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  1. BrahimHemdani
    Because we have no money to get us through the summer when there is no income but we still have all the wages and other expenses: electricity, maintenance and running costs etc to cover.
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    In 2011 my ST in the MRE was £554 + £10 (I think but not certain for paying over 4 instalments direct to the Club, may have been waived though) = £554 which I paid as 4x £138.50. Can't find exactly how it was done in 2012 but as has been said the total was unchanged this season when I paid 1x £102.25 (inc the £10) on 27 June and 3x £92.25 July to September; total of £379. The amounts were charged directly to my CC, so no interest was incurred. So as was stated at the time the reduction (if there was no £10 fee in 2011) was exactly 33.3% (32.2% if there was a £10 fee in 2011). If it is going up 18% for next season it will still be exactly 20% below 2011/12; which I reckon is fair enough. However, it would be disappointing if the only alternative to paying a lump sum meant it all had to go on a CC which might then incur exhorbitant interest rates if it then had to be paid back monthly. In that case I would rather pay the first month direct and put the rest on a CC but doubt that will be an option as it's too messy from their point of view. On the other hand this would demonstrate how desperately the Club needs the money now and I do hope there is no more of this ST trust nonsense. At first glance they appear to be breaking the promise to reveal the plan before the ST's go on sale but perhaps they want to factor in the response, which is also not unreasonable in my view. However on closer examination the wording was "ahead of the season ticket renewal deadline" not the annoncement. So it is entirely possible that the announcement will be ahead of the deadline, which will most likely be end April or some time in May and then no doubt extended.
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    Thanks for this. I'm sure I can organise a basic chicken paella which might suit you and SC. They have all the usual Spanish beers, I'll get the list to whet your appetite.
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    No problema. I'm going to do whatever I can to make this a huge success so you guys will spread the word and then we'll have twice as many next time.
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    That's the problem apart from paellas, they really only do tapas as the starters/main combined bit wierd but it does what it says on the tin Malaga Tapas. I'll give him a look at your selections and see if he can do un ration of any just for you guys, shouldn't be an issue, but definitely no pizza!
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    I'm impressed and Cristobal will be too. Their bravas con salsa picante are excellente. Can I organise something else for your segundo plato then? You're not getting any postre if you don't eat a plato principal.
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    Can take you lot anywhere you're all so easy to please.
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    That's helpful thanks, hope everyone else likes your choices!
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    They will be doing a special selection for us so that they can prepare enough for the party, probably 2 or 3 items from each section of the menu (in other words around 3x or 4x 8-12 different items, as numbers stand at present, so that it works out about 3 per head); so don't blame me if anything isn't to your liking!
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    Mucho gracias!
  11. BrahimHemdani
    If Sunday is anything to go by, then Little will be patched up and a certain starter against Dundee Utd.
  12. BrahimHemdani
    Sorry to bring tears to your eyes. As you'll remember, we beat that great Dundee team of Alan Gilzean, Kenny Cameron et al in the 1964 Final; but that, as they say, is another story.
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    With less than 3 weeks to the main event can I ask everyone who is going to take a look at the menu http://www.malagatapas.co.uk/images/main_menu.pdf and post your favourite 2 or 3 dishes from each of the Aves (poultry), Carnes (meats), Pescados (fish), Verduras (potatoes & vegetables) and Ensaladas (guess) sections which are the tapas. I'll work with the restaurant to get as many of the most popular choices as is realistic based on the numbers. If there are any tapas you have come across that are not listed I'm sure they can oblige. He will probably do all the paellas listed except Verduras unless anyone needs a vegetarian choice.
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    I have found this excellent account by By Ronnie Esplin and Graham Walker http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p4H72lQMU5IC&pg=PT68&lpg=PT68&dq=rangers+tour+of+russia+1962&source=bl&ots=ywmzuClx0w&sig=kRebj76Ri5u1P4P85CCUF_dFEqM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BZ9CU_mxDaqH0AX2goGgAg&ved=0CF0Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=rangers%20tour%20of%20russia%201962&f=false
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    Quite so, Andy; I had held it back as I was having a problem with the pictures and thought it might be a good time to take folks minds off yesterday's fiasco but I'm sure your right. I don't want to get off topic in this thread but since you mention it "We are treating it as a major cup final," said McCoist. " by playing four injured players and bringing on another. Please do not respond in this thread, about yesterday's game!
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    Picture of the triumphant return from Russia in June 1962 now edited in along with comments from Prof Walker.
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    That's very kind, the response hasn't been overwhelming so far, so I wasn't sure if folks were interested in what happened 50+ years ago.
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    Well remembered! I have a photograph in a book and will try to scan.
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    I think that D'Art's well reasoned and articluate contributions will be sorely missed on this forum and like others I do hope he reconsiders in course of time. Sometimes it is good to take a rest and come back refreshed, as I know only too well.
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    I was going through some old stuff at the weekend and came across a folder with the team photos from 1960-61 to 1967-68 (one missing 1963-64) which adorned the walls of my bedroom as a child. I’m going to start with this one of the 1961-62 line up because it is the only glossy photo, the rest are newspaper cuttings. It is stamped on the back “RECORD COPYRIGHT RESERVED” but hopefully it will long since have passed into the public domain. [/img] In those days, the big pre-season friendly, was the First Team v the Reserves and you can see the large crowd it drew. Another reason to start with this one is that the players are not named so you can have some fun trying to put names to faces. (I've played about with it endlessly on Imgur and this is the best size I can come up with that isn't just a small thumbnail or so big only half the picture appears. If Zappa or anyone else in admin can make it a bit bigger that would be appreciated.) The trophies won the previous season are displayed: League Championship (32nd time) League Cup and the Reserve League Cup. The 1961-62 Rangers finished second in the League on 51 points (2 for a win back then) from 34 games in the old 18 team First Division, behind champions Dundee on 54 points. However, we won the League Cup, the Scottish Cup and the Reserves won everything there was to win: Reserve League Championship, League Cup and Second XI Cup. Rangers defeated Hearts 3-1 in a League Cup Final Replay after drawing the first match 1-1 (Jimmy Millar). The regular forward line of the day: Scott, McMillan, Millar, Brand and Wilson broke the Hearts with goals from Jimmy Millar, Ralph Brand and Ian McMillan in the first 21 minutes. At that time the European Cup was a straight knock-out competition for champions only with all matches played over two legs. In the First Round Rangers defeated Monaco 3-2 home and away. The French described our performance beneath the ramparts of Prince Rainier’s palace as “Magnifique”. The second round posed a strange “cold war” problem. The draw sent Rangers to East Berlin to play Vorwarts (pronounce Vorverts) and Rangers returned with a 2-1 victory. However, the Allied Authorities refused Vorwarts visas to travel and it was decided that the game would be played in “neutral” Malmo; actually it was played twice! The first match on November 22nd, 1961 was abandoned at half time due to fog with Rangers leading through a goal from 17-year-old Willie Henderson. The replay kicked off at 9.00 am the following morning and Rangers won 4-1 for a 6-1 aggregate, to bring forward a Quarter Final against Standard Liege. Eric Caldow pulled out of the away leg with an injured toe, 30 minutes before the kick off and was replaced by 19-year-old Bobby King. Teenagers Willie Henderson and John Greig were the right wing pairing (outside right and inside right). Rangers went down 4-1 in a mud bath before a “tempestuous, partisan crowd” (well, what would you expect?). Willie Henderson had been chosen to play again in the second leg ahead of Alex Scott whose fitness was in doubt; but Henderson got caught up in traffic on his way to the ground from Airdrie and did not arrive at the Stadium in time to strip for the match. Rangers won 2-0 but went out 4-3 on aggregate. As a 15-year-old, 28 clubs wanted to sign Henderson, “Manchester United and Aston Villa being the most persistent”; but he signed for Rangers on his father’s advice at age 16 and spent the next 12 years at Ibrox playing 478 times and scoring 36 goals. He won his first Scottish Cup medal in Rangers 16th Scottish Cup triumph when we defeated St Mirren 2-0 in front of 127,940 spectators who paid £17,980 (excluding stands!) at Hampden on 21 April 1962, the first of a three in row cup victories and my own first Scottish Cup Final. This was the legendary Rangers line up of the day: Ritchie, Shearer, Caldow; Davis, McKinnon, Baxter; Henderson, McMillan, Millar, Brand and Wilson. Four of our lads: Eric Caldow, Jim Baxter, Alex Scott (who was still selected for Scotland although he had lost his place in Rangers team to Henderson) and Davy Wilson, played for Scotland in the famous 2-0 win over England at Wembley. Wilson and Caldow (penalty) scored the goals for Scotland, to give us our first British International Championship since 1951. Ian McMillan scored Rangers 5,000th league goal v Raith Rovers at Ibrox on the 14th of October 1961 and I was there! The season ended with an incredible and highly successful three-match tour of Russia: defeating Moscow Locomotive 3-1; Tbilisi Dynamo 1-0; and drawing the last game 1-1 with Kiev Dynamo. Thousands of fans swarmed over the tarmac at then Renfrew Airport to welcome the team home. According to Professor Graham Walker Between 10 and 15, 000 flooded into the precincts of Renfrew Airport to salute the team on their return that June evening, with thousands more stuck in traffic jams on the roads from Glasgow. The fans indeed swarmed on to the runway. One journalist proclaimed that the ‘No conquering army ever received a more vociferous homecoming’, while the late James Sanderson, then a journalist for the ‘Scottish Daily Express’, called it ‘the greatest homecoming of any sportsmen to Scotland – bar none!’ (Rangers Standard) [/img] If this has been of interest I'll publish one season every couple of weeks or so for the next few weeks. Credit: The above account is drawn from Rangers - The New Era (sic) by William Allison, published in 1966.
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  22. BrahimHemdani
    Point taken amms and I stress I do not have a personal account on Twitter, so have only seen snippets that have been copied elsewhere. But I make a distinction between using foul language as an adjective or adverb and using it as a noun e.g I would agree that Rangers were f****** hopeless today but it was considered unacceptable on here for someone to call me a c***. If that's old fashioned then fair enough.
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    Such as "fucktards" for example? In my opinion it's nothing to do with her being a woman, though others may hold a different view.
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    What bus is that please? On a serious note, I don't know the person concerned and there is nothing wrong with progressive thinking; but there is a way to express your opinion without using the language of the gutter.
  25. BrahimHemdani
    Some job by St Mirren ,two down weren't they? Go Steven Thompson!! It could be an excellent league with Hearts, perhaps Dundee/Ross Co/St Mirren, Falkirk, possibly Dunfermline, the up and coming Ian Murray's Dumbarton, Livingston, QoS, Raith Rovs, certainly the most competitive in Scotland; we won't run away with it that's for sure.
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