Henrik's tongue Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 “The company that owns and operates the club” 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booker-T Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 2 hours ago, Kyle Reese said: I don't think it is though. You have a massive fanbase, both here and in places with a hefty Scots diaspora. If Rangers had went down the route of a model similar to the Foundation of Hearts, then they would have had hundreds of thousands of supporters there to pump money in. If people like King, Alastair Johnston, Park and others had offered to put up the money in advance, and let the massive supporter base pay them back, it would have worked. They were nowhere to be seen at that point though. Instead you ended up with carpet-baggers posing as well-intentioned saviours. Some people need an all owning monarch like figure 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stag Nation Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 1 hour ago, gannonball said: Pretty much from the moment Charles Green started talking to the press iirc. Started to claim he had bought all their assets and somehow tried to infer that meant the ‘club’ and the titles etc. The attempt to TUPE everyone was a wild hope that it meant it would stick but in the end it saddled them ridiculously overpaid players for the league they were and a manager who was the highest paid in Scotland by some distance. I seem to remember that their kit man was paid more than most managers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 It died doing what it loved most. Avoiding tax. I miss them so much. #YNWA. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinky67 Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Who can forget Big Bombers impassioned speech also? What will Scottish Football do without Glasgow Rangers? f**k off 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Manhattan Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Much like the great day itself, I suspect that we're going to start running out of greenies soon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 4 hours ago, AJF said: That is quite a large myth. To suggest there wasn't enough people worried enough to do something is disingenuous. The circumstances surrounding both clubs were vastly different and as your "run of the mill" fan, there is pretty much nothing I could've done that would've avoided anything that happened. Your "run of the mill fan"* could have: 1. Not "demanded better", like you know, actual run of the mill fans who realise success isn't a right, 2. Questioned where the money was actually coming from to buy the likes of Flo, 3. Listened when a few voices were warning of financial troubles years before they finally died, 4. Dismissed the likes of Chris Graham (?) and Mark Dingwall as the ranting, stupid bigots they undoubtedly are/were, and perhaps most importantly, 5. Not dismissed any negative news coming from Ibrokes as some kind of p*pish, f****n, T**g conspiracy mounted through jealousy of the Glorious Queen's XI.** *Is that the same as the "decent majority" who don't even know the words to any of those nasty songs? ** I would say RIP, but f**k'em. They were a disgraceful institution, and the fact that so many have colluded in the Big Lie either through fear of retribution or through pursuit of the Bloo (and Green) Poond is a disgraceful stain on the Nation. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Ah well, this thread was fun while it lasted. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Recent revelations that gid Fawkurk boay Martin Rennie not only rejected an advance from a preferred bidder to become Rangers manager at 36 years old, but also talked said character out of buying them has breathed new energy into the hilarity. Makes me proud to be a Bairn again, to know that our gaffer made an enormous yet hitherto little known contribution to 10 years of hilarious fail. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 2 hours ago, velo army said: Cheers for this. I am curious, as I was at the time, about a lack of concerted effort to save the club from the fans. I understand that it was perhaps too big a task, but I think had there been an attempt at fundraising that ultimately failed then the myth that "you let your club die" would have had less substance to it. Football fans are primarily emotional rather than rational (exhibit A, Partick Thistle have fans) and I would have expected a big fundraising effort to be part of the "bargaining" phase of this particular grief. That there wasn't one I found to be quite curious. Am I talking shite though and just not remembering any? "You let your club die" is always a good one to chuck at the bigots, as it gets a response every time - especially as they know the truth is more like "You allowed David Murray to commence the EOL phase of your club's existence, without risking a penny of his own money, while worshipping him for bringing "world-class" talent to Govan and never questioning how a club in a backwater league could afford this". Either way, funny as fúck, and will never get old. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Mean Gene said: What’s the general consensus on the board, happy Rangers are back and champions or would prefer if they were still fighting it out in division 3? Cheers. Simply put, neither of these possibilities is or was true. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 "You let your club die" is always a good one to chuck at the bigots, as it gets a response every time - especially as they know the truth is more like "You allowed David Murray to commence the EOL phase of your club's existence, without risking a penny of his own money, while worshipping him for bringing "world-class" talent to Govan and never questioning how a club in a backwater league could afford this". Either way, funny as fúck, and will never get old.They will not grow old as we who pay our taxes grow old. At the going bust of the *** and in the morning, we will remember them. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggie_Murray7 Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 3 hours ago, thisGRAEME said: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/craig-whyte-profile-the-scots-billionaire-1076110 Classic Jacko. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/craig-whyte-rangers-wolf-cheap-26219041 You couldn't give Jackson a brass neck with a blowtorch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParsJake Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 8 minutes ago, Shuggie_Murray7 said: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/craig-whyte-rangers-wolf-cheap-26219041 You couldn't give Jackson a brass neck with a blowtorch. Would be more than happy to give it a try. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 8 minutes ago, Shuggie_Murray7 said: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/craig-whyte-rangers-wolf-cheap-26219041 You couldn't give Jackson a brass neck with a blowtorch. Probably not even a red neck. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDoddyKane Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 2 shirts Charlie in Normandy Thats the season ticket money behind him 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 10 years of comedy gold. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dundee Hibernian Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 SIRS............................. Jimmy Savile Robert Mugabe Stuart Hall Nicolae Ceaucescu Tony Blair Fred Goodwin Benito Mussolini Anthony Blunt David Murray Who's the odd one out? Sir David Murray, who deserved a knighthood for killing Rangers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomboomyards Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Can't find the one with ally cutting the grass, that always made me laugh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Reese Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 8 minutes ago, BigDoddyKane said: 2 shirts Charlie in Normandy Thats the season ticket money behind him I believe one of those shirts was off Rangers supporters' backs. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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