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  1. andy steel
    Christ, if the 'business' being liquidated wasn't as dark as it gets, what is? A gentle decline into Third Lanark status, over a few decades until eventual expiration? The worry is - and here I shall resort to non-academic upper case shouting - that there is NO-ONE INSIDE IBROX WHO CAN ADDRESS THE ISSUES FACING US!!! And since that's the case, and it definitely is, we're fucked for the foreseeable. Now I think about it, Fucked for the Foreseeable would have been a decent title to the OP, even at the risk of upsetting the Venerable Brahim. I dare you to put that on the main site, I bet you Newsnow would have no issues publishing that one. Spyhunter! Da na na na na na na na, da na na na na na na na.... [video=youtube;X-0Yf9ODsg4] Cheered me up with that 90's reference, Zap. Positive stuff! The only hope for the future is that there are more fans like you and less fans like me, Compo.
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    I would gently suggest that expecting a strong response to anything this morning, other than a thread announcing Ally has quit, is perhaps a trifle optimistic.
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    Back in the Cold War, namby pamby lefty liberal types used to put on dramas every so often, depicting the aftermath of nuclear conflict. The production teams involved found it easier (cheaper) to take the deaths of millions as read and focus on small survivor units, depicted against a horribly convincing nuclear landscape. That the Britain of this period accurately stood in for an atomically ravaged landscape ought to tell us something about Britain in general (vote yes!) but the thing I recall best as a small child was the concept of the nuclear winter, a perma-sunless period of years in which nothing could grow or prosper. Grim stuff. Even then, though, the bleeding heart type couldn't resist closing with some hackneyed image of a small plant growing, as life started again without the fell hand of right wing government bringing about the apocalypse this time. There was always hope! No such luck for us, though. We seem to be struggling to take even a single step forward from the dark days of administration and liquidaton. The UK economy is tottering on Bambi legs toward recovery; Libya and Tunisia had their 'Arab Springs', and while Egypt and Syria are hardly the best of adverts for this particular crap analogy, it beggars belief that entire countries and fiscal systems can absorb shocks and recover faster than a well supported football club based in a settled, safe society. I've bored you before with my patented theory about the dark forces who are slowly killing us, but added to that sheer fatigue is doing people in. Many have stopped going due to the abysmal standard of play, others are deflated by online abuse, while some have just run out of steam. We saw over the weekend D'Artagnan packing it in and no wonder: years of firefighting the attacks of other fans and clubs, with no weapons except to point out their own stinking hypocrisy, while the weight of the media is borne down on our club would knacker anyone. But when the feeling grows that the thing you're spending a stupid amount of time defending isn't worth defending you're in big trouble. Not only is the football rubbish but the officials who run our club have been and remain rubbish since Craig Whyte walked down Edmiston Drive, to the cheers of about 40 people who recognised him. He stared killing us slowly from within, Charles continued (continues?) it, while the present incumbents don't bear speaking about, such is my contempt for them. I suppose the fans of other clubs are loving it, but our slow decline is mirrored in theirs. It's not just us going down, it's football as a whole. No amount of Politburo releases from Pacific Quay about the terrific standard and full stands around the country will fool anyone with a grain of sense: as late as the 70's, when I was watching nuclear dramas, clubs had attendances in the tens of thousands. Certainly the decline had set in and to some extent football has been staving off illness for decades, only ocassionally recouperating before falling ill again. I find myself wondering whether Rangers reflects this: since the heyday of European runs and titles in the 60's, it's been a story of boom and bust, staving off decline with some periods of success. That would be normal for a club in a normal country but it isn't normal in Scotland, because firstly about 90% of fans support two teams and secondly without some success for each of them the financial wellspring of the game runs perilously dry. This comes close to the old 'football needs the OF to thrive' argument, and while I think their dominance has hardly helped the game their withering will scarcely revive it, unless we're aiming for a top league with attendances roughly akin to those of Pollok juniors. Many threads on here are becoming increasingly nostalgic, and no wonder. If there's nothing to look forward to, what else can you do? Maybe the bluebells will be out on that grubby bit of wasteground across from Edmiston Drive by the time I fetch up for the next home game, offering the prospect of a new spring ahead. I have my doubts, though: it's more likely a passing fan of another club will have kicked its head off. edit - while a bunch of bluenoses fight amongst themselves and take no action!
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    I'd agree with bits of that, inasmuch as the team did what it seems was asked of it - choke the midfield, dominate possession, and, er, hope for the best. My issue is that the team was sent out with that intention, which seems chronically unambitious and terribly dispiriting.
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    Thank God for drink and Easter holidays. Going to be a long night, I feel.
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    Surely Hearts have suffered enough?
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    Seems things are the same all over. From that forum:
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    It might be different if the person was just shouting abuse and effing or blinding to no purpose. I'm the first to whine about bad manners but this person's writing is not only funny, intelligent and interesting, but pushes the English language into areas it's never been before. Added to which is the social impact of it being - gasp! - a woman doing it. And what's the reaction from us? Burn the witch! I sometimes wonder whether we're worth saving, which is a hell of way to look forward to a cup final.
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    Huzzah! Now all the fuds can have their own shop and leave normal people in peace.
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    I'm not so sure it's as black and white as that, Darther. As long as the main power blocs in terms of shareholding remain the same then any board is going to be at best firefighting - we've seen the last couple of years that in terms of decision making the main players have got it wrong on many counts that you'd have to be a phenomenally forgiving person, on the level of Jesus, to have any faith left in them. So the cynicism seems justified because be it Mather, or Somers, or Murray, or whoever, it's faceless and apparently secretive companies or people who are telling them what to do. Of course, you know I think them all to be agents of the other side killing us slowly...although all these fan statement threads have left me thinking that we don't need much help in that department from anyone else.
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    That's what they wanted when they unleashed the dogs on us, they can hardly whine about it now. Although it is pitiful right enough.
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    That's my main reason for supporting it.
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    Cheer up, man! Surely it's only a few hardcore internet types.
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    What you're talking about, Frankie, is about 200 or so fans out of the Rangers fan base of about 2,000,000 or so in Scotland alone. I think we do get het up about very little sometimes.
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    *** FUN GERSNET COMPETITION!!! *** Here's a scene for you to solve, readers! using your skill and judgement, decide which scenario would have been more likely. The Blue Room, Ibrox. David Murray is counting his money. Enter a financial accountant type. Accountant Type: Bad news, Sir David - those EBT's have been found to be horribly immoral and we have to stop using them. David Murray: Oh no! How will I sign all those players we keep beating celtc with now??? Here's your choices, chums: Does Dave (a) accept the tax rules, fail to sign players and watch celtc romp to the title? (b) borrow more money from the bank, sign the players anyway and keep winning titles? Given Sir Dave's history of borrowing, you might think the answer obvious! But hold on - maybe old Dave was a financial genius all along, and not the profligate borrower media types have been slating him as for the last five years! But no cheating - answer ©, that it's all a load of contradictory bullshit with zero intellectual justification spouted by half wits who wouldn't know an EBT from an SPTE season ticket has already been used in last year's exciting Win a day Out To See The Huns Get Skelped by A Judge Competition, which as we know had to be called off at the last minute.
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    That's classy. Quality work.
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    It's entirely guesswork, but I get the feeling that Wallace is feeding Jackson his info. Which would be fascinating if true. I can't see where else it is coming from - unlikely to be Easdales, Somers, or Creighton, and I think we can safely rule out Irvine. Much interesting.
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    This is exactly the point - while he is correct in what he's saying, given he's made a living by stoking the delusions of the very people who would rather go to a game than see their families shod it's a bit rich. His end of career Damascene conversion to 'I hate the Old Firm' is a bit ripe, frankly.
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    In expensive beds in expensive houses, sadly. If people didn't read this kind of stuff it would have died out centuries ago.
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    Moshni reminds me of that song, 'Born with a Smile on my Face'. He's about the only guy in the whole of Scottish football who doesn't walk about scowling or desperately trying to look hard. But you can see he's having the fun kicked out of him week after week - I think especially of being blatantly shoved over the advertising hoarding at Airdrie, getting up wryly smiling at their fans and getting a ton of abuse for his trouble. The guy was bewildered and no wonder - he must have thought he had joined an AFL team by mistake. And when he got ratty and shoved one of Bollan's cloggers after 90 minutes of being assaulted, he's the bad guy. Against that he has no discipline whatsoever - even last week, wandering over to the fans when Brechin get corners to say hi may be kinda charming, but he's meant to be marking up, not signing autographs. His lack of focus during a game does make him the proverbial bombscare. But I end up backing him because his treatment highlights everything that's wrong with the game here - a happy, flair player, willing to take mad chances and visibly enjoying his football is classed as immature or dodgy by pundits and fans alike. If we could enjoy the game as much as Bilel does, football would be in a far better place. Alas, I think those days are gone forever.
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    Still no takers for the HMS They're Actually Tims? I mean, how much evidence do you need?
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    Sorry mate, you've got the cart before the horse there. It's not the ST threat that has/is creating material uncertainty - the ST ideas are a direct response to existing material uncertainty. Just because the board hasn't previously come out and admitted it (no surprise in that) doesn't mean people were unaware it existed - were there no great uncertainty about the club's future, the ST ideas wouldn't have been thought up in the first place. If there is material uncertainty about the future of Rangers FC it has been created, and sustained, by chronic practice from within the club. It's a bit rich, but all too predictable, that the fans are now being blamed for creating a situation when they are in fact responding to it. People say give the board time, but when they issue statements like this, it's hard not to view them with deep suspicion.
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    Do I have company on board the paranoid 'They're Actually Tims' train at last?
  24. andy steel
    A chairman who'd be against bigotry, its a handwringer's wet dream. Though I admit, I'd take a slavering fundamentalist if he or she was bringing £50m.
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    & I even deleted the moany post, as well!
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