It has been a week where Rangers supporters have had to confront the recent past and stomach some bad news, but there has also been good news to give optimism for the future.

Just like the vast majority of Rangers fans, I’m not a legal mind, but I don’t doubt for a second that like most of the supporters too, the Craig Whyte verdict really stuck in my throat.

It was up to 15 people on the jury to listen for themselves and then decide whether the evidence was there to find him guilty, and it is obviously a hard thing to prove.

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I am so disappointed that it looks as though Whyte will walk away Scot-free though, because one thing he is certainly guilty of in my eyes is a dereliction of his duty when he owned the club.

It would have been good for everybody with the club at heart had he been held accountable, as it now seems as though nobody was to blame for what happened to Rangers. It doesn’t matter if we all believe that somebody certainly is.

There is no choice but to accept the verdict, that is the law of the land and as hard as it may be to stomach, it is time for everyone associated with the club to just move on from this wretched chapter in Rangers history.

I would imagine that 99.9% of Rangers fans couldn’t believe it when the verdict came out, but it is what it is and it is time to consign it all to the past.

It doesn’t matter what I think, what the fans think or what anybody else thinks, according to the law he is not guilty and as hard as it may be, I think the time has come to put the name of Craig Whyte out of our minds.

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He’s got a good lawyer that has got him off with it, and he is free now to do what he likes. That may be bitterly disappointing for me and thousands of others, but it is gone.

It doesn’t bring closure to the club about what went on under his command, and that is a real shame, but there is nothing you can do. You can moan and mump about it, or you can put it behind you and just get on with it.

In the here and now, there are far more important things going on at the club, and that should be the uppermost thought in all of our minds rather than what happened five or six years ago.

Rangers are going through another massive period in their history now as they try to get back to somewhere near where they were, and for me, that is the issue of greatest importance.

The blow of the verdict coming through was also softened on the day by the news that Alastair Johnson has returned to the Rangers board.

I’m delighted with that move, because I thought he was fantastic when he was there previously.

He’s a man that has got a great job with huge responsibility as vice-chairman of IMG, an absolutely massive company, so he knows what the business world is all about and that is what Rangers need.

At the top end of the club, that business acumen has got to be there, and with his position, the hope would be that he can open a lot of doors for Rangers.

He was also the man, if you recall, who was fighting against the takeover by Craig Whyte. He was advising everybody to steer well clear of him, and unfortunately, that didn’t happen.

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He is in his late 60s now, and it would have been easy for him to say ‘fine, I’ve had my stint at Rangers and I’m rarely in Scotland now so I’ll not bother getting involved again.’

It shows that he loves the club and I think it is great for Rangers Football Club that he is back on board, and I’m sure that the majority of supporters would agree.

I read his comments during the week with interest, and he noted that Rangers have gone back the way quite a lot simply because of everything that has happened at the club over the last few years.

In my opinion, having Alastair on board will help to move Rangers forward again, so it’s great news.

With new signings arriving and a bit of money being spent at last, there are many positive things going at the club.

The energies of the supporters would be better placed focusing on those positives, and supporting Pedro Caixinha in his rebuild of the playing squad, rather than wasting our time on something, or someone, who should now be little more than a footnote in this club’s great history.