The actions of the Sevco Requisitioners in undermining Newco Rangers made no sense. They invoked an almighty schism, one which will forevermore deny the emerging club from a potentially rich seam of support. An act of such potential vandalism would surely not be undertaken unless they had a plan to deliver the necessary votes?
Turns out they didn’t have a plan after all. Some Oldco Rangers fans put their money on the table but their face didn’t fit. As a consequence, another group of Oldco Rangers fans overtly and covertly campaigned against them, but refused to put cash on the table.
Say what you like about the Easdales, they paid their money fair and square (and any debts to society, for those who like to go digging in the past). The embryonic club will develop in their image, it will stand or fall on their judgement. After coughing up, they endured incredibly manipulative pressures. They don’t strike me as natural underdogs but on this occasion they were. They resisted and I’m pleased for them. If you want to buy a club, walk in the front door with your cash, don’t try to drive the price down by trashing the club and invoking an insurrection.
Paul Murray deserves a special mention in this whole process. When Charles Green was pulling a deal together to buy the liquidated assets of Rangers, Murray campaigned against him, and all others who were prepared to put money on the table. As a consequence, Green was up against it from day one.
Instead of addressing Rangers fans as the man who ensured football would continue at Ibrox, Charlie was painted as a pantomime villain. Without this act of vandalism, he would have been able to sell 30,000 season tickets at full price. He could also have chased everyone earning over £50k per annum off the premises, ensuring Newco launched profitably, with a strong fan base.
Today, Newco would have money in the bank and be laying the foundations necessary for top flight football. No ‘legend’ would have been able to hold them to ransom in return for £800k p.a. Instead, Green, with £5.5m and untold more from his consortium in the game, was put in a horrible situation. As a consequence, he overpromised and under-delivered.
Having done all this, Murray turned on the Easdales, still without the money to get the job done. It is utterly unfathomable.
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Cowiebhoy
22:48 on 18 December, 2013
He is waiting on our beloved PLC spilling the beans.
Margaret McGill 22:47 on 18 December, 2013
“Oh I understand that the PLC are liquidated. Rangers however ARE NOT LIQUIDATED.”
Rangers Football Club PLC – placed in liquidation on 14 June 2012.
Hope that clears up any misunderstanding.
margaret mcgill
22:47 on 18 December, 2013
Yes they are……they are working on the premise that, if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth…….. Deception of the masses
Steinreignedsupreme
22:51 on 18 December, 2013
Here
I am assuming English is your mother tongue
http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2013/12/The-Rangers-Football-Club-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_224406.aspx
Steinreignedsupreme
22:51 on 18 December, 2013
In my time I have created and liquidated 6 of my own companies. I am still here. I am not deid.
Rangers Football Club PLC – placed in liquidation on 14 June 2012. does not mean Rangers are deid.
Are we there yet?
Steinreignedsupreme
I vaguely remember you are the same who tried to make the distinction between SFA SPL and SPFL like you could intellectually distinguish between hun flavours.
margaret mcgill
22:47 on 18 December, 2013
You might still be here, but your 6 companies are deed.
Chairbhoy,
Thanks for that. A real mess and a half whatever the mechanics of it.
I have always suspected pressure from “higher authority” to have some form of a “Rangers” playing league football (were Regan’s “social unrest” comments his own thoughts…?). That’s not to say the SFA wouldn’t have done the same thing off their own bat of course!
Scotland Tonight
Guess whats on??
I don’t suppose there is any chance of Paul Murray standing on the steps of the marble staircase after the agm tomorrow saying “it is all over. The rebels have won”.
It just doesn’t work on so many levels.
Margaret McGill 22:55 on 18 December, 2013
People don’t actually die when an entity is liquidated.
No wonder you are so disappointed.
Rangers Football Club PLC are in liquidation and they will never come out of liquidation.
You appear to be buying into the myth that opinion on the matter is important. Just deal with the facts, your life will be less stressful.
Maggie
I doubt any of them will do jail time.
The msm are desperado for our hero to take the rap, but with all his tapes and the like, he will be protected.
minty still is running the show, his name has been kept out of everything,
Bankers and their dodgy deals, huns and their dodgy deals, sfa and their dodgy deals, socltland, same old, same old.
We are talking over a billion, no chicken feed in anyone’s talk.
And all the time we are lucky to be at the back of the bus.
Is it really worth it I ask myself, seriously.
HH
Steinreignedsupreme
23:00 on 18 December, 2013
In your opinion when is the next Celtic V rangers game?
Dearie me this guy Murray doesn’t know what planet he is on.
I wonder why Malky got chased? Mmm
Will sevco get “the malky”?
I think Celtic should steal a billion pounds, try for the CL proper and then get liquidated.
Whats the worst that could happen? Some accountant types could tell the hun blogs not to worry Celtic PLC are deid.
Margaret McGill 23:02 on 18 December, 2013
“In your opinion when is the next Celtic V rangers game?”
Never. We will never play Clydebank or Third Lanark again either.
Steinreignedsupreme
23:06 on 18 December, 2013
ok. as expected its being reduced to semantics. When will celtic next play that football club whats there name thingummy jig whoever they are that play at Ibrox….again?
there=their
B B
Mrs j said that first so there!! lol
Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless shite.
WHAHOO
USPS delivered the CQN annual today trudging through the snow, ice and sunshine.
I think I’m getting high on the heady aroma of ink, evocative pictures and bhoys in green and white hoops.
I’ll get it read over the weekend, shrink wrap it and put it under the tree as a present for a US born friend who may finally understand what we are all about.
Or maybe I’ll keep it in the library stack.
When Clydebank took on east Stirling s league spot and became Clydebank east Stirling, were they not playing in the same league at one point as the new East Stirling? Were both east Stirlingshires the same club?
Is jim ballantyne’s Airdrieonians really the old Airdrieonians or are they Clydebank or even east Stirling?
Obviously sevco and oldco are not the same club.
Margaret McGill 23:09 on 18 December, 2013
It’s being ‘reduced to semantics’ because you appear to be unclear on the status of the new club for some reason.
We’ll never play them ‘again’ because we’ve never played them previously.
Will Celtic ever play the new club?
I have no idea. I couldn’t care less.
Steinreignedsupreme
23:14 on 18 December, 2013
Im very clear. However, I cannot be held responsible for the conceptual difficulties of stupid c%^&s!
not dead same culture same blue jumpers. Thing is there is goign to be some right civil disobedience when they return. Would that be dissipated any if they were not given the life support treatment from the SFA and the Scottish Gov?
Ironically it was the animals that said we gotta get outta this place. We have until the autumn of 2015.
Constraints that could lengthen this -Spivs, HMRC, McCoist.
Margaret McGill 23:16 on 18 December, 2013
Why do you get so upset about this rubbish?
Mags McGill @ 2230
You made some predictions that haven’t materialised and it’s everybody else’s fault!?
Sheesh.
Mags
The Cry Was?
Some distressing images coming from Syrian refugee camps….
Toddlers are freezing
Jude-the girl interviewing him knew more about the subject than Murray did,a bumbling bufoon……..here’s hoping he gets back in….:)
Steinreignedsupreme
23:18 on 18 December, 2013
Rubbish? No. its not.
Geordie Munro
23:18 on 18 December, 2013
predictions no? there were some assertions made on what normally happens to fraudsters and gangsters re jail time. However, in retrospect justiceisnt in anyone’s interest here because there’s a buck to make. celtic PLC included. How is it everybody else’s fault? just pointing out the current hypocrisy of the bored. if i never see another celtic v rangers game or Scotland v England game in my life I would’nt mind. But there will be. there’s flocks to be fleeced.
A wee classic before vespers with tomorrow in mind!! <:0)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA
B B
Now now musnt titter. <:0)
Mags
We all know/ think the plc could do more but it’s fkall to do with Celtic if Murray etc receive no jail time imo.
Margaret McGill 23:23 on 18 December, 2013
You are overcome with angst on an issue that is indisputable.
Totally pointless.
Why do you get so worked up about it?
Galway Bay on Radio Scotland.