the gunslinger 3,366 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 (edited) RANGERS AND WALTER SMITH NOW SURE TO TRIUMPH FOR the first time in many months, Rangers supporters were able to go to bed last night and sleep the sleep of the saved. Like Winston Churchill at the end of that day of infamy, Sunday December 7th, 1941, those who follow Rangers now know that salvation for their great club is at hand. ‘Sir’ Walter Smith is riding to their rescue. And if Charles Green thinks he can halt Smith, or sweet talk him into jumping the dyke, then he has no knowledge of the man. As the war for the heart and soul of Rangers, sparked by the news that Alastair McCoist does not trust Charles Green, broke out last night, Green made his first major tactical blunder. In fact, not merely major, but catastrophic. Charles Green went public with a desperate plea to Walter Smith to abandon the men he has pledged his allegiance to and jump the dyke. Those who know Smith will tell you, that snake oil salesman pitch from Charles Green will not only have strengthened Smith’s always steely determination, but it will also have made Smith furious. Furious that Green should bandy his name about as some sort of pawn, without first speaking to him. And even more furious that Charles Green should have even thought that Smith is the sort of man to be tempted by such a charlatan. For the one thing those close to the man who has won 21 trophies for Rangers, along with others who have observed him closely for 30 years, can also tell you, is that it is a mistake to make Walter Smith angry. A bad mistake. A fatal mistake. And Charles Green has made just such an error. In my view, those latest ill chosen words from what looks like an increasingly bizarre Charles Green, will now turn the fight for the heart and soul of Rangers and the title deeds to Ibrox Stadium, into a more bitter and acrimonious battle than it needed to be. And it is a battle which will see the big battalions of the Rangers support side with Walter Smith. For he is a man of integrity. He is a man they know. He is a man in whom they can place their trust. Walter Smith is a Rangers man! Through and through! Charles Green knows the only way he can make money from Rangers – and a fast buck is all he wants – is to fill his coffers quickly with season ticket money from the rank and file Rangers fans. And top it up with another couple of million from the fat cats in the Members’ Section. All to the tune of £16M. To be followed by a share issue which Green wants the fans to contribute £30M to. All before the end of July. I’ve got news for Charles Green, who every day grows more and more like Compo from Last of the Summer Wine. You’ve got no chance! Not a prayer! Not a snowball’s chance in Hell. Rangers supporters will not be buying season tickets for as long as he is inside Ibrox. Rangers fans will not be shelling out for any share issue to line the pockets of Charles Green. And I have got a wee word of advice for Charles Alexander Green, date of birth, 23, May, 1953. Be very careful your past does not start catching up with you now that the gloves are really off in this fight for the heart and soul of Rangers. But there is a way out for him. A way in which Charles Green can depart with some honour and a little dignity. Plus a few quid too. Green should now take whatever reasonable offer he is made by the Walter Smith led consortium of money men and Rangers men. He should take it and move on. Cut and run. For what he did by trying to sweet talk Walter Smith into jumping the dyke was like taking a knife along to a gun fight. Rangers supporters will not buy season tickets for as long as Charles Green remains at Ibrox to get his money grabbing mitts on their hard earned dough.. They will not buy into a £30M share issue if Charles Green continues to lord it at The Stadium on the back of money from Rangers fans. Therefore, Charles Green will not be able to make the big bucks out of Rangers that he planned to. He will not be able to rip Rangers off and then scurry away, leaving goodness knows what sort of mess behind, with it being odds-on Rangers being back in administration again in anything between six and eighteen months. And despite his bluster and boasting, despite his Compo-like appearance and accent, Charles Green cannot be stupid enough not to know that with the appearance of Walter Smith, his chances of pulling off that coup have now gone with the wind. He has always claimed that as well as making a fast buck, he wanted to do what was right for Rangers. So far he has failed to convince the overwhelming majority of Rangers supporters of the truth of that. Now he has a golden chance to do just that. To show he really does have the good of Rangers at heart. All Charles Green has to do is meet with the tough talking shrewd and tenacious businessmen who will give him the chance to negotiate himself out of danger and sign off Rangers to Walter Smith and his formidable alliance of money men and Rangers men. Just as what followed the sleep of the saved in December 1941, the road to victory is still littered with obstacles and there are still battles to be fought. But just as Winston Churchill knew when he slept the sleep of the saved, that the final victory was inevitable , so too do Rangers supporters, greeting today, know that with Walter Smith leading them, the Promised Land will be reached. Edited June 15, 2012 by Frankie 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,247 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 But just as Winston Churchill knew when he slept the sleep of the saved, that the final victory was inevitable , so too do Rangers supporters, greeting today, know that with Walter Smith leading them, the Promised Land will be reached. Hindsight is a fine tool indeed. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 bit optimistic imho but the bit about hospitality is important. d park spends a lot in there. I harte the same. the likes of a smillie has dozens of season books and hospitality. talk on ff of central car auctions withdrawing sponsorship to back Walter. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,247 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Maybe Walter and Co. should start talking to Green now, not the press. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 actually I would say letting green stew while sponsors pull out etc wound be the way to go. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovanAllan 0 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 (edited) I think everybody needs to take a breath and step back from the brink of the abyss because that's the only place we are heading on this crazy plan of starving the club of income. Like him or hate him Green did the hard work and put the money up when nobody else would( yes he did GS ). Would any of us just walk away after all that without any compensation for himself or his investors I know I wouldn't. But that's what the majority of Rangers fans seem to want Green to do, why because Walter&Co turned up late with no more money than Green himself, playing the, for the good of Rangers card without any evidence that Green doesn't have the good of the club at heart except to say he's not a Rangers man (remember who helped get us in this mess to start with). So I will say again if you want him out pay him and the get f#^k on with the job at hand. Because unlike windbag Leggo I didn't sleep any better last night in fact I slept worse,because it's went from us against them to a civil war and Rangers don't do anything any better than civil war and if it's left to continue nobody wins this war. Edited June 15, 2012 by GovanAllan 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 rangers only suffer if we are split as fans. no one renews green has to go. everyone renews we are fine with green. a split everyone suffers. green can cling on and the team goes into terminal decline. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovanAllan 0 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 rangers only suffer if we are split as fans. no one renews green has to go. everyone renews we are fine with green. a split everyone suffers. green can cling on and the team goes into terminal decline. The fans are split and always will be. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 oh I think you could get almost all to unite behind Walters consortium. even the very staunch amongst the anyone but tbk brigade were excited yesterday. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovanAllan 0 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 oh I think you could get almost all to unite behind Walters consortium. even the very staunch amongst the anyone but tbk brigade were excited yesterday. I'm behind Walter & Co and would love to see him at Rangers in some capacity, I'm also behind Green because he's the guy in charge, but I don't see how starving the club of income will help. Green could just shut us down until he gets the right offer is that what we want. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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