regularly is the reason why so many good posters stopped using this site regularly years ago? What the hell is going on? When did this board become infested with characters like this?

What is worrying is that the schism between Board Hater and Board Lover prevents valid questions and answers of this board.
We are NOT in a good position. We NEED to cut costs. We have very LOW fan engagement.
On top of this, the board are being quick with the financial position we find ourselves in and everything seems to hinge on season book money. A relatively low value of loan attracted a high fee % and is ALSO secured against assets worth significantly more?
Those who feel these don't deserve addressing by the board can only be described as this: