evenstevens 922 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Dear Steven Naismith,I read with increasing agitation and anger your statement about your objection to transfer to the “newco” Rangers under a TUPE transfer. Let’s leave aside any argument about an employee’s obligations under TUPE to inform the employer at the point of transfer about any objection, because I know you’ll just counter with the legal responsibility of the employer to consult adequately with the employees. It’s a legal minefield and one that the courts will inevitably rule on.However, before moving on to your statement, I would like to start by making one thing clear –I have absolutely no issue with you leaving the football club. Indeed, I believe that should you and other high earners stay, the protection to your salary afforded under the TUPE legislation may well kill my football club. Added to that fact, your very generous agreement to accept a wage reduction last season kept alive hopes of exiting administration via a CVA route. I thank you and your colleagues for that sacrifice.However, I cannot countenance why you came out and said the things you did in your statement. You stated that you believe you owe “no loyalty” to the “newco” because it “has no history”. Notwithstanding the damage that this kind of “no history” statement inflicts on the club and fans, your views on what you should be loyal to are astounding and baffling to say the least.Perhaps you can enlighten me on loyalty and what being loyal means as a professional footballer? I would have thought it would be to your manager, your teammates, the fans, the staff within the club. I can imagine a certain loyalty to those who pay your wages but in reality we are in fact loyal to things that are tangible to us –people, friends, colleagues and our beliefs. Based on your experiences of being a professional footballer, to what extent are you ever in fact loyal to a “corporate body”? Let me expand on this for you and ask you some questions:1 –In times gone by you may have walked out of your large house into one of the many luxury cars that was paid for by Rangers Football Club and driven to Murray Park. Upon arrival or prior to leaving, you may have sat with your teammates and enjoyed a staff meal prepared by the kitchen staff. You may also have gone into the dressing rooms to get ready for training, and put on your freshly cleaned and pressed training kit. Let me ask you this –who did you thank for these things? Did you thank the “corporate body” that paid your wages, or paid the wages of the staff who pampered you? No. You praised yourself for the hard work you put in at Kilmarnock, the Rangers manager who signed you,the Rangers manager who plays you in the 1 st team, your teammates for making it a good place to play football and the individual staff involved for looking after you so well. You may well have paused and and thanked the institution that is Rangers Football Club for the privileged position you held –but I’ll bet £1000 of my money against £10 of yours that you didn’t pause and thank the “corporate body” who owned Rangers.2 –You have previously had 2 lengthy spells on the sidelines with injury in your time at Rangers. I would imagine you were grateful for the contract which saw you receive full pay as well as unparalleled access to medical specialists and physio to speed up your return to the 1 st team?I imagine it also took great mental fortitude on your part to come through that. Again though, let me ask you this –did you thank the “corporate body” who paid your wages on time prior to and on your return to the 1 st team? Did you thank the “corporate body” for the access to that unparalleled medical support? No, of course not. You would have thanked your agent for negotiating the contract and accepted that your treatment during injury was part and parcel of the standard of treatment you expect to receive as a player of Rangers Football Club. Who provides that excellence Steven –is it a corporate body? It may be financed by the corporate body, but it is the staff involved and the culture of success ingrained in an institution over 140 years that provides the standard of excellence.3 –And on to your teammates and manager Steven. During the wins, the losses, the titles, the heartbreak and the European adventures –did you win and lose as a team with your teammates and manager? Of course you did. Did the corporate body that oversaw all of those achievements, mishaps and adventures cross your mind then Steven? Did you thank the faceless entity that constitutes a corporate body when you won on the park? No, you did not.4 –The fans Steven. Did we die with the old corporate body? Did we pass away when Sevco transferred all of the Rangers history, memories, staff, stadium, training ground into a new corporate body? Did the fans who worshipped you suddenly become obsolete, a thing of the past, something that no longer exists? No we did not.With all of that in mind, I find myself wanting to ask you the following question:Why is the name of the corporate body owning Rangers Football Club suddenly such an issue to you?The answer is very, very obvious. Quite simply, it no longer suits your footballing ambition to be employed by a football club who may be playing outwith the SPL and Europe for the next 3 seasons.I actually understand that rationale and wish you had said that, and only that. Leave, by all means –there’s the door. We will carry on without you.The thing is Steven; everyone involved will prove to you that the great institution that is Rangers Football Club will be the same today,tomorrow, the next day and hopefully for the next 140 years. Rangers Football Club has a past, a present and a future.Insulting our intelligence by claiming otherwise, just to suit your own selfish agenda, was the worst possible way to say goodbye. TamCoopz 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Blue_Flash 390 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Very well said OP, very true points, to say we have no history now, what a complete and utter ignorant bastard, do you not care how you are making all the millions of fans that have paid your wages, moved you from Killie player to STAR, no you just have forgotten everyone in an instant, it is sickening and very very upsetting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 1,150 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Bang on Get it sent. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steg-il Ostenstad 11 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Good post! Very well put! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
whytes3 254 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Great post Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexiboy 157 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Great letter get it posted.i just wished they had waited until after the vote then let the club know they wanted to leave for football reasons.let the club get a bit of cash for them at the agreed reduced price and they walk away with there heads held high and still loved by the fans because for me Naismith last season and a bit was outstanding and I loved watching him giving the beggars dogs abuse every game he played again them.but I'm afraid what he said about my club makes me sick for the last few weeks I've been defending our club to the tims that we are still rangers with history n all then theses to pricks come along and say that for there financial gain.i hope they enjoy there cash but don't ever come near my club again we don't need the likes of you Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnMcGuigan84 0 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Couldn't have been better said. Thumbs up Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
delamonty 992 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Makes too much sense for that traitor.. but get it sent. A wee bit condescending but deserved! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpareBear 4 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Countenance doesn't mean understand. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisleyroad 894 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 well penned sir Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmiston Drive 3,846 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I would send it to andy kerr and ask him to make sure he gets it, as he seems to be a buddy of his.........................well thought out summary bud Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmiston Drive 3,846 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Countenance doesn't mean understand.As buggery does not mean a pat on the back...pat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
castlemilk bear 3 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 100% bang on Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcbear 10,924 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 If anyone "owed" us a season it was Naismith, thanks mate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKingObv 10,712 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Countenance doesn't mean understand.You're right. Though it makes sense still in the context.I'm sure it means tolerate.Oh, good letter Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky_ 893 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 your wasting your time dresing it up like that. Naismith knows it, everybody knows it, what he stated at the presser was all just shite & excuses. The bottom line is he wants out his contract to prostitute a fat sign-on fee elsewhere due to the clubs not having to pay a transfer fee for him. deplorable. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.T.G 10,773 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Absolutely no one could have put that any better Seriously spot on Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
evenstevens 922 Posted June 25, 2012 Author Share Posted June 25, 2012 I did wonder if countenance meant that but couldn't be arsed checking! If anyone has an email address I'll send it and will take out the sarcastic bit re his intelligence Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
evenstevens 922 Posted June 25, 2012 Author Share Posted June 25, 2012 I did wonder if countenance meant that but couldn't be arsed checking! If anyone has an email address I'll send it and will take out the sarcastic bit re his intelligence Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectre 1,663 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I did wonder if countenance meant that but couldn't be arsed checking! If anyone has an email address I'll send it and will take out the sarcastic bit re his intelligenceJust tweet him a link to this page, or send the letter to:Steven NaismithEverton Football ClubGoodison ParkGoodison RoadLiverpooland I'm sure it will make it into his hands. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombaybadboy08 15,660 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Brilliant post mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivybank 4,654 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 well said op.but too intelligent for naismith to understand.on the other hand send it to whittaker he s sure to accept the oscar! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangers Lady 2,380 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Trying to get credit for taking a wage cut when he was still unavailable for selection.This after nearly 2 years of picking up £20k plus a week with no return for the club.Even if Charles Green raped his mother, taking umbrage with him without consideration for Rangers & the fans is woefulShameful Shit from a former fans favourite Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dekd 7 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Countenance doesn't mean understand.Not per se, but in the context that the sentence was penned, it makes sense - can't approve or agree...More to the point a very well written and thought out reply, worthy of actually getting to the little walk-away gimp! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVB 2,560 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Nice work evens. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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