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I like this Channel 4 guy- Asked "What is your motivation here Alex, why has channel 4 who have no football links decided to target Rangers?" He responded with "News. I had no tsunami links till Japan"

Unfortunately my bid has been rejected.

Tampa Bay Bucktoourknees St Louis Bams New England Pape riots San Francisco 1690ers

Where most of us want them, I hope.

Right - first thing to say before this post is that I simply must be missing the glaringly obvious explanation somewhere, but I am confused... Duff & Phelps are desperate to sell Rangers, and have said 5pm today is the deadline for bids. The most visible, perhaps credible bid, is the Paul Murray Blue Knights consortium - featuring Ticketus. So, D&P are courting Ticketus with a view to them part-owning Rangers. However, at the same time, D&P have taken Ticketus to court, to get their 24 million season ticket deal declared null and void. Lawyers for Ticketus say the deal is legally binding. So, D&P and Ticketus are involved in talks on a possible take-over, while at the same time are fighting each other over the 24 million deal. Confused? Damn right I am. If the SFA have deemed Whyte not fit and proper, how could they approve any consortium that included Ticketus? To sum up my probably dim-witted view - how can Ticketus simultaneously be fighting D&P and courting D&P? It smells as fishy as a fishy thing that smells of fish. No?

I think you might have answered your own question there.

They split up. Hence the reason he has a new band....The Blue Knights!

Washington Foreskins I'm on fire..

Buffalo Billies? Actually, Seattle Shitehawks New York Giant Tax Cases Dallas Cowboys Green Bay Spackers Arizona Fook The Cardinals Tea Party was about non payment of tax. Fits them

my favourite tweet from our new bestie Alex Thomson @mccanna7 coz RFC's the story not CFC - perhaps their time may come too tho, from what i hear

Cast-iron certainty. I've seen big Mark Yardley move quicker than Haudit & Daudit.

Thought I would add a list of those involved / interested that are not damaged goods; Ooops, Finished.

It seems he regards saving Rangers as his 'social responsibility'. His social responsibility is surely to knock it over and stamp repeatedly on its head until it is verified as dead. I certainly regards that as my social responsibility if ever afforded the opportunity.

I think he's wrong when he say's they might turn up because they can start winning things; more that fans will turn up because they are not already ruled out of winning things as soon as the season starts.

To be fair,I've only seen one. It was a gem

If we're talking strictly the last year or so, then yes. Punk had the best match of 2011. But for me, Orton had consistantly better matches but if there was a top 2 then Punk and Orton are it for me. Over the past year Orton has definetly had better matches than Bryan.

I thought today was the deadline for all offers complete with their plans for managing the debt !! Obviously not then !! Seems that there are no such thing as deadlines with Hinge and Bracket ! They just make things up as they go along . Wonder how much they have managed to add to the running costs this week ? No signs of any major cost cutting that I can see ! Update that, just seen the BBC news. 5 offers just been announced !!

There's a one way street I cross on the way to work every morning but it's on an awkward bend meaning that you can't see if cars are coming from either direction off of the main road. Usually I get half way across and if a driver comes along then he'll give me right of way but this morning I was beside one daft wee lassie who walked out while the car was in view and just expected him to give way. Silly bint. There's another street I need to need to cross which is also awkward. Drivers will come out, turn right and then turn immediately left without indicating again and get pissed off if I've already started crossing. How the f**k am I meant to know if they're going to go left, right or right-then-left? Am I just going to hang around in case you get out onto the main road and just happen to take that turn? Absolutely not. I presume this is where this rule would come into place.

Well, if all it is is this.... http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/rangers/2012/03/15/rangers-in-crisis-chicago-based-firm-in-talks-with-ibrox-administrators-over-buyout-86908-23788939/ Even the Daily Ranger is un-impressed. Are there any 'venture capitalist' asset-stripping wide boys who haven't expressed an interest in Rangers yet?

Good man, Mon' the NFL.. Anyway... we need to find out more about this Chicago mob... I could have rephrased that.

You missed out Claude Anelka....

St. Patrick's day. I don't understand the hype of it in Scotland, wouldn't mind being in Ireland on St. Patrick's day but all these people creaming themselves in Dundee over it is lost on me.

We are all Mr Custard.

We complaining about the Scottish media having been in the pocket of Rangers in particular, not to mention giving the SFA a very soft ride excepting the odd 'outrage' article about a player being registered for Celtic or Rangers. However driving home lat night I turned to Real Radio football phone in. The 2 fat guys and some boy I'd never heard of. You would think they would have genned up on the Rangers position, even just a read of Pie & Bovril would have helped. "Hello caller" "See what's going on wi Rangers....ah....em ..Craig Whyte owns it doesn't he? If somebody buys it does he get the money?" "Good call. Yes well, Whyte is the major shareholder, yes and but aye well maybe.... if it is bought he will need ......". Trying to sound knowledgeable without saying anything. I couldn't believe the total and absolute stupidity and complete ignorance from these 3 experts. Knowing they were out of their limited comfort zone, they then went into " it is all very complicated you know......it will all come out in the wash......" and then the full range of cliches were trotted out. After a few minutes of this nonsense obviously a producer had in word in Roughie (or was it DJ's) ear. He then came out with some mumble about the administrators being in charge. "Next caller please" I just couldn't believe they couldn't even discuss the real issues at even the most basic level. I would guess you could go to any old folks care home in Scotland and you would get more sense. They could however say that Scottish football needs Celtic AND Rangers in the SPL. And Fraser Wishart has done a great job. Please please do not accept anything these clowns say.

I sent mine in. I've got the same chance as both Craig Whyte and Brian Kennedy... I've got a pound, and I don't want to fcuking own them either.

Not only that but he's going to be playing left back next season.

eddie jordan just replied to one of my tweets,i have came in my pants

I'm pinning all my hopes on UEFA stepping in and doing the business. The "we all need tha rainjurrs" attitude and general lack of courage wont be a problem for the bigwigs. They'll stick it right up a wee diddy like Rangers in a way Scottish football is too afraid/unwilling to try. All the soundbites and action from within our game reeks of corruption. "We need a strong Rangers", "Our TV deal relies on the Old Firm". Very possibly true but if you have any integrity you deal with things fairly and evenly, not considering whether it will impact your personal finances. Our governing bodies managed to ignore sectarianism for 140 years and I'm sure they intend to sweep this away too. Mon UEFA

Basically: EDIT: Essentially the first 2 and last 2 are fairly wishy-washy general things about "being nice", with fairly catch-all definitions. The middle one - "you've gone into administration" - is fairly clear-cut.

OK OK .... You win

All things considered i would much prefer this to be a more accurate allegory to the outcome of the rangersadministrationbigtaxcaseblueknightsEBTstramash. And whilst rangers in administration is a very worthy title i am considering news readers, bloggers and posters alike when i suggest a subtle rebranding of the 'rangers in crisis' catch all heading to something with a bit more zip. I humbly propose: currantbun-uppance Any other ideas for a quick, snappy title for us all to use would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all who have contributed to this thread, its been magical so far.

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Do not diss Santino Marella. Ever. He's fantastic.

Only just seeing this thread for the first time. I watched 'The Wire' having just finished my then-favourite TV show, The Sopranos. Having spent years binging on the likes of 24 and Prison Break (still undoubtedly good TV entertainment), The Sopranos was just such a fresh style of drama for me. So rich, brilliantly written, deeply detailed with fantastic characterisation and a subtle genius to it - the ending is still my favourite to any show. So going into The Wire with its billing as the greatest show of all time, I was sceptical. The first four or five episodes, which I watched back to back, did nothing to convince me that I was watching the best thing ever broadcast on the small screen. I was enjoying them as very good television, but it was slow - even coming off the back of The Sopranos, it was slow - and I just wasn't in the "way" of watching it yet. I have since read a quote from David Simon where he essentially said he was teaching viewers a new way of watching TV in that first season. That might sound arsey, but I completely understand what he meant. Everything that I loved about TV in a show like 24 (my first TV love which I now see as nothing but dumb entertainment) - the dramatic cliffhangers, the fast pacing, good guys winning and bad guys ultimately losing, and the simplicity - I slowly came to loathe, and began to love the opposite in The Wire. A glacial pacing but with real depth and quality, a realism that defied cliffhangers, and good guys letting themselves down or getting fucked, and bad guys preying on society to succeed amidst corruption. The simplicity (cops v baddies for instance) just wasn't there - you had awful junkies and you had Bubs, you had loathsome drug dealers and you had Omar, and for every Bunk, Carcetti, or Freamon, there was a Rawls, Clay Davis or Herc. Needless to say, it slowly became my favourite show of all time. Omar my favourite character, Tom Waits' season 2 version of 'Down In The Hole' my favourite TV theme, pretty much everything about it, I fell in love with. It also became home to my favourite single episode of all time, season 4's Final Grades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Grades - if there's a finer hour of television, I'd fucking love to see it. I'm often away from home with work, so I decided last year that there was no better way to spend my lonesome nights in a B&B than rewatching The Wire. By this point, I had also delved into as much of David Simon's work as I could lay my hands on, so I had read Homicide and The Corner. It's probably something you've heard before, but if you've rewatched it then you'll know it's true - The Wire is so much better the second time round, and you pick up so much that you missed. David Simon in the last episode, in front of a 'Save our Sun' banner in the news copy room. In the very first episode, a throwaway comment from Jimmy about his hypothetical nightmare job being working on the boat instantly jumped out. A whole season later, I knew where he ended up... There was a conversation just a couple of episodes before Brandon's brutal death where Avon and his crew discuss killing a deer then displaying it on the front of your car as a warning... Little throwaway things too that you might not even notice. One of the guys who worked down the dock in season 2 is under the bridge, living homeless in season 5. It's not mentioned or commented on, it's just there if you notice it. Same with Rawls being spotted in the gay bar. It's little things like that which make the universe of The Wire so believable. I think scenes like Frank Sobotka's last, the 14 year old boy who gets killed as Slim and Cutty go after Fruit, the security guard who gets offed over stolen lollipops, or Prez shooting the cop, somehow just resonate so much more when you know what's coming. I was also noticing so much stuff from the non-fiction books he had written. True stories from his time spent in the Baltimore homicide division, cropping up as fiction - some so unbelievable that I remember thinking on first viewing that they were perhaps a little unrealistic. The opening scene with the 'Snot Boogie' story; Bunk's story of shooting the mouse with his service revolver; the photocopier as a polygraph machine; Omar's jump from the fifth story balcony, and indeed loads of his stories; Bubs' stories, too, were often based on real life characters and events. Something else I noticed on my rewatch was Herc's unintentionalinvolvement in every major plot. Afterwards I kept turning over this theory about Herc being absolutely central to just about every major plot in the show. I got reflecting on it after noticing that it was not only he who gave Carver the mobile number of Marlo (which kickstarts the wiretap in Season 5), but he who suggested to Levy in the finale that they had used an illegal wiretap, ultimately bundling the prosecution. I had noticed in other seasons how he always seems to have a great impact on the plot, often unintentionally in the likes of Randy being outed as an informant and getting a beating. I went on Google to see if anyone was discussing such a theory and found this article, which brings together his involvement in all the major plots quite nicely - http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2009/ ... vironment/ - I could do without the conclusion, where the author compares him to a tennis ball, but it's a pretty good summary of my point. Anyway, the second viewing of the whole shebang just had me fall so much more heavily in love with this wonderful, magnificent show. There isn't a show on television that better wraps up every single character's story. There's still loads of David Simon stuff I need to watch - finish season 1 of Homicide (which to be fair, he wasn't that involved in), finish The Corner adaptation, watch Generation Kill and Treme - but after that, I'm definitely going to watch The Wire AGAIN. That may seem excessive, but I suppose anyone who has seen this show will completely understand. Absolute unrivalled genius.

Hobbits are known for their love of bevvy sessions.....

Celtic didn't treat him as some humanitarian project. They were looking out for themselves as much as Feruz. The Celtic fans indignation over this is hilarious. They release any young player they don't think will be of any use to them and they don't deride any young players who move to them from other clubs as showing 'no respect'. Being 'grateful' to Celtic or Tommy Burns doesn't tie him to that club forever. Incidently, if Celtic had helped him then decided he wasn't good enough, they'd have dumped him sharpish. Chelsea was the correct career move for the lad. He's he's made a few arsey comments on twitter etc, let him, he's 16. Being a bit of an arse is pretty much mandatory. Mon the Scottish Balotelli!

This one came to me last night. Christian Eriksen Diplo

Wes Brown A Crunchie

Thank f**k, i am not the only one who thinks this. Its fucking stupid. f**k Paddys day.

Hope he's brought some journalistic stomping boots with him, to go with all the grave dancing shoes. A bit of external digging by someone who knows what he's doing could bring this whole house of cards tumbling. God speed Alex.

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