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  1. Super Cooper
    Honesty is always the best policy, always. Even when we don't like it.
  2. Super Cooper
    The board won't think twice about offloading anyone if the price is even half right.
  3. Super Cooper
    We are a laughing stock, we know this, we have no voice, no one willing to stand up for us or defend us. The joke is very much on us. What a sad state.
  4. Super Cooper
    Oh we did see that, when he was at Hearts but he has regressed horribly under McCoistco. He look an awfully average footballer right now and it looks like £1.5m wasted.
  5. Super Cooper
    It is. Falkirk fan Gordon Waddell.
  6. Super Cooper
    Aluko. I wasn't impressed by Boca and I don't rate Wallace mate. The rest have been a mixture of rubbish and useless.
  7. Super Cooper
    Footballing costs are well over 50% of turnover. Probably nearer 70% of this years turnover which could be our lowest in 25 years. Unsustainable and unacceptable.
  8. Super Cooper
    http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/gordon-waddell-rangers-players-shrug-4678381 ALL for one – and every man for himself. Clearly Ian Black’s motto for Rangers’ new era. If ever you needed confirmation of the mink-lined vacuum some players live in, the Rangers midfielder was happy to provide it last week. “The only time it affects you,” he said, talking about his club’s off-field circus, “is when it gets to the stage when you’re not getting paid. “That’s the only time it will affect the players. Until then we don’t really pay attention to it.” Ten staff made redundant, 10 lives ruined six weeks before Christmas, 10 families thrown into upheaval. But as long as there’s unleaded for the Bentley and foie gras for the dinner table in the Black household, eh? Talk about being detached from reality. A month of Black’s wages would have kept a couple of those staff – his fellow employees – in jobs for a year. It never works that way, I get that. It’s never that simple. Like when Gers plunged into admin what seems like a lifetime ago and the players took pay cuts on the guarantee that no staff would be emptied. It was flawed logic at the heart of an even more flawed administration – but at least it showed the dressing room had some kind of conscience at the time, a little integrity. A base layer of decency. Clearly not the case these days. And perhaps wholly indicative that the complete Ashleyfication of the club is moving ever closer. The ‘he said, she said’ debacle between the Easdales, David Somers, Dave King, George Letham, Brian Kennedy and the entire ensemble cast has become a daily weeping sore, a little more pus seeping out every few hours on the wires. The court actions against those at the centre of the club’s shambolic descent. The giant cartoon sticking plasters that are Mike Ashley’s temporary loans, covering over one burst financial pipe only for another one to spring a leak right next to it. Fred Quimby would’ve had a field day with this kind of material. And those job losses. Always the staff, usually always the good guys who plod away in the background trying to keep the place ticking over while the bombs drop around them. You end up asking yourself who’s going to be left to switch the lights on and off, make the place function on a day to day basis, so many of them have been given deals. Then again, is that all part of the plan? If there is a plan? A few weeks ago, this column indulged in a little bit of devil’s advocation, asking whether a profit-oriented pragmatist such as Ashley wasn’t exactly what Rangers needed to get them running on an even keel, rather than the regimes who openly admitted to blowing £67m in 18 months. What price will they pay for it, though? Are Rangers just going to become a footballing branch of Sports Direct, a strip-lit, soulless outlet, centrally administered by faceless call-centre minions? What will become of the Rangers Charity Foundation? What about all the work in the community they do? The Rangers Study Support Centre? Are all these things still going to be funded, or will they be stripped away? Are they about to become a bare-bones operation without a care for what or who they represent? Will they have any values, or is it simply about value? From everything you hear about Ashley, he won’t give a toss about the periphery and the frippery. But they are questions that need answers because these are all things that make a club. They’re constituent parts of something that’s bigger than 11 players, four stands and two goals. Look at Celtic’s agm the other day. Look at how much is made of the culture of the club, its history, when it comes to things like the living wage and their staff being looked after. Look at an organisation like Big Hearts and the amount they do in the community, how much retaining its reach meant to them when they emerged from admin. Then look at Rangers and wonder what they’re going to look like when this is all done. If it’s ever all done. Wonder at what point an Ian Black WILL care about what’s going on outside his cocoon and whether there will be anything left of them to care about anyway. ************* Ian Black, your time is also up. Never have i disliked any Rangers player so much. The very definition of imposter. All this after the betting scandal and him asking fans "what the fuck do you expect" ? embarrassment.
  9. Super Cooper
    Kenney Jackett or Mick McCarthy? Those are the 4 names(Inc. KR and EH) who i fancy for the job. I think a hungry ambitious manager could run a mock up here with everything we have to offer.
  10. Super Cooper
    Deary me. If we can't win the league we don't deserve to go up, league rules or not. There will certainly be no celebration from me. I will be ashamed.
  11. Super Cooper
    He is worse, considering he is supposed to be one of the good guys, one of us.
  12. Super Cooper
    Statistically Gerrard is finished. All his opta stats are down from last season and today again he had another shocker. He is done.
  13. Super Cooper
    Delighted for Rodgers. Neil Lennons best pal and dirty bhegger.
  14. Super Cooper
    Eddie Howe or Karl Robinson.
  15. Super Cooper
    Is not that bad. The hardest league in the world with the most amount of the worlds big clubs in one league. The style is effective, whatever it is, it works. Pardew is a good manager imo. I like him.
  16. Super Cooper
    We all do daft things. Mourinho doesn't shake hands at times and SAF hits players with boots. It happens. Doesn't affect their ability to do a good job though.
  17. Super Cooper
    They have a good manager.
  18. Super Cooper
    Incredibly over rated. He also took a few pastings from Lennon who is almost as inept as AM.
  19. Super Cooper
    His budget is more than enough to comfortably be the second best team in Scotland. He should be asking the club to get rid of passengers like Hutton, Zaliukas, Peralta, Shiels etc etc guys who offer us nothing and using their wages saved to improve the team, not crying about adding even more rubbish onto what we already have. McCoist probably shouldn't be given one more pence to spend. His transfer record is deplorable. One successful signing out of over 30 and he isn't even at the club any more.
  20. Super Cooper
    Neilson has Jack and Leveins ear though. He isn't doing it all himself. Even Alexander is helping with the coaching. Hearts have an excellent set up up top to bottom and a very strong ambitious coaching team.
  21. Super Cooper
    Confident and ambitious. Almost arrogant. I agree.
  22. Super Cooper
    We missed that boat, he wanted it and we knocked him back.
  23. Super Cooper
    That is outstanding. Boy that club are hungry, hungry to win, hungry to develop. hungry to make the most of their chance in this sport. The joke is most certainly on us.
  24. Super Cooper
    Does he? Who pays the players then and pays to keep the lights on at Ibrox and Auchenhowie? And pays all our administrative and coaching staff?
  25. Super Cooper
    If we do go back 25 years like he said he will know that Rangers were the biggest business and football club in the UK! Lol. When he uses that word diaspora you know he's about to talk shite.
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