Tannochsidebear
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The away games will be the deciding factor in the league as usual. The difficult away games is where we lost the league last season, with only one win from the 10 away games against the other top 6 sides. This is what we must correct this season to clinch the title. We started well enough against sheepy where only the linesman cheated us out of the maximum, we have won at the piggery and easter rd and were again cheated by the linesman at Motherwell. We must win these games, and stay in touch before we can beat them again on Dec 27. If we lose tomorrow, the shadow of four in a row will be looming largely over us.
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I felt the questions in the survey totally missed the point about what the supporters who already go to all the games want from their club. The section about membership where you get press releases and a xmas card and then asked you to tell them that if you were only charged �£15 it would be so cheap you couldn't believe it was in itself unbelievable. The fact that there was no "other" option or a place to write comments was just another sign that they dont want to know what we want, they have geared the survey to report back that we will pay x amount of extra cash for nothing. The stakeholder scheme for the youth academy confused me also. I was under the impression that several big money men (Satty Singh comes to mind) have already invested in this and "own" the youth players already. I would consider a membership scheme for an extra �£20-�£30 per year if you got something worthwhile for it. And by something else I dont mean the chance to buy a ticket after the season ticket holders have had their chance because I am a ST holder!! If I was guaranteed cup semi-final & final tickets, given discounts in the Rangers shop and on Rangers tours, the Argyle House restaurant etc, given a tour of Auchenhowie and/or the stadium, and given a vote to elect a fans representative to the board of RFC. Now that to me would be worth �£20-30. I would probably pay �£50 if they threw in two friendleis/euro qualifyers as well.
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Good to see Aaron getting a good review. Would be nice to see him in the team soon, although perhaps this weekend might not be the ideal moment.
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I for one would be glad to see the back of NBM. It's only purpose after a fairly balanced start was to give credibility to MOPEry, and refused to comment on anything not pro-scum, anti-rangers. When it was found out brilliantly by the guy on FF who wrote to them twice from a Rangers and scum perspective and got very different answers, it should have had it's public funding stopped there and then.
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It is also worth remembering that Papac was only bought after his first choice centre half signing, Svensson, was a disaster. It was a panic buy on the last day of the window, on the same day that we paid off 4 defenders.
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I think it will be a midfield of Davis Ferguson Mendes Lafferty with Miller and Boyd continuing up front. Although Lafferty's position is far from secure and I wouldn't be surprised to see Novo retain his place or Adam/Whittaker/Beasley coming in for that last spot.
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Just got official Rangers text saying that Sasa Papac has signed a new deal until 2011 and quoting him as being delighted to stay and he now wants to win the title.
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He said he had spoken to you last night at our meeting. Very good of you to assist him with this, as he is a good bear and does really enjoy watching the future generations coming through, whilst never missing a first team game either.
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It is a member of my RSC that runs this site and he was telling us about it at our meeting last night. He goes to a lot of the youth games and I for one will be checking it regularly to see how the young bears are getting on. I would recommend other bears do likewise as they will probably get more accurate info on that site than on the official site.
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As far as I am concerned I already have Thomson as a certainty to be away in January as I have pointed out a few times now. It will just depend how much we get for him, and how many fringe players we can get rid of, to see if we can afford to not lose another regular starter.
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That was when he was trying to get a new deal here of course. Now that he knows he is not getting a new deal here, he all of a sudden "cannot forget" France where he made his name. I just hope that we secure a reasonable fee for him and dont end up giving him away just to reduce the wage bill as Bain has done so many times before.
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Thanks Frankie. In that case he may well go in January, depending on offers that come in. I have not been so impressed with him that I think an EPL or Championship team will look to pay big money for him. Previously Cuellar, Hutton and Boumsong's reputations have been gained by showing great form in European football. The absense of Euro football and a couple of less than impressive performances domestically wont exactly get the big money teams running to Ibrox with their cheque book, so I think MB will be safe for this season.
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Unofficial Websites - Pressure on the Press?
Tannochsidebear replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
IMO Murray is continuing his discrediting of Mark Dingwall, the owner of FF and his mates. This has been most prominent since the summer changes in the RST. The fact that he does not come out and name FF is not required to work it out for yourself, but has the effect whereby Frankie and other forum owners feel the need to defend themselves when I am sure they were not the target in the first place. But as I said in my earlier post, it was merely tactics to change the subject from his own poor stewardship and it has worked again, as usual. -
Unofficial Websites - Pressure on the Press?
Tannochsidebear replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
Great OP Frankie, and sums up the current situation perfectly. I think we can all work out that Murray's attack on forums is directly focused on MD and the personal abuse on FF directed towards himself and his puppet, sorry Chief Executive. If he loses the argument, this time about how the club will have to sell players in January to balance the books, he changes the focus onto something that will grab the media attention, this time the forums. It is just the same old, tired, lazy responses from a busted flush of a Chairman who wants out, but on his own terms. -
Can anyone confirm if MB played any competitive games for Charlton in 2008-09. If he did, he cannot be sold in January 2009 under the three teams in one season rule. If he didn't play for them he is in the same boat as every other Rangers player come January, if a decent fee comes in they are off. We need to balance the books and our chairman has proven over the last two/three years that this takes precedence over squad strength.
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He is by far the better keeper who is just going through a bit of a form loss just now. I dont rate Alexander as highly and thought some of the goals we lost at the end of last season were poor keeping. Call me old fashioned but I would prefer to have the best keeper on our books in the first team on a regular basis. The defending for the goals the other night was a shambles. Watch again at the second goal as MB stands and stares as Sandaza runs past him to slot in the tap-in. Players make mistakes, keepers mistakes are highlighted more. You cannot chop and change every time a player makes a mistake or you ruin the confidence of the whole squad.
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He has looked decent so far, but was awful against United this week. I hope we can write that one off as a blip as the defending post-Kaunas to date has been good and MB has been a big part of that.
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I read the article in FF reviewing the book and I have already asked for it for my Xmas from my son, it looks a great read and full of the history of our club.
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I was there when he said it and it there was no doubt he said we would be debt-free. The only disclaimer he put on it, was when he said it was dependant on allt he things he was working on coming to fruition and he said he was certain that they would happen. There was no later retraction or amendment. As usual he says things in the hope we will all forget them when they dont come off. It was a ridiculous statement to make and we was not even under any pressure to make it, he just could not help himself such is the contempt he holds us in. I will accept your point (well constructed and argued ) that financially the JJB deal looks better than we could have done ourselves, however I would say the difference is negligable given the loss of profile and availability of products. In 2007-08 we could have made a lot more, but we would not have made anything like it in 2006-07, or 2008-09 unless JJB are bust by then.
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I think at the time those comments were made our wage bill was significantly lower (as was squad size) than it is now. Of course AMcL and PLG were allowed a core of experienced earners and had to make up the squad with kids, not now with Walter's super-sized squad of �£2M players. I agree that it would appear that we need CL every year to balance the books, or to significantly reduce the wage bill again. I accept your point about the upfront payment from JJB that I had forgotten about, but not the amount as there was a large chunk of that used to close the shops, pay off staff and leases etc, so not all of it was profit, and then divided by the 10 years it amounts to not an awful lot, IMO. I will need to take a look back to the Nick Peel years accounts when our merchandising income and profits were second in the UK only to Man Utd to see a comparable level to now. There is no point in comparing the season before JJB to after it as it was clear we were downsizing for a couple of years to set up this deal as palatable, when the only real reason for it was the large up front payment to reduce debt as DM had promised to be "debt-free within 12 months" (another lie!)
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Agreed, I regularly recount what Bain told top sponsors and advertisers at a club function a year or so ago, that we have to play CL group football in 3 out of every 5 seasons just to break even. No transfers taken into account, just club running costs. Scary stuff indeed, and is the reaping of the sell-offs of income streams in recent years. Can anyone tell me that had we been in charge of our own merchandise, given our run to the UEFA final, that we would not have made a profit of over �£3M last season? In the weekend before Manchester, our one and only Rangers shop, at the ground, was selling ONE scabby looking t-shirt with a picture of the COM stadium on it, whilst outside the queue was long and deep with bears buying various t-shirts, scarves and flags off the vendors on Edmiston Drive. Will it be this January the DM supporters finally wake up, or do we have to wait another few years of mis-management?
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CIS CUP 1/4 Final Draw - RANGERS v Hamilton
Tannochsidebear replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
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Excellant analysis. The debt is the one thing I am worried about, and I argued with other bears about on other forums who told me the debt would be reduced to almost zero from last year's "success". It guarantees me only one thing. There will be a fire sale in January 2009, with nobody coming in for a fee and anybody being sold that a decent bid comes in for. Look out for Murray spin in late December about the global credit crash and our Euro exit making things difficult, when it is really just another year of complete and utter mis-management from the top 2. And another year, and another..........
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I thought Davis was putting better crosses in than we had last season from the several players who had a go, but last night's were poor in keeping with the general performance. I agree with most posters here in wondering why, given our facilities, things have not improved.
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CIS CUP 1/4 Final Draw - RANGERS v Hamilton
Tannochsidebear replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
We will now play Accies twice in a week. I read they are playing good passing football and this should be a good couple of games to watch. As long as we win them both of course!