Gitch

I think they get scared when grown men and woman shout at them. 
 
Might be an over reaction but i am getting very fucking concerned over our attitude so far. Personally wont be laughing at the shite across the city as much until we have our house in full order. Dundee utd where right up for it today. 
 
Need to take it on the chin though and dust it off and get behind the team on Tuesday night and hopefully we can give a message to the team that we are behind them and stop being shitebags. 

Great statement by the UB. 

A few years ago in Lambhill Cemetery in Glasgow we managed to locate the final resting place of Rangers President George Goudie, unfortunately the stone marking the plot was off it’s plinth.Subsequently our team re-erected the stone and blast cleaned it.
As a token of our gratitude, thanks and respect we at the Restoration of Rangers Graves Project thought that it would be fitting to mark Mr Goudies plot with a plaque, this was put in place last week.
This is today’s generation of Rangers supporters saying thank you to Mr George Goudie.
President 1882 – 1883 - Vice President 1883 – 1885.
George Goudie was a Paisley “Buddie”, born at 2, Hamilton Street in the town on 9 April, 1859 to Humphrey, an engine-fitter (although later records would state he was a marine engineer), and his wife Anne.

It would appear young George spent his formative years overseas. There is no trace of the family in the census of 1861 or in that of 1871. They do appear in the 1881 census. By then the family home was at 14 Union Street in Leith. The census records twenty-one year-old George had three siblings. Eighteen year-old Matthew and sixteen year-old William had been born in Greece. The youngest of the four sons, fourteen year-old Henry, had been born in Turkey. George’s occupation was given as “clerk”.

Research has, as yet, failed to reveal how the young clerk from Leith became, within a year, vice-president of Rangers Football Club! Goudie’s first appearance in the Glasgow PO directory was not until 1886/87. We do know, though, that he was an accomplished athlete, being successful at distances ranging from 100 yards to 880 yards. It is not an unfair assumption that George became friends with Tom Vallace on the athletics circuit and he was brought into the Rangers’ circle through Tom.

When Archie Harkness died so tragically young in November, 1882, Vice-president George Goudie assumed the presidency of the club. These were not good times for the Rangers. There had been no attempt to build up the club membership. The club was in such financial straits, the committee approached President Goudie requesting he provide a loan of £30 (just under £3,000 in today’s terms). This he did. Would Rangers Football Club have survived if Goudie had not agreed to provide the loan? We have to assume that without it, the end may have been nigh. By the summer of 1883, the club was £100 in debt. George served just a matter of months as president. He stood down at the annual general meeting in May, 1883, held at the Athole Hotel. Tom Vallance became president. George served as his vice-president for the next two years.

The fact the committee felt they could approach George Goudie for a loan would suggest he had already established his business as a produce merchant with some success. George married Jane Currie on 14 April, 1887 at her family home at 20 Kelvingrove Street. George had been living at 89 Grant Street, a short distance from Rangers’ old Burnbank ground. The first marital home would appear to have been at Sandyford Street. By 1891, the family, now augmented by George, Jnr had moved to 20 Kelvingrove Street. George had had offices in Waterloo Street and York Street. Such was the success of his business, the family could afford to employ a domestic servant.

By the time of the 1901 census, George, Jnr had been joined by sister Jane and brothers Alexander and James. Five years later, the Goudies had moved to Pollokshields, the family home being “Dunard” at 14 Leslie Street. George had retained his sporting competitive spirit, turning his hand to bowls. He had been a member of the St Vincent Club, then, on moving south of the river, Titwood Bowling Club. His final business address was in Howard Street.

George suffered from heart disease for the last eighteen months or so of his life. He died, aged only fifty-one, on 24 February, 1911. His funeral took place at the Western Necropolis, attended by his “wide circle of friends”. The funeral directors were James Henderson and Co. Yes, the same James Henderson who, too, became president of Rangers and at the time of George’s death, was chairman of Rangers Football Club Limited. We do not have a great record of George Goudie’s time on the Rangers committee.
 That one act, however, the granting of a loan of £30, will ensure his place in our history will live for ever.

He's still doing the videos but both him and his Mrs haven't been keeping too good of late and been a bit of a tough summer for them, he's looking to get back on sooner rather than later though.

On the 27th May 1856 the Rangers legend that was Tom Vallance was born.
To quote his Rangers team-mates from the 1870’s ‘’ The whole of Rangers loved him like a brother’’
Over the years of our research one name kept popping up time and again and that’s the name of Tom Vallance who had on reflection sadly been overlooked.
Tom was born at a small farmhouse known as Succoth near Renton in the parish of Cardross in 1856.When young he moved with his family to the Old Toll House at Shandon on the Gareloch.Tom came to Glasgow in the early 1870’s following the path taken by his friends from the Gareloch ,the brothers McNeil and Campbell .
Tom Vallance had an astonishing 60 year association with the Club, and his is an incredible CV.
He was a master oarsman, a champion athlete (he set a Scottish long jump record of over 21 feet), he studied at the Glasgow School of Art, had paintings accepted by the Royal Scottish Academy and was Rangers Club Captain and President for many years.
We have recorded details of Tom Vallance being present at the ceremony held on 1st January 1929 which saw the opening of the Main Stand at Ibrox and also at a dinner which was held in the St.Enoch’s Hotel after a Rangers match in 1933 when we faced Sporting Club of Vienna. He was also a guest of the Club at the New Years Day fixture against celtic.So, the lad who was present at Fleshers Haugh in 1872 is still attending Ibrox some 60 years later where the Club that he’d helped form and nurture were now playing in front of crowds in excess of 100,000.
Tom was a successful business man. He had The Club restaurant at 22 Paisley Road West which today is the Viceroy Bar,The Metropolitan which stood on Hutchison Street in the Merchant City area of Glasgow and the Lansdowne which was at 183 Hope Street.
Tom was having the Rangers results wired to his restaurants for the benefit of his patrons as early as 1890.
When Rangers moved to First Ibrox in 1887 it was said that it was common for Club President Vallance to be working the turnstiles on matchday.
At the opening of the Main Stand in 1929 Tom Vallance recalled the facilities being so cramped at the Rangers ground at Kinning Park that the players would have to wash in basins of cold water in the open air.
It was the teenage Tom Vallance who helped lay the very foundations upon which our Club was built, hard-work, discipline, honesty, integrity and fair play .Mr. Struth said during that famous speech “No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the Gallant Pioneers”
Tom was paid the ultimate accolade by the Club in May 1898 when he was made a life member.
As a lasting tribute to the incredible contribution he made to our Club we had Tom put on to canvas by way of a painting by artist Helen Runciman .Tom Vallance has now taken his rightful place at the top of the Marble Staircase alongside his friends and fellow Founders.
Tom died on 16th February 1935 aged 78 at 189 Pitt Street Glasgow. He is buried in Hillfoot Cemetery in Bearsden and his funeral was attended by Mr. Struth, Chairman James Bowie and his old team-mate James McIntyre who both took a cord.Incredibly ,players from the Vale of Leven team whom Tom had faced 60 years earlier in 1877 were also in attendance.
He was a great Ranger who loved his Club.
Today we celebrate the life of Tom Vallance.

‘’Thus ended their first match played at the latter end of May 1872 some two months after the inauguration of the club’’.
The words of Rangers player William Dunlop from his article The Rangers FC which he wrote so eloquently for the SFA Annual in 1881 using the pen name ‘True Blue’.
Rangers Football Club played it’s first ever match 147 years ago this week.
Our Club was formed on a spare bit of ground at Fleshers Haugh by a few kids who’d come to Glasgow seeking employment and a better way of life.
Their Club ,which they formed for no other reason than the love of football and the pursuit of sporting excellence, would go on to become the world’s most successful.
That first ever match was against Callander and ended 0-0, Willie continued,
“Their first game was a terrible spectacle with  the ball suffering an incredible amount of abuse” William McBeath was given man of the match and then spent a week in bed recovering due to his exertions’’
Founder William McBeath was from Callander and we believe it would have been Willie who approached ex-pats from the town who had settled in Glasgow and that’s probably where the opposition came from for our first match.
Willie’s Rangers team-mate Sam Ricketts wrote in 1884 about the boys playing those first few games in their civvies and journalist John Allan wrote about them having to change behind a bush as there were no facilities.
William Dunlop described how genial Peter McNeil would travel on a Saturday morning to a desirable part of the Glasgow Green, set up the noted standards and stand guard until the classic hour came when he would be joined by his friends.  We felt this was a very dramatic and moving image and commissioned a painting to be done depicting this scene.We presented the painting by artist Helen Runciman to the Club in 2009 and it now hangs on the marble staircase at Ibrox.
The Rangers would remain at Fleshers Haugh for three years .
They then began their journey around Glasgow to Burnbank and  Kinning Park before finally settling in the Ibrox area in 1887.
The Rangers FC by William Dunlop.
https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/the-Rangers-f-c-by-true-blue

Hopefully the next few days will lead us into a successful phase in returning  to our glory days.
Talking my two young kids tonight (both of whom have only known the tough times) they asked me my favourite 3 Rangers players ever.
2 of the 3 world class players I saw included Gazza and Laudrup. They didn't really know about Davie Cooper, I showed them this, and they said he was a Rangers Messi ?.
It ain't easy watching us these days, but enjoy, and think about the good times as hopefully they come round again soon enough....
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DiRZHAe3ARiw&ved=0ahUKEwi3zK7LrOraAhUIDsAKHSk5C1kQtwIIKzAD&usg=AOvVaw36FPQChhkCYFnJKgwtT87M

Davie Cooper. 

Founder Peter Campbell was born on the 6th March 1857.
Peter was the first Ranger to score a goal for his country.
In 1876 Peter and his fellow Pioneer, Moses McNeil, became the first Rangers players to gain representative honours. They were part of the Glasgow side that defeated Sheffield 2-0 at Bramall Lane.
Recognised as one of the top players in Scotland he was one of the first to move south, to Blackburn Rovers, playing there for a short time during the 1879/80 season.  
Peter came from a more privileged background than his fellow Pioneers.
His father John was a harbour master, his mother Mary was sister of Sir James Jenkins, honorary surgeon to Queen Victoria. The family home was “Craigellan”, a large sandstone villa in the lochside village of Garelochhead.
Peter’s family were involved in the shipping industry. He was a Ship’s Engineer and was employed at the Barclay Curle Yard on the Clyde .Peter’s engineering certificate issued in 1882, shows his address as being No.2 Parkgrove Terrace in Glasgow where he was living with his cousin Captain Bob Campbell.
This is one of many locations that we visit during the Founders Trail.
Peter retired early from football, to concentrate on following in the family tradition by going to sea and qualified as a marine engineer in 1882. But tragically, in the early weeks of 1883, his ship the “St Columba” floundered in the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France.
The youngest of our Gallant Pioneers died aged only twenty-five.
Peter’s ship departed on that tragic voyage from Penarth Dock in South Wales.
On Saturday 22 nd July 2017, after a period of negotiation with Penarth Council, we unveiled a memorial plaque at Penarth Pier to commemorate the life of Peter Campbell and his contribution in the formation of Rangers Football Club. The memorial was funded by our Restoration of Rangers Graves Project.
We are fortunate to have something more tangible to remember Peter Campbell by. He was a member of the first Rangers’ side to win a trophy, the Glasgow Merchants’ Charity Cup in 1879. Peter’s medal from that momentous day is proudly displayed in the Blue Room at Ibrox Stadium.
There’s an incredible story behind Peter’s medal.
Fellow Rangers supporter William Mason contacted us to tell of how one of his friends had found this medal belonging to Peter Campbell in a park in East Kilbride in 1968. A few years ago his friend loaned the medal to Rangers and Peter Campbell’s medal is on display in the Blue Room at Ibrox.
This is a permanent reminder of the contribution Peter Campbell made in forming our great Club.
 

After years of disappointment the Rangers eventually got their hands on the Scottish Cup on 17th February 1894 after beating celtic 3-1 at Hampden.
They were presented with the Cup in the Alexandra Hotel which stood at No. 148 Bath Street which today is the Pure Gym Centre.
We have to bear in mind that the winning of the Scottish Cup in 1894 was still the pinnacle achievement for all Clubs, as the Scottish League was still very much in its infancy Rangers legend Tom Vallance( who is pictured standing on the back row)  had this to say on the milestone reached by the Club, he wrote in the Scottish Sport.
“It is with a true sense of delight that those who have followed the varying fortunes of the Rangers since their formation can now see their triumph, their name and fame shining throughout the land with a luster that they never before approached”.
Tom presented each Rangers player with a gold scarf pin to commemorate this milestone in the Club’s history.
Tom is pictured here with the proud Rangers Committee.
Pictured with the victorious Rangers team is trainer John Taylor who’s unmarked grave we recently located in Craigton Cemetery.
Mr Taylor’s plot will be restored as part of our Restoration of Rangers Graves Project.

Kris Boyd needs to learn to shut his mouth. I bet he doesn't know what went on in the end.
Lennon is a poisonous and toxic person who is always the victim and never the perpetrator.  He bleats on about how hard done to he is and never takes responsibility for the part he plays in the abuse he gets.
Sadly everybody else seems to forget that he causes most of his own problems then screams racism, victimisation and abuse. When he does anything to antagonise people is just craic or because he has mental health problems. It makes me sick that these excuses are waived around when there are people out there who suffer real racism and unbelievable abuse on a daily basis and are mostly ignored and people who are severely mentally unwell who are ridiculed.
Unfortunately for us he will be on BT/sky/premier's sports commentating on our games along with the rest of the bigots who should be nowhere near us.
Rant over!!

Would just like to invite any Rangers supporters who are on Facebook to join my group, The Rangers Archives.
On this we show videos of archive matches, many of which are exclusive to the group, post historical articles as well as a fantastic archive of pictures.
Currently there are over 57,300 members, and everyone is vetted to ensure supporters of other clubs are not able to join.
As an example, today there have been videos showing a) The 2009 Loving Cup ceremony, b) Jean-Claude D’archeville’s goals for Rangers, c) Compilation of long range specials v celtic, d) Mo Edu’s last minute strike in Lisbon in 2011 and e) a historical article of Rangers v Rapid Vienna played on this date in 1964.
Here is the link to join    The Rangers Archives
Look forward to seeing you there
SM.

We had a decent bit of form early doors so the fans got overexcited thinking we were “there”. 
Gerrard has us moving in the right direction.

Thought posters might like to put a face to the name, checked if it was okay to do so, it is.
Something most won’t know about ED is that he was at N’castle after leaving school, he was offered terms but his mother decided he was getting a real job in the bank.
He was a big lump of a lad even then, typical battering ram centre forward of that era and skill to go with it, who knows what could have been, hope you like the fotie from last year, keep rockin’ big chap ?

Sad news.  I've been reading this forum for a long time now and ED was one of the good posters.  I very much enjoyed reading both his wind ups and his serious posts.  RIP.

Sad news.  I've been reading this forum for a long time now and ED was one of the good posters.  I very much enjoyed reading both his wind ups and his serious posts.  RIP.

Sad news.  I've been reading this forum for a long time now and ED was one of the good posters.  I very much enjoyed reading both his wind ups and his serious posts.  RIP.

I'm starting this thread just to inform RM that the member Edmiston Drive is now seriously ill in hospital and probably won't get out .  He was diagnosed with cancer a few week ago and was told how bad it was.  Unfortunately on his next visit just over a week ago his condition had escalated dramatically and his time left was weeks.
As we all know he had many a heated debate and wasn't shy in giving his opinion, even when out for a few beers and I wasn't interested!!!
What I can say is that the big man was 100% Rangers and that's not up for debate!
Going to leave it at that.
Admin if this ends up a thread on rights, wrongs or a slagging match please delete.
No Surrender Big Man!
 

As I first went to Ibrox in 1962 thus is going to very difficult. 
Scot Symon’s dominant team, the Barcelona Bears, Jock Wallace’s two treble winning squads, the Souness Revolution, Walter’s nine-in-a-row legends, Advocaat’s purring football outfit...
23 players from that list? Ill get back to you in about a week.

A quick trawl through online dictionaries provides a variety of similar and succinct definitions for “Lifeblood”.
“a vital or life-giving force or component”
“the indispensable factor or influence that gives something its strength and vitality”
“the thing that is most important to the continuing success and existence of something else”
RSC’s are not comprised of people who view themselves as “uber fans”, who consider themselves better or more deserving than others, they are just a group of bears who, most probably for geographical reasons, have aligned themselves together with the common purpose of following and supporting the club we love.
They have evolved significantly since the days of their forerunner – the brake club, a name given honouring the mode of transport. A brake was large horse drawn carriage which could transport 20-30 people and brake clubs often had their own distinct banner in much the same way our modern RSC’s have their distinct logos. What a sight to behold that must have been!
With the development of both motorised transport and the railways the days of the brake as a form of transport were numbered, but not so the recognised value of Rangers fans uniting together with the common purpose of following and supporting the club they loved.
The modern-day RSC is a vital component part of the Rangers community with many more far reaching benefits than just transport. It serves to bring together like minded Rangers supporters who otherwise would have been strangers. I have in my phone 23 names which would not had been there had I not joined my local RSC. These are guys I speak with, rip the piss out of (always reciprocated) and socialise with on an almost daily basis. Our local RSC is effectively networking, bringing together people with a shared mission and vision. Collectively it serves to ignite the flames of passion for our football club. It is vital, it is strength giving and it is indispensable.
Networking with other RSC’s is a further benefit, and on several occasions now we have enjoyed the hospitality of our friends in the Toryglen True Blues. Their passion and desire for our club is epitomised on the Rangers website “Buses leave 20 Social Club, Rutherglen for every Rangers game in Scotland and to every away European game that is reachable by bus” One can almost feel the “come hell or high water” oozing out of that!
For a club which draws its support from all over Scotland and beyond the local RSC serves as the focal point for the Rangers diaspora, and one only has to look at the incredible work and achievements of the Plymouth True Blues, @ThePTBs1988 for those on twitter, as a shining example.
Of course, irrespective of the many collateral benefits of an RSC, transport to and from games remain their primary function. The local Rangers Supporter Bus provides not only an essential service, but also by their character and nature, an indispensable service. They bridge the gap in the lack of provision afforded by public transport. With their localised pick ups and unique dropping off points they can make the difference between success and failure in our desire to follow Rangers, particularly for those who find themselves less able these days. In short, they offer affordability and accessibility. It is probably no co-incidence that the largest RSC in the world is in the far-flung regions of Lewis & Harris.
As an RSC member I consider myself no better nor deserving than the bear who jumps in his or her car and makes the solitary journey to watch our beloved team. Having done that for many a year myself, I have the utmost respect for them. But having joined my local RSC, the energy, vitality and sense of belonging it provides is a drug of addiction I couldn’t be without.
Our RSC’s are our lifeblood in so many ways – let’s make sure we sustain them.
 

On the 27th May 1856 the Rangers great that was Tom Vallance was born.
To quote his Rangers team-mates from the 1870’s ‘’ The whole of Rangers loved him like a brother’’
Tom was born at a small farmhouse known as Succoth near Renton in the parish of Cardross.
When  young he moved with  his family to the Old Toll House at Shandon on the Gareloch. 
Tom came to Glasgow in the early 1870’s following the path taken by his friends whom he’d known since childhood the brothers McNeil and Campbell .
Tom Vallance had an astonishing 60 year association with the Club, and his is an incredible CV. 
He was a master oarsman, a champion athlete (he set a Scottish long jump record of over 21 feet), he studied at the Glasgow School of Art, had paintings accepted by the Royal Scottish Academy and was Rangers Club Captain and President for many years.
We have recorded details of Tom Vallance being present at the ceremony held on 1st January 1929 which saw the opening of the Main Stand at Ibrox and also at a dinner which was held in the St.Enoch’s Hotel after a Rangers match in 1933 when we faced Sporting Club of Vienna. He was also a guest of the Club at the New Year’s Day fixture that season against celtic.
So, the lad who was present at Fleshers Haugh in 1872 was still attending Ibrox some 60 years later where the Club that he’d helped form and nurture were now playing in front of crowds in excess of 100,000. 
Tom was a very successful business man. He had The Club restaurant at 22 Paisley Road West which today is the Viceroy Bar,   The Metropolitan which stood on Hutchison Street in the Merchant City area of Glasgow and the Lansdowne which was at 183 Hope Street.
Tom was having the Rangers results wired to his restaurants for the benefit of his patrons as early as 1890.
When Rangers moved to First Ibrox in 1887 it was said that it was common for Club President Vallance to be working the turnstiles on matchday.
At the opening of the Main Stand in 1929 Tom Vallance recalled the facilities being so cramped at the Rangers ground at Kinning Park that the players would have to wash in basins of cold water in the open air.   
It was the teenage Tom Vallance who helped lay the very foundations upon which our Club was built, hard-work, discipline, honesty, integrity and fair play .
Mr. Struth said during that famous speech “No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the Gallant Pioneers”
Tom  was paid the ultimate accolade by the Club in May 1898 when he was made a life member. 
As a lasting tribute to the  incredible contribution  he made to our Club  we had Tom put on to canvas by way of a  painting by artist Helen Runciman .
Tom Vallance has now taken his rightful place at the top of the Marble Staircase alongside his friends and fellow Founders.
Tom died on 16th February 1935 aged 78 at 189 Pitt Street Glasgow.
 He  is buried in Hillfoot Cemetery in Bearsden and his funeral was attended by Mr. Struth, Chairman James Bowie and his old team-mate James McIntyre who both took a cord.
Incredibly ,players from the Vale of Leven team whom Tom had  faced 60 years earlier in 1877 were also in attendance.
Tom was one of the originals, one of the greats.
Today we celebrate the life of Tom Vallance.
 
 
 
 
 

we can do some things properly. ??
The wee man looks like he had a ball.