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We apparently signed the contracts "subject to stakeholder approval".
It seems the stakeholders didn't approve & we are happy to pay genuine costs incurred but the company want much more.
We can only be one of a few clubs who's fans jump on the club rather than the those bringing action against us, how about listening to both sides, not just the side you read in the paper that's written for clickbait.
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We need to employ a "No win, no fee" legal team .. cheaper option these days 😂
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The interesting part is our wage to turnover % sitting at 70odd% which is not great, of course based on turnover in our last accounts & not our improved T/O this year.
However, conversely there is also this report ..
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Don't care, their stadium their rules.
Only thing, If they don't sell out & try to ask us to take them, we politely decline & leave the arrangements as they made them.
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There'll be some wee arsehole bragging to his mates how he done an RFC player.
Folk know who he is but if they won't put up someone who bottled a 10yr old boy on a supporters bus, they won't do it for this.
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Got mine & it looks the part
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This time last season Steven Gerrard and his team began to shape the squad for the season ahead. Most of us wanted a closer finish to the league winners, some of us dreamed of the ultimate prize.
European dreams of group qualification and the riches that would bring were firmly at the forefront of everyone’s ambitions
Domestic silverware and finally beating our nearest rivals was also firmly on the agenda. Along the way the management had to stop a team leaking goals at an alarming rate, bring the passion back to our jersey and recruit players capable of understanding just what was needed to play at our club week in week out
Think the blog deserves the hits rather than posting it all here.
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Progress, pressure & the long road ahead - Steven Gerrard's first year at Rangers
By Tom English
BBC Scotland
8 hours ago
From the sectionRangers
Steven Gerrard during his unveiling at Ibrox last year
History repeated on Sunday for Rangers. On the back of an emotional high of a win over celtic they went to Kilmarnock and lost, an echo of what happened in December and January when they beat their Old Firm rivals at Ibrox before falling 2-1 to Killie in their next match at Rugby Park.
In a sense, the last week was like their league season in microcosm. A convincing performance that offered hope followed by a slump that reminded everyone of their essential vulnerability. Across all competitions they beat every team in the top flight, but equally they dropped points in 15 different league matches. Would the real Rangers please stand up.
When Steven Gerrard was made Rangers manager the reaction was understandably intense, a split between those who felt he was going to prove the great redeemer and those who felt sure he would be eaten alive by the club's problems and by the incendiary nature of football in Glasgow.
There was pressure and expectation. In the relative blink of an eye, Gerrard had to cull his squad and create a new one. He had money, but not lots of it. He had to duck and dive. The Rangers team that beat celtic 1-0 in December had five Gerrard signings in the starting line-up. The one that beat celtic 2-0 earlier this month had eight.
As a journalist who thought Rangers were taking an unwarranted gamble on a manager who had only taken charge of a youth team at Liverpool, there has to be an admission that Gerrard has outperformed expectations. Way outperformed them.
Gerrard has done well. No trophy, that's true, but he's made discernible progress. Those who shouted loudest about Rangers challenging celtic for the title might look a little silly, but there really weren't many of them. Most knew that the job he's trying to do at Rangers is not a thing you can put together in a single season.
Numbers game adding up for Gerrard
For Gerrard, most of the important numbers are heading in the right direction. From third in the league last season to second in the league this season. From 70 points a year ago to 78 points now. From 76 goals for and 50 goals against in 2017-18 to 82 goals for and 27 goals against in 2018-19.
A season ago they played celtic five times, losing four and drawing one with an aggregate score of 14-2 against them. This time they won two and lost two against their greatest rivals with an aggregate score of 4-3 in their favour. They narrowed the gap between themselves and celtic from 12 points to nine. Baby steps, for sure, but steps none the less.
celtic people might mock them for only reducing the deficit by a mere three points despite all the hype and hoopla surrounding the former Liverpool captain's arrival and all the money spent on creating virtually a brand new team, but nobody in their right mind seriously believed Gerrard was going to do much more in the league this time around.
The problems he inherited and the rebuild that was required were never going to lead to Rangers picking off celtic in Gerrard's first season. At the beginning of the campaign there would have been short odds on Gerrard imploding under the pressure of a suffocating experience in Glasgow. There's only been occasional glimpses of the stress getting to him.
Improvement but flakiness still exists in ranks
Next season will be the true test of him. He has set the bar at 78 points and he needs to raise that to the high 80s if he's going to take celtic to the wire. For progress to be maintained he needs a pulsating title chase or a cup or both. That's the reality of it. Season one was all about bedding in, surveying the landscape and changing the team and the culture. Season two is about winning and nothing else.
There are myriad issues for him. Can he talk Liverpool into giving him Ryan Kent on loan for another season? Can he get a settled left-back, another creative midfielder, another striker? If he's keeping Alfredo Morelos can he sort out the self-destructiveness in his game that cost Rangers dearly throughout the season? If he's selling him, how much is he getting and where is that money going?
He's been busy already, of course. Jake Hastie and Jordan Jones are coming and it looks like Greg Stewart is coming, too. Jamie Murphy hasn't played since August and Graham Dorrans hasn't played since September and they'll be like new signings if they can get themselves right for the start of the season.
Gerrard has got better performances out of his Rangers team, but there still exists a flakiness in the ranks, a tendency to throw in a turkey when it looks like they might be gathering momentum. On the run-in, celtic showed their capacity to grind out results even when they were nowhere near their best. Some of those wins late in the season were uninspiring to the point of ugliness, but they were critical and most champion teams have that knack of digging deep on difficult days.
Rangers have a long way to go before they can be trusted to bang out three-pointers under pressure week after week. Gerrard has taken the team forward, but the road ahead remains a fiendishly long one.
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9 minutes ago, Inigo said:
Saw the cladding on the ground. Looked slightly cloudier than I expected. Hopefully looks better in situ.
It's not like glass.
There are 2 options .. translucent or opalescent, the latter being less "see through"
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1 hour ago, LilyTheOrange said:
Given our losses do we meet the fair play criteria?
Hmmm 🤔
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I do wonder of the driver behind this is cash (it always is!).
44 games means more games which means they could arguably increase their ST costs while also increasing their gate takings with little increase in additional costs to themselves I.e. running costs don't really increase but turnover does.
Also, RFC & CFC both confirmed they will play for the privilege of colt team access.
Will fans turn out for more games, will they accept higher ST costs though?
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18 minutes ago, magic8ball said:
Not a chance would they have GOH
But suppose they did .what would your thoughts be during it .You would be laughing at them
Not one chance should we be giving these cunts to goad us ever again
I wouldn't take my seat until after it finished.
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The Scottish Championship could be a 12-team league for the 2020-21 season under a potential league shake-up.
Prolonged talks have taken place between Scottish Professional Football League clubs over expanding the Scottish second tier by two teams.
Discussed proposals include adding two colts team to make a 44-club pyramid or merging Leagues One and Two.
The set-up could result in Championship sides playing each other four times across 44 games per season.
It is understood discussions have taken place and that, if agreed at this season's SPFL annual meeting, new measures could be in place in just over a year's time.
The current system has been in place for six years.
To facilitate a potential change to the structure of the Scottish game, options that are being considered include:
No relegation from next season's Championship, with the top two teams in League One receiving automatic promotion.
Retaining Leagues One and Two in their current format with one club from the Highland League and one from the Lowland League entering.
Introducing two colt teams from Premiership clubs.
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3 hours ago, SeparateEntityMyArse said:
Why dont you copy paste full articles?
Because I'm on my phone, if you want the full article, hit the link 🤷🏼♂️
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As a new-found advocate for Scottish football, Steven Gerrard is prepared to paint on the blue woad. But the Rangers manager believes that the game up here could do more to paint itself in a better light. The 39-year-old presents a less than ringing endorsement of the sport he has immersed himself in for the past year.
Reared on the glitz and glamour of the English game in a country with ten times the population of its neighbour above, the unavoidably small-time nature of football north of the Border – where the entire budgets of three top flight teams can amount to less than the salary for one player in the English Premier League – has made for a tough watch for him, at times, and resulted in Scottish football being a tough sell for him when speaking to prospective signings. Yet, the reality is that short of Sky and BT Sport investing in CGI, his main gripe that centres on the, sometimes, paltry numbers attending games is impossible to address.
“I think certain games have been good,” he said. “Certain games we’ve played in, or I’ve watched, they’ve been a higher level of quality than I originally thought. But at times I’ve been a bit disappointed watching certain games. I’ve been to certain games too and the stadiums haven’t been full and when it’s come to the standard the ball has been in the air a lot. To be honest, it’s been a little bit worse than I thought. So it’s probably been a bit mixed.
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HARDLINE Steven Gerrard has told his Rangers duds they’ll be bombed out if they won’t move on in the summer.
Gerrard aims to hold talks with contracted players he wants OUT of the club.
And that could see the likes of Kyle Lafferty, Borna Barisic and Eros Grezda being shown the door after failing to impress.
Gerrard knows they could sit tight and see out their deals — but warned they’ll be frozen out of his top-team plans.
He said: “It’s not a problem for me.
“Of course, in an ideal situation they’ll go and find the right club to make them happy and get to play football.
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QuoteOne of our key values at the Academy is to stay humble.
“We have had them round picking up litter at Ibrox after 50,000 fans come on a match day, we have had them out putting up the Christmas decorations, we are doing a week work experience with them.
“The young boys that were in the first team squad at the weekend must go and help Jimmy Bell with the kit. That is not done by chance, that is done by design because what we are not having at Rangers is boys who fit that stereotype of a young footballer.
“They need to be hungry, they need to be humble.
“If they get that bit right, that will help them as footballers as well.”
From the end of the article which I find quite interesting that they still do all the stuff the older pro's did but we keep getting told (by ITK folk !!) they didn't do that anymore & they are cossetted by the club.
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CRAIG MULHOLLAND needs Light Blues rather than Galacticos.
And the Rangers Head of Academy reckons the words of encouragement from his Real Madrid counterpart prove he has the right plan in place.
Last season, Mulholland saw his kids go head-to-head, and beat, some of the biggest names in England and Europe as part of Rangers’ Games Programme at Under-20s level.
Earlier this term, the Gers’ Under-17s beat Roma in the final of the Al Kass Cup to lift the silverware.
Now the challenge is to help those young talents progress into Steven Gerrard’s first team squad.
That is not an exact science, but Rangers hope the results will follow from their new methods.
“There are 33 top leagues in Europe and 24 play with B teams,” Mulholland, a firm advocate of Colt teams being introduced into the SPFL structure, said. “The Ajax team that played the other night has eight that have played in B teams.
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Memorial wall/garden
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Holy fuck, I'd love to watch you come up with a business idea that runs at cost & makes no money #Twat