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Just read a story on Twitter which sums up Lambie's humour... Colin McGlashan had a head knock and the physio says to Lambie "He's concussed. He doesn't know who he is". To which Lambie replied "Great. Tell him he's Pele and get him back on the pitch". John Lambie was quite the character and passionate about his football. Sad news indeed. RIP John

Blair Meikle Article in The Sun Dear member, Club 1872 has today written to the Editor of the Scottish Sun, Alan Muir, seeking an explanation and retraction for a false story written by Blair Meikle which appeared online yesterday. In his haste to paint Rangers supporters in a bad light, Mr Meikle failed to carry out even the most basic of fact checks before claiming a Rangers supporter had made abusive online comments about our charity partner Autism Scotland. The Twitter account in question was not that of a Rangers supporter and it had in fact made offensive comments about the Ibrox disaster. We have suggested that after retracting the story and publicly apologising, the Scottish Sun should make a donation to Autism Scotland by way of reparation for this false and damaging story. We applaud the Rangers Charity Foundation for their excellent work with Autism Scotland and commend the work and fundraising of the Rangers support in creating pioneering facilities for autistic supporters at Ibrox. Club 1872

Also if the roles were reversed, as in we could win the league at home against them, do you think Brenda would be pushing for it to go ahead? nah! no chance

Regards the OP, C1872 should be very wary indeed getting involved with the Holyrood SNP & their 'working party' regards sectarianism. It is plainly obvious the SNP detest Rangers & its support because we're mostly a unionist club with a unionist support. And they use this to try & garner support from our rivals as can be seen from various articles & comments made by their plants in the media. The OBFA failed because the ones who wanted it most at the outset turned out to be the worst offenders statistically. There is no doubt in my mind its replacement will again be targeted towards ourselves but with safeguards built in this time to protect others.

On the face of it, good pro-active and constructive work.

I thought it might be a good idea to start a thread inviting Rangers fans to post their memories of matches from days gone by. I've several and would hope to find the time to get them down for posterity. My memory isn't what it once was and I have to say that confirming some of the details of the game online became a real trial and proved the fact that Wiki should never be used as a point of reference. I'll go with the little brain cells I have left and state that Wiki Rangers have got this one wrong, the game was played away from home. Hibs v Rangers , 30 January, season 1964/65. This one sticks in my head for several reasons which I'll explain as I go along. Firstly, it was my birthday. Back then I didn't miss many Rangers home matches, in fact very few games anywhere and usually headed to them crammed in the back of my grandads Gas Board van, sitting on top of old valves, scrap metal and tools. This time though, my dad having passed his driving test the week before and him having borrowed his pals van we made the trip from the south side of Glasgow through to Easter Road. I remember it being unsurprisingly, a cold day. Just then the vans oil warning light came on forcing a stop at a petrol station to buy a can of oil. Near to Calderpark Zoo, just before we got on to the dual carriageway heading east we saw a long haired guy with his thumb extended and dad asked if we should pick him up. The fella climbed into the rear, thanked us and didn't stop talking for the next hour. He was a student of some kind but that's about as much as I could make out. Somewhere on the journey we stopped to get something to eat and the student followed us in to the greasy spoon. Maybe he'd forgotten his wallet, suffered from Paisley Disease or similar, but I know my dad paid for the 3 lunches. Back in the van our guest bummed yet another cigarette from dad just as the oil warning light lit up again leading to the purchase of another pint of engine oil. Heading along Princes Street the student said he'd reached his objective. We stopped. He thanked us before leaning over through the window to ask dad what time he'd be going back to Glasgow as it would save him time and trouble if he could cadge a lift with us for the return journey. Dad told me to cover me ears before blasting him with something along the lines of, " We've gave you a bleep bleep lift. You've smoked all my bleep bleep fags, ate all my sons bleep bleep sweeties. Ponced a bleep bleep meal. You haven't shut your bleep bleep mouth the whole bleeping journey talking a load of bleeping rubbish and you have the bleeping nerve to ask for a bleeping lift back ?!! Bleep off ya bleeping bleeper ! " We drove off just as the oil warning light woke up again. The game itself was unremarkable. We lost 1-0 to the team who'd finish 4th in the 18 team league, one place above Rangers. That season was one of the very few where neither us nor Celtic finished in the top 2. Celtic finished in 8th place that season. We did however win the League Cup beating Celtic 2-1 in the final thanks to two goals from Jim Forrest . I was at that match too - thanks be to God ! Another 2 pints of oil were added to the engine before we reached home. The following day my dads mate was able to report that all the oil did not blow up the engine. But it was a close run thing. The faulty oil warning light was repaired later. I've no idea what became of the student .

Club 1872 response to public comments made about the Rangers support by elected politicians in Scotland Dear Member Club 1872 has had contact with a number of members over the past few weeks, concerned about public comments made about the Rangers support by elected politicians in Scotland. We can confirm that we have written directly to a number of politicians seeking an explanation for false comments made by them on social media about the Rangers support. We have also written to two Scottish political party leaders seeking explanations for the behaviour of their elected representatives. In addition to this, members may be aware that the Scottish Government, in the aftermath of the repeal of the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act, has set up a working party to examine the subject of sectarianism and make recommendations on how it should be defined in Scots law. We are extremely concerned that this process should not be a repeat of the ill-fated consultation on the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act, during which a number of discredited politicians and journalists were successful in pushing for unworkable and illiberal laws targeting football supporters. With that in mind we have written to the chair of this group to ask about the makeup of the working party, the scope of their work and how organisations like Club 1872 can feed into the process. If positive progress is to be made then it is essential that a common sense approach is taken on this topic and that those who cannot contain their agenda-driven hysteria are kept at arms length from decision making. We have seen a circumstance in modern Scotland where Rangers and Rangers supporters are seen as fair game, regardless of the steps we take to try to ensure good behaviour. This is partly due to the actions of a small minority of our supporters but is largely down to an agenda in certain areas of the press and Scottish political life. We have spoken to Rangers about this and urged them to use their significant resources to take a more robust stance on tackling this issue. We will continue dialogue with them. We are also in discussions with Police Scotland regarding the treatment of Rangers supporters and are seeking changes in the way we have been policed in certain circumstances. This has so far been a healthy dialogue and we hope that it will lead to some substantive changes in approach. In the meantime Club 1872 will continue to do what it can, with very limited resources, to tackle any unfair or malicious comments about our loyal support. Club 1872 Issued by Supporters Voice, a Club 1872 Company

That is why C1872 and other Rangers supporters organisations must be involved in this process, or they will have carte blanche to target us and the club and only us. We need to be in there fighting our corner, sometimes you have to sup with the Devlin, but use a long spoon.

I concur with my fellow bears congrats towards C1872 in this instance for taking this up on behalf of the support and the toothless PR department at the club. Like others have mentioned, this cannot be a one-off shot across the bow (perhaps cynically in the middle of fund-raising for the upcoming share issue), but must be followed up if/when no meaningful response is received from all parties, including our own club. Unfortunately to do this properly C1872 will need to have a team of full time employees scouring print and social media day and night, which is obviously not its remit, so the club, and the fans in general, need to be more co-ordinated and organised to cover, record, report and get retractions/apologies/sackings where offenders have crossed the line. Dont know who takes the lead and how, but it has been long overdue. If C1872 are leading the way on this, they become so much more attractive to potentially investing bears.

Manchester United v Rangers. [Friendly] , 9 March 1974. I was in the third year of an engineering apprenticeship and a few guys in our factory started talking about heading to Manchester to see this game. Both Man U and us had free weekends having been knocked out of cup competitions. Talk got around to action and 6 of us met at The Iron Horse, Glasgow on the Friday night. Pubs shut at 10 pm back then so strong quick elbows were a necessity to ensure as much alcohol as possible could be shifted prior to throwing out time. Carry outs were bought and we boarded a bus just after 11 pm to head south. The journey was a bit of a blur and one of the few things I recall it was Gibby sitting in front of me handing over an opened McEwans Heavy can. I took a swig only to discover he'd been using it to pee into....... these things happen. My next memory is of being at the main train station near to Piccadilly and it being daylight. We'd each taken a small grip with our "good" clothes to change into and wear that evening at the pub, disco, whatever. These we dumped in left luggage lockers at the station before heading out to explore the town. There couldn't have been anything exciting about Manchester because pretty soon we found ourselves walking towards Old Trafford. Not far before we reached the stadium we saw a delivery truck outside a pub and a couple of guys lifting beer kegs, etc from it. Our offer to assist was accepted and the owner then invited us to take a seat at a table in front of a large fire before handing us a free pint. We managed maybe 3 pints before the doors got unlocked and Bears started spilling into the place. Before long the bar was packed and a guy asked us if he could borrow one of our chairs. Somebody got up and the fella stood on the chair before removing a painting hanging above the fireplace. I kid you not, it must have been about six feet by four. A couple more beers and we made our way to the stadium, only to find queues at the turnstiles which were all closed. Maybe half an hour later I turned around to see one of the funniest sights I've ever seen ---- an almost paralytic wee bear head down, carrying a flag on a stick staggering towards us. He looked up saw the queues and shouted, "CHARGE !!" before running straight at the doors closing the turnstiles. Eventually we got in to the Paddock End of the ground and the place began to fill. The crowd disorder that day has been well documented so I won't spend too much time sensationalising it here. One thing that really tickled me though was a Bear running on to the park to head off a couple of United fans who'd began to run towards our end. All got grabbed by the police, presumably for a night in the jail. Our man began making two finger gestures which he continued right around the track and up the tunnel. He got one of the biggest cheers of the day for his trouble. Memory says we went 1-0 down then 2-1 up. United equalised before Parlane scored the winner from a penalty. That evening was a nightmare. After changing into our "good" clothes we went seeking entertainment but got sadly disappointed. Due to the reported disorder nowhere would allow us in. We tried umpteen bars and clubs but the second a Scots accent was heard entry was barred. We must have floated around for 2 hours before tiredness of the legs and feet forced us into a late night picturehall. "The Abominable Doctor Phibes" and some other load of shit if you're at all interested. After that we got on a local bus and took a return journey to and from goodness knows where just so we could sleep for an hour or so. Around 6 am at the bus station they started herding us onto any bus heading to Glasgow. It didn't matter what bus or company you were supposed to be travelling with, Glasgow ?? -- just get on that one there son !. Home in Glasgow. Some sleep. Back to work Monday and wait to see what the future brings us.

I think it would be wrong to be too critical, not saying anyone is! of the pod as teething problems are only to be expected. It must be a very nervous thing to do a pod cast if you have never done anything like it before. The more times the guys do it the better it will become. I said it before you can never have enough of Rangers fans talking about Rangers, keep up the good work.

I haven't listened back yet so I don't know how the edited version sounds. In defence i listed to HOH yesterday and the were just as negative about the Dundee result and going into Sunday as we were. In fact in parts it looked like we had the same script. The other topic was empty seats which is also hard to put a happy note to. As for the more uniform it could just be the 2 guests are more uniform but I have put my explanation of that in the podcast forum. We made a technical change to cut down background noise but I also believe that cut out the pub style discussion. This may be just temporary to we get used to using it but I felt it hindered me in adding conversation with a natural but in. We know the Pod is too long and must look at that going forward. Just to get more depressing I can't listen in this afternoon as I have to fill in tax forms.

http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2018/04/09/rangers-fan-causes-storm-after-calling-clubs-autism-gesture-supporting-spastics/

By Guest Contributor Three years have passed since one of the defining moments in the recent history of Rangers Football Club. On the day of his coronation following a successful EGM, Dave King spoke of taking Rangers ‘back to the past’. What is fairly damning for his board’s legacy at present is the past that his board has taken us back to resembles the final years of David Murray’s stewardship, where an undercurrent of apathy and malaise were prevalent throughout the entire football club – though in this instance minus a successful football team on the park and gifted manager in the dugout. There often appears to be a culture within the club where doing just enough day-to-day is considered acceptable. This is Rangers. It is not. Full article below https://www.rangersobserver.com/views/2018/4/3/rangers-can-put-aside-three-years-of-failings-by-hiring-right-manager

Game over. 3-0. Btw, I know I said I don't watch a lot of football unless it's Rangers or Scotland [guys] but I'd a young relative played for the wimmin. She died recently and I met a couple of the lassies playing tonight at her funeral. Nothing pervy. Honest.

We have a DoF, so any incoming manager will/should not get to do that; he'll have an input but he'll not be choosing players personally.

I don’t think our support has the patience for an idealist, project type manager like FDB. Two bad results and it’s ‘sack everyone’ and ‘bring back Walter!’. We want results and we want them yesterday!

Hopefully it only takes Dundee Utd one more season to get out of that league...... by getting relegated to League One

Boabie good luck with your family/personal issues,hope you are able to take up on the kindness offered. It is a shame regards you son-in-law's son he might see different when he gives it thought,but remember as one door closes on your side it opens for others to take over on the other,so I doubt the club will lose out.

No problem my friend I will DM you and get your details to get them in my contacts in the event they cant make a game !

If we go for a Walter mark 2 and start getting results like we did in 2008 then I'll be a lot happier than I am at the moment.

An idealistic approach possibly can work but it's too big a risk and it's not what we need right now. A pragmatic approach doesn't need to be limited to these two. His inability to change sounds like Warburton. Plus I want a manager who can come up with tactics based on the players he has and not force players into a style that's not natural to them just because it's sexy.

McCoist and Murty were both first time managers, so the fact that their approach wasn't successful is perhaps more down to that than their pragmatic approach.

I'd imagine most bears can see both sides of this and that's probably reflected in the boardroom when it comes to selecting the new manager. FWIW, the idealistic guys haven't worked (Warburton and Pedro) but the pragmatic choices (McCoist and Murty) haven't really either so it really is a tough decision. Easy to forget we need to add in the Mark Allen factor too in that any new manager may not actually be a manager per se but a head coach.

My report on today's game https://rfcyouths.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/19s-beat-icelandic-visitors/

Haha! I'd imagine some of the stories from the UEFA Cup Final in 2008 may well mirror that of yours 34 years previous...

We need a safe, less of a gamble appointment. Although any appointment is a gamble, I'm not sure that an idealistic manager like FdB is what we need right now. We've had that with Warburton and Pedro to a lesser extent. I believe that we need a more pragmatic manager

Sad news...

Boabie, stay in touch with me - my Mrs and wee fella don't always get to the games so, in the event they can't make a game, you and your mate can use theirs - may not be till close to the time but hopefully that is OK

The article has now been pulled

What is really needed is for Brechin to get their first league win of the season against them in a week or two. IIRC, one of the Glebe Park teams four point haul, came against those in Tangerine.

It'll most probably end up being McGinn to Celtic for around 2.5 to 3M plus a player. Would prefer he went South as he'd be a significant signing for Celtic, at least within domestic football.

Fair enough Frankie ! I'm not saying the anchor was that bad, more that in the first show, the anchor was especially good (said it in my post on that thread). I appreciate that it's early days and it might be better to be stricter in the '45 minute goal', until things become more fluent.

Fair play to Lennon. He was an expert at this sort of thing so he knows what he’s talking about.

Once the fixture list is out, he'll get a timely yellow sure enough ....

Would you believe it! Boabie’s tale of yore happened to be my first ever Rangers game. My uncle (a Hearts supporter) had agreed to take me and my cousin (we all lived in Edinburgh). We were getting a bit concerned that we would not be there early enough (I suspect my uncle had gone for a pint or two). Anyway eventually we set off, me and my cousin resplendent in our new scarves, and got there in time. We stood on the terracing opposite the stand in what seemed to be a huge crowd. I think Hibs scored around in the first half half time and while those around us talked of a Rangers comeback, it was not to be. After the match we visited his future father in law who lived near Easter road. I remember my uncle unveiling our scarves, much to the amusement of the father in law.

Love reading these kind of threads!

I'm useless with computers so have to make posts "live" rather than type out an article or whatever, save it somewhere else and then go back to copy and paste onto a site such as this. I thought about one covering our run to Barcelona but It would be very lengthy and have to be made in one go so I'll leave it until I've a day with nothing else planned.

I was at that one too. Churchill’s funeral and Henderson and Baxter back from injury. Hearts must have been playing in the west because the Evening Despatch jambo writer reported the A8 eastbound traffic solid with Rangers ‘buses, cars, lorries and vans all the way from Maybury to the Newhouse roundabout. I can see this topic running on and on. I’ll be back tomorrow when I’ve decided which one to bore you with.

Broonaldo, Griffiths, same species.

It's strange to see Rogers getting involved in stuff like this. It's almost like he's losing his comfort zone. Since it can't be the threat of losing the title, you begin to wonder if all is as well as it should be between him and the Celtic board. Is he pushing for more money than they're willing to spend.