Jump to content

 

 

The Real PapaBear

 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    2,366

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by The Real PapaBear

  1. The Real PapaBear
    you can take every word to the bank. As long as the likes of Black are allowed to wear the jersey, we'll be in the sewer. He's a lazy, cowardly, bawbag and, as I've said ad nuaseam, is a cancer in our team who needs to be removed asap.
  2. The Real PapaBear
    If Ally worked the same Magic in Newcastle as he did in Glasgow it would cement his legendary status with Sunderland fans, that's for sure.
  3. The Real PapaBear
    Depends. It is possible for a company to be deliberately mismanaged but for certain shareholders to benefit from this mismanagement. What is in the best interests of the company is not always what's in the best interests of some shareholders.
  4. The Real PapaBear
    Indeed, and if I'm not much mistaken, it's a law and anyone in breach of that law makes themselves liable to criminal prosecution.
  5. The Real PapaBear
    no, no for the love of God, no
  6. The Real PapaBear
    lack.of.leadership. A dead fish stinks from the head down
  7. The Real PapaBear
    Teacher's strike of the mid 1980s, mate - that's where you want to be looking. Teachers used to take the school clubs as a matter of course, unpaid work, something you did as part of your professional obligation. Along comes Thatcher and starts treating professionals like casual labourers and everything is costed and priced to the farthing. Result? Teachers give up their unpaid extra-curricular work; The schools no longer have 3 football teams, a couple of rugby teams, hockey, badminton, table tennis, swimming - all gone in the name of efficiency and putting the unions in their places. The SFA can be blamed for not filling the void, but the void was created by Thatcher..
  8. The Real PapaBear
    there you go, mate - fixed it for you
  9. The Real PapaBear
    Ashley seems to see us as a cash cow and a particularly bovine, stupid and docile one at that so it's time to put farmer Mike on a crash diet. Boycott the stadium, boycott the merchandise and SD. let him understand that the vast support he needs to turn a buck isn't there - and that we are happy to adopt a scorched earth policy. And if that leads to admin2, so what? He already owns us and can do what he wants, so any financial benefit to him would be chronological only. We really are now at the point where we have nothing left to lose.
  10. The Real PapaBear
    Rangers as we knew and loved her has already ceased to exist - the only way to bring her back to life is to exorcise the evil spirits that currently possess her.
  11. The Real PapaBear
    And what happens when this new club does something we don't agree with? Another new club? And another? And another? If people think that the answer is supporting a new club that does things the right way, go to Tynecastle and start supporting the Hearts.
  12. The Real PapaBear
    Well, you've summed up the current situation fairly well, but your conclusion doesn't follow from the summation. I'd pick you up on two points. First, the symptoms you cite are the signs of a failing club, not a failed one. The club will only have failed when the last of us stops going. Second, Struth's words are not a rousing, rallying call; they are a credo. These are trials which, like all things, are temporary and his words are more apposite today than ever before. He may not have forseen the exact nature of the trials and tribulations, but he was smart enough to know we'd face them - and it is how we face them which will determine the future of the club. Rangers is only of interest to Ashley because of who we are and the size of our support. If the support refuses to play ball, he will have no reason to waste time on us. We can either stand fast to that credo, and face down Ashley, or we can surrender to defeatism and run around in a panic, talking about giving up and starting again with new clubs. Talk of new clubs and starting again is nonsense - if we can give up on Rangers so easily, how much more easily will we give up on whatever new club takes its place? No, if we give up on Rangers, Rangers dies. End of. And for me, personally, football would die. I could never truly care about any other club and my only interest would be in the national team - and that would be too big a loss. So for me there is only one possible option. No Surrender.
  13. The Real PapaBear
    "Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the gallant pioneers" Let's stop all this nonsense about forming new clubs, shall we? There is only Rangers. Currently she is owned, de facto if not de jure, by Ashley - even more so in light of the failure of resolution 9. If we're serious about saving Rangers, we have to find ways of fighting him, not of running away. In 1 or 5 or 10 she'll be owned by someone else - but she's still the same club.
  14. The Real PapaBear
    I have a hard time believing that his ego would be massaged by winning a piss-poor league or a cup n a country at the arse end of Europe, whose football is as unappetising as its food. The only way that your supposition would make sense would be if he was happy to be a minor Champions League / major Uefa Cup player - but for either of those, he would have to invest scores of millions of pounds just in the short term - and that I just don't see happening. Of course, I may be wrong. Let's hope so.
  15. The Real PapaBear
    http://www.splendidbritain.com/typisch-britisch-zu-weihnachten-die-pantomime/ bit' schoen. As for Ashley, it's very, very simple. He's a money maker. Its what he does; it's his raison d'etre. If he was going to stop when he made enough, he'd have stopped after his first billion. He hasn't and he won't because he can't. He's not a Rangers fan. He's interested in owning us to make money from us. He does not have our best interests at heart; he has his own best interests at heart. He is therefore not the right person to own the club. Simples.
  16. The Real PapaBear
    Ashley interested in silverware? LOL! I see panto season has reached Berlin. The only silver he's interested in is the stuff that jangles in his pockets.
  17. The Real PapaBear
    fill yer boots, mate
  18. The Real PapaBear
    This is what an Occupation must feel like. Foreigners in control of your land and your heritage, deciding the 'laws' which apply to the rightful, natural population; a population who are left helpless and subject to daily humiliation at the hands of human dregs. What we need is an Ibrox Intifada - A scorched earth policy; no attendance at games, no merchandise, bought until the ****s are gone. It may be better to die with some honour than live as a prostitute to Ashley's rag merchant empire.
  19. The Real PapaBear
    as long as Mohsni is sent off early inthe game, it might just work
  20. The Real PapaBear
    he said they were friendly and decent; he said nothing baout them being smart
  21. The Real PapaBear
    A shameful, hate-filled and twisted article as ill thought through and illogical as it is petty and vindictive. McCoist tendered his resignation on Thursday but the news leaked on Friday ahead of the game. There is no evidence it was McCoist who leaked it . The suggestion made by this writer is that McCoist leaked the news in order that he would be treated sympathetically and his players would be demotivated and play badly, these fine players who had backed their manager in the papers these weeks past (although, not on the field whereit actually matters). whit? It really does take a twisted mind to present a scenario whereby the announcement of his resignation just before a game was done by the manager to bolster his position by ensuring a poor performance from his team which would, in turn, ensure that the manager would receive the money he was going to, eh, well, receive anyway. However, so twisted are some of the Ally haters that this sort of vicious drivel is almost as commonplace among some Rangers 'fans' as it is among Timmy across the city.
  22. The Real PapaBear
    I rather suspect Ally got wind that the board have been talking to Butcher and has (knowing that if Ashley doesn't want him his time is up anyway) decided to take the initiative and can forever say he resigned rather than 'was sacked'. He has to go, but I'm gutted that it has come to this. There is now nobody in a position of influence who has any interest in the club. The club is now entirely owned and operated by people who don't give a flying fcuk about it.
  23. The Real PapaBear
    and therein lies the tragedy. For the record, I don't think McCoist is staying in the job for the money (I doubt that plays any meaningful part in his thinking) and I don't ascribe any underhand or unworthy motives to his determination to remain as manager. He really, honestly, truly does believe he is the man to get us back to where we should be and it is that utter belief in his own ability that made him the striker he was. Unfortunately, this time, his belief is misplaced. He's had two and a half seasons to come up with even the promise of some green shoots of recovery and all we have to show for it is a team full of has-beens, coulda beens and never will be's whose every outing offers the promises of yet another humiliation. It is this refusal to face reality and inability to see the limits of his own abilities and, more than that, teh knowledge that he is simply incapable of seeing them that is depressing. I'll never hate or even dislike Ally, but, in the words of Chet Baker, the thrill is gone.
  24. The Real PapaBear
    I was reminded of this for some reason:
  25. The Real PapaBear
    Frankie, your Open Letter was mentioned a couple of times on Friday Sportsound tonight and was given high praise by Mr Tom English. Make of that what you will.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.