Sevco Board Already Taking The Fans For Mugs
What is it with directors at Sevco Rangers that they continually treat their own supporters with breath-taking contempt as if they were idiots?
No laughing at the back now, I am being serious. (Sort of.)
Is it something in the water at Ibrox? Something in the air?
Or is it just that we have a media here which is incapable of asking serious questions of any regime that bases itself out of the Blue Room?
That helps. Or hinders. Depending on your point of view.
Today I’ve been reading, with incredulity, the words of Paul Murray, the guy who’s been hanging around Ibrox like a bad smell for near enough a decade now.
He sat on one board which was running a tax scam, allowed the then-owner to rake up tens of millions in debts and spend unsustainably.
He stuck around long enough to sit on another board which actually sent the club to the wall.
This guy, who has failed to exercise even the most basic duties of a director as part of not one regime but two, is somehow hailed a hero by our media, and by a support crying out for them.
Yet we know Sevco fans would have welcomed Walter White through the door if he promised to give the manager a transfer war chest.
In short, in Murray they are getting what they deserve.
Still, reading blatant spin, even knowing it’s not me he’s trying to con but them … well, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
It insults their intelligence, yes, as they are (literally) the target audience, but it sticks two fingers up at the rest of us too.
How can people be so gullible as to take this guy at his word when he comes out with such blatant falsehoods as when he said that Dave King is respecting the SFA processes by not putting money into Sevco? This is a joke, it really is.
Dave King can invest what he likes, when he likes.
The only thing he’s waiting for clearance to do is sit on the board of directors.
There’s no reason why he can’t put cash into the club in the meantime, and in fact he said that’s exactly what he would do if the SFA denied him his place in the chairman’s seat.
Is this another of his infamous u-turns? Is he trying to find grounds for backing out?
And what is with Murray trying to compare King investing money with Ashley being pulled up by the SFA? One has nothing to do with the other; the rule that Ashley was investigated for involved holding “undue influence” at two clubs.
King’s issues fall under fit and proper person criteria, two wholly separate things, as Paul Murray well knows.
This is the start of the slippery slope, treating people like mugs, as if they are too stupid to read between the lines and see the truth.
I also note that they’ve still not appointed a Nomad, and are talking again about the “advantages” of not being listed.
Yes, there are advantages if what you want to do is run a secretive regime that is up to God knows what behind the scenes … but it also means their fresh share issue is a non-starting event as they need to be listed for that.
The £1.5 million loan from The Three Bears falls far short of the £5 million that was on offer from Ashley and means further short-term financing will need to be secured before the end of next month. I cannot see what the plan is, and Murray would rather blow smoke than explain things clearly to the supporters.
They seem content with that.
For the rest of us, it’s another example of how the media simply swallows everything that comes out of certain people’s mouths, all the better if they have a connection with the Ibrox operation.
We really are badly let down by the calibre of what passes for “journalism” in this country.
It takes five minutes checking to find the holes in Murray’s statements … and our hacks are either not up to even that simple task or just don’t give a damn.