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legalbeagle

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  1. I think it is still far too early to just write this season off, it is disappointing that we haven't hit the ground running, too many new players and some look like odd signings, but we really need to get behind the manager and team.

    There are still positives in our team, and we can get ourselves into the right sort of form, this is where character is truly tested. The next month is pretty critical.

  2. Genuinely hoped when he came in that his hot headedness was a thing of the past. Regardless of the story here, he is the one who has been sent home, so, clearly is viewed to be in the wrong. Really disappointing, sadly not surprising.

  3. 5 hours ago, 7troop said:

    I know this will attract criticism and probably even ridicule but reluctantly I feel compelled to voice my feelings.

    I seen only the first half of Saturday's game on my iPad due to various technical issues my provider was experiencing. As a result I wasn't even aware of the extent of the sickening sectarian displays put on by the IRAceltic scum.

    I had stayed away from all television coverage and media content deliberately until last night when I decided to check out some of the regular sports media I use. To my astonishment I seen the pictures dipicting the hanging of Rangers fans and Orangemen alongside the plethora of other hate and war inciting banners etc.

    What really set me off though was the lack of reporting and condemnation of it by the vast array of sources who consistently go out of their way to attack and demonise Rangers fans for the slightest of misdemeanour.

    Its been a long time since I've felt anger and rage like it. My wife was witness to emotions in me she has rarely if ever seen, I was physically shaking with rage. Those pictures of the hanging and the subsequent lack of condemnation have evoked feelings within me that I don't want or need resurfacing in my life.

    Time after time after time we ( Rangers fans, Protestants, Unionists, British ) whatever title we fit are demonised, attacked and treated as sub human criminals by IRAceltic, their republican juggernaut and their complicit media and politicians. Every aspect of our existence, culture, beliefs and heritage is constantly under attack. Yet we have a clubs fans IRAceltic ( unlike no other ) whose continuous and ever increasing despicable acts of pure and deliberate sectarian hatred and incitements of violence which go unchallenged, unpunished and even condoned?

    I grew up in East Belfast through the troubles and have experienced the carnage and social destruction that sectarianism and bigotry does so I'm far from an over sensitive soul. Norn Iron has largely albeit not entirely moved on from that now but things are majorly transformed.

    Scotland however is poison beyond belief. I find the levels of allowance and the collaboration of so many haters right across the country towards us astonishing and the lack of people challenging this deplorable imbalance hard to comprehend. After this latest in what is such a long line of incidents perpetrated against our club and our people I simply cannot accept it unchallenged anymore. I'm sick of it, I'm tired of it, I'm done with it.

    Its supposed to be about football which is the reason I support Rangers but everything that surrounds the club from our enemies is about anything but football. Glasgow and Belfast may share some obvious cultural similarities but I can assure you that the Unionist communities in Belfast and across Northern Ireland would never accept the disgraceful state of affairs you accept and live in in Glasgow.

    How to hell have you all allowed things to get to the point of being treated as sub human, klan like social degenerates without any retribution? I'm not particularly knowledgable in Scottish politics and dynamics but surely there is some sort of structure or organisation out there to represent the Unionist / Loyalist / Protestant / British people of Scotland? Rangers football club won't die but I assure you that clubs future is in jeopardy because the fans of the club will die off and won't be replaced in adequate numbers by future generations. How will any young football fan out with Glasgow ever be attracted to Rangers in the future?

    Although my current (7troop) username suggests I am relatively new on here the reality is I have been a member of Rangersmedia under a previous name since 2007/2008 ish. I have belonged to various groups / organisations and played an active role in defending our traditions in many different ways through the years but have just become so disillusioned with the lack of mobility and response from other Rangers fans and groups, particularly those based in Glasgow combined with the shameful actions of the Scottish media, government, police force and the many other haters.

    When the only weapon of response or deterrent in your arsenal is Statements then you know your in trouble. Those years of dignified silence and ignoring the enemy has led to this point. Sleeping when we should have been wide awake.

    Im prepared for the accusations that'll come my way on here over this but I just wish someone at the club would read the underlying message in my feelings, because I'm not alone. 

     

     

     

    Don't let the door hit you on the way out

  4. Far and away the best player I have ever watched in a Rangers jersey. And I thought he performed very well in loads of big games, in fact for a flair player his consistency was quite extraordinary.

  5. I thought I would take a little detour for my 10,000th post, and I have thought a lot recently about the past and why I am the Rangers fan I am, and who gets the credit.

    The first was my dad, Jim, who took me to my first game when I was 4. I have no memory of this, but he used to enjoy telling people that even then I was criticising Greig's tactics. The first game I really remember was a 5-0 win over Clyde in the Skol Cup, and a Bobby Williamson hat trick. I went to a good few games with my dad throughout the rest of the 80s, never as many as I wanted, most of the time after we were just arguing - his view that Gough was the finest centre back he had seen, mine that he hoofed the ball up the pitch far too much, his view that Baxter was the greatest, mine that it was Laudrup, and his very strong negative opinions on Jim Denny, that I struggled to have any clue about.

    But my real Rangers education was in the early 90s with my brother, Graeme. We started going to games together around the 91/92 season, and apart from the time he took his mate Kenny to the Leeds game, we were pretty much ever-present in the west enclosure in the 5IAR season and through 6, including a brief (and baffling) stint as part of the Montrose RSC (my brother lived in Perth at the time and they drove past). I got my season ticket in the first year with Brian Laudrup at the club, in the now seated West Enclosure, with my brother beside me, I was in East Kilbride still, he turned up whether living in Dunkeld, Leeds or the Isle of Man.

    My fondest memory was of the great 1-0 win in an away old firm game, Laudrup scored the winner early on, we missed a penalty, and about 5 one on one with the keeper (including Van Vossen's miss) but the win was secured by an Andy Goram penalty save near the end. Graeme and I drove home that evening with scarves flying from the windows and singing our way loudly through the streets of the east end of Glasgow.

    We had many a joyful European night together, and a heartbreaking one, the standout being the 2-2 draw with Marseille, although 2-1 v Bruges was a very close runner up to that. 

    Graeme was back in Scotland and by the time of our demotion he travelled to almost every game on our journey back up through league two, league one and our first year in the championship. Many of you will have heard his voice because he shouted louder than anyone and sang louder and more off key than anyone else there. 

    Graeme and I were there in Manchester with 2 tickets that cost us £550 each, and then which were suddenly refunded by eBay - after we had tickets in hand, so some poor German rip off merchant lost out big time.

    My father passed away 6 years ago, more of an armchair watcher in his last 15 years, but at the ridiculous age of 64. He missed the horrific times that beset us.

    My brother passed away last July, just before the 6-1 win over Hibs in the Petrofac, him, at the even more ridiculous age of 48.

    I wouldn't be the bear that I am without the non-stop talking, arguing, singing, shouting, chanting and falling out over football that I had with my dad and my brother - and I know that they are always still there with us as we move on towards 55.

  6. 19 minutes ago, Cobham said:

    The point I'm trying to make is more about Warburton and the positive light he presents everything about our club!

    Then just say that then, how the hell a thread about a potential signing in June 2016 can turn into an opportunity to slag off a manager who left us in December 2014 just shows the dedication that people put into ally-hating.

  7. 8 minutes ago, LeeWallaceRFC said:

    That's not how an interview works, the journalist selects snippets to include in the interview.

    A conversation doesn't last a couple of lines.

    You feel free to stand by it if you want. I choose to read comments in quote marks as what the person said, you can choose to believe whatever spin journalists want to put on it. Did you like that story about our fans acting like a mob and blocking the police? You must have been horrified at how evil Rangers fans can be. Luckily I know the story was bullshit because I don't believe journalists.

  8. 5 minutes ago, LeeWallaceRFC said:

    How's that anybody else's fault?

    How on earth are we supposed to know what he said? We weren't part of the interview.

    It's quite clear what's suggested by the article. If that's not what he said, and the journalist has fabricated these claims, then that's nothing to do with anybody else but the journalist who wrote it.

    Just look for the bit in quote marks

  9. "It won’t be the end of the road for wee Duranty. Ally McCoist has said he wants another job so who knows," he told TheGlasgow Evening Times.

    That is the only quote. Everyone slags off the media like hell, until they make up stuff about one of the forum whipping boys then people just believe the journo bollocks.

    That quote insinuates nothing other than that Durrant could get another job with McCoist who is looking to get back into management. 

  10. Overall, it just seemed a very strange performance. He agreed that the things that are wrong are wrong, he said it shouldn't be like that, he even conceded that the business would be better run by somebody else. He thought the labour split between temporary and permanent was wrong, the employment practices were wrong, etc. He kinda wrote his resignations letter to his shareholders, apart from his own 55%. I was very surprised that he wasn't a bit more bullish, but there you go.

  11. 2 minutes ago, eejay the dj said:

    Ok Coop would be joining a team at its peak .Double treble winners .

    McCoist was joining a team full of shite .One of the poorest assembled in 30 years.

    I know who I would excuse although both were footballing Gods as players in my eyes .

    Don't expect to agree Legal as I think that would be a first 

     

    I don't think we have to think about excusing anybody. Coop did join that team, he didn't join back in '74.

    as far as I am concerned I would change nothing about their careers with us and the decisions they made, I am just glad I was able to watch them both, maybe if either had joined earlier it wouldn't have worked out the way it did, so I would leave it all happily alone.

    People trying to score stupid points over decisions a guy made 35 years ago just because they don't like him just piss me off.

  12. 11 minutes ago, Virtuoso said:

    Jesus fucking wept!!

    I was going to ask how you can even start to compare them, but then realised that, that's not what your point is...and subsequently makes your post totally and utterly irrelevant to the thread.

    Surprised at that comment coming from you to be honest.

    Are the posts talking about McCoist turning down Rangers relevant to the thread?

  13. 14 minutes ago, one55 said:

    seeing some want us wearing that pish lion brand top. if the board try pushing that then i'll lose all faith in them. just get the top registered and sold ffs. if we wear a cheap fake top then what about puma/32 red? they won't be happy. we can't be treating our shirt manufacturer or sponsors like that. 

     

    Yeah, all this crap like the Rangers board trying to do what's best for the club and sort out however they want to release and sell a shirt. Just ignore that and do it the old way. Heaven forbid that we trust the board to do the best for the club, let's stick with the deal that Green gave us and that Ashley's placement on our board altered for his benefit.

    or we could have a tiny bit more patience.

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