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I really doubt that they are pissing themselves or are that they want a divided support. The board want success as much as the rest of the support. I doubt they look on us in the same way as Murray did. They'll be frustrated as everyone else and to try and paint them as the second coming of Murray isn't helpful and perhaps a sign that emotions are high. The one thing about yesterday's protests and recent statements is that nobody is coming up with proposed alternatives. Not one. If the directors walk away and withdraw their £22m loans (as at 30/6/24) where do the payments for next month's salaries come from? Who do the protesters want to take over? I don't think anyone denies that there hasn't been mismanagement but we have extremely limited resources to change things and there is nobody looking to take over from the current board. Frustrations are high but if change for the better is to be achieved, there needs to be a different approach and not done with meaningless platitudes.

Moses McNeil, I guess?

All this will do is to provide comedy material for Timmy to use in the Banter Decades videos. Rangers wouldn't last a season if we became fan (groups) owned. Generally and collectively speaking, they are worth a case study to find out why it is so bad.

They don't need to offer solutions or alternatives, but when they seem intent in driving away the people who are financially supporting the club then it could reasonably be argued that they could potentially cause a lot more problems than a few poor away results are causing. The head in the sand approach of ignoring that is could be said to be irresponsible. I believe most can understand why fans are protesting but it seems very unlikely that any potential new owners will be as Rangers-minded as the current ones and may not be as supportive financially then if they achieve what they seem to want (although I'm still unclear about that) then it's just going to be more damaging. The difference between the protests against the spivs (and again most of the support were against them) and now is that we could see that the spivs were out for themselves, whereas the current board aren't. You point to the Copland issues and I'd point to the selling of part the Albion (which I'm still furious about) but overall I believe that they want the best for the club.

You have to laugh🤣 https://x.com/wullybh88y/status/1878501587967963560?s=46&t=h5ZB-KpSS1NmCbSNw3IsjA

Fans have been moved from their seats after holding season tickets for decades. Fans are verbally abused and physically intimidated at away games and have their views blocked by the constant waving of flags. A banner in support of someone who assaulted a woman is regularly shown (but was unsurprisingly absent today) as are the 1312 banners, and yet we're supposed to feel sympathy when they're verbally abused? No stuff should be thrown by anyone (and anyone doing so should be banned) but they've caused much of the bad feelings towards them themselves.

I liked Tillman and have kinda followed his career. A fantastic footballer with the potential to be world class. Still believe Beale threw the lad under the bus after the Scottish Cup tie against Partick.

The reason we have won so little is that when Celtic were in the financial grubber, they built foundations (eg. 60K stadium) and went the right way about becoming sustainable. They had the right people in charge to bring it to fruition. That is what we need to do now or we will live, mostly in their shadow. I believe very much in the right to protest and saw Sir Duped, Whyte and Green for what they were (the latter two prior to them arriving at Ibrox). However, I don't agree with the UB in this particular case. We need to give Patrick Stewart a chance. I'm sceptical as to what the club will achieve in the short to medium term. I think there will be more relatively barron seasons to come.

One thing that needs someone to turn it round is the club shop the gear on sale is rather stale the current kits and not a lot much of anything else apart from retro kits and Christmas cracker junk missing out on a nice little earner in this if they knew how to run it .

I remember when it was wine bottles you had to dodge and one Wednesday night game we were in the east terrace standing back then and being struck on the forehead with an unopened can on McEwans export and being taken under the stand for first aid the brother pocketed the evidence and drunk it in the car on the way home.

90% plus of the support were anti-Ashley. Let's not rewrite history.

Just seen the St Johnstone goal, how was a foul not given for the jersey pulling on Hagi??

Boooooo Don't back down, doubledown.

Don’t underestimate the guy. He plays for more than one team. He’s all over the park, opening up the Rangers defence at one end, closing down the Rangers attack at the other and stifling the midfield.

I do remember him giving one player a bottle of sanatogen tonic wine to take as he thought he looked a bit pale

Best way is to cut the exorbitant wage bill. And by that I mean the non-playing staff roles also. Anyone heard anything from the new communications guy yet?

Haha aye - but obviously mines is right on this occasion 😀

He really hasn't (Celtic game apart). He really can't

We're linked with a Swedish CB, Hjalmar Ekdal. He's been injured all season so this looks a goer.

I like Ridvan. I think he's done fine filling in at RB, especially for one so left-footed. If only he could stay fit...

Just punt him and play King or young Hutton at RB. Nowt to lose.

Aye true, I'd still sell Ridvan even if it meant playing a 3 legged cat at RB.

Only the good lord can work such miracles I suspect.

Happy to announce that BEARGER and I have cleared up the misunderstanding. I clearly haven't done a good job at explaining how my tables are embedded. I hope there will be no walkouts during the next game week nor banners calling me nasty names.

Further evidence yesterday , we start with Danilo and Igamane and we go three up at half time . Just stick with this unless it is against the papes or in Europe.

Booooooooooooooooo

First half was decent with a high tempo, some good attacking play and 3 good goals (although the 3rd was a gift). Second half was the complete opposite. St Johnstone changed their formation and once again our manager struggled to counteract their change. 3 points and limp on to Wednesday against a struggling Aberdeen who you can bet will be up for it.

Mutiny in the prediction thread. Sack @Rousseau 😀 There'll be banners in here for the next game and I plan a walkout. Anarchy

I think it will be the same problem then that it is now and it’s not that people don’t care about protesting. Id guess the likes of us on Gersnet, other forums and social media are a small portion Rangers fans who are engaged online. I bet you the vast majority don’t bother with twitter or forums and had little to no idea any walkout was happening today or even the tension that was bubbling under with regard to the boards mismanagement. The rank and file fan who still reads the news papers and listens to radio Clyde phone in. The guys who had no idea what Murray was up too. The reason the spivs got a free reign for so long.

Reading the entire press conference vindicates why I said "no" to sacking Clement just now.

Compo. didn't realise you were one for making YouTube content.

Was it not the Club’s Bank that brought that about? What would have happened if McCann had decided he’d rather have an ice hockey team?

Regards the rhebels ousting the board. They had real alternatives. The current protests at Ibrox, don't. McCann and Lawwell were who they required. The work required wasn't going to win popularity contests with their support but they were hard nosed businessmen with brains and cojones. The last thing we needed was Patrick Stewart to bow to the will of the protesters, against his better judgement. They still hate Lawwell.

Its easier to beat the other team when the ref isn’t playing for them.

I thought Tillman was a good footballer. I don’t think he thought Rangers was a good football club.

Forget referees it's the other teams we have to beat

Supposed to be a couple of Italian clubs interested in Dessers

I thought it was Skov Olsen the Danish international. Widely linked to us that they were bringing in? He's injured all the time so kind of good we didnt get him.

That said ... if we are talking about the board and the club as such, I wonder how much more people are currently employed than in the days of Sir Walter. While you acknowledge that football has changed, the number of people now running about looks to be somewhat inflated. Not least when we could sack a manager for not delivering, but then he's what, 5 to 10 people in his team who will also have to be taken care with? And who might have to be replaced too. I would hope that they all got clauses in their contracts that save us from payments when they fail in their duties ... More generally, people call for change, and rightly so after another half-season of stagnating "progress". There has to be some sort of improvement soonish, as we laboured ever since our return. What you would like to seen sooner rather than later is a change of attitude towards the SFA/SPFL, as we have been ravaged for the best part of the decade by heinous refereeing, compliance officer decisions, and now über- and non-active VARing. The club has to make a stand, and preferably hand in hand with outer clubs. It very much looks like we now have to bear another season (at least) shadow-walking behind the Scum, and the talk about our financial standing is surely correct. Yet, we've shown that we can hold our own against them on the field during the last few seasons, so any debate on "getting financially back on track" sounds a bit hollow, as our problems more or less lie on the field of play. I would assume that CEOs generally not interfere with football decisions, but I would expect that the manager gets an appointment with the CEO every other week after another dismal showing against the lesser lights of the league. Tactics, player motivation, expectations should be on the agenda there, and if it doesn't change after a couple of appointments, sterner measures need to be implemented. The experiment-phases need to stop.

I'm rewriting nothing. I posted someone's perspective of what's happening and I agree with them. Green was applauded by the vast majority at Ibrox, outwith the UBs who booed him and took stick for it. It's obvious you and others have no time for the UBs - thats fine but allow them their right to protest without insinuating they brought the violence directed at them on Sunday on themselves. And allow and respect them to continue their protests no matter of we agree with them or not. Otherwise we are no better than the bullies who chased the David Murray protestors.

Rumours that 'the predictor' is on ze list for the grand all encompassing external review 🕵🏼

Ditto

What is the protest trying to achieve? It says that they want "accountability, ambition and leadership". That's very generic. I'm not sure what they want the directors to do. Bring in new directors? Sell up? Take way their finance and loans? I don't know what exactly they are wanting. As for the RSA, they appear to be faceless these days. No mention of who their office holders on their website or twitter as far as I can see. Changed days from when John McMillan and John Donald ran it extremely well for many years. It's an organisation that doesn't have individual members so it's a bit more difficult for people to know who to aim their thoughts at. People are entitled to leave when they want, either on 55th minute or part of the subway loyal, but should be aware that it's impacting the team when they do so....in the same way as the actions of an organisation that costs the club tens of thousand of pounds in a year in fines does.

"Again I think in well-run clubs it's the club that signs the players, not the manager." GIRUY @JohnMc!!