BigBadSaint

So sorry for Raith Rovers fans. I always enjoyed a visit to Starks Park. always a cracking away trip. Such a gut wrenching thing to end your support for a club that probably your Dad's and Grandad's supported. I guess fans of liquidated teams (well apart from that one that seemed to carry on regardless) feel that way and I still miss the Scottish Claymores NFL team and that was just a decade or so investing time, money and emotion following around Europe with a terrific core support and a home fan base of 12,000 or so which had the rug pulled from it. But to have it end because of a truly disgusting board decision to employ an equally disgusting man. Dear oh dear Where does the club go from here. Jeez!

Yeah that's the angle that really showed Siegrist had a full unimpeded view of the shot. Pure guesswork from an assistant 35 yards away and side on with no depth perception on player's position left or right of the keeper from there.

Only 5 and half hours for someone to get the Selzavon joke in. We must be as attractive a proposition as we've ever been for any undecided player. Past few years they're looking at clauses what if we drop, this year a team who have knocked off Celtic away and the only ones to pump The Rangers* and sit 6th with 2 or 3 games in hand. That's exciting to join.

Interesting? Absolutely correct but surprisingly late.

It's obvious McGinn will have a special place for Celtic and hope to play for them one day but looking at it purely as a career move as he has to he must be pretty insulted that, as a player Rodgers says he wants, they rate him at about 1/4 of the price of Stuart Armstrong who they allowed to go to Southampton for SEVEN million. Boyhood team or not when someone treats you like that you have to think 'screw you, I'll be here getting better and better and if you want me then you can pay Villa the crazy English League fee of something like 10-12 million in a few years." He's clearly a player that would flourish at Celtic here and if they start to falter in their efforts to add the 4 more titles they so desperately want this kind of penny pinching when they have huge excess of funds available from Champions League and inflated sales, mainly to Southampton, will come back to haunt them. Good luck down south to a great player who's only getting better.

Struggle with the Ennis Hill hype. All other walks of life we are told, quite rightly, women are equally capable, don't discriminate, it's inconsequential that they may take time out to have babies, doesn't affect their ability to do jobs. All fair, happy with that. But now it suits the BBC story we get what a remarkable achievement just 13 months after having a baby. Did she get a personal best in any event...No Did she perform to her previous level....No 286pts down. Would she have won if favourite Johnson-Thompson hadn't royally cocked up her long jump with 3 no jumps recording no score? If she hadn't would Johnson Thompson been sitting favourite for SPOTY ...I suspect not. Bahh

http://www.nrl.com/melbourne-storm-breach-nrl-salary-cap/tabid/10874/newsid/58359/default.aspx Dual contracts, side letters promising extra payments. A system enabling them to attract and retain some of the biggest names in Rugby League “In doing so they have let down the game, the players and the fans." “Clearly there were some individuals who knew what was going on and perhaps many who did not. By nature, that means innocent parties will suffer as a result of this punishment but the persons responsible are those who constructed the scheme and anyone who knowingly signed a false statutory declaration to deceive the game." All very familiar stuff Interesting how this was dealt with in Australia and a mere $1.7million over five years, rather than £45million

Still trying to get my head around how making illegally untaxed no repayment required "loans" of £45 million to players & staff didn't give Old Rangers and advantage. Not only did they benefit from the quality of player that additional money allowed them to attract on the field but it cascades down into almost everything about the Club/Company during that period. Additional ticket sales due to the team success from having these players and from attraction of seeing those particular players. Match day income from those extra fans (everything from food to programmes to merchandise etc) Match day hospitality easier to sell and at higher cost for a successful team and for watching big name players Merchandise sales from fans wanting to be associated with this success or particularly wanted a de Boer or Flo named shirt Increased Sponsorship for more successful club or bigger name player Increased prize money from competition wins Increased money from European competition these wins gave entry to Profits from increased sell on fees from players who may well not have been attracted there on lower money ie Hutton...Kanchelskis Just a few off the top of my head.....It just goes on and on the benefit they got from illegal payments allowing them to afford players they may not have. To say they didn't is absolutely ludicrous!

So if Green has lied to satisfy the conditions on membership transfer, or worse Whyte was involved somewhere. where does that leave that membership share? ....If transferred by use fraudulent information? ......with the now liquidated Old Co? Dundee may have a legal claim to that membership if obtained by deception? Could get juicy.

Keyboard... did someone say keyboard? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7zw92lSNus

Confused.com Not a word I'd use but I honestly don't really get it. Didn't the millions of World War British Soldiers that they honour with big card displays each year use the same word of their German foes simply meaning barbarians ?

Assuming he hasn't taken them home on his gardening leave ( and I'm thinking not as I think he already getting on with some weeding last AGM ) will Ally's shorts get another outing as front of table dressing? edited to say No panic I think they'll be OK if he has indeed taken them as I'd forgotten they could easy put a few stitches in to reduce Kris Boyd's pair to fit...or just have a bigger table ... plenty solutions.

Dave King " It is not the Rangers way to threaten individuals" " I want to know who these people are," added McCoist " Sink us and we'll sink you," said the Rangers fans banner " Police Scotland are investigating allegations that Rangers chief executive Derek Llambias and financial director Barry Leach were subjected to threats and intimidation ." "Threats against Rangers director Sandy Easdale investigated. Officers are believed to be monitoring his home after internet posts allegedly urged fans to attack his house in a bid to remove him from the club." "Rangers chiefs called in cops last night over threats to under-fire director Brian Stockbridge and club supremos Sandy and James Easdale" "Jim Spence has received abuse and threats via email and social media after discussing Rangers' new boardroom appointments" "Gary Allan, the QC who sat on an SFA three-man panel which punished Rangers FC in May for bringing Scottish football into disrepute, has complained about threats made to him and his family in the wake of the hearing" "Raith Rovers director Turnbull Hutton insists the First Division should reject an Ibrox newco after his club were subjected to threats and intimidation during Rangers’ demise." Just the hits from first page of a quick google search of those words.

Money from his EBT into a 2nd Tax avoidance scheme ... LOL ...Has he paid ANY tax at all ?

Trying to make sense of what's happening here ( I know I should just stop here) Rangers are to borrow £10m from Mike Ashley £3m of it to repay current loan to Mike Ashley While Rangers Retail now 75% owned by Mike Ashley declare a dividend of £1.6m which will be used to repay money owed to Sports Direct owned by Mike Ashley. Seems to be a lot of money shuffling