Book of Ruth

I'd imagine Mr Dawson wasn't called the Prince of Goalkeepers for nothing.

Aye, he only scored one of the greatest European goals we've ever scored. Whittaker is no defender, but he's been shoved from pillar to post in his time at Ibrox, and always done his best. He's been in a European final, won handfuls of medals, and had a season where he scored 15 goals or something from full back and midfield. If Whittaker was played as an attacker where he'd do most damage he could be great. He's already won more medals than a lot of those considered legends, and he's done it in a team that hasn't been over endowed with the kind of talent we've been used to in the past.

That team was a joke. Not a player in it from before the sixties. It was missing candidates for the title of the Greatest ever Ranger, apart from anything else.

Just like it was done in the old days.

Whittaker's an attacking player, and should be played as part of the attack. He should only ever play as a defender in an emergency.

The Barry Nicholson handball that Brines saw when chopping off Zander Diamond's last minute equaliser in the 2008 title run in. That cost us the championship IMO, as much as any tour of Japan or other tarrier shenanigans.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper Park. Just to hear fat Rough trying to say it.

We have to pay that anyway.

Try for a sponsor and rename it after them.

Maybe we should be told what the figure is to leave administration then? TBK must know it, and must have some sort of plan to achieve it. It's time to put it in simple terms to the fans by them, so that we know what we are going to be asked to do.

We weren't in danger of going under when Murray did that. Not that we knew of anyway. If you want evidence of Rangers fans putting money in, thousands of us paid a grand each to Rangers for the right to buy a season ticket every year. It paid for the Club Deck.

Why not simple? Others have previously managed to sell off bits of Rangers without any problem.

Thousands of fans paid £50 to put a name on a brick. For the price of 8 bricks, every Rangers fan could own a piece of Rangers. If the shares were in £100 blocks, maybe some fans would buy one, while others would buy 10 or 20. Especially if the shares are to retain their value.

It's not a chip in. It's an investment with a guaranteed dividend every year after the initial 3 year period. Rangers could maybe guarantee to start buying back unwanted shares after 3 years. 100k fans investing £400 would be achievable I think.

Why can't TBK simplify things for the buyout, and make things open and transparent to the fans? Why can't they put forward a plan to the fans right now, outlining something like... 1. TBK will put in £25m (that Murray said he had) and use it to buy Rangers FC. For that sum, they will only keep control over assets like players, and all income such as sponsorship, gate money, merchandise, etc. 2. Other Rangers assets like Ibrox and Auchenhowie to be sold to the fans, raising maybe £30m for the stadium and £10m for the training ground (?). The fans give them both places rent free for 3 years, then charge Rangers an annual rent to get a dividend on their investment (say £2m per year for Ibrox and £1m for Auchenhowie, which could be offset by getting a sponsor for the renaming of the latter). 3. Use the money generated from these asset sales to pay Ticketus off, and then we can chase Whyte ourselves for any Ticketus money he pocketed over and above what was paid to Lloyds. 4. Keep any surplus left over from the sales of Ibrox and Auchenhowie (maybe £12m?) and add it to TBK's £25m, to pay the bulk of any HMRC bill if the case goes against us. Any money we manage to get from Whyte can be added to this. So, the fans get to own part of Rangers, TBK get the club almost debt free (supposing we could get an agreement with HMRC to pay off the balance of anything due over a number of years), and with all revenue streams then going to Rangers FC in the future. Make it plain to the fans we are going to live within our means, which should be considerable in any case if the club aren't having to pay interest on loans/overdrafts, or fees to middlemen like Ticketus for our STs. I'm only dealing in rough numbers here, but feel free to say why this or something similar couldn't be proposed by TBK right now.