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  1. Hildy
    It is succeeding in getting its message out, although whether it is get it out well enough to hit home is a matter of opinion, but can you imagine if it didn't exist and we had to rely on this new fan board to spread the word? The UoF, thankfully, is doing the work that this new fan board will never do.
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    Can you see this new fan group making statements like those the Union of Fans have made? The UoF is not above criticism, but at least they inhabit the adult world unlike this new kindergarten in-house sham which will bog itself down in peripheral issues.
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    Take your time and when you do it, start a thread on it - 'Questions for the Fan Board' or whatever. It wants to prove itself. Let it invite questions and we'll see what kind of answers are forthcoming.
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    That's excellent. Write them down, post them in here and we'll get BH and FS to demand answers to the lot of them.
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    It should take less than five minutes to ask and get an answer. I don't think anything important is going to be neglected by asking this very simple question.
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    That's something for you to look into then. Get the figures and let everyone know what they are.
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    How many votes did each candidate receive?
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    I miss games against Celtic and they miss games against us. Nothing else in Scottish football comes close, but if you speak to people who witnessed the 7-1 game back in the fifties, they were marked for life by the experience - it was a humiliation too far. When the clubs are closely matched, it is a contest like no other, but if there is a significant gap in quality between the two sides, the possibility of another rout becomes very real. I would be happy to meet them again next season, and of course we may not be ready even then, but it is probably best that we avoid them this season. Celtic fans are gutted that we haven't met in the last two seasons. They were as disappointed as we were when we were eliminated from Cup competitions.
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    I'll repeat the question: Given that Mr Wallace knows who you are, and given that you appear to have been part of a number of committees pertaining to club matters in recent times - and given that the club may not personally know the rejected candidates, does that seem fair to you? If you had missed out, and then discovered that those preferred were well known within the club, would you take it in your stride or perhaps feel that you had been disadvantaged in some way? This is not an accusation. It is a straightforward question which seeks your opinion. If you don't want to answer it, don't answer it.
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    What is his job title?
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    For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not trying to catch you out, but given that Mr Wallace knows who you are, and given that he may not personally know the rejected candidates, does that seem fair to you? If you had missed out, and then discovered that those preferred were personally known to someone as powerful within the club as Mr Wallace, would you take it in your stride or perhaps feel that you had been disadvantaged in some way? You may not be unique here either. Maybe there are others who were personally known to influential people at the club before being accepted by this committee - and I'm not thinking of anyone in particular.
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    Have you met Mr Wallace or any other influential people at Rangers?
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    I would only ever stand for an organisation that I believed in, that had worth, credibility and meaningful purpose. Not with a bargepole would I touch it. As a Rangers fan, I consider it to be about as relevant to me as Firhill.
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    So we have captains of industry, people who have chaired high level meetings, top management etc. What makes these people good candidates to represent fans? We have a political situation where there is a growing disconnect between the voters and their representatives. People who were once happy to have Eton old boys running the show now want new blood - new blood that they can identify with. Are these captains of industry likely to upset the applecart when it comes to the high salaries of club management or will they quietly go along with whatever obscene amount is being paid out? How many will openly rebel against the top table for its extraordinary mismanagement? Who would you want on a fan committee - Jim McColl or Jimmy Reid? This idea that people with top management experience are the right people to represent fans is wide of the mark by the length of Dumbarton Road,. We already have successful business people running the show and it's an ongoing shambles. The last thing Rangers needs is for a 'fan Board' to be a puppet on a string for the real board. This committee that selects and rejects candidates is a concern. How many of the candidates selected were already known, or have met, the nominating committee and/or leading club employees? Has this given them an advantage in the selection process? Have people been rejected who never had the privilege of meeting those who would judge on their suitability? Those who have missed out - start asking questions. This whole nomination and selection process should be gone over with a fine tooth comb. Things have to be right, and they have to be seen to be right.
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    I know people like to say 'bring on the Celtic', and it is definitely the outstanding fixture in Scottish football, but while I relish playing them as an equal, I'm not overly keen to meet them while we are a long way short of that. Just about everything that could go wrong for us has gone wrong in recent times, except one thing - being hammered by Celtic. We have been very fortunate to have missed them in the last two years, but a meeting now still has the potential to become a nightmare that could resonate for decades. They'll want to win and win well, and while football isn't always as predictable as we like to think, with our goalkeeper and defence, I would not look forward to playing them right now. I just hope that when the time comes, we are a lot stronger.
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    It's another sham, just like the Assembly. It is the perfect tool to split and undermine the support and distract it from more meaningful issues. Kiddy-on democracy, pretend membership and needless categories to engineer a situation which makes it ripe for manipulation. With the current dubious club ownership, this group being 'official' makes it a no-go area. I wonder how much this latest sham is costing Rangers. The Assembly cost around £35,000 per annum when it was first set up. I'd join the SNP before being part of this - and it'll be a cold day in hell before I do that.
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    The NO vote would have been required to deal with a YES result as it is, not as it might one day be. We would have lost our British citizenship and been expected to take it on the chin and deal with it, and many of us would have done so. It was the NO vote that triumphed though, and some people are struggling to even acknowledge it, and when they bring up age as an issue for a vote that has already occurred - and is set in stone - they make themselves look small and embittered. The sovereign will of the Scottish people is that the Union will continue. Nothing can or will detract from this very hard fact.
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    Ifs and buts. What is the sovereign will of the Scottish people?
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    The future will be what the future will be but you seem reluctant, unable or unwilling to see the referendum vote for what it is. It was a decisive win for the Unionist side. This is the sovereign will of the Scottish people. Are you saying that it is not?
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    Thank you for proving my point. Incidentally, Nicola Sturgeon said that Glasgow had been won decisively by the YES camp with 53.5% of the vote. Using her logic, what does that make a Scottish 55% NO vote?
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    I think I mentioned earlier how the tension we felt before the referendum was similar to the way we feel before Old Firm games, and now in the aftermath, there is another similarity. When Rangers beat Celtic decisively, and when we return home to enjoy the afterglow, before we even get there, it begins: Celtic were robbed; they should have had a penalty, a Rangers goal was offside, there was a foul committed before the second went in, a Rangers player should have been sent off - Celtic were the better team. Every Rangers victory over its old enemy is controversial, because bad losers make it so. We're seeing the same now. The result of the referendum, apparently, was a cry for change. From where I'm standing, it looked like the sovereign will of the Scottish people was for no change at all - we keep the Union - but this is being downplayed - just as it is when we gub Celtic. We're hearing talk of a recount - and that's all it will be: talk - and suggestions that the people have been hoodwinked. We're even hearing that independence might be achieved by the back door in future instead of by revisiting a referendum. In short, we are witnessing our fellow countrymen and women in full-on grievance mode. They complain bitterly that we don't get the governments we vote for in Scotland, and then when we vote decisively for the Union, they duck and dive and attempt to undermine what the electorate has told us in no uncertain terms: 55-45 28-4 The Noes have it - the Noes have it. If the sovereign will of the Scottish people is as important as Alex Salmond and the YES campaign kept saying, take heed of it. Scotland voted decisively to keep the Union.
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    As we trumpet about how the Scottish people engaged in the democratic process and enthuse about the high turnout, we should remember one thing: this referendum has split the country. It's easy to wax lyrical about it, but it was as tense as the lead-up to an Old Firm game and the result was either going to delight and overjoy or disappoint and infuriate. I know people - I'm sure we all do - who dreaded the 'wrong' outcome. The idea that people could lose their British identity overnight was highly traumatic and as we can see from vain demands for a recount, the unfulfilled dreams of those who lost have caused hurt, frustration and disillusionment. Repeating this exercise any time soon would not be a good idea - not because my side won - but because the political and social climate has been badly soured. Another referendum would only reopen wounds and needlessly unsettle the country. Scotland has been drained by it. It needs to heal and healing takes time. Democracy won in the end, but the process has maybe exacted a higher price than is immediately apparent. When we vote in elections, we are civilised enough to cope with disagreeable outcomes, but when the vote can terminate nationality, it is a very, very big deal. I wanted to see the Union side win, but whichever side triumphed, I believed that it would be better for the country, and I actually used the following figures to a friend, if the winning vote was a decisive 55-45 rather than 51-49. The percentage vote share and region carve-up - a massive 28-4 to NO - will hopefully be enough to see stability kick in, but these are uncertain times. Nothing can be taken for granted.
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    It hasn't been infiltrated at all. Scottish nationalism may be about self-determination for some, but its foundation has long been a virulent anti-Englishness. I have rarely encountered a more bitter and hateful group than Scottish nationalists, and they occasionally espouse a degree of racism that genuinely shocks - and then try to tell us how holy and moral they are. I have had enough of their loudmouth hatefulness, their intrinsic racism and their detestation of the English. As extremist parties go, the SNP is amongst the worst to be found on these islands. If you are struggling with your Rangers allegiance, think twice before you commit to this mob.
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    There is an element of the Rangers support which struggles to articulate itself in song without mentioning Bobby Sands. There is another element - it could even be the same one - which is vehemently behind the Union but in such an uncouth way that it makes it seem like a narrow place - a place not to be. Like it or not, just as the Celtic support lives with a sinister hardcore element in its ranks, so do we, but this is not unique. Within the Scottish nationalist camp there is enough anti-English bigotry to refloat the Titanic, but decent people have still been attracted to the concept and they often delude themselves that they are part of something fresh and hopeful when they are actually part of a pillar of dark-hearted intolerance. Rangers and Celtic still have to evolve and change some of their ways, but with enough good influences to the fore, it can be done. Within Scottish nationalism, though, I'm not so optimistic. Sectarianism is evil - we keep hearing - but nationalism is the ultimate in sectarianism. It is the capital of intolerance and narrow-mindedness - the polar opposite of freedom and inclusivity.
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