Gordon Waddell - Rangers fans deserve the truth...

[ian1964 10,761]

...not ex-employees telling them pot of gold is still at the end of the rainbow - Waddell.

 

Gordon Waddell asks those calling for the Gers to invest where the money is coming from?.

 

It’s like there’s some kind of learning vacuum at Ibrox. A mysterious, lobotomising vortex.

 

Tell someone, ‘You can’t spend what you don’t have’ at the bottom of the old marble staircase, then watch in wonder as it becomes, ‘You’ve got to speculate to accumulate…’ by the time you get to the top.

 

How else do you explain it? Three times in the past week former employees have implored their old club to push the boat out. That the only road to reward is risk, the only path to denying Celtic success is cash, and lots of it.

 

As if they’re goldfish going round in a bowl. One lap from utopia to dystopia and it’s all forgotten by the time they’re back at the start.

 

Stuart McCall? “For Rangers to stop Celtic before they get nine or 10, there will have to be a huge financial input.” Kevin Thomson? “For Rangers to close that gap they need better players – and better players cost money.”

 

And the doyen himself, Walter Smith. “For Rangers to get access to Champions League money they may have to take a gamble and risk going into debt.

 

“Everybody can make all the noises they want about being sensible but it boils down to being prepared to take that gamble.”Where, exactly, do they think this huge financial input, this money, this debt, is going to come from?

 

And how, exactly, do they think they’re going to be able to service it without driving themselves straight back over the same cliff?

 

We’re less than a month from the fifth anniversary of them going into administration.

 

Much may have changed since then but it’s inconceivable anyone could be asked a question about Rangers’ future right now without the answer reflecting their immediate past.

 

Ibrox boss Mark Warburton has made it clear that prudence is the best policy at the moment but for many the old sense of entitlement seems to be rearing its ugly head again.

 

As if it’s somehow Rangers’ right to deny Celtic, that they and only they can bring balance to Scottish football.

 

This from a club who, despite everything, still haven’t managed to wash their face since they went bust. Who are still making heavy loss after heavy loss.

 

Every other club in the country, especially those who’ve been through insolvency events, has had to cut their cloth. Live within their means. Mine included. (And Falkirk are still the only one to pay their creditors 100p in the pound.)

 

Quite rightly, they no longer have credit lines with banks, a million miles from the levels of idiocy created by Gavin Masterton and David Murray three decades ago. And it shows. Scotland don’t feature even in the top 20 countries of UEFA’s latest benchmarking report when it comes to debt.

 

Nor should they, ever again. Lessons are supposed to be learned. To be fair to the vast majority of Rangers’ support, none of them are buying what’s being sold this week either.

 

There have been voices of sanity on social media saying, “Actually, no…”Because right now, they’re smart enough to realise THEY are Rangers’ bank of last resort. Dave King may have come in and made their bed but you begin to wonder if he’ll ever so much as enter the boudoir again, far less lie in it.

 

After the derby on Hogmanay, more than one of the influential little enclave of fans who sit in the wedge of seats between the directors’ box and press gantry asked why certain seats behind them were unoccupied.

 

We’ve cited it often enough on this page, but if only they’d had Hearts’ quality of leadership, their understanding of how to harness their support through their crisis, it might have been different. But they didn’t. And they aren’t.

 

Which makes it all the more ludicrous that there’s a conversation about how they’re going to stop Celtic. Perpetuating the idea that they’re somehow different, special.

Yes, they may be an institution – but they’re not a national treasure.

 

Yes, they have a storied history – but so did Polaroid. Things change, eras come and go.No one wants to see Scottish football die from a lack of competition but it’s not Rangers’ right to see themselves as its sole saviour, especially if they’re not fit for the purpose. Which they clearly aren’t right now.

 

All the way down to a recruitment policy of loans taking them through to the end of a season where they’ll finish second, regardless.What Rangers need now, what their fans deserve, is the truth – no matter how unpalatable.

 

They don’t need snake oil, don’t need pie in the sky, don’t need someone telling them it’ll be fine, that the pot of gold is still at the end of the rainbow.

 

Celtic are already sitting on a pot of Champions League dough, and could realise up to £40m in a hurry if they decided to turn their playing assets into liquidity. And whether they do or don’t, they’re still a reasonable bet with six months to work at it for getting to the groups again come August.

 

That’s not a gap that’s going to be bridged by anything other than a long-term strategy and some stellar recruitment. So their support have to be spoken to like adults, not gullible weans, given the transparency they were promised but have never had, and trusted to understand that there’s a road ahead. Trusted to accept that Celtic may well – probably will – win 10 in a row on the current watch.

 

But that fixing their own club properly is more crucial than using someone else’s as an unachievable benchmark. Then maybe they’ll have an idea of how the rest of the game feels.

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-fans-deserve-truth-no-9624724

[SteveC 150]

Waddell on Rangers, previously:

 

 

"It's like punching someone you detest in the face over and over again. Sure, you may derive satisfaction - but is it worth breaking your knuckles?"

 

There are some reasonable points in the article, perhaps even it is quite correct at its heart but in his heart there is overwhelming hatred and it spills out repeatedly throughout.

 

He should have been sacked immediately for the article I quote from above. A hate crime, no question.

Edited January 15, 2017 by SteveC

[trublusince1982 243]

Mr Waddell please stop trying to tell us how we should think.We are not you, or yours, and never intend to be. We are far smarter than you and the enemies of our club give us credit for. In fact its that poorly defined reasoning that has helped us time and again to leave you behind. We completely understand the boundaries our club finds itself working within. Unlike you we are champions, winners if you like. We will resolve not only to survive but to prosper. It might be the Falkirk way to never amount to anything other than being, but thankfully it is not our way. We do not expect you to understand or help facilitate our progress it is neither wanted nor needed. Sit back, watch, and learn how people with the mentality to never say never, get things done. To answer your question "where will the money come from?" It will come from us as has always been the way.

 

I leave you with the words of Mr Struth to help explain our thinking to those who think differently

 

"Our very success, gained you will agree by skill, will draw more people than ever to see it. That will benefit many more clubs than Rangers. Let the others come after us. We welcome the chase. It is healthy for us. We will never hide from it. Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the Gallant Pioneers."

Edited January 15, 2017 by trublusince1982

[the gunslinger 3,366]

Very simplistic stuff from a simpelton.

 

 

[ian1964 10,761]

Us going into administration had nothing to do with over spending!, I keep hearing this from the gutter press, fans and ex managers/players.....

[Uilleam 5,960]

Very simplistic stuff from a simpelton.

 

....and repeating the mick media mantra that rasellik is unbeatable and uncatchable.

 

One might almost conclude that the fhilth were too good for Scottish football.....Well, if it is written often enough, by enough monkeys with enough keyboards,

it must be true.

 

(A piece from the Rhebel/Liam stable, I note, with no surprise whatsoever. About time that particular byre was mucked oot.)

Edited January 15, 2017 by Uilleam

[RANGERRAB 3,741]

Us going into administration had nothing to do with over spending!, I keep hearing this from the gutter press, fans and ex managers/players.....

 

Craig Whyte caused a deliberate administration. No one else

[ian1964 10,761]

Craig Whyte caused a deliberate administration. No one else

 

Deliberately never quoted by the gutter press, but the ignorance of some of our fans, ex players/managers is astounding, we know why the gutter press ignore it, but our own?

[cooponthewing 1,139]

Waddell on Rangers, previously:

 

 

"It's like punching someone you detest in the face over and over again. Sure, you may derive satisfaction - but is it worth breaking your knuckles?"

 

There are some reasonably points in the article, perhaps even it is quite correct at its heart but in his heart there is overwhelming hatred and it spills out repeatedly throughout.

 

He should have been sacked immediately for the article I quote from above. A hate crime, no question.

 

Couldn't agree more. The fact no complaint was made is just another illustration of the bigotry and prejudice we have to endure from Rangers haters. All of it condoned by the SNP government. As for this article by this guy, I only read things that are posted on here, usually by Ian, so am not completely familiar with this lowlife. The print media and most employed by them detest Rangers and our supporters. He is just another example.

[aweebluesoandso 290]

Waddell, Twaddell more like, very poor journalist.