Comeoffit

Kiss ma baws ya big lassie. Ive never said fuck all about Ally.

Took it well

Stop talking sense

To be fair, the standard of our team has dropped considerably as well. Im not saying we are div3 level, but ffs £400 to watch us scud a shower of part timers every week. The loyalty should work both ways. It shouldnt just be us thats loyal to the club. We could have survived quite happilly for the next 3 years in these divisions with everyone paying £200 for a book. 40,000 books at £200 is more than enough for us to sail back to the spl. No cup games and no bheast games on the book, should take the price down also

Im not saying im totally happy with what they did, im just saying i kinda understand it. There was a lot of uncertainty around us at the time, and green wasnt the hero we all think he is now. If you think teams would have come in and payed millions for our players, then thats your opinion. They got clubs so easily because they were freebies. Its a different kettle of fish when we are demanding fees for them. I think when you take into account their wages that we would have to pay them before they left, we havnt lost that much money. Look at Edu now, sitting on his arse picking up 10k a week or whatever he is on for doing fuck all. Times that by 8 and it doesnt take much imagination to see what would have happened to us.

The argument that its not a normal job doesnt hold up. You dont know what commitments they have, and how much they need coming in. Dont forget that most of them will be finished by their mid 30's, and they probably dont have 2 brain cells between them to start a new career. Football clubs treat players like assests, when they are done, they are cast aside. You cant really blame them for not being loyal to any team. I imagine the reality of playing for Rangers isnt what most people think it is. Sure we would all kill for the same chance, but these players lived it for some years, and it probably didnt hold the same attraction as we would all like to think it has. People expecting loyalty from footballers dont live in the real world. Some of the stuff that gets said about them is sickening. Im sure they all had low fee release clauses in their contracts, so i doubt we would have got as much as we think we would have. I think one or two would have left, but i imagine we would have been stuck with the others paying them 10k+ a week to play in div3.

or it didnt happen.

Aye i know, but anything more than £300 (without cup games) to watch 3rd division football is robbery, no matter where you are sitting. Id want a seat next to Ally for £400+.

Sadly getting proof on the finances of our club are very difficult to come by. I should have said in my opinion we couldnt have paid them if they decided to stay. Do we really need another 8 Edu situations? Players drawing a wage that nobody really wants unless they get them for virtually nothing. Any normal person in this situation would be offski, if they had another job lined up, with the same or better money. Anyone that says differently is a dreamer. Lets not turn this into another battle about charlie. The thread is about the players

Haha, id want a lazeeboy for that money.

Is that you charlie? What a load of pish. Maybe if he bothered to pick up the phone and speak to them, a few of them might have come over. I dont like to bring him up in every thread, but seeing as you mentioned it. Maybe people should wonder what greens role was in the fiasco. If they all came over and sat on their contracts, could charlie have paid them all? If the same situation was happening at your place of employment and your boss didnt keep you in the loop, what would you do?

Did i read that right? £411 per adult. Jesus christ.

The wage cuts they took, saved the club. Anyone that thinks differently hasnt looked in to it enough. They also stopped a lot of normal employees losing their jobs when duff and duffer first arrived. They had no legal obligation to tupe over as time has and will prove. I think overall, they done us a favour by leaving. If they transferred over and sat on their contracts for 2 or 3 months while waiting a transfer, we could quite possibly have been in big trouble again. We didnt actually lose as much money as people think by their behaviour, and on balance i'll remember them fondly, apart from Whittaker, who i cant stick and never could.

Its technically an Ally thread