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WOW ..........JUST WOW
HEARD NEARLY 1, 380,000 PEOPLE LISTENING IN TONIGHT CAUSE I PHONED IN WITH SOME STORIES ABOUT EURO TRIPS...... THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT !!
Broadcatsing to a potential 66 Million people worldwide, Rangers chat is fairly flying but......RM'ers where the fk are ye all get on the blower ...........what ye still reading my rubbish for ??
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As much as the scoreline today is not ideal, it does send out something of a message to the opposition, no matter how favourable circumstances look for them their leads are never safe. That's got to be intimidating in and of itself.

Intresting how now the games over and we won suddenly RMs working fine again another ghuest ban needed

Intresting how now the games over and we won suddenly RMs working fine again another ghuest ban needed

Intresting how now the games over and we won suddenly RMs working fine again another ghuest ban needed

Bell; Foster, McCulloch, Mohsni, Smith; Black; Crawford, Law, Macleod; Little, Daly
Subs: Simonsen, Clark, Faure, Aird, Cribari, Templeton, Hutton.

Fuck sake Rod is our best goal scorer, Amato in to replace him and i pray Albertz and Gio are fit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCJBXfKtOiM
Somebody needs to do a slo-mo of Macleod's goal with the Escape to Victory music.

Lewis we are scoring some beautys this season

Lewis we are scoring some beautys this season

Templeton and Clark for Peralta and Little would instantly improve the shape of this side.

Im happy with the team although i would have liked McKay on the bench

What a nice set of front twos Well done for getting nipples in the match thread CR

Mentioned to my old man I wished I'd gotten tickets for this, he picked up the phone, 2 minutes later we've both got tickets and we're going today! Buzzing for this one. Anyone know how many fans roughly we're taking to it?

If we can get another flying start we could be banging in the goals again, hopefully we dont go defensive away from home and we match the desire and freedom of last Sat

Blacko's.

Just read through the accounts (as much as I understand them...) and this thread, and I'm reasonably positive about the accounts. They're not brilliant, nobody expected them to be. They're a hell of a lot better than some people have been telling us they were going to be.
I hope the Rangers fans who have been telling us we're going bust will have a good think about where they're getting their information, and perhaps not be so quick to jump at info from the same places/people in future...

It's difficult keeping up with the lobby and host a show like this one, when I'm referring to notes and documents at the same time.
I can only apologise and say that if your lobby posts are not being read out, please call in and make them.
WATP

Somewhat depressing that responses to the accounts still fall along 'party lines'. Alongside all of the other amateur Finance Directors on here, I take something of an inexpert view on it.
Overall the major loss is roughly in line with expectations pre-Newco around the amount of funding that would be required for a startup. We do have issues around the TUPE transfers of a number of staff (playing and non-playing) who fit outside of our wage structure. We also have a substantial overhead on general staff required to run a business of our scale which will be a drain until we return to maximises domestic revenues.
The facts are that removing non-recurring costs still leaves us with a loss situation, this gap should be the focus: what commercial increases do we expect in this year; and what cost reductions do we expect. Therefore the key questions for the AGM should be on the forward business plan over the next few years and any additional funding requirements.
Also, for any dissenting groups, the question should be on their alternative plans, nothing else.
In general, without studying in depth, I am relatively comfortable with this overall position, but happy and keen to continue observing closely.

So far the disapointment from some that we are not racing into admin is palpable so much for Rangers first eh guys?

When you add up, Football debt, IPO expenses, Investigation expenses, acquisition expenses, Charles Greens money, Ahmads money, set up loans and our managers justified pay cut, the non recurring expenses are close to £6m.
Turnover should be higher given that we will have a full 12 months sponsorship from Puma, Blackthorn and Sports Direct as some of these deals were done as late as March 2013. The £14m gap could easily be down to £4m this season and as Boss has said, we can be working towards that being £0 for 2014-15
I said it wouldnt be easy reading these as there is a lot of shite in them that wont repeat itself but by taking the step of declaring the amount of matchday money included in our cash balance allows us to look ahead and clearly see that Dave King, the RST and all the other doom mongers who said we would be bust by xmas are looking like a total bunch of wanks.
I see the RST are out peddling dhim like nonsense because they simply cannot handle the truth of what the accounts show.
To summarise my view though:
1) Nothing I really didnt expect.
2) Healthy cash position explained.
3) Clear cost reduction opportunities.
4) Certain directors took the piss but in the main, they are now gone.
5) No wonder our manager is volunteering a pay cut. He should be embarrassed.
6) Auditors have signed off as a going concern (This is what Whyte failed to get auditors to do months before we went into admin)
7) There is no way we will run out of money this season.
8) Still a lot of work to be done on other costs and the jury is still out for me if we have the right people to do it.
9) Paul Murray can fukk off

Not often im the one bringing sanity to things this thread must be bad!
Hopefuly if the SOS protests achieve one thing its to remind the board that they must be seen to be responsible with the Clubs money at all times and that none of us will stand for profligacy and big bonuses for nothing, heres hoping theres better times ahead for the bears from now on

So far the disapointment from some that we are not racing into admin is palpable so much for Rangers first eh guys?

Alright so if we can just stand back from the inevitable Ally bashing (yes today it is Ally bashing when he is getting sole blame for high staff wages) The accounts are not great but they never were going to be great they do not seem to be anywhere near as bad as we were told by those who should have known better, if we can reduce wages by the directors and coching staff all taking bonus and or wage cuts and realise that we certainly do not need any more players until next summer and any signings must be funded by player sales until we get back to the top flight, we will be doing ok, not great but ok. All in all it looks as positive as could be expected for a Champions League Club having to play in a Amature League.

So far the disapointment from some that we are not racing into admin is palpable so much for Rangers first eh guys?