bilkobear

Mike Ashley would destroy Rangers. He came close once, only stupidity would consider giving him a second opportunity. The man is our enemy.

Maybe have Whyte and Green back as well.

I am gutted for the support today mate. After the last two games, there was a wee spring in the support's step, and it has gone in the most depressing circumstances. The Board will probably have to get their arse into gear and get the next appointment into the manager's seat asap, if we aren't to destroy our season completely,....I get that. I just hope that we make the right appointment and don't panic as a club into a rushed move that we live to regret at our leisure.

The league is slipping away, however, on the other front of chasing second, we came out of today unscathed. I always harbour the very best of ambitions for the club, and whilst many of us were even at the start of the season, being realistic in only expecting a move up of one position into a substantial second, I quietly hoped we might spring a surprise. Perhaps a wee bit naive. However, this current period in the season has seen us lose another manager and again we are in transition. A transition can quickly become turmoil if we start to panic. We really do need to keep our collective calm. Possibly today will force the Board's hand concerning a new appointment, and if it was lack of finance holding our decision back, then maybe this will loosen the purse strings. The support will be looking for the Board to act.

Criticism on a day like today comes easy, and perhaps much of it is deserved. However, some of the mindless vitriol that is disguised as criticism is disappointing to read on a Rangers forum. The Board got the last appointment wrong, probably. They have rectified their mistake in a rushed manner without a plan in place beforehand. That isn't good. But, we cannot forget that we are trying to establish ourselves back in the top division after years of damage, much of it delivered by hate and off the field mischief. Against this, we are compromised financially after being hamstrung by a parcel of Spivs. The Board cannot afford to get the next appointment wrong and probably are moving cautiously against this backdrop.

Fair enough, we are all desperately frustrated at the slow progress we are making. We are perhaps treading through treacle. But today was just an ugly setback, it isn't the end of the world. We have improved on last season, we have some good players at the club, we are just needing to make another big step forward. But I don't think panicking will help. I feel like reaching for the bottle tonight, but I will keep a cool head and just relent to sinking some 4% beer instead. The club must keep its head.

Possibly you are right. But we don't have that quality of days past. These players are all better than their opponents in Hamilton shirts, but not so much better that they don't still require a good coach to get them sorted out on the field. Hamilton's tactics were familiar and we have all seen them before, however, the match changed on an error, and without that error, we might well have gone on to win. We aren't carrying much luck, but then again really good teams often make enough of their own luck to get them over the line, even on the bad days. We just aren't a really good team.

No, we don't have to build a whole new team That is just hysterical nonsense. But we do need to bring in a new manager and looking at how the players struggled to break down an average team who simply dug themselves in, perhaps the new manager may have to have plenty of experience.

Yeah, having proper Rangers men who are ploughing their own money into the club is a fckn disgrace. Bring back the Spivs.. eh?

It is never going to happen at Rangers for Windass. There is just no end product in this player. Whether it is a poor finish, the wrong choice, or just a bad touch, he is the best example of a player who lacks that bit of quality to play for Rangers. He will never be a consistent contributor at our level. Why Pedro and now Murty cannot seem to recognise this is a puzzle?

I thought he was tremendous in the second tier for us. Last season he failed to make the step up. I thought that was that, and he had hit some sort of ceiling. But this season he has actually managed to up his performance, he has found another gear of maturity, broken through that ceiling and who knows? Can he keep it up, can he continue to improve, and can he regain his ability to finish inside the box? Over to you Jason.

Wow! It is almost like we got there in the end. Having to cut through all the nonsense, chopping down all the 'look at me shyte', and then pushing past the last resistant undergrowth of stupidity, until finally the breakthrough into the clear blue sky illuminated light of sensible contribution. Well done, if I had a cigar to allocate, you would be smoking it now.

Is that the same manager that he wouldn't sign a contract with whilst at Rangers, and who was dropping him towards the end of his own managerial reign? The same manager whom he followed down south at a knockdown price, after he (Mackay) downed tools,. Or are we somehow talking about another manager who really had no control over the situation of a disgruntled recalcitrant player, whose greedy head was already outside the Ibrox doors? We should be told.

Given the level of misinformation that abounds inside press circles in the UK, most of it furnished by the cowboys in the industry north of the border, then I suppose Durham can be forgiven the many aspects of inaccuracy and supposition that his article nonetheless founders on. the 100,000 in Seville is like the 46,000 souls that turn up in The Jimmy Savile Arena every week this season. I will say no more.

I wonder if David Murray has ever watched a Rangers game since he dumped us into the hands of a spiv?

Good I just fired mine in.

I am sorry I don't often post on here so I suppose it will be viewed in hostility because hostility towards other Rangers supporters not on song with the forum consensus seems to be the default position accepted as the normal on this forum. I post on FF and whilst there can be some hostility to opinion sometimes not shared by the majority, there is nonetheless not the same appetite for scathing terms towards dissenting voice as there is on here. Insults like scum and vermin actually shock me and why anyone in our support would fire such venom towards our own is really beyond acceptable. Stop it lads you are better than that. As regards the UOF, they have made a statement which is worthy of consideration. Nothing else is being asked of supporters. Consider it then discuss it and criticise if you think that it should be criticised. But respect the fellow fans who believe it is worthy of putting into the public forum. I notice on here a support for the current Board, yet paradoxically an appetite for asking that the management team be replaced. Incredibly even a view that the UOF are compromised by not asking for this themselves. Don’t you understand the Board is so toxic, so weak, so vulnerable in their compromised position of dishonesty that they are unable to replace our failing management team? They don’t have the authority or the credibility. They need this management team, terrible as they are, because they are the absolute distraction for their own inadequacy and the perfect smokescreen to their continued shafting of our football club. However yes, it is a disgusting fact that the failing management team choose to feast their inadequacy (well meaning and ego driven as it is) on the weakened body of the club under the convenient murkiness of a Board who have made the club night and enveloped Rangers Football Club under a carpet of darkness. The drought of money through purchases of season tickets etc to starve out the current carpet baggers is indeed a hugely risky gamble. But don’t claim that 15,000 season ticket holders withholding their cash don’t have an authoritative voice regarding the current position of Rangers Football Club. If we could all act as one, there would be no hiding place for anyone in any Boardroom working against our club. But for reasons mostly noble and decent, ironically we cannot. We are held hostage by bad people through and because of our loyalty and affections. Ultimately the current disunity in the support will continue to weaken us and those who themselves seize upon it for their own selfish ends are killing the thing that they probably love. It has to stop. We need change at the club. We will know when the right people are there, because it will feel right not for some, but for all and every one of us and we will see money spent on Rangers and the future of Rangers and not stolen by thieves and chancers who don’t and never have had any interest in our football club. We need to make that happen, and we need to find the common cause to enable it. Meanwhile even if we disagree with the small print and the detail, we have to find respect for each other and pursue the consensus and mutual aims that make us strong and ultimately able to withstand our many enemies. In each other we must truly and surely trust. We have no other.

This is a disgusting thread. But you find the same on other Ranger's supporters forums nowadays so it's not just this forum. People engaged in firing off derogatory insults many worse than the filth that comes out of the mouths of The Filth themselves should be ashamed of themselves. They probably won't be. I find it difficult to believe that genuine Rangers men can deliver this type of language when discussing other Rangers supporters, no matter how much they disagree with them.

Whoever has the gold makes the rules. That’s how it works. In this case like so many others this isn’t actually correct. The gold of course is held by the support.

What an odd thing to say. Why would any supporter of Rangers be fed up with other supporters writing books about our great club? In the early days of the internet I used to complain about the lack of printed word out there about Rangers. I personally cannot get enough of it when it is written by my fellow supporters. Why would this bother you, after all you can ignore it, not buy and most certainly not bother to read it. Most odd.

Yes that is true. But the referee to be fair didn't miss them. When they were down to ten men, we should have used the extra man and they wouldn't have got close enough to kick us. Instead we played far too many fifty fifty long balls. I found it depressing and poor to watch.

The problem is we were playing a side that would struggle to get a result in most part time professional leagues in the UK. The players who couldn't be arsed after we were 3-0 up should be the ones busting a gut to keep their place. Because they are the ones under most threat come September the 1st. Yet they didn't. I know it is not popular, but the truth is we seem unable to command a professional appetite on too many occasions, and it might well be why we are out of the LC already. Ally McCoist should be demanding the sort of hunger and professional attitude that someone like Alex Ferguson would do from players in this type of 'easy game'. Have we got to the stage that we no longer expect the very best from a Rangers team on every occasion and we are now just happy to get a result against poor sides like Stranraer? I want us to demand the highest of standards and I demand that Ally McCoist demands this as well. Only then will games against SPL opposition look after themselves.

So the game against Forfar and the fact we are out of the LC already is so easily forgotten? I thought we were poor today, the first half goals cam quickly and we were lest wasteful un front of goal, but the truth is we quickly became sluggish, resorting to lazy long balls, and if it hadn't been for the fact we were playing a side who were shyte, we may have had a problem. I hope McCoist isn't pleased with that.

Great post. We should act as a single body, but keep our distance from all parties until the facts are on the table. If they want our support they should have to fight for it by giving us all the information we need regarding their intentions.

Cannot argue with a single word of that. The support are being manipulated by different people and it has rendered up divided and powerless.