Gerwelly
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To my knowledge Managers don't make set the amount the club bids for players so if this is the case there's no reason to direct your anger at Barry apart from the usual ones!?
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Nice one! Always enjoy a bit of positivity! :-)
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I'm delighted about this!
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I thought he was meeting all three groups today but as separate entity's.
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It's not about blaming whoever for our financial woes but looking forward to ensure that we are ready and able to get at least 2nd spot in the top league on our return.
New board in place who say they have a vision for our future, we know costs need to be cut, Wallace seems to have a big reputation from his previous jobs, he brings in Nash as a consultant.
Forgive me for being naive but I was expecting a plan with some creativity not as your first port of call sounding the players out about a 15% pay cut and then selling your best player who has stuck with us when many expected him to be one of the first out the door due to be being a quality player who should be the Scotland starting left back.
If G Wallace is thinking long term and about getting maximum value for money then he should be asking himself, when we return to the top league how much would it cost us to get a player of Wallace's quality? and how much would you need to pay him?
In all honesty I could've came up with this idea and it'd been a hell of a lot cheaper. If this is true it doesn't fill me with confidence in the board or the investors who are just about The £££££££££££££ and not about The Rangers!
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We're meant to be building a squad for when we get back to the top league and Lee Wallace should be an integral part of our first team all the way their and beyond. If he is sold, then that is just shit and reeks of the short terminism that G Wallace was so derisory about in his interview with Tom English.
And I'll be gutted!
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This is probably the one single thing Wallace could have done to get more fans behind him and give him more time to make the changes that he deems necessary!
A massive step in the right direction methinks!
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Never like to hear about someone losing their job
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Brilliant! and for a great cause!
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Laudrup's header that clinched 9 in a row!
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As much as l woud love to see it happen, I think we will lose at least one game and draw a couple more.
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I think we all want clarity, transparency, call it what you want but what I think what we all really want is to end once and for all the prospect that Whyte is lurking somewhere in the background as one of the institutional investors and still has some involvement with the Club.
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My PS3 got the Y.O.D a couple of months ago and as I still have a shit load of great games to play on it and was planning on buying a PS3 when PS4 came out. I was thiking that there would be a price drop for PS3.
The PS4 price is great but add in another controller games and possibly PS plus and your looking at £500 - £600 when I can get PS3 500gb + game for £199 (WOW)
I want to be gaming over Xmas and will be getting a PlayStation just don't know if it will be PS3 or PS4.
A nice quandary to have if I say so myself.
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If King does what is necessary to take control of our Club then he will IMHO have earned the right to appoint who he see fit onto the board and then they should be given the opportunity to prove themselves under the ever watchful gaze of the Rangers support and the even more watchful gaze of everyone one that hates us.
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Former Rangers manager and chairman Walter Smith yesterday became, along with Celtic’s European Cup-winning captain Billy McNeill, a patron of the St Andrew’s Sporting Club.
Smith, while honoured to be officially involved with the 40-year-old Glasgow boxing institution, had other battles in mind when he spoke with reporters afterwards – namely, the battle for the hearts and the soul of the Third Division champions and runaway League 1 leaders.
With losses of £14.4million announced last week and in-fighting between directors and rebel shareholders showing no sign of letting up, Smith struggled to see a light at the end of this particular tunnel. He remains convinced, though, that Rangers will somehow survive the latest blood-letting and emerge from the financial mire yet again.
“You have to feel optimism for the simple reason that Rangers are a great club,” he said. “They cannot continue being run in the manner they are at the present moment. That can’t continue. It can’t be allowed to continue.
“When you see supporters protesting in the manner they have done in the last few games you know that, effectively, will be the reason Rangers will get out of that.”
Even so, Smith admits that he is not in a position to declare that a second administration at Ibrox can be avoided.
“If I knew what was going to happen I would be confident answering that one [but] I don’t,” he said. “But something has to happen.
“Rangers are too big a club and too great an institution to not find an answer to the problems they are facing at the present moment.”
Asked whether the club’s directors should follow manager Ally McCoist’s example and halve their salaries, Smith replied: “That’s up to them. I think some of them have dropped certain aspects of what they were taking.
“I’m not privy to what might be happening in that respect. I do know that things will, at some stage or other, settle down.
“The right thing will happen and Rangers will come back. But it will not be without further pain: I don’t think there is any doubt about that.”
The troubled club’s latest chief executive Craig Mather wasin South Africa at the weekend for talks with former director Dave King in an attempt to persuade him to supply a much-needed cash injection.
Smith, who was twice dissuaded from resigning as chairman before he finally left, believes that Mather could have improved his carbon footprint and remained at home, believing that King - who saw previous owner Sir David Murray squander £20m of his money when he first invested in the club - is unlikely to work with the current regime.
“Does it make sense? I don’t know,” he said. “That’s the difficult thing about Rangers. What makes any sense any longer?
“I don’t know if that’s true or whether Dave King would come back and get involved in Rangers again. I just don’t know.
“Would he be good for the club? It depends on circumstances. I hope somebody can come in and end this situation we have at the present moment where there is a circumstance where EGMs can be called at any given time by any given person.
“That situation is not conductive to running a stable football club. So if we get an owner back and one who is basically interested in the football side of the club and seeing the footballing side of the team progress – as Dave King would be – then that would be a good thing for Rangers.
“I don’t know what his thoughts would be on that. I don’t really envisage him coming back to sit amongst the board.”
Smith is certainly of the opinion that there are currently too many vested interests at Ibrox for the club to progress.
“I think there are,” he said. “That’s what happens. We have seen banners at recent games – and as a manager you expect that’s how fans will show their discontent.
“If you are a manager you expect that kind of thing amongst the support but it’s the first time I can remember the board taking that kind of criticism.
“And that’s an indication. If you were a manager that would indicate to the manager he is struggling. It should also indicate to the board that Rangers are also in the middle of a struggle.”
However, Smith dismisses suggestions that Rangers should not have made high-profile signings such as Cammy Bell, Jon Daly, Nicky Law and others on elite-division salaries while the club is losing money in Scottish football’s third tier.
“At Rangers it’s a difficult scenario,” he said. “You talk about cutting their cloth but, at the start of last season Rangers had to have a team that was fairly recognisable in terms of the level of player.
“Even during the season when they were winning there was a whole raft of discontent over the way they were playing. But, this year, what do you do with that?
“Do you say: ‘We are going to go with the same team again?’ You couldn’t do that. They had to [improve] the team. They had to bring in different players.
“People come out and say: ‘It’s not necessary for them to have that in that division’ but it’s not just the division that matters at Rangers, it’s the fact you have 45,000 people coming to watch something on a football pitch.
“That’s where Rangers have to make the difference and, in fairness to Alistair, he has done that this season. They are still losing money but when you make a decision to become involved at Rangers there is no common sense to it.
“There is no common business sense. Yes, there is money going out, it’s a fact. But what do you do?
“All the people saying this, that and the next thing don’t realise that you can’t sit on the board of directors and tell people: ‘We can’t afford to do this.’
“You actually have to go out and find the money to do it. That is the problem. If you get into the Champions League, then you can make a profit. Celtic have shown that, Rangers showed it in the latter period I was there. That’s the place you make the money. So Rangers have to use their money to create a situation where they can put that challenge in. That’s the gamble. It’s not a sensible gamble. But that’s what it is.
“The problem they have at the moment is not because they have put a whole load of money into the football team.
“Look at Rangers and they hardly bought a player in five years. All the players have been free transfers. The wage bill is probably at its lowest in recent history. By a mile. It’s somewhere near a third of what it was when I was manager. The feeling is that the money is going elsewhere.”
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I think Walter is for change with Dave King being a good option. I could handle that!
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Ally as always shows the way, True Rangers Class!!!
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I put this up previously but think it is relevant.
I don't know the answer but as we don't have one cohesive unit to represent the fans, who exactly do people think should have been invited?
People get castigated for going to the press, radio or TV.
The official club PR is a mess with people wanting Jack Irvine out and believing James Traynor shouldn't be anywhere near our club.
If Ally speaks it's either his word is gospel or he doesn't know what he is talking about and should concentrate on the team!
Me personally couldn't give a flying fuck for petty agendas and personal grievances that abound on the forums. I will read and watch what I want, when I want. If people are meeting I would love to be there but it's not practical, doesn't mean I'm going to start slagging people off because they are. I would hope that the information they receive should be shared but even when that happens its perceived as being biased.
If fact as I type this I have realised the only true non biased platform for us to discuss things is the Rangerschat show. The show is only as good as the callers it gets and the people in the lobby. I listen to the show virtually every night or catch up on the archives. They don't take sides, they do express their opinions sometimes very strongly and very often I won't agree with what is said but it's there for us to use. If it seems skewed towards one forum or another then that is only because they are the people using it.
At the moment I don't have a clue who I want on the Board. Mather, McColl, Blin, Stockbridge, the Easdales and Murray are all at it IMHO and I only hope when the accounts are published we are granted a measure of clarity and then at the AGM, the shareholders vote in the best interests of The Rangers rather than lining their pockets.
We are going to be hit with so much bluff and bluster in the coming weeks as things come to a head, lets hope it's not another false dawn but remember these guys are playing for a major major prize in Rangers Football Club and won't hold back rightly or wrongly. They may see us as pawns to be pushed about and drip fed information to suit them and never us.
Over the last couple of years it has been said many times but that is because it is true, together we are stronger and The Rangers will never die because We Are The People! Lets make sure these fuckers don't forget that!
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I think when people are comparing performances from last season that they should remember there has also been a step up in the quality of the opposition. So we are playing better this season against better teams and are achieving better results.
The new players have disrupted the flow a bit and it will be a couple of weeks until they get their match sharpness and team shape, so we might have to endure some poor performances but as long as we are winning the games can we really complain.
There is no excuse for playing Stevie Smith as a left midfielder, Templeton and McKay should be fighting for that starting slot!
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I don't know the answer but as we don't have one cohesive unit to represent the fans, who exactly do people think should have been invited?
People get castigated for going to the press, radio or TV.
The official club PR is a mess with people wanting Jack Irvine out and believing James Traynor shouldn't be anywhere near our club.
If Ally speaks it's either his word is gospel or he doesn't know what he is talking about and should concentrate on the team!
Me personally couldn't give a flying fuck for petty agendas and personal grievances that abound on the forums. I will read and watch what I want, when I want. If people are meeting I would love to be there but it's not practical, doesn't mean I'm going to start slagging people off because they are. I would hope that the information they receive should be shared but even when that happens its perceived as being biased.
If fact as I type this I have realised the only true non biased platform for us to discuss things is the Rangerschat show. The show is only as good as the callers it gets and the people in the lobby. I listen to the show virtually every night or catch up on the archives. They don't take sides, they do express their opinions sometimes very strongly and very often I won't agree with what is said but it's there for us to use. If it seems skewed towards one forum or another then that is only because they are the people using it.
At the moment I don't have a clue who I want on the Board. Mather, McColl, Blin, Stockbridge, the Easdales and Murray are all at it IMHO and I only hope when the accounts are published we are granted a measure of clarity and then at the AGM, the shareholders vote in the best interests of The Rangers rather than lining their pockets.
We are going to be hit with so much bluff and bluster in the coming weeks as things come to a head, lets hope it's not another false dawn but remember these guys are playing for a major major prize in Rangers Football Club and won't hold back rightly or wrongly. They may see us as pawns to be pushed about and drip fed information to suit them and never us.
Over the last couple of years it has been said many times but that is because it is true, together we are stronger and The Rangers will never die because We Are The People! Lets make sure these fuckers don't forget that!
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100% agree but probably far too sensible for many!
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It means Charlie is playing hardball with the rhebs.
Or does it mean the "rhebs" are playing hardball with Charlie?!??
The mind boggles! :-)
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Just been on SSN Nicky Law has been registered as a Rangers player! :-)
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A class touch, they will get a rousing reception cause WATP!
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Youth Development
in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom
Posted
http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/academy-news/item/6344-six-star-status-for-gers
Well it appears we must be doing something right!