Sandy Easdale has acquired voting rights over a further 3.1% of Rangers shares, strengthening the current board's hold on power at Ibrox. Easdale, whose brother James is on the Rangers board, now has voting rights over 26.6% of shares ahead of next Thursday's annual meeting. Laxey Partners (11.64%), Mike Ashley (4.61%) and Richard Hughes (3.38%) are also likely to be loyal to the current regime. That edges them closer to a majority. Opponents of the board had hoped a large-scale fan protest at the weekend and meetings with institutional investors would sway things against the incumbents. The battle between chairman David Somers and his fellow board members and those looking to oust them has become increasingly bitter in recent weeks. Somers, chief executive Graham Wallace, finance director Brian Stockbridge and non-executive director James Easdale all face a re-election vote on 19 December. Four other shareholders - Paul Murray, Malcolm Murray, Scott Murdoch and Alex Wilson - will also have their bid to become directors decided upon by stakeholders. ------------------------------ If Paul Murray, Malcolm Murray etc. are so determined to get rid of the current board then why are they not buying up more shares? They have went on about the club going into financial trouble but then why aren't they putting their hands in their pockets? This Sons of Struth group supposedly contacted a lot of our investors to vote for change at the AGM but that looks more and more likely not to happen. A complete ****in mess and to be honest boring as hell now the more it drags on.
Stockbridge needs to get ****ed. And if we don't find out who is been behind recent appointments then the current board can get ****ed as well. Pretty sick of these puppets that keep getting appointed to the board to be honest.
There`s something about the name " Easdale " that just seems untrustworthy, you can imagine some little old pensioner lady saying " Ooh, Mr Easdale ... what are you doing in my bedroom in the middle of the night with that meat cleaver .... and all that duct tape, has their been an accident ? "
Heard he once auditioned as the lead male in a musical, set in the 50's high school in the good old US of A. Greasedale
