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Is this £50 million nonsense from the same guy who told us recently that the Easdales are worth £100 million? Comedy gold !!

Just a bit, aye. It would need to be at a neutral venue. Ignore the wind-ups!

If people didn't obsess about MD & the RST so much they wouldn't be anywhere near as much of a talking point and would get less publicity. If anything, the folk who constantly rant about how bad these people and groups are simply give them free advertising!

It's difficult to ascertain whether it's just another wind-up aimed at our club and fans or not with them coming so thick and fast from our friends in the Scottish press, but rumours are well and truly buzzing around in the mainstream media regarding Celtic Park 'emerging' as a possible venue for the Ramsdens Cup final if Rangers were to win our semi-final and a place in the cup final on the 6th of April. You couldn't make this madness up unless you were a descendent of the Grimm brothers, but before going on to discuss it any further I think it's important to ask the question as to why this is even being discussed and leaked to the press this early when the Cup final in question isn't scheduled to be played until April? Is this a direct consequence of our 'friends' in the east end getting beaten by AC Milan in the San Siro last night or is it just a strange coincidence? Anyway, coincidence or not, to add further to the question as to why venues for this Cup final would even be getting discussed as early as this when the semi-finals are scheduled for next month and only a few weeks away, you really have to wonder why there's been any kind of urgency to discuss it at all when they could easily have left any venue discussions until after the semi-finals and shown a little bit of respect for the teams still in the competition. We still need to win our semi-final against Stenhousemuir which is currently scheduled to be played at Ochilview Park in a few weeks time with no winner guaranteed, but the loonies now running Scottish football don't 'do' respect. We already know they have a less than an acceptable level of respect for Rangers and it would now look as though they have no respect for the other teams still in the Ramsdens Cup given the timing of this leaked proposal. It's either that or the other teams in the Ramsdens Cup competition are just seen as collateral damage when it comes to winding-up Rangers or getting one over on us, so which is it? After all, the scheduled semi-finals are almost a full six months before the scheduled final, so was there not enough time in that six month window to discuss and arrange a venue for the final? Answers on a postcard to the loonies in suits at Hampden. Let's get down to the logistics here because that's the excuse for this ill-timed and completely mad suggestion. With Hampden unavailable due to preparations for the Commonwealth Games, we're being led to believe that the only other ground capable of handling the expected demand for tickets is Celtic Park. Seriously though, can that old monstrosity of engineering known as their main stand really handle the bouncy? I think the answer to that last question is that nobody in their right mind would take the risk, but further to that, I do actually think the suggestion of the Ramsdens Cup final being played at Celtic Park is nothing more than a wind-up. Ok, so one of Ramsdens head branches might be in the Forge shopping complex practically next door and the ribbons on the Cup silverware might be green & white, but let's be honest, with the Commonwealth Games just round the corner, they're not likely to have us Rangers fans over for a pre-games party are they? Seriously, file this one in the wind-ups from the Loony Tunes-brigade category. That's all folks!

It would be better for both clubs if it was played at a larger venue than Ochilview.

Why are you and so many others on here so obsessed with the guy? This is a genuine question btw because I honestly don't understand the obsession with him. If you don't like him, that's fine, I don't even know him myself, but it seems that to keep going on and on and on and fucking on about the guy is just completely bizarre.

Another excellent article. Keep up the good work D'Art!

Best of luck to the lad.

Fury's article in the OP puts most of Scotland's journalists to shame for their silence on this matter, so it's embarrassing to see the thread title insinuating it's nonsense. Instead of ", honest guv !" a more appropriate addition to the article title would have been ", BBC misreporting & the media black-out !". Bottom line is the article raises a number of very important questions about the Easdale shareholding, how it's been reported or rather, misreported and why they've managed to get multiple seats on the boards of our club and it's holding company.

Interesting to note btw.... Sandy Easdale will not need to step down and be re-elected for his position on the club board, so the only way to remove him from the board of our football club is to get rid of those on the RIFC PLC board who appointed the guy in the first place.

We all know that statement almost always means the Assembly, the Association & the Trust.

Strange announcement and strange timing. This mob have been listed as a Club partner and had their logo on the official site for several weeks at least.

Pedantic loyal I see. Focus on the basics and the bottom line!

No need to apologise BP. What we're both getting into here is severely pedantic territory, but it's actually simple; There will be a vote and the outcome will determine which (if any) of our directors keep their positions. Done.

Are you serious? I don't trust the current board, so why would I change my mind if they happen to stay in their jobs?

Wait a minute here BP, I only responded with what little info I had. You quoted two posts (at the same time) and one of them was mine with a small section of a sentence in bold and I responded accordingly as best as I could.

That's a technicality, but an important one.

I specifically meant that our board will be sacked at the AGM. Was that not clear?

Why am I not surprised that you're the first to respond to my post and with nonsense like this?

There's conflicting info here. It doesn't look like Black bet against his own team in a game he played in. Read the relevant section again: If he had bet against his own team in any of the games he was actually playing in, then Rule 23 would have been breached and the outcome of the case would have been far more severe.

This doesn't signal a withdrawal of the aims, only a withdrawal of the EGM requisition, so it will now be down to shareholders to vote on the board positions at the AGM next month when the board gets sacked.

Black won a watch with this decision.

From what little info we've been given on this it's difficult to guess how harsh the SFA will be, but as others have said, given that it's a Rangers player, his chances of them being lenient on him are slim at best. I think he'll be very lucky to get out of this with a 12 month ban or less, but won't be surprised if it's heavier, like an 18 or 24 month ban.

Me too!

I'm all for him keeping his place up front, but if Daly sits on the bench and comes on to replace Jig up front, then Jig should go off and not be shunted back into our defence just to keep him on the park.