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  1. Anchorman
    To be fair that was because of a 'Mexican stand-off' as to who would put the money in the meter.
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    It's pretty safe to say we have won our second title on the way back up, and yes the road has been smoother this year compared to last. Yet I personally feel uninspired by how it is being accomplished, and I'm interested in what the consensus is. When we agreed as a support that we would rather start at the bottom than be handed some 'charity' i.e. a halfway house (did you notice the clamour of the press to praise the Rangers support for that? No I didn't either) I think we all saw an opportunity to create a football philosophy, a new ethos, away from the pressures of playing in the same league as them. OK, after a while last season, it was clear that it wasn't going to be that easy. So get the first season over and then start to see something new. No? Am I just in the wrong mood but are there any signs that we are going to accomplish any of this by the time we get back to the top? Already Ally is talking about "needing millions to do better than top six"!!! I watched our route one football to beat East Fife. I watched Nicky Law excited at the start of the season talk about how we were going to play a very high line due to our superior fitness and always be on the front foot. Nicky started on fire, scoring great goals, and then what? Ally tells him to lie a bit deeper and the rest is there to see.... If it is better than my mood is telling me then I'm open to criticism - no problem. Can anyone say hand on heart though that these won't be wasted years?
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    The opportunity for us to enter the Conference League was not as 'pie in the sky' as many people think. Nor was it only open to us at the point of 'starting at the bottom'. The same opportunity exists today with the right momentum behind it. I was a regular listener to the Keys and Gray show when Brian Lee and Conference directors were on, and these guys were serious, and what has changed? The attached was researched independently by Talksport to test whether the possibility was viable. These Conference guys spoke of us in glowing terms and it was a breath of fresh air. The potential for TV revenue, even at that level, if we were involved, was in their words "extremely lucrative". However I just don't see it gaining momentum now. There was also the precedent that had been set with Wrexham (Wales) and more interestingly Guernsey in the lower Conference Leagues, where Guernsey pay the traveling expenses of visiting clubs. http://talksport.com/sports-news/football/130115/exclusive-conference-chairman-brian-lee-refuses-close-door-rangers-189293
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    Nail on the head
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    Have you ever known another set of fans anywhere in the world who obsessively hate another team more than they love theirs? I's a serious question - especially to those who either live outwith these shores or have enough knowledge of the global game. I'm absolutely staggered by them at times to the point where I think a serious disorder exists among their 'rhanks'.
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    Ironically I was listening to Talksport last night and the report coming from Crystal Palace & Fulham. There were 2 cracking goals apparently. One guy was saying one goal was better and the other guy was saying the other. They diplomatically agreed to move on with the phrase "we can agree to disagree". No one threw their dummy out at how offensive the statement was, and they all lived happily ever after. However I will take your advice, follow your example and try to chill out.
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    The penultimate paragraph for me is the one that could be justified most and add some pressure. If there is a direct statement from [some of] the fans directed at the Easdales and they chose to ignore it each time then the pressure mounts. They are running out of people to hide behind.
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    Absolutely staggering that this all stems from me saying "we can agree to disagree". 'Personal attack on a public forum'? Are you serious???????? Go argue with someone else mate - I've better things to spend my time on.
  9. Anchorman
    Me touchy? This all stems from me saying "we can agree to disagree", which you have stated you took as "we'll just say I'm right and you're wrong, end of discussion." And then you have gone off on one. I'm afraid that is not my problem. It was said from a place of diplomacy and not the way you took it. I had no appetite for getting into 'war and peace' over something we obviously disagreed on. I didn't have the time or the desire. My judgement has proved to be spot on.
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    This article seems fairly accurate: "The 53-year-old is the fifth of seven children reared in Castlemilk. The son of a policeman, the struggles of early life provided him with the sense of values and sacrifice than enabled him to graduate from Glasgow University to the Institute of Chartered Accountants. His favourite introductory aside – “I used to be an accountant but I’m all right now” – resonated when he joined the Weir Group, who transferred him to South Africa at the age of 21, whereupon a remarkable personal reinvention occurred. Beginning with an allowance of £32-per-month, he undertook a swashbuckling journey of self-discovery; becoming a financial director of a major company before his 30th birthday, taking on faltering businesses, turning them round, and selling them on at a profit. He rose to prominence by the mid-1990s, when the new rulers of post-Apartheid South Africa grappled with unfamiliar levers of power and capitalist culture. He became an adviser to the Post Office and the Reserve Bank, then formed the Republic Ratings as an unprecedented standards agency for fledgling companies. From there, he gravitated to Specialised Outsourcing, a corporate treasury management company. In the same year, the company won the contract to manage the treasury operations of Umgeni Water, which supplies water to the Durban and Maritzburg areas of KwaZulu Natal, and is the biggest catchment-based water supplier in South Africa. It was at this juncture his earnings became stratospheric, while analysts first sounded alarm bells. King held a 71% stake of the company when it listed but had sold shares into the market and only had about 2% remaining by the time he left the organisation. His estimated profit was £100m before he bought the venture capital company, Legacy Ventures. It was at this stage his affection for Rangers was consummated with the offering of a wad of cash. The roots of King’s financial commitment to Rangers has become part of Ibrox folklore. Alistair Johnston, the IMG vice-chairman and now Rangers chairman, awoke Murray at his Perthshire pile deep in the night at the turn of the millennium with the news that Gary Player’s caddy had pledged £20m to Dick Advocaat’s war chest. Convinced that a conversation had disintegrated at the 19th hole, Murray duly hung-up and returned to his slumber before dawn broke and the substance of this twilight call was confirmed.
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    Is the last part still JC's quote? Or is that yours?
  12. Anchorman
    Nobody is disputing that I don't think. You can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink. English is peddling his own agenda as well.
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    And all the while Mr English is totally impartial on Mr King returning? I don't think so. Read between the lines of his 'article'.
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    I agree 100%. The point I am making is that they both are and English is disguising his own views in this piece.
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    "It's clearly aimed at Irvine" - Nobody has disputed that. "Not at King" - That is clearly your opinion - pure and simple. My opinion is that he is clearly also using this article as a vehicle to get points across about King (which are clearly his views as well).
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    I agree that he sets out to aim at The Source i.e. Irvine, but half of the article is aimed toward King and obviously trying to get a groundswell of anti-King propaganda drummed up in the process (while at the same time Richard Wilson writes "contrary to others' beliefs the SFA and AIM will not oppose Dave King"). I understand he is [not too] cleverly trying to put the views across as Irvine's views about King, but make no mistake about it they are his views as well, which he is trying to mask in the fashion of this 'humour'.
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    What a snide that man is. Venom (about Dave King) masked as humour - poor humour at that!
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    And to prove the point he was running Bayern Munich ragged the night he got the injury.
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    What about the Van Vossen open goal miss at the San Giro - aaaagggghhhh? Don't watch alone
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    I agree about De Boer. I loved him as a player (he ripped his tights too much though and would call off frequently). Lovenkrands and RDB did get it sorted in the end, and in style too. Sellik played a back 3 under O'Neill if you remember with big Miallby on the right. LK wanted to hog the wide touchline and Miallby would just go out there and stand on his toes and rough LK up to let Agathe go forward. RDB realised that with a back 3 they had big gaps if one of them was going out wide to the touchline when Agathe couldn't get back. He would play the ball inside of Miallby i.e. into the gap and let LK leave him for dead with speed. LKs goals against them came through that channel. Thanks to RDB!
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    Remember when Gio came on the big screens in Ibrox and said "We ardi people" in a way that only the Dutch could, and the crowd lapped it up? Round about the same time Arthur Numan was being touted for a move to Liverpool. Well anyway, I was at the bottom of the marble staircase with my son, for reasons I wont bore you with, getting a couple of Dutch replica shirts signed by Gio and Arthur just before the Orange Cup Final of 2000. It also happened to be Durie's leaving do so lots of players were mingling. Gio and Arthur had agreed to get photos with my son signing the Dutch tops. Gio is in the middle of signing one of the tops, while Numan is gabbing to all the players leaving for Durie's do.. So I start shouting "Arthur, Arthur" in my Glasgow accent. Gio starts pissing himself and ripping my Glasgow version of "Arthur". I turn round to Gio and say jokingly "who are you trying to take the piss out of after your 'Wee are di people"?. Numan hears this, pisses himself laughing, and says to me and my son "yeh what was that like - wee a di peepil". Gio then turns to Arthur and and says "at least I believe it when I say it, I don't want to run off and sign for Liverpool first chance I get (obvious wind up)". The two of them then start into a big argument (good natured) about who loves Rangers the most, while all other players pass by to go to Durie's leaving do, winding them both up. It was brilliant. On a side note, they spent time with my boy for photos sitting on the marble staircase. Check out the Rangers News No 44. (page 3) for the photo. They were absolute gents and they adored Rangers Football Club. My son still idolises them. On a side note - Arthur Numan - proven track record of success with Dutch under 21s - would walk on glass to come back to Scotland (been told by friends of his how it broke his heart to be offered nothing by the Club).
  22. Anchorman
    They should sell that picture in Mothercare. Stick it on the mantlepiece to keep the kids away from the fire.
  23. Anchorman
    Is that a Photoshop job?
  24. Anchorman
    Not really, no. For three reasons: (1) I don't like your attitude i.e. "my opinion picked at random". I've been around a long time as has the man in question. My memories of his service to our Club go way beyond the recent events cited here. My opinion has not been picked at random, and it will remain my opinion. (2) I don't feel that I have to justify my admiration and trust for a guy who had a long and distinguished career with Rangers, and who is highly regarded throughout the Western corporate world. I certainly don't want to narrow his record down to one or two debatable incidents. (3) You have a very 'black or white' outlook on things (and I don't wish to get drawn into a very time consuming discussion when I have my view that will not change and I won't insult you by thinking I can change yours). There appears to be no area in between. Your argument states if he had no concrete evidence on any matter he should basically shut up and butt out. That is just nonsense. (You see an old woman in a car stuck on a railway line at a railway crossing, but you are on the other side of a high security fence. You know that security guards come on shift in half an hour but you don't know when the next train is. Would you try to raise an alarm with someone? Or would you walk away and mention nothing to anybody? After all you have no concrete evidence that a train is coming in the next half hour! That is your approach to the world!!)
  25. Anchorman
    We can agree to disagree.
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