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What makes you say that because I suspect he would.

"We don't do walking away" will be used against us for ever more. We better get used to it. My reply would be "sporting integrity".

No chance. He didn't want to play for us when we were in the SPL.

Certainly since yesterday it has been pretty ott in general.

Wanted to say "thanks" but it has disappeared.

Anyway, to cover my tracks and get back on topic. The boycott is over, some folk broke it, let's move on and save our energy for our real enemies.

Yes but how many different ways does it need to be said and how many times? I have major doubts about the management team but I don't want to talk about it morning, noon and night. It is repetitive, dull and depressingto peddle the same stuff ad nauseam.

Such irony. There are far more people on here with an anti Ally agenda that do exactly the same thing. It's fair enough to say the manager can't cut it but to do it relentlessly is spoiling the forum for me.

Traynor said so in a radio podcast. He and Keith Jackson told the SFA who did nothing.

That's a cheap shot. I would question his ability but never his loyalty to the club.

I've been saying that for weeks. I cannot understand why he is keeping his place in the team

You are naughty

I am not liking this talk of boycotts. We are only one club of 30 and the majority will decide. Most will decide out of self interest and let's not be naiive to think that we have in the past or would just now do any differently. I think it is this sort of arrogance that has led to much of our dislike in the past. We should accept the decision with dignity. Let's put our energies into fighting for our rightful promotion.

I stopped listening to it years ago, along with many other bears. That does not mean it is not a public platform. By peddling it's biased garbage it is feeding misinformation about our club persistently to all who listen to it. I travel to the match with mates who do not use a forum or twitter or blogs but get their information from the biased newspapers and radio stations that I no longer read or listen to. I think they are more representative of the Rangers support than I am. Their lack of knowledge on what is going on is astounding. I do not think we should underestimate the influence of these things and we should challenge it when it is so patently factually wrong. This guy works for television as well and will be spouting this guff to goodness knows who else.

William Poole blogs on this very subject today. Time for Rangers to Step Up In the last week, blogger David Leggat and Rangers site Vanguard Bears have exposed several agendas against Rangers, as has my fellow blogger Chris Graham. The fact that Rangers fans are learning some more details of said agendas obviously has to be a good thing, but this information is currently being constrained to Rangers fans’ websites, when it should be front page news. Firstly, we have the details of those Daily Record news office who have been displaying a hatred of Rangers that should be seeing all Rangers fans boycotting both the Record and their sister title the Sunday Mail. Vanguard Bears named Record Editor Allan Rennie as the newsroom editor that held his head in his hands as the FTT judgement was released, with David Leggat also naming News Editor Kevin Mansi as the individual who shouted “It’s a fvcking Government conspiracy” upon hearing the judgement. Rangers have already taken the Sunday Mail to task about their shameful reporting of a complaint to the Armed Forces with regards to Rangers remembrance day activities, but in case the message from Rangers is too subtle, and I think it is, these two rags are actively trying to destabilise Rangers, and the sizeable Rangers support should be forcing change at these newspapers. Let’s be absolutely clear, having Celtic fans running a newspaper should not be an issue, if they can display at least a professional level of objectivity that the job demands. The Record and Mail are not in that category. When Celtic took umbrage at the Record’s reporting of their “thugs and thieves” night out in Newcastle many years ago, they didn’t issue a statement on a website and leak some info to a blogger. While they have been rumoured to use Celtic Quick News or Phil MacGiollabhain to get information out there that is too hot to handle, when they really need to do so, they will go for the jugular. In that instance, Celtic flagged up on their screens to their crowd to boycott both the Record and the Mail, and pressured the Mirror group in to apologising, and what has followed has been years of capitulation by both titles. While I appreciate Rangers leaking info to Leggat or Graham, there comes a time for the club to be direct and get the message out loud and clear in an unambiguous fashion. It is time for subtlety to be rejected in favour of a bold new direct approach, particularly with two other issues that have arisen in the last week The SFA Arbitration panel has rejected Rangers rights to transfer fees for players who refused to TUPE over from one registration holder to another, following advice from SPFA lawyer Margaret Gribbon. Like several other questionable committees and panels set up to deal with Rangers in the last 12 months, this one is at complete odds with the promises of transparency that Stewart Regan made on his appointment, with the identities of the 3 man panel kept secret. Leggat asks if Peter Lawwell of Celtic was on the panel. Rangers should publicly ask the same question, and ensure that the question does not go away until it is both answered and proven. If Lawwell was on that3 man panel which has effectively prevented Rangers from being paid to the tune of £10M+ f0r the players, then that is as clear a conflict of interests that there can be. That would not just be blogworthy but would, if true, be worthy of national front page news. Likewise, the involvement of Celtic lawyer Rod McKenzie (blogged about here http://williampoole.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/the-spls-kangaroo-court/) should be headline news and questions being asked again When previous questions were asked about his involvement, the SPL dismissed claims of a conflict of interest, with a remarkable claim that McKenzie was only involved at a low level to gather paperwork. Then the tribunal was delayed as McKenzie recovered from a car crash. Now he has recovered sufficiently to attend, he was in his place at the rescheduled tribunal this week. For a low level paper gatherer, he sure has been afforded some level of importance by the SPL, and Nimmo Smith’s tribunal. Again, this odd set of circumstances has been identified by Rangers fans and put to various journalists aswell as the SPL, to a wall of silence. This is where Rangers as a club need to step in and publicly challenge the SPL’s agenda and inform them that Scottish Football is not ready to move on until this agenda is halted. Saying it in a room, or leaking information to bloggers is not enough If nothing else has become obvious in the last year it’s that Rangers are by far the biggest club in Scotland, with the biggest and most loyal support. We have the power collectively to halt this agenda and move all of Scottish Football forward together, but that cannot be done alone by a small number of internet supporters, and the only people that can bring along the vast majority of the support are Charles Green and his board. Green’s statements on Rangers TV or on the Rangers site have been great for what I would call phase one of establishing Rangers as a force to be reckoned with in terms of PR. Now there needs to be a phase 2, with more direction, and with subtle hints of legal action to Rangers detractors, being replaced by real and tangible action. If not, there is a real risk of the club being seen to be full of hollow threats and left as vulnerable as ever. In an ideal world, people like myself, Leggat, Graham, and the various contributors to Rangers fan sites and fanzines would not need to spend such considerable effort fighting these agendas. The club have the power, and always have had, so they should use it. Bill. Posted by William Poole at 12:14

This is the funniest thread on here for a wee while.

I think the club should respond to these sorts of things. These people are blatantly using public platforms to peddle their own agendas. Can you imagine the outrageous indignation that would emanate from the East End if they were on the receiving end of this constant stream of shit? I'll tell you what it wouldn't be happening. Our previous weakness in defending the club has made us an easy target for these jumped up, talentless little nobodies. The prerequisite for jobs on mainstream radio in Scotland seems to be a predeliction for sinking the boot into Rangers.

Excellent outcome.

I am pleased for Wallace as it was looking as if he had lost the chance to play for his country by choosing to stay with us. At one time Rangers fans were the backbone of the Scotland support. I am willing to give Strachan my support. Many of us have given up on supporting Scotland (myself included) for varying reasons but I am more up for taking on my enemies these days and will start afresh with the Scotland team. Why should we hand over the national team to these people? All this paranoia and bitterness doesn't do me any good and for me there are more important battles to be fought.

One of these days the poison will kill the vermin.

I used to deny things like this, then began to wonder, now I know for sure.

You would have thought he would have learned a lesson from the FTT verdict about presumption of guilt. JT should be responding to this.

Did he say "Lord Nimmo Smith will look at the evidence and decide the punishment"? Surely a major slip even for an absolute idiot.

He always re-emerges when he thinks he can bring influence to bear. I have to wonder who is pulling his strings. First Galloway and now him. Is this a new offensive?

He does say that Zappa.