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RANGERS TO WIN TO NIL 2.15 AT W HILL
HAS HAPPENED IN 9 OF LAST 10 LEAGUE GAMES
HAS HAPPENED IN 9 OF LAST 10 LEAGUE GAMES
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Can you believe that this diddy team is staying at Gleneagles Hotel for this game,has been paying its manager 850k a year and are due to run out of money by the end of March.
Nice to see they have taken note of their previous overspending.
Nice to see they have taken note of their previous overspending.
living a champagne lifestyle on an Irn-Bru budget sums it up perfectly
If thats true shuda, that is a disgrace. F*ck me its Forfar not John O Groats 2hrs 2 mins from ground to ground according to route planner.what a pi55 take
It is true and i actually feel sorry for rational rangers supporters.
They have been well ripped off by spivs.
They have been well ripped off by spivs.
DAILY RECORD TODAY:
Keith Jackson: Rangers want players to take a pay cut.. yet they'll prepare for Forfar match at four-star hotel
KEITH hits out at Rangers' lavish pre-match routine ahead of tonight's League 1 clash with Forfar claiming they are living a champagne lifestyle on an Irn-Bru budget.
20 Jan 2014 07:28
HERE’S a thing. You know those Rangers players involved in conceptual discussions about theoretical wage cuts last week? And who metaphorically booted the hypothetical idea into touch?
Well, here’s today’s reality.
Did you know they’re all being bussed to the Four-Star Carnoustie Hotel this morning? Where they’ll enjoy some fine dining for lunch, possibly at the hotel’s own AA Rosette-winning restaurant?
Rooms will then be provided in order that they can enjoy an afternoon nap, for those not getting treatments in the spa. All for an away trip to Forfar? To take on Gavin S****ie and Darren Dods?
Is it any wonder these players don’t know if they are coming or going?
Or that, as he unwraps the chocolate on his fluffy cotton pillow this afternoon, manager Ally McCoist might pause to reflect on where it has all gone wrong.
Talk about mixed messages? Talk about champagne lifestyles and Irn-Bru budgets? Talk about hubris, arrogance and over-indulgence? Talk about sledgehammers and walnuts. The constant noise and confusion around Rangers is truly head-melting stuff.
No wonder the club’s new chief executive looked slightly ruffled last week when news emerged from Murray Park of his polite suggestion that the first team might consider 15 per cent pay cuts.
For a man of his experience Graham Wallace, below right, ought to have known such a proposal would be unlikely to remain within the walls of the dressing room for longer than it takes a player to hit the speed dial button to his agent.
It was bound to result in an outbreak of panic among a support that has seen this movie before and which was so badly traumatised by the way it ended.
But Wallace can be excused because, not only is he new here but also there must be a million and one different, more pressing thoughts, pinballing around inside his head as he attempts to tackle this latest financial crisis.
Commendably, he has promised to deliver a business model that will finally allow Rangers to live within its means.
Sustainability, transparency and a bit of common sense would go a long way to sorting out the internal mayhem over which he presides.
Today’s unnecessarily lavish road trip, though, is just more proof that, when he agreed to take on this position at the top of a dysfunctional board, he was in fact stepping into life through the looking glass. Wallace in Wonderland. Or not.
It’s his job now to make some sense of the numbers, to crunch them down and to crush this club’s recent culture of big bonuses and eye-popping extravagance before what little cash is left in the bank has evaporated completely. There is a rich irony about the fact that, in Philip Nash, he has hired yet another big-earning accountant to assist him in this urgent cost-cutting review.
But then this job is so big Wallace might need all the help he can get. And from people in whom he can trust. Wallace’s planning is all that stands now between Rangers and another financial catastrophe. At the present rate of spending, the club’s last reserves will be gone before the end of the campaign.
In fact, the prediction of financial director Brian Stockbridge that Rangers will be down to their last million in April now looks hugely optimistic.
It is quite incredible this man remains in charge of the books given his standing in the eyes of the fans. It was not long ago he was talking confidently of growing turnover to in excess of £100m. Only then to predict a £7m year-end loss. Which, in fact, turned out to be a £14m black hole.
And if, as is being strongly suggested by people on the inside of this basketcase, Stockbridge has got it wrong again then the situation at Ibrox could soon become dire. Perhaps as soon as next month.
At a time when every penny counts, thank goodness then that Stockbridge has handed back that £200k bonus he pocketed for watching Rangers win last season’s Third Division title. Right?
And has the financial director and the rest of the board actually signed off on the halving of McCoist’s eye-watering £825k annual salary? After talking about it for months, why on earth would it not have been rubber-stamped by now?
If all this financial remedial work really has been completed then Wallace should announce it to the Stock Exchange and also reveal the current state of the accounts.
It should be done in the name of sustainability and transparency – and in the hope of forcing common sense to prevail. Wallace must be astonished at some of the numbers that have flown across his desk.
It is not his fault this club has blown its chance to stockpile cash on its journey up the leagues and there is nothing he can do now to address this grotesque overspend. That ship has sailed.
Had Rangers plotted a more sensible course they would be arriving in the top flight in 18 months in a fit and healthy state, with millions squirrelled away.
But, in their vulgar rush to cuddle up to McCoist, former chief execs Charles Green and Craig Mather put their own popularity ahead of proper prudence.
By doing this, they kept the fans onside and the tills ringing.
All Wallace can do now is address the crisis this pair and Stockbridge created.
He’s not helped by the fact that, simply by agreeing to join a broken board and glue it back together, he himself is now viewed with varying degrees of suspicion.
But, unlike Green and Mather, he must not allow his own popularity to get in the way of protecting the club’s interests.
Which is why it was encouraging to see the first steps towards a more austere future being taken last week.
But, crucially, if Wallace is serious about grabbing the bull by the horns then he must do so in the boardroom because this is where the biggest excesses have recently been committed.
It is hard to think of another club that spends millions less on its players than on the rest of its employees but that’s precisely what the accounts showed to be the case at Rangers last year.
No wonder the players refuse to take the first hit when there are other far more bloated and obvious targets at the top of the marble staircase.
These players may well feel treated like disposable window dressing when they are supposed to be the very heart of the club.
And here’s another thing. They were asked to ponder a 15 per cent cut over a period of 18 months, while also being told the club hopes to sign even more players in the summer.
Which means some of them might be volunteering to help finance their own replacements.
And you thought lunch at Carnoustie was mad?
Keith Jackson: Rangers want players to take a pay cut.. yet they'll prepare for Forfar match at four-star hotel
KEITH hits out at Rangers' lavish pre-match routine ahead of tonight's League 1 clash with Forfar claiming they are living a champagne lifestyle on an Irn-Bru budget.
20 Jan 2014 07:28
HERE’S a thing. You know those Rangers players involved in conceptual discussions about theoretical wage cuts last week? And who metaphorically booted the hypothetical idea into touch?
Well, here’s today’s reality.
Did you know they’re all being bussed to the Four-Star Carnoustie Hotel this morning? Where they’ll enjoy some fine dining for lunch, possibly at the hotel’s own AA Rosette-winning restaurant?
Rooms will then be provided in order that they can enjoy an afternoon nap, for those not getting treatments in the spa. All for an away trip to Forfar? To take on Gavin S****ie and Darren Dods?
Is it any wonder these players don’t know if they are coming or going?
Or that, as he unwraps the chocolate on his fluffy cotton pillow this afternoon, manager Ally McCoist might pause to reflect on where it has all gone wrong.
Talk about mixed messages? Talk about champagne lifestyles and Irn-Bru budgets? Talk about hubris, arrogance and over-indulgence? Talk about sledgehammers and walnuts. The constant noise and confusion around Rangers is truly head-melting stuff.
No wonder the club’s new chief executive looked slightly ruffled last week when news emerged from Murray Park of his polite suggestion that the first team might consider 15 per cent pay cuts.
For a man of his experience Graham Wallace, below right, ought to have known such a proposal would be unlikely to remain within the walls of the dressing room for longer than it takes a player to hit the speed dial button to his agent.
It was bound to result in an outbreak of panic among a support that has seen this movie before and which was so badly traumatised by the way it ended.
But Wallace can be excused because, not only is he new here but also there must be a million and one different, more pressing thoughts, pinballing around inside his head as he attempts to tackle this latest financial crisis.
Commendably, he has promised to deliver a business model that will finally allow Rangers to live within its means.
Sustainability, transparency and a bit of common sense would go a long way to sorting out the internal mayhem over which he presides.
Today’s unnecessarily lavish road trip, though, is just more proof that, when he agreed to take on this position at the top of a dysfunctional board, he was in fact stepping into life through the looking glass. Wallace in Wonderland. Or not.
It’s his job now to make some sense of the numbers, to crunch them down and to crush this club’s recent culture of big bonuses and eye-popping extravagance before what little cash is left in the bank has evaporated completely. There is a rich irony about the fact that, in Philip Nash, he has hired yet another big-earning accountant to assist him in this urgent cost-cutting review.
But then this job is so big Wallace might need all the help he can get. And from people in whom he can trust. Wallace’s planning is all that stands now between Rangers and another financial catastrophe. At the present rate of spending, the club’s last reserves will be gone before the end of the campaign.
In fact, the prediction of financial director Brian Stockbridge that Rangers will be down to their last million in April now looks hugely optimistic.
It is quite incredible this man remains in charge of the books given his standing in the eyes of the fans. It was not long ago he was talking confidently of growing turnover to in excess of £100m. Only then to predict a £7m year-end loss. Which, in fact, turned out to be a £14m black hole.
And if, as is being strongly suggested by people on the inside of this basketcase, Stockbridge has got it wrong again then the situation at Ibrox could soon become dire. Perhaps as soon as next month.
At a time when every penny counts, thank goodness then that Stockbridge has handed back that £200k bonus he pocketed for watching Rangers win last season’s Third Division title. Right?
And has the financial director and the rest of the board actually signed off on the halving of McCoist’s eye-watering £825k annual salary? After talking about it for months, why on earth would it not have been rubber-stamped by now?
If all this financial remedial work really has been completed then Wallace should announce it to the Stock Exchange and also reveal the current state of the accounts.
It should be done in the name of sustainability and transparency – and in the hope of forcing common sense to prevail. Wallace must be astonished at some of the numbers that have flown across his desk.
It is not his fault this club has blown its chance to stockpile cash on its journey up the leagues and there is nothing he can do now to address this grotesque overspend. That ship has sailed.
Had Rangers plotted a more sensible course they would be arriving in the top flight in 18 months in a fit and healthy state, with millions squirrelled away.
But, in their vulgar rush to cuddle up to McCoist, former chief execs Charles Green and Craig Mather put their own popularity ahead of proper prudence.
By doing this, they kept the fans onside and the tills ringing.
All Wallace can do now is address the crisis this pair and Stockbridge created.
He’s not helped by the fact that, simply by agreeing to join a broken board and glue it back together, he himself is now viewed with varying degrees of suspicion.
But, unlike Green and Mather, he must not allow his own popularity to get in the way of protecting the club’s interests.
Which is why it was encouraging to see the first steps towards a more austere future being taken last week.
But, crucially, if Wallace is serious about grabbing the bull by the horns then he must do so in the boardroom because this is where the biggest excesses have recently been committed.
It is hard to think of another club that spends millions less on its players than on the rest of its employees but that’s precisely what the accounts showed to be the case at Rangers last year.
No wonder the players refuse to take the first hit when there are other far more bloated and obvious targets at the top of the marble staircase.
These players may well feel treated like disposable window dressing when they are supposed to be the very heart of the club.
And here’s another thing. They were asked to ponder a 15 per cent cut over a period of 18 months, while also being told the club hopes to sign even more players in the summer.
Which means some of them might be volunteering to help finance their own replacements.
And you thought lunch at Carnoustie was mad?
Meanwhile,the brave men of Forfar will be turning up after a hard day at work.
you officially relegated yet iam ?
you and shuda sheeple should be worrying about your own clubs imo
or is it noone has the slightest bit of interest in them ,not even you prats
only one show in town ....
you and shuda sheeple should be worrying about your own clubs imo
or is it noone has the slightest bit of interest in them ,not even you prats
only one show in town ....
^^^^^^^^^^^^
So speaks a supporter with his head in the sand.
Even your fellow supporters have seen the light.
So speaks a supporter with his head in the sand.
Even your fellow supporters have seen the light.
Jan 20, 2014 -- 2:03PM, breadnbutter wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P84EcMF4cI
One of the weirdest things I have witnessed
...Please don't ever post that sniteeeeee again !!
Jan 20, 2014 -- 1:21PM, tambhoy5 wrote:
living a champagne lifestyle on an Irn-Bru budget sums it up perfectly
what will sevco be calling themselves when they go into administration a second time?
Looks like they are still asleep in Gleneagles,
Its been all Forfar so far.
Its been all Forfar so far.
That mohsni guy could be quite entertaining at a higher level
Full time pro's that have spent the day being pampered at CARNOUSTIE against a part time team of guys who have been working today,You would be hard pressed to tell who is who.
This Rangers team will really struggle next year in the second teir but will just about win it with a little help.
This Rangers team will really struggle next year in the second teir but will just about win it with a little help.
Shuda seek help.
This obsession you have for RANGERS is getting out of control.
The only Scottish team that can fill stadiums is RANGERS
The blue pound has kept the sheepies, arabs and jumbos going and yet we get no gratitude.
This obsession you have for RANGERS
is getting out of control. The only Scottish team that can fill stadiums is RANGERS
The blue pound has kept the sheepies, arabs and jumbos going and yet we get no gratitude.
Ha ha just noticed they have "1872" on the back of their shirts.
akabula - They have'nt even filled Station Park you half wit.
By the way it was everybody else's money that you stole that kept your previous team alive.
By the way it was everybody else's money that you stole that kept your previous team alive.
Think the £18.72 is the price tag left on for the january sales.
You wouldn't know which team were the part timers and which were the pub side
Top tier at parkdeid closed and the bottom tier half empty.
Aye TGFITW
Aye TGFITW
Mohsni should be playing for a better outfit than his current !!
1.02 £1,251 £1,361
1.03 £900 £13,294
1.04 £6,172
1.05 £3,074
Over 0.5 Backers out of jail
1.03 £900 £13,294
1.04 £6,172
1.05 £3,074
Over 0.5 Backers out of jail
breadnbutter • January 20, 2014 9:21 PM GMT
your posting at the correct level Wink
your posting at the correct level Wink
is it true Iron Bru are sponsoring lennons teeth next season ?
Mohsni said when he was allowed to leave Southend he had no teams interested and would have to accept a deal from any garbage that offered him one.
Jan 20, 2014 -- 9:26PM, Geesyerdosh wrote:
Mohsni said when he was allowed to leave Southend he had no teams interested and would have to accept a deal from any garbage that offered him one.
fair enough
Rangers fans would bite at anything......Never Fails 
...Never Fails
The plumbers and joiners have been up since 6am and done a days work.
No wonder they are tiring.
No wonder they are tiring.
Could'nt give a sh1t.
Its next season you will struggle.
Its next season you will struggle.
You couldn't give a sh1t you say
Why you on then?
Yep deffo seething
Why you on then?
Yep deffo seething
Very true,i am seething that a diddy new team has just beat the famous Forfar Athletic.
Scottish football's great. Attendances up, competitive teams and a new club called Bustco about to appear over the horizon.
HAPPY DAYS.
HAPPY DAYS.
The hotel stopover made the difference.
Another act of genius from Super.
Another act of genius from Super
.
It's all about the RANGERS
Scotlands pride and still the biggest draw.
Scotlands pride and still the biggest draw.
The world would be a less funny place without Sevco that's for sure.
Hopefully the new club can give it a run for it's money.
Hopefully the new club can give it a run for it's money.
they could not give a **** ....fookers have sat and watched that match and kicked every ball ...
absolutely reeking the lot of them
absolutely reeking the lot of them
More septic fans watch RANGERS than their own team.
Can't say I blame them.
than their own team.Can't say I blame them.
Great night. Hopefully the team win every match for the rest of the season and Super can be rewarded with a new 5 year contract assuming the club still exist. Love the way he's developing the passing game and bringing the youngsters through with that multi million pound squad. Reminds me of a cross between Guardiola and Mourinho. Only worry is if the likes of Bayern or Real Madrid come calling. Let's hope not.
Seethe away bhoyo, it'll do you good to get all that anger out.
BET WON - FUNNY BETTING SITE 70 COMMENTS NOT ONE ABOUT BET!
ALSO DID DOUBLE CELTIC TO WIN TO NIL DOUBLE HAS CAME UP SEVEN OF LAST EIGHT WEEKS
ALSO DID DOUBLE CELTIC TO WIN TO NIL DOUBLE HAS CAME UP SEVEN OF LAST EIGHT WEEKS
No one could bet they were laughing too much. Well done though Robert.
I'm no fan of the other lot they can get tae fuuck as well.
It's just that I despise your mob that little bit more
It's just that I despise your mob that little bit more
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