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  1. maineflyer
    I certainly didn't.
  2. maineflyer
    No. What it actually tells you is that in 51 past seasons we were the best team in Scotland. The facts tell me that the past is history and the present situation is far from the best. Perhaps you are trying to say that Rangers are the team you support and you hold them in great affection. So do I. But let's not confuse loyalty and devotion to the club with sober judgement about the merits of the present team.
  3. maineflyer
    Why is it stupid to voice your opinions? If you believe a serious mistake has been made, why should you shirk from pointing it out? Or did you think the booing was actually intended to help Miller or Smith? If Miller was prepared to pocket the money, if Walter was prepared to spend that money and fly in the face of fans who had made their views abundantly clear, then they especially shouldn't deny those fans their right to vent some spleen.
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    It's awful, cringeworthy, moronic nonsense. If it were in any danger of being true you could almost see some point to it but really - simply the best - did it seem like that after the final whistle? Stop and look around you and think if this is an entirely appropriate song for the club to be playing. I think those few away fans last night would have had a chuckle to thenselves.
  5. maineflyer
    Agreed, but has it become politically incorrect for a Rangers supporter to dislike a player who previously wore the shirt of our greatest rivals? Every fan on a phone-in these days seems to find it mandatory to qualify everything with an assurance that we're not against Miller because he used to play at Porkhead. Which if course is nonsense. I find no problem voicing my distaste for all things celtic, including and especially one with so little talent as Kenny Miller. Sometimes I think Rangers fans are embarrassed to act and think like Rangers fans. We've swallowed the media utterings hook, line and sinker - so much so that we're now waiting for them to tell us what to think next. If Miller is so good then he will prove me wrong and won't need this current manic protection from those desperate to defend Walter's judgement but, for the money paid, I have every confidence that he will actually end up being Walter's nemesis. Why were Miller and JCD starting last night - who amongst us doesn't believe that Kris Boyd should have started in preference to Miller in a home game where we needed to score goals? But Miller will now start almost every game from now on - because Walter will not want to lose face in front of the dressing room or the public. It's a horrible situation and it is entirely of Walter's own making.
  6. maineflyer
    Fans - all fans - are entitled their opinions. Walter is entitled to make team decision. I think Walter made a huge mistake with Miller and when this is obvious even to the manager, I won't hesitate to voice my opinions about his poor judgement. And if we are ready to see Miller as our best player tonight then God help us.
  7. maineflyer
    Sure. Walter will sign another couple of strikers and we'll be ready for anything.
  8. maineflyer
    How exactly do you know these statements to be true? Do you have privileged information? An inside track perhaps? What number does your special insight put on the revenues raised last season?
  9. maineflyer
    Oh I think Mr Moonbeams will have little difficulty thinking up some kind of excuse. He always does.
  10. maineflyer
    Champions League run. Reaching the final of the UEFA cup. The associated attendance money, television income, advertising revenues, merchandising sales, etc, etc. There was even the sale of homegrown Alan Hutton to Spurs. There have been many opinions - played down by Murray, played up by the media. But surely the net income from last season must have been considerable. So where is the payback from success? Why are we no more able to strengthen our squad this summer than we were this time last year? If it was important to take a punt at success last year, what is different this time around? You can speculate all you like about whether this signing is worthwhile or that one is a waste of time. You can even voice opinion on whether we actually need a whole team full of forwards. What is less easy to understand is why the proceeds of success don't seem to have influenced future quality on the field of play.
  11. maineflyer
    Not them. Just him. You pays you money, you makes your choice.
  12. maineflyer
    Rather romantic morality but unfortunately we're not dealing with some father and his son. We're dealing with the fortunes of a football club. Some of us refuse to prop up incompetence and under-achievement by continuing to sit on our hands or offering childlike obeisance to people running our club who clearly have little enough respect for us supporters. You call it negativity, I call it fighting back. You see no purpose to it, I see no alternative to it. You think it's divisive, I think it's inevitable. You believe if we can just offer positive backing then the world will be alright in the morning. I believe that your positive backing will again be thrown back in your face by a callous chairman who has no real interest in our club. The Rangers support has been deeply divided for years and it is now reaching quite disasterous levels. I'm truly sorry this is the case but I cannot believe it will be improved by what amounts to no more than wishful thinking. Negativity? No, it's anger.
  13. maineflyer
    You must be very special with such an impressive CV. But it's OK, you're not unique, I can assure you that gullible Rangers fans go back way before your era. However, in my experience most of them did know the words to the club song.
  14. maineflyer
    Another dubious decision by Smith, who seems determined to bodyswerve whatever the fans would want. Surely Cuellar would have been the obvious choice for captain - guaranteed to be there every match and clearly respected by the entire playing staff. It seems this is more about Smith appeasing Ferguson by not appointing someone that many fans would actually prefer to the current club captain on a permanent basis. Instead of focussing on the oldest players on the books, I just wish Smith would spend more time figuring out why he has never been able to develop new young talent at any of his clubs.
  15. maineflyer
    No, it's just me demonstarting that you don't become a Rangers supporter simply by feigning loyalty on a football website. Now it's hardly proof positive but a lot of people might conclude that someone who doesn't even know the words to the club's most famous song might want to listen more and talk less. At least until he leaves short trousers behind.
  16. maineflyer
    The sad fact is there now is a whole new breed of Rangers supporter who will cross the road to defend mediocrity and whose latest tactic is to hide behind blind support for the mythical "jersey", as if were some sacred cow that must be bowed to at all cost. Bollox! Mediocrity deserves to be named for what it is and Rangers didn't become the club it used to be by accepting second best. This new-found acquiescence is gutless and pathetic and has nothing to do with the Rangers tradition. Anyone who knew this club before Murray will have no difficulty accepting that. This current desperation to apologise for and admonish those of us who still wish to challenge our present mediocrity is sickening.
  17. maineflyer
    Never. I prefer the correct words that have served these many decades. There are still those among us who sing "Though the straits be broad or narrow........" You people who only think you know this club and its traditions can keep on making it up as you go.
  18. maineflyer
    Mostly just contrived guff but two points are worth a response. The first is that we should shut up when we see something we don't like. I put it to you that there is no better way to guarantee the perpetuation of mediocrity. Surely the last eight years is evidence enough on that. The second is this strange notion that the fans should behave in some robotic fashion, trumpeting out support irrespective of ho wthe team/club performs. What about another approach - how about the team/club thinking they need to earn the support of the fans. In almost fifty years I have never seen the fans fail to back a quality Rangers side and I have never seen a player being criticised who didn't deserve it. Funny that.
  19. maineflyer
    Dishonour? What dishonour? If honour is being besmirched at this club then blame lies with those directors who have sat in affluent silence while the club's enemies have lied and tarnished our reputation. It lies with those so-called fans who sit on their lilywhite hands for 75 minutes on a matchday and refuse to criticise a chairman who has lied and stripped the club for twenty years. Honour is more than just weasel words and it never survives self-deception. Booing Kenny Miller is simply expressing opinion. Live with it.
  20. maineflyer
    By gad, I think you have it. Booing Miller isn't meant to be supportive. It's not a question of how he plays, although it's probably a given that he will be awful, it's because he's not welcome and should never have been signed. Many thousands of supporters made this clear to Smith in public but he signed him anyway. So now we'll see who wins the day, Smith and Miller or those of us who think Rangers players should at least have a modicum of talent and shouldn't come to the club reeking with the stench of parkhead. And don't worry, you will have plenty opportunity to tell us how you feel about it because happily unreconstructed bears like me will be everywhere in the stadium.
  21. maineflyer
    Ha ha, that could be straight out of the Follow Follow catalogue of handwringing. After supporting this club through almost fifty years, I'm not so easily deflected. Neither am I so weak-kneed and anxious to conform that I will ever accept Kenny Miller as a Rangers player. Boooooooooooooo
  22. maineflyer
    I will definitely be booing Miller at every opportunity. I have absolutely no qualms about it. Make no mistake, there are a great many who will be joining me and we will all hold our heads high while we do it. Some of us are heart sick of compromising our views in return for the refuge of political correctness. I don't rate Miller and I certainly don't want him at Ibrox for a moment longer than it takes to get him out. Frankly, I have more concern for the long term future of this club than some imaginary "reputation". Who exactly is it that we're trying to impress with this reputation of which so many speak. We really need to stop being embarrassed to be Rangers fans and hold on to the product of our first 115 years.
  23. maineflyer
    Don't think I could stay awake long enough to enjoy the experience.
  24. maineflyer
    The only way I'd run out to buy that propaganda comic would be if I'd run out of toilet paper. Mind numbing crud for supporters who cannot think for themselves.
  25. maineflyer
    Ha ha, that's priceless. The RST gets a health warning because it compromises our ability to support Rangers. I love seeing people live life in the surface film.
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