andy steel
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It probably is. I don't disagree. But the experience of the RST shows that people are put off if they think someone is trying to speak on their behalf, even if they agree with them. I suppose the question ends up being, are you hoping to win over people who already agree with you but weren't aware of the scheme, or are you trying to entice reluctant fans on board. Even if it's the first, there's still the need to step cautiously lest you alienate the second. Dancing on eggshells with Bears, man.
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1st para - (personal opinion only) I'd be careful about presenting the fans as uniting behind anything. Yes there has been a lot of support for this scheme, I'm not saying what you have written is wrong, but the wording: 'the common consensus', 'the average fan is seeking' - is it the common consensus? are the average fans really seeking these things? Plenty of us are behind it but there's a danger of claiming to speak for all which gets peoples' backs up, as we've seen before. 2nd para: typo: 'to' instead of 'the' in the second sentence: 'the goal is to ensure' Other than that best of luck!
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Course it's childish. That's why I called for it to stop. On the second point, Mr Easdale will never be on the same moral ground that I stand on. End of, no debate. Debt to society paid or not, view of rehabilitation liberal or punitive (I would lean to the liberal side, generally), I've never been to jail and I have never defrauded the exchequer. The question of maintaining higher ground doesn't arise - I don't have any interest in being thought of as holier than thou, but I certainly stand higher in the rather arbitrary ladder of merit that is 'morality' than someone with a criminal record. When the Conservatives came up with the hilarious concept of 'Caring Conservatism': they had to invent it because they were widely recognised as uncaring. It's uncertain how many people bought into the concept. Game's nearly on, I shall leave it at that.
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Yes, quite right. And I dread to think what the public perception of the financial competence of Rangers would be. We'd probably end up having to take 'internal' loans and struggle to raise outside finance, although since we have enough money to see us to the end of the season there's no prospect of that happening anyway. Der Berliner speaks eloquently for all of us, I think. What's past is past! I'm surprised that Mr Easdale feels the need to take legal steps when surely, he can see that we are all delighted with his tenure: the excellent financial performance, the industry standard setting public relations we've seen, that je ne sais quoi which says 'class' at every turn, the ground breaking levels of transparency (to say nothing of the splendid bus service at Bellahouston Pk after the game) and are 100% behind him. Well, 30% anyway.
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BH is right. I think we should be grateful that we have a tireless campaigner for good manners, respect and polite behaviour holding the reins of power at Ibrox. Previous incumbents, who shrugged off criticism, especially of a personal nature, to demonstrate by their actions what they could do, were men of straw compared to this lad. Those who would repeatedly highlight such issues as being jailed for tax fraud really do need to see the bigger picture. Just because you have demonstrated in the past that you are an untrustworthy criminal who ended up slopping out your own shite on a daily basis doesn't mean that you can't, at some point in the future, take control of a multi-million pound business or strike deals with 30% rates of interest for sharegolders. How on earth is he supposed to get on with the business of creating a successful Rangers when people harp on about his criminal past, when he was jailed for 27 months for tax fraud? It's really most unfair. Just because he was jailed for 27 months for tax fraud is no reason for this bad manners on the part of posters here and elsewhere, it really isn't. It ought to stop right away!
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He's been getting very positive reviews over the last 18 months or so, and was spoken of as being a shoo-in for a Scotland place in a few years if he kept up his rate of improvement. While I can't say as I've seen him play - not toddling along to midweek games at Love Street anymore like I've done since about 1976, no doubt they are delighted to be shot of my sub-human presence - he seems to be an excellent Scottish player with potential. Not sure what the objection would be to that kind of player joining up, tho in truth anyone half intelligent would head south for the money.
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#worstfinalever
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'Tribunal decides Rangers should pay £5m for McLean' Sounds about right...good player,mind you. Doubt he'd fancy 2nd division in Scotland, tho.
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No. Nothing I've ever posted has made any difference to anyone as far as I can see, it's not that serious, so I probably posted nonsense earlier.
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Not really, I don't even recall typing it. Probably more of a dig at haters than us but ach, I don't know. I'll change it to them as run/have run the game for the last 20 years, then.
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Dundee United chief Stephen Thompson blasts SFA.....
andy steel replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
Too late, but fair enough. He is doing a bit of a Charles Green impression this week, mind you. And isn't it amazing the way history gets re-written? 'That was their buzz-phrase a couple of years ago' - it wasn't actually, it was twat fans who called phone ins and the like. The SFA managed to make our position worse than it already was by being rank incompetent cretins, but in fairness it wasn't their idea to push sporting integrity. -
I share your pessimism: a Cup Final is on, and tbh, I'll be watching the F1 highlights. Last night I sat in front of the TV, switching occasionally between Bayern v Bayer and Ross Co v St Johnstone. Bit of a stark contrast: no grass on the pitch, no fans in the ground, no skill in the players and at one point, not even enough air in the ball. It's so sad that what was a national obsession is fast approaching minority interest status, but there's no-one to blame but ourselves, the fans. If them as want to jump through hoops at this afternoon's game want to, that's their business. I don't see any way back for Scots football in the future - and seeing how Scots rugby is doing after it, too, shot itself in both feet about 10-15 years ago, it's a grim future ahead.
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I assumed that the statement was put out by the board with King's agreement! But it still doesn't say anything, regardless of who put it out.
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Whether that came from the Board or from King it's a long way to say not much.
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The Meeting Between S Easdale and SOS at Full Time
andy steel replied to chilledbear's topic in Rangers Chat
Since the telecom industry was de-regulated the Phone Book has gone from the size of a prop on Worlds' Strongest Man to a wafer-thin pamphlet which comes in the door and straight into the Blue Bin. Wherever the info came from, it wasn't any phone book. I've heard Craig Houston on the radio and he sounds first class. I wish him all the best. 100% solidarity from this Bear. -
dB is always warning us against going over the top and it's good advice, even when it sounds like head-in-the-sand. But with the possibility, no matter how remote, of the club going either to the wall or becoming a slightly larger version of Aberdeen, are people really refusing to engage with alternatives on the grounds that they might have to sit somewhere else? I mean, I disagree with King, I think this will harm not help the club, I worry about the finances, etc etc etc all sound perfectly reasonable reasons why people might not join his scheme. But - 'I don't want to sit somewhere else'? I don't get it.
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The Meeting Between S Easdale and SOS at Full Time
andy steel replied to chilledbear's topic in Rangers Chat
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I've no time for the media, but this is plainly a story fed the Record by the SoS and being used to hammer Irvine (whom Record staff hated, apparently) and the board (who Jackson seems to hate) in a bid to use publicity to avert legal action. Easdale needs to get over himself. People are not going to stop referring to his past because it makes him look untrustworthy, and he has taken it upon himself to do a job which requires trust. Thin skin + running Rangers = wrong man for the job.
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Rangers supporters branded him Public Enemy No 1 and his stadium.......
andy steel replied to ian1964's topic in Rangers Chat
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Just say no, Stb.
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For once I must disagree with you. Don't forget it was us and Timothy who inflicted the atrocity that has been the SPL era on Scottish football, and though I was 5 at the time I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was us who thought up the Premier League as well. I don't think we've done much for the game which hasn't been in our own benefit and while I detest the sanctimonious hypocrisy of the likes of Dundee Utd or Aberdeen, all mouth but no guts to actually change anything, that doesn't make us much of a better choice. Grim stuff I know but I don't rate anyone very highly when it comes to running the game.
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Some fans have never hidden their dislike of others, be it traditionalists who can't stand the likes of me or the likes of me who can't be bothered with Ulster. But I don't remember anyone, ever, labeling me vermin or using quotation marks to describe 'people'...it's a short step from there to the 'sub-human' line so charmingly used by those lovely fans of other teams, who whine about nasty words when people in Blue use them. I tell you what, come next home game I'll buy a ticket for the BF2 and get out my giant poster of Alex Salmond, while shouting 'Forward to the Scottish Republic!'. We'll see what happens...freedom of speech is all well and good but sometimes you have to engage the brain as well.
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Fair enough & I do agree a bit - I don't think last night was really a good time to hand out leaflets, could be seen as being slightly party-pooping. But you can hardly blame people for caring.
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It was funny to hear their simple-sounding spokesman on the wireless last night - Pete's 'village idiot' sprang to mind - seriously suggesting that it was Rangers & celtc who stitched up the whole thing from the start. Of course, we really run the game in Scotland, hence our bouyant position at the apex of things. 1 - We plainly don't run anything, we don't even have a vote. 2- If we did, we'd be outvoted by other clubs who would disagree if we said the sky was blue. 3- Dundee Utd, as their fans, had the chance to change things when we got booted out the SPL and the 11-1 vote system was in their favour. They shat it then, they can hardly blame us.
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Black Doubtful For Airdrie Clash + Other Team News
andy steel replied to Zappa's topic in Rangers Chat
You don't get to ride around Ibrox on a high horse, white or otherwise, when you have played crap for two years.