Biggarbear

Apart from the 3 points obviously.
This guy looks like he could be a good player . Takes on and beats his man. Scores a goal. Set up a few decent chances. I like what I saw.
And if anyone says 'but it's only Livingston' go fuck yourself.

You asked a question. I answered it. You moaned because I answered your question and then resort to personal abuse? 
Funny thing is, when I do write a pish wee article, you'll still fucking read it.
 

First up this is going to be a bit of a rant, apologies in advance I probably wouldn’t read it at that length however if even for cathartic reasons I’m going to get it off my chest.
Sleeping at the wheel: Failing to attend ones responsibilities or duties.
Prior to considering the current situation at the club I think it’s important to put a little context around years just past we would all rather forget.  To keep it short, most accept that only 7 years ago the wheels were put in motion kicking off a prolonged effort to kill off our club, a motion that ultimately failed but wounded the club to the point that we are still recovering.   Rather forgotten but it would be very dangerous to do so. Why? The people that took that run at us haven’t went away and neither have their objectives.  
Let’s be clear about this celtic Football Club and their supporters look to achieve glory not only via their own sporting achievements on the park however by also proactively trying to keep us down and on the back foot. Paranoid? Remember we were told we were Paranoid when suggesting Lawwell was a driving force behind our troubles a few years back? Well we have all seen the letters now haven’t we? Ah but what’s FARE got to do with celtic? Hmm well transpires the Executive director of FARE is none other than a celtic Park regular, a fan.  How many times (Daily?) do we see the media narrative change within hours? celtic have paid compensation for child abuse yet within 2 hours Scottish football is discussing a bid for Alfredo from China Rangers didn’t claim happened or a regurgitation of some negative Rangers headline ? Spiers, English, Radio Clyde, the list goes on and on, in short their finger prints are there every single time trouble comes our way - Does anyone think that the likes of Dornans and Humza (CFC political pals) aren’t doing overtime to find a way that they can manifest FARE agenda and now achievements into our domestic game? They will be and if our board don’t wake up they will succeed, it’s a matter of time.  A process will be put in place for all and unevenly applied to 1.  I honestly won’t be shocked if point deductions are on the table domestically before long.
One point we need to accept - we have to knock the songs on the head, it’s a small sacrifice, if you so choose sing till your heart is content anywhere else you like but if we don’t give it up for that couple of hours at the game this fight will be a short one and we will lose, we are already significantly losing.  Whether it’s right or fair is another fight that’s already lost or rather didn’t take place.  
As we approach this weeks game with them we are the bookies favourites, there are other elements to be noted, Aribo for one, make no mistake they wanted him, we got him, a player that would already be labelled as worth  6 million plus (pick any number you fancy) had he went there.  Can they see the Rangers coming?  You can bet their board can and guys like Lawwell will do the maths on Joe, i’ll guarantee it and he will know they will continue to lose those battles whilst it SG V Popcorn   
As a club we are in our strongest position for years, easily our best squad and manager, we are genuine contenders,  meanwhile they have regressed and are having to face arguably the biggest scandal to ever occur in sport yet all the negative headlines are ours, we have a seat reduction imposed and have no doubts they are only getting warmed up.  Words like racism now common place being flung around on a weekly basis (anyone recall when they first heard sectarianism is actually racism?). How long before people we want at the club are thinking, I don’t need this, a Manager asked what school he went to ffs  
Here is the crux of the matter, our board may not have the appetite for a political/PR dog fight but my word they are in one they are losing (being tanked).  I seriously hope they don’t underestimate and are switched on to the fact that it’s many of the same players with the same appetite to destroy us that are circling around us.  Consider the FARE situation, celtic have been fined approx 15 times by UEFA in recent years and for one reason or another we’ve had little bother. Yet there FARE are at everyone of our games, the organisation headed up by a celtic fan. We should have directly asked FARE and UEFA way before now why that is and is there a conflict of interest? Leak that story.  Would it have made a difference? Well, who knows but it would let it be known we see it and we are going to challenge it publicly.  Let them know we will question their integrity with facts, make them think twice. 
Play them at their own game in the media.  I was about to write a defensive strategy is no good as a punch will always eventually get through, but you know what? We don’t even have that, our board and PR have to be aggressive and proactive, if we don’t I genuinely fear for where things are heading.  It could not be more obvious that we are on the up, they are and will contnue to respond. Is it beyond our board to appoint a more effective PR team, how long has it been ffs? - A PR team who can form relationships and influence? - how many years now has their PR team owned Scotland’s media? If needs be work more effectively with our own bloggers and podders and I don’t mean to echo everything the club want to say, I mean to have genuine control, impact and influence. 
The club are bluntly challenging the support now and rightly so however they need to be asking themselves a few questions.  We all understand they are in several fights and at times you need to pick your battles  however the consequences of not putting up any PR fight have and continue to be significant.  It is the boards responsibility.  
Paranoid? Me? - perhaps but last time it felt like open season on us I wondered if I  was being paranoid about where things were headed........did not end well. 
 

No we are not. We just have to be clever. We cannot fight UEFA on this. 

Club 1872 Statement on UEFA Charges
28 August, 2019
Club 1872 would like to echo the message from Rangers regarding the damaging charges from UEFA both in relation to the St Josephs match at Ibrox and the recent game in Poland against Legia Warsaw.
It is clear that UEFA has taken a decision to class sectarian singing in the same bracket as racism and as a result has a clear and rapidly escalating framework of punishments for any club charged with such offences. This means that we will quickly arrive at the point where Ibrox may be closed for a home European tie if outbreaks of sporadic sectarian singing continue. This will not only effect tens of thousands of our own supporters but also the management team and players, who would have to operate in such circumstances. This is particularly frustrating as the atmosphere generated at European games at Ibrox this season has been largely free of such sectarian songs.
To be absolutely clear, songs, words and terms classed as sectarian by UEFA include ‘The Billy Boys’, any reference to “fenians” or any pejorative terms about Catholics or the Pope. The charges do not relate only to one song but to anything in the brackets above, including add ons to otherwise inoffensive songs.
We share some of the concerns over the lack of transparency, accountability and consistency in the operations of FARE. However, those concerns cannot be properly addressed while we are in a position where FARE can provide UEFA with video evidence of sectarian singing involving even a small number of Rangers supporters, as was the case in Warsaw.
Club 1872 fully supports Rangers’ Everyone Anyone campaign. It is absolutely clear in the discussions that we have had in the past few weeks and months that the club will not tolerate sectarian behaviour. We will continue to work with them to ensure that there is constructive and meaningful engagement with supporters on this issue going forward.
Every single Rangers supporter must now take responsibility for promoting a positive image of our club and support. Ibrox is one of the most impressive arenas in European football when it is full and noisy. We have a host of ways to generate that unique atmosphere without reverting to songs which will see the club sanctioned. Let’s get Ibrox rocking on Thursday night and roar our team into the groups stages of the Europa League.
Issued by Supporters Voice Limited, a Club 1872 company

Here we go again...........your never going to win "the fight". It's UEFA's party. They decide the rules and on who comes to the party. If you don't play by the rules' you'll be forced out and told to find another party that finds your behaviour acceptable. But there isn't one. A fucking grown man, working himself into a lather, just because he wants to shout a few contentious words at a football match but is being told he can't. Honestly.........

Of course we needed to know about it. The idiots who can't shut up need to join the dots and see if there are more offences we will get the stadium shut, more again and we get thrown out the Europa League and make world headlines and finally our manager who is a global icon will walk rather than be tarnished by association. 
 The hard of thinking needed to know

They are subtly telling people to fuck up before some arseholes sing about fenians tomorrow night, get us a third charge and get us kicked out of Europe.

Yes, we really really really needed to release it tonight.
As far as I know, we only found out about it today.
Since we found out today, and one more offence could see us thrown out of Europe, it was vital the fans were told about it.

Arfield is in position. It’s his job to drift into the centre of the pitch and find pockets of space then Tav gets forward to provide width 

He's been superb.
Loved the wee embrace at the end of the game him and Morelos gave each other....shows a real togetherness in the squad.

Can’t believe the hat trick hero hasn’t got his own thread after that rout.  You could see what that third meant to him as well, he looked emotional.
Class act, long may he keep scoring for us - 

Imagine going on there and imagine this even bothering you. 

I read the first words "popped onto kerrydale street" and immediately threw my phone into the shitter to clean it.

FFS...........what is it with folk going onto other fans forums. 
There's only one place I want to be win lose or draw! 

One of this years whipping boys by the looks of things, being overly critically marked by a section of the support for no apparent reason.
Guys has two assists and a goal and people complain he is not having a big enough impact.
Fucking place at times....

Unpopular opinion here but.....
Apart from the few lies ( reason for gate being forced open, and that the anti catholic songs were happening "non stop") and half truths, and the language used ( half wits etc), he actually makes some good points.  He brings up the idiocy of our fans dancing on the disabled shelter. The idiocy of the tarrier pitch invasion and how it could have led to serious injury  and the outright dangerous pitch invasion by Hibs. These are all fair points, although delivered in the wrong tone. The fans shouldn't be on the pitch during the game. or at all even.   
He highlights the smoke bombs and flares, which need to be stamped out. 
He is reasonably even handed with his opinions on our songbooks, even if you disagree with him, which most of us will. Still think we should all be left to sing wtf we want.
 

I thought he was excellent tonight , deserves great praise for his first competitive game of the season. 

I just care about our club a lot more than you. 
 
The overwhelming majority of our support were incredible on Sunday. A few muppets decided to wreck a disabled shelter and invade the pitch, overshadowing how good our support was that day. The minority made our club look bad on Sunday, and the club needs to make an example of them to show that behaviour is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Personally I don't like our clubs reputation being tarnished by the few that can't control themselves. Clearly you don't mind our clubs reputation being tarnished, which says a lot about you tbh. 

Nope - I’ve embraced the new ways - I’m here to stay 

I like watching us play football matches. It’s cool going to games.  Nice wee day out I must say.  
 
I love following Rangers I truly do. Thank fuck I’m no on that waiting list for a season ticket   I feel for those not being able to see us.  
WATP

With you on the inviting  polititians and that but how would you like the club to respond to our fans being on a disabled shelter? I imagine thays what youre refering to. I'll take the hit here in being called a taig but we had fans on andisabled shelter which broke. No matter what way we look at that it shouldnt happen. I get that out of 4,500 fans only a couple did that but if the club comes out and says "aww but the shelter was shite" then we loom stupid.
I can understand the anger at loaning Middleton to those cunts also but its good for his development and he learns his trade against players and teams he will play against for us.