Hildy
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I think the King camp will be anticipating more than a thousand and I doubt if they would want to go public on this figure even if they have reached it. Any announcement that a thousand have joined up would be very low impact and perhaps a sign that the scheme was floundering, but if they hit 5,000, it will be a respectable figure on which to build. As for the club being near 10,000, I doubt that very much. Divide by two and look south for a more likely figure.
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I think £400 is a bit on the generous side myself, but wherever the information came from, I imagine BEARGER has sourced it from somewhere credible. I look forward with interest to seeing updates on the figures for ST renewals and King sign-ups. The former is most certainly low because the board would have told us if the figure had been anywhere near respectable, but the King scheme is the great unknown. I couldn't even have a decent guess at this figure.
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I'd be surprised if it was as low as that.
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Have you idea how many have signed up to King's scheme? I can understand them taking their time until an important number is reached, but it's getting to the point where an announcement will have to be made sooner rather than later.
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Watchable isn't in the equation no matter who we sign. The manager, like his predecessor, knows no other way. Boyd and Miller are good players and I admire them both, but the bigger picture will be monochrome until a manager is brought in who can have the team playing with enterprise, ambition and adventure.
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Interesting. So we know that renewals are flat then, and until this Stock Exchange announcement comes, we can be sure of it. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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Ally may well know himself, and maybe the club does too, but there never seems to be published record of the details, which is a pity. Ally's record is very impressive, and his goal record against Celtic is impressive too. I wonder, though, did that goal at Parkhead after an Ian Ferguson piledriver get credited to McCoist or Ferguson? I think McCoist claimed it at the time.
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Indeed, however if you wanted to undermine a player like Boyd for scoring some of his goals from the spot, you would obviously have no issue with people making the same point about McCoist. It seems though that a goal tally is a goal tally, and that there are no figures in brackets to indicate how many came from the spot. It's a real pity that that there is no detail on this other than personal recollections. Does anyone know how many Ally scored from the spot, and to be fair to him, he never missed a vital penalty for us except in a League Cup final against Celtic - and he quickly banged in the rebound!
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I mentioned earlier that it was disappointing that football, historically, has not been particularly good at keeping match detail and goal tallies of strikers are a case in point. Ally McCoist scored 355 goals for Rangers. Is it recorded anywhere how many were penalty kicks? Jimmy McGrory is still the record goalscorer in Scotland, but unlike McCoist, he rarely took penalties, and of the three that he did take, two were missed. Like you, I like to know how many career goals a striker scored from open play, from free kicks and from the penalty spot, but it doesn't seem to be officially recorded anywhere.
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There's nothing wrong with it, but I'm curious about the motivation for asking it.
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Why do you ask?
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We have been poor to watch. Ally could have his pick from the English top tier though and we'd still be poor to watch. We certainly should have plenty of young talent but that's never going to happen with this management team. They prefer the tried and trusted over the young and promising. Boyd may not be a sprinter but he is lightning quick over that first important yard. He reacts quicker than most defenders in the box. It's no accident that he finds space and opportunities where others don't.
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People used to criticise him for only scoring once against Celtic. They felt that he didn't score enough against bigger teams, but they forget - he scored three times against Rangers when he was at Kilmarnock.
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It's a pity football doesn't keep statistics the way cricket does. Boyd has his limitations, and maybe a less than professional attitude contributed towards his career stalling, but he is as clinical in front of goal as they come, and I reckon his scoring to chances ratio, if we knew what it was, would be hugely impressive. He strikes the ball cleanly, accurately and firmly, and often with the minimum of backlift. When he was a youngster he was top scorer and Golden Boot winner in the prestigious Northern Ireland Milk Cup tournament - for Kilmarnock. There is a definite predatory instinct within Boyd and he has the skill level to exploit it. Much as we should have been breeding young talent, I can always find time for Kris Boyd at Rangers - and he's a member of BuyRangers too! One other thing - for one reason or another, managers often get sacked after signing Boyd. Sign him!
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McCoist is a smart guy with a big personality. His playing record at Rangers marks him out as one of the few who genuinely merits being in the club's Hall of Fame. He has lit up our television screens on Question of Sport with his humour and wit and made himself popular throughout Britain by exploiting his big personality and entertaining us with his good-natured banter. When he was being groomed for the job, I was prepared to give him every chance because he seemed to have the attributes, experience and background to succeed. I did notice one minus point though, but I glossed over it and expected to see an intelligent guy bringing intelligent football to Ibrox for our enjoyment and pleasure. The minus point? When asked direct questions as a television pundit about what a manager should do to solve certain problems, he bobbed and weaved instead of giving straight answers. He couldn't offer proper advice, but his personality kept him sweet with the football public and no-one really cared that he wasn't a cutting edge expert. This should have been a warning. He could tell us what a great strike he had seen but he was generally clueless about the analytical side. It turned out that his managerial blueprint was a carbon copy of the one Walter Smith had left behind. He had no original ideas. He cloned the God-awful negativity of Smith and made it his own. To be fair, if Smith was still around, the fans would have been on his case too. He only knew one way to play and Ally copied it to the last letter. This vile dark age football has been endured for far too long at Ibrox. Young Rangers fans think there is no other way to play. Boring, soulless, unimaginative, unadventurous and deeply negative football has cast its shadow over Ibrox and sickened those who long for some excitement in their football days out. To be fair to McCoist, he was taught by the most negative football manager Scotland has ever produced, but to his eternal discredit, he set about replicating Smith's fan-unfriendly style in the 4th and 3rd tiers of Scottish football - the dunce's corner of the European senior game. Enough! Get him out. Get him out and don't replace him with another Smith disciple. The club and support can't stand any more of a brand of football that insults the beautiful game and makes a day shopping with the wife seem like a blessed relief from Ibrox borefest-snorefests. I have had my fill of dire football. I can't take it any more. I don't look forward to the match, I don't enjoy it when I'm watching it and I'm utterly relieved when it's over. I cannot justify paying good money to see what I don't want to see. I cannot pretend that I am enjoying something that I have come to hate. I cannot make any more excuses for a playing legend who has turned out to be a managerial dullard. McCoist will always be fondly remembered - just as John Greig is - but it will be for his ability on the pitch instead of in the dugout. He is killing football down Ibrox way. He is a luxury we can no longer afford.
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Re-arranged possible title decider of the u20 under way
Hildy replied to der Berliner's topic in Rangers Chat
How many of our under 20 players were denied a chance in the first team because we were chasing this title, and how many will get a chance in the future? We either have little belief in them or we got our priorities wrong by not giving some of them an opportunity to shine in the top team. Much as these youngsters want to win, if they are knocking on the first team door and being denied because Rangers thinks that an unbeaten record in the 3rd tier is something to brag about, who can blame them if they now feel disillusioned and angry? If we won't give them a chance at this level and Dundee United are prepared to do so at a much higher level, they will know that it's time to get out. -
Indeed. I want no part of it.
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Re-arranged possible title decider of the u20 under way
Hildy replied to der Berliner's topic in Rangers Chat
From the Daily Record: CELTIC wrapped up five-in-a-row and pipped Rangers to the title with a 2-0 win over Dundee United at Tannadice on a final day of drama in the Under-20 league. A win over their derby rivals during midweek had given Celtic a lifeline in this competition and they went into the match today knowing that a victory would allow them to leapfrog the Ibrox side at the summit and claim the trophy. The game at Tannadice was nervy at times, with Celtic defending a slender lead after Jamie Lindsay’s first half opener before Paul McMullan put the result beyond all doubt with a goal on the hour mark. Torrential rain made for tricky playing conditions and the home side enjoyed the first clear cut chance of the match when Ross Gilmour sent his header from a Chris McLaughlin free kick spinning over the bar early on. Celtic soon settled and took the lead, with John Herron’s initial shot blocked before Lindsay got on the end of the loose ball and rifled home in the 16th minute. United had chances to level before the interval, with Celtic keeper Leo Fasan pulling off two good stops and, after a tentative start to the second half, McMullan cut in from the right and latched on to a pass from Liam Henderson before beating Joe McGovern with a low drive. Youngster Henderson was, alongside Herron, one of two youths in the Celtic side with first team experience while John Souttar was an unused substitute for Dundee United. The victory meant that Stevie Frail and John Kennedy’s side pipped Rangers to a fifth consecutive title by a solitary point, with United finishing fifth from bottom in a 16 team league. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-match-reports/dundee-united-0-celtic-2-3518851 -
Given that the Union of Fans is unpopular with the club, and bearing in mind that the club's own fan group - the Assembly - is part of the Union of Fans, what is the life expectation of the Assembly now that it has stopped dancing to the club's tune? With a membership scheme in the offing, which will doubtless be controlled by the club, the Assembly has become redundant. If the club still funds it, it surely won't for much longer.
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Who was the journalist at STV who gave Charles Green a hard time? Wallace should be required to do a live televised two-hour interview - in somewhere like the Louden where has has no control of events - with a clued-up journalist asking all the questions that he currently seems eager to duck. There should be no fee involved either. His current salary more than covers any remuneration that might have been expected for such an appearance. We need a proper journalist grilling him - not tame ones.
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Maybe the Louden should invite him again.
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King is on record as saying that he isn't keen the idea of fan ownership. Since then, though, he has said that he is against the effective one man band that we saw under David Murray. I hope that his current experience is leading him towards the idea of fan ownership, but I'm not banking on it. If I had my way we'd already have fan ownership and King would be free to stand for election to become club president. Rangers is enduring this near-death experience because King and thousands of other Rangers fans were quite prepared to leave the ownership of the club to chance. When they were asked - what if we get defective ownership - they didn't want to know. I really do hope a lesson has been learned.
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A waste of time and energy, sadly. Wallace has to have control. He does interviews with RTV where tough questions are conspicuous by their absence. He then does Twitter and avoids the difficult questions while answering the lame ones. He gets invited to the Louden for a question and answer session - and turns it down. Ready to listen? Aye right!
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I have never done this tour. Would anyone recommend it?
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If our club goes under it will be because the Rangers support held the door open for the wrong sort to walk in and take charge. Those against fan ownership like to grumble about Murray, Whyte, Green and the present lot, but they did precisely nothing to stop Rangers being taken over by them. We have been inviting disaster for years and now it has happened. If death is to be our destiny, it won't be because of enmity to the board now - it will be because we allowed our club to become the property of anyone who wanted it. Sadly, very few had the foresight to see that defective ownership of Rangers wasn't just bad luck, it was the inevitable consequence of fan neglect of the single most important aspect of how our club faces the present and the future - who owns it. For every fan who wanted the door slammed shut to prevent dubious owners from taking over, another twenty were holding it open in the naive belief that billionaires with Rangers in their heart were eager to come in. When people say 'what if' now, why didn't they answer the 'what if' question that has been posed by the fan ownership lobby for several years now: What if we get taken over by inappropriate owners? It doesn't need to be answered any more. We are living the answer with every day that passes. What if we go into administration? Now we know. What if we go into liquidation? Now we know. What if we are demoted to the 4th tier? Now we know. It's time to stop the rot. We either get to grips with our current problems now or face further trauma in the future until Rangers becomes broken, battered and beyond repair. Those who never answered the 'what if' question before are far, far too late when they ask it now.