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Jim had years of experience in strength and fitness training in East Kilbride before joining Celtic in 96. Martin O'Neil took him to Aston Villa and he then went to Hibs before O'Neil headhunted him to Sunderland. Rangers is his dream job. The guy is the best strength and conditioning coach in the country and was no pal of McCoist's. Fuck knows why the team are in such shite shape with Jim there unless they are not doing what he says.

One of the "onerous contracts" relates to agents fees paid to a company owned by the faceless investors. Fees are bases on % of players wages. Hence the ridiculous wages offered. There are an initial percentage plus an ongoing charge. The more they pay the players the quicker the faceless investors draw back their investment and get into a cash generating position. One of my business partners was on secondment to a certain big 4 accountancy firm's insolvency department for 6 months back in 2013 and it was the talk of the steamie over lunch. There are other contracts which would make your hair curl. Very creative ways of milking the fans and the IPO investors. There may be lynching's if King does his audit and the truth shall out.

this link is ok if you zap the adverts you get a clear screen. http://www.firstrowsports.li/watch/54b845eab6e07ed92a78e1df/4/rangers-fc-vs-hearts

Bobby McKean is my guess. Fellow East Kilbride man who sadly died less than 2 years after this game. I think I remember him playing in this game and don't remember him playing for Scotland again.

'Cos they are in Sundry Expenses thus avoiding tax! So Deloitts are involved in tax and NI evasion? If true that would be a serious allegation.

Fuckin hell. As soon as I opened that link and saw that picture of Brother Walfrid chasing these wee guys for a feel up in the bushes I nearly vomited. In the 2013 accounts Ally's earnings are detailed and non receipt expenses of £125k are not there. For PAYE disclosure requirements they would be treated as taxable income. Unless Phil Ma Arse up is saying that Deloittes have produced inaccurate accounts he should be sued by Deloittes for spouting this pish. Same goes for Keevins for repeating it.

In 2012 a group of men got together with a business model. The model was to buy the assets of Rangers, raise as much money as possible via season tickets, gate receipts and floatation on the stock market and then take as much money as possible out of the club as quickly as possible and fuck off. Money via obvious methods and some more complex 3rd party methods. All parties including McCoist have performed their roles very well and can be considered a financial success in terms of their chosen business model. What appeared to be incompetence is in fact total competence when you realise what their goals have always been.

Celtic's total audit fees for last year was £34,000. Why are Rangers paying their auditors 5 times this at a ridiculous £170,000 ?

Right boys, don't do anything positive, keep your arms folded and we could be sharing £2.0million payoff on Monday.

I've got hundreds of these things stuffed inside 2 Action Man boxes somewhere at my elderly parents house to this day. Bought/swapped/won them between 70 and 76 I would think. Early yellow backs up to mid 70's Red backs. In East Kilbride at Primary School we used to play various games in the playground involving the winning of cards. One game was called "Neary" I think. The closest card thrown against the wall would win all the cards. Best game was Tipsy. A group of friends throwing cards against the wall and the one whose card landed on top of on of the others won them all. You could have 5 guys throwing cards in turn several times and if your card landed on one you could win all 50 cards or whatever. These were the days.

Ally going very soft on Donald there If he sees him at the game tonight Ally should stick his boot so far us his arse that the Cowdenbeath support will think that Doc Martin have started making hats.

It was almost unbelievable that Ally took that 50% pay cut last year from £750k down to presumably £375k a year. Must be sickening for him that Wallace was on £315k basis plus £315k bonus for the past year and will therefore earn £630k whereas Ally only earned £375k. Of course if Ally were to get paid off or if there is a prospectus published for a new share issue before Christmas we will know the detail of that wage reduction. I'm sure it will make interesting reading.

Any man who walks into the Calderwood Inn in the 1980's wearing a Stetson hat and Levi jacket with nothing underneath it certainly knows no shame and will never resign.

Ally's safe. He knows where the bodies are buried.

Great bit of nostalgia looking at that pic on a Friday night. And if it's 1975 then Just Another Saturday was maybe being filmed in Glasgow as that pic was taken.....

Just noticed RC Ogilvie is secretary in the top left of the page. Good old Campbell Ogilvie, I'd forgotten how long ago he'd been at Rangers but he was secretary by the end of the 70's. What a great document to see at the end of another traumatic day, flashback to the good old days and the names of the bubble gum football card heroes of my youth captured in their own handwriting.

Fantastic find. I'm going with 81 or 82 but could be 1980 as Colin McAdam signed that year. Certainly not after 82 though as a few of the signatories were away by 83.

Either he's very clever and working his ticket so that he gets his payoff to halt the embarrassment or He is actually arrogant enough to think he is doing a good job for a fair wage. We grew up EK and I can remember when he moved to Rangers from Sunderland he was a regular in the Calderwood Inn for a few years. He actually used to walk into the pub wearing a cowboy hat and levi jacket unbuttoned with nothing under it. Spent the night looking to see how many ladies were ogling him. Always been a vain arrogant chap has our Ally so I wouldn't put anything past him.

When I go into a distressed business for a hopeful turnaround the first thing I look at is "dubious contracts". For example, it's not unusual to find a company paying £100,000 a year for photocopiers which should be £10,000 On every occasion you find that a buyer, director of shareholder acts as a consultant to the photocopier company for a fee of £50,000 a year via a sole trader venture not visible during companies house searches. Everything legal and above board in terms of accounting and tax matters but certainly hidden from the other stakeholders. I wonder if this is what Wallace was referring to in his Onerous Contracts comment in the review. It's a very good way for directors and shareholders to get plenty of money out the company without it being obvious who is ultimately benefiting from 3rd party arrangement. In a football club I would be looking at ground keeping , transfer fees, player wages (fees to management) etc.

I think this is known as passive aggressive. Reminding us about the incident while "hoping he is not judged". Main point being the reminder of course. Hoping that the reminder will reduce the likelihood of Barry replacing Ally in his role as gravy train driver.

It's almost as if Ally's bribed the team to help him work his ticket.

Ok, BBFC lol. It's just that Jim Henry is one of the few signings where Ally has actually got it right. Jim really is state of the art when it comes to strength and fitness knowledge. Martin O'Neil gave him a blank cheque to travel the world and improve on his techniques when he was with Aston Villa and Sunderland.

I've known Jim Henry (or big Ex as he's known) for more than 30 years since we were boys in the East Kilbride Judo club in the early 80's. At 6 ft 3 and 15 stone he's a Judo Black belt and knows his strength training like no other coach in UK football. We were bouncers in the old Gemini disco in EK as youths an believe me no one talked shit to Jims face or else they would be eating their dinner through a straw for a few weeks. He has 20 years experience in state of the art strength and fitness training at Premier clubs all over the UK and he is immensely proud of being with Rangers as he told me last time we met up at the John Wright sports centre gym in EK a few weeks back. We should consider it an honour that JIm is our strength and conditioning coach so please don't address him as Baldy any more because you wouldn't say it to his face unless you were crazy.

I'll wear my Rangers shirt with more pride than usual tomorrow when I visit SeaWorld Orlando. We played like shit but thank fuck for the win and I'll put my differences about the management to the side for now.

Ya fuckin beauty.