Norris Cole

That's not really the point though. It's not the fans who are stopping us winning championships.

It's the current 'regime' that are giving us results like this. And I am very, very far from any sense of pleasure right now.

What a honking shout

We're still in the hunt? You can only mean mathematically. We might laugh at Celtic drawing at Motherwell, but being beaten at home to bottom of the league dross at a crucial stage of the season is the stuff of losers, plain and simple. It's not as if we have the excuse of fixture congestion this time round. That's considerate of you. It's that kind of attitude that has given us the miserable decade we've had to endure. Murray loves fans like you. Says who? From what it sounded like on the radio the players were going through the motions in the last 15 minutes. Was there really that little direction from the dugout? Celtic's luck has struck again? They should have been 4-0 up after 15 minutes and missed a number of good chances in the 2nd half. How long have you been saying "it can't keep happening"? It is and they're 3 points ahead. Yep, let's sit back and accept the inevitable as Waltersaurus pisses another championship up the wall. Like I say, Murray loves fans like you. Quite simply an unbelievable post.

Jesus .

Nope. And Walter's ready to give Weir a new contract...

It's an unspoken truth that a sizeable element - though by no means all - of those who follow Scotland are scum. Anti-British bigots utterly immune to bad press. The Scottish national team of 2009 represents all that I hate about the modern game in this country. Rangers fans get battered in the mhedia for trumped up crimes on a weekly basis, while the self-styled 'Tartan Army' are allowed to piss, fight, drink and flash their willies in the street, all while being proudly proclaimed The Greatest Fans In The World (mark II). Oh, and don't forget the booing of - off the top of my head - France, Lithuania and Northern Ireland's national anthems. Apparently the booing of the NI anthem was a 'protest against a GB Olympic team' . How do they explain the other ones then? These will be the same fans who simply couldn't contain their santimonious outrage over Manchester - events which they will never have the first idea about. It honestly beats me why Barry still plays for them - the abuse he gets off the Scotland fans year in year out is abysmal. I've heard it with my own ears. Happy to cheer when he scores mind. You'd think the SFA would have learnt their lesson after they shafted Duncan Ferguson. Not a bit of it, now we have Broadfoot lamented before his first cap by his own manager for ââ?¬Å?limited ability." George - how many players in that Scotland team have played in a European final? Was delighted for the big guy when he scored against Iceland - a massive GIRUY moment to all the diddy club fans who had delighted in putting the boot in all through the week. And then we have Scotland's only goalscorer told he "needs to prove himself at Rangers first." What, in the name of phuck, are you on about George? The only grown-up reaction on the Boyd matter came, unsurprisingly, from SFA chief executive Gordon Smith. A man despised by much of the country. Wonder why? The anti-Rangers agenda has been out in the open for a while now, no doubt about it. Boyd's a traitor, while James McCarthy will naturally be left alone. Earlier in the season we were told to "respect his [McCarthy's] decision", while Tartan Army ââ?¬Ë?spokesmanââ?¬â?¢ and consummate Rangers-hater Hamish Husband comes out in the press slating Boyd. "Traitor" is a word used when you defect to the 'other side'. Given that both Boyd and Walter are deemed traitors, do we then deduce that Rangers and Scotland are enemies? Ultimately the national team's stance against all things Rangers will mean the Tartan Army's World Cup experience in 2010 will extend to singing anti-English bile at pub TVs up and down Fife and Aberdeenshire. Whether to support the national team is a personal choice and I totally respect Bears choosing to support Scotland. I have simply directed my patriotism into supporting the Scotland rugby team at Murrayfield, where everybody is in it together. Bears of an older vintage tell me it used to be like that at Hampden.

Walter is good at keeping everyone happy. Except all those he doesn't play. And those he plays out of position. And most of our youngsters.

4-0 Boyd 2 Miller O.G.

Nothing to do with the players on the park. Everything to do with the SFA, the Rangers-hating bigots in the stands, and the dick of a manager.

Let's hope there's a couple more gems following in Fleck's footsteps in the near future. We're going to need them with a smaller first-team squad next year. Would like to see Shinnie, Efrem and Furman get a chance.

Ah, see that's not a question of patriotism, it's whether you believe the national team in 2009 represents Rangers or indeed a united Scotland.

Not being a regular follower of English football I wasn't aware of that. If he hasn't been playing for so long then it's hard to justify him starting an international match.

...chip, chip, chip...

I have no interest in international football either, however I would say that McGregor and Boyd are two different situations. Boyd was Scotland's top scorer and being kept on the bench by wasters like Gary 'loadsagoals' O'Connor. The insult was compounded by Burley coming out and saying he would only play players who were getting a regular game. Therefore, a) why pick Boyd in the squad in the first place if he wasn't getting a regular game for Rangers, and b) why play McFadden when he was barely getting a sniff at Everton? Sometimes I think Burley doesn't think before opening his mouth. Anyway, in McGregor's case I don't think being put on the bench would be an insult in the Boyd mould, as Craig Gordon is a very good keeper who has done little wrong at international level. Scotland are very lucky in the goalkeeping department at the minute. In any case, I don't think any Rangers player should bother playing for that moron. Shit, have I started a five pager?

This is true chilledbear. Unfortunately this season, the way our team has been set out has at times been more conducive to 1 point than 3 Like your optimism Gers4Life, however if you're biting your nails at home against the bottom club I don't want to be anywhere near you in May

I never argued he was a bigger waste of a wage than those players you list. With the exception of Lafferty who is being played out of position, they're all as much of a waste of a wage as each other. I just get the feeling that some fans think that because Beasley's played for big teams before, it's only a matter of time before he comes good for Rangers. While I admit that Smith hasn't given him a fair crack of the whip on the left, the hard-nosed fact is that 18 months after signing, Beasley has done very little to justify a wage. Unfair or not, I'd now consider Fleck and Aaron before I did Beasley. Would love him to prove me wrong because he's a good guy. I also agree with Bluedell that he just doesn't look happy in the physical game we have here. At times he makes Rod Wallace look like Jonah Lomu.

While he's never been given an extended run in the team, there are too many games where Beasley has had a stinker. A poor return from the wages we're giving him. If we have to trim the squad from 28 to 20, he simply has to be on the cull list.

"I think with Hearts particularly, referees have to be alive to these kinds of tactics." Say that in the English Premiership and that's an instant fine.

Levein is a horrible, horrible bastard and I can't believe more people haven't woken up to this odious little shit. He comes out with classless rants like this again and again (except against Celtic you understand), a game at Hamilton earlier in the season rings a bell.

Nice guy, crap signing. Would be good to pick up some money for him.

If the bheasts can't show respect to our war dead they're certainly not going to show respect to an institution they would have shut down in a second. As for this season's championship, the stakes are that high it's almost unbelievable. And that's not taking into account the massive sense of injustice I'm sure we all still feel over the murky events of last season. The ghost of Kaunas haunts our club. A colossal couple of months ahead.

Let's hope Hamilton make more of an effort to find the coin-thrower than the bheasts did to find the lighter-thrower four years ago (ie. none). Anyone know if the SPL observer has made mention of this, or was he watching the Rangers fans for 90 minutes? As for finding a song the mopes and mhedia can't twist, forget it, they can twist whatever they like. These are the people who wailed that the Bouncy was mimicking jumping on Catholics' heads, and tried to say our socks symbolled being "up to our knees in feenyan blood". Then there's the songs they simply make up out of thin air - remember "kill a feenyan before I die"?

:cheers: .

The run-up to Manchester was proof positive of the abject incompetence of Rangers and their marketing department, if it even exists. I am sure I wasn't alone in May 2008 in searching high and low for a Rangers shirt to take to Manchester with little success. I eventually had to settle for one two sizes too big - the only one in the store. A shambles. The club could literally have made millions more from shirts alone during those days and weeks before Manchester.