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Taig? Based on what? knob.

Totally understand this mate, I felt strangely more scottish or protective of Scotland being away from home for a few years, but I just im too resentful of the sfa and shagger/paysmith/whittaker to bring myself to support them now.

Sitting in a pub in Jakarta having this conversation Personally I've followed Scotland home and away...but for me not anymore. My view is F#ck them and the SFA and the likes of Paysmith that play for them. Added to the treatment of Black in the last friendly does any bear really support Scotland now? Its an easy decision for me as my mums family is all German so I could support them if i cared about international football but what about other fans? Even Norn Iron have those two turncoats F#cks playing for them.

Guys, I've done some checking around locally here. Bill Ng who is supposed to be the main man behind the bid has a very good reputation within the business community. Most people say he's a low profile businessman who doesnt like to be at the forefront of things. More importantly he is genuinely loaded. He is chairman of 1 S League team (hougang) and alledgedly a silent owner behind one other.

Hi mate, its not an RSC as such but the games are often shown at Emporium in club street. Theres only really a big turnout for the old firm games

Missed out Super v Portugal. Probably cost us 2 -3 years of Ally at his peak

Oleg Kusnetzov - what a player he could have been for us. More recently Stevie Smith but for a terrible run of injuries - hopefully Ness doesnt go the same way

Went to 'kafflick education camp' for a weekend before marrying the missus. finished just in time to see edu bang in a last minute winner against them and give the billy boys a good old blast

Pat Nevin......so all we have to do is vote for 3 scum goals then?

When does the date of the game actually get decided?

Ok I see your point. Realistically though, it's still summer time, the economy is shite, people are either out of work or struggling. If you have a choice malmo or Chelsea, who would you watch? Fans turning on fans is rubbish. We should be humping teams like malmo on a public park, infact we played better away with no fans!

Exactly

It's simple you keep most of the gate and it's in addition to a domestic game......hence more money Simples

So we are now berating our fans for paying up for a friendly with top class players which boosts the clubs finances? People need to get off their high horse andvwisen up to economic realities. A crowd like this could mean the difference between getting a player or losing him

If you google this guy he was actually voted bigot of the year in the Media Awards one year for his view on mental health...quite ironic really

Here's the company website http://www.corporate.mediacorp.sg/press/ We've emailed and phoned complaints and going up the offices as well tomorrow

Its an absolute joke! No wonder he's out here hiding after he got the boot from fleet street and his missus got the sack from the bbc Will post what replies we get from him and his editor on the subject

Been here three seasons and simply isn't very good

He's just a prick Loves the attention the cries to the mhedia Look how well Walter represents us ... then you see that scum in their dugout

I'm not sure if anyones posted the below yet. This is written in a free newspaper distributed in Singapore but the stories covered within it are picked up Asia wide and has been reproduced already. This is written by a guy brought up in a cosy suburb of Aberdeen with a well known local media figure as a father - making a mockery of his claim to be brought up with people 'baying for his blood' The Gers fans in Singapore have written complaints regarding this being published and are awaiting official replies This is a guy I know personally and prior to this article would have considered a friend. For sure that is not the case anymore!!! This is perhaps the worst one sided bile I have ever seen published. Also its aboslutely disgusting for a Scotsman abroad to protray his country in this way Football's stakes just became life-and-death The latest nail-bomb incidents raise sectarian tensions in the beautiful game to sickening levels by Paul Gilfeather 04:46 AM Apr 21, 2011News that Britain's Catholics are on high alert after Celtic manager Neil Lennon and two others were sent nail bombs in the post is another disturbing sign that the sinister menace of sectarianism looms large over the country. You have to feel for Ulsterman Mr Lennon who has done nothing wrong except be the Catholic manager of a football team synonymous with his particular brand of religion. He had to stop playing national football for Northern Ireland after receiving death threats from Protestant supporters, has received bullets in the post and, along with his family, lives under 24-hour police guard. His lawyer and a senior Labour politician who supports Celtic were also targeted by the would-be nail bomber. While not every Protestant is a terrorist, you can be sure every terrorist involved in the ongoing hate campaign against the Celtic manager will be a Protestant. And like the fundamentalist killers of Al Qaeda, they are bitter, brainwashed and filled with hate. Fortunately, these people are a tiny minority but they might yet succeed in killing off Old Firm football as we know it. Growing up and working in Scotland, I witnessed sectarianism first-hand. And as a Celtic fan myself, I probably first heard fans of Rangers FC, Celtic's Protestant rivals, baying for my "Fenian blood" from the age of six or seven. It was only as an adult that I realised these hard-line Protestants who sang sectarian football songs about 300-year-old military campaigns were perfectly nice people away from the heady, hate-filled atmosphere of the terraces. When I covered politics at the House of Commons in London, some of the Unionist MPs who were generally regarded to be anti-Catholic turned out to be some of the warmest people you could meet. Former Royal Ulster Constabulary detective and Ulster Unionist MP Ken Maginnis, himself the survivor of more than one IRA assassination attempt, became one of my favourite politicians to deal with. If only we could turn the clock back and erase the moment when Scottish football became chained forever to the sectarian politics of Ireland. We must be grateful that disaster was avoided this time and the bombs were safely intercepted. But how long before one of these maniacs succeeds and someone involved with football is killed? TERRIFYING LESSONS Plenty of top international footballers, once completely oblivious to the deep sectarian tensions engulfing Scotland's top two teams, have been transformed into bile-spilling fanatics after moving to Glasgow. Former England star Paul Gascoigne was given a terrifying lesson in the dangers of indulging in sectarian symbolism when he stupidly celebrated a goal during a Celtic-Rangers game by pretending to play the flute famous in Protestant pipe bands. He tells how he was visited by a particularly scary-looking individual and warned in no uncertain terms that he would have his throat cut if he ever pulled a stunt like that again. And ex-Rangers goalkeeper Andy Goram, one of the finest Scotland stoppers of all time, was swallowed up into the belly of the sectarian beast after happily accepting the hospitality of known Protestant terrorists. When loyalist killer Billy Wright was himself murdered by republican inmates in the notorious Maze prison, Goram wore a black armband while playing in goal against Celtic. I was working as a journalist on the News of the World when I got the tip. My sources revealed a group of Rangers supporters who drank with the keeper offered him several thousand pounds to carry out the tribute for his pal Wright, leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force which was involved in a series of Catholic murders. When I confronted Goram with my evidence, he insisted he was wearing the armband to commemorate the death of his old Aunt Lily. But when I put this to his mother, she scoffed at the claim. Aunt Lily had died several months before and the player barely knew her. We ran the story on the front page and Goram was lucky to escape with his career intact. I can now reveal the story came from two Rangers players who were disgusted by their goalkeeper's antics, proving that not all Old Firm players take part in the ridiculous tribalism surrounding the teams. I received death threats in badly-written, barely-readable letters after my story was published. But even as a Catholic, I have also been threatened by republicans. I once wrote a story about a former bomber travelling to New York on a fund-raising trip for Irish Republican Army splinter groups. As a result of my piece, then US President Bill Clinton blocked the visa of Marian Price, who had blown up London's Old Bailey in 1973. I admit to being more than a little bit scared when my name started being circulated as a target on websites connected with republican terror groups. FIRMER ACTION NEEDED Outgoing Rangers manager Walter Smith admitted, at an Old Firm summit last month, the thing he is looking forward to most about his retirement is not taking part in the fixture, long marred by sectarian violence. This latest incident with the nail bomb sees tensions cranked up to new, sickening levels. It also shows that the authorities must look carefully again at the issue and consider whether, with lives so obviously at risk, firmer action must now be taken. For instance, should the fixture now be played behind closed doors - or even scrapped altogether with the teams sharing the points? It is hard to believe that in a modern society such incidents are taking place, especially involving footballers who are hero-worshiped by hundreds of thousands of youngsters all over the world. Legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly famously said that football wasn't a matter of life and death - it was much more important than that. With Old Firm football in Glasgow it is very clearly now only a matter of life and death. http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC110421-0000375/Footballs-stakes-just-became-life-and-death Paul Gilfeather is principal correspondent at Today

Yeap and its an indictment on society these guys make so much as bankers as well Anyway hopefully the new owners (whoever they end up being) have good guys lined up and we make The Rangers brand work

I accept Bains not outstanding but he'd easily make the same if not more at an investment house etc. I see fuds like that coining it in every single day Hopefully whoever we end up with will pay the going rate for 2 or 3 exceptional guys and we'll reap the benefits. Simple things like walking in to a sports shop out here and see rows of green and grey and nothing blue needs addresed.

As an investment banker (albeit a different market) there is something very strange about this insistence on debt as being a problem. What we actually carry as debt is tiny compared to our turnover and cash position We have nothing in comparison to English clubs and even Hearts for example, yet the bank makes an example of us and we are first to face an Inland Revenue investigation.

What do people slagging off the committee think they are actually after though? The salarys they get are F#ck all compared to what they can get elsewhere and they are all getting abused by us left right and centre. They could all walk away and sell their services to consulatncies if that was what they really cared about? Why go through the public abuse?

eh yes.... like i said a prominent businessman. We're involved in the oil and gas business, with this guy, which is big bucks there I'm not claiming he is directly involved in Rangers etc just passing on what he has picked up in the business community Really sorry for passing this on, on a fans internet froum...