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Norris Cole

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  1. Home or not, that's the toughest game of the five out the way already. A lot of good young players in the Scotland set-up at the moment, the problem is Hadden is reluctant to give them all a game. Sound familiar?
  2. Whenever discussions like these surface, I always think of the English Premiership. Overpriced, overhyped, soulless, sanitised dross devoid of characters, individuals, and for the most part full of players with little or no passion for their club. Football has gone rotten in such a short space of time. The game at the top level in 2008 is almost unrecognisable from even 1998, both on and off the park, with the 'Sit Down Shut Up' era well and truly upon us. The SPL hasn't quite gone the way of the Premiership in pricing terms (yet), but even watching Rangers is becoming a luxury enjoyed by the privileged few. I'd like nothing more than to watch the Rangers home and away every week, but instead, trips to Ibrox are a special once-every-few-months event to be looked forward to and savoured. And even then you're treated like shite on Murray's shoe. FFS in Germany you can take yourself and your two kids to a Bundesliga match in some of the world's greatest stadia for less than the likes of St Mirren charge us for the 'pleasure' of visiting their dump (�£27 incidentally). The treatment of supporters - the lifeblood of the game - gets worse every season. In January alone Rangers fans were asked to get themselves up to Inverness and then Aberdeen for 12.30 kick-offs. And we also had the Hartlepool v West Ham FA Cup game recently which kicked off at 12.40pm, wonderfully accomodating for all those West Ham fans waking up 300 miles away. Now we have Rangers fans told a couple of hours before kick-off that the Forfar game is off, by which time hundreds will already have embarked on expensive travel agendas, and not all of them from Scotland. Honestly, what was the point in Friday morning's pitch inspection? Just another masterclass in incompetency from the bungling beaks who are supposed to run our game yet year after year make us the laughing stock of Europe. Without even taking into account what has happened to our own once great club these past few years, football is a good game gone bad and I can't help thinking that sooner or later the fans are going to take some sort of stand.
  3. Great first season and a fairly mediocre second season and that was that. Great value for money for two years' service but I can think of better Rangers signings.
  4. I'm looking, but by all means give it to the guy who was asking.
  5. Perhaps best to get the burger and programme before taking your seat, admittedly. Oh, and buy a prize draw ticket as well, all proceeds go towards developing the club's conveyor belt of top youngsters. Remember to have a look in the superstore after the game as well. Did you buy a programme?
  6. Buy a ticket for the AC Milan game, buy the 3rd strip, sit down, shut up, buy a burger, buy a programme, go home.
  7. Oleg Salenko, Staale Stensaas, George Young, Nigel Spackman, Don Kichenbrand, Neil McCann, Darren Fitzgerald, Andrius Velicka, Stephen Hughes
  8. Perhaps the "Big May Announcement" has arrived at last.
  9. No idea whose it was, just remember it being a real good site. It was my first online Rangers home - I joined in 2002 before signing up to FF when IU closed down the year after.
  10. Sorry I have to disagree. Kaunas was so catastrophic that it doesn't deserve to be taken in context. We may look back in a decade or so and surmise that Kaunas alone put us five years behind Celtic in both financial and footballing terms. We were as woeful in the second leg as we had been in the first, and trying to get through to the group stages of the CL with a midfield of McCulloch, Dailly and Adam was simply criminal. Zhizkov was merely a UEFA Cup defeat - and before the group stage format was introduced to that particular tournament - and the sums at stake were miniscule in comparison to the Champions League. It was also, I'm sure most will agree particularly after the second leg, a freak result, whereas Kaunas was Levski Sofia all over again and a result Walter could apparently "see coming". People often say the only way to come back from being punted out of Europe early doors is to win the treble. At least McLeish's team did that. I don't have the same faith in the group of players Smith has assembled to do similar. I hope I am proved wrong.
  11. You know this site, in appearance more than anything else, reminds me of an old Rangers forum called Ibrox Underground. Anyone remember it? Went defunct in 2003 I believe.
  12. Sad to say, but Moyes is very much out of our league at the moment. Moyes is quite evidently an excellent manager and a good guy, and if many Rangers fans are willing to accept Kenny Miller, then I'm willing to bet the vast majority would welcome David Moyes with open arms.
  13. Craig Levein at Rangers is just wrong, on so many levels. Rewind to that game at Ibrox at the end of last season (10 May), and this is what Levein had to say of referee Mike McCurry:- "We had a blatant penalty and he bottled it. "If it's not a level playing field and, if we don't get the decisions, blatant, important decisions then what is the point of turning up? "I thought Mike McCurry had the balls to stand up and give these decisions. "Not only is it a penalty kick, but it's a sending off for Davie Weir. But he didn't want to do it because this game meant so much to Rangers." Levein said he asked the referee what was the point of his players turning up if they were to be the victims of such decisions. "Anybody who is of a fair mind watching that today would see that we had no chance of winning that. "We get a perfectly good goal chalked off and a blatant penalty, with not even a decision to make, and it should've been a sending off." Fast forward just three months to 17 August, when our friend Charlie Richmond denied Dundee Utd a stonewall penalty in their 1-1 draw with Celtic at Tannadice:- "I can understand that people make mistakes and, in all honesty, I like Charlie. I think he's a decent referee and I've just got to put it down that he made a mistake. "We've got a meeting with the referees on Wednesday, so I've got a few points that I'd like to put across and I'd love for everybody to get on and work together for the good of Scottish football." Spot the differrence? One thing I will say for Levein is that he certainly has the media on his side. Jimmy Calderwood doesn't receive a fraction of the attention and fawning of the press yet funnily enough his Aberdeen side has still managed to ghost into 3rd place. As has already been said, nobody of any stature would come near Ibrox as things stand, and while Murray is in charge Smith is in charge. The only change to that will be the inevitable promotion of McCoist to the hot seat, which IMHO wouldn't be the best thing for Rangers. In a hypothetical situation then, and keeping it realistic, we could do a hell of a lot worse than Billy Davies at Forest.
  14. It's hard to take the ironically-titled "Have Your Say" seriously at all. In fact I would worry for the mental state of anyone who thinks it's a fair representation of the comments submitted. Suggesting whether "global financial crisis" is in fact a pseudonym for Walter's scandalous squandering of �£10m on dross doesn't exactly fit in with their Stasi-like nothing-to-see-here agenda.
  15. I can see Smith dropping Fleck for this one, on the premise that it's a game requiring more "steel". Doing so would be disastrous IMO, but I fear Smith will treat Aberdeen like Real Madrid, as is his nature. One win in seven up there doesn't sound great, but if these players aren't up for it on Saturday after being let off the hook since the Old Firm shambles (7 point gap cut to 2 points in a fortnight), then we might as well give this title up. The odds on us going top so soon after the OF game (albeit briefly) must've been huge. A Rangers win and it's squeaky bum time at Mordor at 3 o'clock. This is a massive game.
  16. I'll jump on this bandwagon as well. Just joined and I look forward to discussing all things Rangers and right-minded with fellow Bears.
  17. All the best in your search, though I would suggest you tell any 'Bear' who asks you to pay extra where they can put their ticket.
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