Hildy
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If someone is a Rangers blogger, it helps if they have some insight into what is going on inside the club. People will read their material if they think they are likely to learn something. If a blogger enjoys a relationship with a club insider, and then suddenly it ends, he may have nothing much more to offer in his blog other than his own opinions, and if they are no more insightful than anyone else's, his blog will not be worth reading. So we are left to speculate . . .
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There are certain fans, and I have no idea if our friend from Berlin is one, who will believe almost everything the club says and excuse almost anything the club does. This is done in the name of loyalty. It is well-intentioned, but dangerous. Fans should be critics too, and if they believe that there are weaknesses within the club and areas where improvements should be made, they should say so. If we want to get better, settling for club-excused mediocrity is not the way to proceed. Rangers is in crisis, and has been for a few years now, but you'd be forgiven sometimes for thinking that a return to normal service is inevitable. It's not, and the sooner we realise that the sooner we'll do something about it.
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On the face of it, a Rangers radio station seems like a good idea, but how comfortable would it be airing fan complaints and grievances about almost every aspect of the club? How relaxed would it be broadcasting the growing view that McCoist can't cut it and never will? Our own radio station is fine, but there is a danger that it could turn into a Rangers version of Radio Clyde. A station which never tolerates a dissenting view would be no better than the one-eyed garbage currently served up by both Clyde and BBC Scotland.
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Much as I hate to see regular fans being squeezed out by once in a lifetime visitors, I can understand why this happens. When will Dundee United ever win the league again? They managed it once but it may never happen again. Overcoming both Rangers and Celtic over the course of a season is a tall order for provincial clubs, so realistically, the Cups are their only real shots at glory - and look at Hibs - the last time they won the Scottish Cup, the Titanic wasn't even an idea on the drawing board. For Dundee United and the rest, the Scottish Cup is their Manchester. Demand often outstrips their average attendance by a long way, but I think we have to accommodate them. To us, another domestic trophy is never very far away, but for them, it could be a lifetime coming. That's why they turn up in huge numbers when they get close to it.
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Pay at the gate this week for a game that is being billed as a title decider. That tells its own story.
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I'm not sure there would be as many media offers as might be imagined, although he'd probably secure a gig without too much difficulty. I agree that he would be unlikely to find another job as a football manager.
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Without the RST, there wouldn't have been any fan groups with a holding in Rangers. The RST put fan ownership into play when the club was winning a treble. People viewed the idea as bizarre and unrealistic to begin with. Now, they view it as desirable and worthwhile. Dave King has rubbished the idea of the club being owned by fans in the past, but now he accepts that the one person ownership model is over. In other words, he is in tune with the feelings of more and more fans. The concept, begun by the RST, has not gone unnoticed by King. To that extent, the RST has influenced his thinking - just as it has influenced, directly or indirectly, the thinking of every Rangers fan who now believes in fan ownership. The RST is the mother and father of fan ownership at Rangers, but it is undeniably, regrettably, and perhaps inevitably, a very long pregnancy. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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Look a wee bit further. The RST started the move towards fan ownership. This new group owes its existence to a concept that the RST started in the Rangers family. Fan ownership only gained credibility as a way forward because the RST put it on the agenda. That seems like success to me. Even Dave King has moved away from the one person ownership model. In some respects, the RST has been extremely successful.
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The RST isn't going to quit, just like Rangers isn't going to chuck it despite being a near pariah in our society. A bit of mud gets thrown from time to time but it doesn't change the fundamentals or divert attention from the main goal. Suggestions that it should start again belong in the same category that suggest that Rangers should start again. Board members will come and go, but the vehicle won't be abandoned or quit.
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Exactly the same thing. The RST, like Rangers, will do what it has to do to realise its ambitions. It isn't for quitters.
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Rangers has had a few difficulties in recent times and the club enjoys a reputation that is not what it should be. Time to start again?
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It hasn't been as successful as I'd have hoped, but with Trust board members splintering off to involve themselves in another scheme, the eye has not been on the ball as it should have been. Hopefully, this will be put right now that everyone is pulling in the same direction.
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So the BR monthly scheme has only been going for a few months rather than two years? Most seem to like the one-off payment but it's good that the monthly option has been introduced. Everyone is catered for.
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Re BuyRangers: It's good that you can pay monthly for a year and then just stop when the community share is paid for. It doesn't go on indefinitely unless you want more than one share. You can walk away, community share in hand, with nothing more to pay. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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BuyRangers had somewhere around 2,000 for the IPO and folk have been joining up ever since. I don't have an up to date figure. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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We claim to be the biggest club in the land, and yet we play a style of football that is about as endearing as a wet weekend in Saltcoats. There is an onus on the country's biggest club, not just to win, but to play in a manner that attracts people back to Ibrox for more of the same. If the top club plays the game in an uncultured fashion, the sport itself is undersold and undermined. The spectacle of watching Rangers is so depressing that the diminishing number of fans present are fiddling with mobile phones, chatting to neighbours and counting down the minutes until they are released from the burden of being there. Anything is a release from watching the unsophisticated tedium on show. There is nothing to be gained from pretending that the matchday experience is anything other than an exercise in loyalty to a club that has lost its way, and to watch a team that hasn't a clue. Retaining flawed management is perpetuating the agony. In this new world, there are more refined football delights available to people than watching the abysmal efforts of Rangers' overpaid staff and players. The club is never going to flourish if all it can offer is a chronic and backward product that people watch more out of allegiance than appreciation. The football culture at Ibrox is sick. It has been ailing for years and the club has failed dismally to find a cure. No longer can Rangers continue to play unimaginatively. No longer can it deliver monotony and expect packed houses. No longer can it retain management that isn't up to the task of giving thousands of football fans a decent day out. Rangers must learn to be creative, imaginative, bold and adventurous. A brand new template is required. The old ways have no further use at Ibrox. It's time to turn the page and let a new chapter begin - and we can't afford to wait years for this new era to be upon us.
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Is anyone going to put the case for keeping McCoist on? If there is a case for leaving him in place for the next few years, what is it?
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Lennon has managed to get Celtic through a couple of CL qualification phases and into the big money stages. That won him more approval than coasting the league. There are Celtic fans who want a change, though. They want someone who is more of an ambassador for the club as well as being a better manager. He is, however, unsackable. When he eventually leaves it will be portrayed as him being driven out by sectarian bigots, but a fair few Celtic fans, more than is generally imagined, will not be sorry to see him depart.
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The unprecedented circumstances of Ally's period in management have made it easier for him - not harder. He has been blessed with managing a club that has no serious rivals for at least three seasons. There is no Celtic to upset the applecart, no credible foe to deny us and no threat to our dominance. Other managers would have leapt at this opportunity. Three easy years to build a team in an unthreatening environment: bliss. Off the park hassle is just that - off the park. On the park we pay big wages and can attract players that the competition can only dream of. We do have problems away from the field of play, but they are not to blame for playing a brand of football that makes the sport look like it was invented by cavemen - with some of them still playing for us.
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I don't want a fan favourite in. People are too forgiving of their shortcomings, and anyway, I'd like to see a clean break from the negative and unimaginative way we play the sport. Another Smith disciple would not be a good idea. I want new blood and a new blueprint.
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Unfortunately, we can't trust them to bring in an adequate replacement, and if they end up being replaced too, their preferred candidate may not be popular with a new incoming board.
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Fan pressure could sway things, but we shouldn't need to wait until it happens. Rangers needs a complete change of football ethos and brand new management. Unfortunately, I think a King-run club is likely to keep McCoist in the job - and a McColl / Murray ticket would likely have retained him too. The present board probably fears sacking a Rangers hero and their own unpopularity makes them unlikely to do so. It's a right royal mess.
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I share your cynicism of our manager's capabilities. I just can't see our board - or even a new board - being bold enough to change things.
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Albion Rovers have enjoyed incredible coverage on the BBC today. With Rangers not contributing to the programme, it was nearly all about Rovers. Their manager and chairman have been interviewed and both have been impressive. Their manager has even stated that his team will win the replay. It's been a good day for Coatbridge and another borefest for Rangers fans. McCoist is reported to be relieved, and of course he should be - of his job.