8watp8 254 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Time For Fans To UniteWRITTEN BY JAMES TRAYNORRANGERS, once again, appear to be under attack from the vindictive and downright malicious.This isn’t paranoia and nor is it an attempt to play the victim card. There is no need for Rangers to do that because this club are no longer victims.Rangers are in an extremely healthy financial position despite the best efforts of the media and others to suggest otherwise. Their desperation to see Rangers fail appears to be blinding them to a reality they don’t wish to view.And I’m afraid their bile towards Rangers has poisoned their systems.Once again, however, Rangers fans feel they have to react. Some are fretting, others are simmering, unsure what to do or say while a fair few aren‘t holding anything in reserve. They are venting their spleens.Sadly for Rangers fans this is not a new phenomenon.It is a fact that Rangers’ business cannot be reported in a fair or balanced manner. Stories are written to fit headlines which often bear little or no resemblance to the truth.Rangers fans have every right to be angry and are entitled to expect the club to deal with those in the media, who wilfully distort, and also that close-knit gang of internet bloggers and posters. They will never have any connection with reality.Of course, Rangers fans want to know what the club intend doing about this almost constant barrage of abuse. A great deal is the simple answer but the club cannot leap up on to the Ibrox roof and start screaming about the injustice of it.The club must act in a responsible manner and our supporters have to understand that Rangers cannot react to every single internet bampot or each journalist or paper displaying a clear anti-Rangers agenda. But while it would be undignified to bawl and shout it would also be wrong to say and do nothing.Over the last couple of days Rangers have tried to make it clear to media outlets that stories claiming a Singapore-based company are owed £400,000 are not accurate. Yet papers, TV and radio ran with their versions anyway.They continue to report that Rangers face a Winding Up Petition but don’t point out this is a routine way of forcing payment and that there is no realistic threat of closure. They have chosen not to highlight the fact that Rangers believe agreement has been reached on a settlement sum which has actually been lodged with lawyers.Wording of the agreement is all that stops this matter from being concluded.But this issue is dealt with elsewhere on this site and I refer to it here only to show how difficult it is for some people to display basic decency and honesty. Despite what they and many in the media wish to believe Rangers are alive and well and there is a plan of action to try to deal with them, and also to curb the more deranged and spiteful critics.But please, be patient. As soon as the changes agreed for Rangers PR and media kick in the approach will be very different. Details of those changes will be revealed soon enough but let me share something with you right now.I worked in papers for years and I know that managements, editors and hacks don’t even miss a beat when they hear that a particular club’s fans say they aren’t going to buy the paper anymore. It means nothing because so far these threats have been empty.Some fans do withdraw patronage but the fact nothing changes in terms of the balance of reporting suggests too few are exercising their right to switch.If every fan who said he or she would never buy a particular paper again actually didn’t then those publications would be out of business. The bottom line is everything to the managements and shareholders of these companies and a sharp decline in sales would register like a thunder clap at boardroom level.Too few fans realise just how much power they actually can command, especially if they’d step outwith their different groups and unite in one cause. Believe me, you could make media managements snap to attention and pay closer attention to the agendas of their editors, producers and journalists.Just imagine the strength to be wielded if, instead of arguing among yourselves on forums, Twitter and Facebook, you all came together and acted as one massive and potent force for change. Just by refusing to acknowledge stories and broadcasts which you believe to be malicious you’d change the entire agenda.Many are calling on the club to fire out banning orders and writs to various media outlets but an immediate and effective answer lies with the fans themselves. While a supporter cannot change his or her club because of the emotional investment, reading and listening habits can be altered very easily.If fans can no longer trust a particular journalist or paper to be impartial they can stop reading. If they don’t like the agendas of a particular TV or radio station they don’t have to watch or listen.Now, before we have the usual suspects out there in media land foaming at the mouth let me make it clear that I am not telling Rangers fans that every journo is working against this club. That level of paranoia might exist somewhere else but certainly not within Ibrox.But why is it that so many continue to write or broadcast that this club is a new club when it is the owners who are new? Is it a lack of basic intelligence or is it something more sinister?Why is there this obsession with Rangers and titles? Why is it always written that Rangers went down owing £130 plus million?Why would a reporter write that Rangers had lost their Tupe case after it had been explained to him that last week’s ruling by the arbitration panel was nothing more than a procedural one and not a final decision on the actual case? A lack of smarts again, or something darker?There are many examples of this level of reporting with regard to Rangers but I want to point out that I believe there are still a lot of good, honest hacks out there. Maybe they, too, should stand up for themselves and their profession.But this club’s fans can make their play by realising it is your interest, your angst and rage which encourage the repeat offenders. Believe me, they get a real kick out of becoming the subjects of on-line threads and discussions and by paying attention, even if it is to hurl insults or use unacceptable language to describe them, you give them exactly what they want.You are just about the only audience they have. Do not indulge them. Ignore their malice, pay no attention to their agendas, and do not let them into your heads.I know there are various factions among Rangers supporters but why not stand united in this cause? Your attention is their oxygen. It can be so easily switched off.No surrender rangers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnHardie 1,405 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Spot on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamgers 1,214 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 What a brilliant piece! To me thats the best yet................. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlBear. 8,499 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Read it and weep.This is why he's here. We're heading back to the top and we're going to be stronger than ever.No more fucking with Rangers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchy 1,200 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Oooohhhh Rangers, why can't you just forgive and forget, pretty please.Because you all tried to destroy us, but it failed.Now we're on our way back and we're having any cunt that gets in our way to the top.One you all apologise, we'll forgive, although we may not forget so quickly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
4everGers 82 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 No Surender WATP Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmunsen 64 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Fantastic to see this, at last the fighting back begins against our many haters out there. WE ARE ONE , WE ARE MANY, WE ARE RANGERS. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayrshire True Blue 66 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Another good piece. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdoggrfc1 44 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 had a big smile on my face reading that been waitin for statments like tonights 2 for a while brilliant JT Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uloyalist1690 3 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 briilllant the fight back begins, boycott all rangers media haters, dont pay your tv license, time for marches and protests, look what our loyal brothers in East Belfast are doing Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mabawsa 888 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Don't tell me what to do! I am buying the Daily Record, listening to Clyde and BBC Scotland. Why should I stop? They are only being open and honest about us. Are we so paranoid now?Aye right! That above is the "if i roll over, please tickle my tummy" attitude of our hand wringers! If we cannot take this message onboard then we as a support deserve all that comes our way from the Mhedia. We are lapdogs! I can live my live perfectly well without spending a single penny on products from these mhedia companies. If we stuck together we could ensure a more decent and balanced environment because quite simply 'they will all be out of a job'. In summary what I read from this is. Stop getting the piss taken out of us and start voting with the one casting vote, ala money. Starve them. It is simply a thing of integrity on our part. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayboleLoyal_atb 3,772 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Another great read. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cammyfraserrfc 5 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 At last we have a heavy weight, hard hitting guy in charge of PR, i think JT is just flexing his muscles,but the scum in the press will already be running for cover, JT knows where their skeletons and cupboards are. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trueblue68 2,497 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 It's time for all Rangers forums to join together with a common aim... no time for petty differences any more. Fantastic statement. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombaybadboy08 15,660 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Our media side of things are fucking night and day to what we used to be,Fantastic statement and also a hint to some of our supporters that Rangers can't respond everytime a journalist/blogger farts in our direction. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allanger 625 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 We have some excellent writers and bloggers who post on here. If they can write their articles highlighting to Bears just how vicious these radio stations and newspapers have been then it could go a long way to encouraging fellow fans to boycott. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albertz123 598 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Absolute quality. It feels like we have someone on our side now who has seen what them in the mhedia are up to. Traynor would rip them all up for arse paper. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamgers 1,214 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 I hope all the fucking ghuests out there, AYE YOU LOT! are paying attention, we wont be fucked with anymore,! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdHodge89 1 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Absolutly cracking read. Couldnt agree more. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Curtain 60 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 If this is indicative of our future policy in dealing with the mhedia, bring it on.How refreshing to see the club on the front foot and standing up for the wishes of its patrons, an important day mark my words. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nachothelegend 1,932 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 We must do as he suggests its in the best Interest for our Club.We must Unite and hit them hard where it hurts.Tune off cut the wires off your Radio if you have to switch to Talksport a balanced and Fair channel .Dont buy a wrag I stopped years ago .Cut their Oxygen and stay off their Blogs and if they pitch up at Ibrox tell them to do one.We must Unite on this and dont give them what they want only then will we win this Propeganda War. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarkev 3,540 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 I hope this registers with those who still refuse to see a media bias and agenda against us. Yes the talk of boycotts has became a bad joke in the use of the word for everything but if we all unite and refuse to buy the record they will crumble or be forced to change their clear agenda that has only got stronger since their deal with Celtic! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis 1,011 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Ive always liked Jim Traynor. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mabawsa 888 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 We have to do action not a long line of literal inaction. It's ok saying "yeah that sounds great" , GIRUPY, we will not be bullied , we are coming to get you etc...Simples . Don't buy the rhags, don't listen to their fantasy phone-ins. Feck them in their pocket. Who really would miss them? The NOTW disappeared about 14 months ago and I hear nobody yearning after it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongolikecandy 418 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Hopefully at the end of this some of these professional Rangers haters will not be left with a pot to piss in. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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