andy steel
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StB, what use would a chief scout be if he's appointed in August, just as the window shuts? Surely you'd agree that on discovering we didn't have anything while doing their review, Mssrs Somers and Wallace could have put the case that getting someone in position immediately - and I mean that week, or the next at the latest - would allow said scout to liase with McCoist as to what he wanted, get out and about before this season ends, build a database and so on. If no-one is in place before next season? That's already too late!
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Pochettino would be my choice - he's got a small team playing modern football without being wide open at the back. he's improved players to the level that they will go a World Cup (for a weak England, but even so) and he's continuing Soton's history of developing the players which ensure's the club's financial future. You can't ask for much more!
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SPL (or what ever) play off Hibs v Kilmarnock
andy steel replied to Gribz's topic in General Football Chat
It should be two down, with the play off place for a guaranteed promotion, like in England. There would still be the level of 'excitement' about which team would go down from the top league as there is to see who will be in the play off place. As you say, everything is geared to protecting the top league team, although that might come in handy for us should we ever get there. -
The Everly Brothers are still chronically under-rated. A repository of gritty, grotty Americana, the sound of the country before the modern age, the musical equivalent of Thoreau's Walden, just like Johnny Cash and my own favourite, Glen Campbell. And just plain stunning close harmonisers.
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Mr Clark-Dick's position is one everyone would like to be in, just supporting the team. Bit self-indulgent now, though.
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I know it seems that way, but every fan who has expressed hostility to the board would leap happily back into the fold if the club could satisfy their concerns even a bit. I don't know of a single fan who enjoys being totally alienated from the club they love. We're ready to believe, but we need something to believe in.
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Aye, that's the most important thing, right enough.
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Another week, another court appearance, another gut wrenching series of unfortunate events. Welcome to our world, Oscar Pistorius. In poor taste, of course, since no-one that we know of has died because of this shambling wreckage currently impersonating our club. Even so, just as in the OJ Simpson case and just as with Oscar, sides are being taken and battle lines drawn up. As a completely uninformed and lonely outsider with no inside info at all, it's just plain depressing. Amazing what a difference a week makes - last Tuesday, I was sitting in the garden with sun cream on, this week the only use I'd have for the lotion is to hold the shiny orange bottle in front of me as a guide through the gloom. Last week, hopes were high Dave would ride to the rescue, this week, the Man Who Would Be King revealed his plan for increasing pressure on the board this week, a pledge scheme which is, presumably, intended more to demonstrate the level of power over the club's income streams that Camp King possess rather than actually force a result; posters have pointed out already the slim chance of the present lot actually handing over securities in exchange for ST cash. If this is a game of chicken, I think King will lose, because unlike the Kelly family when Timothy was at death's door, the people running our club couldn't give a toss whether their name is forever mud on the streets of Glasgow (or, in fairness to all, Fraserburgh or Berlin). They won't blink because they don't care if the outcome is catastrophe: that unpleasant fact, which incidentally ought to help us decide whether they are fit for purpose or not, gives them an advantage in any poker game. Speaking of Timothy...he's been invoked a few times during this saga, usually along the lines of 'if only Rangers had a Fergus McCann figure'. Last week saw a cacophony of media types berate King for not just spending his money and getting it over and done with; curious, really, considering that (a) he was apparently offered a controlling interest for approximately £6m, quite a saving on the 70p a share deal he was offered a year ago - it seems holding out for a good deal can be advantageous. It's also curious because (b) these same media types were only a few weeks ago lauding Fergus McCann to the skies on the anniversary of his bailout of the dying Timothy, berating fans who booed him at cetlc Park and castigating the journos who mocked him. And now, they do exactly the same to a similar figure across the city. Whether King is tyre kicking or driving a good deal I have no idea. Hopefully every penny he's saved as yet will go into Rangers because by heck, the club will need his money. While I can see that people are fed up with little detail and much bluster, the lesson history certainly suggests deciding the issue in advance can lead to subsequently looking daft. Telling someone else to spend their money is never a position which can be defended: we simply don't know enough facts. We don't know if Rangers, like the Stones sing, are 'gonna be mine', his or theirs; with King, all we can do is hope he either does or doesn't come through. depending on your personal preference. I suppose it indicates how far we've come (or gone?) socially that instead of a toff whacking a peasant on the head and loudly crawing 'you there! make my mark, you beast!' we now grab the rich person and yell 'Haw, you! Get yer waalet oot!' But really the main impression is of people just talking for the sake of making a noise: I'm uncomfortably aware how close to the bone this criticism is! As Mick says, it's just sad, sad, sad, coming on top of years of sadly depressing viewing all round in football. Other sports don't seem to be so institutionally useless as football is, here and elsewhere. The owner of the LA Clippers basketball team makes a racist comment and is immediately forced to sell by his fellow owners: just imagine that level of corporate accountability here! We can but pray the suspiciously Scottish-sounding Donald Sterling doesn't fancy investing his dollars in our club; there is a limit to the number of bad publicity one team can withstand. All I can hope is that , when the dust eventually settles, people aren't too bitter. While there are probably some people in your Rangers life you'd be glad never to talk to again, life is too short for grudges. Like the seemingly infinite number of ants who are apparently holding a month long sports day under my kitchen window, the highlight of which is the 'climb in Steely's windae and run aboot the worktops avoiding his crushing thumb' event, we'll need to show a level of patience and stoicism last seen when Seneca was penning his dramas. Tally-ho!
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Alright, fair enough. But they could just have issued a pdf with that great line 'Give us the money or the seat gets it!' and some sort of mocked up photo - a bit of humour, mockery and effect. I was just fed up with sententious statements beginning 'we note'.
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Little leaves while Hegarty and Perry told to find new clubs
andy steel replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
You think? He got rings run round him last season in the 4th division, after all. -
Och give it a fucking rest. He said, she said. edit: UoF that is, not GS
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Little leaves while Hegarty and Perry told to find new clubs
andy steel replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
Will be interesting to see how Ross Perry's career pans out from here. I think he's very limited but you just never know. -
Divide & conquer, old boy.
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Stupid to call into question whether King & Gough love Rangers - whether you agree with them or not they're more Rangers fans than a sheep, an Arab and two Morton fans. Also claiming 'a bright future awaits' sounds like the start of Total Recall and isn't backed up by anything other than hope. I don't like attacks on Wallace any more than I do this kind of shit but there's only one group in power and that's the group that worries me most.
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I envy you. I can't concentrate on anything much because of the Rangers drama.
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As I stagger unhealthily toward my 44th birthday this year I shall take all the references to youth, callow or otherwise, I can get! Always annoys me that we didn't go to the pre-war WC's, we'd have at least one star on the shirt if we had.
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Think he's just plain fed up, same as the rest of us.
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I actually feel sick. Getting to the stage where I am nervous about logging on here, and this is supposed to be the relaxation between the dull, unpleasant real life stuff.
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Aye, that'll calm the waters between the two clubs!
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A curious response, which I'm at a bit of a loss to know how to respond to. Always in love with the sound of my own voice, I will however try. The first bit: 'Hound people out of a job' is very emotive language. I don't think I'm hounding anyone out of a job, what I've done is watched and listened to people in their jobs, what they say and do and have decided that they are most unsatisfactory and yes, I'd prefer to see others in place. I don't see that as 'hounding',, especially in light of the fact that people actually are losing their jobs while others are handsomely rewarded for not very much that I can see. Second bit: As I've said it's not a 'gut feeling' but a conclusion based on empirical evidence; including the stuff about the monies which you don't believe unless its in b&w before your eyes. Well, this is a fan messageboard not a court room and you'll not get it from me. I'm not trying to persuade you anyway, so you can easily just ignore me. Final bit: My timescale is infinite. All I want is people working for the club's best interests and not their own. They can manage that in about a week to be honest but if it takes them, let's take a number at random, 120 days then that's fine too. All in all you've invented a position for me and then shrieked about it (???) in response, which I think is a bit, well, McMurdo.
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No, really, just no. Of all posters on this board you don't get to criticise others for posting the same thing, over and over and over and over again.
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Little leaves while Hegarty and Perry told to find new clubs
andy steel replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
His injury pretty much saw our play noes dive, mind you. Raises the philosophic question of whether or not Little has left the club or has the club little left? -
Not sure if I'd agree, waiting for the solid facts tends to mean waiting too long, if our history is anything to go by. I've had enough of watching in horror as solid facts are revealed when I can do nothing about them and am keen not to make the same mistake again.
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Look, I've got an exam tomorrow & I'm not spending an hour crawling through the financials of the last two years to get your forensic proof. As for Rab agreeing, he's spent two solid years posting fantasy about Manus Fullerton and now he wants proof? At least when I post my paranoia about being run by Tims I don't expect anyone to challenge me to prove it!
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I wouldn't pay us a penny if I was Dundee Utd. Why would they help bail us out when they could watch us implode, for one player? If the roles were reversed the pleasure I'd get from watching them collapse would far outweigh any pleasure I'd get from nicking a promising player off them.