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I hope this case will be heard somewhere obscure where no pre-prejudice could possibly be at work.

Ie in Glasgow, it's sad to say but 3 Timmy judges could easily fuck us.

R they tax/accountancy judges or just run of the mill judges?

FTT judges can really be any legally qualified judges appointed by the Judicial Appointment Commission, however they do have specialist pockets.

My understanding is that we are being heard in Edinburgh. There is no FTT in Glasgow (tu)

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I am confident but I don't think it's escaped anyone's notice that Craig Whyte keeps referring to administration,Either way I think Rangers F.C will be ok.

Being a business man you wouldn't get involved with a club the size of Rangers if you were going to walk away and leave them in a mess,who's going to trust you enough to go into business with you or sell their wee egg to you if you've had such a high profile case of making an arse of yourself?

I don't tell anyone how much I have in the bank so I don't expect our man to,that's just me though :)

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Surely not :(

Absolutely. (tu)

I think this is a tactic though. If we stopped paying them, it might be an admission of guilt so we have reduced the amount. To be fair though, i wont know until I see the 2011 accounts if we paid anything in last season but i presume we will have (tu)

And re a further question as to how long it will last. The sessions are held in 2 week slots. Our first session was last Oct/Nov. 2nd session was in April. And our 3rd session kicks off again in november. If the judge has heard enough, he will rule in november. If he hasnt, it will be given a new date of April 2012 for week 7 and 8 (tu)

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I am confident but I don't think it's escaped anyone's notice that Craig Whyte keeps referring to administration,Either way I think Rangers F.C will be ok.

Being a business man you wouldn't get involved with a club the size of Rangers if you were going to walk away and leave them in a mess,who's going to trust you enough to go into business with you or sell their wee egg to you if you've had such a high profile case of making an arse of yourself?

I don't tell anyone how much I have in the bank so I don't expect our man to,that's just me though :)

That's all well and gd but whytes no dafty. He is the largest secured debtor and therefore will be paid 1st "if" admin happened to us, this IMO was no mistake, he'll get paid but no-one else will inc hmrc (as far as I'm aware) and then he can start to rebuild the club with the money that RFC owes him.

I think that's how it's set up. Anyone confirm?

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Absolutely. (tu)

I think this is a tactic though. If we stopped paying them, it might be an admission of guilt so we have reduced the amount. To be fair though, i wont know until I see the 2011 accounts if we paid anything in last season but i presume we will have (tu)

And re a further question as to how long it will last. The sessions are held in 2 week slots. Our first session was last Oct/Nov. 2nd session was in April. And our 3rd session kicks off again in november. If the judge has heard enough, he will rule in november. If he hasnt, it will be given a new date of April 2012 for week 7 and 8 (tu)

Is wks 7&8 defo the last possible weeks?

Also seems a bit drawn oot tbh

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There are 3(??) independent judges at the First Tier Tribunal who decide(this is where we are at just now. Moving into week 5 of evidence)

If we lose and decide to appeal, then we need to demonstrate on what grounds we are appealing and they have to be considered reasonable before it gets passed to an Upper Tribunal which again is specialist judges.

No jury. (tu)

How do you know all about this?

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I didn't think the case was due till November?

How many wks will it run for?

It's not really been publicised that's it's actually going on as we spk

The FTT is not sitting at the moment. It began last year for a two week period then continued in March/April 2011,again for two weeks.I believe it reconvenes at the end of November.

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That's all well and gd but whytes no dafty. He is the largest secured debtor and therefore will be paid 1st "if" admin happened to us, this IMO was no mistake, he'll get paid but no-one else will inc hmrc (as far as I'm aware) and then he can start to rebuild the club with the money that RFC owes him.

I think that's how it's set up. Anyone confirm?

I'd agree with that and believe you are correct if it comes to the worst but he's still here and not fucking off with his money.

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Just one question.

Could we go into administration during this season? If we win the league, I would take it when the season is finished.

U can go into admin at any time. You'd get deducted 10points for the coming season if it happened close season.

We'd start on minus 10 :(

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U can go into admin at any time. You'd get deducted 10points for the coming season if it happened close season.

We'd start on minus 10 :(

Yeah but at least we will have won 4 in a row. We could still possibly make up a 10 point lose over 38 games at the start. If we go into admin now, we will lose this title IMO.

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That's all well and gd but whytes no dafty. He is the largest secured debtor and therefore will be paid 1st "if" admin happened to us, this IMO was no mistake, he'll get paid but no-one else will inc hmrc (as far as I'm aware) and then he can start to rebuild the club with the money that RFC owes him.

I think that's how it's set up. Anyone confirm?

Not quite but almost.

Rangers owe Whyte £28m

If we go down that route then the first £28m raised from the sale goes to Whyte.

If Whyte2 was to offer £28m to buy the entire club, then there would be a wooden dollar transaction and he would own the club lock stock but with no debt to HMRC.

All other creditors would get nothing, including Bond holders, Season ticket holders etc.

However if the administrator decides that he could get more for the creditors by piece selling all the assets, thats more dangerous. (tu)

An administrators duty is to get the most for the creditors as possible (tu)

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Yeah but at least we will have won 4 in a row. We could still possibly make up a 10 point lose over 38 games at the start. If we go into admin now, we will lose this title IMO.

We'd only be one point behind, so I dont know where you get that from. But we aint going to lose.

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Yeah but at least we will have won 4 in a row. We could still possibly make up a 10 point lose over 38 games at the start. If we go into admin now, we will lose this title IMO.

I'd agree with that, it would be our u19's for the remainder of the season.

We'd most likely lose the lead we've gained and eventually lose the league

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Unfortunately, Tax advisors, lawyers and auditors get it wrong.

It is HMRC's position that the advice Rangers got, or our interpretation of the advice was not correct. (tu)

Maybe i'm over simplifying things but - if the advisors were correct then happy days. If they were wrong and gave incorrect advice then we can go after them (or more accurately in view of the amount their Professional Indemnity insurers).

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