It’s not like we didn’t warn them. Charles Green, with his ‘blame it on bigotry’ and ‘Rangersitis’ nonsense was an even more transparent charlatan than wee Craig Whyte. Green moved in, fed them the nonsense they were oh so willing to swallow, and made off with their millions. All carried out in broad daylight.
The financial realities were self-evident from day one of Newco’s existence. For a while you had to wonder if any of vast number of fans, journalists and fan-journalists with computers had a spreadsheet between them. But, a more powerful force than Rangersitis had taken hold – vanity. The kind of vanity only those afflicted by a notion of supremacy are susceptible to.
Their club was liquidated, a newco was formed. It adopted Rangers’ name while the original club was still an SFA member (and granting permission for their players to turn out for was for the time known as ‘Sevco Scotland’.
Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. This isn’t an easy pill to swallow. Around these parts people invest the kind of sentiment in their football team which goes into nationalism elsewhere, occasionally causing wars. It’s a primitive but natural part of all of us, so perhaps we should have been more respectful of the feelings of others at the time. Cough.
If someone was able to chart the world’s Cognitive Dissonance harvest it would have been off the chart for the last two years, brought about when a degrading reality met a supremacists vanity. The subsequent scarcity of Armageddon (biff), Celtic’s flourishing Champions League action (bang), the new New Firm (whallop) were all late blows which none of the Jokers at Ibrox anticipated. Even Kilmarnock managed to sort themselves out without collapsing into administration.
Without the ability to accept credit or debit cards, or with the bank’s authority to allow fans to automatically renew season tickets, the signs are written as tall as Ibrox’ Club Deck. I can’t see more than a few thousand being prepared to throw their money into a landfill site.
Season ticket renewal deadline has been moved to a week before when next month’s wages are due. Right now the directors have a reasonable aspiration that tens of thousands of fans will renew but on 17 May, the day after the deadline, reality should crystallise. If there was a spread bet available, I’d put my money on administration in the days to follow.
Money talks, it don’t sing and dance and it don’t do walking away….
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LG shot just pushed over
Corner cleared
Brown sclaffs a shot wide
KC shot deflected for corner after Brown burst forward
Ernie,
Far right and left. Both are odious. Both are oh so similar.
VVD heDs corner across goal. Cleared by ICT
Steinreignedsupreme
Amido signed for the future? If he’s not given a game now, when will he?
LG tracks back 70 odd yards to stop IC t break
If Broony could shoot and pass he would be the 20 million pound man!!
Brown shot blocked after good work between him and AM
Neg Anon 2
This one –
Better 100 years of the Tories than the turn on the Poles and the Pakis that would follow independence failing to deliver.
Former Labour Spin Doctor.
An official person.
Show me some Cyber nat nasty like that and I will believe you not idiot posts from guys with pseudonyms.
This is the true face of the cyber Brit nat.
Elfmeter..
Penalty. Stokes to take it
Penalty as Stefan is sandwiched
3-0
AS to take
GOAL 3-0
Balde signed for the future
How is he supposed to improve if he never gets played …hardly plays fur the reserve team ( U20)also , can we afford £1.8m on projects
Perfect penalty.
Match ball for Stoksie.
wooop
Anto….
You know sometimes to shut people up you just have to put the baw in the net!
AS sent GK to the left
AS shoots low to right corner
Penalty! Yess Stokesy hat trick.
Pfayr
Not sure what quote you refer to
Snake Plissken
16:10 on 27 April, 2014
A failed nationalist project WOULD result in the facepainters looking for scapegoats.
Pen ICT. Joke decision
Inverness get a penalty
FFS
Penalty for ICT as VVD wins ball
LUDICROUS
Saved FF
Strength wins the ball…elfmeter..jeez oh
Billy bhoy 05
The one you’ve blatantly refused to explain ….posted several times by Ernie Lynch
FF saves
Yes The Wall
Justice is served
The great wall saves a (non) penalty.
Yesss Fraser Forster!
Conflicted here ….I have CFC to win and both teams to score …
Pfay
Agree totally regarding Balde, also disappointed we are not play 2 or 3 younger ones