Rangers Banter Archive February 12 2015

12 Feb 2015 20:40:53
Fellow bears, am I the only one thinking that this board intentionally picked a venue that they knew would get knocked back as they are stalling for a reason to benefit there own agenda in choosing a new venue which I don't think will happen and the egm won't go ahead on the 4th of march, they will buy more time for themselves as you can bet mike ashley WILL have something up his sleeve, I hope to god I'm wrong but something keeps telling me ashley will win this particular power battle, this guy says nothing to the media and never rolls over and anybody who thinks he will has got another thing coming and are in for a big shock, what do we think guys?

13 Feb 2015 01:38:18
erm yes m8 you are the only one who thinks that,
unless you include the other thousands who have been saying the same thing for weeks of course?

Jr. I think and hope all will go well at the e.g.m.the current mob are not even trying to defend any of there actions, I think they know they will be removed.

Jr the only other reason for no e.g.m.would be if enough votes were sent before the date, and the board know they are beat, then they could drop the e.g.m.stepping aside to allow the new board that would come in had the e.g.m.taken place.so everybody should give there proxy vote ASAP to let them know they are beat, though ime pretty sure they know it's over.

12 Feb 2015 13:38:55
Rangers keeper Steve Simonsen has been banned for two games after being found guilty of betting on 55 games following a hearing before an independent panel. On better news Cammy Bell is back to full training.

12 Feb 2015 14:38:52
Two match ban scandalous should of been ten seems the sfa are trying to punish Rangers fans fortunately it would appear Bell is fit again and hopefully we won't see the man doing nets for us again.

Worst keeper since Nicky Walker. They should have banned him outright.

12 Feb 2015 15:35:34
Simonsen and McCulloch banned for the Hibs game, Oh well looks like we my have a chance in winning this one.

The Eastenders will think it's all due to a bias SFA

Appeal it ask for ten

He was recommended by Bomber he should be banned as well lol

Simonsen ban is a bonus to us he could, nt catch a cold we have always had great keepers as far as I can remember would pay good money to see him go

Maybe we could get Ricky Foster banned for the rest of the season

Maybe support the players instead of ridiculing then at every opportunity! Steve simonson has save rangers a lot more times than he has let us down. And Ricky foster and Lee mcculloch at time look like the only players interested! Am sure they are not delibrately playing badly.

No 8, very true, and let's be honest McCullough has always been an average player

Ceexxx I don't think they are playing badly intentionally, I think they are playing badly because they are too old, there auld tired legs can't last the pace against there younger opponents.if games were played at walking pace they would do okay, but unfortunately for us it's a young mans game.

12 Feb 2015 09:38:02
ED001/ED039 with the new Sky/BT televsion deal kicking in shortly what can Mike Ashley make from Rangers that he will not make at Newcastle. His club are guaranteed minimum £100m in 18 months time with Ashley having to do very little financially, even if he sells thousands of replica shirts and other merchandise it will take Sports Direct YEARS to equal that amount.

{Ed001's Note - simple answer is nothing. He will never make as much from Rangers as he can from Newcastle.}

Not as a going concern, anyway.

His aim has always been to get himself into the contractual position where to get rid of him he has to receive a multi-million deal by anyone willing to buy him out of his contracts.

The more annoying he is, the more they will pay to get rid of him. If nobody will pay, he makes a decent income form his 'onerous contracts', he puts in just enough money to keep the team mid-table but no higher.

Like him or loathe him, he has a business plan. Him and Green saw a failing business on its knees, with a huge customer base who are emotionally-driven. This is ripe for the sort of thorn-in-side-payout deal that they have set up.

I reckon it'll cost the 3B in the order of £40million to get completely rid of Ashley. This is why King is one minute slagging him off, and the next saying they can work together. The 3B don't have the money required to completely buy him out.

The EGM may change the details of a few deals, but this is the underlying position, and King with all his fancy talk (remember Green and his?) cannot change the finances.

1. Sadly I think you are largely right. The idea that if King wins the EGM that he can just rip up the onerous contracts and things can get back to normal in a year or two strikes me as totally naive.

Personally I have nothing but contempt for Ashley but he does seem more skilled in making money from his exploitative but legal methods than just about any other British businessman today.

Hope I am wrong but if he really wants to win the EGM then I think he will although maybe he will be content to be defeated, knowing that he will still make a pile of money from the club.

Naz, it's a bit like that part of the movie Die Hard, where the cops finally answer the call and they all pull up to the building en masse, and the moviegoer is supposed to say "oh that's his plans foiled and in reality, Hans Gruber was expecting this to happen all along, it was part of the plan.

If people are sitting here thinking Ashley is going "oh noes, the 3B and King are going to win the EGM and that'll be my game up" are sadly naïve. A bid for control by a rival group was ALWAYS part of Ashley's plan, it was just a matter of when. It doesn't matter to him who or when it happens.

He either sits on his onerous contracts taking millions per year out of Rangers, or a rival group makes him a multi-million buyout offer. Either way, he wins.

12 Feb 2015 14:11:29
Win win situation for him Naz.If King loses(god forbid)he'll have the assets.
If King wins the punters come back, and like it or not,they will buy Rangers merchandise,especially the latest shirts for their kids.

DisExpat, Your post @ 3] might be hard to swallow, but that simple appraisal sums up our position. Ashley might not be the most decent person in the world, but he certainly knows how to squeeze everything out of a desperate situation. Like other posters have stated, he is probably one of the instigators of the desperate position we find ourselves in. One thing is guaranteed, the full truth will never come out and we might win the vote at the egm, but Ashley has got us by the short and curlies.

Billyb I don't think Ashley is one of the instigators, I think he is the instigator, him alone, these people all work together, for Ashley, planned from day one IMHO.

13 Feb 2015 01:46:01
Fatty doesn't care about owning the club, he will hand over to anyone gladly, so long as hs deals are I place