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Reformation Bear

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    Reformation Bear reacted to Blue Avenger in Gerrard FFS. It's just not good enough   
    If no league title this season, King and Gerrard will be gone, as 10 and more will be unstoppable.
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    Reformation Bear reacted to To Be A Ranger in Gerrard FFS. It's just not good enough   
    Just what was going through his mind when he decided on that team selection.
    No wingers and Defoe up front against big CBs. How the fuck did he expect the result to go?
    Not playing our strongest XI against our biggest rivals? Why not?
    It couldn't have been more publicised how weak they are in the fullback positions yet we didn't line up to try and exploit it.
    Was he trying to be smart, did he just fuck up, or does he just not know what it takes to win a league? I think all of these things. 
    You better win every game up to and including the next game vs them or get your CV ready.
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    Reformation Bear reacted to Blue Avenger in The Morning After.....   
    As most are. Hopefully the last defeat against that shower of shite.
    We simply set up badly. We know I have issues with Tav, but tbh he has no out on the right and on reflection it does look like it's affecting his overall game. The poor passing etc maybe shows it's affecting his confidence. It's for Gerrard to see that and sort it. Likewise down the left. 
    We are spoiled for choice centrally, so case of getting it all clicking. The news of Kent maybe the game changer, giving  fresh impetuous in how we set up and play.
    Us spending 7 mill on one player, there is no fucking way we aint taking this title, or there will be serious casualties! 
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    Reformation Bear got a reaction from Bad Robot in Summer transfer window   
    If so then 20:20 hindsight from a Board is not what they are there to do.   Anybody can look at history and say 'if only we'd know what was going to happen we'd have done something different'.   
    Winning on the cheap is what they are about it seems to me.   It's not just whether or not they can land Kent today either.   They've allowed strikers to go but have not gone for a 3rd good quality striker.    They must have some stellar confidence that Morelos and Defoe are going to stay fit enough, stay free from suspensions, and be on consistently good goal scoring form for the entire season in all competitions.      One is a player who was a serial red-carder last season and is still proving he's sufficiently reformed and the other is 36 years old (albeit very fit).    If the board think that combination is truly sufficient for a whole season then imo they are taking some super-optimistic pills.      
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    Reformation Bear got a reaction from slimjim1690 in Summer transfer window   
    If so then 20:20 hindsight from a Board is not what they are there to do.   Anybody can look at history and say 'if only we'd know what was going to happen we'd have done something different'.   
    Winning on the cheap is what they are about it seems to me.   It's not just whether or not they can land Kent today either.   They've allowed strikers to go but have not gone for a 3rd good quality striker.    They must have some stellar confidence that Morelos and Defoe are going to stay fit enough, stay free from suspensions, and be on consistently good goal scoring form for the entire season in all competitions.      One is a player who was a serial red-carder last season and is still proving he's sufficiently reformed and the other is 36 years old (albeit very fit).    If the board think that combination is truly sufficient for a whole season then imo they are taking some super-optimistic pills.      
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    Reformation Bear reacted to slimjim1690 in Summer transfer window   
    We still have an overinflated squad full of players who aren't going to feature and probably on pretty high wages who will stick it out until their contracts expire, ie: Herrera, Dodoo etc,  until that happens their wages are a noose around the clubs neck, the stadium still needs work that won't come cheap, I suspect the court costs won't be cheap either, add in all the peripherals and I suspect that's where all the money's going.
    I'd much rather be told the truth rather than be spun stories, but then again we have no idea what Allan and Gerrard  were promised either.
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    Reformation Bear got a reaction from 6superbarry6 in Summer transfer window   
    Record ST sales last season.  Even more ST sales this summer.    Cash from the European run last season.    Supposedly better commercial income being generated.   Receipts obtained for players sold during the summer transfer window eg Candeias - and the salary saved that he was earning.   Big wages presumably saved due to other players being released early eg Lafferty.
    One modestly big money signing in Helander …………….who cant yet get a regular game (not fit enough or not good enough now that Gerrard has seen him training?)
    So where has all the money gone?  What has the Board done with it.  Why has there not been a significantly better quality of players added during the summer transfer window?
    Allen and Gerrard spoke way back in May about this being a transfer window that added quality, not quantity.   Do they know the difference because what we've had added is quantity and not enough quality.  
    The question to be asked of Robertson, King and the Board...………….what have you done with all the money generated because there is nowhere near enough evidence of it being spent on players of a sufficiently good quality.   
    Put differently, is their strategy to try to win trophies on the cheap and on the back of Gerrard's alchemist ability to coach player got on the cheap or free into league title winners?
    What have the done with the money?  Has the board decided that hoarding cash and an improved balance sheet is vastly more important than getting the quality of player needed to win a league title?   Seems that way to me right now. 
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    Reformation Bear got a reaction from Sweetheart in Uefa charge   
    Wait until they get going with how they plan to obtain the same 'amended behaviours' for domestic games.   What's going on now could just be for starters. 
    Because one thing is for sure, if the Support let rip on Sunday and at future domestic games, the media and the Scottish football authorities are surely bound to be emboldened by the FARE/UEFA approach with punishments dished out and look to implement the same.  
    Or...……..in my view likely by this Board...……...the Board takes similar pre-emptive action to the line taken with the first away leg game in Europe and starts to decline tickets for certain domestic away games and maybe even voluntarily closes bits of Ibrox until King etc see and hear a Support that has come to behavioural heel.      
    I just can't see this Board having the balls to let a twin track approach happen of one behavioural line for European games and a looser leash for domestic games.     They'll look to get the same behaviours for both and use the UEFA punishment route as the precedent to self-impose bans on for certain domestic games.   
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    Reformation Bear got a reaction from eejay the dj in Uefa charge   
    Wait until they get going with how they plan to obtain the same 'amended behaviours' for domestic games.   What's going on now could just be for starters. 
    Because one thing is for sure, if the Support let rip on Sunday and at future domestic games, the media and the Scottish football authorities are surely bound to be emboldened by the FARE/UEFA approach with punishments dished out and look to implement the same.  
    Or...……..in my view likely by this Board...……...the Board takes similar pre-emptive action to the line taken with the first away leg game in Europe and starts to decline tickets for certain domestic away games and maybe even voluntarily closes bits of Ibrox until King etc see and hear a Support that has come to behavioural heel.      
    I just can't see this Board having the balls to let a twin track approach happen of one behavioural line for European games and a looser leash for domestic games.     They'll look to get the same behaviours for both and use the UEFA punishment route as the precedent to self-impose bans on for certain domestic games.   
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    Reformation Bear got a reaction from Bad Robot in Uefa charge   
    Hopefully that is correct as far as UEFA and their competition  is concerned.    I don't think its finished in Scotland though.    I can't see the Board contenting itself with a dual track approach of one set of behaviours / singing rules for European games and a looser set for domestic games.   For a start the media and domestic football authorities will use it as leverage week in and week out as hypocritical.    I think its possible the Board may itself look to get changed behaviours / singing applied in domestic games too.   I may be very wrong on this and they may be happy to live with a dual behaviours approach between European and domestic games and live with the media and political charges of hypocracy but I don't think this Board has the stomach for that kind of extended wrangle.     I think they are setting about dealing with this in the domestic game too in which case the wrangle would continue until there is a winner.
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    Reformation Bear reacted to Blue Avenger in Rangers possible third charge ( confirmed as false)   
    What a fucking wanker.
    Sack Robertson anyway. He's worse than a man down.
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    Reformation Bear got a reaction from Courtyard Bear in Rangers possible third charge ( confirmed as false)   
    I don't think this is confined to Robertson though.   The other Directors - and yes the Chairman - and those responsible for proper and effective governance at Rangers are all to blame imo.  Wilful negligence is how it appears on the face of it...……...... unless they are conniving with UEFA  (or sheltering behind UEFA) to use the sanctions as part of a battering ram to force lasting change no matter how unpopular their line is with parts of the Support.  
    Why?   Because the issue which has surfaced this season big time and which is biting hard, and may yet bite harder was - imo - entirely predictable.   
    They knew about FARE.  They knew what line FARE and UEFA were taking with clubs.  They'd be aware of the precedents affecting other clubs.    They know full well it is UEFA's tournament and UEFA's rules.      But they were wilfully negligent in doing enough with the Support in general and with Supporter's groups before the European campaign started to make it clear beyond doubt the risks the Club would face if we ran foul of UEFA.  
    All the protesting and so on - justifiable as much of it is - should really be directed at the Club directors and execs.   They winged it hoping nothing serious would happen.   Which would make it wilful negligence.   Either that or its been a carefully constructed 'do very little to inform and prevent' approach to allow UEFA to front up as the culprits and use the UEFA sanctions as a battering ram to bring about wholesale 're-education' of the Support for domestic football too.  
    All from a position where they are untouchable - cannot be removed from office - can do as much or as little as they please - with no effective mechanisms to hold them to proper account - and knowing that if they succeed they go down in history as the directors who changed the face of Rangers...….taking as long as they need to do so.  
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    Reformation Bear got a reaction from Negri's lovechild in Rangers possible third charge ( confirmed as false)   
    I don't think this is confined to Robertson though.   The other Directors - and yes the Chairman - and those responsible for proper and effective governance at Rangers are all to blame imo.  Wilful negligence is how it appears on the face of it...……...... unless they are conniving with UEFA  (or sheltering behind UEFA) to use the sanctions as part of a battering ram to force lasting change no matter how unpopular their line is with parts of the Support.  
    Why?   Because the issue which has surfaced this season big time and which is biting hard, and may yet bite harder was - imo - entirely predictable.   
    They knew about FARE.  They knew what line FARE and UEFA were taking with clubs.  They'd be aware of the precedents affecting other clubs.    They know full well it is UEFA's tournament and UEFA's rules.      But they were wilfully negligent in doing enough with the Support in general and with Supporter's groups before the European campaign started to make it clear beyond doubt the risks the Club would face if we ran foul of UEFA.  
    All the protesting and so on - justifiable as much of it is - should really be directed at the Club directors and execs.   They winged it hoping nothing serious would happen.   Which would make it wilful negligence.   Either that or its been a carefully constructed 'do very little to inform and prevent' approach to allow UEFA to front up as the culprits and use the UEFA sanctions as a battering ram to bring about wholesale 're-education' of the Support for domestic football too.  
    All from a position where they are untouchable - cannot be removed from office - can do as much or as little as they please - with no effective mechanisms to hold them to proper account - and knowing that if they succeed they go down in history as the directors who changed the face of Rangers...….taking as long as they need to do so.  
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    Reformation Bear reacted to Blue Avenger in Rangers possible third charge ( confirmed as false)   
    So along with the St Josephs citing when they could have warned us off ahead of the Midjty game,  they have now sat on that one as well and again didn't warn  us off before the Legia fixture.
    Whilst we may be guilty of naughty words, that cunt is guilty of gross negligence in running our club. That useless cunt is a bigger danger to this club than our collective haters and needs fucking sacked.
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    Reformation Bear reacted to Smile in Classy St Joseph's   
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    Reformation Bear reacted to MrMckee in He’s a buffalo soldier...   
    Please please score the winner on Sunday would absolutely send them into a meltdown 
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    Reformation Bear reacted to BlueKnight87 in He’s a buffalo soldier...   
    He is absolutely priceless for us right now.
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    Reformation Bear reacted to Trooblue in FARE attending the game tonight   
    I think you are right, here. Domestic sanctions are next on the agenda. No coincidence that this arises during the season we have become the biggest threat to the establishment. We must avoid anything that gets in the way of a title push this year. At all costs.
    If the Board was smart, it would at least try to keep as many fans as possible onside by indicating that it is determined to ensure that the fans and leadership of all other Scottish clubs are held to the same standards of conduct as Rangers. That, plus an indication that our club has concerns about the delays in investigating the child abuse scandal, would be helpful, I think. It could be pointed out that the issues around the abuse scandal include matters of potential sporting integrity, as it is possible that one club gained a significant financial advantage from covering up abuse.  Board will not do this, of course, but it should.
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    Reformation Bear got a reaction from eejay the dj in This Board   
    Whatever some (many even) in the Support might think King and his Board are in a position of absolute strength.   Untouchable even.   They can do as much or as little as it pleases them to do on any subject (provided its legal of course).   Sure they hear critical voices, noisy protests, tempers flared and so on from around the Support.   Cuts no real ice with them though.   No need for them to take it too seriously.  After all record number of STs are sold and there is apparently a very healthy waiting list for them.   I'm not even sure they are all that bothered if we win any trophies this season.   I don't detect any passion coming out of them on being successful.    
    So there's a bit of turbulence with FARE and UEFA.  And we lose some revenue by having to close some sections of the ground for a game.  And maybe yet have to lose even more revenue if a ground closure penalty is applied.  And some more if we are turfed out of the competition.    They can probably put up the price of next seasons STs to help compensate and if some walk away then there is that healthy waiting list to replace them.     No sweat for the Board although there would probably be some sweat if the same behaviours started to cause domestic football authorities to start to make noises about following UEFA's lead.
    Because they are untouchable I think they are now setting about taking on the Support and taking whatever action they can devise and deploy to bring the Support into complete obedience on the subjects which FARE and UEFA are taking action on.  Except that I think King and his Board will then voluntarily extend the UEFA-type sanctions into domestic games until they have gotten enough of a compliance from the Support to be able to say they have created in the Support amended behaviours that are Persil-clean both in FARE/UEFA terms and in the eyes of the Scottish football authorities and politicians.   
    Their position of untouchable power gives them a platform to take on those in the Support they feel they need to take on in order to get compliance.     The notices from them this week are setting out their red lines and setting out the challenge to the Support.     Will it be a short battle, or is there an extended campaign to be played out.   If they really are intent on enforcing the same behaviours at domestic games with sanctions for failing to comply then this could take a while to play out.    Doesn't make King and his Board any more untouchable though...…..they can take as long as they want.
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    Reformation Bear reacted to King Jela in FARE attending the game tonight   
    If they’re attending then we’re fucked. No matter if there’s singing or not they’ll claim they heard singing and that’ll be enough. Watch this space. 
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    Reformation Bear got a reaction from Bobby Hume in Sons of Struth speak up!   
    So the basic message is don't sing in a way that the Chairman of Rangers, the directors of Rangers, the execs of Rangers, the Manager of Rangers and now the voicepiece of SOS find offensive...... an offence is imported into their current way of thinking via UEFA.      Or else.
    It'll be interesting to see how well this message is received and acted on by the Support at the game on Thursday...…...and at the OF game at the weekend...…...and at the next European games if we qualify...……..and at domestic games throughout the rest of the season.    
    Its also worth noting that the author refers to hindsight (see extract from the statement in italics below - text in bold by me).    
    Frankly the Chairman and his Board and his execs - or even Supporter groups -  should not just be looking at things in hindsight and reacting as though they've just been ambushed by some unexpected event.    IMO there is a fundamental failure by King and his Board to anticipate this sort of risk and grasp the seriousness of the matter far more thoroughly and proactively far earlier.   I think they just hoped that things would just muddle along and hope nothing serious would happen.   
    Then when it does the only approach they seem to be willing to take is to issue a statement and then shelter behind the skirts of this type of SOS statement in the hope that some attempted leverage by fans groups will somehow do the trick.      So much for top quality pro-active leadership by the Chairman and his directors.    Why do some serious work with the Support to reach a long term definitive resolution when you can get fan groups to do a bit of lapdog type barking and see if that does the trick.
    The Chairman and his directors appear to me right now to be prepared to go for a lucky throw of the dice and hoping that it lands double 6.  Meaning that with the King statement and the manager's words and fan group words they hope a double six wins them no more trouble from UEFA and no more trouble from domestic football authorities.     They are gambling when they should have been far more pro-active in leading before it came to this.      Maybe its all too difficult for them and all they are left with is dishing out 'don't be naughty' notices and hoping that fans groups will somehow magically do the heavy lifting on this for them. 
    We'll see if it has any effect and if they can make their pleas stick on Thursday …...and then again at the OF game......and then again at future European games if we qualify...….and then again at the rest of the domestic games for this season.
     
    "...............….Many fans suggested this would be the outcome as soon as we started qualifying for Europe again after a few barren seasons. With hindsight it was inevitable and no amount of blogs, posts or shouting in public will change where we are.   So what should we do? There’s only two choices, we carry on regardless or we change. If we carry on regardless then we will see larger ground closures. It’s that simple."
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    Reformation Bear reacted to Bad Robot in The Coplands Ready for Sunday!   
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    Reformation Bear reacted to Blumhoilann in Steve Clarke hopes UEFA sectarian singing penalty helps Rangers ‘tackle fan behaviour’. ...by TOM ENGLISH   
    ....but we only support Proddie troops don't ya know😁
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    Reformation Bear reacted to Bad Robot in Steve Clarke hopes UEFA sectarian singing penalty helps Rangers ‘tackle fan behaviour’. ...by TOM ENGLISH   
    I think it was his lack of being interested when Boyd got abused but all of a sudden he was offended and really he was just pissed off that his team just got skelped.
    He only called us out as and he knew he could due to us being an easy target especially with our shit PR department and board along with  a compliant media who jump on any thing to harm us.
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