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.............of how crucial Rangers' agm vote will be

 

KEITH reckons the scenario which led to Rangers' League One clash with Stenhousemuir at Ochilview being postponed came at the perfect time for supporters to re-examine what has gone on at their club.

 

 

 

AS reminders go, this one was perfectly timed. A league game called off because of an incident involving a burger van.

 

A moment for Rangers fans to pause and reflect on the scale of the damage done to their club by a seemingly endless cast of pantomime villains over the past two-and-a-half years.

 

Of how far these “custodians” have allowed this once mighty institution to fall.

 

It’s not their fault, of course. How could they be expected to notice what was going on around them in their unrelenting rush to scoop up every last blue pound? These people have their priorities you know.

 

As a result, at a time when Celtic were licking wounds inflicted upon them at the Nou Camp, Rangers suffered an altogether different kind of indignity at the weekend.

 

Sidelined, for the first time in history, because a deep fat fryer on wheels crashed into a temporary stand. Such is life in the Wacky Races of Scotland’s lower leagues.

 

But now – with the club’s long- awaited agm just days away – would seem like the ideal time for Rangers supporters to re-examine how on earth they got here in the first place.

 

Perhaps to ensure history is not allowed to repeat itself.

 

Paul Murray couldn’t have planned it any better had he pranged the van himself and made off into the streets of Stenhousemuir under the cover of darkness.

 

If ever there was an episode that sums up the depth of this club’s current plight then this was surely it.

 

In the grand scheme of things, Rangers have become little more than a farce.

 

The Whytes, the Greens, the Ahmads, connections with men on Interpol’s most wanted list, the financial director’s home videos, the bonus culture and large pay-offs, the never-ending investigations and probes, the court cases, the missing millions, the endless spin and counter spin.

 

This is what Rangers of today have become.

 

Meanwhile, in a sporting context, they have reduced themselves to the kind of semi-irrelevance that can have a fixture knocked out by a cheeseburger and chips.

 

Yet no matter how surreal or ridiculous this whole saga has become, in the boardroom battle all sides demand to be taken seriously.

 

And with the shareholders about to shape the future of this club on Thursday, never has the situation required a more studied analysis. The latest offering from inside Ibrox came on Friday of last week when Sandy Easdale invited the BBC and STV round.

 

“I’m no one’s puppet,” was the thrust of his message. But the truth is – with so many proxy votes to protect – he is actually representing the interests of others.

 

In fact, it would seem absurd to expect anything else. Easdale has a duty to do what he is told by those who have entrusted him with their votes.

 

With so much at stake, this is hardly the time or place for him to act like some kind of free spirit.

 

The Easdales swear Charles Green is not involved in their decision making. But Green is in many ways the reason they are slap bang in the middle of this thing.

 

Without him and his old allies at Margarita and Blue Pitch Holdings, the Easdales would hardly have enough votes to merit a say at all.

 

There is another question which might trouble these voters as they prepare to go to the polls.

 

How on earth can the Easdales, chairman David Somers and chief executive Graham Wallace support a financial director, Brian Stockbridge, whose own credibility has been shot to bits among the fans at least?

 

And yet Somers would have these same supporters believe they owe Stockbridge a debt for helping to hold the club together? That they ought to look up to this man as some sort of saviour? That appraisal may come back to haunt him.

 

He claimed also he would not know Green or Craig Whyte if he bumped into them in the street, which displays an alarming lack of knowledge about the main characters in this club’s decline.

 

It may interest Somers to know his predecessor in the big chair, Walter Smith, will have been astonished by attempts to rewrite history.

 

The truth is Stockbridge’s continued presence is one of the reasons Smith – a man who has given most of his adult life to Rangers – cannot bring himself to return to Ibrox, even as a spectator.

 

Come to think of it, John Greig – the man voted the club’s greatest ever servant – has not been back either since being equally sickened by the behaviour of Whyte.

 

Men such as Smith and Greig have been around this club for too long, they care about it too deeply, to accept it in its current form. They struggle to recognise this Rangers.

 

Which is why both will hope their club changes for the better this Thursday. God knows, they can never have seen it any worse.

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Some of the stuff in that report is fair enough but the tone is still far too mocking and snidy to be considered to have even mediocre journalistic values.

 

Unfortunately the Club has made itself an easy target for this sort of stuff.

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The roofs on those temporary stands at Ochilview looked like a safety hazard anyway, so the people who built them and passed them as fit for purpose are the ones responsible, not a bloody burger van!

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Unfortunately the Club has made itself an easy target for this sort of stuff.

 

I agree, but the main thrust of the report was mostly related to stuff out-with our control - we never deserved to be in the league we're in, and have nothing to do with Stenhousemuir FC stands and burger van issues. Yet again it's the victim being mocked - fair enough by the Celtic View but it's not becoming of a so-called national newspaper.

 

It's also a quite disrespectful to League One teams, which seems in the media to be justified, collateral damage as long as you're having a go at Rangers.

 

It's amazing how hard it is just to find even a slightly fair minded article on us in the press - and at a time of massively falling sales in that industry.

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How are the events at the weekend anything to lay at the door of Rangers? Unless it's escaped your notice Keith we were dumped down to the bottom of the leagues and we have to play our way back, visiting those team's grounds. Or would you like us parachuted back into the SPL Keith? I think we would all like to know if you do!

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