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I'm not a member of SoS, so you're wandering down a dead end on that one. If anyone thinks it's actually right for Club Directors or even the Club itself, to have lawyers regularly chasing our fans for online comments because they don't like the names they've been called, then I think we maybe better shut down all the forums where it's a regular occurance for staff at the club to be called every name under the sun.

I liked your orignal premise - "It's simple really don't behave like a cunt don't be treated like one". As I said though... that one's always a two way street.

Stop giving the rockets rocket fuel FFS!

What is this picture all about?

That basic premise is always a two way street, is it not?

Maybe you're right, but there's the old saying about "a leopard can't change it's spots" and maybe... just maybe.... Rangers fans are being intimidated by these guys because intimidation is their modus operandi.

Since hawdit & dawdit, bill & ben, the bus bros, the blakey bros (or whatever you want to call them) got involved with our Club there's been more intimidation towards our own fans emanating from the Club than what's been directed at the enemies.

There would 'potentially' be a slight financial gain for domestic games because you can fit slightly more people standing in rows between the rails than what you can fit in the existing seats, but to really take full advantage of doing it and squeeze in the maximum number of bodies you'd have to look at major renovation work to increase the overall number of steps in those sections to give you the maximum possible capacity. It's certainly not something that looks as though it would be straightfoward or cheap even if you avoid doing the major renovation work and just install a row of rail seats in place of 2 rows of existing seats. If you DID start doing major renovation work, then the costs would escalate big time and could end up being astronomical, so not a particularly cost effective solution unless someone was investing absolutely massive amounts of money into stadium redevelopments.

There's two main rail seat systems: single step and double step. Which one you use depends on the gradient of your stands. In our case it would almost certainly need to be double step, so it would invlove ripping out two rows of seats to install one row of rail seats. With the double step between the new rails there would be space for at least the same number of fans at domestic games (standing in two rows between each rail), but when it comes to European games the numbers for those rows would need to drop by half unless UEFA change the rules on safe standing.

Merci monsieur

In previous discussions about this on here and elsewhere it's been a popular proposal. I've seen people suggest various positions for a safe standing area, but I think the ideal scenario would be making a section or two in every stand safe standing (with the rail seat system). No matter what you did: A section in one stand, a section in two stands or even all four stands, I think it would probably be oversubscribed and end up with a lengthy waiting list, although no doubt not as lengthy as the disabled waiting list!

What's you laughing for no reason or being scared got to do with the debate?

You spoke of "renting a space in Paul Murray's arse" and I said in reply to Alex saying he'd love to know your logic that "I'd be surprised if logic comes into it tbh" That wasn't meant as a derisory comment towards yourself or anyone else, but just a point made that I don't understand or even see your logic if there is any. I'm not even a huge Paul Murray fan, but I still don't see your logic in linking renting space in his arse to the Trust buying a large block of shares. It's just illogical.

Yet another ex-player of ours that really splits opinons. I never rated him as a very good player, but he often put in a great shift and scored a few important goals for us too. My gripes with him were that in between puting in good shifts he stumbled about like a headless chicken and fell over the ball quite a few times, but plenty of professional players do that, so.........

I'd be surprised if logic comes into it tbh.

Don't really understand what all the fuss is about here. They joined into one section in BF1 and in the end it hasn't quite worked out, but the section has still created a lot of atmosphere at Ibrox. If you don't like them or their songbook that's up to you, but moaning about them every time there's a thread about BF1, TBO or UB is pretty bloody sad.

Did he release it via Merlin again?

Google... If you huvnae heard o' it or cannae use it, it's fuckin MAGIC by the way!!!

More like a once-respected journalist or soon to be ex-Channel 4 journalist.

The bottom feeders banquet written by Scorchio It's been a busy news month at Rangers and yet another which has left the bottom feeders in Scottish football's press & media stuffed to the gunnels with our Club's never ending source of tasty scraps, scraps which they scavenge around for every single day. Eager to digest, loosen their bowels and follow through with their latest brain farts in type, their daily dose of the written and spoken trots at Pacific Quay CSC and their verbal diarrhea disguised as Rangers news & chat on Radio Clyde, it's a relentless stream of steaming excrement rather than consciousness. Agenda ridden bottom feeders and crawling parasites suck the life out of every little scrap they're thrown and with increasing regularity, simply release their next piece of Rangers tagged excrement disguised as journalism with little regard for clarity of thought or consequences. That's how to 'make it' in the Scottish football press and media and it's been so for longer than I care to remember. Just write and/or talk copious amounts of crap about Rangers like so-called journalists such as Michael Grant, Glen Gibbons, Ewing Grahame, Hugh MacDonald & all of their Rangers hating peers and you're good to go. Even better if you're still moderately youthful too because the has-beens of Scottish football punditry are getting the heave-ho to make way for the next generation of fork-tongued Rangers haters. Ra ladder-climbing bhoys of tomorrow are on the up and there's a stream of willing participants eager to bend over and give them a spit and polish at the same time as a footsie. It's all good though because self-absorbed buffoons with fake posh accents and unwashed corduroys like the egotist extraordinaire and full-time bullshit artist Graham Spiers unwittingly provide us all with a constant source of entertainment and amusement. Listening to or reading knowledge lacking idiots coughing up pages of the Oxford dictionary on national radio or in the national press is great value for money. It's difficult not to at least consider affording these bottom feeders and buffoons a tiny degree of sympathy because as they fumble around their little minds searching for misplaced hooks and their next piece of juicy 'new club' bait there's always thousands of listeners and readers two or three steps ahead of them. Meanwhile, other obsessed pillocks and virulent vermin like Channel 4's unleashed and unhinged Alex Thomson and his good pal mad Phil the terrorist sympathiser plot and scheme their next round of attacks on Rangers. These parasites do so in a far more sinister fashion than the mainstream media bottom feeders though. Disgruntled, but unfortunately not completely downtrodden yet following their previous failings, the fundamental aim of these obsessed crackpots and sworn enemies of Rangers appears to be seeing our Club killed off once and for all. Their modus operandi is misinformation, manipulation and last, but certainly not least, friends in high places. Much to the fury of the loony brigade Rangers haters, Rangers FC is still here, still the same Club and still going strong. They may hate to admit it, but some of them will be coming be along to Ibrox on Saturday to watch the only show in town taking on Brechin City and to scavenge for scraps from the Rangers news banquet table.

My point was that if it wasn't timmy thommo writing this crap, but one of our own fans, then maybe the people running our Club would spring into action and get the Club's legal eagles to send threats in order to have the content removed. Maybe not though!

I don't disagree with much of what you're saying, but the simple fact of the matter is that if we were still in the top flight, playing in Europe and in better financial shape, then we might not even be entertaining offers for a player like Lee Wallace at all unless it was double what was paid for him or above. Indeed, if we were still in the top flight, then his market value almost certainly would be £3m upwards, but that's just not the case for us in the 3rd tier spending cash we don't even have every month. I see folk saying Lee's worth £5m and to an EPL Club in today's market that may well be the case, but we're simply not in a position to demand anywhere near that sort of transfer fee when realistically, in our current situation our whole first team squad probably isn't even worth £5m.

If it was one of our own fans spreading unsubstantiated gossip Ronnie & Reggie would probably have the Club's lawyers sending legal threats. It seems like the yahoos and their compliant pals in the media can write whatever they want about our Club, but our own fans can't.

We won't win the Championship as easily as we've won this season and last season, that's a stick-on, but I think we should still win it comfortably by about 15 points or thereabouts. First season back in the Premiership is much more difficult to predict. I think getting 2nd place would be a massive achievement, but it won't be easy.