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  1. andy steel
    Plenty of room between 'a rifle & a pistol in my hand' to 'Koombayah my Lord'. That's a false argument.
  2. andy steel
    Makes you groan. I mean, I want these songs done away with, but the 6am wake up call for singing? How I wish we would just bin them ourselves and save these Bears the hassle.
  3. andy steel
    A test for dB - can you follow this dialect Scots? Hardly an earth shaking surprise. The question is, though, will he be a major player at part of the current set up, or a major player under a new board? That's the unknown.
  4. andy steel
    Without question the best writer Scottish sport has produced in the last half century. Mince commentator, mind. All the very best to Archie.
  5. andy steel
    It's hardly paying less, though, is it? You have a salary which you can make higher if you are successful. If not, well, you never had it in the first place.
  6. andy steel
    Bearger makes a good point. A non-ST game, not the most glam opposition, it could be a half empty Ibrox. Which is where the club should be stepping in and organising some event to drive up sales. Maybe a tenner say, for one adult & one child, or 15 for an adult & two kids. Even go mad and have the whole Broomloan at kids for a quid. Get someone the young people like to perform at half time or something. Have a bloody flute band for all I care...just do something pro-active to get people into the ground. There's plenty of time!
  7. andy steel
    I'm doing my best to stay out of this but that deserves a
  8. andy steel
    I appreciate the point he's making but the idea that we have a chance to re-engage with the club, to re-establish value, whatever they may be, and so on strike me as more myths of the reconstruction era. D&P decided who would be in charge and what their values would be: unless we were prepared to risk another liquidation by withholding money when Green & Co appeared we had no say whatsoever in the matter.
  9. andy steel
    I know I've posted this before but there's only one thing letting Little down in his game and that's his decision making and its so frustrating! 90% of his game is first class but the attempts to beast three men when a square pass to the unmarked player is the better option or a shot from an angle of about 1 degree when re-starting the attack from a better position are annoying because they don't seem to be being coached out of him. I think he should be an automatic starter, I just think he could be even better with a bit of nous.
  10. andy steel
    Butcher & Roberts were pretty close to perfect, I'd say.
  11. andy steel
    Despite the madness and chaos it inevitably brings in its wake, writers down the years have tried to theorise War. Perhaps this is a natural human response, when one bears witness to destruction and carnage, to try to find some logic behind it. Since the days of Herodotus, the 'father of history', literary types have wrestled with the concept and after effects of this organised insanity, refusing to believe in the oldest explanation of all: we are just like that. No-one ever claimed there was much logic in sport, either, and few writers have tried to unearth a theoretical concept behind it. We still wait for the equivalent of Sun Tsu's Art of War; there are no indispensable coaching texts to rank alongside Guderian's Achtung, Panzer! or Liddle Hart's Strategy. These weird thoughts have arisen because war and sport have clashed in the rumblings over the supposed offensive behaviour by some soldiers at Ibrox last weekend. Although the language used by the people who claim to be offended reveal the nature of the game - standard issue complaint kits have plainly been rushed to the front, replete with 'vile', 'disgusting', and 'offensive' cluster phrases - let's treat it with a seriousness it does not deserve and examine whether or not these soldiers merit chastisisment for their actions. The charges against them? Singing, your honour. Even by the standards of two things which lack logic - war and sport - this is a belter. You decide - what's worse, killing or singing? When Lt. Wm. Calley was hauled over the coals for the massacre at My Lai during the Vietnam War, it's just possible that his punishment - a couple of years house arrest, according to Wiki - may have been harsher had it been known that he and his men were giving it side A of 'Are You Experienced' as they fired the village. Elderly Nazis, hauled from their dotage and made to answer for their appalling crimes in eastern Europe and elsewhere, tend to be treated leniently on grounds of age. Personally I would have them shot regardless, the swine, but I doubt if I could convince many to join me in that stance with the evidence that many an einsatz gruppen went into action merrily belting out the Horst Wessel. I should probably point out here that no, I am not comparing the soldiers at Ibrox last Saturday with these historical debris of humanity. But in war, things like My Lai or the Katyn Forest massacre happen. Societies tend to accept that and, with a few exceptional ocassions, tolerate it as a necessary price. Some commentators have pointed out how much more difficult some of the images would make it for the army to return to Ulster. Unlike many Rangers supporters I'm not greatly interested in Northern Ireland and make no pretence at being an expert, but I've no doubt that, during the conflicts there, many unpleasant things happened too. I understand the point and I probably agree that ideally, soldiers wouldn't present such an image, but really...after suffering for decades from your actual violence, are we to believe that songs are the new bombs? The Army protects its soldiers. All armies do. They ask their staff to do a job most people would baulk at (killing fellow humans) and must create a sense of loyalty and camaraderie the better to do so. So, how insane would it be to train your staff to kill terrorists, then discipline them for singing about it after the fact? Outside of the upside down worlds of Gulliver's Travels (or the even more appropriate but lesser known Erewhon by Samuel Butler) anyone considering such a policy must be required to suspend their logical faculties completely. Shoot to Kill! Sing for Peace! Utter fantasy, a grimy attempt to smear Rangers and the army with the feeblest (and, in my book, the maddest) of complaints. In the present days of madness which have engulfed the game in Scotland, this tawdry little episode probably merits only a footnote. But it adds to the hate which the game seemingly runs on nowadays. Dispiriting and unpleasant stuff, but then again...maybe we are just like that.
  12. andy steel
    Maybe some brave revolutionary types in the website dept. refused to put out any more bollocks? How cool would it be if the writing & digital staff shut down the website to any of this he said she said stuff.
  13. andy steel
    Wahay! Did someone call?
  14. andy steel
    Fair enough, then.
  15. andy steel
    True enough, but seems to point in one particular direction!
  16. andy steel
    Right enough, what we need is a dash more religion to sort things out. Well written and interesting but with a central tenet like that, fundamentally flawed.
  17. andy steel
    Oh pfft to Spence. There's more important things going on than that twat atm.
  18. andy steel
    Grant was eloquent and accurate in his opinion of Scott Brown. If someone had managed to get into the dense bastard's head what Grant was trying to - you're a good player, stop coming the hard nut because it's counter productive - Brown would be twice the player he is now. But no, we should all defend twats. Feckin Scottish football, man.
  19. andy steel
    That's a quantum leap Sam Beckett would have been proud of.
  20. andy steel
    You may expect a lawyer's latter by return post, rbr!
  21. andy steel
    As to the first bit, he was plainly put in to convince institutions; because he had experience of & influence with institutions; and he could sell to institutions. That was obvious in the Murray piece and this rebuttal is feeble semantics. As to the payments, all these points were admitted by Murray. He also pointed out he didn't like them or the way they were brought about. Still, never mind. Every time they open their mouths just reminds me how much out of place they are inside Ibrox. No doubt their appalled sadness will lead to Mr Stockbridge being dismissed forthwith after his youtube episode, behaviour which easily falls under the category of 'totally unbefitting'.
  22. andy steel
    "Fuck Boabby Sands He's deid Thank Fuck" Since we're in the mood for detailed explanations today, can you tell me how exactly this is showing support for our Armed Forces? Fuck sake, do you actually think you need to tell people you disagree with that Sands was a cunt? Do you really think we're sitting here thinking, 'well, let's not be nasty about poor old Bobby, he wasn't all bad' or something? I want the murdering prick to be consigned to the dustbin of history where he belongs, and what pisses me off is that its Rangers fans helping keep his memory alive!
  23. andy steel
    Either the offending line in Super Rangers or, if we are really too thick to amend it, the whole song; this, to my ears, is about the only sectarian song you'll hear at Ibrox nowadays, although King Billy's on the Wall, which he isn't in Glasgow, has no place here on the grounds of taste. For the same reason we should ditch whatever the wannabe terrorist drivel that goes to the tune of The Fields of Athenry is called. That's it! Nothing worthwhile to lose, and everything to gain.
  24. andy steel
    Ah, I see! What with other call ups as well I suppose that puts the kybosh on the Pars game, I suppose? Be a shame if it impacted on their cash flow projections.
  25. andy steel
    Difficult to say because of the staggered payments for ST's, I suppose. But if you add ALL the ST and gate monies taken since the end of June I would imagine the balance would be quite healthy atm. Long term, though...
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