maineflyer

It's not easy to think of Bain doing something well but this sort of assertive statement is long overdue. The sporting integrity phrase is simply a small payback to let everyone know exactly where we're coming from.

Agree wholeheartedly, 18 is my preferred number too, 34 league games is about ideal. I hope the pompous nonsense about stadiums that prevented Falkirk gaining promotion in the past would be used exclude any team. Too many who spent way over their budgets on new stadia now play to a fraction of capacity. Anyway, regardless of the teams involved, we need to get away from this business of playing teams four times a season - and we certainly need to do away with this end of season lottery that leads to three away games against the same team. The Swiss thried for ages to make the same system work and damn nearly caused civil unrest before they finally did away with it.

And you're point is? Who judges what is a good post or otherwise. Are your posts all expressing original thought, or mine? This issue is not one of content but of the right to comment on an issue. It takes almost no effort at all not to read a wabash post. In fact you can put him on your ignore list and you'll never need to see one again. But an issue was raised and some admin figure decided neither I nor anyone else should have an opportunity to comment upon it - and that is unacceptable. Admin are here to moderate - they are NOT here to censor, least of all on the basis of personal taste.

Jeez, more bloody high-handed censorship. Why is it that admin feel compelled to closed out topics that they personally feel uncomfortable? Is this forum just for the personal tastes of a small number of admin wallahs? I wanted to comment on the original thread, as might several others, admin need to back off and stop playing big brother silly buggers. There was no abuse, no strong language and no contentious issues in that topic - so why was it closed?

Ok then, I'll go first. Congratulation to Ross County on reaching their first Scottish Cup final.... and for giving us a clear sight of just how much damage has been done at Bheast FC.

As Frankie says, I've absolutely no idea what's coming down the pipe but I certainly wouldn't discount your theory that Murray still has his chubby paws round the neck of this club a year from now. Strange times indeed but it does all smell of the same Murray manipulation we've seen so many times before. The less that bugger says the more he's doing.

I think it looks excellent. I just can't imaging the time and commitment it takes to do these things. There really are some amazing bears around and I'm always really humbled by this sort of thing. (personally, I still lie awake at night fretting about how they got all those lines in the Union Flag so straight)

Fukk off Frankie (MF in unsurprising banning scandal)

I think we should each post on anything that interests us as individuals and there should be a whole lot less energy spend being judgemental towards other posters. As readers, we have every opportunity to be discerning about what we read and how we react to it and if we can't manage that then it's probably no one's problem but our own. Post about football, post about ownership, post about anything Rangers, why not? I frequently disagree with what people post, here and elsewhere. I don't always succeed but I try hard not to belittle anyone for posting their views. I might well debate or argue, even forcibly, with them on the subject if the mood takes me but it does disappoint when I see members trying to say what others should or shouldn't post, how they should or shouldn't present their opinions. I'm not sure there's that much high ground in sight to justify moral mountaineering.

Might be good to hold back a little Craig. If we didn't have members posting their views freely, especially what you see as controversial views, this would be a far more insipid collection of posts. Why do you see your mission to drive out controversy?

That's pretty much how I see it too...... except only a new owner will persuade me to contribute another farthing.

The debt does need to be reduced but the club also needs to be sold, otherwise these sacrifices will only benefit the people who have led the club into this mess in the first place. No wonder there is a little stalling going on.

I love a good standoff. Mr Cannonball is taking a big stand..... not one I would have taken, I have to say. I think NL is being genuine in what he says. Whether Ellis is equally genuine remains to be seen but I'll keep at least some powder dry until I see more.

I'd put the wee bastard in a deep dark hole, then fill it with shit.

Hey, it's Cryptic Week. Celebrate it. But I'm not giving away anything more about our cat.

I don't see why players with a sellick background would be concerned about signing for us. McCann did it and was embraced by the fans. Many other have done it too. They still like to perpetuate the myth of Rangers not wanting to sign catholics but Albertz, Amoruso and many others have not only been accepted but idolised. What we don't tend to like are those with and anti-British f.enian tendancy and that should have nothing to do with football .... unless you're a Neil Lennon or and Aidsridden McGeady. Personally, I've never been too keen on signing ex sellick players but perhaps that's just me.

Our cat behaves much the same way, sometimes it does him good to spend time outside on the window sill looking in. I checked out that thread and you're right, given the poster I'd have hopes our long wait for a new owner might be coming to an end. Much yet to be revealed though. Thanks for the pm.

Aw fukk, you're not a student are you? :box: Haven't been able to stand students since I was one ... it's a jealousy thing.

Whatever anyone thinks of Walter Smith as a manager, he clearly hasn't lost the dressing room. Nothing could be further from the truth and that fact is probably the only thing that matters here. If anyone is in danger of losing the dressing room, it's our ex-Chairman and the pansies currently sitting in our boardroom - all of whom need to get the future security of the club sorted out.

I've no idea whether Wilson will stay or leave. However, with no new owner or funding in sight, I am becoming increasingly concerned about the state of our playing squad for next season. If the likes of Wilson leave this summer then we could be in fairly desperate straits unless new money becomes available. It's worrying.

This is bloody annoying - you've left almost nothing to argue with in anything above. Completely agree re Numan and De Boer. Numan was a fine player but, for me, wouldn't compare with Eric Caldow who was not only a far better player but spent 14 years at Ibrox and whose conduct on and off the park was everything I'd like to see from a Rangers player. But don't misunderstand me, I've no wish to criticise Baxter, who was a truly exceptional talent, perhaps world class. I just don't think he stands with Greig or Gough when it comes to the magnitude of his contribution to the Rangers success - or to the national team, despite the repeated showing of the "keepie uppie" clip. As for Larsson, remind me, who was he again. I seem to remember a profound ugliness and an endlessly droning voice, (fair mindedness doesn't stretch as far as anyone who wore that green and grey arse rag). I think you know exactly where I was coming from, no sellick player would ever get my nomination as a matter of principle. Unless it was a nomination for the Gulag XI. BTW I was at that CIS semi final and my abiding memory is of a Hearts player (I think it was ex-sellick Stephan Mahe) being sent over the touchline at least seven feet in the air by a Ricksen tackle (or was it Craig Moore). I have absolutely no memory of the goal but I do clearly remember how cold it was that night.

I know mate, digressing on a football forum, what's the world coming to? Thanks for taking the trouble to keep me right. However........ Like so often happens, the Baxter myth has outgrown the reality. As I've already said, he could indeed do brilliant things but that isn't the same as being a genius, whatever that means. Davy Cooper could do brilliant things but he had some absolute stinkers as well, many of them in fact. Baxter was one of my boyhood heroes but I think we have a duty as we grow older to reassert the truth rather than just follow the herd. One of the reasons I wouldn't place Baxter at the head of the queue is that he frequently displayed a petulance and selfishness that did little to help the team and in the end ruined his life. Greig and Gough and many others wore the club on their sleeves and made more enduring commitments to the club and that counts big for me. But please, feel free to go back to the greatest Scotland players. In my fully biased world, the greatest Scotland players will be the greatest Rangers players.

If it's not Andy Goram then it's only because he played for Rangers.

I'd even settle for hearing directly from the RST.:fish:

I've come across McColl and his team a couple of times and he didn't seem to avoid publicity when it suited him. What I think he will do is avoid pointless publicity.