andy steel
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Fan board elections now closed as of Saturday 20 September
andy steel replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
For all that I am at one remove from what used to be my club, BH is about the last chance we have at getting some truth from behind the scenes. Good luck Alan, you are certainly going to need it. -
The bottom line is: while we may feel that impinging on this guy's personal life is going too far,he quite consciously decided to impinge on the unending agony of fellow football fans who went to game and never returned. Are we not all football fans? What a shit he is! Imagine if a family member went to game & never returned...then add, to that agony, the jibes of other people. Good God Almighty, what level of cretinism must one aspire to, to come up with this kind of thing. It's sick, it' s shit, & it's what the Communication Bill was designed to stop. Anything & everything he gets, he has brought upon himself. Truly, a disgusting individual.
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True, but I have to agree with Frankie on this one - the boycott as such seems to be as much about people who cannot bring themselves to pay several hundred pounds to inflict our football on their eyes as it about the boardroom or any great love of Dave King. And I can't say as I blame them - I can't get my boy to come to Ibrox any more and that's nowt to do with the politics & everything to do with the likes of Ian Black. Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong. It's a new nightmare every day and there's no way out of it. Sorry to be so glum but that's how I see it.
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I see it as even more harmful than that, tbh. Our own actions deny the club defenders or leaders. We miss out on the those who would be the most effective Bluenoses, no offence to those who are trying at present. I can't do anything to help Rangers - I'm an internet poster with a penchant for long winded articles full of crap allusions and nothing more. But we miss out on the people who might make the difference: the politicians, the newspaper people, the broadcasters, the lawyers, the accountants or the businessmen. They won't touch us with a barge pole, and for that any of us who has ever besmirched the name of Rangers with religious or personal abuse can warmly congratulate ourselves.
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My worry would be we don't have the time to do that.
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The groups which create the divisions in the first place have certainly helped weaken Rangers as a force so that it struggles to stay alive, despite being the best supported side in the country. They are not suddenly, or even gradually, going to abandon their manifestos which they insist Rangers stand for, so we will continue to be weakened from within. As long as the body is full of parasites it won't be healthy and, as some have bleakly forecast lately, could even die. And as much as I'd love to join Rab in the land of the lost, wandering the grounds in my nightgown and howling 'Manus Fullerton and Lloyd's Banking Group' at the full moon, it's more likely to be us who will be to blame.
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Summer transfer window: Official ins/outs and transfer rumours
andy steel replied to Zappa's topic in Rangers Chat
Can't comment on Gunning's ability but I hope £7k a week is hyperbole - we really can't afford that, even if it was for Beckenbauer. -
I dunno who Michael Gannon is, but if that's the next generation of sports writing in this country we're in for more decades of drivel.
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Summer transfer window: Official ins/outs and transfer rumours
andy steel replied to Zappa's topic in Rangers Chat
For Christ's sake, I should be in the team ahead of Black. He's total crap. -
If I was in Mr Houston's shoes I would seriously think about bringing an action against Mr Easdale for harassment.
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This is great news! No doubt on the back of this, the continual recorded messages I have received for several years now about claiming PPI compensation will cease, since they will be considered as harrassment. No doubt the glaikit wee scrotes who stand at my door, thump my wall with the flat of their hand and go 'aye, ye need cavitty insewlachin, big man' will sod off since they, too, can be considered harrassment. No doubt the bales of guff which comes through my door exhorting me to take out a credit card will cease too, as they most certainly constitute harrassment on both environmental and political grounds. Really, 'I don't like this' is about the feeblest excuse for legal action ever. There's plenty of things I don't like but I can't always go crying to the lawyer's office. Grow up, Easdale.
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I suppose BT played hardball during talks when we got heaved. But that was when the other clubs should have lived up to their tough guy act and told them to jog on. As usual, a total lack of guts.
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"How many minutes do you think this will last before someone asks you a non-football question? And how shite are the board?"
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Just when you thought things couldn't get any less professional!
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I know it's complex but as to the first or second event I would grit my teeth, take it as the second and whatever punishment that entails. You'll never get me arguing it's a new Rangers.
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I may have missed something, but I thought the context of this thread was losing MP in order to escape an onerous s&lb deal which hampers the club in future, rather than getting rid of it because it's not producing the goods?
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No doubt that, even if you were fully entitled, they'll drag it out as long as possible. More power to you anyway, that would make for an interesting evening's reading.
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Read this one only this morning in Arthur Koestler: 'Wo es Starkere gibt, immer auf der Seite der Schwaecheren'.
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'OK' does not here mean 'You think this is OK'. It is a conversation opening discourse marker like, 'look', or 'so', or 'well' and represents an attempt to get a handle on why anyone could think saying 'we'll get back to you in a couple of days' and then not only NOT getting back in a couple of days but issuing a faffy statement which succeeds in only muddying the waters could be acceptable. I'd guess, unlikely, since they felt united enough to issue the statement which hasn't been contradicted. I get disappointed certainly when things which are suggested are going to happen, which raise my spirits a little, are then consigned to the infantile playground of what who said and what they meant and what they really meant and why they would never have said that if he had said this and so on. Accepting that selling off Rangers assets to a third party in order that said third party may enjoy profits from it which simultaneously reduce Rangers ability to spend money in the future 'makes sense' is a level of tolerance which is way beyond me. I'll disagree with you strongly here, I'm very careful with my terminology and you are plain wrong to think that I bandy words around without being precisely aware of what I'm saying.
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Easy, tiger - I wasn't suggesting we abandon youth development and facilities for ever, just that removing an onerous contract and starting again from scratch might be a way out. As GS says, however, chances of Laxey and their chums allowing us to do that short of some more admin related adventures are slim.
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I think Laxey will need to walk down Edmiston Drive singing The Soldiers' Song before my entirely reasonable and in no way loonball assumption that they are operating on behalf of Timothy is accepted.
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OK. So if someone said to you that they would get back to you in a couple of days with an answer to some business dealing, then ignored you, what would you think of them? 'They're being flexible'? 'They're making sense'? or 'They are (at the very best) treating me with a bit of contempt here?' And would you accept any more work from them? Or put them on a list of 'people I'd rather not do business with?'
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I wonder if, when the sale of MP actually happens, we could in the future merely forego the rent and lost the facility. It seems at first glance that the rent money could be better employed elsewhere - even if it means renting the astroturf in Edmiston Drive - and it would get the 'millstone round the neck' to fuck. I don't have any great attachment to MP and would rather see it bagged than a drain on the resources.
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Who's paranoid now? I bloody well knew it.
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Banking on a return to the Premier League like it's a magnet rather than a turn-off seems overly optimistic to me.