Saudibear

In your opinion. Is the religion of players a supporters an issue for you? The religion of anybody other than myself is not an issue for me, that includes players and supporters alike. However In the late fifties early sixties when I was a wee boy I grew up with my dad taking me to watch the Rangers on a Saturday afternoon and remember well discussing the game with my friends at Sunday school the next morning and I can't remember other than Rangers supporters at my Sunday School. I grew up with Rangers and the protestant religion and for me both are very much linked and I would have to say that is the way I personally like it. I see no reason to let any PC brigade change my feelings. Never seen anyone suggest anyone change their personal feeling but Rangers should not be linked with Protestantism in any other way other than we have a large number of Protestant fans. BTW...there's no such thing as the Protestant religion. we will always be linked because we have always had a big protestant support, and thats why we are so big a club. It might, just might be, because we have been a good football team........ How many games have you seen the last couple of years? Still NO SURRENDER. About 80, yourself, sir? The question was asked tongue in cheek but you would have to admit that out of that 80 there are not a lot that you can say we were a good team. Lets hope we turn it round this year. Live only 12-14 but then it's a 8,000 mile round trip for me. Thanks to the NARSA agreement we get virtually every game on TV at the RSC's.

In your opinion. Is the religion of players a supporters an issue for you? The religion of anybody other than myself is not an issue for me, that includes players and supporters alike. However In the late fifties early sixties when I was a wee boy I grew up with my dad taking me to watch the Rangers on a Saturday afternoon and remember well discussing the game with my friends at Sunday school the next morning and I can't remember other than Rangers supporters at my Sunday School. I grew up with Rangers and the protestant religion and for me both are very much linked and I would have to say that is the way I personally like it. I see no reason to let any PC brigade change my feelings. Never seen anyone suggest anyone change their personal feeling but Rangers should not be linked with Protestantism in any other way other than we have a large number of Protestant fans. BTW...there's no such thing as the Protestant religion. we will always be linked because we have always had a big protestant support, and thats why we are so big a club. It might, just might be, because we have been a good football team........ How many games have you seen the last couple of years? Still NO SURRENDER.

In your opinion. Is the religion of players a supporters an issue for you? The religion of anybody other than myself is not an issue for me, that includes players and supporters alike. However In the late fifties early sixties when I was a wee boy I grew up with my dad taking me to watch the Rangers on a Saturday afternoon and remember well discussing the game with my friends at Sunday school the next morning and I can't remember other than Rangers supporters at my Sunday School. I grew up with Rangers and the protestant religion and for me both are very much linked and I would have to say that is the way I personally like it. I see no reason to let any PC brigade change my feelings. Never seen anyone suggest anyone change their personal feeling but Rangers should not be linked with Protestantism in any other way other than we have a large number of Protestant fans. BTW...there's no such thing as the Protestant religion. OK Mr pedantic but I think most people would understand what was meant.

In your opinion. Is the religion of players a supporters an issue for you? The religion of anybody other than myself is not an issue for me, that includes players and supporters alike. However In the late fifties early sixties when I was a wee boy I grew up with my dad taking me to watch the Rangers on a Saturday afternoon and remember well discussing the game with my friends at Sunday school the next morning and I can't remember other than Rangers supporters at my Sunday School. I grew up with Rangers and the protestant religion and for me both are very much linked and I would have to say that is the way I personally like it. I see no reason to let any PC brigade change my feelings.

Agreed, you end up with them getting in each others way and then not getting enough out of any of them.

I'm gutted I'll miss the first game but I'll be home for the next 4 league games 3 of them at Ibrox. I don't get home very often but when I do my heart races every time I see our stadium. Hopefully I'll get both the 3rd round games in the CL as well.

In your opinion. And that's all that counts! As I said. In your opinion. :classier_than_pipeguy:

In your opinion.

I don't always agree with you fish but I'm 100% with you on this.

Ally to ride a camel for 3 days! I hope he doesn't get an ugly wan.

You need a bit of excitement now and then but you can bet the taigs will be pissed off if nothing comes of this and suicidal if we get any compensation.

saudibear some have not got a clue what the club means to certain fans, yet your post explains what the club means and what our fans were all about. but as i said we have to many do gooders amongst our support who have never experienced being with a crowd that went to wolverhamton that day, and you know what,let them carry following rangers the way they want to as thats their choice, for i can always say i have been with the best of the rangers fans, and there are lots of them on this board , but for all the do gooder fans you dont know what you have missed. Minstral I was only 9 years old so did not make it to Wolverhampton but my dad was already taking me to Ibrox at this time. These were the fans and this was the Rangers that I grew up with. That is why it means so much to me.

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Mentioned this earlier D'A but it won't be could, if he's in any way guilty it's a certainty ! And he would deserve to lose his knighthood if guilty of wrong doing.

Is JCD going to be fit?

I wondered that as well. Its not exactly ambitious is it ? He sort of stumbled on his words after he said that did he not....probably thought aw whit the feck hiv a jist said, Ive let the cat oot o the bag ! it sounds that way FISH. Honestly, a man who joins Rangers should be bursting a gut to play EVERY game, this disappoints me. He wiz oot for quite a bit of time at Wigan with a re-current injury....maybe heez no got a full season in him So I will stick with what I originally said...Donkey ! Are Wigan laughing now ?????? Hee Haw Hee Haw Hee Haw.

Thanks Baz.

The Scots arrived in Wolverhampton with the clamour and ungency of an invading army. They wore no arms or armour, but their blood was set on fire with the excitemet of combat to come; there was a hint of the pomp of war about the banners they carried, their fierce battle hymns and their touchy, defiant chant: 'We Are The People'. To English eyes they must haver been bizarre and alarming - as were the bearded, tattered clansmen who followed Bonnie Prince Charlie south of the border in 1745. But it was perhaps as well that no one in Wolverhampton made that comparison, for the Scots who had taken over their town that April of 1961 would have given the romantic prince short shrift - would, indeed, have been his most bitter enemies - for their proudest boast is that they are the Loyalists of Loyalists, the Protestants of Protestants. Their banners had no foreign flavour. They were Union Jacks and Scottish Standards. The Scots were supporters of The Glasgow Rangers Football Club. Ten thousand of them had travelled to England to see their club play Wolverhampton Wanderers in the semi-final of the European National Cup Winners trophy. And Wolverhampton, a teeming industrial town of 160,000 inhabitants who thought they new something about football partisanship, gasped; for they had never seen such fanatical supporters. All day the Scots paraded the streets, singing, shouting and waving their banners. 'They were the noisiest supporters we have ever known' said a police official afterwards. The English, who had thought that Scots were dour, phlegmatic, often mournful, lacking humour, looked on amazed. Welsh choirs had no more fervour than the Scots from the Glasgow streets, the Highland moors, the Lowland Housing schemes as the chanted: 'There's not a team like the Glasgow Rangers.' Their were tears in their eyes as they bellowed, fervently: 'Follow, follow, we will follow Rangers'. And the English wondered what it was all about when, now and again, a derisive chorus filled the air: 'Haffey, Haffey, Haffey.' That was the Rangers supporters' way of poking fun at their great rivals, Celtic, for goalkeeper Frank Haffey, of that club, was the man who had lost nine goals at Wembley when England humiliated Scotland the previous Saturday. Excitement mounted among the Scots when the game started at Molineux Park. Rangers blazed their way into the final by drawing 1-1 with Wolves, whom they had already beaten in the first leg at Ibrox 2-0. And at the end hundreds of Scots swarmed over the barriers on to the pitch to cheer and hug their idols. When the triumphant Rangers fans finally left on the midnight trains, flabbergasted Wolverhampton people were still asking: Just who are The Glasgow Rangers? What have they got to arouse such feelings among their fans? Imagine 10,000 supporters travelling all this distance for a club game? The answer from any of the supporters who were going north tired but happy would have been simple. It would have been this: Rangers are the greatest team in the world. I took this from a FF thread. It was written in 1961 and shows just how I still would like my club to be thought of. That is why I am against this change of Identity that some fans wish to exert on us.

Just trying to get some match fitness.

I can actually see Weir and Webster starting and Cueller getting some extra time to get used to the Scottish game. Also see Broadfoot perhaps getting a run at left back which is still a problem with Smith out until at least September, Murray just not good enough and Papac again a second choice. Weir is Mr dependable along with Hutton and the 2 of them should be there for at least the start of the season until the new boys prove their worth.

All the players are making the right noises. I just hope they take it onto the park.

So what would happen when we inevitably win the treble??????? We'd play our under 19's. :pipegreen: Shit that would be us out.

Little ability and even less heart. Punt him now.

So what would happen when we inevitably win the treble???????

What happens when the league winners also win the cup. Who would then have priority the league runner up or the cup runner up.