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  1. Hildy
    Duplication. Now deleted.
  2. Hildy
    This bit here: "King's intervention would likely lead to the dilution of the current shareholders, though, which is why an alternative route is being sought." Let's be clear on this: the current regime has an option with Dave King to properly strengthen Rangers, but it doesn't want to take it. It is only concerned with self-interest and self-preservation. The wellbeing of Rangers is secondary to it. Can anyone seriously support this regime when its own interests come before the club's best interest? I am no fan of Dave King but I believe he has the money - and the willingness - to make Rangers stronger than it will ever be in a thousand years of this regime? Please refrain from comments about his children's inheritance. Of course he'd rather keep his money for his children - so would most fathers - but he is prepared, in the right circumstances, to spend it on Rangers. Sooner rather than later, this regime has to go.
  3. Hildy
    If McGregor turns out to be a quarter as good as Christian Dailly, he'll be rotten on a good day, horrendous on a mediocre day and a complete liability when he has a bad one. Being a quarter as good as Christian Dailly would provide performance levels similar to that of a short-sighted, arthritic, heavy-smoking pensioner carrying some heavy shopping(I'm sure that last bit is Blackadder-inspired). If we were lucky . . .
  4. Hildy
    It was a promotion and he can hardly be blamed for jumping at it. He would have been confident in his own ability to do a good job. One bad season at Inverness and he could have been sacked or missed the chance of self-improvement. In football, you sometimes have to take the chances as and when they present themselves because they might not come around again.
  5. Hildy
    Leaving aside the fact that some Rangers fans just don't like him any more, he was reckoned to be settling into management up at Inverness and could certainly have been a contender if Ally had walked. Now, almost overnight, he's a dud again and untouchable. Very few thought that Hibs had made a bad choice, and yet it didn't work out. Appointing a manager is not an easy task. In truth, I think most clubs happen on the handful of good ones out there by accident. It's a pity for TB. He handled the Hibs relegation with genuine dignity and spoke very well while under enormous pressure. In many ways, he is what we expect a Rangers manager to be, but unfortunately, when his teams do the talking for him, his case to be a big club manager weakens. I wish him well, though.
  6. Hildy
    Gunslinger, I just want to say - it's Laxey - not Laxley.
  7. Hildy
    Our own attendance record was created at a different Ibrox. Hampden's redesign is awful, but it is still Hampden and maybe one day it will be revamped again - only properly this time.
  8. Hildy
    Normally, this would be a reasonable perception, but in Scottish football these days, nothing can be ruled out.
  9. Hildy
    It's a nice part of the capital city, but Glasgow needs the national stadium more than ever. Edinburgh got the parliament - even the temporary one after rising panic from within the capital - and surprisingly, it also got the Royal Yacht. It already has the rugby centrepiece so Glasgow cannot afford to lose out when it comes to the football. Edinburgh seems to be pushed as Scotland's cultural city while Glasgow is probably the country's city of sport.
  10. Hildy
    Nothing surprises any more. If Scotland left Hampden behind, few would object and plenty in media circles would happily endorse Parkhead as Scotland's new base. A move away from Hampden would finish the place as a major venue and it would eventually be sold off for private development. The revamp of Hampden was dreadful. It is a halfway house between being a modern ground and an old one. It incorporates the worst of both, but as the chances of Ibrox becoming the home for the national team are as likely as Brockville being selected - and it was demolished a few years ago - Hampden must remain as our favoured option. Murrayfield should not be entertained as a venue now or in the future. It is in Edinburgh which is rapidly becoming Scotland's most important, attractive and desirable city. In the future, it will be to Scotland what London is to England. Glasgow must hold on to its position as the home of the national football team and that means Hampden should be its permanent base. Moving to Parkhead should not be an option.
  11. Hildy
    What's better? Selling 100,000 shirts and making a profit of £1,000,000 or selling 200,000 jerseys and making a profit of £500,000? The arithmetic is one thing but pushing the brand is another. We need to make money but the bottom line in the short term, important though it is, is not the whole answer. 200,000 Rangers shirts on the streets gives us a higher profile than half that number, as well as greater potential sales in the future. Right now in a typical week in Glasgow, I usually see no Rangers shirts, the occasional Celtic one and a much larger number of others, mostly from England and Spain. Ten years ago, Rangers and Celtic shirts were a common sight, but not any more. We have to look at profit, profile and potential. If we focus on profit alone, we may not be addressing the future as it really needs to be addressed.
  12. Hildy
    People are urged to unite and yet Wallace won't trust us with the figure for the number of renewals. People want facts and they get fed bull and corporate-speak. People know there's a problem, but the club would rather not dwell on it or discuss it. People have heard this man speak before and were largely unimpressed with the accuracy of what he had to say. People know that he is on a large salary with a bonus, and the bonus culture at Ibrox has serious question marks against it. People know that the football is rotten, but they seem to be in no hurry to improve things. He is asking people to unite because a plea for loyalty is all he has left to offer. We are paying a fat salary for this? I'd sooner see them pack their bags and go.
  13. Hildy
    All it takes is one dodgy owner, just one, although some would argue that Rangers have had several. Just look at the costs and damage done. It is quite conceivable that Rangers will never recover from this - and it could happen again. Back bigger and stronger? Dream on.
  14. Hildy
    We can be better, Super. We really can. All of us.
  15. Hildy
    The RST arrived in a treble-winning year while Murray was in charge and put fan representation and fan ownership on the table. The Rangers Assembly only exists because of the RST and now the club is talking about a membership scheme - and this all goes back to the RST wanting democratisation and genuine representation at Rangers. Of course the Assembly and the proposed membership scheme are effectively worthless, but the club knows that it has to con fans into thinking that they have meaningful input. If we need God to help us with the RST, who do we pray to when the next Craig Whyte or Charles Green turns up? You are holding the door open for these guys. You are allowing them to walk in and do what they want - unchallenged - and look where it has got us. Your opinion of the Rangers support is very low, and I share that cynicism up to a point, but I believe that it can change and that we can get off our knees, stop worshipping anonymous suits, and become a mature, responsible and fully democratised football club. Our deferential attitude is holding us back. When we learn to modernise this old dinosaur, because that's what Rangers is, we'll wonder why it ever took us so long to get a handle on a brighter and more enlightened way to organise the club that means so much to us.
  16. Hildy
    People say they don't want fan ownership but when they are asked what they actually do want, they don't have a plan other than to keep wishing for Santa Claus. If illustrious clubs elsewhere in the world can make fan ownership work, why can't a club in Scotland - a country that has given so much to the world - make fan ownership work here too? All of our problems are due to flawed ownership and yet we are still afraid to close the door on the next Craig Whyte and take responsibility for the club ourselves. Thankfully, a degree of fan ownership progress has already occurred thanks to the RST, so your prayers might be better spent wishing for a democratised club rather than the temporary solution that Dave King might - or might not - bring.
  17. Hildy
    My plan is that the fans should own the club - and we can make it happen. It won't be easy because we are a support that is instinctively deferential, but it is something that can be made to happen with a little ingenuity, hard work, application and self-belief. Your plan is to wish for a Rangers-minded billionaire who is smart enough to be outrageously successful and dim enough to waste his hard-earned resources on a football club whose support will probably not even be grateful for his intervention - and if it takes one year or five years or ten years or fifty years of waiting - this is your plan of first and last resort. Intellectually, this doesn't stack up at all. It is a 'do nothing' plan; a plan to wait and wait some more and keep on waiting. This is a plan that isn't a plan at all. It's a prayer.
  18. Hildy
    Democracy is a nice word - far better than dictatorship - and for all its imperfections, and there are many, it is a far greater thing to be a part of than being a near invisible part of a mass that has no worthwhile input, no self-respect, no discernible hope and no allowable redeeming qualities.
  19. Hildy
    Rangers reduced to a level where McCulloch finally became effective instead of being, as he too often was at the top level, a passenger. Rangers' plight was the best thing that ever happened to McCulloch. It extended his career and made him a hero. If he'd been as young as Naismith he'd surely have walked away - and he'd have been right to do so. Now, he's in the Hall of Fame, a place that he had no chance of being included in if we hadn't dropped three divisions.
  20. Hildy
    Fan ownership is democracy and democracy accommodates differences of opinion. We are not a monoculture and we should not pretend to be one. The idea that we should wait on some kind of Father Christmas figure appearing is absurd. We really have to escape this mentality where we wish our lives away begging for a saviour.
  21. Hildy
    It reminds me of those communist countries which liked to boast about how democratic they were, but no-one with an ounce of intelligence believed them. It is a sham.
  22. Hildy
    NARSA has a reputation for being obedient. It is populated in the main by older fans who tend to buy into the dignified silence ethos that has damaged the club so deeply over the years. I'm told that it invited Chick Young over to host a NARSA event a few years ago. Even in this modern age of instant communication, NARSA is often perceived to be out of touch. The club loves it though - and no wonder. Away from Scotland, they can have a largely untroubled jolly. It's strange. They engage with NARSA as though they were Ibrox regulars, but they keep a safe distance from those who really are Ibrox regulars.
  23. Hildy
    Leaving aside the politics for a moment, there is nothing more depressing than the idea of Lee McCulloch still being a part of this journey. He spoke about appearing for Rangers again in Europe a few weeks ago and as he appears to be the first name on Ally's teamsheet, he probably believes that he'll still be in the first team when it happens, even if it takes several years. The sooner Rangers parts company with McCulloch and McCoist, the sooner it will stand a chance of having a half-decent future. An Ally McCoist managed team captained by Lee McCulloch is as good as any political reason not to go anywhere near Ibrox.
  24. Hildy
    The usual guff. Why no figure for ST renewals?
  25. Hildy
    An exercise in silliness. The other side will reproduce parts of this well into the future and indoctrinated minds will believe it and spread it. It is a waste of space.
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