thelegendthatis

The players were paid by the company that existed at the time. Any guarantees to the players (if they existed) were from the company. That company is no more. Much as some would like it the current company has no relationship (legally) with the old company. So in essence despite what Murray or anyone else promised in the past, the players are on their own. Can see the domino effect into bankruptcy will be kicking off soon.

A blog I haven't seen before. https://johnjamessite.wordpress.com/ Another interesting perspective on the Rangers/Sevco/The Rangers saga.

Not up to reading through the full judgement, but I would think that (old) Rangers has some liability to settle with HMRC. But I would guess that everyone who benefitted from this tax dodge is now liable to pay tax on their earnings obtained through their EBT. So that should include most Rangers legends you can think of, some of whom used to be household names people looked up to. Probably HMRC will be getting letters out to all these tax dodgers pretty damn quick.

Another big night tonight with Bomber about to be the star turn again. After achieving legendary status after his first Gettysburg (sorry, Ibrox) address, he appears again by popular demand. This will be even better. Maybe might even have a teleprompter. The deeds are bound to get a mention and Ashley is definitely not a Rangers man. Same suit again or will Slaters have found one with even bigger pinstripes. Hopefully he will have had his teeth sorted by now. You can't be a media darling unless you have a smile like Simon Cowell. So come on Bomber, don't disappoint us. Get stuck into EVERYBODY, except the real Rangurs men and please guys. Loads of videos...

Don't want to be pedantic, but Murray Park was built with nearly £1 million from what was the Scottish Executive and The Scottish Sports Council (Now Sportscotland). They do like hand outs at Rangers whether in grants like this, dodging the tax man through EBTs or using their charity to raise money for the club. Amazingly at Murray Park they have a video/media room when games and all training sessions are videoed and then used to help in the development of players and tactical development of the teams. This is a summary of the original documentation at the time of building. I can only assume this media suite was turned into a Greggs/adult cinema under Ally and his management team.

Where did this come from? Not written by a journalist I hope, nor by anyone who understands punctuation.

If you had said you preferred to guess the news and then write it I would put you up for a job with the Daily Record. That clown Keith Jackson is the star turn for making it up as he goes along. Worst of all his 'business analysis' of Rangers is invariably simplistic and wrong. They say in Scotland football reporters are merely fans with typewriters. In Jackson's case add a calculator and you have him sussed. http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/aug/19/daily-record-rangers

If a newspaper phones a hotel to ask if someone else has booked a function what do you expect them to say? "Oh yes we have the booking, we are charging x and we will be providing coffees and danish pastries." I think not. So for the Daily Record not to be able to confirm with the hotel is EXACTLY what you would expect.

I am sure you see that as good news. Once King and his acolytes win the vote, what will they have to do next? 1. Tell Llambias and Leach to go. I wonder what their contract terms are? 2. Appoint a new CEO and FD. 3. Tell Somers to go. Buy out his contract? 4. Appoint a new chairman. Maybe Jimmy Bell would be up for that. As Walter proved under a regime led by Rangers men, no experience or ability is required. 5. Do not answer Mike Ashley's calls when he wants his loan money back immediately. Dave King will say "He won't chase us for it, we are Rangers and we are Rangers people". Yes Dave! 6. Find £20million at least. 7. Convince the SFA that Dave King is a good guy. 8. Convince the AIM market that Dave King is a good guy, if consistently misunderstood. 9. Ask McDowell to tell them what players they need for next season. When McDowell comes back with "what was the question again?" they will realise he not only doesn't have the answer, he doesn't understand the question. The word thick comes to mind. Some managers can be thick and get by. However he is just too thick. 10. Dave King will take calls from real Rangers men looking to feed out of the trough. Led by Ally, Andy Goram, Hateley, Walter, Gough, Barry Ferguson, Billy Davies, Craig Whyte and Charles Green. and then on day 2 they will pray.

From the Rangers announcement. How King can even get close to the doors of Ibrox is beyond me. And then clowns like Richard Gough endorsing him. Rangers men sticking together. The Directors have also been advised by the Company's NOMAD that there could be a material adverse impact on the Company's listing on AIM if David King, one of the proposed directors, is appointed to the Company's Board. This is explained in more detail below but the Directors wish to draw Shareholders' attention to the following public information about Mr King: In August 2013 David King was convicted on 41 counts of breach of s.75 of the South African Income Tax Act. As part of the plea which led to those convictions he agreed to pay a sum in Rand which equates to approximately £40,000,000 in respect of unpaid tax, and either to pay a fine or accept a prison sentence. The Board understand that Mr King elected to pay the fine. The link below is to a South African Revenue Service press release which gives details of the convictions: http://www.sars.gov.za/media/mediareleases/pages/29-august-2013---joint-media-statement-–-settlement-between-the-state-and-mr-dc-king.aspx In addition the following comments about Mr King were made by a judge in a different South African legal case, to which the link is as follows: http://www.lexisnexi...October2010.pdf Mr King has subsequently been identified in the media as the person identified as "Mr N" in that case. Those comments include these statements: "...he deliberately misrepresented the facts of the case..." "he has no respect for the truth and does not hesitate to lie... if he thinks it will be to his advantage" "there can be little doubt that on most occasions [he] lied..." "we ...are unanimous in finding that he is a mendacious1 witness whose evidence should not be accepted" "in our assessment he is a glib and shameless liar" 1 "given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth" (Definition from www.merriam-webster.com) The Directors set out in further detail in this announcement why the Board considers that the Requisitioned Resolutions are NOT in the best interests of the Company or its Shareholders. The Directors recommend that Shareholders vote AGAINST the Requisitioned Resolutions

I agree. However trying to deal with this problem I have one person on P&B on ignore, so I don't see his posts. By God it makes things much better despite the flailings of Tedi and Bennett, but I can cope with them. WhiteRoseKIllie is my man on ignore. If I browse the forum without signing in I unfortunately do see his posts which is usually enough to make me to sign in immediately. The great news is that by ignoring him for the last year I have missed absolutely nothing of any consequence. Bliss.

I just wish they could be football clubs and remove all the associated rubbish. Does it just effect football supporters? No, it effects everyone. Just ask anyone who lives in Glasgow and not interested in football. They will be careful where they go to this weekend. There is significant concern around the wider population. Typical of how it intrudes, some years back I had a flight diverted to Glasgow one Saturday and was then catching a train to Edinburgh. The train was leaving Queen St just after 5pm. Guess what? It was a Rangers home game, so the train was full of boys in blue. Sing song going on in the next carriage, then the phone of one of the Rangers supporters standing closeby rang. Of course his ring tune was the Sash. And the bit that is usually shouted at the end was at the start. Yes, it started with a 'F*** the Pope', and then into 'it was old and it was'. Why should anyone have to listen to that nonsense? Just because someone has such a sad life he has to create his 'belonging' around tribal haters who claim 'we are the people' only because they know they aren't.

But is Big Mike's Big Hoose still open?

What a load of mince. Despite the regular use of both big and technical words this is clearly the attempt by some gormless clown trying to appear to be an expert. Surely amongst all the Rangers fans they could find one person who could proof read it. (apostrophes, punctuation, quotation marks, general grammar - pathetic). Just give up guys, you just show yourselves up every time you open your mouths or take to a keyboard.

27th February Sports Direct announces it is in negotiation with the SFA to sponsor the Scottish Cup for a 'substantial sum'. The sponsorship will be for a 10 year period. Sports Direct will use one of its brands as the sponsorship vehicle, so that from 2016 the tournament will be known as the Golddigga Scottish Cup. Stewart Regan Chief Exec of the SFA said 'This agreement with Golddigga is good for Scottish football, and we are delighted to enter a partnership with such a successful and ethical company. And we think Mike Ashley is an ok bloke, and has no case to answer in our attempt to make sure only Rangers men get involved with running The Rangers. We can now all move on'