Of all the supporter-related offenses Uefa are disciplining football clubs on at the moment the use of lasers annoys me most (with the appropriate caveat for health and safety matters).
Racism, health and safety violations, violence flares are all appropriate reasons to sanction a club but it’s always bothered me that Uefa seem to let the continental fashion for shining powerful lasers into the faces of opposing players and managers was not tackled appropriately.
I was, therefore, pleased to hear Uefa disciplined Olympiacos for, among a rich litany of offenses, their fans pointing a laser at Anderlecht players during their recent Champions League game. The Greek club have been ordered to close the more colourful part of their stadium for their last 16 game against Manchester United.
It will surprise few of us that despite the Greeks being sanctioned for using lasers, Milan have gone unpunished, despite their fans pointing lasers at Celtic players during our recent drubbing.
These games are supervised and televised from multiple angles. If the use of lasers attracts a punishment, and it should, the rules must apply without fear or favour.
Everyone who asked to book a ticket or table for the CQteN St Patrick’s Day Party should have received an email regarding payment in the last day. If you have not received an email, get in touch right away (CQNbooks@gmail.com) to ensure your booking is confirmed.
Orders received today for the CQN Annual will meet tomorrow’s the last posting day before Christmas for the UK. Order below, £5 from each Annual goes to our Malawi appeal:
Sean Fallon, Celtic’s Iron Man:
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Good to hear on Sky News RIFC have their first AGM!
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
15:19 on 19 December, 2013
natknow – supporting wee oscar
15:06 on 19 December, 2013.
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Patience my ass I want a striker now! Alfie is the only name I know. I’ve no time for further scrutiny and it’s not my money I’m cyber spending :-))
Seriously, I take your point but I would KILL for a striker now.
LOL! Yeah – it’s pretty glaring isn’t it?
“Thorin Oakenshield”
Surely that’s a fictional JRR Tolkien character..?
RIFC Board win all votes lowest majority 65.3 to reappoint Stockbridge
THE EXILED TIM-Free the Dam 5
15:11 on 19 December, 2013
Not a hope we will spend 5m on a player.
I think we would as long as he looks like he’s gonna do the business (according to the scouts) and he has potential to improve and sell on (according to the money men’s strategy). VFM!
If we sign Alfie Finboggasson and he turns out to be a haddie, in true CQN style I’ll be the first one on to slag him and criticise the scouting, manager and Big Peter :-))
Celtic and Rangers proposed the setting up of FoCUS in March as after shame game as part of a 6-point action plan (See 9&10 in doc below) so are hardly likely to criticise today’s Motherwell dawn raids, but they should.
The leaking to the press and high profile police raids for what is a minor offence of vandalism at worse (some may have been accidental caused by over exuberant celebration) is scandalous.
I can understand how the police would brief their chums in the DR to see them carry out dawn raids against people traffickers, drug pushers, or suspected terrorists but think that my tax payments could be better utilised than in this PR drive that only blackens the name of Celtic FC.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/925/0123798.pdf …
Well Celtic?
The moon boys
I seem to remember that when Lloyd’s toke over the bank of Scotland that’s when the sheet hit the fan, Minty was in very cosy there at the time with his pal Masterton, then Lloyd’s had a wee goose at the BOS books and said ” HEY! Whois this guy Murray, get him in here we need to have a word with him moving awe these pieces of paper around and nae money forming in is not on” and it was said ” but this club is an institution” and Lloyd’s said ” we don’t give a monkeys freck who they or he is, get um in” and it kind of went down hill after that, shame really, phfffffffft.
All 5 Sevco Directors voted back in.
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
I will wager a cyber pint with you now, we don’t >}
HH
The issue for the club is not the price tag but the wages a £5m valued player will expect.
Take Spurs – they sell Bale for say £80m and buy say 6 * £10m players.
The wages of those players are going to be at least 4 times Bales wages if not considerably, more to be paid every month for 2/3 years.
Wages that’s what kills clubs , not one off outlays.
BadaB
I wonder who will be the first to walk away >}
HH
!!bada bing!!
15:27 on 19 December, 2013
All 5 Sevco Directors voted back in.
…………………..
Did any of The Gang of Four requisitioned nominees get elected or have they been routed?
It is now the first meeting of Rangers International’s Board!
BREAKING NEWS: #Rangers board win AGM vote. All requisitioners fail to get on the board. #Rangersagm #gersagm
THE EXILED TIM-Free the Dam 5
15:28 on 19 December, 2013
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
I will wager a cyber pint with you now, we don’t >}
HH
OK – but you haven’t said when. I’ll call you in 2045 for my pint! ;-)
I think The Snowman could melt soon….
HH
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
15:33 on 19 December, 2013
!!bada bing!!
15:27 on 19 December, 2013
All 5 Sevco Directors voted back in.
…………………..
Did any of The Gang of Four requisitioned nominees get elected or have they been routed?
They never had a chance – proxy votes cast prior to the meeting ensured this. I’m not sure what good they’re doing by turning up at the meeting and squeeling like weans. But it IS good fun!
Thanks !!bada bing!! So it has been a rout. I wonder where they’ll go from here. Probably continue their war of attrition by sniping from the sidelines. Great stuff. No danger,of any of them dipping into their pockets.
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
I would get in before that as I won’t be around then >}
HH
the long wait is over
15:29 on 19 December, 2013
The issue for the club is not the price tag but the wages a £5m valued player will expect.
Take Spurs – they sell Bale for say £80m and buy say 6 * £10m players.
The wages of those players are going to be at least 4 times Bales wages if not considerably, more to be paid every month for 2/3 years.
Wages that’s what kills clubs , not one off outlays.
Very good point – this echoes what P67 was saying the other day re: Spurs.
Thanks Tony – so maybe its LLoyds more than HMRC we need to thank. Quite scary really to think if Ally hadn’t managed to get them knocked out of all the cups including Champions League they might have still been lording it over us. Think I’ll just thank Ally!
theoriginalsadiesbhoy- The rebels (sic) only had 2% of voting rights,trying to use the hun hordes to take the dump over on the back of hee haw,chancers.
The Moon Bhoys
15:40 on 19 December, 2013
Thanks Tony – so maybe its LLoyds more than HMRC we need to thank. Quite scary really to think if Ally hadn’t managed to get them knocked out of all the cups including Champions League they might have still been lording it over us. Think I’ll just thank Ally!
Someone should start a supporters bus…
SleekitWhispererCSC
Stockbridge gets back on with 65% of the vote. I would love to see Chris Graham’s face just now.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha.
I watched the Croatia/Iceland WC Playoff keeping an eye out for Fingi, cannae remember if he was on the park.
As for more of a penalty box striker than a fitba player so were Joe McBride and Dixie Deans. In fact at one game Joe tried tae play a bit of fitba tae the shout of one punter in close proximity tae me “FFS Joe stop trying tae play fitba and just dae what your good at score goals”.
We can all sit back over Christmas and lap it up safe in the knowledge that the internecine Klan warfare is likely to continue as the sevcoites are stuck with a Board they despise and take their lead from a bunch of charlatans who are undermining the new club from without ensuring its erosion but are not willing to spend a penny on it.
Their AIM stock market page has a statement from the Board suggesting that they are likely to be looking for funding once they have their plan drawn up. Look forward to lots of “We are the people” and “No surrender” sound bites in the future. In fact they might even carry them on the sides of McGill’s buses. Love it.
The moon Bhoys
We have a lot to thank Ally for, and we will have lots more to thank Ally for down the road, he will be the guy who has to sell the season tickets, and that should be fun, but one wonders when they will really turn on the club, after all they are still paying a wage to the guy that said John Gregg was an idiot, can you imagine that being Jinky?
Stop Press Malcolm Murray has asked for a recount
Irregularities due to drunken chads in the lowden seemingly :)
Tonydonnelly
15.27
And that my friend is the very reason they went down the tubes. They were the ONLY club in Britain arrogant enough to ignore every warning, believing that they were totally bomb proof. No other club would have went the way they did, given the same circumstances. Their sense of self entitlement, combined with said arrogance and a large helping of staggering stupidity (buying smsm guff), proved to be a lethal concoction. Oh how they suffer.
Bosco bhoy2
” I would love to see Chris Graham’s face just now.”
I’m not sure I would…
;-)
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
You sold it to me there mate – annual ordered
RNS Number : 0229W
Rangers Int. Football Club PLC
19 December 2013
19 December 2013
Rangers International Football Club plc
(“Rangers”, “RIFC” or the “Company”)
Result of AGM
The Company announces the results of the voting by poll on the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting held at 10:30am on Thursday 19 December 2013 at Ibrox Stadium, 150 Edmiston Drive, Glasgow G51 2XD.
Resolutions 1-9 were successfully passed but Resolutions 10-14 did not achieve sufficient votes to be passed.
The Directors note that Resolution 10 was supported by 67.9% of the votes cast but as it is a special resolution it required a majority of 75% of the votes cast. In line with the Chief Executive’s statement of earlier today the board may seek the relevant authority again once it has completed a robust business planning process as appropriate.
David Somers, Chairman commented “We are pleased that the board, with its focus on corporate governance, prudent financial management and strategic commercial development, has been decisively re-appointed by a high turnout of Shareholders at the AGM.”
Graham Wallace, CEO commented “The Board sought a clear and decisive mandate from shareholders to provide a platform for stability and is pleased that the voting has provided this. The Board recognises that improved engagement with supporters is a major area of focus and is committed to reviewing how the Club engages with the wider supporter base. We now require a period of stability in order to take the business forward and I encourage everyone with the best interest of Rangers at heart to support fully the new Board in developing the Club and growing shareholder value.”
Resolution
For/Discretion
(Number of
votes)
Percentage For/Discretion
(%)
Against
(Number of
votes)
Percentage Against /Discretion
(%)
Withheld
(Number of
votes)
Total votes validly cast
Percentage of issued share capital voted
(%)
Ordinary resolutions
1. To receive and adopt the audited accounts
47,852,524
92.3
4,011,3417.7
5,614,296
51,863,865
79.7
2. To re appoint David Somers
44,918,302
79.9
11,325,261
20.1
1,228,137
56,243,563
86.4
3. To re appoint Graham Wallace
47,841,510
85.5
8,119,938
14.5
1,181,681
55,961,448
86.0
4. To re appoint Brian Stockbridge
37,458,096
65.3
19,875,227
34.7
109,617
57,333,323
88.0
5. To re appoint Norman Crighton
45,530,404
79.5
11,748,360
20.5
208,540
57,278,764
88.0
6. To re appoint James Easdale
43,890,722
76.9
13,196,014
23.1
400,271
57,086,736
87.7
7. To re-appoint Deloitte as auditors
46,743,195
84.2
8,761,191
15.8
1,366,384
55,504,386
85.3
8. To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors
48,413,201
94.6
2,779,403
5.4
5,692,021
51,192,604
78.6
9. To re new the Directors authority to Allot Securities
36,388,055
69.7
15,831,947
30.3
4,657,953
52,220,002
80.2
Special Resolutions
10 To renew the Directors’ authority for the disapplication of pre-emption rights
35,526,886
67.9
16,792,955
32.1
4,563,210
52,319,841
80.4
Other Business- Ordinary Resolutions
11. To elect Paul Murray
15,927,023
31.7
34,301,380
68.3
6,673,413
50,228,403
77.2
12. To elect Malcolm Murray
15,918,689
29.8
37,563,167
70.2
3,407,444
53,481,856
82.2
13. To elect Scot Murdoch
16,027,700
30.0
37,428,369
70.0
3,441,738
53,456,069
82.1
14. To elect Alex Wilson
15,948,349
29.9
37,478,922
70.2
3,455,164
53,427,271
82.1
The number of Ordinary Shares of 1p each in issue on 17 December 2013 at 6pm (excluding shares held in Treasury – Nil) was 65,096,056. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes validly cast.
For further information please contact:
Rangers International Football Club plc
Graham Wallace
Brian Stockbridge
Tel: 0141 580 8647
Daniel Stewart & Company plc
Tel: 020 7776 6550
Paul Shackleton / James Thomas
Newgate Threadneedle
Tel: 07714 770493
Graham Herring / Roddy Watt / John Coles
Media House International Ltd
Tel: 020 7710 0020
Jack Irvine
Basically, no change to board :@
BoscoBhoy02
Yes, but which one?
Tony – even though he done us a massive turn by mismanaging deedco – still think he’s a sleekit wee git that needs chasing…well maybe on second thoughts….
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All that grandstanding and self-aggrandising and they got the support of less than 25% of the shareholding.
Routed. Humiliated. Poor souls.