SteveC

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. Right. I've had enough of this. I will stay a member of RST and RF, I pray for a transparent, unified fans' group that will always put our beloved club's interest first. (I also hanker after proof of Santa Claus's existence.) However, I'm not going to read any more about the fans' groups, I'm going to stick to other threads and just see what we end up with further down the line. Since I'm not that far off 60, I doubt the fan-splitting threads will be over before I am, however.

We always do. The club that was hated almost to death by the supporters' of others (who still wish this, self-harming though it be) seems to have a self-harming 'support' into the (horrific) bargain!

There's probably a race going on for who will be first to split in the huff if they don't like the new unified set-up. These folk have cleverly set up a contingency split even before the unification to ensure they win said race if/when that comes to pass. I meant that to be tongue in cheek but reading it back it rings horribly true. Let us pray not.

That Friday night, I'm out of action even to follow on text far less attend so I am down about this one

http://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/morton-switch-friday-night/

Dear lord, as if the US nominations' elections weren't stressful enough now we've got this.....................

Genuinely staggering and deeply disturbing. Unless it's all interlopers extracting the urine. I cling to that, sad though it'd be, as the sanest explanation - which is a revelatory thing to write in itself.

Rangers Media??? My few visits there found me faced with adoration of GreenandWhyte. Scary!

I merely pass on the information. far be it from me to comment

Follow Follow had a thread on her recently. Here's some of the folk she follows on twitter: "Pope Francis, Father Gregory Boyle, Wings Over Scotland, Women for Independence, Nicola Sturgeon, Hardeep Singh Kholi, Patrick Harvey, Alex Salmond, Alan Cumming, Natalie McGarry, Kevin McKenna, Pat Kane, Humza Yusaf, Gerry Hassan, Gerry Braiden, Aamer Anwar, Limmy, Iain Macwhirter and (added recently) Frankie from Gersnet." Frankie stuck on in desperate attempt to pretend some "balance", presumably. However, I'd say it's clear why she's been appointed and who she will target. It's a close run thing between that list and the board she has just joined for who hates us more.

They are quoting the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale which takes more factors into account in determining overall intelligence quotient and has a different reporting scheme. It's in about its 5th incarnation now - as is the Standford-Binet scale - and I am not sure if one can "translate" one score easily into the other. What you can say is that 234 on the WAIS is percentage wise as impressive as the genuises you quote above - i.e. top percent. There was a lengthy, detailed and alarming blog written about this guy's connections with numerous people and organisations implacably opposed to all things Rangers when he first appeared on the scene - I can't find it now. I've no idea how true it was but I'd like to see it again as it bears no relation to anything he's said or done since becoming involved with us and I'd like to know which one paints the true person. EDIT: This was it: https://themanthebheastscanttame.wordpress.com/2013/06/ It reads rather like hysterics now I see it again.

That's a nice idea and how we would all like to think behavioural issues should be resolved. However, as in so many of these areas, they've been educated and they are still doing it. That's when things get tricky both morally and practically - what do you then do? Either you resort to force or you allow them to continue. This situation is played out across all societies repeatedly and I can't think of (m)any who have ever solved the dilemma in a satisfactory manner. PS http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14259033.Rangers_fans_join_union_activists_in_Scots_landmarks_protest_over_Sports_Direct/?

Last time I got lifted over was at Hampden and I was c.25 years old. I had been in St Vincent Street in a bar with a "double happy hour", already plastered when that started. I am only 5' 6", pal over 6 feet decided we should go to see Scotland. I have no idea now who we (as I called them then) were playing. We got more pissed and went. He had this idea that he should lift me over and we'd get away with it "cos you're as wee as a kid". It worked, too, but I think that was more to do with the state of us - nae sensible bloke would come near us. All I remember of the game was him battering me in the ribs and putting his hand over my mouth. We were in the tim-end enclosure and Scotland were struggling and brought Roy Aitken on. Apparently I went into a sarcastic rant about us "bring on the silky players to break down the defence with finesse and touch". Either that or "how is that big, thick, talentless prick going to help". It was one of those two. Next time I was at a game with that pal I had a beard and he was fuming, he still thought it was his clever manoeuvre that fooled the turnstile man!

Ah, sorry to bring bad news to a sick bed. All we can do is hope Rab is correct re plea-bargaining.

They are listed above, are they not? This comment was particularly depressing: Whyte, Green and David Grier have also had allegations against them dropped. Charges seven, eight and nine, which alleged Whyte and Grier obtained thousands of pounds from Rangers by fraud were also deserted.

It's not good news, either. Today hasn't gone well at all.

At the moment the judge seems totally pissed off with the SFA QC who, despite having dynamite evidence, is floundering. Unless that is just Doleman's slant on things.

You'd think so. Could it be part of the ongoing court action?

The post below is lifted from FF. It was posted by "graemeinnes". It will not take you long to see why I thought it appropriate to copy here: Billy Neil - ex Ranger RIP Sad news about Lanark man, Billy Neil, who passed away last week. Mr Neil played for Glasgow Rangers under Bill Struth, before moving to Bradford Park Avenue. Mr Neil's family had recently donated a number of items including photographs of his playing days, team sheets, tickets and match day programmes. We feel this would be a fitting time to post these, and have included the article from the Bradford based "Telegraph and Argus" newspaper, who have given us their permission to use their text. A true gentleman, and he will be sadly missed. Thoughts are with his family. . . . . . Telegraph and Argus, 30th January 2016 FORMER Bradford Park Avenue player William 'Billy' Neil has died at the age of 91. The midfielder played for a host of Scottish clubs in the 1940s before moving south to join Park Avenue, where he played alongside club legend Len Shackleton. Despite plans to return north of the border, Mr Neil remained for the rest of his life in his "adopted home" of Bradford, where he had made many friends. Mr Neil passed away peacefully at Wingfields Nursing Home in Bingley on January 26. Originally from Lanark in Scotland, Mr Neil started his career at the Lanark Air Training Corps before signing professionally at Glasgow Rangers in 1943. His career took him to Dumbarton, Greenock Morton and Stirling Albion before he decided to move south of the border, signing at Avenue in 1947. Mr Neil played as a midfielder alongside renowned Avenue players such as Shackleton, Johnnie Downie and Chick Farr, Ron Greenwood and Billy Elliott. He also returned to the club as a coach in 1957, along with coaching junior teams in East Brierley. Mr Neil's daughter, Vicky Reynolds, said that when he father retired the family had planned to move back to Lanark but ended up staying in Wibsey for the next 65 years. She said: "My dad's intention was to go back but ended up staying in Bradford, I think the main reason he stayed was because of the friends he made here; it became a home to him. "Although all of our family are still in Lanark and he always referred to that as his home, Bradford was his adopted home." While he played, Mr Neil also worked part time as a joiner, and after retiring became a civil engineer before working for the Highways Department of the West Yorkshire and Bradford Metropolitan District Councils. He was also a keen golfer, and was a long term member of South Bradford Golf Club. "He took up golf in his 50s and managed to get down to a ten handicap; he was also club president for a year." Mrs Reynolds said that despite working and playing football, he always took time to play with her and her sister as children. "Some of my fondest memories of my dad are our trips to Scotland in the school holidays to see family in Lanark. "It would take us seven or eight hours to drive there, and when we got there he was like a local celebrity, he couldn't walk down the street without being stopped by people wanting to talk to him." Mr Neil is survived by his wife Grace, 89, who he was married to for 65 years. Share article Mr Neil has two daughters, Vicky, 61, and Val, 57, and has two grandchildren, Jamie and Dominic, aged 24 and 17, respectively. The funeral of Mr Neil will be held at Scholemoor Crematorium on Friday, February 5, at 12.40pm. People who attend will be able to make donations to Bradford Park Avenue. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.u...otballer_dies/

Because it is relevant to us next season. Like it or not, our challenge will be to overtake them so this 18 month loan deal is relevant to us. And it may have been on Sky for you but there are no TVs where I work and I would have thought I was unlikely to be alone in that regard. The relevance I refer to are constant expectations on various threads of where people seeing us being in a year's time/think we should be now. There's been talk of players and tactics not being suitable for European games, for example. There's been talk of various SPL teams being "pish". While the latter comment is true and the former may be (probably is) there's an assumption we are going to sail through the ascent to our rightful place at the top of the tree. I think we should sometimes put that task in perspective, the tree is atop a mountain that we were very recently at the foot of. The climbing should have been piss easy until near the summit - but wasn't, alas - we should have spent years preparing for the final push properly but only started to this season. So I think it instructive at times to keep an eye on the climb ahead.

I know this isn't us but it is relevant to us: I see that TGU are preparing for next season already. It's a sobering thought that Stubbs views them as miles ahead of Hibs as they are at the moment far less before they strengthen for our (hoped for) return. "DONE DEAL Celtic Posted at 12:57 Celtic have signed winger Patrick Roberts from Manchester City on an 18-month loan deal. The 18-year-old moved from Fulham to Man City in a £12m deal in July 2015."

Let's just wait until he's actually signed, folks, before taking it as done. There's a medical to get through............ Tentative Loyal

Yikes, DJ, and whoever types it for him, in good column shocker. Spot on with this.

Boo boo, it's my mum's birthday on Monday and she was hoping for a brilliant present from the Court.

Perhaps these dates have been contested in court for some reason.