maineflyer
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Absolutely right Frankie. People like McGregor and Lafferty are just the latest in a fairly lengthy list of players who tarnish the club by acting like arses and, if we're completely honest, by cheating. They ARE an embarrassment and it always disappoints me that so many of our fans are prepared to criticise the other side for cheating but simultaneously forgive and justify the same behaviour by our own. Walter did the right thing by dropping McGregor last time and it's clear neither he nor Lafferty have learned a thing from it. You can't claim to have standards while at the same time breaching them, either we're condoning cheating or we're punishing it. Football players in general may tend towards the lower end of the cerebral spectrum but they can nevertheless do enormous damage to the club and need to be treated accordingly. Personally, I'd fine them mercilessly and drop them from any association with the first team squad for at least a month.
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No it isn't ... but the values widely accepted by society have changed greatly and the sport of football is simply part of that. Football could and should re-engage with much that Struth embodied ... it would certainly be better for it.
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I'm a long way from home and haven't seen the game but let's wait until he's played half a dozen games before making too many claims about young Weiss. From what I've heard and read, he obviously has ability but he'll need to show it on the park for more than 30 minutes and should be given space to prove himself before we place too much expectation on his shoulders.
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Can't get excited about this sort of thing ... Waste of time voting for something that counts for fukk all in the first place .... And utterly pointless when Rangers isn't involved.
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http://davidleggat-leggoland.blogspot.com/ It's so obviously true, you have to wonder why no other journo felt able to say it. -
I'm hoping so. I certainly sing it now with added gusto.
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If he had pace he would still be playing in the EPL. However, since Boyd could do a job and be relatively successful without any pace at all, I don't see why Beattie can't do well enough. It's all relative, if we had better players we wouldn't be a team aspiring to be second rate.
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Madness? Ridiculous? Well perhaps from your viewpoint. However, while Miller certainly improved last season, it was actually from a very low point of comparison. On the whole, the only 'madness' would be to claim that this is actually a good footballer we are discussing here. He was simply dreadful when he joined us and has thankfully progressed to the level of competence ... significant progress and definitely in the right direction but please don't confuse someone getting up off their knees with a high jump expert. Kenny Miller is better than he was and while that might cause some relief it certainly doesn't merit the lemming-like adoration this thoroughly average player is currently attracting.
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Sorry mate, couldn't resist it. Excellent comeback though.
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When your club has been owned by David Murray for the last 20 years, even Russians of highly dubious repute seem strangely attractive. As someone who has watched Murray's deceit closely, I'd welcome the devil's ambassador himself rather than watch the current neglect another minute longer. It may not come to anything but the provo-lovers will be shitting themselves at the possibility. I wonder if there are any other Russians out there who want to take over the RST - another aimless organization in dire need of radical change. EDIT - hope this isn't just more Northampton Loyalist imaginings:)
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Why no Steve Davis today? Has an offer been received for him? Surely he's the one player we really do need to keep.
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Hope so, looks to be more their standard.
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Plenty what? Plenty words or just plenty imagination? (nothing to do with Rangers ) Same old attempted superiority from you though ... at least some things don't change
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What action have you ever taken?
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The most difficult job in the world is educating those who already think they know ... but don't .... particularly those who protect their ignorance by condemning experience as pointless.
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The idea that Bill Struth couldn't have succeeded in the modern era without compromising the qualities and standards that made him one of the greatest managers in the world is, frankly, shameful. Rangers fans have become so easily dislocated from the pride of our past that it's clear Murray has succeeded in his efforts to sanitise and re-invent something that wa already too good for the likes of him. Morals don't blow out any windows. Morals are timeless. People change and it's clear to me the only problem Bill Struth would have today is trying to understand what happened to Rangers supporters.
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I spent some time reading through past posts after a lengthy spell out of the country and couldn't let your post above pass without offering my congratulations on summing up so well the entire ongoing farce at Ibrox. We've been owned and led by fools and chancers for so long now that huge sections of the support neither know or want anything else. Shambles is being kind to them rbr ... but here we are again, preparing for another season as cowed and accepting as ever, mulling over the dubious virtues of one fading reputation after another. And, despite all the posturing of a few months ago, what exactly has changed in the boardroom or in the shareholding of the club? Are we now on a more secure footing, financially or otherwise? It's the same old mess as far as I can see but at least it got the ST sales they were really after. They must truly believe we have shit for brains, the way we continue to turn up in numbers to lap up whatever they throw at us.
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We do if we want to better the asking price for him.
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Another masterly performance from Bain .... why do Rangers get involved in this sort of deal year after year? The best you can hope for is that it was a smokescreen for something else - but Bain's really not smart enough for that.
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I hope he does well but signing players at this stage in their career is disappointing from Rangers. Just more mend and make do.
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No, your comparison doesn't work. It's not about comparing players from different eras but about the fundamentally difference between the patch and mend policy of signing someone else's thirtysomerhings and a willingness to develop organically as Struth generally did. Of course Struth signed players but not after they'd already given their best years elsewhere.
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He certainly didn't build Rangers by endlessly signing has beens.
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.... Or not.
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Nah, never saw this as more than a smokescreen ..... Or bullshit.
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Namouchi, garbage when we had him, undoubtedly garbage today. Third rate waste of space who struggled to hold the banjo, let alone threaten the barn door.