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Yet again mainstream media publish claims of payments being made without the most basic of journalistic investigations being made.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
How hard could it be to pick up phone to Scottish clubs and ask if they had been paid as Rangers claimed? Pathetic.
I think Charlie bhoy said the cash was placed with the SFA. Maybe they are just sitting on it for a while:cbQuote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
I read somewhere that the SFA had returned the cheque and told Green to deal directly with the clubs owed the money. Probably he'll do that once he's finished brewing tea for the hordes (if only he'd thought of bringing five loaves and two fishes). The season ticket money should at least have sorted any short-term cashflow problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
Congrats:greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibs Class
Just resting in their account, perhaps... :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
Did anyone see Charlie Greene's quite strange posturing/acting display for the unwashed hordes queuing to buy season tickets ? Think it was on the STV News at 6pm.
If ever there was a case of completely playing to the cameras and the brainless, gullible orcs standing there then this was it!
Just telling them what they wanted to hear, going off on yet another tangent about the SFA/SPL and yet again claiming they've got a hidden agenda against him blah blah blah.....:blah:
Just smacks of complete utter desperation to see him standing there in his shirt and tie, in the pissing down rain slavering on and on....i bet if the cameras weren't there he'd be nowhere to be seen!
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Originally Posted by BarneyK
We need a smilie for these gratuitous Father Ted references.:greengrin
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Originally Posted by marti1875
100% spot on. Obvious this act is to ingratiate himself with the brain damaged zombie horde, via the compliant weegia, and sell as many Sevco books as possible. They are lapping this act up a treat by all accounts. This Yorkshire spiv in his cheap suit and the queue of zombie hordes make a beautiful sight.
Expect a new orange away strip any day now. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by marti1875
(... but everybody else are the bigots. Aye, good one Chuck.)
There's nothing gratuitous about Father Ted!Quote:
Originally Posted by s.a.m
White with orange, not tangerine like the last one, dont see anyone having a problem afterall queens park also had an orange top;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
Maybe, but in their case I'm sure they didn't do it to pander to backwards lowlifes who still live in the seventeenth century.Quote:
Originally Posted by blueisthecolour
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Originally Posted by Barney McGrew
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...hunsmarch3.jpg
What last one? Surely this is the first one? A Newco with a new shirt, unless you want to accept ALL of the history including ALL debt. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by blueisthecolour
Why have orange in your kits?? Oh silly me, its to do with a certain battle hundreds of years ago, and silly men with sashes and bowler hats....New team, no debts, same bigotted cretins.....Horrible, vile institution, I wish Ipox was flattened and your corrupt bigotted team had died for good.....Quote:
Originally Posted by blueisthecolour
It is not possible to sell the SPL share nor membership of the SFA. That is held by a business, in this case Rangers Football Club Ltd. That business did nothing other than operate as a football club. It wasn't a holding company and if you were a shareholder in that business then you owned the Club.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Falcon
After it went into admin it pretended to attempt a CVA. When this failed this signalled the end of Rangers Football Club Ltd corporately and therefore the end of their membership of the SPL and SFA.
Charles Green couldn't buy the share and membership, together with other bits and bobs he got for a song.
Sir Tom of Farmer prevented Hibernian from the same fate as Rangers FC; being liquidated and its assets sold. The key difference is Rangers debts and liabilities were too large to overcome, so the business (of being a football club) ended whereas Hibs weren't and the business could be restructured and the share retained.
<BR><BR>I think the big difference in Hibs Football Club's problems was is was'nt the football part of the business that ran up the huge debts. They were incurred by the crazy pubs estate Rowland forced on Hibs PLC.<BR>The football club was a viable business and Tom Farmer " bought " the Club from the PLC liquidators Arthur Anderson. The remainder of the PLC were then liquidated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cropley10
The papers are full of Newco getting a 40k+ crowd at their diddy league match at Ipox tomorrow. They're saying it's an embarrassment for the SPL which had a combined total of 40k at the weekend. What a stupid viewpoint to take of a statistic which is merely circumstantial and utterly meaningless. Hardly worth commenting on, I know, but I wonder how long it's going to take before the media realise that Newco are in reality a nonentity (a big one admittedly) operating in a minor and unimportant backwater ( with all due respect to the SFL clubs) which holds no interest for most of us.
The papers love sucking up to the Old Firm, whilst knocking everyone else....You only have to see papers after an old firm match, and they get 8 page pull outs, whilst other teames are lucky to get a page.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
As for the TV/Radio, they crank it up another level.....
Got to love the logic of the Laptop Loyal. New Huns having a large crowd is an embarrassment to themselves. It raises the question of how a club with such a large support base and resources could get into such a mess in the first place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
Good point. One which should be shouted loud from every SPL fans forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Part/Time Supporter
... which it has been in our case and, one would presume, in the case of every other SPL club.Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
The problem, as ever, is that the MSM aren't saying it.
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Originally Posted by Jim44
Lets see how many are trudging along to Ibrox in December and January when money is tighter, weather is lousy and the poor opposition will be providing shootie in practise and nil entertainment value.
Unfortunate fact of life, of course, is that the Huns support (actual and armchair) still represent a large part of the readership of the red-tops. Therefore, in those terms, it has to be business as usual to protect their market.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
More on this.http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman...ited-1-2468629Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Not sure if the article has been posted but Daily Record making a big fuss about the possibility of Rangers breaking a record for a bottom tier attendance (even though in Brazil there are 4th tier attendances of over 50 000)
Anyway, here's a wee song to celebrate
http://i.imgur.com/32LXj.jpg
Orcs on Radio Snyde moaning about Black being boo'd at ER because he plays for some team allegedly called The Rangers 2012, don't think so somehow. Who cares about them? Don't miss the sc um and don't want them back! :aok:
More accurately it wasnt ONLY the football club which ran up huge debts. The football club, in 1990, had debts of £4.5m (http://sport.scotsman.com/hibernianf...-on.6334773.jp) A year later and the football club debts had somehow risen to £7m (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle1144477.ece) when it went into receivership. It is a fair observation that Hibs "receivership" was engineered as it enabled Farmer to seperate the FC and the ground from the parent,which was now Forth Investments. Mercer had been trying to acquire 76.1% of Edinburgh Hibernian PLC (who we had bought the shares in).Quote:
Originally Posted by greenginger
Also it ended a stalemate between Farmer and Rowland, who was reluctant to sell his shares to Farmer as he was holding out for nearer the 40p that Mercer (long gone by this time) had originally offered as part of his £6.2m "merger". While Rowland pretty much wiped the floor with David Duff (although we should never forget that Duff did not sell at the crucial time, at a hefty financial cost to himself) both he, and Mercer, were found wanting against Farmer. Mercer realised this early enough and subsequently left Rowland to find out for himself.
While brighter and more informed posters than I are saying this was different from the Rangers situation the process, to me at least, appears to be very similar. Perhaps Farmer was a bit smarter than the Hun's?
This'll cheer them up.... Lord Nimmo-Smith is back :greengrin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19300338
The guy Flint is a heavy hitter too.... plenty experience in sports law.
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Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
Good news - confident that those guys will reach the right decision based on the evidence and will ignore/withstand any other extraneous influence.