StuGers

https://mobile.twitter.com/OfficialBartin/status/950715051496878081 There we go, they are pretty much admitting what we suspected.

Nah, definitely is, it’s only this forum that it seems to do it! Strange! It’s certainly not life changing though.

One minor thing I’ve noticed. When hitting return, the next sentence does not automatically start with a capitalised letter. This is on an iPhone. Is there any way to fix this? i had to find something minor! Great job in making the switch seamlessly ?

Fair enough, I thought you were talking about the whole post which included the Sutton and Agathé comments. Even with the finances though, they are plucking stories out of thin air.

You wrote that they are putting a spin on problems that do exist. So I am asking, do you think a Rangers fan genuinely tried to run over Chris Sutton?

So you genuinely think there is a risk of us going into administration? With zero external debt? You genuinely think that there is some semblance of truth that a Rangers fan tried to murder Chris Sutton? You genuinely think there is some truth in the story that Agathé had to drive an armoured car to training and that the Rangers fans chanted as a whole at Ibrox, “Agathé loves curry”?

But they are making up false stories about problems that don’t exist. And these are affecting the perception of the club. Which in turn is becoming a real problem.

So what strategy do you propose as the status quo isn’t acceptable - we are constantly suffering reputational damage, as fans and as a club. Is dignified silence still the way forward? Our finances are in a bad way? We are pretty much debt free, we have guys who are openly stating they will support us and we are just shot of a noose around our neck in the Sports Direct deal, which, now gone, will open up a major source of revenue.

It is easy enough for fans to debunk but the damage has been done - reputationally we will have taken a hit even if there is zero truth in the story, so, as long as Rangers don’t take legal action, the perpetrators goal is complete.

See my post on the Rangers Fake News thread - I think we will see a ramping up of this kind of thing this year (as we have already seen).

So a new year is upon us but has anyone noticed the further ramping up of the fake news drive? We’ve already had the infamous Didier Agathé “had to move 9 times due to Rangers fans, had to drive to training in an armoured car due to Rangers fans and Rangers fans racially abused me by singing about my penchant for curry”. There has been the Chris Sutton “Rangers fan tried to run me over”, in which strangely enough there was no report of this attempted murder to the police. Now we have an further false reports of Rangers going into admin again based on the manipulation of a small-time betting company by a group placing bets to reduce the odds from astronomical to slightly less astronomical and, of course, the red tops have jumped on this story as if it is a certainty that Rangers will go back into admin. There’s even been another moonhowlers special Rangers film being premiered at no other than Celtic Park - I would have thought that filming a “documentary” which makes scandalous claims about a rival club at your own official venue would be the very definition of ‘bringing the game into desrepute’ but as always, when Rangers are the target, the rules are different. So was it a new year’s resolution to up the ante on the dirty propaganda war that is becoming more apparent each year? I’ve seen some Rangers fans laughing it off as those who are obsessed. But they don’t realise the real damage that this is going to the club’s reputation. Will clubs want to make deals with us if they have heard rumours of admin? Will players want to sign for a club where they may have their contracts ripped up? That is just the financial implications! Do players want to play for a team which has fans who use their children as human shields and racially abuse players? Of course not. However only here do we know these stories are untrue, and as it is never challenged by the club, these stories are becoming ‘alternative facts’. The club need to be aggressive in shutting down these stories. I know acknlowledging them may give the story legs but the way that social media works, these stories travel, and the way the red tops work, they are now repackaging these stories and perpetuating them (when you look at some of the “sponsorship” deals that our rival has with them, you have to wonder if there is a financial reward for spreading these lies). This year the club needs to be aggresive in its media management, and that must include taking more of these news outlets to task and making them reprint the truth or face financial punishment. As for the ingrained anti-Rangers bias in the media, when your main media outlet in Scotland, the BBC, is openly venomous against our club, then I don’t have any answer to how we shift that institutionalised hatred. That is a very deep societal problem which has unfortunately dropped away over the years.

Yes, but they managed to omit Celtic from the story as much as possible, even skewing the headlines to make it sound like he was abused by Rangers fans.

The “curry song” really is the icing on the cake in that article. What is even offensive about liking curry!? I’m also interested to hear this song about the Virgin Mary, it must be a cracker. Did he just steal the car burning story from DaMarcus Beasley who actually had his car burned? The armoured van thing is just preposterous. It would be interesting to see if Agathe actually spouted these words. Or maybe he is in financial difficulty and was paid to say this absolute tripe by the Celtic PR machine. Again, Fake News.

Where do you even start with that? So many layers of absolute lies.

Hmm, strange how this never happened to him prior to playing for Rangers.

I never even knew there was a BBC comments section. Sounds like just another outlet for non-official anti-Rangers propaganda.

An absolutely cretinous article. No surprise though.

I’ve said it before, professional sport operates on such narrow margins that unfair refereeing, by giving marginal fouls on way for example can have a massive influence on the game. Never mind massive decisions. I find it strange that you acknowledge you think we are being referreed to a different standard but don’t find it a big deal...

https://mobile.twitter.com/4thProtocol/status/946393916940599296 Quote from the Daily Record on the tackle on Jack, actually blaming him for his injury as he “overstretched”.

Do you think we are being fairly refereed?

Look at the way our club is treated and look at that pathetic response from Murty. No wonder we get treated like sh*t. Another case of absolute weakness and pathetic attempt to avoid confrontation. Have the SFA actually got something on us and that’s why we can’t speak out? It is baffling.

I would honestly sack Murty for that statement. Absolutely pathetic.

Another game, another shocking refereeing performance. I said this after the last Murderwell game; it’s getting past the point that we are simply losing points due to being referred against a different set of rules, but now the players are at risk. I’ve never seen a match with so many flying elbows unpunished, which is surprising especially considered the high profile broken nose in the same fixture, with the same referee. The “tackle” on Jack was ridiculous, and right in front of the referee. Again, we had another player with a bloodied nose, thankfully not broken on this occasion. Is it not the duty of the club to protect its employees from injury? Is this the new thing to discourage players to sign for us? “Come to Rangers and your career will be at risk because a) you’ll constantly get sent off for showing any dig or b) you’ll miss chunks of the season as other players are free to assault you and you’ll be tagged as injury prone”.

It is certainly lucky that anyone would pay that for him - he is worth nowhere near that. That is in the same region as the Luiz to PSG WTF.

Celtic - the kings of fake news.