None of you will be surprised at today’s opinion from the Court of Session in Edinburgh that Rangers’ deal with Ticketus cannot be set aside, despite some absolutely pitiful reporting to the contrary. It’s fine to get things wrong every now and then, we all get Duff information on occasion, but please….
It’s worth recording, Ticketus may only have paid £20m + vat but the tickets they own are worth in the region of £40m. High risk investments require a high return.
Rangers’ administrators argued that the deal inhibited their ability to rescue the company but the heroic Blue Knights submitted a bid accommodating Ticketus, undermining the administrators’ argument. If only the Blue Knights were in a position to strike a deal with Craig Whyte they could be regarded as helping the situation instead of being hapless fools.
Next up is HMRC, who have not capitulated and agreed to accept a few pennies in the pound. They have not agreed to accept anything less than all monies owed. Soon after that we will hear that no court has been able to set aside Craig Whyte’s security over Ibrox. The most underappreciated man no longer in Scotland remains the only person with a reasonable chance of phoenix-ing Rangers.
The first 26,000 (approx.) tickets sold to each Rangers game for the next three years are owned by Ticketus. In the event a phoenix occurs, Rangers will have to revert back to budgets from their glory days of the 1950s – we will soon be told this is a great omen.
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theweegreenman
Aye, I fully expect another of our team to be stretchered off too. Home turf – the bully’s advantage.
HT – I know you’ve said inside the ground will be the safest place to be, but I genuinely fear for our travelling support tomorrow. I hope the police, police the divide stringently…
U
HT
we are all humbled in your presence.
uly
Certainly for that couple of hours the Celtic supporters at Ibrox will be safe. It’s important that after the game those leaving the stadium stay in large groups, no stragglers and no lingering. They will see that as their opportunity.
My biggest worry is genuinely for guys like yourself who’ll be watching the game, as it happens, in mixed hostelries. If we win their volatile and reckless nature will come to the fore. Supplemented by alcohol, this is a potentially disastrous combination.
I’d suggest that you find another venue just for tomorrow.
HT
no such problems await us in the PV…. o))
BT
Humility is merely one of my many qualities :-))))
Just back from walking the dog, it’s warming up nicely, not a cloud in sight…. Magic.
V
So is Wee Wullie Bluenose definitely getting air time tomorrow for “We don’t do paying our way”? – desperate peepil.
Partizan on 24 March, 2012 at 09:01 said:
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Good luck with the bets and I hope ye get to take the lassie out.
V
Ulysses McGhee 9.45
Excellent and accurate post. Don’t bother looking for a job at the Daily Record.
Totally agree U.
Hope Lenny tells them not take any crap from them tomorrow.
I would go for a draw just now and at least 2 of their cloggers stretchered off.
BT
No you’ll be quite protected :-))
Just be careful heading home please.
BT
P. Hutch was in the Camphill at one point last night – he probably gave Stephen his character, hence his quiet demeanour later in the evening…
HH
Giggs
On the square slice front – at close of business yesterday £40 raised.
And you were all sneering.
HT
Have never, would never drink in you know where for a derby. When we first moved here, me an my big mate went there after a derby to watch Man U Arsenal or some such other. We had comfortably won so we thought it would be empty and safe – it was neither. People we vaguely knew were leery and aggressive… Left after a pint. It was that visit which led me to put SKY in the house. So, mates up and bizarrely enough a turkey for dinner and prosecco chilling in the fridge – been there since xmas so I’m not tempting fate. Guess what I’m making for dessert????
U
HH
Ulysses 0945.. Brilliant!!!
Pfayr 0946.. Agree.. Front page of today’s herald has a ” bidding war ”
Starting for the tax dodgers.. Comical if it was not such blatant rhetoric..
Let’s pump them tomorrow Celtic for ALL their past sins.. And really rub Sally’s nose in it…
HH
Neil Lennon could be in trouble with the SFA again – he has until the end of next week to “explain” his criticism of Collum.
Should be easy – Stoksey was fouled, wee baldy so and so didn’t give it. Criminal.
I’ve got a nasty feeling that one of our important players will have his season ended tomorrow and that the perpetrator of the assault will receive no more than a yellow card.
Win Lose or Draw
We will cop for the blame…………..Gone will be the guid o’ scoddish fooooball.
It’ll all be about US and Our manager………..
What with Bob Shortstop, Darryl Clovenhoof and the dying breed………
Hateful headlines, and much flag waving from the rotten-mob’s paid-up
jeer-leaders
Shut them down.
I hope the forces of law provide proper protection to our travelling support tomorrow- and worry that they seem to have lifted another young GB’er in a dawn raid yesterday, apparently for singing a political ditty at Hampden- having set the bar thus we should expect around 50,000 dawn raids on the rankers support who attended the recent Kilmarnock game- but I wouldnt hold my breath waiting
Glendalystonsils likes a mr whippy with his lime green jelly on 24 March, 2012
I wouldn’t even give you odds on that……………
Strongest 5 man midfield we can muster and the big Polish battler up front on his own.
Give them a taste of their own medicine and do it early on like Broonie did to Laughatme a couple of seasons ago. Get their cards marked, especially that animal Elbows.
uly
why not steak pie..or a co purvey? o))
We will not gloat if/when we win the league tomorrow at ibroke. Naw, does Dolly Parton sleep on her back!!
Hail Hail and show no mercy
KINGLuBO
giggs
it was mrs BT, home at 10.30….
uly
Enjoy your day and I hope the pavlova turns out well!
Top of the morning to you all from a haar-shrouded Fife.
As a layman who has had some experience of arbitration and civil court proceedings North and South of the border I am amused by the simplification of the complex issues surrounding the Hun by journalists who seem to be interpreting the legal status of matters on the basis of what they would like them to be.
The opinions of lawyers are just that..opinions. For every lawyer who sees an issue in one light there is another ten who see it differently. They are not infallible and the law is not set in stone. Laws are drafted to cover most circumstances but not every set of circumstances.
Even senior lawyers such as Lord Hodge get it wrong and have their judgements/decisions /directions overturned. Lord Hodge recently admitted to “a material misdirection” in his summing up of a murder trial. This allowed the convicted murderer to appeal his conviction.
D & P have been the most active litigants lately but there are others yet to have their say, so we should just sit back and eat the pop-corn while events unfold because this could take quite a while.
Oh and we should pay heed to the views of people like Paul67 and Paul McConville, but just ignore the ramblings of that long-established old legal team of Jackson, English, Traynor, Young, & Co. because they just talk pure pish.
BT
The sausage thing has me baffled.
You go into the butchers. Get the man or woman to cut you one slice – weigh it, price it then donate the cost to the ‘fighting fund’.
I take it they then say – stick your sausage up your arse, we don’t do paying our way – then walk out the shop waving a union jack whistling the Billy Boys?
Well, I know that’s common practice in Larkhall, but I’m wondering if it translates to the leafier connurbations?
U
Michael Collins (full movie)
blantyretim on 24 March, 2012 at 09:55 said:
Stephen McManus was sitting quietly in the Camphill last night..
must be injured…
no, he is on loan to Bristol City, can’t play against his masters
Morning all from a sunny la suisse.
Anyone got any news on Her Majies visit to Manchester yesterday? Did she go for a maraud about?
Has anyone told Sally yet that the Chancellor is putting VAT on hot pies and the like? Maybe he will be walking away from Greggs.
……..and another thing, Lenny going up in front of the beaks, how come butcher wasn’t brought to task when he was threatening the referees with a fleet of ambulances.
Oh aye that’s just friendly banter.
Feck the SFA
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Sometimes we all just need to hold our hands up and admit that the sleek sharp commercial acumen over at Ibrox has to be applauded.
The new club shop is the work of a genius!
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Hail Hail
Estadio
Haud oan a minit. If the deal with Ticketus wasn’t signed until after the Tims secret agent bought RFC (iids – in incredibly deep sh*t), what exactly was SoDeM looking at when, as he claims, CW demonstrated to him that he had the funds to pay off their debts etc….?
Let me guess, another company funds misappropriated to use as part of his cunning plans to kill off over TFOD.
what`s this sausage craic …must have missed that one
The Wind That Shakes The Barley 2006