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    Reds Fan In Peace

    MikeN63 replied to a topic in Rangers Chat

    or stay in Ealing and you can walk to the Brentford ground down the South Ealing Road and across the round about. Diddly to do in Brentford but plenty of eats and pubs in Ealing and a few more hotels. Though the Brentford ground is famous for having a pub on each corner.
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    have a friend who is a Brentford fan, never thought I'd see the day that they were buying our best player, though appreciate that things are no longer the same, just hope today's news is the start of something bright and shiny for all Bears, there has been very little of that in recent years.
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    he's got to snap out of it, who cares if his buddy has gone and he's likely to go at the end of the season. what kind of message is he transmitting to the players, we've got to make the play offs, if I was looking at him as a future employee then I'd say the guy does not carry a professional attitude? he might be in a shit position, but it could be worse, you could have no job, so if you don't make the play offs then you make yourself even less employable next season, get a grip and do the best job you can, even try and look as if you're enjoying yourself, transmit positive messages to the players, even if inside your carrying a heavy load. sure, it is not easy, but it ain't easy for the fans either.
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    whatever Jim Stewart is looking at it he doesn't seem to understand it! there is obviously division and unhappiness which has to transmit to the players. at least at a board level; as long as long as players are getting their salary then it shouldn't impact a professional players on pitch performance, when it is visible at training and match days then it cannot help but impact on pitch. however bad that was to start with it can only be further down the slippery slope.
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    can we all blame a 20 year old kid for thinking about where his next week/months wages are coming from? Why should it be any different for footballers over any other walk of life, so I go to work tomorrow and I'm told the company is going into administration and no one can guarantee my wages at the end of the month? what do you when you may have a mortgage, family to support, do you stick it out or do you look at other options, be honest with yourself? easy to slate, but if you put yourself in their shoes, football is a short career, particularly for people like Ness, who I am sure were not earning fortune. It is incredibly easy for us to criticise.
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    Thank-you Pete for the clarity.
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    you make less sense than I do with a beer inside me!
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    SC was not a direct reply to your post, but we're out of the CL so no domestic quadruple is happening, hope we make it to SPL, but non guarantees, off to ma wee bed. cheers Mike.
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    don't agree, you'd have to be a little crazy given the present circumstances at Ibrox not to reign in your ambitions, but it may also depend on where your level of ambition was originally. as a reasonably old Rangers fan I've been to thoughts/ambitions of being European Cup Winners Cup Winners (ie Barca), when I was very young, but old enough to remember, to being potential European Cup winners, to UEFA Cup winners, so very lofty ambitions. I have all sorts of other non-football supporting ambitions, family and personal, but it is completely unrealistic not to reign in my Rangers ambitions until we have some realistic prospects for the short term future, days that a few years ago I thought I'd never be conversing about. appreciate that you could be a similar age to me, so not preaching on an ageist basis.
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    I agree, no certainties, so ambitions only, no guarantee of financies, as you say massively reduced gates, Ashley not certain to throw more cash at this, even if it is loan, particularly as results are so poor, therefore where would his advertising potential come from, elongated timescales,...
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    but you have to be realistic on what is happening at Rangers, you have to stage your ambitions; to still be in existence next year and be in the SPL is pretty lofty, don't you think, given where we are tonight? if we achieve that then will raise my Rangers based ambitions at that point. My craziest ambition is that we beat septic in February, but sure there are a number of people on this forum who would say that is crazy, to be frank, it probably is.
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    the killer for me was that we/McCoist had an incredible chance at the beginning of this upwards journey to completely rebrand our footballing philosophy across the club, but it was not taken and we are where we are now because of that lack of ambition, footballing awareness and coaching capability.
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    one week at a time at the moment with the present Rangers set up, as today proved looking further than that is potential fantasy.
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    at the moment our ambitions are small; to survive and make it to the Premiership, but that isn't going to happen with McCoist but we make it to the end of the season with the current board.
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    if Ashley and cronies employed a respectable management team and we started playing an improved brand of football, playing more youngsters, suddenly an attractive brand of creative, on pitch footie, lost some of the current crap squad, results change, but still the same upstairs board, would fans return, would we start to change opinions, ie is it more about football style and results and starting team or is it the board? I notice that a string of positive results for Newcastle and there is less clamour on Tyneside, which would, I am reasonably sure, be the same for our fans.
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    we need to open both eyes, as fans we're being poked with two large sticks repeatedly; the board are driving the Club into the ground and on the pitch McCoist and his arse licking, incompetent side kicks, couldn't create tactics or a footballing philosophy to challenge an English Championship academy team and that is a complete embarrassment on both fronts to us all. the crowds aren't just down because of the board it is because the football is shit and people don't want to watch that. someone suggested, similar to the Eck years earlier, think that is completely unreasonable, it is much, much worse than that and unfair on Eck.
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    aren't you one of the guys that complains about our lack of togetherness as fans, but you're happy to ignore a slander on our history as a club, you cannot have it both ways?
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    so just let it go? Don't agree, if we capitulate completely then all we do is make a lane into a dual carriageway and then eventually it becomes a motorway and they drive right though us, we have to hold the barriers back through protest.
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    my only real evidence is looking at what he achieved as one of the main coaches within the Belgian youth set up and the results of that within the last two years. Understand he didn't achieve it on his own, but there is evidence that he has changed methods within Scottish youth football and there is some results based evidence, ie first win in decades of the Victory Shield last year. any coach that can take kids outside of their comfort zone and make them think about different approaches to technique. positional play, what they're contributing off the ball has to be good.
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    would be a great appointment in that role, as long as he was left alone to develop a 'footballing' culture and not provoked to play stultifying, soul destroying football as we're enforced to spectate now.
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    jury's do not just turn up they are selected so prejudice, whatever way that faces, should be weeded out.
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    very radical, I like the idea, young managers who have succeeded at lower level English clubs, but Eddie is a local manager and is not big enough for Rangers, he moved away from Bournemouth and failed, admittedly he couldn't be worse than McCoist. Karl Robinson, maybe but would rather go for a name that has managed at a higher level, we can't wait a few years for a young manager to find their feet. Both I feel would be startled by the glare of the lights. It is easy to be remote to the Glasgow goldfish bowl and I think both those names, whilst talents, would not give the immediate success Rangers fans demand.
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    however this fixture will account for a few days where we're suddenly not fighting with one anther, to be purely metaphorical mr. policeman.
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    I agree with that, there is an individuality, possibly a generational thing to how we all feel at the moment. I do know that on the day of the game against them I will be incredibly excited and it will build towards kick off, even if we are massive underdogs, it is still Rangers, my team.
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    talks as if RvC is the only derby match in the world and that only OF fans would build a derby match up moving towards the match day. Cosgrove needs to get out more into the wider world to recognise that Man U/City fans have been winding each other up for months, with some, undoubtedly, nasty comments about various things. Why not advertise the positives......
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