SteveC

Hope so, I'm starting to fear the worst though

Dear God, but it is hard work watching this.

Are you saying "it has been done without any major issue" automatically means "it is therefore right and proper to do so"? If so, a dangerous precedent, I'd have thought.

On the one hand it looks like this is desperately necessary, on the other - how sad. Ally is basically saying that neither the fans (nor the club come to that) are capable of recognising what is or is not acceptable behaviour. We have to be told. Not only are we incapable of knowing what is inoffensive or otherwise as fans, our club cannot tell us, Ally clearly has no idea or he could say himself rather than asking to be told. Kindergarten teachers ensure their 43-4 year olds understand what is acceptable public behaviour on day one. Ally is nearly as old as me, RFC is over double my age. And we can't work it out for ourselves, really?

Leggat bluffs, lies, twists things, uses appalling syntax and his writing is strewn with grammatical infelicities. He pretends to know things which his tiny brain could never even dream of comprehending and he switches sides in the blink of an eye if it makes him look better. So, in other words, he's a Scottish journalist. As is Jim Traynor and although JT may have a little bit more about him, he has been guilty of all the same nonsensical flaws in the past. It is what being a tabloid journalist is all about, the kind of creatures school janitors can feel superior to, if they ever meet. The thing that I have never understood about RFC taking Traynor on is - whatever our past with the media - it was guaranteed to get the press against us. OK, they have been so virulently so for so long you might say "what the hell?" But Traynor until a year or so ago was one of that pack (and a classic example of someone who would argue black is white on Monday and no it is not on Tuesday). The minute he came to our side creatures like Tom English switched to "OK, show us what you are going to do" and increased their anti-RFC articles. JT's appointment has further isolated us from the media at large and merely intensified their attacks. A 4 year old could have seen that coming, why the hell are people running the club so blind? And it won't stop, it'll just get worse. If JT "answers back" - cue 50 times the articles dismissing whatever he says in every paper and via every other media outlet. Over a year after administration, fan backing is still all we have - those running every department at RFC are hopeless. I love the club with every fibre of my being but, really, we are "great" only in the number of bears who turn out to see us. WATP, but we are led by the unworthy.

Indeed so, it is like living in a sf-horror movie where reality is distorted. I've never met one who doesn't think Keevins is a bluenose. To be fair, I haven't knowingly met a tim in over a year now but as late as 2011 they still thought of him as a bluenose and that the Rhebel and BBCeltic were on our side.

Thanks for the feedback. I disagreed with my pal for reasons given above. He didn't realise it is a concerted campaign. Also I think these journalists and media bigots are a large reason we have been sent to the bottom division. They create the climate where we are victimised and always presumed guilty. An outsider to our poisonous wee country would never imagine what goes on; but I thought it illuminating to hear what one thought.

I sent the recent blog column: "BBC Scotland Can't Strike Rangers Balance" by Chris Graham to a friend of mine (QPR fan, but life is sometimes like that for some folk ) He said I could share his reply; so here it is, I thought it interesting, hope some here do too. ------ ----- "Now hereâ??s my perspective. My work takes me to places where â??journalistsâ?? operate. Iâ??ve seen them in action and seldom am I impressed. They so often start with an agenda and then try to get quotes etc to match it. It amazes me that people care what â??journalistsâ?? think. For example, football match reports often only serve to display their ignorance. Why dignify their scribblings with a response ? It comes down to this. Rangers is a fantastic institution, part of the foundations of the City of Glasgow. It has an enormous, loyal set of supporters. You are too big, too proud and too secure to care what anyone thinks. A bit of â??no-one likes us we donâ??t careâ?? is warranted. All you want from a football match is three points / a place in the next round / the trophy (delete as appropriate) All the rest is pish. You do not need to crave credit or rave reviews. You shouldnâ??t even care about the State Broadcaster and any lack of balance. You are on your way back and will soon return to where you belong. BBC Scotland cannot stop you. Let them worry......you have nothing to worry about and no-one to fear. Now feel free to post this on a Rangers fan-site and let We The People stop whining about irrelevancies like â??balanceâ??. What would Thomas Paine say ?"

Because it was a far bigger achievement. Not necessarily more pleasurable nor more meaningful to himself, but far less likely, much more of a mountain to conquer. That's what "achievement" means. Birmingham hadn't won a major trophy in how long? Birmingham won't win another in how many more decades? It was highly unusual and a far more unexpected and unpredictable trophy winning achievement than anything that happened to him in a Rangers' shirt. Our glorious club has won seven trebles (and it should have been more, goddammit!) for goodness sake. I doubt Birmingham have won (yes, I am too lazy to google it to check), or maybe even will ever win, that many league-cup-whatevertheycallitthinsyear league cups individually. Sadly - for me, the rest of the world is probably happy about it - I am the "wrong" side of 50, can't remember ever seeing Birmingham lift a trophy before, never expect to again.