KYBear

I just watched the press conference where SG walked into the briefing room at Ibrox and the press photographers all went nuts taking basically the same damn photograph for two minutes straight, basically hijacking the pc. Is that kind of behavior normal from the Scottish press photographers or were they taking the piss? I know Rangers is a huge club and it was a big occasion but that seemed a bit excessive. I know its a small thing in the grand scheme of what hopefully will turn out to be a great day in our history but I was wondering if anyone else was struck by that behavior in light of the way the rest of the press covers us.

That's what pisses me off. We have a great chance to stop them at 6 RIGHT NOW! There doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency to anything King and this board do. Is that my imagination? Seems like they should have had the share issue lined up and ready to go shortly after the AGM. The chances are it was going to pass this year and that would have given them some much needed funding, even with the loan paybacks.

I'm actually surprised this fact isn't its own thread! https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/rangers/graeme-murty-walter-smith-gives-me-brilliant-advice-1-4640780

I still can't believe what transpired in your gif there. What did the 'compliance' officer say about that?

If he wins all 6 is there any way they can demote him?!

The lack of action against multiple offenses by other teams, their fans or coaches where under similar circumstances Rangers gets punished indicate to me its more of a sinister agenda than just refs 'adjusting' outcomes of our games. Motherwell fans, Hibs semi final and the Lennon up yours gyrations are just three examples of incredibly unjust outcomes that everyone here would agree would have resulted in much more severe punishments had they been Rangers fans. Add on the Beaton beating early in the season and multiple shady refereeing jobs since and you can see a pattern. What's the saying? Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.

Churches are still tax free but the restrictions on them have been lifted, even to the point of a proposal now to allow them to campaign for candidates from the pulpit. Their tax free status should be revoked if they are allowed to do this.

Aye, I've been the vulture waiting on the branch, waiting to pounce! Just remember it and it registered when you generalized against Muslims. Not asking you to care at all.

Apologies if I'm wrong but didn't you take me to task for generalizing about Americans? Why the change of heart when discussing other groups?

Damn! Sorry, should have looked through the McInnes thread. Too much money to pry him away? By today, you mean Thursday I'm thinking as I'm in Kentucky. You're up late! Thanks for the reply.

I was excited to read about the possibility of Van Bronckhorst returning to Ibrox to manage so I thought I'd come here to see what the talk was here and there isn't a thread about it. Is this because it's a pipe dream or for some other reason?

Well that was weird. Tried to edit my post to fix some faulty grammar and it hit the delete key two millimeters above my thumb click! Corrected original post below. Do you mean a raise because he would be first team manager? It would still be a cheaper option than McInnes wouldn't it? I've been thinking he might be the best option. I've read that other managers think highly of him and that he's incredibly intelligent. He is obviously well spoken and navigates the inevitable bait questions from press well, despite his inexperience. If I recall, he set up well against the scum, giving us a chance at least, which is more than Pedro did. He seems to have the respect and ears of the players. His inexperience is the only negative as far as I can see.

It just took another 10 years and a complete scum of an owner not paying taxes to come to fruition.

Or, as Monty Python would say; He's NOT the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!

That's not an inept referee, that is a referee with a clear agenda. Is there no mechanism for discipline by the league after the fact for something like this? Why didn't Rangers appeal the yellow to Tav?

Holy crap, how is that not a red card?! Being in the States I haven't seen the entire game and haven't seen this until now. Beaton actually called a foul on Tav for that?! Incredible.

Again, I'm talking about mhedia and other organizations (SPFL/SFA), not necessarily refs, although Beaton's performance certainly was questionable. There seems to be selective enforcement of rules and I'm skeptical it hasn't continued in order to achieve a predicted and desired result.

I'm not saying Lennon is part of this orchestrated effort, he's just a tool (quite literally a tool) that is useful to those that are. I agree with you that he is going to be who he is regardless. The fact that people mostly get away with crap that Rangers players and fans don't get away with is what I'm referring to. The double standard of enforcing rules against us (songs/banners ignored by scum and such) seems pretty evident. You guys would know more than me though as I'm just observing from afar and reading the reactions here.

I totally agree, my point is that this seems like an orchestrated, deliberate effort to goad less thoughtful fans into a reaction. It only takes a couple for their dishonest narrative to be confirmed and continued. All one has to do is look at the cup final: scores of Hhibs fans asking, if not begging, for a reaction results in a few Rangers fans giving them exactly what they want. And the stories are that Rangers and Hhibs fans riot on the pitch. No nuance or intellectual honestly.

Thing is, I'm not talking about just one incident, I'm talking about a bunch of them. Lennon, the biased referee, the cup final, kids getting bottled, etc. The disparity of punishments for similar or even wildly dissimilar incidents is mind boggling.

My cynical side, after looking at all the evidence over the past few years, says to me that the powers that be are attempting to goad Rangers supporters into a reaction they need in order to confirm their narrative. As others have already noted, at some point one or more of our fans are going to decide that enough is enough and that since the police and the league/association will not act, that he/they will. This is my fear. It's pretty damn obvious, even from across the pond, that there is one set of rules for us and another for everyone else. No one likes us and we don't care won't work, we have to care and demand our club compile evidence and present it. What's the point of having Robertson on the SPFL board (is that right?) if we continue to have no voice?

Disagree. We can all have different opinions as you say but I've been here since '74 and owned my own business also. Maybe it's the state I've spent most of my time in or maybe I didn't verbalize my opinion well enough. What I've experienced is that most Americans are patriotic to a fault; never seeing anything their country does as even being allowed to be questioned even when it's obvious that the actions are faulty. Again, maybe it's the people who talk the loudest and the people in power at the moment but there is a thick line of hypocrisy here. They claim to be the bastion of democracy and freedom but its quickly turning into something very different. A bit of humility is always good.

Huh? I know it's a generalization but if you don't live here you aren't witnessing this phenomenon. I did say most. Maybe it's the ones that are the most vocal.

Holy crap, you just described most Americans as so affectively demonstrated by the idiot they elected president. They have this built in core belief that they are better than everyone else yet they are ignorant about so much!

People's Front of Judea?