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A friend and fellow bear has just contacted me saying there is a protest being organised outside the store for 3 December. I'm not sure who is organising things though.

I know you guys had one arranged last year. Unfortunately I'd a prior engagement. Have any wheels been set in motion for this festive period yet ?

Hopefully I will get home to do it one day. I got a guided tour of Ibrox once but I think that is 50+ years ago. I had to climb the ladder to the press box above the main stand. what a climb that was for a young boy. You did get a cracking view of the pitch though.

The only time I was ever in the club deck I felt exactly the same way as I did in the old press box - I thought I was going to fall out !

Our school took us on a visit to Ibrox after we won our league. I remember a full lap around the Ibrox pitch on the ash surface being exhausting. That would've been around 1966.

Don't be kidded... There are a significant number of Bears who still long for the "Ashley Days"...

Every one of whom will never have seen the inside of Ibrox.

Sorry guys but I simply refuse to believe that there is a single Rangers supporter, and I mean a RANGERS supporter as opposed to someone using "bear" or similar as a username on a forum, who does not know the damage that has and is being done to our club by Ashley and his ilk.

In my experience The internet is full of blowhards who sit in front of keyboards with their thumb up their erse and their brain in neutral.

Fair enough, some get caught on the wave when multi-millionaire was dangled in front of them, but today ???

Disgraceful from all concerned.

 

And yet we have bears still wanting to defend Ashley and the Easdales.

I'd doubt any of them are bears Frankie. Most of them I've listened to over the past couple of years are on the forums when matches are taking place. Manks at the wind up or clowns would be my guess.

I remember the students magazine it was all jokes and funny stories if I remember right. Can't remember the name though.

Electric Soup was one.

I remember a game at Ibrox when the students collected coins for their rag week - quite a few got split heads. The tune over the tannoy was The Mighty Quinn.

Every time I hear it I'm taken back to that day.

I was at a match when Lex McLean singing Every Other Saturday was first played. We bought the record on the way home that evening.

We get this every 20 years or so.

It always failed in the past.

This one will too.

A national institution ran by amateurs, just as it always has been.

Even before all seated stadia there were always folk who left early. Back in the 60's far fewer cars were owned and public transport was the norm. Of course it could be argued that buses and trains ran better back then. Home european matches often saw me waiting outside Baxters pub for over an hour for a 68 bus to get home.

miller's finished

 

and was finished long before he was offered another deal in the summer.

But if he's not playing, who are we going to put in charge of waving their arms around or wearing a wee boy about to burst into tears face ?

We will not hammer anyone until we learn to be more aggressive in the final third and not take the easy option to play the ball back.

The 5 or 10 percent extra will see us over the line. Only a fool would say that we deserved to do anything other than win today.

Well that was difficult. Had it not been for the hip flask filled with Asbach my wife brought me back from Berlin yesterday I don't think I'd have stayed to the end due to the cold.

We're not as bad as some are saying. Soon it's all going to click and our opposition will receive a mighty hammering. I see it as multiple players being 5 or 10 percent from being able right now to complete the basics they are attempting.

Heads up guys. We won. We've played better and failed to do that at times.

I received an email this morning. I'm afraid it's a tad too expensive for me to spend on a night out.

Boyd,Souness,Smith etc,all want him to stay.

Do we just accept that they know better.Do we ignore the evidence of our own eyes?

Souness left us when we needed him. Walter, being fair, answered the call. Boyd imo is a no mark without a brain to reason.

Former Rangers men know no more than me who buys a ticket to watch, These guys don't fork out a penny to watch the shambles that is the current Scotland set up.

Unfortunately it is not Stadium supporters that fund the game at the top these days it is TV fans, TV companies and also Sponsors. The EPL got 5 billion for the TV rights. It would take them years to get that through the gates

Agreed with that applying in England pete. The game in Scotland is not so complicated though. We don't have anywhere near that money coming into our game. In fact, there is so little cash that for a pittance our governors will accept 1215 Sunday, Friday and Monday night matches. In my opinion the game up here would die on its erse if it wasn't for fans going through the gates.

He's been given a one match ban.

Sidenote: has the chap who designed these pink away kits been relieved of his duties by now? And the one who forced the Scots to wear it against England too? Away game or not, there was no requirement to use the 2nd strip that really pains the eye.

 

BTW, my local ice-hockey team does wear similar coloured shirts once or twice a year, when they collect money for some breast-cancer foundation in Germany. I somehow doubt that this was the reason for the Scotland shirt though ...

 

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I'm sure I heard the commentator say that Scotland had to wear the pink strip because the white on their other shirt would clash with Englands.

Think the pink is the Rosebury colours the same as worn by South African jockey John Gorton back in 1969 when partnering sleeping partner to winning the Oaks I had a ten pound bet on it at 100/6 if I remember well .

Primrose and pink were Lord Roseberrys colours. Edit - From my memory, there was a jersey with those colours in a display case at Ibrox.

On a sidenote, I played a schools final at Roseberry Park in Glasgows Oatlands many many moons ago.

I am not sure that UEFA have actually investigated it. I think they are saying any complaint has to come from the club. Celtic have said they won't pursue it. The SFA say everything was above water.

They are twisting the facts to allege that the SFA, in trying to keep Rangers in business, ignored a tax bill due by Rangers. They gave Rangers a clean bill of health and responsibility then passed to UEFA.

The company owning Rangers went bust.

They now allege that using the same twisted facts, UEFA, the media, Watchdog, Jeremy Kyle, the tooth fairy, or anybody else with an axe to grind should investigate the SFA.

For a few days they took comfort in a reply from UEFA making reference to Rangers as a "new club/company" and pointing out there was no point in an enquiry as the maximum ban Rangers could receive was that which they did receive for insolvency, to prove our history should be stripped. But that didn't sell any of their t shirts, so we're back to square one.

Various other scraps are thrown in such as the 5 way agreement, freemasons, Campbell Ogilvie, the Kennedy shooting, the fake moon landings, etc, etc.

What everybody has to understand here is that these rockets are receiving THOUSANDS of pounds in donations from deluded mugs willing to believe any garbage whatsoever derogatory about Rangers.

I await them turning on their own when it finally sinks in that they've been ripped off once again by one of their fellow sellik men.

Summing up - it is a scam to make money. One of those who made the most has shut down his own website and is now posing as a voice of authority on Kerryfail Street where the mongos are lapping it up.

Yip. I wonder if the SFA will get involved with the fact they are openly showing films encouraging fans to think they were cheated by Scottish Football in some grand conspiracy? I'm guessing not.

There is not a hope in hell that the SFA or anybody else will touch this one.

Do you know, you're right about him being ahead of his time. He was in the Beckenbauer school of sweeper, he just seemed to have all the time in the world.

I always thought the Rangers support were spoiled for many years with Baxter and the like. Things changed when the manks were taking the league. Many of our fans weren't content with a player taking time to look at his options - they'd rather have one who threw himself into any 50/50 tackle disregarding the consequences.

Dave, and as mentioned earlier, Andy Penman suffered as a result.

Well they are persistent certainly

They still have some t shirts to sell mate.

He was a Scots player ahead of his time. A midfielder who played with his head rather than just clattering into opponents . Very skilled as well. One of my favourites but was in no way universally accepted amongst our support. Older family members who I went to games with were not impressed. They did the same with Andy Penman too.

" The referees’ strike: Regan was less than a year on the job and presided over a major crisis when the whistlers downed tools after accusing the SFA of failing to back them following criticism. "

Criticism and allegations of conspiracy - all from one club. But no mention of which one. I wonder why.

" The handling of the Rangers meltdown: Regan’s predicting social unrest if Gers were not allowed back in the SPL offended just about everyone in the country, while claiming the game would endure a slow lingering death was a Gerald Ratner job. Chuck in the cloak and dagger five-way aggreement and he had a top-table place in another shambles. "

Rangers were NOT allowed back in the SPL. As for the 5 way agreement, I don't think Rangers won any watches out of that shambles. It cost us prizemoney. Nobody else.

Yes, this buffoon should be removed. But get the reason why straight please.

There are still a couple of fuds pushing this line on the mank forums despite it being pointed out to them many times that there was absolutely no breach and that the SFA and UEFA followed all the rules to the letter. Of course, they don't want to publish where they went wrong as there is still money to be hoovered up from deuded and obsessed fannies amongst their support.

There is still no update on where their last trache of money disappeared to after the Grauniad refused to print their shyte.

He looks as though he has an airhose up his erse.

In real life too.