eejay the dj 31,964 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Decent statement that let's them know exactly where we stand.The RFFF should be next to issue a statement letting the haters know that we would drag them through the courts if need be..Mate surely we never stood anywhere else .This has JTs stamp all over it Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eejay the dj 31,964 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 They are right on one count .Any impartial controlling organisation in the world would have came out and said already .There will be no further discussion of this and put it to bed .Fact that they haven't says it all really about who is running Scottish football Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fantana 28,894 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 we shouldn't have said a word till we heard from them first. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FSM 20,892 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 we shouldn't have said a word till we heard from them first.I reckon they're waiting to see what they can leverage first. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BridgeIsBlue 66,606 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Board full of absolute shitebags So out of touch with the fans its unreal. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingKirk 25,631 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Good statement let the children misbehave whilst the adults sort the real issues out Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bears fan 259 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 'Scottish football has suffered enough'. That was their own doing by sticking the boot into us. Pandering to other cubs and the media is the last thing we should be doing.God help us if we get a fight on our hands. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Getstiffed 8,863 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Basically Scottish Football has suffered enough due to its own hatred of us. That's how it reads to me anyway.Clever statement imo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FSM 20,892 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I like how the Daily Record is already spinning it in a way that suggests we're being bullish about it and goading the SPFL. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
writingranger 1,413 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I've got mixed feelings about it. I think you say "you will never take our titles" once and then shut up, becuase who are you saying it to? The people who agree, agree and those who don't won't change their minds. They just think -well you would say that. I'm glad they've said something and hope they say nothing else unless it has real teeth. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NixonRFC 1,329 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Probably not,it would be glorious though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
We Will Follow Rangers 12,919 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Quite a clever statement, assertive yet not threatening.Just makes it clear our titles are sacrosanct and that Scottish football needs to sort its life out, not open Pandora's box. There is no need to say anything else at this point.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siam69 26,872 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Basically Scottish Football has suffered enough due to its own hatred of us. That's how it reads to me anyway. Clever statement imo.Agreed! Measured, sensible, and telling them to be fucking sensible or else! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggy 1,308 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I think the subliminal message is "if you want a fight, you'll get the mother of all battles". Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimjim1690 4,534 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 It's a shot across the bows, now let's see if they respond. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
one55 1,510 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I think it's a good statement! What I took from it is not that we want to suck up to these other teams or the SFA but just want to make scottish football better so we're calling them out. The SFA etc are trying everything they can to hurt us and the longer we're not in the premiership the worse off Scottish football is because really it's only about us vs them. While we're not there it's a one horse race and nobody wants to watch that unless of course you are one of them. The only tainted titles are the ones that lot have got since we went down. Not the ones we won during the EBT's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Avenger 22,567 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 They are right on one count .Any impartial controlling organisation in the world would have came out and said already .There will be no further discussion of this and put it to bed .Fact that they haven't says it all really about who is running Scottish footballSlant eyes needs to appease his fans at all costs! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimgers 565 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Talk softly but wield a big stick to these fookers, so in that vein it's a good statement. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Robot 21,147 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I think the statement should have been delayed for another few days to ensure the scum were the main talking point regarding their awful behaviour on rememberence Sunday. Still a good statement though which deals with our current issues. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle 53,557 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Keep your enemies close......and all that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Avenger 22,567 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Looks like the battle is over before it even started.....THIS, is fucking cringeworthy......... By Sportsmail ReporterPublished: 23:14, 19 June 2012 | Updated: 23:14, 19 June 2012Former Rangers director Dave King has said sorry to Scottish football for the EBT scandal which has plunged the game into civil war.On a day when a Walter Smith-led takeover consortium pulled out of a £6million bid to buy the club, King expressed concern over a perceived lack of humility and acceptance of wrongdoing from the club’s powerbrokers.A First Tier Tribunal into the ‘big tax case’ involving the old club’s use of Employee Benefit Trust schemes has yet to deliver a verdict. Speaking after the SPL ruled that Rangers had a case to answer over the alleged use of dual contracts, however, King offered the first concession from an Ibrox figurehead that the club may have gained a competitive advantage over their rivals‘I think we should be sorry - and I certainly am sorry,’ King told Sportsmail. ‘We owe both the Rangers fans and the Scottish footballing public an apology.‘Some of the representations made have betrayed more of a victim status. But I think somebody needs to apologise.‘Clearly, that is not for Charles Green to do. But I am happy to say that I really believe we should be saying sorry and I think there is something to be sorry about.‘And as a former director when these things were going on, I am minded to do so.‘With regard to EBTs, I was on the board so I have to take some responsibility.‘And I follow the logic of the argument that if we lose the tax case then we probably gained some competitive advantage.‘I believe that, on behalf of myself and most of the board members who were with me and probably agree with me, that we should apologise for that.‘I know that the Murray Group might not say that, because it might be tantamount to admitting it.But I am happy to say it as a director of the football club. And, having been there for the last couple of days, and getting a sense of the anger and anxiety, that it is absolutely appropriate for the previous regime to be sorry.’Club chairmen will decide on July 4 if an Ibrox newco should be allowed to play in the top tier next season.Even if the chairmen vote yes, however, SPL sources have warned that the club could still face expulsion if dual contracts were operated by a board of directors on which King was a member for 12 years.Insisting there was no attempt to gain a deliberate competitive advantage from the use of a Murray group EBT, King added: ‘No one on the board, when I was there, would have had any intention of gaining an advantage.‘But the fact is that I can understand the perception out there now.‘And the way that Rangers have treated the authorities - instead of having a conversation with them around reparation - has been regrettable.‘One of the things I would have looked at as part of a consortium in terms of funding is to try and fund them so that they could make some sort of commercial reparation to the other clubs.‘But let’s do it in a way whereby it is seen to have happened and we come out of it strongly.’ Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelvd1873 7,159 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 It should be followed up by another statement explaining that if any courageous journslists try to keep dragging our name through the mud over this, then they are to be banned along with their association from the club immediately! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cushynumber 25,178 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 ‘And I follow the logic of the argument that if we lose the tax case then we probably gained some competitive advantage." and if we win the big tax case...we didn't gain a competitive advantage?DK being caught on both sides of the fence over 3 years ago......with history definitely being written by the victor. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWAC 2,234 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Looks like the battle is over before it even started.....THIS, is fucking cringeworthy.........By Sportsmail ReporterMaybe you should start a thread on this rather than quoting this as a reply in other threads? We could be forgiven for thinking you have an agenda Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimfanciesthedude 24,540 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 all fine and well issuing statements like this, but they need to have the baws to stand toe to toe with anyone if need beand previous statements from this board in the last 4 years dont fill me with confidence Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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