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  1. andy steel
    I hope the Tyrell rumour is a mistake. The last thing we need is more money going to the corporate side.
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    I'm going to stick up for Calscot - in the first place, watching all our games would require a level of perversity which even Herr Masoch himself might have thought twice about, and secondly one of the best things about Gersnet is that you don't have to be an uber to give an opinion here. I certainly can't afford, nor do I presently have the desire, to watch all our games. But anyone who thinks that's going to stop my moaning about us is going to be sorely disappointed! Plus, the number of professionals on this board, most of whom don't have the time to go to every game, is its major strength. Long may that continue!
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    One barometer of the club's policy will be when signing targets or their agents appear in the press complaining about derisory offers to sign for Rangers. A bitter pill to swallow but it will show there's some sanity in signing policy at least.
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    SPFL HEADS FOR MORE REVOLUTION CHAOS Rangers defender Sebastian Faure today plunged Scots football into yet another period of uncertainty when he called for radical changes at the heart of the game. The Frenchman hit out at the way the game is run and called for: Only pitches which receive enough sunlight each year to grow rich, lush surfaces to be given licences to host games, down to 4th tier level; Fans who can't tell the difference between a mince Rangers team and Bayern Munich to be banned from stadia; Teams which don't lose league games to ride down Edmiston Drive on Asses, while fans bestrew their path with rose petals and sing Hosannas; Opposition teams to be banned from sending out eleven players, as this hampers top players' ability to take more than one touch. In a hard hitting expose of the amateur ethos which he believes permeates the game in this country, Faure, with his extensive knowledge of Scotland's lower leagues, has presented fans with a dossier which they can only ignore at their peril!
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    All except the 'implacably opposed' bit, Frankie. If (unlikely, I know) the present board started addressing the financial cuts which they, we & King all know will have to be made; if they engaged with fans instead of suing them or smearing them; if they provided our admittedly underperforming manager with a work environment which allowed focus on his job; if they took salaries appropriate to our position; and so on and so on, I could just about live with it. Wouldn't like it, but I could live with it. But they have burnt so many bridges behind them over the last while that it would take a concentrated effort to leave Barratt green with envy to build some sort of rapprochement now.
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    Like 26th of Foot, I saw Allan v the Dutch under-21 side (in Paisley iirc) and was blown away - bags of talent. An unlikely candidate for our ragtag collection of plodders, then. You feel the itch of the judiciously leaked story to drive sales, except that news of Hutchison is unlikely to set many sprinting for the portacabin of shame, and not that many will have seen or heard of Allan. I don't know what to make of that story. No idea how good or bad the CB is, though SPL level hardly suggests top class or anything like it; but I'd be excited at seeing Allan in blue.
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    I suppose pushing the concept of Rangers as a wee club is an acceptable substitute for the original script, which was entitled 'The Death of the Huns'. But it's a bit rich slagging us for the actions of successive boards who aren't even Rangers fans. Can hardly be a culture when it has been operated from without! Even Murray was an Ayr fan, should we expect an article berating the ingrained culture of Ayr United? Boz, man.
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    I'm happy to let you know, in that case, that he is sans pareil in the Scots media for detesting us and cheering on the Hoops. I am not being facetious when I say that if he's against it, we should be for it,
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    Fabulous! Ally just makes people happy, which is why the present situation is all the more heartbreaking. But....what's going on here? Has peace broken out? Surely the players and staff didn't sneak the SoS in - it must have been done with the club's OK, And if so, please, please, please let this common sense continue - it's been sadly missed!!
  10. andy steel
    We'll know things are back on track when we persuade James McArthur to come north.
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    Luckily for the big man, that's not a decision he's likely to have to make anytime soon.
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    Sorry, Rangers, but 'generic no comment' won't do it. Private matter or not, Mr Wallace's bonus entitlement is absolutely the kind of thing which could swing the fans either behind or against the fellow: tell us he's on a decent but not mad salary (and even bonus) while doing his review and he might get some backing. Tell us to piss off, none of your business, only leads to speculation and suspicion, and almost certainly more people deciding that renewing or even going at the moment isn't for them. The very fact that some fans are being forced into a fundamentalist position of actively trying to damage the business in order to 'change the guard' at the top and install some kind of leadership which will, at least, guarantee non-administration events every three years or so is a sign of how bad things are. How long until someone organises an unofficial 'don't use 32Red' campaign?
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    Look, I am a Rangers obsessive to an unhealthy degree, one of which items I should be studying for rather than posting on here. And yes, not losing at all in the league is an achievement. But ffs lets not try and make out it's anything special - it's hardly Arsene's Invincibles all over again. If he makes that 30 years, so that dementia has a chance to do to me what it has done to so many of my family, that might be accurate. Not until then, though.
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    Sad day when that's the case, but I understand your position completely. There's a team playing in blue, and there's a club based on Edmiston Drive, but it feels very much like something other than our Rangers.
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    While we're on the subject of Germany, I watched the two Cup semi-finals this week, both held at a home ground: Dortmund's on Tuesday (they won) and Bayern's on Weds (they won, too). I wonder if there was a Herr Stefan Tomasohn complaining about these advantages to the winning sides?!
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    I used to sell Nonesuch toffee when I worked in retail, you can probably still get it. It's the cake of toffee that takes about a week to eat. Always thought it was a brilliant name, redolent of Pilgrim's Progress or a planned Victorian milltown. That and the fact that it seems like a new word, English but not English, Germanic but not Germanic...I should probably have paid more attention to what I was doing at the time. Anyway, it's nice toffee.
  18. andy steel
    I would think the 120 day review will contain some things which would move us in the right direction. But of course that's more than outweighed by their actions hitherto for me.
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    Fair enough, if the ambition is to become a successful under-20 side. The lad in the thread the other day about our youth policy was slating us for focusing on the first team - but what else is the rationale for being a full time professional sports club? Every team below the first exists to provide players for that top team and for that reason only.
  20. andy steel
    Imagine if they had gone for Paddy Power or Mr Green. I would have laughed at that, at least.
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    Adding nothing to the debate, but I am fizzing about this. It's absolutely impossible to justify those salaries (if they're correct, of course). How hard is it to drive a bus, ffs, or lay out a kit? Catch a grip, Rangers, for Christ's sake. It wouldn't matter if we had the riches of Croesus behind us, you still couldn't make a rational case for that level of pay.
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    Meh. I still distinctly remember the ostracism, and not Papa Bear, nor quotses, no, nor even my SNP membership card will persuade me otherwise. For goodness' sake, the anger is all I have left to kept me interested! They can't take that away from me.
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    Can't argue with Doc. No-one wanted to touch us with a barge pole when the lynch mob came round the corner. Even allowing for the hideous behaviour of Whyte and his cronies, given the impact the event had on innocent supporters it should not have been asking for too much for a bit of political support from someone, somewhere. Cowardice won out, I'm afraid. Not much chance of an Andy Burnham for us!
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    That's a bit cryptic! I would have said that our troika of King-doubters want the best for Rangers, even though I think they are off the mark in this case - what is it you think they wish for?
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