Hilly86
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Yeah exactly...edu has cost us another 180 grand in wages than them.....
And never had a less-than-sly kick to the club and fans on his way out.
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I would have agreed at the start of the season before Sandaza was signed, but seeing how well he makes it work is really encouraging. It's not often that someone played out of position has the intelligence or confidence to do it. Andy's instincts as a striker make it natural for him to move inside, away from his starting position, and get some freedom. If he can teach the other forwards the same trick, he can choose where he plays for the rest of his time at Rangers!
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...lets hope there is no release clause or he will have the traitir /hope you break your leg brigade after him.....
You'd have to be fairly blinkered, or hard-of-understanding, to lump Edu in with the traitors, or not see the difference in attitudes towards him and Naismith/Whittaker.
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The only thing that annoys me where their comments that Rangers were no longer Rangers, that can never be forgiven.
Only because of the chaos and uncertainty at the club, I would not have blamed any of the established, higher-earning players from taking the opportunity to leave. They are in the prime of their careers (allegedly in Whittaker's case) and risked losing out on earning money that will set them up for life. I also can't find it in me to blame any player for wanting to play in England / not play in Scotland.
Players like McCabe and Ness get less sympathy. They've proved nothing in their careers, had excellent medical care and careful amounts of playing time when the latter was serially injured, and had the opportunity to stay and be potential legends. There was not the same personal downside to staying for them, but they chose to ditch us at the earliest opportunity with little shame.
Worst for me are Naismith and Whittaker. How easy it would have been to scribble some lines to the press, how they stayed as long as possible, don't want to go on under uncertainty, made sacrifices, can't play in Div 3 at this stage in their careers, etc. - fine, honest and understandable. But instead, with no minds of their own and too thick to act alone without agents and PR clowns, they stage the most self-serving press-conference. Instead of the the usual stuff about loving the club, difficult to leave, 'the fans', they chose to spew out all of that guff about the status of the club, parroting the same nonsense that the numerous enemies were using to have a go. Naismith's stupid, pained expression and whiny mumbles were meant to show off how much he agonised about having to embarrass the fans who supported him and the club who brought him back from serious injuries. This at the same time as knowing exactly how much Everton would be willing to pay him if there was no transfer fee.
2 traitors.
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Funny how he can't be sure of Shiels' Kilmarnock salary, but can confirm with certainty that the other three cited players were all 'literally' on the dole.
Obviously Gibbons feels no shame at putting so much unsourced speculation about players' salaries into his journalism. Not being a supposedly professional writer, I'll guess that the Scotsman don't overpay their staff for working in the 3rd division of newspapers.
Circulation for July 2011 to July 2012, 'The Scotsman – 12.3 per cent drop = 38,423 to 33,673' Source
Just as at the Scotsman, presumably, I'm happy that Rangers pay as little as possible to bring the talent that will take us where we want to go. Like most of Scotland, I doubt that Dean Shiels will read Gibbons' disrespectful words, but somehow still take comfort in the fact that more people will be supporting him while doing his job today.
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That's what I want to see too. A diamond in midfield with Shiels at the point and the width coming from the full backs.
Completely agree - the full backs starting position should be in the opposition half anyway.
Could defnitely use Shiels' composure in the middle of the pitch. As for the strikers, I'd have gone with Little being the one through the middle, but with Sandaza having signed, it will be him. Even during that mess last week, it took him seconds to show the movement that a natural striker makes.
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Pep Guardiola obviously got so bored with watching near perfection that he changed to 3-4-3 last season, to the point of bloody-mindedness when it plainly wasn't working as well. But in Div3, with full-time training, it's really not that important; we have players who should be good enough.
Alexander
Perry Emilson Broadfoot (Hegarty, McCulloch, Cole)
Cole McCulloch McLeod Wallace (Black, Hutton, Mitchell, Wiktorski)
McKay Sandaza Shiels (Little, Kyle, Naismith, Hemmings)
Admittedly, we need wide players for ally's 3-4-3, but I'd hate to end up with a bloated squad that will keep out the kids again.
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The fact we can afford more wages than SPL teams seems to be baffling some of their supporters.
They fail to realise that we already have 25k season tickets sold with it expected to rise to 35k. Thousands of season ticket sales = ££££.
Hmmm let's see... Play for Hibs in the SPL and fight relegation or play for Rangers and become part of something special and be remembered forever?
Very right, gents. Maybe the fact that both of these facts seem to baffle Pat should give us, and him, an insight into why he puts such shit football teams onto the park?
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To think that this shower are favourites to finish second in the 'top' level of Scottish football.
Complete waste of time and given how difficult it is to make money from the Europa League 'proper', they've probably even managed to make a loss from their efforts this year. Good work lads!
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I would rather we didn't shout about it if he did have money mate. It is a desperate PR stunt when clubs start shouting about having this and that to spend. I agree we should be going for young, exciting, pacey players.
Wouldn't mind Ojamaa, or any young footballer of a similar standard, but not if it involves any kind of compensation going to Motherwell or other Scottish football clubs.
Like El C said, we shouldn't be paying transfer fees at all, especially now. No need, and there should be some kind of duty to give our own kids every reasonable chance.
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I know he is but that still leaves McCulloch, Beattie, Little and McKay we have more than enough cover up there why on earth would we need 6 strikers? this type of attitude is partly what got us into this situation in the 1st place giving contracts to players who have no sell on value and giving them on last pay day. I understand in the 3rd division we need some muscle/experiance to play with them but not our whole fucking squad made up of 30 plus players with youth players not getting a game.
Approved Sir.
Cover, in the Third Division. It was a bad enough concept before, even worse than 'holding midfielders' to stop the 'threat' from the mighty Aberdeen.
I'm seeing long Broadfoot punts to Kyle, while Hutton watches the ball fly over his head for 90 minutes, with Little and McKay sitting on the bench.
This is our chance to do it properly, bringing Rangers-supporting boys through and giving the best of them a real chance, playing with skill.
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Massive tax fraud on a scale south africa has never seen before is not a skeleton in his cupboard.....
Maybe we should have higher expectations for our owners than accepting stuff like this just because he is a rangers fan
Exactly. How hard can it be to turn a profit, or at least break even, on a football club with 50,000 people turning up every other week? Without being a tax cheat, spiv or pretending endlessly that you love Rangers so much that you're going to invest in the club, without ever actually doing it when it's never been needed more?
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Unfortunately, they could be right.
Unfortunately, they're probably right.
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At least he is telling us like it is.
We have basically been given 2 choices, accept whatever sanctions we give you, or don't play football.
I really hope that our club and fans remember days like these, we should never let any of our players go out on national duty again.
And personally (tin hat on.....unpopular opinion coming up) i would think less of any bear who attends a Scotland game in the future.
It's a bit like herding cats, but it would make me more proud than ever if both the club and fans could muster a collective memory of the spite and bitter kicking that we're getting now. This should mean not giving a discretionary penny to any SPL clubs until we're back to using them for improving goal difference, not keeping them afloat by filling their grounds twice a season.
As for Scotland games, I don't know that I'd think less of them, more like complete confusion as to how they could possibly get any enjoyment watching the two traitors likely to be playing, unless they get injured.
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For certain players to have painful recurrences of cruciate ligament injuries. Don't like myself for thinking it, but...
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There are plenty and I mean plenty of players out there in the scottish leagues that would give their right fucking nut to play for us...
This.
A decent player at any of the usual cannon-fodder SPL clubs (which next season will be 2nd place and below), given the choice of another year of being ignored at the 'top' level, or joining Rangers, playing at Ibrox every other week.
Seriously, who is going to give a shit about the SPL next season? The main story will be Rangers and how we progress, and there will be lots of players who would want to join. Even before the prospect of not having us to subsidise them hits home, surely we would be still be able to compete with the wages offered by more than half the SPL on income from Ibrox alone? We'll still have a multiple of the attendances found at the SPL diddies, even after the 5 million extra season tickets they sell for being so sportingly virtuous.
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It undoubtably does. But is that worth the cost it's came at for centuries?
Nope.
I'm glad for any comfort it gives someone at the end, but I'll hope to remember loved ones, achievements, Lovenkrands' header, Arteta's penalty, Mendes at Tannadice, Wallace's 25 yard screamer in the 2020 Champions League final win...real things.
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charlie has no intention of doing what the fans want, he will follow the money...
And give away as much as it takes to have it accepted. I've no malice towards the man, but it grates to see him, with no connection to the club, other than venture capitalism, being the one who will decide where we go, no matter the humiliations, which he won't feel as badly as the rest of us.
Even from a footballing viewpoint, Div3 has merits. It's likely that the number of penalties (over and above the long list of ones already imposed) he will have to offer and accept for Div1 will be so onerous that the playing squad will be severely limited, with no guarantee of promotion within 2 years.
Div3 gives us, Rangers fans, the ones who have really suffered but been so far ignored, a break from watching the club constantly bend over to SPL/SFA hypocrites, and the cause of a fresh start with a younger, hungry and loyal squad to support.
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At last, some official recognition of all of the facts and decisions to be made. And it couldn't have been stated with more measured clarity by a better person. To hear Ally recognise the will for Div 3, the hypocrisy of integrity and social unrest being whored around at the same time to every media outlet, and his complete understanding as to who has been doing the kicking - at last.
I hope Mr Green and friends watched this too.
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I smell a compromise. My senses are telling me that a deal has been cut.
I predict we will be in the SPL next season (with sanctions) and that Charlie Green will bite their hands off for that.
Any predictions about what the sanctions would be? Are there a set of "acceptable" sanctions you'd take?
I just have a horrible feeling that Green, with more love for money than the club, will go in wearing the hair shirt and white flag, with printouts of yesterday's apology to hand out, thinking up ways to make sure the others can go back to their fans with promises that we'll be crippled for years to come.
And still we're the only ones who don't get a say in how these negotiations go.
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It would only be 11...?
The other 29 SFL clubs would reep benefits of Rangers being in the thirs division and working their way up no?
Exactly, but that doesn't fit with all the SPL chairmen at Doncaster's ear, shiting themselves because they can't deal with their own thick supporters' threats. He's admitted to being personally powerless in that interview, so the only option is to use the media to try and terrify them into submission.
Still begs the question - with Rangers in Division 3, being financially prudent and living according to our means, does it have to be some kind of rocket science to have the wee teams do the same? Surely they won't do something as reckless as rely on the presence of another club to pay their way?
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And it starts:
5m Jonathan Sutherland @BBCjsutherland
Neil Doncaster on Rangers into Div 3: "Not viable."
Neil Doncaster admits there's a chance that no firm decision will be taken today. #SPL #Rangers
Just heard him on 5Live - desperately trying not to answer the question as to whether he wants us in the SPL or not, but piling on the pressure to stop us going to Division 3.
"Why should the actions of one club punish the other forty-one?" - because their thick fans want it to, Neil? He went on to list the punishments already doled out:, fine, transfer embargo, points deduction, while also leaving open the promise of more to come, if only the other SPL clubs' fans could stop the frothing at the mouth for a while.
Getting more pissed off at the complete lack of anybody to stand up for us officially about this. All Rangers fans get to see is craven apologies from officials who should be standing up for us, but are instead desperate to offer up their own ideas about how we could be crippled for the 'privilege' of playing in the SPL.
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And so the rebuilding begins. As I'm currently onto the phone to the ticket office waiting to renew my season ticket, I get the feeling we're at the start of something special.
Cheers for this Gaz, made me smile. More optimistic than I've any right to be after reading this!
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'Rangers are the same club as always, sadly that club will be at a much lower level for a while and I want to progress my career. I will continue to support the same Rangers I always did as a boy'.
That's all I wanted to hear from Naismith.
100% this.
Hearing him spew out all of the other shit his lawyer taught him, and do it so easily, was an insult.
Signings before the ban
in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom
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4 - An old, experienced goalie willing to sit on the bench, a cheap Alexander if you like. A left back, a box-to-box central midfielder and a left-footed winger would do for me. For a year that would be enough cover and would still allow for kids to be given their chance.