Trooblue

Me too. Events of the last few months - obvious hatred of SFA and other clubs towards Rangers - mean I can't bring myself to support Scotland any more. I won't be going near Hampden again unless Rangers are playing there.

Took them a whole day to come up with this statement.

Brown recorded by BBC Scotland excusing booing of Black. Programme 'chaired' by Spence of course - on now.

I got through this morning by using the 'purchase a match ticket' option on the phone. The operator was happy to speak about my season ticket, checked the details and confirmed that my card has been activated, even though the money has yet to come off my account. If you are still trying to get info, I suggest phoning and using the 'purchase a match ticket' option. I sent my renewal by post over two weeks ago, so they are clearly swamped.

Really good to see this proactive instant rebuttal approach. We need to strike back firmly each time one of the SPL lie-mongers spouts crap. It should not just be Charles Green making the statements though - we need a small legal/PR team to be dealing with this stuff day in and day out. PS - when are we going to ban Spence, Gordon and co from Ibrox? We have nothing to lose by booting out the hostile 'journalists' - they need us more than we need them.

Hope you are right, but what status would any agreement from that bunch of liars have? I wouldn't trust them to follow through on any agreement.

I must be missing something. I'm assuming that Doncaster is trying to get Green to agree to an inquiry as a condition of SPL support for our membership of the SFA. However,Doncaster and his SPL cronies can launch an investigation into the so-called 'dual contract' matter any time they like - they just need to get the vote fixed on the same basis that the vote was fixed to eject us from the SPL. They would no doubt fix the membership of the inquiry panel in order to get the outcome they want. So why are they bothering to try to get us to agree to their fraudulent inquiry at this stage? Surely they are not just trying to humiliate us for the sake of it? Those nice people wouldn't do that, would they?

Buried in 2012 then!

Absolutely right. The idea of any kind of unity and mutual support in Scottish football died in 2012.

Fair enough - you are right about the need for collective action.

You are right - it's not really about selling stuff (marketing) it's about shrewd clever PR. Celtic pose as the outsiders, the 'persecuted underdogs' just as you say, but, in fact they are the real 'establishment club', skilled at getting the media to buy into their narrative, and securing their placemen in positions of authority (Regan is only one of them). And when did Rangers ever have a former Cabinet Minister as Chairman?

Shouldn't need to spend megabucks on this, but you only need to look at the way the Parkhead mob cleverly coordinate their campaigns (against the referees, and against us) to see how important and effective this can be. Sadly, the campaigns against Rangers won't just stop because we are in the 3rd and the club is at last being run properly - we'll have to look after our own interests a bit more proactively.

Absolutely right.

It's not really about the jokes - we can give and take those. It's about the impact of the drip, drip, drip of propaganda against the club. The only way to deal with that is to have an organised, professional unit within Ibrox, ready to correct the falsehoods and take the required formal steps to deal with the troublemakers.

He's linked with Freddie Shepherd, apparently.

Over the past few years we have been slow to react at official level to the very well organised, coordinated attacks on the club from our enemies. The new board/management must ensure that we have a legal and PR team of the highest calibre which will be proactive, not reactive, will adopt a policy of instant rebuttal, and will constantly promote the image and reputation of the club. This requires a degree of professionalism which has been missing for too long at Ibrox. It's time for those in the media and Scottish football's corridors of power to understand that any and every attack on Rangers will be answered with cool calm logic, and will not be allowed to become part of some bizarre 'accepted wisdom' which damages our club.

Any views on the salaries issue? We have a real opportunity to get a new balance and set new, more realistic levels of payment. The wage inflation of the past few years must be a thing of the past, and the proportion of salaries within our overall costs must become significantly lower. To do this, though, we need to make the right start when/if we finally get a chance to make new signings. I would be happy to see Ian Black and some of the others mentioned over the past few days being signed, but their wages have to fit within a new salaries policy, I would say.