New Club Statement - spot on

[D'Artagnan 173]

For years we have watched our club and support being dehumanised - implored a succession of boards via blogs and meetings to abandon the utterly mental strategy of "dignified silence", warned repeatedy about where this would end up (often to ridicule from our own) but to no avail.

 

Listened to Sir David Murray tell our fans "If a publication offends - dont buy it" while every coward with a keyboard satisfied the appetite of the hate filled with inaccurate and poisonous articles, blogs and columns about our club and support.

 

I will never forget the story Colin Glass told at the inaugural meeting of the RST - about a mother who was reluctant to buy her son a Rangers top because she was operating under the misconception that our club were "openly racist".

 

This is the legacy the current board have inherited - we speak often of Ashley & his cohorts and the damage they have done - but the reality is the cowardice, incompetence and intransigence goes alot further back.

 

After Saturday's events our board could have issued a very run of the mill statement condemning the violence blah blah blah. That would have been the easy and safe option.

 

Instead however they seized the opportunity to draw a very clear line in the sand. They faced head on a succession of Rangers haters, challenged those whose abdication of responsibility should make them ashamed and defended every single one of us who wear the blue of our beloved Rangers.

 

I honestly think the statement carries a far more significant message than just the words contained therein

Edited May 25, 2016 by D'Artagnan