It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Craig Whyte would not have expected Champions League football when he worked on the deal to buy Rangers last spring, but, by his own admission, income from the Europa League group stage was in the budget.
Winning the league came as a surprise late in the process and may have fuelled some summer transfer bids but income was about to fall well below expectations. Ally McCoist won only one game in four cup competitions, against Arbroath, season ticket sales didn’t bounce and with no serious income streams open, Rangers were set for a seriously low income season.
In addition, the injury to Steven Naismith robbed Rangers of what I understand would have been a £5m sale in January.
People have tried to assert that Whyte’s plan for Rangers was to liquidate the company all along, this is clearly not the case. Rangers were moribund while the First Tier Tribunal (FTT) was yet to report but Whyte planned to run the company, without reverting to administration until and perhaps beyond then.
As well as having to deal with the income shocks resulting from multiple on-field failures, Rangers were hit with an expenditure shock. The FTT was delayed from November to January. If it had proceeded as planned in November it would have reported in January. The delay was crucial, Rangers were going to spend a lot more money before the verdict was announced.
If the verdict arrived as expected in January, and Rangers won, it was game on. They would have been in a position to borrow like any other club and could have raised fresh share capital. There would have been no administration. This was the preferred outcome, Whyte would have emerged with his reputation intact and with a valuable football franchise for the outlay of exactly £1.
If they lost, Whyte could have presented a fait-accompli to the world.
He could have explained to the Rangers support that the total tax liability was “likely to be around £75m” and that there was no point putting fresh investment into a black hole, which was inevitably going to lead to liquidation – all for misdemeanours that occurred before his time. The support would have been distressed at the death of their history, but, crucially, they would not have blamed Whyte, whose reputation would still be intact.
He would immediately have applied for the 10 day grace period to consider appointing an administrator and used that time to tell the SPL and SFA that he could re-emerge with Newco FC within days and allow the league programme to complete as normal. He had security over the stadium, would be in a position to re-employ the players and would be able to honour financial commitments to other clubs, while securing the television and sponsorship contracts.
Public sympathy would have been behind him, Sir David Murray would have carried the blame (perhaps correctly) and I believe only Celtic would have voted against him. Newco would have been back in the SPL and, if the Daily Record’s reporting of Whyte’s thoughts on penalties are anything to go by, he expected to be docked a comfortable 25 points.
HMRC forcing Rangers into administration this month created enormous problems. Administrators Duff and Phelps are now in control and opened the club’s finances up to scrutiny.
As soon as it became evident that he securitised season ticket money from future years, three days after buying the club, placing the money into his own bank account, not that of the football club, Craig Whyte’s methods were subject to derision and outright disgust from many angles, most importantly from the Rangers support.
As things stand, Whyte cannot slip away. He has to stand with Ticketus, who will hold a security on Ibrox through one of Whyte’s companies, and he stands to gain an enormous amount of money for a year’s hard work. Ticketus are also in for the long haul, they have coughed up over £20m and will need a sizeable commercial return.
Many observers have noted that this has not progressed as a normal administration. It’s not a normal administration. The secured creditors (Craig Whyte and Ticketus) need to sell a lot of tickets beyond administration, either as Rangers, if they are successful in the FTT, or as Newco, if they lose the FTT. Selling a lot of tickets is a really tough challenge right now and will be made considerably more difficult if there are swingeing cuts made to the club staff and infrastructure now. Their interests are considerably best served by keeping Rangers as buoyant as possible.
Even if they manage to feed enough cash to the administrators to keep Rangers playing football until the verdict is delivered, the opportunity to present the league with a fait-accompli has gone. Everyone expects Rangers to fold and will have been busy working on a contingency plan.
Any goodwill that Whyte hoped to harvest has also gone, he is seen as a pariah, without friends within the game, in the political world, the media or the Rangers support. When he looks to build a consensus, there will be no advocates for his position. Quite the opposite, people want rid of him.
The on-going police enquiry and his interesting relationships with the Insolvency Service and HMRC will only cloud matters further. For all the bluster on these subjects, no one has been able to explain to me any illegal activities, in fact, most of the illegal activity he has been accused of are either perfectly legal or simply did not take place as described, but there is enough potential in this mix for many years of civil legal challenge, if not more serious issues.
Whyte and Ticketus now have decisions to make on how much extra skin to invest. Ticketus are in the game for a lot of money already and will be keen to protect their cash. It remains to be seen how much cash Whyte has in the client account at Collyer Bristow, but it’s clear that between them, Ticketus and Whyte were prepared to guarantee the administrators full wages and costs for the club for February.
The fact that the tap has been turned on 100% for the last two weeks suggests they have enough cash to run at a lower percentage for a while yet. Duff and Phelps will know how much money is available and will have an expected date for the verdict. It would be enormously bad judgement if they exhausted cash reserves before the verdict arrived.
As long as Ticketus investors hold their nerve, and the police don’t spike the process, Rangers will survive until the verdict. If they lose the verdict, and all expectations are that they will, what are we looking at?
As I said above, Whyte’s chance of presenting a fait-accompli has gone. He would need to go for a prepack liquidation but there are likely to be legal challenges to him making off with the assets of Rangers. At best, this would delay him for anything between weeks and years. Any police involvement would make matters even more difficult. If a negative verdict is delivered anytime soon, Rangers will cease.
Even if this happens, Whyte will still owe Ticketus a lot of money and will try to phoenix as a Newco. He will have the stadium and will be in pole position to apply for membership to the SPL or Scottish Football League.
A route back into the SPL in these circumstances would be difficult to achieve. The SPL board have the authority to accept a club into the league but I hear it is likely that, due to the importance of the matter, they would refer the decision to a vote of the entire league. Back in October I thought the fait-accompli was certain to be voted into the SPL, now I can’t see a Newco being voted in.
You would expect an application into the Scottish Football League to be accepted but there may be a rival bid. The ‘Blue Knights’ bid would not include Ibrox but have a number of options. They could ask to rent Hampden or Firhill, or could adopt a struggling lower league club, like Clyde. These notions are likely to be progressed but establishing a new club, without players or a stadium, would be an enormous challenge.
All of this would play out against a great deal of uncertainty. Whyte’s ability to sell tickets to Rangers fans must be in doubt. If a rival club wanted back into Ibrox in the future they would need to give the ultimate floating charge holder – Ticketus – the same kind of return Whyte has committed to. There is also the possibility of a lot more to come out about the old regime at Rangers, some of whom are behind the Blue Knights bid.
Even if someone gets a phoenix off the ground at Ibrox, keeping it alive will be difficult. The cost of running football games there every second week is considerable. Doing so, while repaying Ticketus, and competing against lower league (or SPL) opposition, will cut any football budget to levels not known in 30 years.
For now, everyone connected with Rangers needs to make confident noises but even if they die, their ghost is already in enormous peril.
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ayrbluenose
railway bear, full time follower of the rangers
Join Date: 21-01-2008
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lottery syndicate
just a thought not completely sure how and if i would work but.
would it be possible for rangers fans to make some sort of lottery syndicate to raise money for the club as they say ‘every little helps’.
the euro millions is £2 per line and if there were say 8000+ bears to put in to it what are the odds of getting a large sum through winnings? if this carries on for say 6 months do you think we would have a reasonable sum of cash to hand over to the club when/if the time comes for us the fans to put our money in?
like i say its just a thought im on nightshift and bored
How did wee Fergus no think of that ??
Ah . . . Lottery tickets.
The last refuge of a fool and his money when desperation sets in.
Bless ’em.
:-)
Morning All, rainy but mild here in Germany. A good morning to fellow Celts wherever you are around the world. I liked this quote from Craig Brown in the Herald: “”Celtic would have won the league even if Rangers hadn’t had their problems. They are a proud team and they don’t want to slip up anywhere.” Some welcome respect for Neil Lennon shown as well. He’s right, we’ve got a fantastic manager and fantastic team. And they’re going to beat Craig’s lot tomorrow, I can feel it. HH
B.B.C.
Meanwhile, Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell has denied media reports that his club had agreed to pay Rangers for tickets in advance of the upcoming Old Firm derby at Ibrox.
In an open letter to the Daily Record published on Celtic’s website, Lawwell said: “There was no agreement for Celtic to pay in advance for these match tickets. Therefore, the accusation that Celtic ‘reneged’ on an agreement is wrong.
“The actions of Celtic Football Club have not threatened jobs at Rangers. Any suggestion to the contrary is also wrong.
“There is no ‘bust up’. Indeed we are pleased that yesterday (Wednesday) we received our allocation of tickets for the match from the Administrators of Rangers Football Club.
“We will sell these in the normal manner and will abide by the rules of the Scottish Premier League.
“While we have no desire to become involved in the business of any other football club, we felt it very important that we set the record straight and in doing so protect the reputation of Celtic Football Club.”
RTC ups the stakes
Absolute dynamite in the Daily Mail this morning.
According to Hugh Adam, ex director at Dignity FC (in administration)
* EBTs were introduced in the mid-1990s
* Players had 2 contracts
If true, this means that RFC have been embarked on illegal player registration for nearly twenty years – unprecedented in world football. This is cheating on an industrial scale.
It surely spells the end for Campbell Ogilivie and could sink the SFA as the governing body in Scotland.
It taints every one of their titles for the last 2 decades, including their “nine in a row”.
Footnote in case anyone misreads my name.
It’s kinda like when you’re no well and yer aff yer grub !!!
Whyte’s lawyers in bankruptcy fear
Victoria Weldon and Helen McArdle The Herald FRIDAY 2 MARCH 2012
THE law firm at the heart of Craig Whyte’s Rangers takeover could face bankruptcy if a legal ruling forces it to pay out millions of pounds for its involvement in an alleged sham investment scheme.
The revelation comes as Rangers players prepare to learn their fate, with the administrators expected to outline the toll of redundancies on the squad today.
Solicitors Collyer Bristow – the London-based firm Whyte hired to oversee his purchase of Rangers last year – are awaiting a court decision as a joint defendant in the £50 million case, which has been raised at the High Court in London by 500 investors. The claim against the firm concerns a complex investment scheme, known as Innovator One.
However, it has been alleged the initiative – a tax-advantage vehicle which Collyer Bristow is accused of promoting – was a fraudulent scam and certain legal conditions were never fulfilled.
The company is alleged to be liable for any dishonest conduct of the individuals who organised the scheme. It is also accused of acting negligently and breaching both contract and fiduciary duties. A four-month hearing on the case ended last month and a ruling is due later this year.
There are concerns that if the firm loses the case it will have insufficient funds to cover potential losses, amid claims of negligence by its insurance broker, Lockton Companies International.
Collyer Bristow has since launched another legal action against Lockton in a bid to ensure the money will be available if it is forced to pay out.
The solicitors alleged Lockton failed to put adequate insurance cover in place during the period of the Innovator One claims. The law firm claims it could be on the brink of collapse if it does not resolve the shortfall. A full hearing on that issue will be heard in May.
Meanwhile, administrators Duff and Phelps are expected to make an announcement on staffing levels at Rangers today, amid speculation some first-team regulars could be heading for the exit door.
In a statement issued yesterday, they said discussions were “ongoing regarding potential cost-saving measures”.
In an interview yesterday, Whyte insisted the cuts were necessary to “make Rangers a stronger business”, and re- iterated his belief he had not been responsible for any financial wrong-doing during his tenure.
“Every penny is in the club and every penny is accounted for,” he said.
It coincided with a statement from Ticketus – which paid £24m to secure the right to sell the club’s future season tickets in a deal which provided cash for Whyte’s takeover – calling for a “rapid and successful conclusion” to the administration process.
The company said it was “committed to going to the lengths necessary to ensure the future of the club is preserved and its agreement with Ticketus fulfilled”.
In a move that is bound to be seen as a swipe at Rangers, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander will court controversy today by comparing tax dodgers to benefit cheats, and making a specific reference to football clubs.
He will tell the Scottish Liberal Democrat conference in Inverness: “People who dodge taxes are on the same moral plan as benefits cheats. Whether you are a wealthy person or a small business, a football club or a bank, our message is simple – you must pay the tax you owe and we will make sure you do.”
Excellent article Paul67 keeping the focus on them, James forrest superb summation last night of how we arrived at this point, Celtic and PL have correctly kept quiet despite provocation from the media and will do so until the verdict from the big tax case
I would like to ask PL why we have a commercial relationship with the DR?
When you walk in the main door at Celtic Park the list of companies associated with Celtic is behind the receptionist, and on that list is the Daily Record
Time for us to kick them out, long overdue.
RTC gone straight for the jugular this morning …….
Time For Leadership at SFA & SPL
02/03/2012 7 COMMENTS
Scotland has a seven hundred year history of asking for help from south of the border in times of trouble and internal squabbling. It has rarely gone well. When King Alexander III died in 1286 without an heir, Scottish nobles asked Edward I of England to referee. Things went so badly, Mel Gibson made a film about it.
More recently, both the Scottish Football Association (SFA) and the Scottish Premier League (SPL) have reached across the border to find executives who could breathe new life into the moribund bureaucracies that were strangling our national game. It seemed a good idea at the time. There were no natural candidates within the Scottish game and the moronic sectarian divide leaves any executive with a history with either of the Glasgow giants facing immediate accusations of bias. Casting the net for executive vision beyond the Solway Firth just made sense.
However, both Stewart Regan at the SFA and Neil Doncaster at the SPL have been major disappointments. In the face of repeated warnings about the greatest crisis in the history of Scottish football, both have been found asleep “on stag”. Stewart Regan’s petulant and immature responses to legitimate questions on his twitter feed have done nothing to suggest that he is a man braced for action. Neil Doncaster just seems to have gone missing altogether. Both men seem to be intent on giving the impression that they came to Scotland to enjoy some good golf and our peerless fishing.
The Daily Mail today quotes former Rangers director, Hugh Adam, as confirming that Rangers had operated with players routinely being issued with secret second contracts going back to the mid-1990s in direct violation of SFA regulations. Despite many warnings that a crisis was brewing, both Regan and Doncaster seem to have shown determination only in burying their heads deeper in the sand. They have had ample opportunity to investigate and to get out ahead of these issues. In my opinion, both have failed, thus far, to lead their organisations in their hour of greatest crisis.
I even tried to alert Stewart Regan. All I got in return were impertinent and insulting replies as the following Twitter dialog shows from 23 January 2012 (including original typos):
RTC: @Stewartregan What penalty would apply to an SPL club that failed to provide SFA with accurate player contracts?
StewartRegan: @rangerstaxcase more ifs buts and mayes
RTC: @Stewartregan ?? You have me confused with others on other subjects. Now can you answer the question?
RTC: @Stewartregan Darrell King, a respected journalist, says he has seen side contracts for RFC players. Did SFA get copies?
RTC: @Stewartregan if / WHEN it becomes a matter of public record that side contracts existed, do you have a plan if action?
StewartRegan: @rangerstaxcase you have me confused with the SPL. Why not ask them?
RTC: @Stewartregan So the governing body of football in Scotland would abdicate its role in the face of falsification of player contracts?
StewartRegan: @rangerstaxcase inappropriate to speculate on such matters.
RTC: @Stewartregan It would be wrong to speculate on specific clubs, but you can clarify the rules for the people who pay your wage- fans.
RTC: @Stewartregan does SFA get copies of player contracts as part of UEFA licensing process?
StewartRegan: @rangerstaxcase there is no point in answering hypothetical questions and I’m certainly not going to speculate on it.
RTC: @Stewartregan fair enough Stewart, but I would get ready to answer this for real if I was you.
We now have two ex-Rangers employees: Darrell King and Hugh Adam confirming the existence of these second contracts. For the avoidance of doubt, let me assure the SFA and the SPL that there is more to come in this story- much more.
If Messrs. Regan and Doncaster are to salvage their reputations they need to get out in front of the seemingly never-ending series of revelations about flagrant rule breaking and illegality at Rangers FC. Their organisations are implicated in these scandals: inaction and failure to investigate over a period spanning decades undermines confidence in the SFA and the SPL. Many will say that this was part of an institutional bias that favoured Rangers. Others will say that this was more a fear of challenging the mighty David Murray and his expensively procured media lackeys. I am prepared to believe that it was just rank incompetence.
So far, all we have in the way of an inquiry is an investigation by Lord Nimmo-Smith of the Rangers takeover. The parameters of this work have not been made public to my knowledge. However, its timeline is too short to include any of the accusations about rule breaking before the Craig Whyte era. The odour emanating from Ibrox in recent months would make any neutral observer to fear foul play. If Regan and Doncaster have not seen and heard enough to suspect that Rangers FC, by far the most successful Scottish club in the last 25 years, has been operated as a corrupt enterprise during that period then they are unfit for their posts. The integrity of football as a fair competition is in their hands. If these questions are not addressed, we lose any reason to continue to spend our time and money on the Scottish game.
Let me help them in case they have been listening to the wrong people: this story is not going away. There is a lot more to come out. They can choose to lead their respective organisations in cutting out the cancer or they can become infected by it.
So it looks like they have been doing what most of us thought was going on for decades ,CHEATING .
What price now regards MIB skullduggery
Who knows ,titles had to be won ,things have to be done .
I dare Keevins and Jabba to call any Celtic fan paranoid now .
hail hail
kitalba on 2 March, 2012 at 06:50 said:
If the saying is true that you know a man by the company he keeps, then Craig Whyte is fully deserving of his reputation
Good morning friends and an extra special Big Big Happy Friday to one and all from a clear skied, dry and soon to be sunshine bathed East Kilbride. Without doubt it’s a dazzling white shirt and green tie day today. Have fun!
Jobo
Rangers stand accused of failing to properly register players after a former director revealed secretive payments had been consistently excluded from contracts lodged with the SFA.
The embattled Ibrox club are awaiting the outcome of the First Tier Tax Tribunal which will determine the legality or otherwise of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs).
Regardless of whether Rangers are hit with an additional bill of £49million from the so-called ‘big tax case’, it appears such payments were kept ‘off the books’ – in direct contravention of SFA registration rules.
It never rains but it pours: More accusations have been directed at the beleaguered Ibrox club
Former Ibrox director Hugh Adam, who had a 30-year association with the club until 2002, has told Sportsmail that the club’s directors were aware of the arrangement – one he believes could have started as early as the mid-1990s.
‘They weren’t included in the contracts. They definitely weren’t. That was the whole point of them,’ he said. ‘If they’d been included in the contracts, they would have had to have paid tax on them.
‘I don’t think a lot of the other directors knew an awful lot about it. David Murray kept everything to himself.
‘The directors just wanted to sit in the directors’ box. That’s all. When I was on the board, I knew all about them.
‘I just didn’t know the details of them. They became accepted. ‘The revenue were seriously challenging them at that point when I was a director.
‘People never really asked serious questions about them. “It’s perfectly legal” was what they thought.
‘It wasn’t happening in Britain, so had nothing to do with Britain. All the directors heard about them but didn’t take them seriously because they didn’t appear in the books.’
Adam’s revelation suggests a clear breach of the SFA rulebook – and is a potential embarrassment to current SFA president Campbell Ogilvie, who had a 27-year association with Rangers, many of them spent as secretary.
The SFA rule on registration states: ‘All payments made to a player relating to his playing activities must be clearly recorded upon the relevant contract and/or agreement.
‘No payment for his playing activities may be made to the player through a third party.’
Adam, the man who funded the redevelopment of Ibrox through Rangers pools, believes payments into discretionary trusts may have gone on well before the turn of the millennium.
It’s understood the ‘big tax case’ relates to EBT payments from 2000 until 2009 but, when questioned if he heard of similar payments in the mid- 1990s, Adam confirmed: ‘Without having any specialist knowledge, I’m pretty sure.
‘People didn’t want to know about them. There was a lot of that (EBTs) going on at the time (I was there).
‘You knew it was cheating but some of them not only hoped but believed it was above board. ‘It’s this thing that when something happens it has to have a beginning and an end, but that wasn’t the case with the overseas things.
‘It was just something that crept up. It was considered important but not crucial. The fans didn’t give a damn one way or another. You could argue that they knew about it but didn’t think it was important.
‘Maybe they never thought it was as much as it really was. And maybe it wasn’t. I don’t know if you remember radio stations from ships.
‘I don’t think they were making a fortune but they weren’t costing a lot of money, so no one bothered.
‘When I was asked for my opinion on the way the club had been run, I said it was quite obvious how it had got into trouble.’They were doing things they shouldn’t have been doing.
‘They (EBTs) were always regarded in my time as a bit of a joke. They were getting away with it but nobody really thought they’d get away wi th i t forever. ‘
It would be an offshore trust – almost like a boat. You could dodge your taxes that way. It wasn’t something that you picked up the paper and read about. It was one at a time then grew on a gradual basis.
‘The players were very naive. Few of them were the Brain of Britain, of course. If they get the money, they don’t give a damn where it’s coming from.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2109018/Rangers-accused-misleading-SFA-secret-deals.html#ixzz1nwMc3taZ
Good morning.
Great articles in RTC and Daily Mail. This has to go to Uefa now. The SFA and SPL aren’t fit for purpose. I’m beginning to worry that ALL Scottish clubs could get banned from Europe for years. But I’m still enjoying the Huns slow demise.
Bentley dealers all over Scotland must be bricking it just now…
Dubaibhoy
Bentley Drivers Too !
Dont get the historian lhads & lhassies.
Ole Hugh Adams was carted off in an ambulance during the night. White coat on he has been sectioned for the good of his own health.
It is expected that 1690 courses of electric shock treatment should bring him back to reality as his current state of fantasy makes him a danger to himself. If the electric shock treatment fails to work a frontal labotomy appears to be the only remaining option to save him from the dangers his fantasia and delirium may lead him to.
MWD
With Adams comments ,does anyone expect ragers to have to pay for any of their cheating .
no me neither
hail hail
great article Paul67, really explains things to a numbnut like me
and a whole new batch of brown stuff being delivered
HH
“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children”
The poetry of an Irish hero:
There’s an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years,
And will do so to the end.
It was born when time did not exist,
And it grew up out of life,
It cut down evil’s strangling vines,
Like a slashing searing knife.
It lit fires when fires were not,
And burnt the mind of man,
Tempering leadened hearts to steel,
From the time that time began.
It wept by the waters of Babylon,
And when all men were a loss,
It screeched in writhing agony,
And it hung bleeding from the Cross.
It died in Rome by lion and sword,
And in defiant cruel array,
When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus’
Along with Appian Way.
It marched with Wat the Tyler’s poor,
And frightened lord and king,
And it was emblazoned in their deathly stare,
As e’er a living thing.
It smiled in holy innocence,
Before conquistadors of old,
So meek and tame and unaware,
Of the deathly power of gold.
It burst forth through pitiful Paris streets,
And stormed the old Bastille,
And marched upon the serpent’s head,
And crushed it ‘neath its heel.
It died in blood on Buffalo Plains,
And starved by moons of rain,
Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again.
It screamed aloud by Kerry lakes,
As it was knelt upon the ground,
And it died in great defiance,
As they coldly shot it down.
It is found in every light of hope,
It knows no bounds nor space
It has risen in red and black and white,
It is there in every race.
It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,
It screams in tyrants’ eyes,
It has reached the peak of mountains high,
It comes searing ‘cross the skies.
It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,
That thought that says ‘I’m right!’
Just gets funnier and funnier. Hugh Adams you are a brave man.
Sunny and bright in Morayshire.
Guys Im heading off skiing in France for a week tomorrow with a few freinds who don’t really bother about football and a group who I believe are known as the Bearsden Ski Club. Suspect, allthough I could be wrong, there will be a lot of well to do and otherwise reasionable but still hurting currants on this one. Should I keep my mouth shut about the big hoose and Hector the hero or should I just go for it and probably end up getting called a fenien bassa! Hee hee! Canny wait!
HH
SIALF
Celtic should give the SFA/SPL till Monday to comment on Adam’s story.
Ifthey say nothing or refuse to fully investigate these issues Celtic should contact the other team in the league and ask for FIFA intervention.
The blazer and handshake crew are now in full deflection mode as they be more complicit than even we thought.
Good morning fellow Celts from the 0631 to Waterloo. A wee bit chilly this morning but clear skies and looking forward to a lovely spring weekend.
Have y
Altho highland chieftan Adam has now come clean big time, be prepared for the
lap top loyal to reply with comments such as ” Adam still sticking the boot in because of the way he was treated at Ibroke” and ” Adam has one big axe to grind to get back at Minty” ………….look out for the wagons circling today!
Hail Hail
Mea Culpa
Oops ..have you noticed how quiet hun colleagues are these days
Just don’t seem as interested in the fit a anymore..good news for the golf and bowling clubs. Mebbe a good time to open a car wash in Clarkston ?
HH
M
Top of the morning to you all from a misty Fife.
The weather of course is secondary at the moment as the news that keeps on coming is brightening up my day more than the sun ever could.
The flowers are springing the same way that I leap (that bit I made up) out of bed and with a cup of tea in hand rush to my PC to get up to date on the news.
What’s this? Hugh Adam in the Daily Mail.
Zip ee de doo dah, Ziip ee de Ahy………………Jimmy Bell will be going today……
Hugh Adam – A Rangers Man with a conscience. When did that happen?
MWD
Unheard of……….
” A Rankers man with a conscience!
Let the ratz drown !!
Mea Culpa
we’re on form this morning, funny posts
mwd, did anybody pledge 1690 to saverangers
Hoopy Friday everyone, yet again, wake up, get out of bed, look in the mirror and think ‘thank God I’m a tim’. Have a great weekend all.
Goram’s lawyer, in court, said in 1995 that his client earned only £1000pw. He added that there were bonuses available.
Goram was given 3 months to pay his fine.
I did not believe it then but just thought it was just the usual mitigation.
But recent events have caused me to wonder ……. how far back does it go?
High, bright cloud over a mild and pleasant North Ayrshire this morning.
Won’t play for nothing?
What about all these love affairs with Rangers we’ve always been told about?
I expect to hear a fair bit now about the fact that Hugh Adams is disaffected, and in his late 80s (the “Young Mr Grace” card).
Playing the man and not the ball, in traditional Hun fashion.
Instead of offering support for the filth, Salmond should be ordering a judicial inquiry. In my mind I see something along the lines of the USA baseball investigation into steroid abuse. Too expensiva and won’t happen. We have a new slogan for Scotland. THE LAND WHERE CHEATS PROSPER!
Morning all.
Great leader Paul.
The smell emanating from Mordor is less the sweet aroma of succulent lamb and more the rancid stench of maggot infested scrag end. Wonder if Traynor is enjoying the new menu?
Dubaibhoy on 2 March, 2012 at 07:04 :
Whilst Skoda Dealers are rubbing their hands…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Altogether now ” Today’s the day the teddy bears get their jotters”… God, I love a Friday :o)