Boycie

Thankyou D'artagnan
The Jewel in the Rangers support, if we had a thousand D'artagnans the world would be a better place

Me and the mrs will be there enjoying the bands and the music with no alcohol involved .
I sometimes wonder whats going on in this forum , reading some of the crap from so called Gers fans .........

What an absolutely appalling and ignorant statement, which I will deal with in due course.
But firstly its amazing how many people within this thread are claiming it has no connection with Rangers whatsoever. Perhaps in my advancing years my ears are suffering from some kind of hallucination, but I would swear that the song repertoire I hear Bears singing reflects something completely different to that. The Sash, Derry's Walls, Build My Gallows to name but a few...are they not reflective of a Protestant/Loyalist culture which appears to be very much alive within our support ? So to suggest that there is no connection to Rangers would appear to be completely at odds with the facts.
The Battle of the Boyne had a significant impact on the whole of Europe.The Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg) was a European Union of States which sought to halt the advance of French colonialism under Louis the 14th. Both King William and the Holy Roman Empire were part of that Grand Alliance, in fact it was on the advice of the former that the latter actually formed the League of Augsburg or Grand Alliance. Pope Alexander the 8th was part of the aforesaid alliance.
On a more localised scale Irish Protestants (many of them Ulster Scots) supported William whilst Irish Catholics favoured James.The armies reflected such allegiances and also supported the wider European context of this battle previously alluded to. The Williamite army consisted of Dutch, Danes, Prussian and French Hugenots as well as Scots/Irish and English Protestants, whilst the forces of James consisted of French troops augmented by Irish Catholic infantrymen.
William's victory at the Boyne was a major factor in the shaping of the country we know today as the United Kingdom. Perhaps even more so in Scotland, where following the Scottish Reformation, Presbyterianism was still in something of an infancy, but was to go on to shape the Scotland we know today and its ability to do so was in no small part as a result of William's Boyne victory.
Of course opposition to Orange marches is a fairly new thing, not only in Scotland but Northern Ireland also. Ruth Dudley Edwards explains the sinister motivation behind it in her book "The Faithful Tribe".

Cummon lads, mibbee bp9, gijoseph, the dude, blackmanredemption just need a few pics to get into the spirit ...

Well admin have made it very clear this thread is staying. You are not admin so you have no chance of changing this stance. So why be offended, stay off the thread and get back to talking to your dial a date

Hatred and bigotry?
A celebration of Civil and Religious Liberty to honour a battle that gave hope to many fine people and gave them freedom from a man made religion imposed on many.

Well BP9 aka active BD user. I popped into 7 random threads in the BD and guess what? Nope you haven't posted but yet feel the need to post 20 times in here?

You really are a fud. Have you read what you have been posting? You are moaning that it has nothing to do with Rangers but you keep on commenting.
Any normal person that isn't interested in something wouldn't comment.
Do you comment on every thread just because it's in the bears den and you're an active poster in the bears den?

I'm an active Bears's Den poster and I normally stay out of threads I have no interest in.
You've been told numerous times by site admin and mods that this stuff stays in here.
You repeatedly ignore this, all you had to do was report the thread, but derailing it is much more fun for you.

Haha Bastard he was creaming himself at the Amateurs getting a point then Boooom Fuck you Andy Wanker....yassss

Just a thought for all those slating Ally (yet again..), just remember he brought Aird and Sandaza on. Sandaza sucked in the defenders there to leave Aird free to curl that one in to the far post. Quality finish. Anyway, I know the doomsayers will not take one bit of notice to this post so I'll let you all get on with being negative. Sometimes games don't go your way and QP have a great record so far this season but we got there in the end. I'll take the occasional scrappy win ever now and again. We won't always score 6 goals every game.

You can actually hear the tears in Andy Walker's voice - tarrier scum

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."