maineflyer
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Competition Time! Win One of Five Copies of 'The Colin Stein Story'
maineflyer replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
I'm going to win this. Frankie will sort it for me. -
It may turn out to do us no favours that celtic are having such a poor run at the moment, since it may well spur them on to invest in new players in January with a view to qualifying for next season's CL. They may also throw good money after bad and achieve nothing but, like Frankie says, they currently have a deal more room for manoever than us. For those who say they have no interest in what celtic do, I'd remind them that this is a competition, not a beauty contest.
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Eh? Unable to buy a player in 18 months and no prospect of doing so in the forseeable future. Club officials arguing whether the bank is running the club. Every player currently on the transfer list. �£31m in debt and growing. And before we start getting too comfortable with the onfield situation, if Celtic had the same side they had in the Eck/PLG era, we would already be so far behind them in the SPL that no one would doubt whether we were at the bottom or not. It's only celtic dropping points that make it possible to ignore for a moment just how fukked up things really are at Rangers.
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I think we've been going downhill sine the mid 1990's, about 13-14 years or so. When you watch it for so long, it's hard to know where the bottom really is but judging by the reality that's kicked in among some who could see no wrong even 12 months ago, I'd say we've arrived somewhere pretty significant at last. Of course being at the bottom isn't exactly the same as heading up the other side.
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The bubble might have burst where he's concerned. Looking that way but time will tell.
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I guess fan ownership can only be judged in financial terms if you first have a vision of where your spend is going to be. If we want to keep on aspiring to be competitive in Europe then I think you're right. However, with the rest of the SPL also greatly diminished and the cost of being competitive in the SPL correspondingly reduced, fan ownership could maybe work at a very severe pinch. However, I'm not a great fan of this emotion-led charge for fan ownership of Rangers, particularly in view of who appears to be leading that charge at present. I would greatly prefer a partial-ownership scheme, with fan voting rights cast in constitutional stone on certain strategic matters, and room allowed for significant majority investor shareholding.
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Yes, and I think we really do need to turn our back on the world of these five super-leagues. We can't compete and we need to stop judging ourselves in those particular mirrors. Domestic aspirations only from now on if we're to retain any self-respect. The current strategy only leads to madness.
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Now that we're actually at or near the bottom of our long slide, I'll give you that. It seems unlikely now there will be an ownership revolution before the summer and I see nothing more to lose by Walter staying on. Shite, what a mess. Not Smith's mess but Murray's mess.
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He'll never be the right man to lead Rangers as far as I'm concerned but I feel enormous sympathy for a really good Rangers man. He looked quite broken tonight, he needs to get himself out of Rangers.
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It paints a very sobering picture.
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Don't exactly know where this optimism is coming from but I predict a hell of an atmosphere and a suprising 2-0 win for the Queen's XI.
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Guess what Radio Clyde phone-in's first story was tonight
maineflyer replied to Bluedell's topic in Rangers Chat
These are not sports programmes in any sense. These are opportunities to show off the massive chip on the feenyan shoulder. Bitter people, consumed with inferiority. -
Clearly, there's a trade off between admission price and attendance figures, as far as raising revenue is concerned, and I guess prices will never vary enough to overcome attendance as the main financial driver in this respect. However, if attendance income is only a proportionally small part of overall income then it doesn't matter that Scottish attendance in general and OF attendance in particular can compete with the best in terms of our available population. There is a certain minimum income clubs need to have a seat at the big table of football and if you cannot raise that income then it matters not how good you are at exploiting a given population. All of which confirms we need to see our immediate future in terms other than the model that has been pursued during the Murray years. It's a pity since in any terms that a club is defined by its grounding and support, Rangers are very much in the biggest of leagues .... but that's just not how it measures up any more so we'll need to decide all on our own what we believe to be realistic criteria to judge our progress.
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Hey, watch it you! Cricket is a sacred game, not to be lightly criticised.:box:
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You must raise the harrassment issue with the club BEFORE something untoward happens - get your marker down first, that way if you get lifted, etc, it doesn't look like you're suddenly concocting a defence.
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WALTER SMITH hints that Boyd could start against Stuttgart
maineflyer replied to Zappa's topic in Rangers Chat
Walter really needs to sit up and smell the coffee here. Leaving out the club's only decent goalscorer in a game we simply have to win would be utterly unacceptable. -
Competition Time! Win One of Five Copies of 'The Colin Stein Story'
maineflyer replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
I saw Stein score eight goals in his first three games and thought the messiah had returned. I was to be proven correct. For that alone, I should just be give one of those books. -
What every new Chairman of Rangers should read
maineflyer replied to Bluedell's topic in Rangers Chat
A hint of a better time perhaps, when Rangers directors, managers, players and supporters were more closely bound by common purpose and mutual respect. Unfortunately, that line was broken by Murray, who was driven by more personal ideals and much of it may now be gone forever. -
While this gives a very interesting attendance comparison, it would also be interesting to know the comparison in income terms - do you happen to know figures that could be used to compare the admission charges. In other words, how dependent is each country (Scotland, Germany and England) on achieving attendances to pay meet their costs, and to what extent are these income-attendances being achieved.
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I can't believe we're basing the truth on the limits of limited knowledge. Tom Hunter's passport says British, he's a British billionaire, his heart says Scottish. There's a guy lives in Florida called John Hugh MacMillan, passport says United States of America, heart says Scottish. He's definitely a dollar billionaire. His cousin is Jimmy Cargill, another American Scot and billionaire. I have little doubt there's no shortage of other names could be added to the list. It's a big world out there and a hell of a lot of it connects itself to Scotland.
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Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't for a moment suggest anyone else does the same as me. It's a purely personal decision. I'm just disppointed that you had to experience that from either police or stewards. It's just not good enough.
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Disgraceful. This has been going on for a long time and some have had much worse treatment. This was one of the final straws that made me decide I needed a sabbatical from Ibrox. It might not make me much of a supporter in some eyes but there comes a point when everyone has to decide whether what's going on in the boardroom, on the pitch and in the stands is what they are prepared to continue paying for. Each to there own but when Murray sells and some of the bullshit you experienced on Saturday is brought under control, I hope I'll be able to think differently.
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He can't tell what he doesn't know.
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It's been so long since he actually played for us that perhaps we should just carry on without him. I still reckon the only future we have is without this kind of foreign import so we'd be as well starting at the earliest opportunity. He did some goood things for us but at the end of the day it was only ever a stepping stone for him. What we desperately need to reach is a point where the youngsters of today have become the experience backbone of tomorrow's team and the platform on which we are regularly introducing new young talent. At least, I can see no other future and I can remember back far enough to know we used to be particularly good at this.
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MF was on his last legs after a busy day when he came across said article in the early hours and wasn't capable of much comment. I don't think it offers any real news, looks like someone just filling column inches because that's what he has to do to get paid. Having read it again just now I wish I hadn't wasted everyone's time. It's empty words.