StudsLonniegan
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Is that Irish?......it is your native tongue after all.
I thought you would recognise it, it was clownish for your benefit.
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As title.
Craig Whyte was on the blower to The Herald, not at all happy. I had written that HMRC were "all over" Rangers not just because of the big tax case he inherited from Sir David Murray but also due to things that made them suspicious about Whyte himself.
The article also speculated about whether the Ticketus deal meant he may not be the preferred creditor when Rangers went into administration. The chairman and owner of Rangers Football Club, custodian of the oak-panelled boardroom and the marble staircase, described the article as "complete pish". There was the usual talk of us maybe hearing from his lawyers, but that went without saying. We've heard from them before and so have plenty of others. They must have some papers and BBC Scotland on speed dial. Whyte has held only two press conferences with daily newspaper reporters during his chairmanship of Rangers and The Herald was banned from one of them. He hadn't liked a story saying that Rangers would appear in court because of a dispute over a small, unpaid legal bill. It was true, and within hours they did, but that wasn't the point as far as Whyte was concerned.
Plenty has been said about the slipperiness, the ability to tell a bare-faced lie, the empty promises, the sheer brass neck of this guy, but another unappealing aspect of his character has been a tendency to bully and be aggressively controlling when it came to criticism, scrutiny or investigation. Now we know why. In the epic, sweeping drama of Rangers' collapse and his individual downfall it is the little things which sometimes seem most revealing. Whyte spoke to a BBC reporter on Thursday. For months the BBC has been in Siberia as far as Rangers were concerned, banned by Whyte for the documentary which shot to pieces his claim to have "nothing to hide" by revealing he had been disqualified from being a company director for seven years. Now, with his reputation in tatters, he took the BBC's call and spouted that nonsense about coming back to finish what he'd started.
If that wasn't so laughable it would be chilling.
He's behaving like a fugitive rather than a chairman. After a week in London, he flew to Nice and he's holed up in his apartment in Monaco, declining to talk when a journalist arrived from Glasgow to buzz his intercom over the weekend. "I'm not doing interviews" were four words more than Ally McCoist has had out of him for nearly a fortnight. Whyte looks like a guy who's been rumbled and has fled with Strathclyde Police, HMRC, Duff and Phelps administrators and a SFA inquiry on his tail. If he has nothing to hide, he shouldn't be acting like a guy in hiding.
Whyte's threats and writs have no power now. In fact, what fun the newspaper or BBC solicitors could have if they ever got him in a witness box. While Duff and Phelps desperately try to find a way to save Rangers, HMRC contemplates whether deals can be done with a new regime, and Paul Murray, Dave King and others try to guess how big a black hole their cash will disappear into if they take over, the police are rummaging through the figures trying to find out if Whyte did things which could result in him being prosecuted and even jailed.
It's up to the Crown Office to decide whether what he did was illegal or simply immoral, but it's reasonable to suspect that as a venture capitalist the basis of his approach to Rangers was similar to his modus operandi at untold other companies in the past, many of which collapsed. With due respect to creditors and anyone who lost their jobs in those cases, the wider world didn't care. Rangers are different. What madness possessed him to think he could get away with not paying VAT and PAYE while lying to thousands of people about what he'd done with season-ticket money? At the centre of all of this is the fact Whyte seems to have had no comprehension of the enormity of what he was getting himself into by owning Rangers.
As for that article of "complete pish" at the start of this month: HMRC soon confirmed they were all over Whyte and his status as preferred creditor has been questioned even by Duff and Phelps. The phone call, like so much else, was hot air.
And Another Thing . . .
Way, way down the list of things Rangers need to concern themselves with, but something they'll have to address in time, is the name of their training ground. It may be absurd to talk of Murray being stripped of his knighthood over what's happened to Rangers but there is something jarringly inappropriate about the players' headquarters being named in his honour while fans are carrying banners saying they'll never forgive or forget his "crimes against RFC".
Name it after Walter Smith, or Bill Struth, or umpteen other candidates – or even raise a few quid by flogging off naming rights – but one way or another it has to change. And it would be a nice gesture if Murray came out and said so himself.
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Keep digging - you'll drown in your own shite. Quicker the better, eh, famine dodger.
PS: That name, the irish-catholic character, absolute cunt of a choice.
You are showing a typical taig trait always liking to have the last word, you do get yourself into a paddy
over things, there you go with the excrement thing again, perhaps the dirty pushing yours back a fortnight is what gives you such a fixation with the subject.So what's your latest viewpoint on murray the robber baron, still think Ally was right to publicly support him, I know you won't answer because that would mean having an opinion, as we know you don't do opinions and don't think anyone else should except Ally of course.
I would through you a lifebelt as you are drowning in your own sea of mediocrity, but it would be wasted you would see it as just another circular orifice.
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I'm a Murrayite now?
See what happens when you stumble into something and start gum-bumping about something you know fuck all about? Makes you sound like some sad cunt named after a character in a book about famine dodgers.
PS: That name - an absolute cunt of a choice.
Tick-tock
The only choice cunt about here is you the murrayite, but you are funny I may entertain myself with your ramblings a little longer, I would have said opinions but we know you don't have any you want to be everyone's chum.
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Famines over. Your shite isn't.
yet.
No less than is expected from a murrayite , your fixation with excrement is strange but if it floats your boat and you spew enough to float the Queen Mary be happy don't worry, I doubt you ever had a thought or opinion in your puff if you did it died of loneliness.
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Plus it's misspelt.
You back to get owned again clown, still laffin.
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Still wading up to your knees in your own shite then I see.
No one should forget your nasty, taig-alike attacks on McCoist last night.
Shite today, shite tomorrow from you. For a wee while anyway
PS - That screen name - cunt of a choice.
You mean the thread where you shat it and sat on the fence apart from backing Ally's support of the robbing bastard murray ? Ally is not a very good manager and his backing of murray is a boot in the baws for right thinking bears, that obviously leaves you out.
There are not many things more dangerous than a tadger to frightened to state an opinion just like you, but you support the robbing bastard and petrol bill dodger at least I know what side you are on, but there again,
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You mean you (pretend) don't know the book about famine dodging taigs and their struggles in Yankeeland? Of the same name?
What a fukin clown no wonder no one takes you seriously a bigger bum than forty arses.
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park hasn't he may well not even go in with Paul Murray.
Park was at Ibrox on Thursday, I am forgetting you are always right forgive me.
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Still wandering around these parts with the famine dodger moniker I see.
One thing I don't wonder about is your leanings, I don't wonder how you insult a good Ulster name, still taigs never bothered me they aren't worth it your category to a T pretty bhoy.
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Soapy Soutar may have something to say, he has already spoken with the administrators as has Park.
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Question:
Why did the man who is leading this charge (PM) wait until the 11th hour (seconds before midnight indeed) to make his play the last time around before CW bought out Murray for a sauce-pan-lid?
The answer to that and why murray minor and aj plus his incompetents waited until it was to late and pointless may well be the answer to this whole crock of shit.
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I don't think some of you are really grasping the desperate situation we find ourselves in.
Right now, whether you or I like it or not, Paul Murray and The Blue Knight consortium are the only game in town. If they pull out and no other offer comes in we'll go into liquidation which would mean THE END of Rangers.
Sick of all this, " What did he do last time ? " and " Can we trust him ? " nonsense. He wants to rescue the club. He's a Rangers man through and through and, unlike Whyte, he wants what's best for Rangers, not what's best for Paul Murray.
Unless someone else comes along with a better offer he's all we've got. Let me repeat that, HE'S ALL WE'VE GOT !
And that is why we must be prepared to back him with everything we've got because the alternative is simply too awful to contemplate.
Praise Jehovah you never said the only show in town or we really were fucked.
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steeeds loneeeeeeeegin superb top of the mornin ti yi,have i got that right,,,,,,,,
Ask me if you are ever in the Diamond Jubilee.
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I'm glad that someone else has now spotted his game.
Fuck me it's coco still laffin ya clown.
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Shite's all your's - wire in. It's what you want.
Now if you had said we are apparently in the shite I could have agreed with that, but you appear upset anyone would question Coisty or the robbin bastard murray, spittin the dummy is a strange answer.
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Good luck with the trouble you are seeking to cause. You posted the shite and I'm sure many others will be along to stir it for you.
You must be a fly to the shite then, clown.
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I offer no opinion to you on Murray, but did point out you are seeking a way to attack McCoist.
No getting away from that.
McCoist is being naive in backing murray, the fact that you think he is above reproach for it and your refusal to take any stand on murray tells me all I need to know, you must have an arse full of skelfs.
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They aint contracts, they are an agreement that the club would pay any future revenue costs if required.
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Ah. Now I get your point.
An excuse to attack McCoist for daring to think for himself.
You and thinking for yourself are obviously strangers, you must think or do you think Ally is right and murray has been good for the club. I noticed the part you left out, I really did.
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Did you read the article or just that snippet in the OP?
McCoist indicates very clearly that there were positive elements in the Murray tenure and he prefers to focus on those. There's no unequivocal backing for Murray and all the outcomes of his time in charge.
And, unlike us who are free to blether any old shite on forums, McCoist has high standards of public behaviour demanded of a man in his position.
"People will have their own views on the whole situation, Mine? I'll always remember David Murray for being good for the club and for doing his best for the club. Like any ownership, it's peaks and troughs but as the person I am, I always like to look at the peaks."
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It's a personal thing with Ally was the point I was trying to make, he's obviously pally with the guy and will see no wrong in what he has done. Murray is a more convincing liar than Whyte.
Which calls McCoists whole decision making process on and off the field into question, is his sooking up to murray more important to him than the fans and the club, how the fans feel about his "friend" leading us to this shameful episode, on second thoughts don't answer that you may not like the answer.
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Sorry, i dont get it. Where is the story here?
No argument from me on that score.
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Why wouldnt he? They are friends.
Are you some sort of fuckin nutter or worse.
More pidh, wind and innuendo from the taig press.
in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom
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I am sure your priest could fill you in on that, while he is filling you in so to speak.
You still don't get the spelling, I blame the schools and the bheasts.