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Have you been at the Christmas sherry, Oddquine! You're the last person I would have expected to have a wee leaning towards the Union-flag-waving Ibrox lot! But joking aside, I see what you're getting at, from the legal perspective. Obviously, It wasn't his 'fault' he was on a reported £800,000 per annum in the 4th tier. If my employers were daft enough to offer me that... The wages being paid to McCoist and the players during their time in the lower leagues was utterly ridiculous and just part of the gross mis-management that's been on-going since the club was rebirthed. As creditors were left in the lurch when the club's debts were written off in liquidation, the new Rangers had a clean slate to start from. They squandered an opportunity when the 'newco' was launched - and haven't learned from the mistakes that saw the demise of the old club. It still irks me when journalists report that, after liquidation, they were demoted to the Third Division or 'relegated' to the bottom tier. It is against business law for a phoenix outfit to masquerade as being the same-as-before, after a liquidation event. They simply were 'accepted' into the vacancy that had arisen in the bottom tier after one of the member clubs disappeared! There's really no grey area - that is what happened - despite this being against the rules of the Scottish League which require clubs to prove their financial viability by submitting three-years of auditable accounts. They should currently be in the Lowland League, seeking to enter the SPFL via the Pyramid play-offs at the end of the season. Strayed a bit off-topic there!

Typical Dougal even at this time of year his glass is half empty

Standard childish response from CaleyD but I think halving the North Stand straight down the middle isn't that bad an idea considering the dropping numbers in the home ranks Ok this would need to be implemented at the end of the season, but just think how much extra income would be generated from the extra hundreds of tickets that could be sold to Dons and Celtic fans Getting all ICT fans huddled tightly together in a few sections might also improve the atmosphere rather than being scattered here and there Dougal

Dougal, why are you convinced the game is on Saturday? You are going to be awful lonely.

Not that I'm by any means a Rangers fan, and am happy to be contradicted,,,,,,,,but didn't Ally work, when the club was in administration for nothing, and then took a pay cut from his contracted wage for some time to help the finances? He will, in that case have spent a relatively small proportion of his time as manager receiving the wage to which he was contractually entitled. Seems to me that over the piece, if that was the case, Rangers did quite well out of him. Hardly his fault that the players, who were being paid, didn't do their jobs against "lesser" teams.

using one of those old heavy leather balls from the 1950s....

Sad if he leaves but if the Birmingham story is true then fair play, a truly big club playing in one of the biggest leagues in Europe. Also a good old GIRUY to all those insufferable Aberdeen fans who've had so much to say on this issue. Hopefully he makes the most of the time he still has with us. Have to say though, it's about time me actually received a transfer fee, if you look at all the players we've helped develop in recent years, Barry Robson, Dennis Wyness, Johnny Hayes, Adam Rooney, Don Cowie, Andrew Shinnie etc, and we haven't received a penny for any of them. Pretty scandalous really, especially when you look at the ridiculous money Dundee Utd have received for players of similar quality. Not sure what the answer is in this regard. Longer contracts seem the most obvious solution. Something has to change. We can't keep losing our most valuable players year after year on frees. It's totally inept.

He should be strung from the cross bar and the ICT players each get three shots to smash a ball in to his goolies.

The aggrieved club (us) get cheated out of a possible point and our rivals benefit by playing a weakend St J side , doesn't sit right with me .

Are you Yogi in disguise?

A South African missionary once threatened to eat me but then said exactly the same thing.

And I can now look forward to four double voddies and coke in Birmingham. Who dared to say that I couldn't get this thread to 30 + pages before the start of the season ?!! And the bonus is that this thread has actually become more serious and interactive and there have been a significant number of sensible, positive and realistic posts - apart from CB of course !!