buster. 5,183 Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Wonder if Coventry City had to put up with this rubbish over the last few years? Scottish Football really is so childish and petty at times. Scottish football is a very particular and strange place where all kinds of weird and 'wonderful' things occur, ............over and over again. It is also very predictable. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Artagnan 173 Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 It really isn't. We don't do boycotting very well, but even if we did, is it really a good idea for Rangers fans to stop following the team around Scotland? If we were successful in boycotting away grounds, and let's face it, we'd find a reason to boycott everyone, supporters' clubs would fold and the team would have no support at away games. Is this what we want? The answer is for Rangers to chase down every club which perpetuates the 'new club' lie by using official channels to get them disciplined. Forget boycotts. This has to be met head on. Why dont we do both ? - ie pursue through official channels & a boycott. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 5,183 Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Why dont we do both ? - ie pursue through official channels & a boycott. We know what happened to the Charles Green supported Tannadice boycott. Green welcomed the diversion and a chance to bump his gums whilst he carried out a 21stC corporate 'robbery' in the background and the support in fair number attended the game anyway. By the time the next Livingston away game comes round (31st January 2015) god knows what will have gone on in the more important business of our ongoing soap opera. I'd say priorities ly somewhat closer to home at present, plenty of time in 2015 if there is a will to boycott. It's the club who can act now, if they so wish. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrahimHemdani 1 Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 I have been asked to raise this at the RFB meeting tonight and will do so. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hildy 0 Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 (edited) I don't see any valid reason to just forget the concept of boycotts when we've got ten to fifteen thousand fans boycotting our own club. I'm certainly not suggesting that our fans stop following the team around Scotland, that's just completely exaggerating the discussion to a silly level. This Livingston issue is quite mild & petty, but it's quite rightly being dealt with as a matter of principal and I'm fine with it staying just as an official complaint in this case. What I'm really talking about with boycotts is a small handful of clubs who've tried to stick the knife into Rangers in recent years. It's not for me or anyone here to suggest boycotting certain away games, but put it this way: I'd be quite pleased if we did boycott the likes of Tannadice, Stark's Park and East End Park to name three in particular. There have been suggested boycotts of Radio Clyde, BBC Radio Scotland, the Herald, the Record and goodness knows how many media outlets, and this is in addition to proposed boycotts of Tannadice, East End Park, Tynecastle, Easter Road and Parkhead, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Some fans are so consumed with anti-Rangers hatred, they'd happily do without the blue pound, and if their clubs caved in and brought Rangers down too, they'd view it as a price worth paying. We have to deal with this problem, and that means facing it and tackling it in such a way that any repetition will be costly and damaging for clubs and career-threatening for individuals. This is doing great harm to Rangers. These lies have to be challenged. Thinking that some kind of airy-fairy boycott will stop this is misguided. It won't. It will keep on happening until Rangers puts the perpetrators firmly in their place. In the States, this would be a substantial lawsuit. If it was Celtic, the matter would not end until it had been settled in their favour. Rangers cannot back down here. Edited October 6, 2014 by Hildy 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinstein 294 Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 There's no way that was a mistake and it doesn't matter if it was only intended as a wind-up either because it was extremely irresponsible. The best way to deal with Clubs who've shown us this sort of contempt and disrespect (and far worse in some cases), would be to actively boycott away games to their grounds and stadiums. They wouldn't be laughing and sniggering up their sleeves if the blue pound stopped filling their tills. That's why Livingstone are apologising the answer is simple............next time don't go 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,653 Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 That's why Livingstone are apologising the answer is simple............next time don't go until these people come out and say what was written in their match day comic is factually incorrect then there has been no apology as far as I'm concerned. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real PapaBear 0 Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 That's why Livingstone are apologising the answer is simple............next time don't go The problem is that Livingston aren't apologising. They are "sorry if anyone was offended by what was written" - but they haven't denied, condemned or dissociated themselves from what was written. A simple statement to the effect that "Livingston FC apologises unreservedly for the article in our matchday programme which sought to denigrate Rangers FC with the erroneous claim that Rangers is a new club. This claim by the writer does not in any way reflect the opinion or position of Livingston FC and the writer has been relieved of all duties concerning Livingston FC and its matchday programme" would constitute an apology. Hildy is right; we have to tackle this and tackle it now. We should have done it when it happened before, but we let it go. Until these people are faced with legal action and/or forced into a public and humiliating apology then every little piss-ant outfit, like Livingston, will feel they can take a free swing at us. The detriment to our name and brand should be enough to instigate legal action or at least the threat thereof. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrahimHemdani 1 Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 The matter is being pursued by Rangers Football Club through the appropriate channels. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 5,183 Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 The matter is being pursued by Rangers Football Club through the appropriate channels. A little more detail would be appreciated. Is it via the SPFL as reported in the media ? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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