Walterbear

Whereas its Dornan himself who traduces swathes of innocent people by characterising us all as bigots. Hollyrood public standards is the correct place with solid evidence and political sponsor.

Now that would contain a good bit of wording for a petition.

I would take that largely as a positive.

Sorry mate that’s ridiculous. “It is what it is”. Correct - it is what it is - it is asking someone to get removed from something they don’t belong to! You are a bright guy and folk will sign the petition if it’s constituted properly. Nothing to do with the SNP. All to do with a stupidly worded petition. It honestly looks like someone just discovered change.org and did this petition sitting in the bath with a half bottle of Buckie.

Play it on the big screens and foyers at Ibrox.

Whataboutery is for clubs that cover up child sex abuse who want to extinguish their past and to be judged to different moral standards on a range of issues including sectarianism and crowd violence.

Agree. If successful will not get reported but one indiscretion will be over egged and Rangers FC portrayed as inciting fans. 1872 are given some coverage nowadays so any efforts would be better through them and with the club’s support. Everyone is frustrated so cool heads essential n

So either he sent Bachman off for something he didn’t see (although we do know he saw it) so he should be disciplined or he did see it, told them what happened and they overruled him anyway which is not the purpose of the CO role and they are breaking their own protocols. They are openly damaging Muir’s integrity as a person or his credibility as a referee. And by the way they are also indirectly now implying our player feigned injury by rescinding the card - despite the fact he took far more than a negligible elbow to the head. They’re just making it up as they go along. Utter fecking shambles manufacturing outcomes to suit the agenda of the day. I wouldn’t like Clare Whyte to be representing me in court that’s for sure.

It really is time to boycott SFA fixtures and all away games. See lots of talk from fans about the club doing nothing and Rangers fans moaning about not good statements from the board etc. Hit them in the pocket. Only the fans with our money can change this. We have the power.

Christ sake. Read the effin rules. It was more than negligible.

When our top coaches such as Clarke don’t know the laws and rules of the game and they are supposed to be developing our game it’s time we all went home. When so called sports journalists don’t have the basic knowledge to correct them or comment on what the rules actually are it’s time we all went home - and it’s time they stopped stealing a wage. LAW 12 VIOLENT CONDUCTViolent conduct is when a player uses or attempts to use excessive force or brutality against an opponent when not challenging for the ball, or against a team-mate, team official, match official, spectator or any other person, regardless of whether contact is made.In addition, a player who, when not challenging for the ball, deliberately strikes an opponent or any other person on the head or face with the hand or arm, is guilty of violent conduct unless the force used was negligible.

I’ll buck the trend on this one. We should get the best refs available. It’s a professional game and if a few SFA people have to lose their jobs or they have to cut down on their foreign junkets to pay for it I’m happy with that. At the moment we are being short sold. Re the CO that is a separate issue for me. Only Scotland could introduce a 18th Century version of VAR which is what it more or less is. In fact get rid of CO and all the associated cost to help fund better refereeing.

The heart of the problem is; 1. BBC have banned themselves. 2. They have a history of bias which contributed to and has succeeded the McLaughlin situation. A) CM report from Easter road B) X-Men and McCoist C) Cook editing the McCoist interview D) Jack beheading Throw in the numerous disproportionate attacks on Morelos, false stills such as Morelos over the line goal at Killie, false still of Power head kick, obsession with every Rangers indiscretion such as Jack (compare his tackle on the Aberdeen player at pittodrie to the concussion he received at next game and coverage), compare Browns follow through on Sunday to Jack tackle at Pittodrie where he at least got the ball, McGregors coverage compared to the assault on him in the same game, Bowman, Cipre, the 30 min interview with Gordon gloating with Milne over the Ibrox managers job rebuttal (Milne actually came out of that interview as a decent chap unlike the interviewer whose agenda was transparent) etc etc etc. That statement is classic politburo bullsh*t and the only good thing about it is it is totally consistent with their disingenuous approach to this matter specifically and to Rangers in general. They are the the ones who have had to offer 2 public apologies. They are the ones who had to move Cook ‘sideways’ to the US job to get him out of Scotland because of his lie (any other job in any other organisation if similar status and he would have been sacked on the spot). Rangers fans know that statement is a lie.

I assume by ego SG means complacency? Certainly looked like it which is surprising from a group of players who have won the square root of feck all (excepting those here first time round). I’m trying to think which are the players in our squad who could challenge the mentality he’s talking about and whoever it is who can inspire the others need to show up on Wednesday. This season is still there to be regarded as a big success if we can bring that cup to Ibrox, they have 24 hours to get on message.

Why aren’t the SFA and SPFL telling the BBC that we have to be treated equally? If we are not being treated equally by the BBC and it is in writing and the bodies representing the clubs don’t insist on that parity then why are the deals being signed? You could eventually build a case for breaking away from this league.

Dave King has more money in his back pocket than the Herald makes in profit every year.

...and Keith Jackson the racist with his unfortunate and O Grade English level drug related metaphors lost the little credibility he ever had.

I think it’s going a bit far to conflate too many issues at different levels of society. Sticking to football there is no doubt that we were never liked by ‘fellow’ fans and then 2011/12 compounded the dislike into hatred. We’ve all personally seen and felt the increase in hatred in pubs and other places. No-one is interested in helping Rangers and we need to get used to that fact and there is absolutely a ‘pay back’ taking place because lots of folk wanted us dead and it didn’t happen. The BBC are deep in that mindset and it dictates their football output. Noone seems to care if Killie, Aberdeen or Hibs get bad decisions and frankly it doesn’t make much difference as they will never seriously challenge Celtic so they hardly care themselves (and of course Celtic lend them players to shut them up) and whilst Celtic are not universally popular they have grasped the bull by the horns over the last few years and taken control. The CO is the most obvious example of that. It is not right that the SFA and the SPFL who exist to administer our game fairly are not capable of doing so. It would be better to focus on their capability (whether caused by corruption or bias or just professional incompetence) than to guess at the motivation for their inadequacy and link it to Scottish society and politics more generally. I mean Gordon Smith was CEO of the SFA - the guy is thick. The evidence of incompetence from these organisations is everywhere and there is perhaps more to the 6k fine than we realise. The message there is ‘shut up’. The media are tied up in Dermots web, the BBC are plane biased and corrupting our game so none of them will help us, and the officials are incompetent (evidentially true) or biased as is evidentially true in the case of the CO and surrounding ‘process’. Let’s not forget we did not cover ourselves in glory in the Murray and Whyte years but we were penalised and have served our sentence and should now be treated fairly. So why why would we just ‘shut up’? If we think we are going to be offered baubles on committees etc then we are playing a losing game. We should call it out a lot more and if it’s 60k in fines then it has to be done. Our club will not get truly back on our feet until we start winning trophies and there is an off field battle taking place to stop that happening. The evidence of incompetence and unequal treatment is there (and it’s perhaps best to call it incompetence because absolutely no one can argue with that). But the club must be prepared to take a far bigger hit than 6k in calling it out and we should do it on a media scale guaranteed to raise eyebrows outside this country.

They trebled on him at one point but that’s fine if the others have the wherewithal to use the space and these teams have figured out we don’t. The Candeias Tav partnership for example has ground to a halt. I can’t help thinking Barisic hamstring is causing him issues either physical or mental. He’s just not extending himself down the flanks. It’s as if he’s protecting himself. It’s not got the look of a regenerated post winter break team that’s for sure. Tragedy is Celtic are pysh.

Quite a few changes from these teams. Also the Scottish teams sit in except scum.

There was little or no combination play on right and left. Morelos creates so much space for others to run in to and the others don’t serm capable. We lacked courage today in so many areas with the exception of Kent. A Warburton or Pedro team would have thrashed that lot today. The same line up should never be repeated. Hopefully we have learned that much.

Aye quite correct free.

...thought we got cash for Bates. I must be wrong. Thought Worral was costing us 500k overall.

And boy do we need him. Today’s team would struggle against Killie and would certainly lose at Pittodrie.

We spent the money we got for Bates on Worrall. Worrall is no footballer and today slowed everything down but the real problem was the midfield. It was also obvious Defoe and Candeias are not going to win high balls constantly pumped at them. Today would have been better with a 4-4-2 but we have to assume Lafferty was doubtful and perhaps played with an injury. Only Lafferty and Kent get pass marks because they at least tried to take responsibility. In truth that was fairly easy for St J.