Anyone consuming media coverage would think that the on-going investigation into the registration of Rangers (since renamed RFC 2012) players over the last decade or so was the most pressing matter within The Rangers (until recently, Sevco). I really don’t think so, although it is a useful rallying flag. The EBT issue is not short of drama but there are more immediate concerns.
More importantly, I hear The Rangers are still trying to raise the initial £10m Founding Investors capital. The Sevco Investor Presentation offered these Founding Investors two shares for each one purchased, “effectively doubling their contributions” ahead of a stock-market floatation later this year. My understanding is they hope to raise £20m at that floatation, without the two-for-one share incentive, in order to see them through several years in the Scottish Football League and at least four years without European income.
If/when this matter materialises, remember, in 1994 Fergus looked you in the eye and allowed you to buy into Celtic at exactly the same rate he and the other early investors did. This model worked, anyone hoping to emulate Fergus’ success would do well to offer fans the same terms.
The size of the total capital requirement may be as much of a disincentive to early investors as the terms currently on offer. If you put significant sums in now and the floatation fails to deliver enough cash to allow the company to continue trading, your investment is at risk. I hope Laurel and Hardy at Hampden haven’t deleted their Armageddon slides.
Even selling 40,000 adult season tickets for Ibrox at £268 each would bring in only £9m (ex-vat), so there is a good chance this company will burn cash reserves for some time, assuming they pay taxes, of course, which was apparently optional for some in the recent past.
Target closing date for Foundation Investors was 6 July with Q3 / Q4 slot for floatation on the AIM market, so we should be seeing a prospectus sometime soon if plans are back on track. If Charles Green pulls this off he deserves some sort of Businessman of the Year award.
Anyone who thinks the drama is over still hasn’t realised the enormity of the situation.
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The Big Lebowski & Jackie Brown for this Bhoy
Sentimental CSC
Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Champions. C’mon Wee Oscar.
09:35 on
8 September, 2012
In my top 100 movies (how can you pick 3)
The Wave (German with English subs)
Brilliant film!
Charles Greens favourite film;
Brassed Off
eee by gum lad…
3 that spring to mind!
(1) Restless Natives – brilliant backing music from Big Country. Cult film – VERY funny!
(2) Mr Skeffington – superb performance from Bette Davis.
(3) Le Quai Des Brumes – excellent French film with an excellent performance from the lovely Michele Morgan.
Bad news about big Sammy,hope he’s a quick healer and returns quicker than the predicted 6 weeks
Best film gotta be
Once upon a time in America
Good morning fellow Celts from a foggy M6 en route back for the game today
Brassard off that Sammi had an injury…remember his last really good spell in WGS team was ruined by injury. damn and blast
Hopefully the two new strikers can cover but doubt they can be that good. …hoping and praying
Was in a pub in Berkshire last night Engurland game on no-one paying much attention …a wee buzz when goals scored then back to their chat.
HH
21-5-79
Charles Green starred in the film Kes.
Or was it Billy Liar?
Little known fact.
A shot at glory, about a struggling football team with a useless manager, starring Ally McOist.
Little did he know dreams do come true.
DJBEE,
us EK-ers excommunicated Greenhills years ago, it is now known as lower strathaven, and Jobo is not licenced to provide weather reports for it.
In saying that it’s always wet and windy.
Try Spoorloos (The Vanishing) if you don’t mind subtitles. Dutch French production. Not the Hollywood remake. Brilliant.
Best Film
Jean de Florette By director Claude Berri ( no sniggering at the back!)
Sequel : Manon des Sources
Superb
good morning all,
any news of the other injured players? totally sickened by the injury to samaras!!
any chance that ledley, kayal, brown, mulgrew, stokes might be back for the champs league games???
Paul:
I want a fluorescent green one….
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Most entertaining film I’ve ever seen is the Sting. It is the only film where the audience (including moi) broke in to spontaneous applause at the final twist.
Laurence of Arabia was special too. Casablanca moved me to tears when they started the Marsellaise.
Suppose that show me age. Haven’t been in a cinema since I watched the Mission, which must be the best.
Good Morning,
Tallybhoy @ 09:24
The AIM market can be accessed by start up companies so there is no requirement for 3 years trading accounts unlike the main London stock market listing.
Here is quite a good guide to what is required from one of the big legal firms– this sums it up pretty well.
http://www.makingaimeasier.com/introduction%20to%20aim.aspx
Note however, that in recession, getting an AIM listing is not a forgone conclusion and that the offer has to be very strong. Further, that before doing so you have to make a whole load of disclosures that CG has not been prepared to make public thus far?
See my article around midnight last night where I question whether a football club with a shaky financial background playing in the lowest tier of Scottish football might be a considered a strong proposition for listing and underwriting on the AIM– I don’t think so.
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On Movies– not mentioned so far:
The Maltese Falcon
The Lavender Hill Mob (original)
Stalag 17
Scent of a Woman
Rio Bravo
12 Angry Men
Jaws
Like Shawshank and various others– if any of these come on the TV then I am afraid I have to watch no matter how many times I have seen them before!!!
Been reading snippets of info coming out of Barcelona saying that the football club, fans,council, police and citizens are looking forward to Celtic fans visit next month. And yet if it was Sevco or whatever name they go by, the locals would be dreading it, if at all they were’nt banned from the Spanish city they seem to keep their worst behaviour for.
Its funny how our MSM have’nt picked up on this. Two clubs from the same city, 4 miles apart, yet with totally different fans, one unwelcome and the other getting the red carpet treatment. The LL like to tell us that ‘ones as bad as the other’, and two of our own were the worst offenders, McNee and Keevins. In fact it takes one of their’s, Speirs, to call it as it really is, that ‘Rangers have always had a far bigger problem with fan behaviour’.
Every Celtic fan I know despises the term Old Firm, yet I’ve got a couple of good mates who support Sevco and they love to use it. Like the MSM, they recognise that by dragging us into the unholy alliance it makes life a wee bit more bearable for them.
We are different from them in almost every way and the board should be doing more, like no joint sponsorship deal, to extricate ourselves from the club which must surely now have the worst reputation in world football, and not just in Barcelona.
hh
saltires en sevilla
09:54 on 8 September, 2012
Those are both worth watching. Another good Frog movie is Etre et Avoir.
Btw people are confusing best with favourite.
Sorry to hear sammi has picked up an injury
I won’t hold my breath waitin on any sympathy from the LL
TOP THREE FILMS
1 godfather part2
2 Pulp Fiction
3 national lampoons animal house
Only on the criteria that I will watch them repeatedly and still enjoy as much if not more than the first time
Oops sorry those are favourite not perhaps ” best” though I think the first two could be contenders
Ernie,
You are confusing most people with someone who gives a s£@t about what you say? IMHO.
EC67
Kiddin
Marrakesh express
Well said that man
I always remember spiers calling the
hun hoards subhuman,an apt description and one i still take great delight in reminding sevconians at every opportunity
*logs in excitedly on seeing the favourite films lists*
Any news on Sammi ?
Morning all. I was going to drive over the the ticket office and buy my CHAMPIONS LEAGUE tickets for me and the four bhoys. Instead I called the ticket office option 1 then 1 and was put on to a very friendly and efficienT lady who took all my ST details and bobs yer uncle all sorted and can’t wait. Any hun lurkers please note our first CHAMPIONS LEAGUE fixture is a week on wednesday. COYBIG. HH.
Saw A Bout de Souffle on a cinema screen last year – had seen it before on telly but was blown away by it on the big screen.
Breathless, i was…
The Bicycle Thieves
Twelve Angry Men
Sweet Smell of Success.
whats with all the French movies?
Films I never tire of watching.
The Winslow boy.
Captains Courageous.
Conspiracy.
The Quiet Man.
Keys of the Kingdom.
Kind hearts and coronets.
South of Tunis
I forgot twelve angry men,an absolute classic!
So That’s It….Sammie Out Till After Christmas….
The Main Strength Of His Game……….
Compromised..
Running At Defences,At Pace,With The Ball At His Feet………Unstoppable.
Unless He Is Brought Crashing….
To The Ground….
Can Lee McCulloch Account For His Movements Last Night….?
So Oor Sammie Feels Honour-Bound To Turn Out For His Beleaguered And Economically Devastated Homeland….
Whilst Suffering From A Back Injury….
I Blame Odious Bill Clinton….
” I Smoked….But Did Not Inhale….”
” I Did Not Have S*x With THAT Woman!’
For His Idiotic And Reckless Repeal Of the “Glass-Stiegal” Act…Which Set The Scene For Normal High Street Commercial Banks…To Behave Like Casinos….
With Their Customers Hard-Earned Cash.
And His Politically-Motivated Massive Expansion Of Fannie & Freddy….
Giving Out NINJA Loans To Hopeless Cases….
Just So Long As They Fitted The ‘Profile’
Determined By ‘Acorn’….
As Laid Down By A ‘Certain Chicago Community Organizer’…..
I Blame Evil George Soros..JP Morgan Chase…And Merill-LYNCH….
For Collapsing The World Economy in 2008….
To Ensure Their Perfidious “Manchurian Candidate” Entered The Whitehouse….
I Blame Treacherous Al Gore….With His Monstrous ‘Global Warming Scam’….
Which Has Rendered Our Industries Uncompetitive….
Transferred Our Wealth And The Jobs Of Our Children….
To The Other Side Of The World…..
So We Can Live Out Our Days In ‘Socialist Penury’….
In Our Enchanted Sceptred Isle…..
Yeah….’Genius’ Al Gore *.. Who Has 80% Of His Wealth..Invested In ‘Green Technologies..
To Build The Unsightly Creations….
Which Despoil The Pristine D&G Horizons
And Upset Ol’ DBBIA….Of A Morning….
On This Occasion….I Don’t Blame The Lennoxtown Turf….
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*Got Lower Grades Than George Dubbya In Business Studies At Yale….
I never seen 9 1/2 weeks – just don’t have the time.
THM
You watching the Scoddland gemme later?
Eurochamps
Ready for tomorrow lad?
Morning All Sunny Again in the Chilterns..
Bad news re-Sammi, he has now become crucial for those big games.
Life is Beautiful is a great bitter sweet journey, highly recommend it.
Have to say my favourite Italian film is 1900 an underrated epic, it is the Story of a wealthy land owners son and the son of a peasant who worked on his land.
They are born on the same day in 1900, become friends as boys but lead very different lives on the left right divide, it brings their lives right up to date (mid 70s when the film was made.)
Gerard Depardeiu plays the uncomprimising socialist and Philvis is played by Robert De Niro.
Still my all time favourite film has to be the Third Man, Graham Greene and Orson Wells, what a combination.
Have my Niece’s graduation Tea @ 3:00 today so will miss the Scotland game, good luck to them.
Blade Runner
Inception
Well, there were eleven votes for guilty. It’s not easy to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.
Henry Fonda
‘Tell No One.’
But I did.
Laddy,
Yes, a new experience awaits, golfing alcohol free. Looks like we might get a touch of rain and a breath of a wind, so keep the high baws low as they say.
Looking forward to it.
See you tomorrow
Are we in the BJMAC cavalcade?
EC67