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Another PhilMac. piece on the Sevco train crash.
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/front-loaded-kool-aid/
I know its Phil with all his baggage etc. but the sums are simple.
Rangers will be out of cash by November unless they get a very successful share issue or King ponies up big time.
Just don't expect to read it in any newspaper or hear it on TV or radio. Its the Motherwell born billionaire story all over again.
I think the plan has always been another share issue. Diminishing returns would reckon they're up against it there and even if they do pull in a hefty wedge, how much of it will have to go to pay off Ashley? If they are skooshing the league in front of big crowds and Ashley goes easy on them they might just raise enough to survive without another insolvency.
Sadly, as usual, we have given them a helping hand by lying down to a hiding. Bet that shifted several thousand New Hun STs. :rolleyes:
I'm sure that if they launch another share issue the debarred shareholders will go to court over it.In any case who would be brave enough to underwrite it.
The DR today has a front page pic & 2 page spread of a key witness to Chuckie Green fraud investigation being in Glasgow. Looks like the case is still proceeding apace. It started me musing as to just how the powers that be behind the scenes at greyskull actually went about supporting & choosing their last 3 owners/COE's.
Craig Whyte - sounds good, ok he's been barred from being a company director for 7 years but that's just a technical matter. he's got off the radar wealth, he lives in a castle & he looks like another cheekie chappie, him & Coisty, the dream team, that'll do for me.
Chuckie Green - really disappointed that he's never been barred from being a company director but the positive news is he was strongly suspected of asset stripping at Sheffield Utd & turned a small loss into a massive one! he's owned about 40 companies & about 80% of those have been dissolved, let's take a chance on him! And, we can call him big man!
Dave King Ah, now we're talking!! A convicted criminal, and on 41 counts! at last we're hitting the big time! Not only that but he was originally indicted on 322 counts of criminal activity for everything from racketeering & money-laundering to dandruff! Brilliant, he'll have no problem passing the fit & proper test, he's the man to take Sevco forward!
Kim Jong-Un, :greengrin
Very good analysis but cannae see wee Kim passing the fat and protestant person test. the latter part anyway as he is apparently a deity in his own right. The only option might be for all the huns to apply for North Korean Citizenship and then undertake a religious conversion, We can but hope.
You forgot about The Krays
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Goes without saying that Phil is a twat but Rangers certainly should have been counting the bawbees.
Their squad this year is better than last seasons but it's also cheaper. So if they are running out of cash again then they'll require either of the things you suggest or
further loans from directors who we would assume are not taking money out the club unlike in the Charlie Green days.
Perhaps the cutbacks that were rumoured after June have not actually happened but that doesn't surprise me.
There's a mentality at Rangers both at Director and at Fan level and that just does not "get it" that when you have limited funds you cut your cloth accordingly.
When other clubs are relegated or they see money tighten, players are moved on or released and squads are cut in size. At lower levels clubs even go Part Time or have a greater mix of Part Time players. Any new contracts to players should be more modest and we all remember the East mains bloodbath that was Butcher's last act after relegation.
But at Rangers, none of those things happen. They still fritter money away so for that reason to my mind they are without doubt the world's stupidest football club
But Dave King has promised to invest £50 million, I mean £40 million, ehm, or was it £10 million.
In all seriousness, can you imagine the team that we could afford if we had just banked the money from circa 25k Season Tickets?
Hoisted by their own hubris and they genuinely believe their own hype. Any time you read of them talking about the "history" of their club, or getting back to "where they belong", it seems like they've not learned a single thing.
If they go bust, it will be nothing short of what they deserve.
The ones I know certainly are, they haven't learned a thing. As far as they are concerned it is the SPL/SFA and HMRCs fault they are bust and apparently they are victims of a witch hunt.
Plus they think everyone that voted for Sevco to start in Div 3 did it out of spite/fear, not for fair competition. When I point out that it wouldn't have even gone to a vote of it was anyone else because it was the only right outcome but a lack of balls prevented the decision from being made automatically, they get very angry. Seems the truth hurts especially when you're in denial.
My favourite moment was when they thought they were world beaters after beating us in the playoff and saying how ironic it was that they would be sending Motherwell down when they voted to send Sevco down a few years previous, that went well!
On a serious note is there a link available to an article where DK promised to invest £xm..? Or has it all been supposition?
May well be miles earlier in thread but one does forget!
Was listening to John Beattie show on Radio Scotland yesterday lunchtime. They were discussing the bans on certain press from Ibrox.
Graham Spiers was seemingly banned for criticising the new board - in particular The Glib and Shameless liar over the past few years.
The more worrying one was Chris McLaughlan though. He was banned for reporting on the Referees report including the sectarian singing. Obviously they don't like the truth being out there as it is bad publicity.
BBC are therefore refusing to send reporters according to the reporters on the show yesterday. Have to ask why they are commentating on the game tonight then?
March 2014: At least £30 million
May 2015: £10 Million
I think Mr King will be wary of under-writing a share issue if David Murray's efforts to grab the orange pound are anything to go by.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...re-scheme.html
£ 51,430,995.00 raised , £ 50,275,000.00 from his own company Murray International, which led to B.of S. taking a stake in the company before the Bank needed bailing out by us, the taxpayer.
Who in their right mind would buy in anyway.
Green's issue was taken up by people who wanted to grab power, some blue-nose fund managers who thought they'd have a punt on the new clumpany with other people's money and have all but lost it, and the small share holder supporters .
The small share holders may buy a few more but it will be peanuts , the fund managers won't dare touch them, and will anyone put in millions to win control of the mess assembled by spivs & Co ?