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  1. maineflyer
    Talking today to someone who assured me that the RST peak membership had never exceeded 2500 paid up members. Does anyone know if this is close to the truth? Frankie, I know that you must know - why is this information so difficult to come by?
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    I've given to Rangers all my life but I won't give a penny more until Murray is gone. I simply do not have confidence in his ability to run the club in a competent manner. Istarted by refusing to buy club merchandise. Then I gave up my season ticket and I haven't otherwise spent a penny at the club in two years. I'm not in the majority in doing this but I'm far from being alone either. As I see it, I have only two options. Vote with my feet or vote with my pocket. I've chosen to do both. Like a lot of other fans, I won't be contributing to any rescue fund that serves only to obscure the culpability of David Murray. Those who wish to do so know where their money is and are free to contribute any time they believe it won't be squandered like the last tens of millions. You pays your money and you takes your choice. Except at Rangers.
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    We live in a small window of freedom - with the ability to voice an opinion that the whole world can hear but before the internet becomes so heavily policed and censored that no anonimity will be allowed or tolerated. In the short time available to us to exercise these freedoms, I suggest we all make the very best use of them to challenge these people who would otherwise manipulate and spin without question. Frankly, the freedom provided by the internet scares them shitless and none less than Murray. Biggordy, this is probably one of the most relevant topics I've seen on this forum in my short time here and it's so important to get your point across to as many as possible. I hope more people will add to this debate, it surely deserves as much visibility as possible.
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    Do you really think I was patronising you? Perhaps I was right enough. But anyone who comes out with "shit" like Walter Smith being our most successful ever manager is probably some kind of plastic bear who comes on internet forums pretending to be something he's obviously not. At the very least, he deserves all the patronising he gets.
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    I really think you need to examine that statement too. Rangers, so much history, so few who know any of it. Murray's brainwashing is almost complete.
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    A lot of Everton fans despised Walter's style of management as much as many Rangers fans do. Unsurprisingly, when he left Goodison Park, chairmen were hardly lining his driveway asking him to manage their clubs. Had it not been for the complete disarray after Bertie Vogts and the SFA's need to find a "safe pair of hands" (now where else have we heard that), coupled with the fact Walter was desperate to find a way back into football, I doubt if he would ever have been first pick to manage the national team. Then along came another team in disarray with a similar need to stop the embarrassment of the leadership. But more than anything else, I would like to know exactly what kind of Rangers supporter thinks Walter Smith could ever stand comparison in the same company as Bill Struth. Utter shite my friend, hang your head in shame.
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    Let's just hope that some of that future is at Rangers
  8. maineflyer
    In the spirit of the OP's excellent post, I'd like to express disatisfaction with the public explanation being given by Murray, Smith and McCoist for the decision to accept an offer for Boyd. According to these captains of industry, there was no decision to sell Boyd, it was simply a quirk of fate that the only offer that came in was for our top goalscorer. Now I might not be entirely neutral in my assessment of these clowns but it appears they are saying that our available playing staff is in the control of other clubs...... that our own board of directors and team management have abdicated all decision making as to who plays for Rangers. Are they taking us for fools? They are all saying that Rangers need to sell a player but who we sell and who we are able to put on the field is up to others to decide. If that's the best they can do to deflect blame from themselves then they really should have spent more time thinking about it. The club is being run by liars who are prepared to pull the wool over anyone's eyes who will let them.
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    The most common estimate I've heard recently is between 800 and 1000 paid up members. It's hard to see that level of representation being justified as a mandate to speak on behalf of the wider support. I'm not saying they are, only that they shouldn't. I thought it was appalling to hear an RST board member trying to say on radio yesterday that they currently have 5000 members. The world of Rangers is run through by so many lies these days that it doesn't need the RST to add to it.
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    Why do you suppose he didn't actually wear said armband? You've chosen to interpret this issue to suit your own view of the world. I can tell you that a lot of people I spoke to last night would have seen it as a Rangers player openly supporting a terrorist group and would have been very upset indeed. I'm not judging which view is right or wrong but it made it clear to me exactly why it was right he had been persuaded not to wear the armband. You may be free to adopt such a simplistic and personal view of the matter but when you accept that not everyone shares that view and take into account the extreme passions involved, this was definitely a situation better avoided. Thankfully, it seems wiser counsel prevailed.
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    You make it sound like someone else had been in charge and that Walter only arrived for those last two year. Who was responsible for reaching a situation where so many players were at the end of their careers at the same time and such wholesale changes had to be made? Let me think now ...... oh yes, it was Walter Smith. The real reason we came to a standstill in 1998 was because over the space of seven years Walter Smith had been unable to replace the key players that Souness had left him. Fact. If anyone cares to look beyond the Murray myth, Walter was a liability then and he's a liability now. That Murray would invite him back to the club shows clearly how much our chairman understands about running a football club. The sooner both of these gentlemen and their appointed underlings are away from Rangers, the better for the club.
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    ....or any less political either.
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    I take it your choice of title for this thread isn't a comment on the death threats received by David Edgar from those nice Murray supporters? However, the RST certainly isn't as alive and kicking as they claim to be. When asked a direct question about their membership, their spokesman said on national radio today that the RST had "5000 members". I asked myself why they feel the need to stoop to such blatant lies in order to prop up their flagging credibility. The truth, less than 1000 members. Very shabby indeed.
  14. maineflyer
    Yes, but he wasn't threatening to wear his armband to commemorate "the dead". It was only certain deaths that suited his political agenda. I didn't read about him marking the passing of all those muslims slaughtered by fellow muslims in Palestine or elsewhere. It was clearly political and he should keep it out of football and certainly out of Rangers. The rest of the time I couldn't care less what he does.
  15. maineflyer
    It would be funny if it wasn't absurd. Rangers fans cannot express themselves at Ibrox about the affairs of their own club these days without having banners confiscated or season tickets removed - but here we have Rangers fans supporting the freedom of players to protest about something that has nothing to do with Rangers or football.
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    That's right, I said that it could be interpreted by certain people. I can tell you that it already has been elsewhere, so I wasn't wrong. What I didn't do was say that I believed that. A mushroom? Mad? That'll be your debating skills showing? You continue to entertain but I think I'll just move on.
  17. maineflyer
    I realise you're struggling with this and being deliberately obtuse but the point is not whether he expresses his support in public, it's that he shouldn't do it while performing his work for Rangers. Secondly, at no point did I say that he was supporting Pelestinian terrorists. As for the stupidity of your celtic minded remark, it fits you like a glove. If that's the best you can do to express your views then you need to get a grip on your frustrations.
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    I'm insulting no one, simply very much against Bougherra doing this in a Rangers shirt. He can pay his respects any other time he likes - 24 hours a day if it suits him. He can do it in private or in public, quietly or shouting it from the rooftops. I will also say however, that I'm personally against any form of support for terrorists and whether he intends it or not, any support for innocent Palestinian civilians in a Rangers shirt will be exploited as support for Palestinian terrorists by certain people to bolster their agenda. To think otherwise would be naive.
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    Thinking some more about this, it smack a bit of Boumsong and his shite about being racially abused before filling his pockets on the way out the door. Bougherra working his ticket perhaps - Rangers stifled my politics? Hmmmm.
  20. maineflyer
    Exactly. Why is he exploiting his position with Rangers to promote his politics? Should every player be inspired to do the same? Support the Palestinians this week, Israelis next week. Maybe line up some support for the SNP or the Tamil Tigers? If he's so motivated about Gaza, will he be on the street corner downtown waving his placard? Or will he do fark all except use Rangers to extend his own profile? A bit like Murray really. Bougherra will be nowhere to be seen in six months time and won't even remember Ibrox. I think it might be more appropriate in the meantime if he stuck to playing football and left his personal life in the dressing room. I can just see Alex Ferguson allowing one of his payers to do this. Not.
  21. maineflyer
    Walter inherited a position of tremendous strength in 1991 and, critically, three or four regulars who did as much to run things on the field as Walter did. He was also blessed with large sums of money to spend on matchwinners who, despite a large number of spectacular failures (Boli, Salenko, Guivarche, Prodan, etc, etc) were of sufficient influence to bail out his lack of tactical ability. When Walter left the club in 1998, it was in disarray. The players who had seen him through his six titles more or less all left and no succession had been put in place to secure the future. But unless I've completely lost my memory, and I haven't, then Walter showed the same inability to develop young talent then as now. The same willingness to play people out of position and no tactical awareness or preparation whatsoever - a fact so eloquently described by Basile Boli who couldn't believe we could approach important European matches with absolutely no discussion of the opposition or tactics to be deployed. And of course you'll all remember Walters wonderful European achievements first time around - no, thought not. The only credit came was when the team that Souness built achieved that run in 1992-93. I wouldn't cite those struggles against Dundee Utd and lowly QoS as evidence of Walter's genius, it would be just too embarrassing. As for Scotland, well nuff said, his legacy strides before him. But in the end it comes down to this. If he's so fukking good, why is he making such an arse of it now. And 50,000 people can see that he is every second week.
  22. maineflyer
    Let me put it this way. Will Bougherra be wearing his armband when he arrives at and leaves the stadium? Was he wearing it yesterday? Will he be wearing it tomorrow? If not then he is using his place in the Rangers team to endorse his personal politics and that is simply wrong.
  23. maineflyer
    Where does the "of course" come from? The evidence seems to suggest that WS isn't a good manager at all.
  24. maineflyer
    Then why not share it?
  25. maineflyer
    I hope you're not suggesting the RST is actually one man and his phone?
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