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It would appear that the scunner apart from being late are also wide of the mark, unless of course they don't believe Charlie.
25th July 2012
"RANGERS Chief Executive Charles Green has confirmed that talks are on-going with the SPL as the club bids to secure its SFA membership.
He said: "We have reached agreement with the SFA and SFL on all matters but not with the SPL.
"As a result, talks are continuing to secure our SFA membership which we are hoping to receive today.""
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SFL "source" will need to be named though....
You don't need a source from the SFL, Doncaster from the sphell very publicly mentioned everything in the scunner's "exclusive" over two months ago, it was also discussed here in the last few days....before hannah lifted "his exclusive" yes from here.
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1. Slag off McCoist.
2. Call anyone who disagrees with you a stalker.
3. Post a picture of something entirely unrelated to the conversation.
Even you must be getting bored of this routine, surely?
No I am bored with you.
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We appear to be going round in circles, the scunner couldn't sit straight in bed never mind tell the truth, a thoroughly despicable rag that is forever playing catch up and is better used for wiping ostriches arses.
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Hey, what can I say, you're an interesting character! Never heard an opinion from you on the team, talk about tactics - it's always about the off field issues!
That is because you are selective in your agenda, as all stalkers are, an infatuation and an unhealthy one.
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Are you just waiting on his resignation now?
I was sort of hoping you would resign from your stalkers position.
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Published on Saturday 22 September 2012 00:00
ALLY McCoist has accepted he deserves criticism for Rangers’ stuttering start to life as a Third Division club but insists his experience of abuse from the Ibrox support as a player will help him cope with what is the first hint of an on-the-field crisis in his managerial career.
Rangers’ midweek Ramsdens Cup quarter-final exit at home to Queen of the South has intensified scrutiny of McCoist, who has also seen his team drop six points from their opening five league games to sit fourth in the Third Division table. McCoist now faces a potentially pivotal seven days in Rangers’ season, with tomorrow’s league fixture against Montrose at Ibrox followed by a midweek League Cup tie at home to Motherwell and then next Saturday’s Scottish Cup second-round trip to face Highland League champions Forres Mechanics.
Lauded by the Rangers support for his fortitude during the club’s crisis off the pitch this year, McCoist knows that status will not protect him from their disapproval if results do not improve quickly.
The club’s all-time leading goalscorer, who will celebrate his 50th birthday on Monday, displayed great resilience to overcome the serious doubts of the Rangers fans during the early years of his playing career and is ready to draw on that inner strength once more. “When I had that tough time as a player here I always said it would allow me to handle just about anything in football and I still think that’s the case,” said McCoist. “There are a lot of people who probably don’t remember that it wasn’t always a bed of roses for me as a player. So it’s fine, I deserve to take the criticism when results aren’t going well. It goes with the territory, it’s natural.
“It is fair. Whether I think it is fair or unfair, it is going to happen anyway. Why should I not be judged the same as everybody else? It is results that managers get judged on and I appreciate and accept that. I wouldn’t be looking for anything other than that. It won’t make me crawl under the bed and go away, that’s for sure. We will march on. We lost a game on penalties on Tuesday night and it’s a big disappointment but we have an opportunity to go down the right road and get ourselves three points on Sunday.
“If you asked me what is success for our football club this year, it is stability, playing every week, people getting their wages, the tax getting paid and us getting promotion from SFL3. That is where our club is and needs to be going. We need to be progressing. A lot of people might not like to hear that and, believe me, I am not saying it as a cop out. It is not a cop out. But, because of where we have been and where we want to get to, we won’t do it in one giant step. It is going to take a bit of time. That aside, we need to get promotion, that is the immediate target.”
While content to recognise the right of Rangers supporters to call him to account, McCoist also expressed the hope there will be a level of understanding over the drastically diminished circumstances the club. “We have to accept where we are as a team,” added McCoist. “I keep telling everyone we’re the same club but it’s not the same team. We aren’t the same team we were five years ago, we aren’t even the same team we were five months ago. It’s completely different. We are a new team with some youth and some very good SPL players. That’s where we are and we just hope that we get the chance to rebuild and stabilise. The club needs that after the last year or so.
“I can understand the frustration from certain quarters and I can accept that, of course I can. I can assure the support that I’ll continue as I always have done to do my best for Rangers and for them. I don’t take the criticism personally. It used to worry me because you want to be liked, you want to be popular and for people to write nice things about you but I’m over it, I really am.
“The fact is that I have a job to do and I’ve never said that it would happen overnight or that it would be easy. But I’ve got very good people around me and I have the utmost faith in this squad to get us out of this division, which is of paramount importance.
“I have always had a dream and a plan in my head to get us back to where I feel we belong and that is competing on an annual basis in Europe and performing in the top league. That is probably a lot further away than people realise due to what has happened in the club. There are a lot of level-headed and sensible people out there who realise where we are and what it is going to take to get us back there.”
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Why we (apparently) didn't include the EBTs in the individual players contracts that were submitted to the SFA but we did include the them in the accounts they got at the end of each season.
If true it was a staggering omission that has really left a lose end for liewell and his lackeys to exploit
Discretionary not contractual.
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True taig style, say it often enough, must be true.
Well Mr Nimmo fucking Smith, you are no more than a taig loving bastard and Rangers hater, who is an integral part of taig agenda. Like you don't know it, you morally corrupt henious cunt. Away and lead a commission into child abuse at your corrupt club and strip them of titles. Then investigate all those paedophile priests who are being protected by your taig minded brethren and then investigate those same priests who were involved in gun running for the spineless i ran away.
Law lord my fucking erse. You know the truth, you know the agenda, you know the law. You are a disgrace to the profession.
Would love to get something on that piece of scum.
I nearly laughed when I read the above, nearly but not quite.
(Lord) William Austin Nimmo Smith.
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The notice of complaint issued against the taigs lacks a charge all to common to those issued against us, namely bringing the game into disrepute.
Also why has no one been arrested by plod for the displaying of the overtly sectarian and political banner ?
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Great players do not necessarily great or even good managers make, history is littered with examples.
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What he is saying in his legal long winded way, is that any decision his commission comes to will be only that a decision, it will be up to the football authorities to enforce it.
That is of course if the people sitting on the alleged impartiality of McKenzie allow the commission to convene, by refusing to bring to public attention the alleged non impartiality of McKenzie. Charlie has still not answered my email asking if he could confirm or deny the situation took place.
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The scunner playing catch-up and not very well as usual, their article is nonsense.
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Lord Nimmo Smith defends impartiality of panel looking into Rangers alleged use of EBTs
Lord Nimmo Smith, the Scottish High Court judge in charge of the independent investigation set up by the SPL to look into the charge that Rangers may have failed to disclose Employee Benefit Trust payments to players from 2001-11 – in breach of the rules – has issued a strongly worded defence of the impartiality of his panel, which also includes two QCs, Nicholas Stewart and Charles Flint.
The statement says: “In most cases, it would not be necessary to discuss this topic, but in the circumstances of the present case we think it appropriate to do so.
“It is fundamental to the constitution of a body with investigatory and disciplinary powers, such as the present Commission, that it must act independently of the person or body appointing it.
“We must of course operate within the terms of our remit, and apply any rules which are applicable, but in reaching our final determination of the Issues, and in making any incidental decisions, we shall exercise our own judgement, on the basis of the evidence which is adduced, in accordance with the principles of natural justice, and unfettered by the influence of the Board or of anyone else.
“None of us would have accepted his appointment on any other basis. We have the use of SPL premises and are assisted by SPL staff, but this is because we have given instructions to that effect; the members of staff, in particular, act under our instructions.”
In another section of his statement, Nimmo Smith buttressed his argument by use of legal precedent:
“It is well understood that the rules of natural justice require that a judge, or a person performing a quasi-judicial function, such as the Chairman of this Commission, must be free not only from actual bias but also from apparent bias in his determination of the Issues before him. The test for establishing apparent bias is authoritatively laid down in Porter v Magill [2001] UKHL 67, [2002] 2 AC 357, in which Lord Hope of Craighead said at paragraph 143:
"The question is whether the fair-minded and informed observer, having considered the facts, would conclude that there was a real possibility that the tribunal was biased."
Charles Green, the chief executive of the Rangers newco which took control at Ibrox in June after HMRC refused to agree to a deal that would have brought the oldco out of administration, has persistently criticised the SPL for their approach to the investigation and said this week: "In terms of this commission, if the SPL agenda prevails then Rangers will be found guilty and being found guilty we will lose five titles.
"What I said before is that this commission is not independent because the SPL have set it up. Saying that they are not independent is not saying that they are not impartial.”
Nimmo Smith has responded by detailing the remit of his tribunal and the legal case for stripping Rangers of titles – should the sanction be deemed appropriate – despite Green’s assertion that the SPL has no power over the successor company.
Nimmo Smith states: “To take the hypothetical example of a Club which has been engaged in match-fixing in the last game of the season, but is then relegated and consequently ceases to be a member of the SPL, there is every reason why it should still be liable to disciplinary action at the instance of the SPL – whether or not the breach comes to light before or after that Club has relinquished its SPL membership.
“We can think of many similar hypothetical examples”.
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I think the answer to Mr McMurdo's list of questions will or would be fairly simple in the event that the authorities were willing to kill Scottish football stone dead, by imposing some unimaginable draconian sanctions upon us for perceived wrongs.
I would put money on them dismissing everything else as collateral damage.
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No, poor players poor coaching and poor management do not help, even in the boiler room that is the 3rd division.
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Rab
suggested something along those lines twice now but majority opinion seems to think Ally would feel undermined!
I think he would benefit greatly from this and should have made it a priority close season to sound someone out.
Never too late....I would rather he took this road rather than fall on his sword which will eventually be the case.
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Strangely the shugster told a caller tonight that his statement that Ally had gone without wages was a complete fabrication, that Ally had indeed been paid by the club and the caller should check his facts, things are always the same never what they seem, such is life and modern society. I don't recollect ever hearing Ally had sacrificed his wages does anyone else ?
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I would love the knowledge of Ray!
I've learned.... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
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Some might wonder, though, whether they are all batting for the same side.
I have no doubt they will decide fairly on that which is presented, which brings me back to McKenzie.
If McKenzie's outburst is factual there should be no further action or involvement by this commission, why anyone would suggest sitting on this if true is beyond me.
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I will leave you to your window cleaning, the bold may have been a hint in the original post, also the score, didn't you like the 79% stat, people who think that or expect those kind of % figures obviously according to you know nothing. Like I said I will leave you to your window licking.
After Barcelona's 1-0 loss to Chelsea in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal despite maintaing 79 percent of possession, Andres Iniesta labeled the match "unjust."
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what's going on is fucking criminal!
Civil if any law at all actually.
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Set Donald Findlay on the cunts.
Donald's expertise is criminal law.
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He's not bang on the money. Saying we should be getting 80% possession is like saying we should be scoring 7+ every game. It's sensationalist nonsense.
Everyone knows we should be peroforming alot better and easily beating teams that consist of part timers, don't need to be a sherlock holmes to work that one out.
No need to make laughable statements of 80% possession. Barcelona are probably the best club side in the history of the sport. The most possession i ever seen them maintain was a home game a couple of seasons ago against Hercules. Minnows from Alicante, currently sitting in the relegation zone of the Segunda Division. The game was played in Hercules half. Barca's possession was in the mid 70's. (for the record i have never in my puff seen a team finish 90mins with 80+%.)
Oh, and Hercules packed their own final 3rd (much like ive seen alot of teams do to us), and ended up catching Barca twice on the counter to win 2-0, at the Nou Camp.
People need to use there brains. We are not fuckin Barcelona. We're a brand new team pieced together from the 2nd string players who stayed on & couple of average-to-decent SPL players. (+Sandaza who is barely SPL level at all). And we've not even lost a game yet this season (other than on penalties).
I'm as critical of our performances as anyone but the reaction to getting knocked out on penalties in the Ramsdens cup is now officially well OTT. And wankers like Hately making a quick buck off our name with articles written for spastics & windae cleaners in the Sun with shite like "Rangers should have 80% possession" is nothing short of laughable.
No argument there, we are as I said a Ferrari against wheelbarrows, maybe I just have higher expectations of The Rangers in which to all intents and purposes should be a one sided contest..........otherwise we are spunking sphell wages for a third rate product, like Hately said "under false pretences"
A little stat I am sure you will enjoy.
After Barcelona's 1-0 loss to Chelsea in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal despite maintaing 79 percent of possession, Andres Iniesta labeled the match "unjust."
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Who is Flint?
Charles Flint QC Blackstone Chambers is an extremely able and eminent member, as are all members of the commission.
Nicholas Stewart QC is the other member who makes up the trio, he has sat as a high court Judge in England for the past 22 years, make no mistake this commission is made up of heavy hitters.
SFL EBT Fury
in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom
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The next time the scunner has an exclusive they will have as usual stolen it months later.
http://bit.ly/QCZtxE