Reformation Bear

I wish you and your wife very best wishes in what must be a very very difficult time.     I hope you both find reserves of inner strength and the support of family and friends and healthcare professionals.    Take care and best wishes.

So sorry to hear that Scott, wishing you and your wife all the best. Your videos are outstanding but your family has to come first. 

I wish you and your wife very best wishes in what must be a very very difficult time.     I hope you both find reserves of inner strength and the support of family and friends and healthcare professionals.    Take care and best wishes.

You would think we are the only club in Scotland with issues the way that article is written.

It isn't
My take on things
Normally around me . All the bears know the script .
When we always play our first European games . There are seats not taken by the usual people that sit there . And this  means, many seats are taken up by many newbees if you like .Guys that do not normally go to many games . I honestly think this creates a problem . It is these types of fans that don't feel the same responsibility .
They won't be back in that seat the following week so they don't necessarily give a fuck what they sing

Whatever the atmosphere Gerrard has his job to do.   He needs to pick a team and motivate it to win whether they are playing at a near full Ibrox 'rocking' as he puts it, or whether they are playing in front of a silent or even hostile crowd who are on the backs of the team if the game is not going well, as well as being on the backs of those sat in the Directors' box.         Gerrard is not going to get away with ascribing any sort of blame on the lack of atmosphere for failing to win the tie.  That, imo, simply will not do.
Whether they are good enough to beat Legia with or without Ibrox rocking is another matter.    It seems to me that this nonsense of sections of the stadium being closed and the resulting stirring up of Supporter unrest will feed through to the players.   Whether it has a neutral effect, an adverse effect or a positive effect on each of them remains to be seen.   But that is why a manager needs to have them all properly focussed and mentally ready to deal with whatever atmosphere happens on the night      

Gerrard's said what he's said.  He's sought to echo what King said.    Other than repeating what they have said or finding different words to say the same thing there is nothing more Gerrard or King or any of the Directors or execs at Ibrox can do.     The media will have yet more field days on this.  Scottish clubs too.   All words and opinions and more words - all critical in one way or another of the Support.    
None of alters the fact that the Support will say / sing / do whatever it decides to do as a collective support firstly at the StMirren game and then at the Legia game next week.    Will it be largely silence as in no singing?   Will it be taunts at the Board for their willingness to appease?     Will it be singing whatever is normally sung and to fuck with the consequences?    Who knows. 
It will be what it will be and there is fuck all a Rangers chairman or his board of directors or his senior execs or the manager can do about it.       They are not in direct control of what happens.  They can only plead and hope.    That is the extent of their power for these games.      Whether the Support collectively and as individual Supporters take heed and respond in the way that King and the Manager want is something we will only see the result of after each game.       
It will be interesting to see what posts are being generated next Friday and whether this punishment and its consequences are still the dominating subject for Rangers.     

Gerrard's said what he's said.  He's sought to echo what King said.    Other than repeating what they have said or finding different words to say the same thing there is nothing more Gerrard or King or any of the Directors or execs at Ibrox can do.     The media will have yet more field days on this.  Scottish clubs too.   All words and opinions and more words - all critical in one way or another of the Support.    
None of alters the fact that the Support will say / sing / do whatever it decides to do as a collective support firstly at the StMirren game and then at the Legia game next week.    Will it be largely silence as in no singing?   Will it be taunts at the Board for their willingness to appease?     Will it be singing whatever is normally sung and to fuck with the consequences?    Who knows. 
It will be what it will be and there is fuck all a Rangers chairman or his board of directors or his senior execs or the manager can do about it.       They are not in direct control of what happens.  They can only plead and hope.    That is the extent of their power for these games.      Whether the Support collectively and as individual Supporters take heed and respond in the way that King and the Manager want is something we will only see the result of after each game.       
It will be interesting to see what posts are being generated next Friday and whether this punishment and its consequences are still the dominating subject for Rangers.     

Whatever the atmosphere Gerrard has his job to do.   He needs to pick a team and motivate it to win whether they are playing at a near full Ibrox 'rocking' as he puts it, or whether they are playing in front of a silent or even hostile crowd who are on the backs of the team if the game is not going well, as well as being on the backs of those sat in the Directors' box.         Gerrard is not going to get away with ascribing any sort of blame on the lack of atmosphere for failing to win the tie.  That, imo, simply will not do.
Whether they are good enough to beat Legia with or without Ibrox rocking is another matter.    It seems to me that this nonsense of sections of the stadium being closed and the resulting stirring up of Supporter unrest will feed through to the players.   Whether it has a neutral effect, an adverse effect or a positive effect on each of them remains to be seen.   But that is why a manager needs to have them all properly focussed and mentally ready to deal with whatever atmosphere happens on the night      

Whatever the atmosphere Gerrard has his job to do.   He needs to pick a team and motivate it to win whether they are playing at a near full Ibrox 'rocking' as he puts it, or whether they are playing in front of a silent or even hostile crowd who are on the backs of the team if the game is not going well, as well as being on the backs of those sat in the Directors' box.         Gerrard is not going to get away with ascribing any sort of blame on the lack of atmosphere for failing to win the tie.  That, imo, simply will not do.
Whether they are good enough to beat Legia with or without Ibrox rocking is another matter.    It seems to me that this nonsense of sections of the stadium being closed and the resulting stirring up of Supporter unrest will feed through to the players.   Whether it has a neutral effect, an adverse effect or a positive effect on each of them remains to be seen.   But that is why a manager needs to have them all properly focussed and mentally ready to deal with whatever atmosphere happens on the night      

Forget the singing thing, we are an easy target so any and everybody can throw all the shite at us and we’ll take it right up the arse dry.
A complete disaster of a PR  department
James Blair
Dickson
Robertson
The club needs cleansed from top to bottom.
Has Traynor got his apology from Michael Stewart or Tam English yet?

The impression I have from those who speak for Rangers is that earning money via playing in Europe is the most important priority.  
Gerrard said as much in a recent interview when he said (paraphrasing) that at every Board meeting he had ever attended it had been made clear to him how important runs in European football are for Rangers.    I don't think he was confining his comment to re-establishing European track record credentials: the impression I have is that it is primarily the money that runs in Europe generate.    
He's also made it clear on a number of occasions that Rangers is a selling club.   All of the players have a price at which Rangers would let them move on to other Clubs.   I suppose the same would be true if it applied to Gerrard himself.   
What is also telling, imo, is that Gerrard (nor any director or anyone senior at Ibrox ever states that winning the league title is the number one priority which overrides everything else.   They just don't say that.  What they are careful to say is that Rangers competes to win every trophy it plays for.      Which is nowhere near the same as the emphasis they seem to put on the essential need to have good runs in Europe.    Its a question of priorities and the top priority seems to be about earning money.   
If that, in substance, is a reasonable indicator of the priorities, then the result against Legia Warsaw next week assumes top priority (............….which is what Gerrard - and King if anybody could find him to ask him - would probably say anyway purely because it is the next game in a 'one game at a time' type of thinking which deflects away from the overall potential impact for a season).
Win against Legia Warsaw and everyone is very happy.   The manager, players and Support because its more great European nights ahead.   The Board because its achieving their top priority which is to generate money.
Lose and there could be a bit of decent sized problem looming.   The squad size is super-healthy (bloated even) in terms of numbers - aside that is from not having enough quality strikers.   But its not necessarily of sufficient quality overall in every position.     It seems to have been sized with the intention of being strongly competitive for European and domestic competitions being fought in parallel.   
But it'd be a big wage bill, and a difficult job to keep all players happy and motivated if the season becomes one where there is no European football.    If after that no domestic trophies are won this season then as the saying goes - there may be trouble ahead.  Because carrying that size of first team squad with its associated wage bill and not winning anything and not having got through to the more financially beneficial group stages in Europe might be very hard to sustain financially.         It's a very important game next week.    One of the most important games in a very long time it seems to me.     

The impression I have from those who speak for Rangers is that earning money via playing in Europe is the most important priority.  
Gerrard said as much in a recent interview when he said (paraphrasing) that at every Board meeting he had ever attended it had been made clear to him how important runs in European football are for Rangers.    I don't think he was confining his comment to re-establishing European track record credentials: the impression I have is that it is primarily the money that runs in Europe generate.    
He's also made it clear on a number of occasions that Rangers is a selling club.   All of the players have a price at which Rangers would let them move on to other Clubs.   I suppose the same would be true if it applied to Gerrard himself.   
What is also telling, imo, is that Gerrard (nor any director or anyone senior at Ibrox ever states that winning the league title is the number one priority which overrides everything else.   They just don't say that.  What they are careful to say is that Rangers competes to win every trophy it plays for.      Which is nowhere near the same as the emphasis they seem to put on the essential need to have good runs in Europe.    Its a question of priorities and the top priority seems to be about earning money.   
If that, in substance, is a reasonable indicator of the priorities, then the result against Legia Warsaw next week assumes top priority (............….which is what Gerrard - and King if anybody could find him to ask him - would probably say anyway purely because it is the next game in a 'one game at a time' type of thinking which deflects away from the overall potential impact for a season).
Win against Legia Warsaw and everyone is very happy.   The manager, players and Support because its more great European nights ahead.   The Board because its achieving their top priority which is to generate money.
Lose and there could be a bit of decent sized problem looming.   The squad size is super-healthy (bloated even) in terms of numbers - aside that is from not having enough quality strikers.   But its not necessarily of sufficient quality overall in every position.     It seems to have been sized with the intention of being strongly competitive for European and domestic competitions being fought in parallel.   
But it'd be a big wage bill, and a difficult job to keep all players happy and motivated if the season becomes one where there is no European football.    If after that no domestic trophies are won this season then as the saying goes - there may be trouble ahead.  Because carrying that size of first team squad with its associated wage bill and not winning anything and not having got through to the more financially beneficial group stages in Europe might be very hard to sustain financially.         It's a very important game next week.    One of the most important games in a very long time it seems to me.     

Two teams that are good teams is the Manager's concluding assessment.  Fair enough.  
Not getting the away goal means - as the Manager acknowledges - that the team is going to have to produce top quality defending next week.      
His assessment of the team not being brave enough in the final third during the 2nd half is also telling.   The translation of the team into a team that consistently takes a far higher proportion of goal scoring chances created is still a work in progress.   Whether they can remedy that next week against a team that does not give away many goals looks like being a tall order.
All of the players selected for the game need to be on top form.     Could be a very difficult game. 

Well done Rangers.
The only adverse comment I have is that Robertson should have been nowhere near this (see the article today on the Rangers website).  IMO the man is not to be trusted and along with the discredited company secretary are not fit to be employed by Rangers.   Their actions and words on other subjects dishonour the Club and harm its reputation.    That Robertson seeks to improve his image by PR appearances and words in relation to the MOD award removes (for me anyway) a bit of gloss from the award.  I speak as a fan, as a Rangers shareholder and having had a long career in the MOD. 

Well done Rangers.
The only adverse comment I have is that Robertson should have been nowhere near this (see the article today on the Rangers website).  IMO the man is not to be trusted and along with the discredited company secretary are not fit to be employed by Rangers.   Their actions and words on other subjects dishonour the Club and harm its reputation.    That Robertson seeks to improve his image by PR appearances and words in relation to the MOD award removes (for me anyway) a bit of gloss from the award.  I speak as a fan, as a Rangers shareholder and having had a long career in the MOD. 

Well done Rangers.
The only adverse comment I have is that Robertson should have been nowhere near this (see the article today on the Rangers website).  IMO the man is not to be trusted and along with the discredited company secretary are not fit to be employed by Rangers.   Their actions and words on other subjects dishonour the Club and harm its reputation.    That Robertson seeks to improve his image by PR appearances and words in relation to the MOD award removes (for me anyway) a bit of gloss from the award.  I speak as a fan, as a Rangers shareholder and having had a long career in the MOD. 

Well done Rangers.
The only adverse comment I have is that Robertson should have been nowhere near this (see the article today on the Rangers website).  IMO the man is not to be trusted and along with the discredited company secretary are not fit to be employed by Rangers.   Their actions and words on other subjects dishonour the Club and harm its reputation.    That Robertson seeks to improve his image by PR appearances and words in relation to the MOD award removes (for me anyway) a bit of gloss from the award.  I speak as a fan, as a Rangers shareholder and having had a long career in the MOD. 

Well done Rangers.
The only adverse comment I have is that Robertson should have been nowhere near this (see the article today on the Rangers website).  IMO the man is not to be trusted and along with the discredited company secretary are not fit to be employed by Rangers.   Their actions and words on other subjects dishonour the Club and harm its reputation.    That Robertson seeks to improve his image by PR appearances and words in relation to the MOD award removes (for me anyway) a bit of gloss from the award.  I speak as a fan, as a Rangers shareholder and having had a long career in the MOD. 

Well done Rangers.
The only adverse comment I have is that Robertson should have been nowhere near this (see the article today on the Rangers website).  IMO the man is not to be trusted and along with the discredited company secretary are not fit to be employed by Rangers.   Their actions and words on other subjects dishonour the Club and harm its reputation.    That Robertson seeks to improve his image by PR appearances and words in relation to the MOD award removes (for me anyway) a bit of gloss from the award.  I speak as a fan, as a Rangers shareholder and having had a long career in the MOD. 

Well done Rangers.
The only adverse comment I have is that Robertson should have been nowhere near this (see the article today on the Rangers website).  IMO the man is not to be trusted and along with the discredited company secretary are not fit to be employed by Rangers.   Their actions and words on other subjects dishonour the Club and harm its reputation.    That Robertson seeks to improve his image by PR appearances and words in relation to the MOD award removes (for me anyway) a bit of gloss from the award.  I speak as a fan, as a Rangers shareholder and having had a long career in the MOD. 

Well done Rangers.
The only adverse comment I have is that Robertson should have been nowhere near this (see the article today on the Rangers website).  IMO the man is not to be trusted and along with the discredited company secretary are not fit to be employed by Rangers.   Their actions and words on other subjects dishonour the Club and harm its reputation.    That Robertson seeks to improve his image by PR appearances and words in relation to the MOD award removes (for me anyway) a bit of gloss from the award.  I speak as a fan, as a Rangers shareholder and having had a long career in the MOD. 

Well done Rangers.
The only adverse comment I have is that Robertson should have been nowhere near this (see the article today on the Rangers website).  IMO the man is not to be trusted and along with the discredited company secretary are not fit to be employed by Rangers.   Their actions and words on other subjects dishonour the Club and harm its reputation.    That Robertson seeks to improve his image by PR appearances and words in relation to the MOD award removes (for me anyway) a bit of gloss from the award.  I speak as a fan, as a Rangers shareholder and having had a long career in the MOD. 

No WAY  ---  @Reformation Bear types his own thoughts -- that article was pure C&P 

The Officer has been very compliant to the scum for years.