A Message form Robert Marshall:
I would like to thank those who have put their names forward to allow members to decide if they would like us to take Club 1872 forward in a new direction and back to giving members their voice.
The following are proposed as temporary directors of Club 1872:
Robert Marshall
I run the The Louden Tavern: Ibrox Stadium and have been involved in The Louden Taverns since 1994. I’m a founder of Rangers First and I am always there to be held to account on matchdays at Ibrox and beyond.
Season ticket holder at Ibrox since 1971 (section J)
The proposal is that I will stand in as the non-exec, non-voting Chairperson. In order to do this I have to be voted on
Kristian Elgey
Kristian is a Chartered Global Management Accountant, having trained with Unilever. He has spent more than 15 years working in the marketing services sector, working with clients and colleagues across the world. He joined his current business in 2016, and earlier this year was appointed to the Board of Directors and is presently both the group's Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Kristian has responsibility for all finance and accounting activity; including governance and controls, working capital management and financing in addition to the group's commercial strategy and mergers & acquisitions. The group has grown significantly in recent years and, on completion of a recently announced acquisition, will have colleagues across more than 50 countries, and approximately $2.1bn in annual revenue.
He has a season ticket for Club 72 West and, although he lives 450 miles away, he is a member of the Wemyss Bay & Skelmorlie RSC. He was previously a life member of Rangers First and a member of the RST.
James Laird
He is the Legal professional who I have been working with for the last month or so on this.
Former Secretary, Treasurer, and co-founder of Robert Hamilton Glasgow University Rangers Supporters Club which he helped grow from 5 members to over 300. You will regularly be able to find him at Ibrox for our games.
Charles Lewis
Charles is a retired partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers having worked in the UK, Switzerland, and the USA. He specialised in systems audit, risk assurance and controls over financial reporting for large public companies. He is fluent in French and worked extensively in that language. A former President of the Mystic Hills Homeowners Association which is, like Club 1872, also a member organisation.
Born and brought up in Glasgow and a lifelong Rangers supporter.
Billy Ross
Billy is retired commercial roofing company owner having successfully operated from 1993 until a couple of years ago before finishing up to concentrate on his personal properties. He has a strong reputation for honesty and quality of work.
He is a lifelong Rangers supporter and current Club 72 Attendee.
Stuart Ross
Stuart’s career background has been as a Logistician and Retailer with over 35 years’ experience running and leading complex supply chains. He has served as a Director with Tesco, Iceland Foods, T&S Stores (One Stop) and Exel Logistics.
He is a season ticket holder in Sandy Jardine Rear and travel up from Cheshire for almost all home games.
The Directors
Club 1872 Shares Community Interest Company
Copland House
Ibrox Stadium
G51 2XD
27 July 2021
I write to you for and on behalf of those Contributors to Club 1872 Shares Community Interest Company, ("the Company") whose names and Club 1872 membership numbers are appended to this letter. As their duly authorised agent, I hereby give notice to the board of directors of the Company that we have exercised our right under Article 38.6 to require a Contributor poll to be taken on the undernoted resolutions:
1. That Laura Fawkes be removed from office as a Director of the Company with immediate effect.
2. That Joanne Elizabeth Percival be removed from office as a Director of the Company with immediate effect.
3. That Euan Andrew MacFarlane be removed from office as a Director of the Company with immediate effect.
4. That, subject to the passing of Resolution 10, Robert Marshall be appointed as an Interim Director of the Company with immediate effect.
5. That, subject to the passing of Resolution 10, Stuart Ross be appointed as an Interim Director of the Company with immediate effect.
6. That, subject to the passing of Resolution 10, John Charles David Lewis be appointed as an Interim Director of the Company with immediate effect.
7. That, subject to the passing of Resolution 10, William Robert Ross be appointed as an Interim Director of the Company with immediate effect.
8. That, subject to the passing of Resolution 10, Kristian Elgey be appointed as an Interim Director of the Company with immediate effect.
9. That, subject to the passing of Resolution 10, James Laird be appointed as an Interim Director of the Company with immediate effect.
10. That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered by the addition of the following new article 22.3: ‘Notwithstanding Article 22.1, six Interim Directors may be elected by a vote of Contributors. The Interim Directors may exercise all powers of Directors provided by the Articles, but Interim Directors shall be removed from office on 28 February 2022 (“the Longstop Date”).’
11. That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered by the addition of the following new article 23(j): ‘in the case of Interim Directors, the expiry of their term of office at midnight on the Longstop Date.’
12. That the Articles of Association of the Company be altered by the addition of the following new paragraph 11 to Schedule 3 to the Articles of Association: ‘No Interim Director may seek election as a Director of the Company before 28 February 2026 being four years following the Longstop Date.’
13. That the Company requests Supporters Direct Scotland Limited be invited to verify the integrity of the Contributor polls in respect of Resolutions 1-12.
I and my fellow proposed Interim Directors hope to engage with you in the coming days to establish a process by which the Contributor polls can be independently verified and ensure that the integrity of the final results, whatever they may be, are satisfactory to the Contributors of the Company.
We note the Contributors Meeting scheduled for 16 August 2021 and expect that, in the interests of full transparency and accountability, the proposed Interim Directors will be permitted to speak to the Contributors at that meeting and prior to the commencement of voting. Additionally, as the proposed Interim Directors are proposed for election by the means provided in the Company's Articles of Association, we expect that they will be permitted to make their case to Contributors via the Club 1872 mailing list, as has been the case in previous elections.
Yours faithfully,
Robert Marshall
If you wish to support this then please submit your full name and Club 1872 Membership number in the form below.