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Billy Dodds speaks entirely in clichés, no original comments or analysis, just listened to some of his pundit work on sportsound there. Traynor and Chick Young love pretending they know more than they do, although at least Traynor occasionally gets a story himself, and he seems to hate everyone equally. And Richard Gordon's an Aberdeen fan.

2 months isn't an outrageous amount of time to be in administration, particularly with the complexities involved in this case.

Why all the animosity towards Bill (or Bob as some seem to like calling him) Miller? His plan involves a different kind of debt-restructuring, but it's not a complete newco. It's already been publicised that TBKs don't have the money to wipe out tens of millions of debt, so surely their plan involves some kind of restructuring. People are very quick to judge before hearing the full plans, but we shouldn't dismiss him just yet. After all, that queue of bidders isn't exactly going out the door.

6/5 on rangers eh? I'm certainly enjoying the good odds we're getting since everyone's written us off.

I instantly remembered Goian, earlier in the season with what looked like a broken nose, blood streaming down his nose. He was the pitch for about a minute before wanting to come back on I know he won't rank up there with those you've covered, but thought i'd mention it too.

Think it was a hamstring problem that kept whittaker out yesterday. Davis went off with a groin strain, didn't look too serious. I know you didn't see the game, but Bartley played pretty well I thought.

It's incredible the number of people deciding what's best for the club when they don't know half the facts. We don't know the details of the bids, we don't know the verdict of the big tax case and we don't know how HMRC will deal with the decision made in terms of repayment options. The media come out with a worst-case scenario and people lose their heads.

wonder which bid's been thrown out already?

the administrator statement: Administrators' Statement Thu, Apr 5, 2012 Duff & Phelps, the administrators of Rangers Football Club, issued the following statement today: David Whitehouse, joint administrator, said: "Following the outcome of the bidding process, I can confirm today that we will be considering further three of the four bids submitted yesterday. "We have had a number of discussions with the interested parties today and have stressed the benefits to them of engaging openly with the Club's fanbase. "We can now see light at the end of the tunnel whereby the Club can exit from administration and focus upon success on the pitch. While we cannot be precise on timescale, exit from administration does look achievable by the end of the season. We also hope to announce next week acceptance of one bid, which would then be subject to a period of due diligence and exclusivity. "Most importantly, following the bidding process, we believe that the most likely exit from administration will be the successful implementation of a CVA. "Much has been speculated over recent weeks about the form of exit which the Club will take from administration. This is an extremely complicated case, not least because of the requirements to meet insolvency legislation, the rules of the various football authorities and the contractual requirements of key business partners of the Club. It is, however, appropriate that we once again set out our position in relation to the manner in which we are seeking to achieve an exit from administration. "The first objective of administration is to achieve the survival of the company as a going concern. In relation to the football Club this can only be achieved via the exit from administration through a CVA. A CVA is a process by which creditors are presented with a proposal to deal with the legacy debts of the company. Creditors in turn vote upon those proposals and therefore there is a requirement for a CVA to meet the commercial needs of creditors. It is, therefore, essential that any CVA proposal is commercially acceptable to the general body of creditors. The ability of the company to exit through a CVA process is, therefore, dependent in part, on the level of offers submitted for the business and is in the gift of the potential purchasers to deliver. As stated, we believe this can be achieved. "We would stress, however, that if a CVA could not be achieved, bidders have discussed with us the next best alternative being the sale of the business to a new legal entity which would continue to trade as Rangers Football Club. "While such an arrangement is not desirable in so far as it would change the corporate entity, i.e, the registration number of the limited company, and would leave the Club facing European and domestic football penalties, it nevertheless could provide a platform to enable new and substantial investment into the Club to be made, which would in turn achieve the long term stability and viability of the business. As administrators, we would be in breach of our statutory duties if we rejected out of hand any legitimate proposal that asserted to secure the future of the Club. "This solution is not our primary objective nor our preferred option, however we would ask fans to understand that delivery of a CVA can only be achieved if purchasers are prepared to offer enough to provide a return to creditors at a commercially acceptable level. We do, however, believe this can be achieved. "Our focus continues to be achieving the best solution for the Club, its supporters and its creditors and we continue to believe this will be deliverable. We would expect to complete our negotiations in relation to the current round of bids, with the various stakeholders, including the major creditor groups over the next few days and we would hope that an announcement will be made during the course of next week with regard to the future ownership of the Club. "We are aware that some fans wish to stage a protest at the match on Saturday against any form of liquidation. We understand their deep concern on this issue but the bidding process is at a critical and sensitive stage and, as administrators, we cannot support action - even though we favour a CVA - that may be interpreted as ultimately detrimental to the Club's prospects of emerging from the administration process successfully. "The last few weeks have been extremely turbulent and a difficult time for the football club and I would like to thank the fans, the players and all of the staff at the Club for their tremendous continued support throughout this period."

"understands"...

there you go

If Kyle Lafferty was coming up behind me with that look on his face I'd be running too.

Another Sun article being paid attention to?

The noise is incredible all the way through the game, the supporters in the stands were amazing

Thanks for this

I kind of wish Kennedy had never got involved in the first place. He put in an insufficient bid after saying he didn't really want to own the club anyway, now he's offering his preference of one bid over others that he probably doesn't know much about.

I notice the BBC have a photo pointing out that DU knocked us out the cup, pretty much suggesting we're doing it out of bitterness at that.

I just spent a good 20 seconds trying to figure out what position EG is, ha. Too tired. but yeah I agree, no doubt we'll be capable of putting in a great challenge, we have attributes you can't buy anyway.

The title race is back on!

An amazing picture.

Rangers news in the Bear's Den? Welcome back!

You think that's an appropriate way for him to learn his lesson? It's right to lose respect for the photographer but maybe not by going that far.

Just watched the highlights there, the look on Kenny Shiels' face at the end brings a lump to the throat, knowing what he's just had to tell Liam Kelly.

We should of course consult the Aberdeen fans first, see what they think.

He sounds like he'd be more responsible than Whyte (as difficult as that is) but I still wish he'd see himself as being more than a 'backdrop' for the club, with an ambition simply to save it rather than take it forward in any way. Hopefully he has ideas for the club that he hasn't revealed yet.