Hildy
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Gersnet Lifetime Membership of Rangers First and RST/BuyRangers
Hildy replied to Mountain Bear's topic in Rangers Chat
Not interested. I fully support the concept of fan ownership but I do not support - and will not support - RF. I support the RST and its BuyRangers scheme. -
If the choice was Broxi or Big Lee, I'd settled for Broxi.
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Probably the favourite . . .
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Perhaps this website should set up a new prediction league - who is going to be the manager from game to game until the end of the season. As previously suggested, the bus driver should be included as one of the runners and riders.
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It looks as though nothing much has changed. He's still in the job and serving notice. If he is to 'remain 100% committed to his normal duties', life under Kenny will continue unless the gardening leave loyal suddenly doubles its membership.
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" . . .he will remain 100% committed to his normal duties."
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The page turns, another chapter begins and the saga continues. Another in-house appointment will go down like a lead balloon.
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In answer to trublusince1982 . . . Ask a credible financial adviser where your money should go - invested with BuyRangers or donated to RF.
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RF claims to put Rangers first and then ducks all the arguments. It watches on while Rome burns. It offers little or nothing at a time of crisis.
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Disappointing news. Let's keep strengthening the RST. It is prepared to take the fight to the enemies of the club. http://www.therst.co.uk/buy-rangers/
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Many fans have a problem with RF, an organisation that doesn't have the will or the guts to speak out about what is going on. This group's silence is a clear sign that it is falling miles short of living up to its name.
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Any fan group that is non political at this time is not putting Rangers first. Some fans believe that the club is being torn asunder and yet RF says nothing while others take up the fight.
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You seriously think that Rangers and Ibrox are the same thing, that bricks and mortar equal a community of people? We love Ibrox, but it wasn't Rangers in 1872 and it isn't Rangers now.
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I don't think many fans want to leave Ibrox, but that doesn't mean that we should never consider the idea. When a family moves house it is still the same family. We have to understand that Rangers and Ibrox, closely linked though they are, are not the same thing. Rangers is a family and it will remain so whether it plays in the north, south, east or west of Glasgow. No-one can be sure what lies around the corner. I just hope that if a move ever happens, it will be a change that meets with fan approval. I certainly don't want it to happen due to current circumstances.
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It concerns me when I hear it being suggested that Rangers should never leave Ibrox. If circumstances occur where a move is perceived to be the right thing to do, we should move, but the decision should be for the fanbase - not an uninvited and unwanted owner. We have moved before and we may well move again. Rangers is not Ibrox and Ibrox is not Rangers. If Ibrox is a memorial to those who lost their lives, a new ground in another location would be too - just as long as the flit is endorsed by the Rangers support. Very few of us want to leave the old place, but times change. We want Rangers to be forever, but Ibrox might not be.
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I hope you do join BuyRangers, SBS. We can complain long and hard but it doesn't always achieve the desired outcome. This is a constructive way forward. We need to be proactive in trying to change things for the better. One day we'll get there. Join BuyRangers and be an active part of making it happen.
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Notice lodged to remortgage Ibrox and Auchenhowie to Sports Direct
Hildy replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
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Some money came in from a traceable source. Some did not. It was a grand way of passing the hat round. I'll not bother repeating my previous criticism of this scheme but it should be a lesson learned for the support. Only support ventures that you are satisfied will stand up to proper scrutiny.
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Notice lodged to remortgage Ibrox and Auchenhowie to Sports Direct
Hildy replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
Mike Ashley - he's a billionaire, don't you know? He needs us to get into the CL, don't you know? Suddenly, and not particularly surprisingly, it has all gone pear-shaped - again. Of course we can stand and stare, or we can support those fan groups who actually speak out against this board - the RST and the UOF. We all have a choice to make. -
No internet, no Facebook, no Twitter, no 24 sports channels and not as many partisan broadcasters and radio stations. Not only does 7-1 hurt as a scoreline, just four words do the same thing - Hampden in the sun. That's how much of a big deal it was. A record gubbing nowadays would be mentioned every week for the next 100 years. People say they are sick hearing about the Lisbon Lions and England winning the World Cup. A seven or eight goal thrashing would take its place alongside them.
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If you think a seven or eight goal doing can be glossed over, you are not just in another country, you are in a different planet. A history-making margin of victory for them will be used to tease Rangers fans who have not been born yet - just as 7-1 did - and still does.
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If we were in the top tier and Celtic were struggling, would you be so quick to dismiss a Rangers win as a hollow victory? If this goes badly for us, there will be no hiding place and no excuses.
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If the roof falls in and we lose by a record score, there is no way to play it down or pretend that it doesn't matter. A royal humping would resonate for decades. If the boot was on the other foot and we hammered them, would we dismiss it due to Celtic having internal problems? I don't think so. Most of us probably weren't around for that humiliation in the fifties, but even so, when we hear someone say '7-1', we still get a chill down the spine. For them, this isn't about winning - it's about getting a cricket score. For us, it's about the moment passing without humiliation. A two or three goal defeat we can live with. We won't like it but it will quickly be forgotten. A thrashing though - that would be the stuff of nightmares.
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The problem was this. Tens of thousands of Rangers fans put Murray on a pedestal. They trusted him to do the right thing: always. They never believed that his empire could even stumble, never mind collapse. They genuinely believed that he would only ever sell Rangers to an appropriate partner, never imagining for a second that he could come under bank pressure to move the club on. David Murray was the new religion. Whatever his faults, he employed thousands of people and become exceedingly rich - he even achieved a knighthood - and all against a background of physical adversity. He and his family will enjoy the fruits of his labours for some time to come. When we criticise him for his business errors, we should ask ourselves how many people manage to achieve such a magnificent lifestyle. Not many. His period at Rangers can be justifiably criticised. We were a one-man band and he wanted it that way - but so did we. It all went horribly wrong in the end and we are still suffering, but I suspect that history will eventually be kinder to him than it will ever be to us.