Rangers Banter Archive September 07 2012

07 Sep 2012 20:56:49
THE commission probing Rangers' alleged undisclosed payments to players will hold procedural hearings next week.

The SPL announced the independent panel would sit for their first two days.

A statement read: "The Scottish Premier League today announced that the independent commission to inquire into alleged EBT payments and arrangements made by Rangers in relation to players during the period from 2000 until 2011 will sit on Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 September.

"The hearing will be chaired by Lord Nimmo Smith and will consider submissions from parties on various procedural matters.

"It will not be a hearing of the merits of the case."

The three-man group, which also features Charles Flint QC and Nicholas Stewart QC, will eventually decide whether Rangers broke SPL rules regarding payments made through their controversial Employee Benefit Trust scheme.

The payments are also the subject of a tax tribunal, which is yet to be decided.

The tax tribunal will have no impact on the current Ibrox regime, who bought the assets and business of the soon-to-be-liquidated club.

But the SPL probe could lead to Rangers being stripped of league titles, although there are more than a dozen other potential sanctions.

Let us wait and see before jumping in. I am sick of people pre-judging. At the end of the day we still have the Glasgow Rangers to support.

Glasgow rangers now ?? when did you sneak the glasgow in ??

@1 you mean THE RANGERS
Tam

Name one other potential punishment that can be given to a club which has or will be liquidated ??

Is this the other club rangers that exists or the other one the fans now support, I'm getting confused because there are two rangers existing at the moment and would the real rangers please stand up

@3 i thought Rangers played in Glasgow? Would this not make them known as Glasgow Rangers? Even if they are called The Rangers ? Go back to your own page Timmy and stop being so bitter.

@6: how's it bitter?! Why don't you actually think before typing nonsense. None of the post is bitter.

@6 please engage brain before you post, have you ever heard of london arsenal or liverpool everton or even Glasgow partick thistle

JG

No 8 wheres your brains ? yous sing a song every week stating and the glasgow celtic will be there ,another 1 of your shoogly nail posts i see doug t.s.o

Never mind what they say wounded bears,as yous are innocent till proven guilty...and what rangers are we talking about the one with no history,or the one with all the millions of debts?.and wheres hector hiding,taking his time eh with his verdict?stevo

The rangers.rangers.rangers f.c.glasgow rangers. who cares. we are the world famous rangers. and will never be anything else but the best

No 6 so it should be ok if we call yous the govan rangers then ??

07 Sep 2012 13:20:42
Ed, not a rumour just an observation.
If im right in thinking our ban ends on 1st september 2013 if we do our homework now there is no reason the ban will not be such a hardship.
My thoughts are this: identify now players out of contract next summer, agree pre contract deals with them. Allow their contracts to expire with their current clubs and sign them as free agents on September 1st! Saves transfer fees for a start, and im sure there would be a number of class acts available. Any thoughts?

Ballymena Jason. {Ed039's Note - Rangers can sign players, they just cant register them until next September, so technically, Rangers can sign out of contract players now (silly I know, just speaking hypothetically) but just wouldnt be able to register them to play. Pre contract agreements can only be signed 6 months prior to players contract expiring, therefore even if a player was out of contract next summer you wouldnt be able to offer them terms until 6 months prior)

07 Sep 2012 14:17:04
broadfoot says he's excited about playing for blackpool . i take it holloway has'nt seen him play

When will certain bears get tired of slagging off a faithful servant to our club?

And remember kirk did something that the likes of the Gazzas, Laudrups and even Ally McCoist never managed to do... He represented the club in a major European final.

Boris Bear