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Tell him to stand with a Poppy Scotland collection can at the bottom of their grotto and see what happens! 

Needs to identify and sign 5 first team players (two centre halfs for sure) that when all 11 run out at the Theatre of Screams you think, yeah, we can do this mhob. That will take care of games against Hivs, Dolly and Hertz. That way we rack up points and make a challenge. 

Tell him to stand with a Poppy Scotland collection can at the bottom of their grotto and see what happens! 

Don’t forget the businessmen who bankrolled the whole venture by building a stadium and bribing players from an already established club to sign up. I doubt very much that those guys didn’t get their money back once the cash for “charity” started rolling in.

Tell him to stand with a Poppy Scotland collection can at the bottom of their grotto and see what happens! 

Tell him to stand with a Poppy Scotland collection can at the bottom of their grotto and see what happens! 

Tell him to stand with a Poppy Scotland collection can at the bottom of their grotto and see what happens! 

Tell him to stand with a Poppy Scotland collection can at the bottom of their grotto and see what happens! 

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.
 
 
 
 
 

Mate, come on to fuck with these long posts.

Stan, you’re deluded mate. 
Sellick avoided Protestants for decades. They now openly discriminate against Jews including one of their players
Stan, this club refuse to wear poppies on their shirts and have a sick little ditty called The Lee Rigby Song - YouTube it mate. Their contempt for our country’s military is from the very top of the club to the soap dodger who has fellow fans formally complaining about his personal hygiene. 
Rangers founded to promote superiority, Empire and exclusion? Did you know that Rangers volunteered to be their opponents for Sellick’s first game to raise funds in 1888? Moonlighter could, but undoubtedly couldn’t be arsed, to sue you if he so chose. 
Sue me????? Is that a new dogging term? 
Stan, honestly mate, you’re totally deluded and genuinely need help. 

God bless Israel 
 

He sounds like a racist cunt to me.

I had actually forgotten about Cribari (probably intentionally),  but Perry and Kiernan never had 29 international caps nor the experience Marin has had. In fact, I'd rather have Kiernan in my squad than Martin; at least Kiernan would put some effort into his tackles. Your opinion might be different, but that's the interesting side of football.

16 yo Scottish cup final goal. 
Went awol to with Jock
1972 winner.  
Big Derek is a Rangers Legend. In his media role he tried to be impartial.  We have become so adept at criticising our own.  
We want our ledgends to mythological gods. 
Big Derek. Legend in my eyes. Welcome back to where you belong. 

A fantastic player for us, grew up watching him and he played centre half and centre forward. It's easy to criticise the guy on his tranny work but he was a cracking big player.

Colin Stein got one, Willie Johnston two 

what could possibly go wrong...

Colin Stein got one, Willie Johnston two 

It has to be D'artagnan, no question.

Colin Stein got one, Willie Johnston two 

Cliftonville on the 12th July - bears stream into the Ardoyne - yaaaasssss 

They literally had to send out letters to their season ticket holders telling them to wash