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Roy Aitken as assistant. Alan Brazil as Press Officer. Phil McGilliggillididdledee as PR Manager.

Artur Numan who did a brilliant job with the Holland U-21s and I know for a fact he would walk on broken glass to get here. I would also invite Laudrup in a coaching capacity (his brother is over here and I think he would be keen).

I enjoyed that read and look forward to reading the next part.

I just wish this lot would stop talking about us like they are sitting at some top table and we are crawling about hoping for a seat or even some crumbs. Why don't we just tell them we are glad to see the back of them so "stop discussing us as you have enough to sort out with the dwindling crowds and dross entertainment in your SP(Hell)!" We should and will NEVER hold out a begging bowl to anyone. That is why they underestimated the overwhelming feeling of our support i.e. "Division 3 for us as we will never beg!". Give it a year or two and re-visit comments like this. Lets see who is sinking down while the cream makes it's way to the top.

The result HAS NOT (fact!) been known for a while, but your GUESS may still prove to be correct.

As Mr Jardine once said "why do the fans need a museum? They've got everything they want or need in the trophy room. I know the feelings of the fans........." P.S. Not taking away from the fact that it was a nice gesture from Forres!

Cheers GA. I did try to keep the thread diplomatic for obvious reasons, but I'm glad it was a telephone conversation rather than face to face. I thought of anything I could do after the call which would be a bit lighter than Jardine's conversation to brighten my mood, and ended up buying the box set of The Best of Victor Meldrew.

I noted a comment earlier in the thread questioning the need for a petition. I would say a petition is most definitely needed, and the reason I say that is that there is a pretty strong voice within the Club in Sandy Jardine who doesn't care for a museum, nor does he feel that the fans really care for one. I had quite a heated arguement with him on the very subject a couple of years back, around the time the Evening Times did an article on the back page about a possible museum. I know Sandy has done a lot over the last year to ingratiate himself to the Rangers support in his defence over the Club but he fell from 'legendary status' in my mind during the conversation with him on the matter of the museum, when I found him quite unyielding and abrupt. He stated that the trophy room held all the memories the fans would ever want or need. I argued that there were a number of events that were close to the hearts of the fans and would never make it to the trophy room e.g. the 2000 'world record' Cup Final, when for the first time ever the fans swapped the traditional colours for a sea of orange in a theme day that will never be surpassed (they actually mention it inside Hampden museum but nowhere in Ibrox). His response was along the lines of "with all due respect I think I know the feelings of the support more than you do". He even insinuated that theme day was not as successful as I was making out and that it "hadn't really captured the fans that much" despite all photos to the contrary. So a petition for me would answer that question once and for all what the fans want.

Yes it was, although I don't get it so much these days :admin:

Just Google 'Vanguard Bears' - it's on the home page.

I think it will hit the papers but I don't think it will get 'Scandal' rating. Knowing the way our systems work I am willing to bet HMRC will be commended for dealing with it swiftly and it will get not much more than "HMRC employee suspended for using H word on Twitter".

They've exposed a bigoted HMRC employee stupid enough to post his bigoted comments on the Rangers Tax Case blog etc, but I don't think it can yet be proven to be linked to corruption. Although everyone knows the blog in question had to have insider information and there is a corruption waiting to be uncovered.

Andy, we've disagreed on a number of things recently and I'm sure we will continue to disagree on them still. However I can't disagree with this excellent post. Very good read.

The thing I found immediately refreshing about on here was the fact that there were obvious standards (within reason. We are all adults and it is football, so the odd swear word at each other is fine in my view). What drove me absolutely bonkers elsewhere was the incessant 'go back to Kerryfail Street Timmy' whenever they disagreed with you [i wonder what they would have made of one of our regular posters who suggested that The Sash was a pretty "gay" song. No names mentioned :-) ] The Tim reference is not a dig at you DB as I know that you didn't feel you were using it loosely yesterday. On a personal level it wouldn't bother me in the slightest if they came on here and tried to 'out-debate' as I don't think they would last long (or maybe it wouldn't be such a good thing).

'Appalled by plenty. Ashamed of nothing' always springs to mind.

Pete, my take on this is that the 'elitist' comment was not aimed at certain posters (I can name names if you wish, I've no problem with that) as a form of insult. My impression is that it was aimed at those who fairly openly (in previous threads including this one) have alluded to the fact that they would like this to be some form of 'elitist' forum. And comments are often aimed at posters who despise this whole snobbery idea e.g. me, that we should go join some 'lower class' forums. I'm a bit longer in the tooth than most in here probably but this was never the Rangers way in my eyes and I personally despise all it stands for.

There's certainly something that flows intermittently on this one....can't quite put my finger on it!!!

When a 'development fractionalizes boarders' , is that something like 'some posters try to divide or cause a split among the other posters'? You see, it's the 'development' word I got stuck at in this context. Again, you must excuse my ignorance. Maybe development is a word I've always struggled with :-) .

What happens when a 'development factionalizes boarders' in a football context? I'd like to join in here but the language is a bit off putting. Excuse me for my lack of education and intellect but I've followed Rangers for many many years and I don't remember getting confused by the language when talking to fellow Rangers fans about our Club.

I think I'm back at Swiss finishing school. I hated it.

And your point is caller?

That is waffle my friend to avoid answering the point I made. Your 'benchmark' was flawed as alcohol is WAY the biggest killer. My comments of 'night night' to Kuznetzov were tounge in cheek from another thread because he said we should win every trophy we enter this season because "Man U, Barca or the Milan teams" aren't in them. I was winding him up for being drunk.

My comment of which of the 2 was the biggest killer in our country obviously went WAY over yours as you worked on your benchmark.

Ha ha ha. Go back 6 posts or so and you will find it was you who said it was! Night night. You don't need me here now. You are arguing with yourself. I'm off.