Bill

Of course you're entitled to raise the question of religion but I'd like to point out that I didn't. Not everyone immediately reaches for the bible when considering our football club. Cheers.

There are several very good reasons why singing TBB at games is a desirable thing. Firstly and most importantly, it is quite simply the most powerful and inspiring chant in football, for the benefit of both the support and the team. Secondly, it really pisses off our rivals of all colours who have striven for years to deprive us of our war cry. Thirdly, it irritates the hell out of the pontificating hand wringers who for some reason have decided to set up their sanctimonious shop among us. Fourthly, it gets under the skin of ScotNats who depend more and more on the votes of their Irish republican friends. For years I've listened to a certain brand of Rangers fan evangelising against TBB, doing the work of our enemies and wallowing in homemade moralising tripe. I'm sure many will remember at the time the dreadful lies spread about this by prominent fans' "representatives", keen to trade integrity for accommodation by Murray as he tried desperately to sanitise a support he neither understood nor gave a shit about. There's more to TBB than fenian blood. It has become emblematic of a divided and fractious support who grow increasingly confused about the club's heritage.

BBC

There's been more "allegedly" and "apparently" about this "banned" song over the years than was ever reasonable. Of course it was never actually about the words but about the opportunity for offence that the other side was able to exploit. It was the same with the Famine song, which was intentionally antagonistic but in no way deserved to assumption of racism that underpinned its banning. You can either let them win without a whimper or refuse to be herded like cattle by people whose only interest is to disadvantage you at every turn. You can even turn into an advocate for the other side's contrived complaint ... but it looks really weak.

I’m tired of Rangers fans who sanctimoniously bend their knee to the campaign to destroy our club. Have some courage, sing it loud and proud.

Couldn’t agree more.

Prediction - every day there will be a new example of anti-Rangers fake news or some new exhibition of crass behaviour from the Celtic-supporting filth. Should we agonise over every occurrence and give it the gift of attention it surely doesn't deserve? Or should we accept it will happen, that there's nothing we can do to stop it and do our best to ignore it?

What we lack and have lacked for a very long time is effective leadership. Everything else flows from that. The problem with bad leadership is it tends to be self-sustaining.

There's no way I can see the usual suspects at BBC Scotland adopting a more reasonable attitude towards Rangers, whatever the "deal" that can be arranged with the BBC elsewhere. The only outcome of a reconciliation with the BBC will be a continuation of the barely veiled attacks, only with a semblance of credibility. I wish it were otherwise but I see no resolution to the ongoing assault by the media on our club.

As a technical Philistine, I'm endlessly impressed that there are people out there who know enough about these things to make this change happen so seamlessly. I think you all deserve our thanks and no small amount of envy

It's a social weakness, this current fashion of rushing to forgive, as if it somehow makes us better people to ignore the misdeeds of others. Naismith panicked and treated the club and its fans like so much shit on his shoe. So fuck him and his latter day conversion. Like other fans, I've been through a storm of shit and disappointment these last six years, too much to suddenly open arms to a deserter like Naismith.

Symon. His name was James Scotland Symon.

That's a fact ... not one.

So a player who couldn't wait to run out the door to secure his earning power is suddenly all altruistic and wanting to play for nothing? Sorry, I'm not buying one word of this.

Time to cut our losses with this player. However good he might be, the idea is surely to play football more often than not, which Rossiter simply doesn't look capable of.

Scottish journalism at it's pish-stained best.

I'd rather judge Halliday on a run of appearances now than on his performances under a dying regime for whom few looked like they wanted to play.

Shameful stuff

As an example, West Ham fans have been singing Bubbles for a long time - a “football” club fully associated with a song that isn’t in any way about football but is clearly a football song by any definition. Pretending the Sash isn’t a football song when it has been sung at football matches by generations of fans is, frankly, ridiculous.

The Sash hasn't a bigoted word in it and has been happily sung by Rangers fans for generations but, hey ho, what does it have to do with us eh? Never fails to amaze me how embarrassed some of us have been persuaded to become by a few "non-football songs". Perhaps that's what's really "wrong with us"?

Does anyone know if or how he's been performing lately?

That would definitely be a good thing.

Surely one of the few truly worthwhile initiatives associated with Rangers, everyone involved deserves the highest praise. Can I ask how may attend each event?

Money in the bank. Exactly the sort of move the club should be making more often.

I think it’s a brilliant appointment.