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Think it's fairly probable that if we win every home game and draw every away game we WILL be promoted. However, it could depend on our results for neutral grounds or success at extra time or penalty kicks. We're one for one for extra time...

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin can openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life . . . But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? You don't half make heroin seem damn attractive...

Pretty sure they came from Saltcoats and Kilwinning. One lived in the same street as my sister.

What's wrong with trying to get Walter or Eck back? I think they are available and both did a good job with limited talent before.

The same article says the verdict was reversed. "The positive result was reversed." Basically you have made up your own mind without anything substantial to back it up and spouting it on here as fact. To me it removes credibility for almost everything you post. Anyone can have an opinion but to spout it as fact is just wrong.

Just read the article and there is NOTHING in there that mentions evidence that could be 100% concluded that it was a "fact" that he failed a test. But it's not what I want to discuss here and my problem is not whether Armstrong failed a drug test or not, it's people putting out allegations as fact on here with absolutely no explanation. It's a classic Timmy ploy and it makes me sick to see Rangers people use it.

This is the type of pathetic of post I really take exception to. If he failed a drugs test then tell us when, where and give a citation. This is as poor as the propaganda by the Celtic cabal. The statement may or may not be true but to put it there naked is just malicious. I've had a look online and while there are allegations, I can't find one that is substantiated. I'm not being protective of Armstrong in particular, I object to this sort of thing about anyone and perhaps it gets your attention more when it is continually happening to the club you support.

To play devil's advocate it may be like buying a house and then your neighbour nefariously gets a ruling through cronyism that your boundary is 20 foot out in his favour.

Just thinking that if the worst came to the worst and they stripped our titles, wouldn't the fans have a case for suing the SPL for all the money spent on attending games where their incompetence and negligence in the administration of players wages meant that those games were meaningless. There is a loss there and the SPL are responsible due to that negligence. The only problem I have with Green's statement is that I can't see an out for the SPL while saving face. Which means they are probably now in for a penny, in for a pound and will not back down.

Or: Queen of the South will face either Partick, Cowdenbeath or Arbroath in the last four of the Ramsdens Cup in October if they can get past Rangers next Tuesday...

I think if is article was written more like how you have explained it, we'd have far less of a problem with it.

It seems that many forget that Rangers are not in the third division because they are a small side or that they have been relegated due to a low standard of football. They are not a Peterhead or even a rich man's toy like Gretna. This is the largest supported side in the country with the bestsstadium and training facilities who have not only dominated Scottish football throughout history but have also been three in a row champions before the financial trouble started last year. That would have been four if it wasn't for the league pandering to the cheating motives of a side that is now crowing like it actually has some high ground - in a year Rangers won both cups and represented Scotland in a European final for the first time in ages. Rangers were even the best team in the country for the first half of last season and even afteraadministration and a 10 point deduction finish a comfortable second. I don't even need to state this obvious stuff to you but you'd think these snipers were ignorant of these facts.

I think to be religious you don't need to go to church but to actually be a Protestant, you do - it's what defines you as a Protestant and not just some nondescript, "kind of" religious person, and also defines the characteristics of that denomination. It doesn't have to be a special building but to be a protestant you have to practice its doctrines and Sunday worship is part of that. You just need to read about Ernest Gordon to find out about how you can worship even in the most difficult of circumstances. You would think that anyone who takes a religion seriously would have it at the top of their priority list and make sure they learn and subscribe to all its teachings. After all, we are talking about your immortal soul, if you believe in it, it should be the most important thing to you. Otherwise you're about as religious as a horoscope reader, someone who's superstitious or someone who states their religion as Jedi. I don't go to Ibrox much BUT then it's not within a few miles of me, it's not free and it's often on the telly. I do read screeds on it, following all the scores and news, and spend an inordinate amount of time on an on-line forum. If your church is 500 miles away and charges £15 for every service then you could probably get away with watching the services on the telly, reading the bible as much as possible, reading thoughts from on-line ministers, spending a lot of time on a forum discussing it, and buying church merchandise. In fact, if someone shows as much passion for their church as many do for Rangers, then they are probably following that religion quite staunchly.

I suppose since you go to church regularly you'll get to know loads there; non-religious people probably move in different social circles and won't meet so many...

Anyone who doesn't realise that away games can be much trickier than home games, even against lower rated opposition, doesn't know a lot about football. Just look at any cup results or European results and you'll see the pattern. This is compounded many times when you have a new side. Also anyone who doesn't think a pre-season is important needs to explain what a pre-season is for and why almost every professional manager sees them as important. There also seems to be a lack of understanding that putting huge pressure early on for top class results is generally counter productive, and that's without the problems our club have has had. We had another good win the other day and still the complaints flood in.

I don't agree with the way they reduced the debt; it could have been done more slowly and cleverly without strangling the finances. They also didn't really tackle the tax cases at all. I also thought the way they slagged of Whyte was poor as it just looked like mudslinging after the fact. They may have been right but they just came across as bitter and self serving. It did nothing to prevent what happened or help us in any way. I don't see much evidence of wisdom or competence from them and believe they contributed to where we are now.

How do the BBC know if your watching? The only time to boycott is if you're one of the people used as a statistical sample with the black box which monitors your viewing. Otherwise it makes no difference.

Part of it reminds me of a story about the Rangers v Marseilles game. Some fan spotted that their keeper had a short sleeved shirt on which was against the rules - as a long sleeve shirt of the goalie's colour meant it was easier to differentiate an illegal arm touching the ball in the box and that of the keeper. They told the TV guys who passed this onto the Rangers bench in the enthusiastic expectation that they would protest to the officials and Marseilles would forfeit the game. However, their enthusiasm was severely deflated when they reported back that the Rangers bench had replied that they weren't in the slightest interested in winning on a technicality.

Maybe not, but it's time way changed the attitude of the moderates that go along with the less than savoury stuff because so many are doing it. We have to ask ourselves who helped persuade the Sun to change their mind? Was it the load of sensible bears for whom they say, "Most were reasonable, and wanted to point out some of the other material that the author carries on his website" or was it, "Others, many of whom had clearly not read the interview, immediately engaged in the kind of disgusting abuse that sadly infects some of Scottish football’s blogs and forums"? I believe it was the former, and good on them. And isn't one of their tactics to try and make everyone like them? There's a bit of a contradiction there.

Those words are overused by so called journalists with a lack of vocabulary and a bent of sensationalising everything. To be a star or ace you should really be one of the teams very best players.

I agree with what you're saying but you're missing one of my points. If you're as pure as the driven snow and you are still attacked for everything, people will start to stick up for you. Some of the neutrals will start to get the message that your are being victimised and then the credibility of your accusers will start to crack and a golden circle created. You are right about human nature but then it takes a wiser man to see that his negative actions, while understandable, are not helping his situation. There is nothing wrong with cleaning up your act and still fighting hard for fairness. You are likely to eventually be applauded for it - just look at Gandi and Martin Luther King. Hitting back with negative behaviour will only reinforce the propaganda against you. As I've said before, there is nothing wrong with flying the national flag - but you'll be caught out by your own actions if you do it zealously. If you always act with propriety then the ammunition against you will dry up and people will start to see things how they are. When people see how we are at the moment, they see a glimpse of something that does actually slightly fit the slander against us and so it looks justified. People are generally a bit one dimensional that way.

There are two main reasons to defend someone's corner. The first is that they are completely innocent and all criticism is unjustified - that just doesn't apply to the club or the fans. The second is if you are on some delusional or bigotted crusade and at all costs will defend who you associate with and attack who you hate. There are far more of them for Celtic than for Rangers. There are other complications and when you see the way many Rangers fans speak of one who does stand up for us - Leggo, then you can understand why very few want to pick up the torch. You will never get much defenders if your attitude is that you can do what you like and you don't care if everyone hates you. It's a terrible attitude that no neutral likes or wants to stand up for. Sometimes, when everyone is against you, you have to look at yourself and question your own behaviour and attitudes. Or stop complaining that no-one stands up for you. I believe they are far worse than us but then that is the reason they are defended by zealous bigots, but to the neutrals we don't do ourselves any favours.

Zero. It was a league game.

So if our two best players plus our most dependable on - Wallace, are from Hearts, the question is: were they Hearts' best players? Looking at the squad I agree with Ally that it is thin and in addition, this shows we're probably of the standard of a middling SPL club. That should be enough to get us through the bottom two divisions but it will be difficult in the cups once we start to play SPL teams. The Ally bashers like to have their cake and eat it though, so last season they went on about the SPL being much of a muchness with the rest of the leagues and so we should be playing them off the park. Now we're of that standard SPL players suddenly have a huge gap on their lower division counterparts... You have to wonder which it is.

I doubt you could do that programme idea - there will be a minimum charge I suspect.