boabie

I don't go any more but have gone plenty of times in the past.

 

The reasons for going?

- to support and encourage the team

- to get it up them when we win.

 

Perhaps my favourite day as a Gers fan may be the time we won the league at Parkhead in 1999, and they humiliated themselves both on and off the park. A fantastic day that would not have been the same if the fans were not there to help the team and share in the victory.

Rangers will sell out any allocation they receive for the Stad de Gadd and quite right too. Good luck to any bear doing that.

I've had many a great day there over the years but won't be going back to any of the away grounds belonging to the clubs who threw us out of the SPL. Never.

As for them playing us at Ibrox , I'd suspect the police will have a lot to say about where their fans sit.

I posted complaining of much the same on the match thread. As a licence payer I feel it's a disgrace how they are reporting.

We have to expect lies like this to continue. We're being too successful at the moment for the scumbags to leave us in peace. The most disappointing thing is the lack of reaction from within our club. The fans have every right to assume we'd receive some backing. After all, we're backing the board in more ways than one.

I notice Dundee reserves drew with a team from the east end.

 

Having the living room to myself and the telly being rotten I listened to the game on the radio. By all accounts once Dundee made their substitutions and brought attackers on they were very unlucky not to win - a sitter by one of their players.

It's been a long time since I heard booing like tonights. Long may it continue.

Sports Direct now out of the FTSE100.

"The discount sportswear retailer has seen its share price slump around 50 per cent since hitting a peak last summer. The Guardian notes the stock has fallen 40 per cent since December alone, when the paper published a searing expose on its working practices. "

http://www.theweek.co.uk/67811/sports-direct-discord-grows-as-ftse-100-ejection-looms

Karma !

It will be interesting to hear what the clown has to say when the big tax case result gets overturned. He waited until round 3 before asking if the SPFL should take another look at whether Rangers should lose titles, etc.

I think there will be more SNP voters than many of us would care to admit. And certainly few who will identify with the other parties also.

 

Our empirical poll for last year's general election was interesting in that sense:

 

http://www.gersnet.co.uk/index.php/news-category/current-affairs/381-how-will-you-vote-in-the-general-election

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/more-rangers-fans-vote-snp-5650445#ZoiZWDMCBE23ZpHd.97

I wasn't on here at the time Frankie and would offer the suggestion that not only is the result of that poll a surprise to me but is the exception. It is also quite probable that the SNP supporters kept quiet on Rangers forums due to the incredible amount of personal abuse some received elsewhere online.

No matter the majority achieved in the 2011 Scottish government elections, Scottish catholics are still seen as a key swing group.

 

They're politically active and account for 16% of the electorate so it's not a surprise the SNP want to keep/increase the 43% of those catholics that voted for them in 2011. Getting the Celtic vote onside by visiting slophouses such as these may or may not help in that regard but it will certainly put off many Rangers fans.

Having gone through various Rangers forums while the indy campaign was in full swing Frankie I have to say that losing any Rangers supporters wouldn't bother the SNP too much. Going by online talk there aren't many anyhow.

Still think you can catch up Stubbs, yer fanny.

Full time. He's dropped yet another 3 points.

Young Burt coming on.

For Holt .

QOS -1 Hivs - 0. Haw haw haw !

I couldn't make the match tonight and put the radio on when I got home around 8.05 pm. It was 8.25 before Radio Scotland even mentioned Rangers. At half time round-up they went through the 2 top league games and then every match in our league before getting to ours. The report stated, " Rangers -1 Raith - 0. Forrester scored" and that was it. Obviously they have stopped using agency reporters. Suits me fine and the longer certain of their reporters are banned the better as far as I'm concerned.

no legal requirement to answer due to their being no grounds for the inquisiton i.e. alighting from a train after a normal journey.

 

as i say it doesn't happen where other crowds have gathered in similar situations

 

T in the park, nightclubs etc.

 

IMO it is down to nothing more than intimidation of football fans

My understanding is that the police have the power to demand the personal details of a person if a crime has been committed and that person is a suspect or a potential witness to that crime. In all other cases they have no power to make such demands and I certainly would not be looking into any camera or speaking to them if asked.

Does it have a toilet on board ?

More to the point, can we smoke in it ?

MW has got it all wrong according to Ill Phil.

The tarred one reads it all as Warburton not being interested in youth development and trying to get the kids off the wage bill. We're still skint.

the cops make the decisions on operational matters. They will claim filming is necessary to impose this law. We had a similar situation with gun toting cops in small towns under the last Chief Constable. When cops make decisions and not politicians then you are heading for a police state, Lenin described such regimes as "Bonapartist" In "What Is To Be Done" he says such regimes are a precursor to revolution. In his day that meant top priority was given to a daily newspaper to keep workers informed. I suppose social media etc. is the modern equivalent

While agreeing with the sentiment behind your thinking there CS, that was fine and correct maybe as long as 25 years ago. Police officers at the more senior level nowadays are driven and led by politics. A family member of mine during an interview for a relatively senior position within the police was questioned on that days news in the Herald, Observer and other so called quality titles. His personal opinion on the editorials were what they were looking for. What that has to do with Buckied up neds running riot in city centres defeats me mate. At every level now policing is totally controlled by politicians from leaders of neighbourhood watch groups, through local councillors to MSP's and senior government members. Yes you are correct that police are in control of operational matters. But the politicians decide what exactly constitutes an operational matter.

Anyone up for a Gersnet group going on the Sunday 15th May tour?

Sounds a good one BD. Unforunately I'll be having a 5 night break in Marrakech.

Probably tied up to the fact that 2 tickets can be ordered by each st holder ? Just a guess that there is a glltch in the system Bear.

We deserved our win yet again. Well done our guys. The referee should be banned from ever taking charge of another match.

As I said on another post can't see Hibs getting bye play offs but Stubbs is likely to be in frame for manky mob job so he can cock up next season too.

I'll be honest and state that I couldn't care less who's in charge of the skidmarks next season. But Stubbs couldn't feck things up any more than that Scandanavian tosser has done. They seem to have brought in about a hundred players and not one of them is an improvement on what left. They are a shambles of a club and it won't take much for them to lose a title.

I seem to remember Auld deliberately breaking Davies Provan's anke with a coldly calculated stamp. Perhaps my memory is at fault as this could play no part in a 'fun persona'.

Lifted from a skidmark forum - " Older fans speak almost in embarrassment of the shocking tackle Bertie Auld perpetrated on Davie Provan (no, not that one!), which broke the Rangers full-back's leg back in the 1960s. Most fans rated Provan as a fair player, and would rather Bertie had "done" someone like Greig or McKinnon. "

I must admit I never ever heard anyone consider Ronnie McKinnon as anything else but a fair player.

Looking at the two stories and how they have been reported in the media, how can anyone say the RST are wrong to highlight this.

I think one or two haven't read the full thread and are under the impression that the RST have commented on the tweet rather than the SNP visit to the terrorist slophouse.

That Spring 2017 date is a worry in a number of ways. not least that King didn't want to have a share issue until after it. (unless my aged memory is at it)

The tax case has no bearing on our club as it stands right now. I suspect there will be no thoughts of a share issue until the criminal trial involving Whyte, etc is done and dusted.

It may not be party political but it is important that it is the Party that brought in the "Offensive Behaviour Act" that is involved.

The law enacted by the Labour party was every bit as bad mate. Both are awful in saying that.

I cannot understand why the football authorities in this country are trying to alienate the fans. The very people who keep them in a job.

With crowds dwindling all over the leagues they keep coming up with ideas to chase more of us away.

I dont get it.

The day is approaching when clubs themselves will get heavy fines or points deductions for fan misbehaviour. Imo this will come about as politicians threaten closure of grounds unless they clean up their act. Naturally those running football don't want to spend any of their own money so turned to the taxpayer. For now they can tell the politicians they at least attempted some sort of action.