John Gilligan stepped in to face the media yesterday and delivered the best ever advert for Dave King to return as Chairman of the 2012 Ibrox Tribute Act.
It wasn’t quite up there with Prince Andrew and Emily Maitlis but as PR disasters go it served its purpose.
Faced with a multitude of problems from a dilapidated stadium, serious financial problems and burdened by a support that expects success as their birthright Gilligan cut a less than impressive figure as he delivered a message of DON’T PANIC.
Apparently all is well, the club has a plan, current directors will continue to invest and football success comes in cycles, on the basis Celtic fans can expect 13 years of misery around the corner. Not happening.
?? Rangers FC Interim Chairman, John Gilligan, spoke to @RangersTV at Ibrox. pic.twitter.com/TBIoiqzG6A
— Rangers Football Club (@RangersFC) September 23, 2024
Gilligan came over as an old school eighties or nineties west of Scotland business man who had made his way in life with some trusty handshakes and was known as a right good bear down at the Bowling Club.
For a football club in 2024 facing multiple challenges putting their trust in the former Managing Director of Tennents Brewers seems an incredible risk.
It is hard to see Gilligan bringing in fresh ideas or talent to a troubled club that has been loss making since inception on 2012 with a £20m deficit for the 23/24 season expected to be announced in the coming months.
Expecting Connor Barron and Jefte to cure all of those problems is a huge task, King’s next batch of statements are awaited with interest after the bungling appearance of a Chairman that sounded like David Martindale’s father.
Sickening mediocrity.
A club full of losers on and off the field.
We are finished.
— Clement Out (@StruthWilliam) September 23, 2024
Clueless man, senile old grandpa ! A yes man and apologist for the incompetent board and the Park family who are ripping this club apart and destroying it! #Parkfamiliyout
— Glasgow Rangers Nation- Owen James (@OJGRN72) September 23, 2024
We’ve now employed a recruitment agency because St Mirrens vice chairman turned us down.
Get these bowling club fannies out the club. Continuously making dreadful decisions.
— Stu (@Stuu2022) September 23, 2024
Another friend of the parks happy to try playing catch up when he should be doing everything to overtake those cunts across the city. Get every single one of this board out of our club. We don’t want them here. Enough is enough.
— Brodie (@Brodie_1988) September 23, 2024
No offence to John but this is a car crash interview. Absolutely no faith in this board going forward.
— Peari (@Peari1872) September 23, 2024
Someone tell him to swallow his slevers before he talks .
— Terry_The_Tramp (@BrianMc53926422) September 23, 2024
6 minutes listening to this bloke… definitely be the last minutes he gets from me
— Bazza (@Bazzaboy180) September 23, 2024
Just fuck off out the club you have no clue what you are doing you are failing this club with every decision u make , step aside and let king take over
— Penalty Rangers (@airborn555) September 23, 2024
Offt – They are at war so they are…
But they actually LOVE War or at least their fans seem to anyway so Hell Fuckin mend them…
They should take a poppy poll on who to wear their beloved poppy for this year…
Murray – Whyte – Easdale – Green – King – Ashley – Llambias – Leech* – Parks – Bennett –
*Leech* – How Fuckin ironic and apt for that bloody mob !
I heard the interview on the radio I thought I was listening to a stuntman for John The Alkie Brown.
Just listen to that neddy voice of his trying to put a proper sentence together with a Milngavie&Bearsden accent purchased from Tam Shepherds trick shop in the city centre.
The new klub at ibrox are gubbed,at least £20-£30 million of debt sitting there piling up and Fanny Halliday on SSB last night is backing the CHISLER to come into front stage at ibrox to bail them out with £50 million.
Lol that leaves them if they are lucky with £20 million for players or money to pay off others on the board which will then leave them with the middle of a doughnut.
BOOM! Bang goes the £50 million the CHISLER brought with him.
The glib and shameless grifter dSisnae have 50 million, he wants somebody else to put their money in so he can get his money out honestly tho, last time he was chairman Celtic won 4 trebles in a row,so have at it squinty, tho as a former health prof I’d advise you straighten your eye first. It might give you a better perspective on where your club lives.
So summa summarum; WATP, we’re shit but we deserve to be the best and win everything!
Quelle fkn surprise plus ca change plus ca meme change
NAEBDY wid invest 50p NEVER mind £50M wae this SHIT-HOLE CLUB LOL! They are Financially FUKED with No SELLABLE ASSETS unless Gimp comes calling fur the Real Madrid Guy NAEBDIES seen or the Moraccan DUD wearing a Fez daeing eez best Tommy Cooper impression BAWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Don’t panic, there’s a £30M Chinese bid being considered. From developers, if they can get planning permission for the swamp.