03 Jul 2015 20:36:05
Probably the worst legacy that murray left was the season ticket influence. Like most of the oldies that still support the Glasgow Rangers, we remember that the club was financed by the owner and we went, week by week, mostly on a supporter's bus and backed our club. If things went on that we did not fancy, we did not go, and then the club reacted, or otherwise.
Always remember, that the supporter is the club's lifeblood, but now we have a situation that not only are we the lifeblood but the banker as well.
The, supposed, custodians of our future are nothing but charlatans, only interested in themselves and not our club.
Are the current lot any better than their predecessors, I have my doubts.

1.) 03 Jul 2015
03 Jul 2015 20:46:15
biily b away and put another record on gie them a chance to make a go of it aye years ago it was different but times have changed vastly although some appeat to be still in the dark ages

2.) 03 Jul 2015
03 Jul 2015 21:11:49
Yes BIGWULL, it IS time you woke up, but maybe the murray hypnosis has stopped logical thinking.

3.) 04 Jul 2015
04 Jul 2015 00:58:58
@billyb

You are delusional mate, we have just taken in approx £6.5 m in season ticket sales and it cost £20 m to run Rangers last year, that's our biggest contribution as fans and we are £13.5 m short of doing as you say and bankrolling the club. For us fans to bankroll the Club we would need 45,000 season tickets sold with a 50% price increase on every ticket. That's to break even on last years figures, add new players and any wage increases and its more. The predecessors of the current board gave every other revenue stream away to Ashley. So before you slag the current Board at least do your sums.

If we are lucky enough to average 30000 at home games next year the guy you hate and his fellow investors will need to invest about £8 m to keep us afloat. Even if its a 40,000 average they will still have to invest around £3 m to stand still. We have no retail income and even at 51% with the current deal would bring in about£800,000 if we bought shirts. The advertising revenue is poor because we are not in the SPL and Ashley will be paying a fraction of the going rate. The food is hived off too. Wake up man.

4.) 04 Jul 2015
04 Jul 2015 08:50:49
Gers68, Delusional I might be, but the point about season tickets is that the pre-murray era was financed by the owners from the outset and recouped as the season unfolded.
As far as DK is concerned, he got control after making certain promises about the investment etc. necessary to get us back to the top, but these have not materialised. Yes it is early days and he was decisive re the management team, but we will always be playing catch-up, unless major funds are put in place and we are not relying on short term loans. DK made promises that he has not, or cannot fulfil and unless there is a radical overhaul of the finances of our club we will lose, entirely, the platform we have held for many years in world football.

5.) 04 Jul 2015
04 Jul 2015 08:51:58
gers 68 ioo% correct billy b is totally off his rocker its the same chant from his soapbox all the time he expects the board to throw millions in for players then fund the losses even the season money has the v a t element to come off to be paid to the goverment so if u take £7m u lose £1400000 in tax

6.) 04 Jul 2015
04 Jul 2015 10:17:44
Billy his investment is over a 3 to 5 year period and its pretty season in the first year!! As for DM he used ticketus which is our ST money in advance, that's where Whyte got the idea and the bank of Scotland's money. He will invest £7m at least this season to hopefully win the championship and this will be the cheapest year of his tenure. Be grateful that he is, if he didn't come in we would have been a Championship Club for years, maybe for good and Ashley would have owned all our assets, would that have been better for you and your King hating pals?.

7.) 04 Jul 2015
04 Jul 2015 13:35:44
I understand all concerns regardless of what way the funding is provided given what has happened to the club.

Bottom line is we have no revenue streams and the days of expecting others to pay for our football is long gone. My view that if it is our club and our football then we as fans should pay for the standard that we want,. If the aspiration is to get into the champions league qualifiers in five years time then we have to start paying for it know even it it means doubling the season ticket price.

Why should we expect DK ( even if he says he would) to put his money in regardless where he got it from into our football. I will be happy if he can simply stabilise the club over the coming year