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  1. andy steel
    It must be the fantasy events which go together to build up a picture of the board's opponents as crazy, swivel eyed Jockos who can't be trusted with the Rangers vehicle in the sophisticated world of high finance. King's a crook, Gilligan can't raise finance, Murray will be black balled, and the fans are hooligans. It's possible they actually believe it, I suppose.
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    This is unreal! Seriously Rab - you haven't noticed the club almost completely losing contact with its roots, its heritage, its history? Or you have noticed it, and it doesn't bother you? All it will take will be a 5 minute phone call, which has by the sound of things already been done, in which Rangers legends are asked to once more put their shoulders to the wheel and help the club that has been their life. It's hardly the answer to the shambles on the pitch but it takes care of one, easy to fix part of the bigger picture which the current lot couldn't do in 100 years - to get the fan base trusting the club again.
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    I imagine nothing, it will be a voluntary, labour of love Ambassadorial role (probably with expenses covered, which is fair enough); representing the club at official functions, in the community, and generally presenting a respectable face rather than the well skelped arse cheeks that are the Easdales; Rangers fans, though I'm not sure where the educating part comes from, it's more a symbolic role both of gratitude for their past endeavours, and the continuation of their link with the club and fans after their playing/managing days are over. I'm a little surprised you want this explained, it doesn't seem greatly taxing to my admittedly aging mind.
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    The likes of Greig, Souness etc are going to be used to re-establish a living link to our heritage, not to go in the dug out.
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    You'd be as well asking anyone who objects to voting to get rid of the board to say so, otherwise agreement will be taken as read. I fancy there'd be precious few replies.
  6. andy steel
    I never thought of that, I admit. Just a bit of fun in what seems a never-endingly bleak bearscape.
  7. andy steel
    We are all paranoid to some degree, and no wonder.
  8. andy steel
    Ah, many apologies. Mind you, if there's one, inarguable truth it's that we more than deserve to have the piss taken out of us.
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    Call me paranoid, but I thought it was supposed to be a piss take by a non-Bear, given the other name of the t-1000 and given the timing of the account opening. Be a bit of a let down to find Rangers fans thinking it funny, if it was.
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    Yes, it's like Tom Baker as the mad Sea Captain in Blackadder II. 'Opinion is divided on the subject. I say it is; all the other captains say it isn't.' Quite the debate.
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    I haven't got through the full thread yet so apologies if this has been covered, but they ballsed up backing Ally for so long; doing away with the office of manager entirely is the sort of lunacy which only Rangers is capable of. This is entirely indefensible from any sane footballing viewpoint.
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    I can't help thinking you're missing the point a bit here. You could pick 5 fans off Edmiston Drive half an hour before kick off and they would probably improve the team. Like you, I've no confidence in McDowall's ability. But when you get placemen like Llambias and trumpets such as Easdale deciding who is going to be playing for Rangers you are not improving a bad situation, you're making it worse - and I doubt many of us thought that was possible!
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    That's as inaccurate as anything the board have come out with! Granted our focus has been elsewhere, but I won't shed any tears when the last remnants of Ally's coaching team leaves the building.
  14. andy steel
    I'm not certain I see failure to get promoted as quite the disaster you do, mate. If we do go up - quite an 'if' - as it stands the only way we could stay up, let alone vaguely compete, is to inject a big old amount of money into the club, and we know from where that money would come: Ashley. That would just leave us further up the creek. As I see it, failure to go up leaves us goosed, going up leaves us goosed. Happy days, indeed.
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    They've replaced them with Mackay-Steven & Armstrong, Pete, and while I haven't seen either player on reputation they seem to be decent enough. It's not a question of how far behind are we but whether we'll still be around to measure the gap. I'm very pessimistic about our chances, but then I am a miserable git at the best of times. There's always the EGM, I suppose.
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    I don't want to sound like a Govan Jeremiah, but can you seriously not 'see the issue' on this? I'm not being stroppy - I can't see how anyone can see this as anything other than harmful, in terms of long term team building, in terms of managerial strategy (useless though he is, this is unlikely to improve McDowell's mood,), in terms of relations with the SFA...it's possible that on the pitch we'll see an improvement but, as in the 'missing the point' How Far Are We Behind thread, survival issues must surely take precedence over a few wins over Alloa or Dumbarton?
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    Yeah, but this is more like creative accountancy by the business than team strengthening by the coaching staff. And while the 5 new faces can hardly - surely - be any worse than what we have, they don't offer anything at all by way of building - it's a render of the cheapest, least effective finishing plaster rather than a solid foundation. I agree it's not the most pressing of our problems, just another action which, taken in the round over the last few years, seems deliberately designed to inflict damage on Rangers. I cannot make sense of it at all without joining Rab out there, on the perimeter, & I am not stoned immaculate. Sometimes the stone which is rejected, and all that. I'd be surprised if that story is 100% accurate, unless they were being offered to EPL clubs, because with their pedigree you'd imagine they could do a job for a struggling Championship side or, nearer the level we're at, a League One team. If they were offered to Everton or Hull, say, you could see why they got kb'd.
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    Alas, this presupposes we have a team for them to be assimilated into. Knowing no-one of the current staff can only be a positive, who knows, maybe some of their good habits may rub off on impressionable youngsters like Black and Simonsen. I doubt they know what standard they are letting themselves in for. I feel they'll start strongly then be dragged down to the pretty low level of the Championship. Hope I'm wrong, though. Overall it's just another piece of business which makes no sense. Why not get them in on the 1st of January, rather than the 2nd of February? Why get half a team, instead of one or two or a whole team? As usual, everything Rangers does seems to be to the detriment of Rangers. It's crazy.
  19. andy steel
    Not unless they control the cops as well, who released the statement while Reporting Scotland was on air.
  20. andy steel
    Why are you doing this to us?
  21. andy steel
    Yeah, that was probably in poor taste. I'll delete that bit.
  22. andy steel
    I remember going on a bus to my first OF game when I was just slightly older than the kid in this story. I'd never been so excited in my life, before during and after. When we stopped next to a celtc bus at red lights on the way back after winning I, and the entire bus, went absolutely mental. But it never occurred to me to get a bottle out (there were plenty lying around, believe me - this was the early 80's) and fire it at them. I think maybe I'm totally out of touch with how some people think. I can't get my head round this at all.
  23. andy steel
    I don't disagree, but I think I've probably pushed my luck bringing my politics onto the board as far as it will go!
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  25. andy steel
    Most likely, no, he'd have found - like all politicians - that once the patronage of office is removed from them, what they thought was their all pervasive, magnetic personal power turned out to be a chimera. And even if his Labour successors at the Home Office did his bidding, like some London based Ariels dancing to the tune of a green & white Prospero, it seems a little unlikely that their Conservative counterparts did likewise. I apologise for bringing politics up again - if it draws an admin 'shut up or get lost', fair enough. But when posters continually, and apparently quite sincerely ignore who and what has been front and centre in roasting us on the spit these recent years, there's no way to avoid it. As a collective fan base we put the British state up there on a pedestal and it thanked us by kicking us in the balls. Rangers fans singing 'Rule Brittania' is, in the light of events, just about the most insane thing you'll see this or any other year.
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