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Originally Posted by carpon
Absolute rubbish..... 
With the exception of Davis (for whom I can't seem to find any info on Wiki) the other four players became free agents after your club went into liquidation, when all four chose not to join your "new club" and drop to the fourth tier of Scottish football. Their contracts with the "old" Rangers became defunct when your club went into liquidation. Hence they went where they did under totally different circumstances.
I've also trawled through pages of posts on Rangers forums.....from gloating Rangers fans.....quite happy with the fact that your club has turned us over. A lot of those posts show your "fans" in a true light.
Arrogant.
I also read with interest that Rangers have already supposedly inserted a "£3.5million release clause" into Windass' future contract.
Not bad business for a player you're getting on the cheap !!
There was not a lot Stanley could do after the players agent "pimped" them around. From that moment, the two players were never going to sign another contract at Stanley. 
Stanley can't afford the wages that not only Rangers, but any bigger club could offer. We were already in a no win situation that meant we were going to lose both players for a pittance.
The decent thing to do as a club, would have been to ask for permission to speak to the players. Permission that no doubt would have been granted, albeit reluctantly. 
Not send an e-mail to the club secretary telling him / her that you would be speaking to the players.
But your club went behind our Chairman's, owner's and manager's backs to sign the pair up on a loophole on the cheap. At a critical point in our season where promotion to the next level is an achievable goal.
This situation has the potential to not only ruin our season, but leave us extremely out of pocket in the long run.
No decent compensation for two promising players given a second chance by a club that needs to make money by unearthing such "gems" and selling them on at a profit. A club that has to live within it's means and try and survive on 1500 gates in the shadow of two more illustrious and better supported neighbours.
No potential sell on clauses benefiting A.S.F.C. should Rangers sell one or both on at a massive profit for Glasgow Rangers.
So I stand by my conviction that your club has no class when it came to dealing with these two signing for you.
Your club has exploited both the rules and our predicament without even having the decency of asking for permission to shaft us. |
Our club did NOT get liquidated. You cannot liquidate a football club. It was the
company that ran Rangers that went bust. The club survived, but demoted to the lowest tier.
As to our fans, absolutely not. I am a member of the three largest Gers online forums. And there is much serious discussion of this issue. There are Gers fans who think your chairman is using us as a scapegoat for his own possible mistakes, and some fans do have ostensibly little sympathy for your club, if Rangers have broken no rules, BUT don't confuse that with disrespect for Stanley. Our fans are not wholesale therefore arrogant and crowing. In fact there is criticism up here of the issue towards their own club.
Our fans, despite what Rangers-haters up here say, are not arrogant. Far from it, you have NO idea of the sheer hate we have had to suffer since 2012. I have many English and Welsh friends who have been openly shocked at the open hostility to Rangers in 2012, from punter to club owners, and the sheer glee in Scottish football at our problems. Any other country would see how having the biggest club in trouble would be horrible for the game, but no, up here, the sheer hate for our club, without whom and Celtic the game would be a backwater, overrode any common sense.
Could this issue have been dealt with better?. Possibly, probably. But from both sides. From our vantage point, your owner has been undignified in his running to the media and attempts to garner sympathy by playing little David to our goliath.
To be fair, on Sky Sports, I might point out that he clearly didn't blame Rangers last night for it. But the loophole itself.
Re the clause, that seems to be media speculation. The football press in Glasgow is shocking for it.
In closing, despite being a big club, many of us think its is great to see Stanley back from the dead, a 'proper old club' back in business. We have lost great old clubs and almost lost ours. And ours was and still is one of the biggest, most famous and most iconic clubs in the world. Yet we came close to losing it. So we can understand what the pain of no club must have been like. I cant think of a football world without Rangers. Or a life, as fans its so much a part of who we are. So its great to see your club alive again.
I hope that Accrington fans will not have any ire towards Glasgow Rangers over this. A double friendly as suggested would be a great idea. We love a big day out, and you lot would enjoy Ibrox, lol.
On behalf of Rangers fans, I wish Accrington all the best for the rest of the season and beyond.