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8 hours ago, eskbankloyal said:
That probably couldn't be further from the truth.
What bridges have we built exactly?
You eould hsve to ask murray and king.
“Dave King, the Rangers major shareholder and chairman, has met with SPFL office bearers and has also contacted his counterparts at the Premiership clubs looking to arrange “meetings/lunch/dinner” in the hope of “repairing and improving” relationships.
Murray, who revealed that he was annoyed that correspondence had been made public, believes it is important for Rangers build bridges with other Scottish clubs as they seek to recover from years of turmoil”
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If our board cannot be bothered to make any defence of our club our history or our fans, I for one wonder if they are bothered about anything other than themselves.
They could start by making a very loud and very public demand for a public investigation into abuse at the paedo club.
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As usual our boards silence is both deafening and disgraceful.
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SS will never happen,many think cg invented objections.
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Pedro is a lot of things to a lot of people,unfortunately he is not a Rangers manager,just another tolerated disastrous appointment who has many of us awaiting the inevitable.
It is then back to square one in our ever failing rebuilding process,although an injection of threatened investment would help us achieve rebuild.
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mccoist by some distance.
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6 minutes ago, Virtuoso said:
'Gadgie' patter.
Fuck off.
Obviously not a fan of the greatest.
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excuses are for losers.
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Klinsmann if we ever get real investment.
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3 minutes ago, Ger_onimo said:
Shite, trotted out to make ourselves feel better about the fact that we're terrible at developing players and getting the best out of them.
No it’s an opinion,I do often wonder however as to the value of Auchenhowie and assorted academies.
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1 hour ago, googglebot said:
What the fuck is going on????
The Rangers jersey was too much for them to fill,they are history as they should be.
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We need all the help we can get from anywhere,the gap between us and them will soon be insurmountable,like it or not everything is turning to gold for them while we survive on loans.
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1 minute ago, Tom0411 said:
Not sure if it was a borrowed ticket or a paper ticket as there has not been enough games played yet to figure out who has renewed & who is a newbie or a one off.
Two guys have been banned over the incident that I do know,the ST holder was not at the game.
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3 minutes ago, thehost said:
That's a shocking way to talk about a club employee bud, they walk on water (as you know)
The majority view appears to be the guy was singing frowned upon add-ons,the lack of comment from the person involved the SLO does nothing to dispel this as he was the one who reported the guy for add-ons,he was certainly badly shaken by the encounter.
I do much prefer the old choons,add-ons and all,it is our history our dna.
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Have heard 4 different stories about this,seems the guy who had the altercation with the SLO was using a borrowed ticket,both he and the ticket lender are said to have been banned from Ibrox.
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21 hours ago, Lloyd72 said:
Club 1872 right on Lennon
August 15, 2017
By Tom Macintyre | Guest Contributor
This is apparently a controversial opinion in some corners of the echo chamber that is Twitter but Club 1872 were absolutely correct to raise the behaviour of Neil Lennon at Ibrox on Saturday. The reaction of much of the Scottish press pack to the incident has completely vindicated the statement put out on Sunday despite the misgivings of some Rangers fans.
It might be helpful to establish a few facts first because, social media being what it is, some important points have been lost in the hysteria.
Club 1872 didn’t report Lennon to the police. That had already happened within an hour of the end of the game when police had taken statements from a significant number of Rangers supporters in the Enclosure and Main Stand at Ibrox.
Lennon wasn’t celebrating a goal. That’s something you do with your players, staff and your own fans. If your first thought when your team scores a goal is to turn and gesture to the opposing fans then it’s not about the goal. Had a Hibs player done exactly what Lennon did then the chances are they would have been sent off - although not perhaps if the referee was John Beaton.
The game was classified by the police as high risk due to previous issues, particularly the cup final. Lennon would have been spoken to by the police before the game. His club would also have been asked to warn their players and staff to behave responsibly. Now you can cry and moan about what on earth has football come to that this had to happen but those are the facts. It was a certainty the police would get involved after the game given their advice and concerns prior to it.
Predictably, the reaction from Hibs and Celtic supporters to Lennon being publicly called out has not been good. You can sense the horror that someone has actually had the gall to point out that Lennon spends most of his professional life acting like an idiot. Not just at Hibs, but at every club he's managed including Bolton. Guess who else didn’t like it being raised? Graham Spiers, Tom English, Barry Glendinning and Angela Haggerty. Are we seeing a pattern?
It has been the reaction of some Rangers supporters that has been puzzling and arguably incredibly naive. It is a very noble position to take - that we should all just man up and hurl abuse at each other at the football and then go about our business. Wouldn’t that be great? Sadly it totally ignores the environment in which Rangers and Rangers fans find themselves. By now, after all the concocted stories, outright lies and twisted facts you would think people would realise that.
There seems to be a school of thought that somehow Club 1872 prompted the media to defend Lennon. Or that mentioning Lennon has somehow taken away from the horrendous performance of John Beaton. Neither of these theories stands up to any scrutiny.
The Beaton issue will take care of itself. Rangers will appeal the red card and should certainly be informing the SFA of their displeasure with his inexplicably bad display. The press were never, ever going to criticise him to the same level that they have when the refereeing mistakes have been against Celtic - simply because Rangers were never going to make a public issue out of it the way Celtic have. You can argue back and forward whether that is the right approach but it’s a fact.
As far as Lennon is concerned, by Sunday morning and prior to any Club 1872 statement, Lennon was already being painted as the victim of his own actions. Derek McGregor, Mark Warburton’s favourite chew toy at the Scottish Sun, had written a back page defending Lennon’s actions and claiming that objects were thrown at him. He’d effectively accused the Rangers backroom staff of being funny foreigners who just didn’t understand Lenny’s wonderful banter with the crowd. Neil Cameron of the Herald had tweeted some justification of Lennon’s inflammatory gestures. Lennon himself had raised and justified his actions in the press conference after the game.
Lennon, his club and his press cheerleaders knew he was in trouble. His actions were clearly inflammatory. They were always going to attract police and SPFL attention. So the deflection had begun.
From a Rangers point of view, Pedro Caixinha was the first to mention Lennon’s behaviour. There were further press reports that Rangers staff had spoken to the police about Lennon, although it appeared more that the police had been prompted to move towards the dugout by Lennon’s idiotic behaviour.
All of this happened prior to Club 1872 saying anything. And here we get to where they possibly did make a mistake. They were ahead of most people in realising precisely how this would pan out. The police complaints and Rangers’ staff reaction to Lennon guaranteed the press would cover the story. With that also came the certainty that most of them would rush to Lennon’s defence.
Club 1872 could probably have waited until Tuesday or Wednesday when the inevitable opinion pieces would have been out, defending ‘Lenny’ and blaming the terrible persecution he has to suffer. By that time the same Rangers accounts now criticising them on Twitter would have been screaming for someone to intervene at the injustice of it all.
Instead they quickly made the point, correctly, that Lennon’s behaviour was inflammatory and in the context of everything that had gone before, irresponsible. It wasn’t about being offended - Club 1872 never mentioned being offended - although clearly the fans who reported Lennon to the police were.
And to those who say we should just shrug at Lennon’s behaviour? Why should someone’s daughter, or wife, or child be subjected to some ginger idiot firing ‘get it up ye’ gestures into their faces from yards away. Particularly someone who has previous for acting like a ned and being censured for it. And what if someone in the crowd had reacted? It’s not like they haven’t before. Do you think there would have been any mitigation from the press that Lennon should not have been acting how he did?
In certain quarters, although by no means all, the statement has been met with a slightly hipster, ‘against modern football', stiff upper lip reaction. Well guess what, this is modern football in Scotland whether we like it or not and as soon as Lennon made that gesture this chain of events was guaranteed.
Club 1872 have to operate in that environment whether we like it or not. They at least stopped it being a completely one sided love-in about poor, helpless Neil Lennon versus the big bad Rangers support. They should be commended for stepping up to the mark and at least putting across a view that nobody was ever going to see in the Scottish press otherwise. And if you still don’t get that then where have you been the last six years?
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Why has the board remained silent.
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celtic include war time goals in their records.
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58 minutes ago, Bellshill_Bear said:
The case against was LNS ruling was made at a time when the EBT were seen as lawful.
EBT's are perfectly lawful and always have been.
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being said training ground bustup with km and pedro,kenny been told to find another club.
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2 hours ago, Ivybank said:
Out of all the clubs he's managed , his best win ratio is with.......................Rangers!, just shows you he's no pedigree whatsoever.stewart Robertson is an idiot
Graeme Park and Mendes are the culprits who sold him to the board.
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belter ???
Rangers Observer - Lawwell wrote to SFA in July demanding further action against Rangers
in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom
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The simple truth is that our board are spineless,when it comes to defending anything to do with being against our club.
It will never change until this board is gone and someone with guts takes over,it may be that change will be forced at the TOP/CoS proceedings,time will tell.