andy steel
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Which isn't saying much, tbh. <shrug> I wasn't overly impressed. He was decent, I wouldn't object to his still being there, learning as he goes, but, as I say, I can understand the thinking behind Foster.
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Well, it plainly wasn't all of them. But you could certainly put a complaint in if you felt only Rangers fans were being targeted on the strength of that, since you can, with a bit of imagination, hear the offending words. In fact, if you feel that way and don't put a complaint in, it would be a bit weird.
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Saying Mitchell played out of his skin last season is way over the top. He was alright but made mistakes at the 4th tier level of Scottish football. I can see why the management would want someone who they thought would be better.
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If so, we need to box even cleverer rather than use our own club as a punchbag.
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RST - Jim McColl and Paul Murray to meet three fan groups
andy steel replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
Unfortunately, the only way for anyone to reach the majority of the support is to go through the media, which loses us the opportunity to ask the questions we want rather than, say, Tom English or Keith Jackson want to ask. You have to decide whether you're happier with candidates talking to the Record or the RST. If they had hours to spare they could do popular hustings, but there's no chance of that. The cops would probably ban them anyway, once Timothy got wind and dragged his obsessed feet along to see the goings-on. -
Come on Rab, this is crazy talk. You were saying the other week about how Labour hate us, they're all Republicans, then when my neighbour won £2m and turned out to be both a Bluenose & a Labour councillor, you kinda brushed it off saying his bosses had better not find out or something. That was solid proof that Labour (who I detest) are not all rabid republicans out to get Rangers. You've got the FA & police in England clamping down on Spurs fans over their use of the word 'Yid' in songs. That's solid proof that this kind of thing is going on all over the UK, and not just that, even in Italy, where fans were chasitised for (believe it or not) regional insults toward southern citizens. Do the SNP run London and Rome as well? Although having said that, we do seem to be seriously targeted in a way other people ain't, and you'll never convince me that everyone else is going to the game cracking a rattle and yelling 'play up, the rovers!' But there's no point in looking for a mythical bogeyman in Holyrood - it's the prevailing sentiment across Europe, man!
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Possibly they could also explain how the words 'Bobby' & 'Sands' are able to transmogrify themselves from being sectarian on the south side of Glasgow to being political in the east end.
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TOM ENGLISH - Brian Stockbridge improves home security
andy steel replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
I'm glad to say I missed both those threads about John Bennett at the time. I didn't realise TBK were quite so ramshackle a body & it doesn't exactly inspire confidence in Paul Murray, but there's no real alternative atm. -
I do remember watching Kuznetzov at Ibrox against iirc St Mirren and he really did stroll it. He would have been a colossus for us. He had everything.
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I was just thinking of Rangers players in general, and I was a bit dismayed that I could only really honestly hold up those two. I mean they really were world class to me, capable of doing something that only the smallest fraction of players could: certainly the others you mention were excellent, some brilliant, but I don't put them so high as world class. I tell you a player I thought could be world class, was Oleg Salenko. I base that on a backheel pass he played to himself on the edge of the box, attacking the Broomloan end. Plainly he never achieved it but it's as good a single piece of skill as I have ever seen at Ibrox. I have been golfing at Troon, and writing essays. 18 holes in the mostly dry over that weekend, that took some doing! I did put the radio on for the game after my round but quickly put it off again.
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TOM ENGLISH - Brian Stockbridge improves home security
andy steel replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
Watching Graham Lineghan on QI over the weekend it struck me that he has an identical voice to Tom English. Not just accent, obviously, but cadence and tone - if you close your eyes you don't know which is which, except of course Graham doesn't usually insist on ascribing blame to Walter Smith in his comedies. Tom seems to imagine that, every June, Walter would trundle up to Murray's office to be told his budget for the coming season, at which point Walter would raise a cautionary hand, and say 'Now, just hold on there Sir David! Can we be sure all this money is accounted for and affordable? As manager, I have to take an interest in more than just the team, and I won't let my total lack of knowledge of the business side hold me back. Now, where does each pound come from? Once we've decided how legitimate and sensible this budget is, I'll maybe go out and spend it!' This scenario is, of course, repeated at football grounds up and down the country on a yearly cycle, akin to the Wagner festival of Bayreuth or the Passion plays of, I dunno, Padua. Club accountants are sick of it! Managers insisting that the finances be double checked before players are bought, finance firms being brought in to run an eye over the books 'just in case'... Last week's dispiriting English/Spence double act lowered Pacific Quay back into the obsessed bullshit pit, similar to Jabba the Hutt's Sarlac pit but smellier and less appealing, that they had briefly threatened to crawl out from, not entirely coincidentally while one of the two was on 'holiday'. -
The way it looks just now, if you do without King, you will have to get by without a Rangers, too. I agree that we don't have the luxury of being overly choosy.
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The first non-Ranger I really took notice of was the floppy haired attacking midfielder for Milan during their late 80's pomp; I think it was Roberto Donadoni but the memory is not what it was.
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I was only thinking of Bears, BH. I never saw Law and Dalglish, well I only saw him for Scotland and he wasn't brilliant in my time (maybe 85 onwards).
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OT & sexist I know, but the wench on the right has got a body you'd never get tired of.
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Interesting points & well worth discussing. As you say, once you sign your papers you are in and that's that, there's no way anyone can expect individual soldiers to pick & choose their battles. Maybe it would be better if they could! It's just that the equation which runs 'I have joined up, therefore I no longer bear any responsibility for these actions (wars)' doesn't sit right. I agree that's how it is, and that we must have armies, but it's not the 15th century...having said that, a job is a job, you can't eat principles and an empty belly is a surefire motivator. As to class I too am not up to date but I do know that as recently as the last 5 years the highest a state educated soldier could hope to get is iirc staff sgt; maybe that's changed. To judge from the guys we see on the box, it hasn't & again, an army which recruits grunts from the poorest and least advantaged then sets them to fight under an officer class which looks suspiciously like the one Henry IV would have recognised leaves me itchy. White poppies do seem to me to a slight cop out, but in all honesty its a tiny minority who wear them and they don't bother me especially...at least they are showing some respect. The last point you make is the most interesting one to me, because I think it shows a certain knee-jerk reaction to any perceived criticism of the services. Anything less than complete adulation is immediately looked on with grave suspicion, and I don't think that's healthy. Look at this example from this thread, where Barca72 tells TRPB: This is undeniably true. It is not, however, a reason why someone else should be silent. There has to be room for people to mistrust official bodies, whether they be the BBC or the Army, without cries of 'burn the witch' going up. And not even to mistrust them, but even to hold other groups up to comparison, is even being seen as belittling in the context of this thread. I dunno, maybe to sum up it could be respect yes, admire, well sometimes, but immunity from criticism? Not for me.
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andy steel replied to Zappa's topic in Rangers Chat
If I may ask, why? I mean, I'm not hard to get a hold of as it is. -
Cooper, without question. And I honestly believed if the Scottish game had not crippled him, Durrant would have been one of the players of the 90's. I doubt he'd have been in a blue shirt. Probably at Man U or Bayern Munich, I should think (or Arsenal when Wnger took over! How he woudl have shone in one of Arsene's teams). BT Sports carry the Bundesliga and they have a wad of players who do just what Durrant did, making the runs from midfield into the box and scoring. But he was so good at it! Ghosting forward, either foot really...when you watch a Marko Marin, or a Shurrle, they're not any better than Durrant was when he was assaulted. The great lost Scottish player, I think, and the only one of two who would be called World Class.
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I don't think you would be banned, you know. Many people would probably put their names to the 'agree' box under such a post for the majority opinion in the country is plainly to back the services. What I don't think I could agree to is the leap you make from people having some issues over the armed forces = trying to diminish them. It's that kind of 'all or nothing' argument that doesn't make sense to me: 'either you fully back me or you're a treacherous swine, and quite possibly a Tim sympathiser to boot.' As long as the bottom line is remembered - that the faux outrage of Timothy and his media cheerleaders has, apparently, been slapped down for the pish that it is, I don't see why we can't discuss the subtleties of patriotism as seen as the football.
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I'm not sure it can be called ultra leftist to have some issues with the army. I am a bit uneasy with the media worship of the armed forces these last years, because I think what lies behind it is the need to recruit troops rather than any actual feelings of pride. Whether you think The Sun runs campaigns about Our Boys because they believe it or because they are a scummy money making business happy to use the blood of others to get rich is up to you. I have my doubts. I'm also uneasy with the class structure of the British services. In the 21st century it is asking a bit much to believe that the best candidates for the officer ranks still come from the upper classes. What chance a Colin Powell in our services? Not very much, I'd reckon. And you have to say, anyone who has joined up in the last 20 years would have to have lived in a cave not to know that they would be involved in some questionable campaigns once they did. Since the 1991 Gulf War to the present western armies have been going through a period we won't look back on with much pride in future; I would go further and argue that the actions of the western nations have more or less guaranteed terrorism on the streets of the west for the next generation (at least). Befehl ist befehl? I'm not certain how much an individual can turn round and say 'blame the government, not the soldier' in this day and age. It's not a conscript army after all. And finally the hysterical reaction to any criticism of the armed forces gets on my tits a bit too. But when all's said and done, any excuse for a proper pipe band on the pitch is worth it imo.
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I'll never forget the night we won the league at Pittodrie, back in '87. I never thought we would win the league, that's how bad we were when I was growing up; the absolute icing on the cake was David Holmes, on Sportscene that night, toasting the Rangers and the fans, with a wee tear in his eye. I was crying my eyes out. He might not be a Rangers man but he did a bloody good impression of one, I'll tell you that!
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I'd be more than happy with David Longmuir in the boardroom.
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He wishes he was a grandstanding shitebag. Useless manacle around the ankle of an already knackered socialist movement for over 20 years.
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I'm pretty sure Galloway is a Unionist.