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  1. Hildy
    I want Rangers to be fan-owned. That's why I support the RST, its BuyRangers scheme and its merchandising initiatives. I saw this nightmare coming years ago and it pains me to have watched it unfold while people bang on about loyalty. Would you be loyal to Rangers no matter who owned it? The test of loyalty is to do the right thing rather than continuing to tolerate mediocrity and a lack of integrity. It is not healthy to financially prop up dubious ownership. Many thousands will stay away from Rangers until it is cleansed. A new club will give them a focal point until the original either fixes or folds. We all want Rangers to flourish but our negligence has brought us, inevitably, to this. People will not be taken for mugs - and that's what this Rangers board appears to think that we are.
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    It may not work. It may not even be tried. Most Rangers fans want a saviour to make Rangers right. They talk about fighting for the club but not only do they not know how to fight, they have hardly any tools and don't know who they should be fighting anyway. Rangers goes all the way back to 1872 but a large number of Rangers fans are fully aware that while the continuation of the club is real and legal, its spirit has long since ascended to another place. If it cannot be captured in this Rangers, a new one might have a purpose to serve.
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    What fighting are you doing?
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    A new club - and it would be a new club - would be followed by people who want a club of integrity to support, but they would want Rangers to get through this period and become a recognisable and trusted entity again. If there were two clubs to follow and the big one cleared the poison from its system, the wee one might become a feeder club to it. If Rangers remained what it has become - a club that many diehard Rangers fans will not support any more, at least a new seed would have been planted to be whatever it wanted to be.
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    Those days have already arrived and the tolerance which Struth spoke of has made it easier for the club to be owned and exploited by people who care for it not one tenth as much as you. Struth never saw this coming down the tracks, and his words are out of date and irrelevant these days. It's best not to cling to them.
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    AGM thread

    Hildy replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat

    That's a beauty!
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    If Rangers fans started a brand new club, it would attract my support - not because I have given up on Rangers - but because Rangers has given up on me. The fight to reclaim Rangers would continue, but while it remains in inappropriate ownership, fans who want to have a trusted club to support could have one, and they'd own it too. There has been talk of an FC Rangers before, and the idea remained on the back burner, but perhaps the time is coming where ideas like this need to be properly looked at.
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    They took too long to get to this stage - a bad mistake. They have put an assistant in charge - another gaffe. New blood was required to excite the fan base - that hasn't happened. We desperately need promotion to happen, but the board doesn't seem to be acting as though this is a priority. Ally can enjoy a year's sabbatical while £750,000 is added to his bank account. He always seems to land on his feet. He should take the family on a series of long holidays and not say a word publicly until his employment is over. The board looks like it has no clue what it is doing. Ally has gone but he'll be feeling like a winner tonight. The good news? Billy Davies didn't get the job. The saga continues.
  9. Hildy
    A new manager will decide who stays and who goes. McCoist should have nothing to do with this. He's a lame duck manager. Someone should remind him of this: soon.
  10. Hildy
    Many of those who don't want Davies at Ibrox dread his appointment. They will not easily back him. The club is far better to find someone where preconceived opinions are not such an important factor. Davies would be a divisive figure. The last thing the club needs right now is another divisive figure.
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    I hope we avoid Davies. A move for him could be jumping from the frying plan into the fire. Why our board would even entertain the possibility is beyond me. His reputation suggests that clashes with the board would be quite likely, and while some might think this is a good thing due to our board being unpopular and distrusted, there could be fallouts with a Dave King board too, if such a thing ever happens. I could imagine an incestuous band of Davies-appointed employees being unquestioningly supported by that small band of Rangers fans who have wanted him at Ibrox for years who would happily take him over Mourinho. Davies at Ibrox - perish the thought.
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    The Houses of Parliament are crumbling and the country is facing a three billion pounds bill to save the old place. Even if the old place disappeared though, England would still be forever England. If the Eiffel Tower was somehow removed, Paris would continue as if it had never been. The Twin Towers have actually gone but New York's heart beats as strongly as it ever did. Rangers is not a building, even if the Ibrox edifice is grand and iconic. If the loss of this building meant the demise of Rangers, it would give credence to the idea that the club was shallow and insubstantial. Ibrox Stadium is not an idol to be worshipped. It is a place to be cherished, but if the day eventually comes when it is lost, weep no tears. Build the New Jerusalem instead.
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    We don't want to lose either, but if the worst happened, the club would still exist - if we wanted it to. Rangers is not Ibrox and it is not Auchenhowie either. We have moved several times in the past and we may have to do so again in the future. It's not desirable but strangers are running the show and we let them in. Rangers can most definitely exist without Ibrox although I agree it would be very hard to take. Sometimes families have to move house even when they didn't plan on moving. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
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    If Rangers doesn't get its house in order, I expect that there will be a new residential estate on the Auchenhowie site at some point in the future - and someone will make a financial killing. Not Rangers, though.
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    For reasons of emotional attachment, few would want to part with Ibrox, but if it gets closed on grounds of safety when we can't afford to look after it, we could have a real problem. A well-run Rangers should be able to hold on to Ibrox, but a poorly-run club could see it being abandoned one day. No-one wants this to happen, but then no-one wanted administration, liquidation and demotion. Nothing is certain any more.
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    Leaving aside the issue of the current board, I'm not sure that we can afford Ibrox and a training ground even if we were owned by people who were wholly trusted. I'm not convinced that we can afford Ibrox either because a large maintenance bill surely can't be far away. It would probably make sense to keep Milngavie, sell Ibrox and rent Hampden, but that's not likely to happen - and I'm not sure that there would be many buyers for Ibrox anyway. The issue is the current board selling Auchenhowie. Fans have little trust in it to put the club first and do what is right by it.
  17. Hildy
    When the new manager is eventually appointed, let's just hope that it's after interviewing a number of high calibre candidates.
  18. Hildy
    I understand that and I know that you are not alone. Fans are expected to follow on unquestioningly, but many are questioning now and the answers they are getting are unsatisfactory.
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    I have no interest in Rangers becoming Sports Direct Rangers. The question for many will be to either stick with the club and hope for change in the future, or to pack it in and let the allegiance fade. I've been amazed how many times people have told me that they have had enough, that the club is dead and that they won't be back - and I believe them.
  20. Hildy
    "Ashley plans to use Rangers as a branding vehicle for his sportswear chain Sports Direct" For some, that line will mean endsville. In these politically sensitive times, even within the Rangers support, this crosses a line. When Rangers becomes a branding vehicle for any company, it's hard to accept, but for this particular company, it's going to be just too much.
  21. Hildy
    Rangers has gone public on how difficult it is to win the fans over. Is it likely to appoint a Celtic fan - Steve Clarke - when it is struggling to keep Rangers fans interested?
  22. Hildy
    For quite some time, there has been a clique of Rangers fans who have been keen to see Billy Davies in the job. To them, no-one is as good as their beloved Billy. This is just one of several reasons why we should look elsewhere. Davies would be a divisive appointment. While some would welcome him and tolerated him probably beyond reason, others would be disapproving and in some cases, horrified, if he got the gig. Would Forest fans want him back? Would Derby fans want him back? Would he have Rangers playing in a more expansive way? For a large number of fans, Davies would be a very unwelcome choice as the next Rangers manager. Anyone critical of Ally who is happy to settle for Davies is not putting the best interests of Rangers to the fore. Let's advertise and see who is attracted to the job.
  23. Hildy
    Billy Davies, the man who signed Bob Malcolm for Derby. That, and that alone, should permanently exclude him from being considered as Rangers manager.
  24. Hildy
    Billy Davies? Perhaps the last name I'd want in the job, and given that he seems to have a reputation for not always being in harmony with his employer, it would be rather strange if this board of directors thought that he should come to Ibrox. A definite and emphatic no from me.
  25. Hildy
    Essentially, Rangers find themselves in a position where they cannot afford the pay-off, so they are rejecting it. They may see this as the next move in an effort to talk Ally into accepting less if he wants to leave in a hurry, but what we actually have now is a lame duck manager with a lame duck club.
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