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I mind that game well. A Sunday lunchtime kickoff, with Roy Keane making his debut for a Celtic side expected to sweep aside The Bully Wee who, if memory serves, had created a full side from scratch at the start of the season out of triallists and juniors. Celtic were a complete rabble (Du Wei and Mr Keane himself being two of the worst offenders), and Clyde should have been four up at half time. I was also of the mind that funny business was afoot, and I'm not even a Clyde fan.

The Kingdom has spoken* - Raith and Pars fans can be proud of their boards. It's now up to the rest of the diddies nationwide to back us up and scotch this ridiculous plan. * of course, Cowdenbeath have spoken as well. But all they could muster was gibberish from the cruelled gullet of a discredited, sectarian QC.

The Old Farm, surely?

I'd prefer BTC for obvious reasons.

A The Rangers fan having a sideways dig at the Irish. How very quaint.

I heard that Call Kaye nugget go on about that as well, saying that Falkirk were denied promotion and Aberdeen saved relegation 'due to money reasons' or some such nonsense; to suggest that in the first instance and then compare that to what the Rangers board have done is nothing short of deluded. That said, Call Kaye was a poor forum on which to discuss the The Rangers situation as she didn't have a scooby about most of it, for example when she accepted the point that Rangers could perhaps go to England. I don't blame her for ignorance of history recent or distant but if you know nothing of the background you shouldn't be trying to debate it, and certainly not publicly.

As was pointed out several hundred pages ago, if the Main Stand falls into disrepair - which it would rather quickly without maintenance or heating - and was to become, in the opinion of a surveyor, a risk to the public (not that it hasn't been for years!), then it would be ripe for demolition. All Green has to do, if this is part of his evil plan, is wait until the stadium becomes structurally unsafe, or present as such via any number of means to the local council, and it'll be gone quicker than a Rangers CVA proposal. Your Club Deck took major investment to build because preservation was so very important; not any more, old son.

I'd prefer they remained in their stupor, slumbering their way towards oblivion. A lot of your post is speculative, but far from inconceivable given recent events. The support have proved blind in their faith and are being punished by consecutive maladministrations of their beloved club. Normally, I would have sympathy but, for obvious reasons, I welcome their toppling into the abyss. And then we can get to work on Celtic.

Just to clarify, by a few years do you mean, say, for good? Or, given the sudden descent which could very well be imminent for your club, does this now mean that winning the Junior Cup could prove glorious? The acceleration towards Rangers ultimate demise is increasing; very soon, you may have no manager, no team, and no assets so grand as a patch of grass with which to begin again. Then, the fractured politics endemic in your many, many supporters 'associations' could very possibly lead to an absence of momentum behind one single, secure Rangers entity, just as has been proved by the quite lamentable fundraising efforts of 'ra peepul'. There are no absolutes at present, but indications are that Rangers are on the very point of a profound obliteration. About five hundred pages back, I seem to recall your alter-ego professing that the diddies will reap what they sow. I was not the only one on here who pointed out the irony of such a statement, and I sense we're about to be proved quite correct. I do, however, commend your passive alias in continuing to visit P&B and calmly discuss events where so many others of all persuasions are trying - and largely failing - to ram it right up you.

It's true. But I get rid of 'my bit of Rangers' twice a day, first usually in the morning, and then later in the day, usually several hours after a meal. I'm talking about having a shite, by the way.

It is simply preposturous. That Rangers supporters representative has absolutely no shame. 'Be careful what you wish for'; sanctimonious, insipid and hypocritical to the last. You'd say Hell mend 'em; Hell's got some job mending this lot.

We-e-e-e-e-ll, I'll not be counting my chickens before they're hatched, that is for certain. There have been that many twists and turns throughout this entire saga that nobody can say entirely for certain what will happen on Thursday (except that Rangers Media, Pie and Bovril, and Kerrydale St will go into apocalyptic meltdown - would be a good time to be an internet bandwidth salesman, or a server rep). The vast majority of us hope that HMRC block the CVA, as it seems the righteous path. However, Rangers men have had their insipid fingers around the throat of Scottish football - not to mention society - for so long that any outcome is still possible. I certainly wouldn't start crowing before I knew for certain that they're doomed (although the suggested appointment of BDO is a very strong indicator that HMRC have set their stall out). Either way, it's going to be fascinating viewing, people.

Apologies - my media selection has been found wanting, that'll teach me for reading only Murdoch papers due to their non-partisan, neutral and uncommercial style of reporting the facts and only the facts.

Absolutely right. There's been only cursory mention of this tawdry affair here in Australia where, in fairness, fitba is a distant fourth in popularity across the various codes. At the very beginning it gained press in a couple of columns, but nothing more - and this was more in relation to Matt MacKay going to China at the outset. There have been other, similar scandals across sport here over the past years, but nothing on the potential scale of the Rangers situation. It simply hasn't captured the public imagination over here, which is strange given Rangers' global supportTM. Was pretty sure you'd started the main thread irrespective of the merging, but don't mind being corrected. What I do know is that your commentary, along with Granny Danger, WhiteRoseKillie, and a few other notables in particular, has been head and shoulders above not only much of the supposition on here but also the mainstream Scottish media in general. And for that, you should take a bow.

Welcome home Pozbaird; beginner and true King of this thread. It just wouldn't be right should the filthy, cheating stinking Teds go round the U-bend this week without you being able to provide a subsequent valedictory address on behalf of us diddies.

Billy Ocean's agent IMO

Ach away. Support your local cream.

When I read your posts, I read them out loud in the style of a movie trailer announcer with a gravelly, deep portentous voice. Because that is clearly how you want them to be read, full of drama and vengeance. Then I read it in the voice of Chorlton from Chorlton and the Wheelies, and I think that probably sounds closer to how you actually talk. Desperate times. Desperate measures.

This makes a great deal of sense and therefore has to be communicated to the creditors. It will no doubt be exposed at the creditors meeting (provided there's still a club to pick over by then), but it should be put through the media so that each and every creditor, many of which would take the pence in the pound offer due to their misplaced loyalty to this foul, corrupt institution, are aware of the precise degree to which they are being swindled. One of the most frustrating things of this whole affair is that the findings of the RTC and the more sensible parts of this very thread have not yet been communicated to the masses. To turn the tide, that needs to change.

Everyone. Bookmark. This. The undulating presence of Rangers fans on here have been as predictable as the tides, notwithstanding the general ferocity of their comments when they receive even the smallest of meaningless victories. The above is not solely why we all want your club to stop its clattering wheezing and just expire; it is also a precis of the delusion that has carried Rangers to death's door via over a decade of hollow domination on soft foundations. Few things remain absolutely certain about Rangers, but one aspect rears imperiously above all else. You will indeed reap what you have sowed.

Could it perhaps be implied that this was a final payout figure, designed to be deposited after such a period of time that would be liable to investigation as an EBT? Is the red button perhaps a suggestion that EBTs have gone back a lot further than was previously thought? Or is it because of the Tugay transfer?

Would the implication be, for example, during contract negotiations with a player at another club, that Rangers, with knowledge of the players' existing contract, could offer those terms with an EBT on top, thereby securing a player for only nominally more than they were previously being paid? Seems too sensible, given what has already come out; OF contracts regularly exceed those paid by other clubs by some considerable amount. I don't think therefore that the EBTs were used strategically like this - I've probably missed something though.

Lamentably, the answer would be 'one'.