I caught a bit of yesterday’s newspapers; the contrast between an article in The Herald, linked from the Quick News section, and one elsewhere was stark. It brought to mind a very politically incorrect cartoon depicting a conversation someone trying to explain the consequences of a football club getting into vast amounts of debt. “You don’t have the intellect to understand what is happening” was the active line.
This far into actual news [def: hard information about a subject] on how Rangers were being run by the board in charge prior to Craig Whyte’s takeover, some are still flogging “EBTs were legal”, “No one complained about EBTs at the time”, “Juninho had an EBT”, as though somehow any of this was in doubt or relevant to the question.
The only show in town, to use our favourite phrase from last season, is ‘Were players illegally registered?’ You can pay them in cash, by EBTs or by boatloads of bananas, you can pay them when they were playing, before they were playing or after, the timing makes no difference whatsoever, but did you record all contracts or did you hide dozens of contracts from oversight?
Anyone who, this late in the debate, is blabbering on about EBTs being noted in Rangers annual accounts either doesn’t have the grey stuff to grasp the point, or somehow believes they can knowledge manage their readership. “You don’t have the intellect to understand what is happening”, is perhaps the message they are sending out.
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ASonOfDan
12:05 on
18 September, 2012
Did someone just fart?
Whoever smelt it dealt it
:)
HH
Cenkos Securities adds exec team to board
Specialist institutional securities firm claims the four latest additions to the board will better represent shareholder interests.
By Michael Treudeau | Published Sep 08, 2012
Specialist institutional securities firm Cenkos Securities has appointed Mike Chilton, Craig Whyte, Andrew Ellis and Dave King as executive directors of the company and members of the board, subject to approval from the Financial Services Authority.
The non-executive directors called for the appointments to the board to strengthen the company’s leadership, represent the interests of its shareholders and ensure regulatory governance. The four new members of the board will serve under Jim Durkin, current chief executive officer.
Taking up the role of finance director, Mr Chilton joined the company in April 2011 from National Savings and Investments where he was finance and risk director. He previously worked at Standard Chartered in a variety of senior finance and risk roles for a period of 10 years.
Mr Whyte, head of the IPO team for Cenkos Securities and one of the company’s founding shareholders, has worked at various investment companies during his 20 year career in the UK securities industry.
Mr Ellis, head of the company’s sports resources team and another founding shareholder, first entered the UK securities industry when he joined Williams de Broe in 1996 as an investment analyst.
Having joined the company in 2006, Mr D. King, head of Cenkos Securities’ growth companies team, was a founding member of Beeson Gregory in 1989 and later appointed head of sales for Evolution Securities.
Gerry Ahern, chairman of Cenkos Securities, said: “Craig, Dave and David have already been significant contributors to the growth of Cenkos and I expect all of them to demonstrate their leadership as board directors in the future development of Cenkos.
“I am sure that the board will benefit from their substantial experience and expertise within the challenging climate of our industry moving into the sport and entertainment industry.”
Latest delusional-Inspired Opus from Bill “Union Jack y-fronts” McMurdo:
IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE WOODS TODAY…
September 18, 2012
For a number of years my folks owned a house in Colorado, at the foot of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains, in probably one of the most beautiful locations on the planet. Being a crazy hairy faced “mountain man” I loved going there, just as I enjoy going up the Trossachs here in Scotland. Of course, the Trossachs cannot compare in terms of scale to the Rocky Mountains which run for many hundreds of miles as the spine of America. SO although it doesn’t seem as though I’m going anywhere here just bear with me…so what I did there?
Another big difference between the Trossachs and the Rockies is that the Trossachs don’t have wild bears roaming around! When you live in bear country, you have to be very careful what you get up to. Bears can kill. And very often they do. They can crush your head like a egg under an elephants foot. People who live in such an environment live by one overarching rule:
You don’t mess with an angry bear who is really hungry for some pound of flesh.
And you NEVER do anything to make a bear angry. Even if its already ANGRY because all you do is make it even more ANGRY. If that is possible. Which it seems to be.
If you have seen a bear on the rampage you will know what I mean.
An angry bear has no thought for convention, no recognition of boundaries and no sense of mercy. They just hit out and attack anything that moves.
People in bear country stay well clear of bears on the rampage.
Those people here in Scotland who have had a fine old time lately putting the boot into Rangers should take a lesson from those who share their environment with wild bears.
For their consistent abuse of Rangers Football Club and its fans has finally woken the angry Bear of the collective Rangers support and the Bear is on the rampage. They can smell the picnic. A bloody cheese sandwich has wafted into the air and the ANGRY WILD BEARS are on the march to the picnic area…
Rangers fans have had enough of being vilified and abused by the no good bottom-feeding losers of Scottish football and they are hitting back, and hitting back hard, but not just with all the mindless rage of real wild bears, but in a carefully co-ordinated campaign of defiance with a calculated effect- imagine a Grizzly Bear who can read and write to primary five level. Well that’s the kind of dangerous angry bear I’m talking about. A talking bear who is semi-literate and has a wallet. Angry Rangers fans will not trash your property like real wild bears because they will not be at your property. Yes you might see them at taxi ranks, bus stops, in pubs or working next to you. And you don’t want to make them angry. You see, the Bears only need to do the most effective thing they can do…
Keep their wallets in their pockets.
Scottish football runs on the Rangers pound. THAT is the rule for living with bears here in Scotland i.e. the bears who support Rangers not the wild Grizzly bears in the Rockies.
If you want the Rangers pound coming into your coffers, don’t get the bears angry. Rangers supporters are waking up to the fact that the world of Scottish football spins on the unlimited economic power of The Glorious Rangers FC and its legion upon legion of mighty bears. Of course, Scottish football could survive without Rangers. But there’s surviving and there’s living…RANGERS ARE SCOTTISH FOOTBALL. Yes it would be football but it would be like a picnic after it had been rampaged and foraged by a gang of really angry bears.
Just ask the member clubs of the SPL. Or some SPL players who are wondering when they will see their wages. People are beginning to fear that they could be boycotted by Rangers fans who refuse to patronise their club.
Speaking of the Trossachs, Bears and Stirlingshire, I see that the secretary of Stirling Albion, the aptly-named Dick King, (or should that be King of the dicks) has referred to Rangers fans as “Huns” and smeared their reputation by inferring that Central Police are “manned up” for the coming visit of the bears. Well he has made these bears very angry indeed.
He may not have to worry.
But his club’s treasurer might, if Rangers fans decide that Mr King’s remarks warrant a boycott of Stirling Albion’s ground. For boycott they will. These angry bears will boycott everywhere. Even Ibrox if needed. For we bears can boycott just as well as we can march or eat fish and nuts.
I guess the rule is a pretty universal one, regardless of where you live.
You don’t mess with a wild angry bear that wants its pound of flesh.
And you NEVER do anything to make the Bear even more angry.
Bear-baiters, take heed…or else you might end up mauled or have your picnic trashed with rampaging bears!
malc11:56 on18 September, 2012
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Aye….you are right. I am guilty of banging on about the ******** who have ripped off us, and everybody else, for decades, blustered, battered and threatened to this day and I am amazed that with all the evidence now out there that they are still getting away with it, albeit as they flounder in the 4th. tier.
But you are right….WE are playing Benfica tomorrow night and I am excited about this prospect. These upcoming European games are, without doubt, the best thing to happen for us in years.
I am writing this with no sense of irony…..you are dead right, and I will do my best to bang on a lot less here about that shower of 5***** ratbag hun cretins.
HH.
ItaliaBhoy
your experiences are exactly that. Yours. They are true, for you. Someone else’s experience being different does not make you wrong.
I have never been in Brazil and aint sure I want to. I have been in Oz once and can identify with some of what you say. I lived in the US for a while and yes it’s all true …. but there are good aspects of living there too :-)
Ultimately I came home because I felt Scottish and wanted to be in Scotland.
BMCUW
Well said that mhan!
Imo Mark Rieper is among the 4/5 best CHs we have had in the last 40 years!
HH!!
Kevin
Ambrose is a Centre Back don’t you know.
We also got 2 strikers, not your favourite client Russell but both will come with something to prove, and as our scouts have shown with the acquisition of a number of top quality players in recent years, both could turn out to be stars.
Oh and we are in CL tomorrow night.
What’s not to like.
Mort
the battered bunnet12:05 on 18 September, 2012:
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Did you hitch-hike to Ankara? Musta been a rough journey.
: > )
TBB
You are aging well my friend and younger looking than I remember you.
:0)
From SFM:
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I guess that the next milestone will be the issue of a prospectus, which should reveal some more financial details about the company(club) that we haven’t seen thus far.
If supporters are invited to “register their interest” before committing any cash, then it could be interesting if they were flooded with thousands of bogus enquiries;)
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Aaawww…..ah cannae help masel’…..rankers are dead,rankers are dead. They are in da s***, and I love watchin’ them squirm and rot in Div3 as we play in the CL.
Happy days.
If supporters are invited to “register their interest” before committing any cash, then it could be interesting if they were flooded with thousands of bogus enquiries;)
and costly as well
The bears were that angry they sat back and watched yellowstreak park die and get hawked off.
Leckie is a bampot,in the derogatory sense.
Stan James now offering 31/10 against the Hoops …
Can someone remind me: are we playing at home tomorrow?
FF
re Templeton’s wages …… are Annan to pay the tax …… or is that already ‘taken care of’
When you see a deat rat … you dont bury it .. nobody would go that near it.
But you do keep your eye on it … watch it rot
Every day a wee visit to see if the maggots have started up yet.
And then the final collapse of the frame until it is just the skeleton
It is called morbid curiosity and it is a healthy human trait.
HAil Hai
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
12:01 on
18 September, 2012
KEV
With the exception of Bobo and Joos-who unfortunately became prone to injury,we haven’t had a decent centre- half playing for us since,oh,Marc Rieper.
It would be great if big Efe Ambrose had the physical prowess of a Bobo and the speed/dynamism and agility of a Mulgrew type player…maybe someone like Paul Elliot? That might be asking too much. But by all accounts he does have the ‘presence’ of a Bobo but a dimension of culture to his game the big man never had.
We can only hope and see- that game on Sat showed the holes that still exist in defence.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
12:19 on
18 September, 2012
When you see a deat rat … you dont bury it .. nobody would go that near it.
But you do keep your eye on it … watch it rot
Every day a wee visit to see if the maggots have started up yet.
And then the final collapse of the frame until it is just the skeleton
It is called morbid curiosity and it is a healthy human trait.
HAil Hai
LOL LOL
HH
Thats what they mean by bag of worms …. ahhhh Ok then
HAil Hail
Some cracking wind up stories on here today , it’s like opening a Hans ( not Huns ) Christian Anderson book.
:-)))
There’s only 3 people on here that’s been in Ankara i was driving and the other 2 were my passengers.-)))
Can anyone see the spl review panel making the same mistake as the sfa panel ;oD))))
I see we’ve had the grenade thrower make his usual appearance this morning. It’s funny how he always pretends to head out after a few posts. Such a tedious troll.
charles kickham
They will be obliged to provide any prospective investor with a copy of the prospectus prior to the sale of shares.
Now I’m a bit of a luddite so I will be asking for a hard copy rather than just a PDF.
Now I am not suggesting that every single Celtic fan asks for one of these, just those who really want to invest.
Mort
wonkyradar
Things you learn on here ……..bears like cheese sandwiches.
stooopido huns
Aye – the angry bears are really, really angry.
So what’s new? They have been angry for the last 100 years!
In fact they are SOOOO angry that they are NOT going to be putting their hard-earned pound into the coffers of EVERY SINGLE Scottish football club.
Instead they are saving their hard-earned pound for the much-anticipated share flotation – this will raise billions. Hard-earned pounds are expected to arrive from the 4 corners of the Earth.
HH!!
TALLYBHOY
Marc Rieper simply strolled his way through a game, His reading of a situation was excellent,and whether in the air or on the ground,you knew he was favourite.
Before him,I would have to go back to a second-season Paul Elliott-after him,Bobo.
Though I did rate Alan Stubbs,tbh.
We have been poorly served in this particular position for a long time now.
Marc Rieper’s injury was a disaster for the player,and it was no less so for us.
Roy Greenslade The Guardian
I wrote earlier this month about the extraordinary business of The Sun’s Scottish edition blurbing a book serialisation one day and cancelling it the next. It concerned a book entitled Downfall: how Rangers FC self-destructed by Phil MacGiolla Bhain.
This resulted in many negative comments, both in public and in private, about the author, about me and about the supposed gullibility of Channel 4 journalist Alex Thomson, who wrote the foreword.
The Sun went so far as to suggest that Thomson had somehow been taken in by Mac Giolla Bhain. That claim struck me as highly improbable at the time and Thomson has now made that crystal clear in a blog posting headlined Why I endorsed Downfall book.
He reports that he has had a “tsunami of abuse from a small number of Rangers fans for endorsing a book most claim not to have read… but not one single communication taking issue with the facts, substance and truth of Downfall.”
Thomson writes: “The book is the truth – and no Rangers fan reading it will disagree with that. This is why I endorsed it.”
He does not share Mac Giolla Bhain’s “undisguised glee and mirth” at what has happened to Rangers, nor his pro-Celtic sympathies, but says:
“As a journalist and an outsider to this cauldron I simply want the facts of Rangers’ implosion in the public domain and those responsible held to account…
All those interested should have one simple question in mind – is the book the truth of the Rangers fiasco? That, ultimately, is all that matters. I believe it is.”
Thomson goes on point out a hugely relevant fact. Though the book is on its third print-run, billed as Scottish book of the month in WH Smith and high up in the Amazon bestseller lists, no mainstream Scottish newspaper has reviewed it
And one of the key points made in the book is that the same mainstream media failed to investigate the shenanigans at Rangers. Bloggers did the job instead.
Thomson’s verdict is echoed by Angela Haggerty, who edited Mac Giolla Bhain’s book. She is parti pris, of course, but she makes some excellent points. The main one is that Rangers fans are the ones who should read the book because it explains the reasons for their club’s financial collapse and subsequent ejection from the Scottish premier league.
She writes:
“Mac Giolla Bhain reported the truth. He was always a marathon ahead of the Scottish tabloids and his warnings were grave.
Predictably, he was targeted immediately by the Rangers crazies, whose incredible obsession with him is truly frightening.
He was proven right time and again, despite the protestations of the angry mob that he was a fantasist. The people who dismissed him were t
he very people who should have been listening… The Rangers fans have lost out.”
I also need to repeat my own declaration of interest: I wrote an approving comment about Mac Giolla Bhain’s investigative journalism, which is carried on the back cover.
I would simply urge people to play the ball and not the man. The book should be read by every Rangers fan seeking the truth about their club.
I am sorry to say I find it necessary to keep comments off due to the level of unwarranted abuse last time I deal with this subject, which is another important facet of this story
awe_naw_no_annoni_oan_anaw_noo12:08 on18 September, 2012
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I have taken the liberty of re-posting that pn TSFM….well,there were questions about Cenkos and you have provided answers.
HH.
miki67
There never will be a share issue. Everybody knows that the huns will not put their hands into the pocket for charity.
HAil HAil
Mort
my thoughts exactly
Philvis doesn’t “do” 9am podia. That’s orange mocha frappuccino time. (thumbsup)
Hell hath no fury like a hun faced with a mirror.
WONKYRADAR 1219
Trust me,I wasn’t having a go at Efe,I was pointing out to Kev that we have signed plenty of centre halves in the last five years.
It’s hardly their fault that they don’t come up to Kev’s high standards,so I was wondering what Celtic-based evidence he was basing his opinion on.
Besides,I haven’t seen enough of Efe to form an opinion,but trust me,five minutes into his first game……
Kidding,btw. I expect him to be our next Bobo.
anyway about tomorrow night …..
‘Cheese sandwich anyone?’
HH!!
stevo
12:39 on
18 September, 2012
……Sevco will still be the fourth tier while we make the same amount of money from one game that would ensure their future survival.
Great isn´t it ? :-)
HAil Hail
AWE NAW
Indeed,as has been pointed out,you are sure reeling them in today…………