Northumberland Bear

It's one of two games, the Kiev game was the one were I was feared to walk up to the half dozen steps to get into the top of the Govan and then scratching my head about why the pitch looked different. The second and my personal fav was the 2-2 we came back from 2 down with 9 men. The noise for the equaliser was like a sonic boom. My work colleague in their end said he'd never heard the like. Those days will return, we've just got to remember what Mr Struth told us. "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" - W. Struth. Mr Struth would struggle with the impatience and extreme reaction we have to every result at the moment.

I recall those times, we used to have a good swally pre match, wander up the London Road and repeat on way back. They over complicate things now, only bother if you wanted it which of course not many did. 20,000 odd bears at the game, I remember one game once you got close to the ground there was chap trying to sell a ticket or two for the home end an ingenious Bear decide the best course of action was to grab the tickets from his paw and rip them in several pieces. Strathclydes finest turning a blind eye to the greetin Tim.

Spot on my friend.

I don't post often. We might as well all pack up if we are dissing him. He came to our club at a time when he could have went anywhere, he picked us up and delivered. He gave us Cooper's greatest season, believed in Durrant and Ferguson, big Tel and trophies galore. Get well soon a class act.

Stuart Munro - £15,000. Derek Fergie ran the game in our 1986 League Cup win against the Mhanky Mob. I loved clever Trevor Steven and Ray Wilkins. As a young bear big DJ held mythical status with me. The aforementioned Bobby Williamson scored 2 goals in the first Gers game I ever attended. A wet pre season reserve game in 1986 at Brockville. Any one out there with any details of that game I would love to see who else was playing.

10 years ago was when Connolly managed QoS!

I don't post but if people think that a man walking away who has the club in his blood and hoping Ally goes to should be careful what they wish for. Time will show that Mr. Green is only in it for the money, the sound bites are well received, he knows how to milk the crowd, the club will be next. A dark dark day. In Walter I for one trusted. As for Mr. Green would you buy as used car off him. He's soundbite central and many have been taken in by him. History will write it's own chapter about this spell but it won't make pleasant reading.

10 wins on the spin. As ever you cannot please all of the Bears all of the time.

Shows what Rangers mean to us, SPL Chairman holding their heads in their hands, the've created a Big Blue Monster!

2-2 9 men game v them, a work colleague in the away end said that he had never heard a noise like it when we equalised. If you watch the game the goal is greeted with a distored sound, like a sonic boom. The Kiev game was special, the best was always when we travelled to theirs in the old days, 20,000 bears. I remember the game when Wilkins ran the show when we won there for the first time in nigh on 10 years and a flag day (it may have even been the same game).

Mine was a pre-season friendly against Falkirk at Brockville in 1986, I think it was in effect a Rangers Reserves XI or the ones Souness had decided weren't in his plans, I think we won 2-0 and Bobby Williamson scored twice. In terms of first XI it was a friendly against Bayern Munich, 5th August 1986, lost 2-0 attendance 36,200, memory the majesty of Ibrox and Terry Butcher's ability to pass a ball over distance.

From a Rangers financial stand point this could be a disaster, not that we see any of the TV money but say if games are show from Ibrox the impact on the attendance could be catastrophic for us. If we lose 5,000 - 10,000 off a gate because we are on TV you are talking mega bucks in terms of our income streams. Let's hope the 15 games a season are all away.

This isn't about our chances on the field of play or about Ally as a football manager, this is about Ally as a leader of our club who has steered us through our darkest days. Those who chose to debate the merits of McCoist the manager are as ever missing the point. He is presumably having serious doubts about the direction Mr Green plans to take the club and his motives and thinks he has to act now before we fall into the abyss. In effect it is his last throw of the dice to save our club from distinctly dodgy Mr Green. A rallying of the fans and a fans buyout, application to join Div 3 is the only way forward and the only way to maintain the traditions and most importantly the dignity and principles of our club. Who better to lead us than McCoist, who understands the club better than McCoist. As Walter once said "Rangers FC. Do not enter unless you are ready to put yourself second - and that should be the one and only time second is good enough for you." Ally has more than put himself second to our club.

In the flesh, Cooper, Gazza or Laudrup. The least skillfull spring to mind as well - Jimmy Nicholl, Hugh Burns and Scott Nisbett to name but 3.

Goram Jardine Greig Butcher Gough Laudrup Souness Gascoinge Cooper McCoist Stein