maineflyer
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Strangely, they do seem able to connect with some people. The meek shall inherit the earth ... right about the time the gullible find the truth.
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Why on earth would you think that? What have the Rangers accounts ever said about the health of the club?
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Oh yeah, them wasters too:)
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I think you're being totally naiive but you're as entitled to your opinions as anyone else. It really doesn't matter how you describe the content of the glass when you damn well know there's a hole in the bottom of it.
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The only real value now from this exercise is the effect it will hopefully have on the dressing room as players see the company they are in. If this doesn't motivate them then they should all become accountants instead. (couldn't resist it)
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Valencia will be the worst. Bastard Spanish police.
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I predict a riot.
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Sure, and presumably mainly by people who never saw Brand or Millar. Because if they had, they wouldn't have been so quick to talk shite. Ralph Brand and Jimmy Millar were a class act. No doubt the same people are comparing Papac to Caldow and Naismith to Henderson.
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I don't believe we are on the right track at all. The best you can say for it (and I would concede this) is that we have got off the wrong track. There is a catalogue of improvements yet needed at Rangers and an entirely new management team will be the first sign anyone is interested in taking on the turnaround process. Murray still controls the club, Bain still implements policy, and we still have a barely competent and utterly disjointed board of directors. There is no evidence I can see that we are in any way trying to improve the income stream, we still seem to be relying on CL qualification and God knows what would happen if we didn't have it at the moment. My advice is don't look to present management to turn anything around, they wouldn't know the right track if they were welded to it.
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We rightly get excited by the CL and the kudos it brings but the SPL is what is important to Rangers and achieving the financial haven of CL qualification. Otherwise the CL itself is likely to be brief and bloody. Whether our new fella plays in it is largely irrelevant in the scheme of what's critical to Rangers.
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Isn't that the truth laid out for all to see! It doesn't take much to draw criticism of supporter organisations from me at the best of times but thinking back over the Duffy/McColl/Ellis shambles and now the utter lack of initiatives coming forward is the clearest signal that we actually have no organisation to sort out. This would be the ideal time to be engaging, unifying and building credibility but instead will get only confirmation of the futility of hope when it comes to supporter representation at Rangers. No doubt when the next corporate dance hits the headlines, the supporter hierarchy will leap again from their slumber to present themselves as kingmakers, only to be laughed at all over again. I'll say this much for them, they must have fukking thick skin to take so much ridicule and rejection but still keep coming back for more.
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It's almost unbelievable how short some memories are. Miller was indeed utter guff for long periods and could do little but run around to no purpose. His double against Celtic was about the only thing that kept him engaged for his first six months or so. He has indeed had a much better run since then but let's not revise the facts to support what a few would like to have been true. There are far better players who have left the club, having contributed more and received less thanks for it. I can also remember almost no other Ranger player who "for some reason" has received such continuously positive and obviously massaged media treatment. In the end that media support has worked for many of us.
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The question is not whether he was going to get a work permit but whether he can now justify making the application. Fingers crossed.
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The other side of that worthy coin is that we are in no position to launch the sort of attacks on Muir that have regrettably but not unexpectedly characterised certain (self-serving) sectors of the Rangers support. Donald Muir may not be the saviour he'd like to be seen as but I believe he is part of the very necessary changes that had to take place at Rangers. We do have unacceptable debt.... unacceptable to every Rangers supporter, let alone the banks whose money we borrowed. We do need to accept the requirement to repay our debts instead of just carrying and servicing them. We do need to establish a financial regime based on living within our means, instead of seeing spending as a God-given right, regardless of whether we have first earned those means. We do need to implement a sustainable business plan that is based upon financial prudence rather than periodically interrupted by it. If Muir was part of that change, never mind responsible for it, then as far as I'm concerned he is a very welcome addition to the Rangers boardroom and stands in favourable contrast to the overblown reputations who preceded him but couldn't actually get the job done.
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Occasional blatant cheating, routine embarrassment, continual indiscipline, little in the way of what he's actually supposed to deliver ..... can't blame him for taking on the job but would we miss his contribution? ..... not a chance.
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I agree with you, the issue of work permits for footballers is preposterous. It's hard to see the point of it other than to assuage the paranoia of the envy brigade. The country is overflowing with every nationality you can think of and the papers are writing about work permits for a few dozen footballers. We're living in Absurdia and being governed by wankers, particularly where it concerns anyone who is successful in any way.
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Gerry McNee. Now there was a bitter, bitter man.
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I definitely think sellick should make him an offer.
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Such research! You must be so proud. But of course at the time the comment was strictly descriptive ... and might yet be again. However, you still seem to be struggling with the distinction between past and present players. There's a difference between commenting on the current performance of those who can do something about it and lashing past players who cannot. Once they leave, the book is closed - you may still not think they did a good job but why go out of your way to disrespect them?
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Whether you liked Boyd or not while he was a Rangers player, whether you thought he was a good player or a poor one, what's wrong with showing respect for the job he did AND enjoying the performance of the current players. The two are not mutually exclusive. You don't undermine the current players by acknowledging those who move on. Neither is it a case of leaping to anyone's defence. That's way too simplistic and verging on crass antagonism. It's a matter of basic respect. Almost no one who has pulled on a Rangers shirt has been a truly great player but all deserve respect for doing so, whatever their ability or contribution. You don't have to think they were a good player in order to show respect, you just have to be respectful .... while that may be a commodity in short supply today, it surely cannot be beyond the reach of most people, even contributors to this thread.
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Aye, very good. well done.:yawn:
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Didn't the referee also book Lafferty for the nonsense against Aberdeen? Anyway, agree totally about Alexander - why should he have to warm the bench while McGregor disrespects the shirt he's wearing. besides, people like McGregor and Lafferty seldom leave behind the hole they think they will.
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Nope, you're wrong. Would you like to be wrong again?
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Who's Gav?
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From time to time there's an outbreak of total bollocks on this forum and it looks it's back again. Kris who? Just how disrespectful and supercilious can you get about someone who pulled on the Rangers shirt and routinely scored more goals than anyone since McCoist? Those who take his place might turn out to be better or worse, time will tell, but why so quick to belittle someone who so clearly did the job he was asked to do for the Rangers. Kris who? Kris Boyd, Rangers player and record goalscorer. Now, who the fukk are you?
