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  1. Zappa
    Before the Open Offer Sandy Easdale had 2,942,957 shares which was 4.47%
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    Zappa replied to Stimpy's topic in Rangers Chat

    No, once it's set up properly it's all automatic. Once in a blue moon you need to pause blocking to see specific content, but very seldom.
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    That's putting it politely!
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    Apologies folks! I've just noticed a gaping hole in the GPL rules due to our first goal being an OG and the rules we've used from last season don't account for it. SO..... The next Rangers goal will count as the FGS.
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    LAST CALL !!! Use the link in the post above to go to the predictions thread for the Falkirk game. Get them in before kick-off in half an hour folks!
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    The successful candidates and the supporter category they represent are…. Corporate Fans - Thomas Clements Disabled Fans - William Paterson Ethnic Minorities - Zia Islam Families - Christine Murdoch Glasgow/Govan Area - William Gillan Away Games - Alan Harris Female Fans - Alison Clark-Dick Match Ticket Purchasers - Robert Callaghan Overseas Fans - Gary Gillan Official Members - Tom Johnstone Season Ticket Holders - Alan Fraser Under 18 - William Findlay
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    No, he's the moderator JCDBigBear on RM.
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    She was a bit of shoe-in for her category too. Her dad is a regular poster on the RM forum.
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    Zappa replied to Stimpy's topic in Rangers Chat

    That's because IE is pish with a capital P It's available for all good browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Opera & Safari, as well as for iOS & Android devices.
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    He's from the Calgary RSC and more importantly, he's the NARSA president. He was a shoe-in for that category.
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    Zappa replied to Stimpy's topic in Rangers Chat

    Slight tangent here, but I would highly recommend using a good tracking blocker add-on/plug-in for your browser for additional privacy and security. I've been using a free one called Ghostery for ages and it's absolutely superb. Check it out - https://www.ghostery.com/en/
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    Don't forget to post your Falkirk v Rangers predictions before the game kicks off tonight folks!! Do it here - Predictions for Falkirk v Rangers - League Cup R3 (GPL game 11)
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    Schedule updated.... If anyone fancies having a go at writing a match preview just post to let us know what game you want to do and we'll put your name down! _____________________________________________________________ Completed fixtures Jul 03 - Buckie Thistle v Rangers - Friendly - Zappa (done) Jul 06 - Brora Rangers v Rangers - Friendly - forlanssister (done) Jul 15 - Ventura County Fusion v Rangers - Friendly - Zappa (done) Jul 19 - Sacramento Republic v Rangers - Friendly - no volunteer Jul 21 - Victoria Highlanders v Rangers - Friendly - no volunteer Jul 23 - Ottawa Fury v Rangers - Friendly - no volunteer Aug 02 - Derby County v Rangers - Friendly - Frankie (done) Aug 05 - Rangers v Hibernian - Challenge Cup - Zappa (done) Aug 10 - Rangers v Hearts - SPFL Championship - 26th of foot (done) Aug 15 - Falkirk v Rangers - SPFL Championship - shorerdbear (done) Aug 18 - Rangers v Clyde - Challenge Cup - Super Cooper (done) Aug 23 - Rangers v Dumbarton - SPFL Championship - Zappa (done) Aug 26 - Queen's Park v Rangers - League Cup R1 - forlanssister (done) Aug 30 - Rangers v Queen of the South - SPFL Championship - Frankie (done) Sep 12 - Raith Rovers v Rangers - SPFL Championship - shorerdbear (done) Sep 16 - Rangers v Inverness CT - League Cup R2 - BrahimHemdani (done) Sep 20 - Alloa Athletic v Rangers - SPFL Championship - Bearman (done) Sep 23 - Falkirk v Rangers - League Cup R3 - no volunteer (done by Zappa) _____________________________________________________________ Upcoming fixtures: Sep 29 - Rangers v Hibernian - SPFL Championship - Hildy Oct 04 - Livingston v Rangers - SPFL Championship - blueflag Oct 11 - Cowdenbeath v Rangers - SPFL Championship - SteveC Oct 18 - Rangers v Raith Rovers - SPFL Championship - ??? Oct 21 - East Fife v Rangers - Challenge Cup QF - Little General Oct 25 - Dumbarton v Rangers - SPFL Championship - ??? Nov 08 - Rangers v Falkirk - SPFL Championship - ??? Nov 15 - Rangers v Alloa Athletic - SPFL Championship - ??? Nov 22 - Hearts v Rangers - SPFL Championship - ??? Dec 06 - Rangers v Cowdenbeath - SPFL Championship - SteveC Dec 13 - Queen of the South v Rangers - SPFL Championship - ??? Dec 20 - Rangers v Livingston - SPFL Championship - ??? Dec 27 - Hibernian v Rangers - SPFL Championship - ???
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    Don't forget to post your Falkirk v Rangers predictions before kick-off tonight folks!! Do it here - Predictions for Falkirk v Rangers - League Cup R3 (GPL game 11)
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    Not at all JC. If you read what I wrote again all I'm really saying is that it shouldn't have come as any sort of surprise that some of our supporters would dish out abuse to open 'yes' voters on social media. Also, anyone who knowingly wound up the sort of supporters that dish out abuse would probably have got it even tighter. There's no point in standing in the middle of a road and then complaining when a vehicle hits you is there?
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    Good news about Clark's injury not being as serious as feared. I hope he get's well again asap, but isn't rushed back until he's 100% again.
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    That's what I was thinking too, especially with regard to Gers fans who regularly use social media sites. Why would you announce which way you're voting on those social media platforms if you know it's a touchy subject amongst many Rangers supporters and something you're quite likely to get some abuse for? Most of us know there's a fair number of our supporters with quite extreme views and not afraid to voice them on those social media sites, so if you declared yourself as a 'YES' voter on them, I think you pretty much knew what was going to happen.
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    It was D'Artagnan's blog article Steve, nothing to do with me!
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    Zappa replied to rbr's topic in Rangers Chat

    With Laxey having now increased their holding to 16.32%, that's a fairly large slice of the company now owned by them or whoever they represent.
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    Apparently there were only 6 arrests on Saturday night and no ambulances required or anything like that.
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    Just don't go as crazy as Andrew Dickson did when I outed the Evening Times for copying and pasting his whole match report from the Rangers site!
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    The club hasn't disputed that Charles Green sold the Ibrox naming rights to Ashley for a quid almost 3 weeks after the news broke, but is disputing stuff related to these Rizvi stories in the press within 24 hrs. When Charles Green was still here in an official capacity he used to pull similar diversion tactics. Any time something extremely serious was leaked or broke in the news which showed or involved Green being a bullshitting, lying con man or connected to Craig Whyte, all of a sudden there would be a manufactured week or two of total nonsense and madness to deflect away from the important news & allegations.
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    Mate, I had already edited the post to introduce that Herald article by adding that it was biased before you posted, but I hadn't noticed it included a cherry-picked quote from your article. Is what the Herald article claims partially correct though? Were VB members involved in some of the stuff going on in Glasgow city centre over the weekend?
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    A more balanced report suggesting that the trouble in Glasgow was blown way out of proportion - Scottish Independence: 'Dishonest Numpties' Try To Pass Off London Riot Scenes As Glasgow
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    A very biased article from the Herald: George Square Trouble: The night our readers became reporters By Neil MacKay Sunday 21 September 2014 You are the reporters, Sunday Herald readers. Throughout the weekend, your tweets, retweets, Facebook posts, YouTube videos and emails were invaluable to us trying to piece together what was happening throughout Glasgow as loyalist trouble flared in George Square. We had three reporting staff in the square, along with two photographers. After we began posting live images of loyalists giving Nazi salutes and taunting and jeering a much smaller and more peaceful group of Yes supporters, you more or less took over. You sent our images around the country, and you emailed our news desk and reporters with information on where loyalist gangs were moving in the city and what they were doing. You sent us images and footage of them fighting, terrorising ordinary people and spreading disorder in a city which until Friday night had been a carnival of fun and hope, not a carnival of hate. Where throughout the week students, office staff on their lunch breaks, and families had sung Caledonia and Labi Siffri's Something Inside So Strong in George Square, by Friday night the songs had become chants - including "You had your chance and you f***** it up" - screamed with menace and hate, and interposed with singing of Rule Britannia. The heart of Glasgow had gone from Woodstock to Belfast in the space of just one day. And you told us what you thought of this. This was the dark face of Unionism, you said again and again in messages on social media. This was Scotland's shame. This disgusted and repelled you. You - the 45% - responded to our requests for information by liaising with each other online and getting the information to us when you could. And then you decided to act not just as reporters but as investigative reporters. We had heard that the loyalist violence was being co-ordinated online by a hardline group with connections to Northern Ireland. So, we used social media to ask you to help us find out if this was true - there was too much chatter and activity online for any one news desk to check every lead - and you helped us. The entire loyalist demonstration had indeed been orchestrated online, it turned out. You sent us the online poster headed "Scotland Said No" asking for demonstrators to come to the city centre at 6pm. The poster was circulated widely by Britain First, the far-right party set up by ex-BNP members, which has a strong following in Northern Ireland and the west of Scotland. Then you sent us Facebook postings from ordinary Rangers fans, horrified at what their fellow fans were planning. One read: "I am a Rangers supporter. The Rangers pages have been drumming up support to riot at George Square all day. It's disgusting. I am ashamed of them." Then you sent us the social media exchanges of various loyalists you had been monitoring online. One read: "Glasgow riots were crazy, absolutely brilliant buzz. Rule Britannia!" Others talked of going out "slashing c**ts" and wanting "to go to George Square and stab a couple of pencilcases" (slang for students). Another read: "I stabbed a c**t n I liked it". One post from a Rangers supporters' club called on members to gather at "17.00 on the street behind the Louden [bar] and the Bristol Bar on Duke Street". It went on to give a "map route … to all cars", and instructed followers to go to "George Sq for a party". You then identified to us a group of Rangers football fans called the "Vanguard Bears" as being the organisation most involved in the "aggro", as people dubbed the violence online. By Saturday morning, multiple sources were confirming that the Vanguard Bears were the main instigators. Last year, Police Scotland said it had received complaints of a "death list" posted online by the Vanguard Bears of individuals its sees as being opposed to the club. The Vanguard Bears, which has close links with loyalist groups in Belfast, posted an image showing journalists, politicians and people involved in football, including the face of late QC Paul McBride - a prominent Celtic supporter and friend of Neil Lennon. The Progressive Unionist Party - a Northern Ireland political party affiliated with the loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force - also met with the Vanguard Bears supporters group last year to discuss opposition to the independence referendum. On Thursday, the day of the referendum, the Bears group posted an image of Britannia alongside images of Alex Salmond's head on a spike and the severed head of Nicola Sturgeon. Yesterday it posted a statement online reading: "Our voice is on the rise, we must by actions, not words or political soundbites, ensure our Union is defended." As Friday night wore on into the early hours of Saturday, you, our readers, were even able to keep our reporting staff out on the streets informed about events at our offices. Two men started a fire by the generator which powers the offices of Sunday Herald, The Herald and the Evening Times. Soon you were tweeting images of the fire and asking if we were all OK. We were - though we were out of action until early yesterday afternoon because of the power outage caused by the fire. Police are now investigating. You also retweeted the numerous threats and vile verbal attacks made to our members of staff in order to name and shame the loyalists trolling them online. Your support was much appreciated. On you went, overnight and into yesterday, thousands and thousands of tip-offs, leads, pictures, videos, screen grabs and support. You became an integral part of the newspaper. During the independence campaign, we tried our very hardest to give you the voice in the media you wanted and no-one else was giving you, and you repaid us over the weekend by becoming our eyes and ears - and joining in and becoming a part of the voice of the Sunday Herald. And for that, we thank you from the very bottom of our hearts. http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/referendum-news/george-square-trouble-the-night-our-readers-became-reporters.1411314286
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