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I hope Neil Lennon continues to speak in forthright terms when his team is undermined.
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Apologies is already posted and not that I condone vandalism but…
I see in twitter that some naughty people have painted the Louden Tavern green. Looks great! Well, better.
jude
It’s 17 SPL goals actually. An improvement on his usual 10 to 13 per season since he came to United following stints as a journeyman for Stockport, Bury, Grimsby and Hartlepool where he had much lower strike rates.
It is harder to score big in League one and Two in England, as the Killens, Clarksons and Porters have demonstrated, than it is against SPL defences.
I think we can source better than the Kyles, Suttons and Dalys of the SPL. I suspect Tony Watt would have got double figures for an SPL mid-table side this year.
Auldheid,
I’m sure you are right but in doing so does that not confirm what we were saying for ages, i.e. ignore the Euro licence they ain’t even gonna qualify for a SPL licence. I’m sure I’ve had dozens of punters tell me I was wrong with that assesment. Am I?
Celtic/// \\\Celtic
Head of Tranmere Rovers Supporters Association reveals that would-be Rangers owners S Club 7 have board members who have faced fraud charges:
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/4235165/They-will-be-out-to-turn-RFC-into-KFC.html
JohnBhoy on 3 April, 2012 at 01:00 said:
Maybe they could play at Rugby Park
kitalba on 3 April, 2012 at 00:22 said:
If you are wrong then we both are.
The SFA are the authority who issue a club licence. I am unsighted on whether SPL rules require a club to hold a licence but I expect they do in order to protect other SPL clubs.
So no SFA football licence, no football. Like a pub with no liquor licence. A business that cannot operate.
The rules stipulate the conditions for withdrawing a licence. Since one criteria is audited ratified accounts for 2011 presented by 31st March that is one reason to withdraw it during the season .
Additionally administration may or may not be deemed an insolvency event but liquidation will be impossible for even the SFA to ignore.
The Louden Tavern’s had a makeover
Awesome CSC
Daily Record / Sunday Mail failing to report fairly surely not.
http://www.colinhendrylies.com/
JohnBhoy on 3 April, 2012 at 01:00
Nothing wrong with KFC it would be a step up for them.
Reports breaking that Paul Murray and his Blue Knights have cut a deal with ticketus to save £17 million off the Hun debt and stave off liquidation if they can agree deal with Duff and Duffer now.
To be carried in press today, apparently?
What’s that coughing at the back? Oh, HMRC…
Steven fletcher to everton in summer if wolves relegated for anything over £8m
MayoD on 3 April, 2012 at 01:16 said:
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some guy,that hendry,eh?! his daughter sounds just as bad. typical hun behaviour….rip-offs + violent threats.
Jungle Jim
My point is that it has never been the case.
How could anyone believe that these criteria fit TFOD even before recent revelations?
miki67 on 3 April, 2012 at 01:56
Yea Brave-heart indeed, scum of the earth and the Scottish media doing their usual balanced reporting.
Say “no” to KFC.
I think, looking and Aunty Sally, he’s had too much KFC already.
Do yoy want fries with that takeover Ally.
“We don’t do takeaway.”
KFC is more expensive than RFC.
What can you buy in KFC for 1 GBP?
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Sammi for SPL Player of the Year..
He will Defo get Players Player..
Summa of Samaras
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/administrators-prepare-final-act-of-sorry-tale.17208582
Great piece in the herald this morning, cloud 9 have best bid and have done no due diligence. Which means they are just after the assets and liquidation
Wolvibhoy on 3 April, 2012 at 04:35 said:
Which means they are just after the assets and liquidation .
They`ll do me,mate.:-)
Morning Celts from a dull and cold NW of engerlund, nae sign of snow near the coast.
V
Are they extinct yet?
I’m sick if all this jelly and ice cream shenanigans…….
BloatedCSC
V
I say, “chuck the ring in Frodo!”
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VHman..
Look forward to a Wee Trip to See the Hoops end of April Buddi..Will you be Around..
Need to do the Sammi Shammy Shuttle PT2..Since you ended Up in Hospital on PT1..Tal..:O(
Summa ft SammiPOTY2012
Player of the year……..
Possibles are ……..
FF he’s been great this season,
Kayal if he wasnt the victim of MIB approved thuggery,
Charlie M….. Possibly for his value to the team, he’s consistent and steady in defence,
Broony……. Great energy but not always effective,
Ledley if he was more consistent,
Sammi he’s unplayable at times and is a tireless worker off the ball,
JF not this season but his day will come,
Strikers……. Not enough goals or consistency.
It’s Sammi for me …… And it’ll keep 001 Bhoy happy TAL
V
SOS
I was in 3iar there……I’m flouncing off
V
Part 1 of the Shammy shuttle was great amigo….. Stobhill hospital in the middle of the night… Not so great….. I’ll text/ email you from work later.
V
Good morning all from Whiteout East Kilbride. Very wintery looking and the snow is still falling. I do hope that all SPL teams are up to date with their leckky bills and can cope with turning on their underground heating.
The new replacement spool for my grass strimmer arrived yesterday too…
Jobo
And in other news, it’s only another 6,072 minutes or 4 sleeps until our (hopefully) title winning game kicks off.
Jobo
rangerstaxcase says:
03/04/2012 at 6:14 am
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Thank you to all who have offered help and advice on getting back on line.
RTC is back! And how!
“Without a doubt the rangerstaxcase.com URL is under attack.
Or course, you can try rangerstaxcase.org or rangerstaxcase.net
At about £3,000 to organise an attack, you would think that there were more pressing things to do with their money. Mind you, if you were just forced to give up £300k you had ring-fenced to preserve your tattered reputation, you might think another £3k for revenge is small beer!”
Why on earth would anyone want to launch a DOS attack on your website?
Surely not RFCia who are a club founded on fair play, honesty and integrity.
Not I Lord, surely.
Not I Lord….
Not I Lord surely….
That reminds me, where is Maurice Johnston these days?
http://rangerstaxcase.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/we-dont-do-walking-away-
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VHman..
Maybe we Could have a CQN Hampden Sammi Shammy Shuttle.. Hopefully..
001Bhoy
001 I’m in work but left my bliddy phone at home……..
Is you’re email addy ……bhoy____@ gmail.com
V
Morning all from gay Paree, sunny spring morning (18C max forecast today).
Can’t believe the weather reports I’m hearing from Aul Scotia – heavy snow falls in Glasgow!?! Careful on the roads, or better still still at home…
Will it be a Whyte Easter?
;o)
Today’s moonbeam from the top selling rangers fanzine….
Rangers in crisis: Blue Knights takeover bid worth £17m to Ibrox club as Paul Murray strikes deal with Ticketus
Apr 3 2012 Exclusive by Keith Jackson
rangers sign at ibrox
PAUL MURRAY’S rescue plan for Rangers will see Ticketus slash a massive £17million off the bill from the notorious deal which funded Craig Whyte’s takeover.
Record Sport can reveal the London firm yesterday signed off on the details of the proposed partnership with Murray’s Blue Knights who will tomorrow table their bid to save the club from Whyte’s clutches.
The agreement means if Murray and his group are handed the keys to Ibrox, Ticketus will agree to rip up the infamous contract that saw them hand Whyte £24.4m to buy huge chunks of future season-ticket sales.
We can reveal the overall debt due to Ticketus as a result of their tie-in with Whyte now stands at £27m.
But, following some intense negotiations with former director Murray, Ticketus are now willing to accept clawing just £10m back from the most damaging deal in Rangers’ 140-year history.
And they will allow Murray to pay it back, on an interest free basis, over the next NINE years.
The news will strengthen Murray’s bid to win control of the SPL champions and drag them away from the brink of extinction. It will also go a long way towards allaying the fears of fans who were initially shocked to hear his plans to link up with the very firm that bankrolled Whyte’s regime.
And Murray believes it provides cast-iron proof there is no need for the club to be plunged even deeper into financial crisis.
A rival bid from Chicago, involving Club 9 Sports, is also expected to be tabled tomorrow but it’s believed the Americans favour liquidating the Ibrox outfit and starting up again as a new company with a clean slate.
But Murray is determined to protect Rangers’ history and last night, speaking exclusively to Record Sport, he said: “This deal makes delivering a CVA a great deal easier and shows there is no need for Rangers Football Club to be placed in any further danger.
“It brings the debt to Ticketus down to a level that the club can properly service without being hamstrung by the terms of the deal struck by Craig Whyte.
“These numbers alone show there is no need for the club to be placed into liquidation. But let’s be honest here, why on earth are we even discussing liquidation when we are dealing with a club that can bring in more than 47,000 fans to watch a legends game.”
Whyte’s original deal left the club facing massive instalments every summer, which would have wiped out up to 60 per cent of all cash raised from season-ticket sales over the next three years.
A ruling at the court of session declared that while Whyte’s deal could not legally be dismissed as null and void the £27m of Ticketus debt makes the firm the club’s largest unsecured creditor.
Murray’s plan is to remove them from any CVA pot and offer a higher pence in the pound deal to HMRC in the hope of doing a deal to save the club from liquidation.
And now he has successfully persuaded Ticketus to relax the crippling terms and conditions of their deal with Whyte.
The restructured agreement will also mean Rangers have nothing to pay for the first two years of the Blue Knights’ regime. And, even then, Ticketus will only be paid back in dribs and drabs when the club have coined in extra revenue from qualifying for European competitions.
Ticketus will also supply Murray’s regime with a £10m loan to cover the club’s runnings costs until they launch a share issue to bring fans on board.
The money will allow Murray and his group to carry out talks with key first-team players with the aim of keeping most of Ally McCoist’s squad intact over the summer.
The cash would be repaid in full from the money raised by putting the shares on the market and opening the club up to a form of fan ownership.
Murray added: “Our original aim was to get Ticketus on board so we could restructure the original deal and assist our efforts to secure a CVA. This deal does both.
“It is important we recognise the role of Ticketus. They have been demonised because of their part in the original deal with Whyte.
“But they have been supportive and professional. Clearly, they have an interest in making sure that Rangers survive but the concessions they have made have been painful for Ticketus and are in the best interests of the club. They have agreed to this to help Rangers survive and prosper.
“Not only are they prepared to write off very significant sums but they are also committed to putting more money into the club in the short term which would give us the ability, this coming summer, to carry out some essential activity in terms of the first-team squad.
“In effect, what Ticketus are prepared to do here is act like a ‘supportive bank’ in order to help us stabilise the club.
“The deal reflects Ticketus’ position as an unsecured creditor and gives the club vital breathing space as Ticketus will not charge interest on the money and they will not expect any repayment for the first two years.
“Any repayments over the remaining seven years are based upon us having European participation. If we are not in Europe we won’t be paying anything back.
“It’s perfectly in line with the Blue Knights’ business plan which is to have the club breaking even on domestic revenue alone. Any European income will be a bonus which can be reinvested in terms of transfer activity and so on.”
A consortium from Singapore has also been invited to bid for the club by administrators Duff and Phelps, who last week rejected an indicative bid from Sale Sharks owner Brian Kennedy, below.
Kennedy and the Blue Knights have remained adamant the club can be saved without going into liquidation.
And both camps are suspicious of the motives of the men from the Far East and North America.
By the end of this week one of the interested parties is expected to be granted preferred bidder status and a two-week period of exclusivity to examine the full extent of the financial carnage Whyte left behind.