21 Nov 2013 14:01:23
ED039 a question for yourself as a concerned fan.
From my perspective, as an outsider looking in, nothing seems to have changed down Ibrox way.
Most of your fans are wanting Paul Murray, Jim McColl, Malcolm Murray and Dave King to form your next board. Pardon my ignorance, but were most of these guys involved with Rangers when you were first in Administration and then Liquidated? What is new in their thinking now and also their competence to run a club fiscally prudent.
Also you all want a "sugar daddy" to put more money into your club. Again that is the same thinking as before.
Instead of starting from scratch and rebuilding step by step and any monies coming into your club would be EARNED, you simply want the easy route again, of someone bankrolling you.
My team Celtic are now reaping the benefits of living within their means and building slowly. Any profit Celtic now make has been earned via good financial housekeeping.
Surely this is the more sensible way for Rangers football club to go down also? Timalloy

{Ed039's Note - not heard from you for a while Mr Molloy, I am in absolute agreement with you mate, many of us had hoped to build from the bottom, make use of Murra ..... I mean Auckenhowie, but as I have said all along the business plan is all wrong. As for Murray, King et al, they were there but I dont think admin/liquidation can be attributed to them, that must lie at the door of SDM and his hollywood financial advisors and Craig Shite and ticketus)

1.) 21 Nov 2013
Timalloy you have stated that all us Rangers fans want a Sugar daddy to come in and take over our club well you are wrong and you even contradict your own words one minute you say we want Murry McColl murry and king then you say we want a sugar daddy what is it to be. you also go on about how wonderful your beloved Celtic are reaping the benefit of living within their own means.

Didn't your sugar daddy Mr Desmond not step in personally and pay the wages of Roy Keane then Robbie Keane because your team celtic could not afford them. I would not call that living within your means

Lochaber Bear

{Ed039's Note - its nowhere near being the same thing either LB)

2.) 21 Nov 2013
@ OP the ED is correct Paul Murray in particular had almost no profile when David Murray was in charge. All public appearances and proclamations were by David Murray.
Paul Murray and Alastair Johnston were on the "independent board" who were tasked with looking into Craig Shyte and reported back with grave concerns about the man and his ability to deliver.
Shyte is sadly still gaining public notice every now again instead of quietly disappearing off the face of the planet as most bears wish he would. The facilitator of the whole charade David Murray has escaped relatively unscathed and his statement that "he was duped" by Shyte in spite of Paul Murray and Alastair Johnston's council just never held water.
What a majority of bears have not learned is at some point the unsustainable buying for success MUST END. Unless we produce our own young talent with big sell on value we will go through investment after investment because we are a big club in a very small country and spend far more than we earn. Our ratio of salary/ wage spend to earnings ratio is utterly ridiculous. And the head in the sand fans who prattle on about 12 out of 12 and clubs who rear their own youth never win anything are sleep walking with the bus brothers to another financial nightmare. I am less confident that Jim McColl and Paul Murray will win the day after recent share movements but if they do it will be interesting what these astute business men make of the Murray Park white elephant, no scouts, high wages for management and experienced pros exclusively (almost -1 current exception Lewis McLeod)- who are doing the job in the THIRD tier of Scottish football.
We are miles away from a Champions League spot but we need to budget for life without it and not be dependent on it when we get back to the top division.
These investors are being peddled the myth that we are a world wide brand and that eventually they will make loads of money from The Rangers- b*******! We ain't no world wide brand we are big in Scotland we are below the radar in most countries.
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE bears/ directors/ would be directors /management before it is too late -again and our enemies in the East and the rest of Scotland get what they crave our demise.
No need to ban me ED I'm doing that myself in the words of Fraser of Dad's Army fame "were doomed"- nearly!

{Ed039's Note - Why would I ban you Nbear?? That was a great post mate. You couldnt have hit the nail on the head any harder if you tried, well done that man. Your posts are always welcome)

3.) 21 Nov 2013
21 Nov 2013 20:55:13
We have read the same sentences from you before pal, quite a few times in fact, and again you use the immortal phrase "YOU All", how do you know that?. is DD not a sugar daddy,? Tell me how many Rangers fans have you spoken to who ALL WANT a sugar daddy?, I suspect none, you just felt you had to rewrite your old post because something positive might have happened today at Ibrox, I suspect you don't like that sort of thing,
Tommyblue

4.) 22 Nov 2013
Near, why would you be banned? There is nothing obscene, racist or bigoted in your comments. I actually agree with most of your post.