backup

I can't quite believe I read that, unfortunately I did.

Have a read dave, it has everything to do with the club and RIFC.
"During an offer period, the offeror and persons acting in concert with it must not sell any securities in the offeree company except with the prior consent of the Panel. The Panel will not give consent where a mandatory offer under Rule 9 is being made."

I can't quite believe I read that, unfortunately I did.

Both ?

You really are showing yourself up. Maybe just leave this thread to decent people and try and remember who the real sectarian club in Glasgow is. We had Catholics playing for us long before SAF married Cathy. 
You also realise he was married before he joined Rangers don't you?

With heart and hand, have a read at this and then take a fucking look at yourself. 
 
Tell us how you became a Rangers fan?
AF: “I went to school only about 200 yards from the stadium, and until I started playing football on a Saturday afternoon, I was always going to the games.
“My dad was a celtic fan and he used to take us to games there. But when I went to Broomloan Road Primary School, my brother and I started supporting Rangers and never missed a game.
“When I first started going there were some great players like Willie Woodburn and Willie Thornton. They were my heroes growing up and the defence then had the title of the ‘Iron Curtain’ – and they had a real aura of invincibility about them.
“My first game would have been around 1947 or 48, and it was a midweek game against Queen of the South.”
How did it feel when you finally signed for your boyhood idols?
AF: “It was a long, drawn-out process. The previous season, it had been rumbling along in the papers, and I was hoping it was going to happen.
“So I went on tour with Scotland all over the world and, when I came back, all the press were waiting at the airport as the papers had heard that Rangers had made a bid for me.
“There was nothing I could tell them unfortunately, but in the corner was a man called Jim Rodger, who was a journalist and a fantastic man. So he beckoned my wife Cathy over, and he said ‘tell Alex I’ll be up to see him tonight’. He knew everything.
“The following week I was in my house in Simshill and a car drove up. A young man came out and he turned out to be Scot Symon’s son.
“He told me that his dad would like to see me and if I could go to Mr Symon’s house that night. So I went up, agreed the deal and it was fantastic.
“My dad was a quiet man and when I signed for Rangers I asked my mother what he was thinking. She told me he was very proud. He never went to see celtic again and started following me at Rangers.”
How would you describe yourself as a player when you signed for Rangers?
AF: “Most people would say I was aggressive. I was always a committed player, I would say I had a decent football brain and I was a goalscorer.
“Unfortunately, I couldn’t have gone to Rangers at a worse time. celtic were the dominant team back then – and they were a fantastic team with a fantastic manager.
“I think he was the deciding factor between the two teams. Ability wise, I don’t think there was much between us, but Jock Stein had something about him.
“It’s not a criticism of Davie White – he was a decent man – but he was just too young to take on the job then. Rangers were arguably the biggest club in Britain then and it was a mammoth job to take on without great experience.”
When you joined Rangers, who were the biggest characters in the dressing room?
AF: “Wee Willie Henderson was definitely one. He had a great personality and he was a big player for us at that time.
“John Greig was a strong character too and there is no doubt that he was Rangers. I lost count of the number of times he played with injuries and he carried the team at times.
“I was friendly with John, Dave Smith, Orjan Persson and Davie Provan. We all seemed to go out together and Davie Provan ended up becoming my assistant at St Mirren.
“We used to talk football a lot. I think I was taking my coaching badges at that time and there were a number of younger players who were really interested in the game too.
“Sandy Jardine was a real student of the game, as was Willie Johnston.”
You finished your first season as top goalscorer, but it still ended in disappointment.
AF: “It was a tragic season, as we went through the whole season unbeaten until the last game against Aberdeen when we lost.
“I put us 2-1 up after about 65 minutes, but they scored two goals near the end.”
There were a lot of mind games played by celtic’s Jock Stein at that time. Is that where you picked them up from?
AF: “Definitely. You’ve got to use it at the right time though – it wears thin if you use it all the time. He knew how to use it and it had an impact on our dressing room as we started getting nervous towards the end of the season.”
Were you made a scapegoat for the Scottish Cup Final defeat to celtic in 1969?
AF: “I’m not sure what was happening in the background at Rangers at the time, but I think he was up against it at the time to play me in the final, and it didn’t work as we lost 4-0.
“I’ve watched that game about three times and I’ve taken down every detail about it. We were terrible and it was a complete disaster.
“I never realised just how bad we were, although I wasn’t the worst player out there.
“I knew we were up against it tactically though. It was a big chance for me to get back in the good books and it was a bigger game for me than it was for a few other players.”
Overall, do you feel you were given a fair crack of the whip of Rangers?
AF: “When Rangers bought Colin Stein, they asked me to go out on a swap deal for him, but I didn’t want to leave the club.
“It became a dispute between me and David [White]. When Colin came, he and Willie Johnston hit off a partnership straight away, and Colin scored something like three hat-tricks in his first four games when he first joined.
“I’d been a substitute in those games, but when a guy comes along and has that sort of record, you can have no answer to that and you just have to hold your hands up.
“But there were some games I came in alongside Colin Stein and did really well, but towards the end of the second season. Colin got sent off against Clyde and was banned for the Scottish Cup Final.
“Colin played really well when he came in, but I still think I could have played a part.”
How did your move away from Rangers come about?
AF: “On the day I left, I said to myself ‘I don’t want to go’. I had an offer from Nottingham Forrest and I spoke with Jim Baxter about it, as he had re-joined Rangers from Forest.
“He told me it was a good club and gave me some ideas about the kind of money and the like they were able to offer.
“My wife really didn’t want to go to England at that stage, but I was needing to get a game and she reluctantly agreed to come with me.
“But I met with Davie White, and he told me that Falkirk’s manager Willie Cunningham had been on and was looking to sign me. Falkirk were in the Second Division at that time, so I told Davie I didn’t want to go, and I would just stay at Rangers.
“But I phoned Willie out of courtesy and he made an unbelievable offer to me. I came out of the office at Ibrox and came down the stairs, where I bumped into Willie Thornton.
“He told me I didn’t really need to go. What he was trying to tell me is that there was going to be a change at Rangers. I didn’t read it and the next week Willie Waddell was the new manager of Rangers. Had I stayed, I think I would have been alright.
“But that’s life, and I had to make the decision of whether or not to walk out the front door at Ibrox. Eventually, I got my boots and signed for Falkirk.”
Do you regret that now?
AF: “I do. I should definitely have stayed.”
How much did the way it ended for you at Rangers go on to shape you in later life?
AF: “It gave me a driving force. I went to Falkirk and did really well and became the player-coach there.
“They sacked the manager Willie Cunningham and brought in John Prentice. He didn’t want me as he wanted to bring in his own man, so I left and went to Ayr United for a year.
“When I went there, it was on the premise that I was going to be a player-coach with Ally MacLeod to replace their then-assistant coach Jim McFadyen as he had been offered a new position in teaching and would have to move.
“But his move fell through and I ended up just staying as a player. That was fine as Ally MacLeod was a fantastic character and it was a great experience to play under him.
“After my year there I went into management at East Stirling. It was part-time and I only had eight players when I took over.
“But I had a desire to do well and that I was not going to fail.”
Did you enjoy beating Rangers as a manager?
AF: “I always did. It’s a funny thing as when I went to Aberdeen I stated that you always had to beat Rangers and celtic.
“They were Scottish Football, and they were the history of Scottish Football. To win anything in Scotland, you had to beat them, although to be fair, Dundee United had a terrific side at that time under Jim McLean.
You were given the chance to manage Rangers in the 1980s. Looking back, is that something you regret not taking?
AF: “I may have been more attracted to the job had Willie Waddell approached me for it. But it wasn’t Willie Waddell, it was John Paton [then Rangers chairman] who spoke to me.
“So I spoke to Scot Symon and he asked if it was Waddell who had made the approach. On finding out it wasn’t, he said he would worry about that as Willie was still running the show.
“That was one of the reasons I felt uneasy about it, so I turned it down.
“I think I did the right thing going to England from Aberdeen.”
You’ve worked with Walter Smith at Scotland and at Manchester United. How highly do you rate him?
AF: “He’s an absolutely fantastic man. He’s intelligent, patient, but when he needs a temper, he has it.
“I tried to get him to come to Aberdeen as my assistant when he was at Dundee United, but wee Jim McLean had him on one of his famous 40-year contracts with 10-year options, or something like that.
“I was on holiday when I phoned Jim to ask to approach Walter, and he went mental down the phone! So that was the end of that.
“But I took him to Mexico for the World Cup in 1986, and then brought him to Manchester United.
“I was so pleased that he ended up going back to Rangers as that was the right thing for him. Rangers is his club, and there is no doubt about that.”

You are wrong. The loans are simple loans they are not convertible loans as is stated clearly in the accounts.

Keep tokin the crack pipe ffs.

of course you can make money from Football, wish people would bin that lazy quoute 

But that’s no allowed..

Anyone who thinks Fenway will take us over is living in cloud cuckoo land

Well maybe if C1872 had been constructed and run along the same lines as FR instead of being the boards little puppy to be petted in hope of getting a seat on the board - the pertinent questions would have been getting asked and any subsequent mealy-mouthed pish from Robertson publicly followed up on.
It's almost safe to say had the roles been reversed, there would have been an EGM by now.

for split ends 

100%
And it was those who ignored the calls by SOS to boycott that kept the club alive.
 

Guess that will be with borrowed money. King cant raise the cash for the offer.
All very strange.

I fucking despise the rebel. But id rather one copy and paste than every cunt clicks a link. 
Also difficult to know why you are anti something, or how to challenge it, if you shut your eyes and put your fingers in your ears to it ?

Letham is said to non to pleased that Barry Scott has gone, he introduced him.

What we take from this is confirmation that there's been a bust--up between King and at least two board members. Cause of bust-up?  Details of the Gerrard deal?  King's current court problems? Combination of the two perhaps. 

He’ll be back in the SJR next season with visits to Bar 72.

Whatever become of dave's heralded "project 2022" ?

I respectfully disagree.

Whatever become of dave's heralded "project 2022" ?

The bank had security over Ibrox for years, why the sudden horror of anyone else even king having security, assets are there to work for a company.

You don't think king deliberately lied to deceive, you must have missed all his lying and deceiving in courts and in public.