[St Charles Owl]

Somers made a lot of sensible statements in his speech, but I am sure you guys have heard most of them before!!  I do think his closing statement is the important one, as long as its genuine and he follows what he says:

"My personal goals remain what they were 12 months ago.  Namely to ensure that the events of Rangers' recent past can never happen again; to cleanse the Club of these events, and also to ensure that Rangers gets back to the top in football."

Now I don't know what previous boards have said, particularly the one that Green headed up, but I really hope for your sake the order of these goals is completely deliberate, ensuring the past cannot happen again, is and should always have been paramount for the club ever since your were pushed down the league. While the ultimate goal is to get Rangers back to the top flight and competing for trophies, Europe etc, the other goals have to be achieved first!! I have only taken an interest in your situation over the past year, so excuse any ignorance I show, but the passage back to the top was always likely to be fairly easy the first two seasons, as it proved to be, but had the previous boards done a better job on the finances then you would have been far better prepared and set up for this seasons campaign, one that was always going to be more difficult and was made even harder by Hearts and Hibs deciding to join you this season!!

Putting the football goal to the back of this list is still vital, I think while you are struggling at the moment the playoff is still a very realistic goal so this board have to get you into a financial position to be able to achieve that at least and once you get back to the top flight fans will come back and revenues will automatically increase for you to push on from there, but it has to be self sustaining going forward!!