ian1964 10,410 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 .........to hide the problems at Rangers HUGH believes that lifting the transfer ban at Hearts would be an act of compassion to prevent young players from being overexposed to the harsh realities of Premiership football. NO-ONE likes us, we don't care is a slogan that works when you're looking down on the rest from a position of power in the top division But the message is beginning to come across as a sign of weakness when Rangers are lining up a series of targets for their anger while living in the third tier of Scottish football. Stenhousemuir's John Gemmell lost the moral high ground when he tweeted his disgust over Ally McCoist's complaints about festive season fixture congestion. Exhibiting the early stages of Tourettes Syndrome is never a good way of going about winning your argument. Also, Gemmell's done nothing in the game and the man he was attacking is a former European Golden Boot winner. Having said that, there was, in between the foul and abusive language, a case to be made for supporting his argument that Ally was whingeing without good reason. Then Ian Durrant got in on the act by having a go at unspecified people within un-named clubs who were having ago at Rangers when they should've been concentrating on their own team. Who ? When ? Where ? Durranty said the criticism Rangers received when they drew with Stranraer at Ibrox on Boxing Day was over the top, making it look as if Ally's side had lost the match. He'll need to include the Rangers support among those who've displeased him then, because they were the first ones to slate the team for their performance when they booed them off the park. Previously it was the allegedly rough treatment of Ian Black that was the problem. Is it not more the case Black was signed to be Rangers' enforcer in the middle of the park and turned out to be less of an intimidatory presence than was advertised in the brochure ? Rangers' historical reputation was partly forged on having genuinely hard men who lived and died by the sword without complaining that somebody had kicked them back. But convincing the gullible you're being singled out for unfair treatment works for some, like those Rangers fans who're getting ready to complain in case Hearts are allowed to sign players while under a transfer embargo when their club wasn't allowed any relaxation of the rules. The thing is Hearts can't lodge an appeal against their embargo when the SPFL Board meets at Hampden tomorrow. Their case isn't even on the agenda for discussion. Going into administration isn't regarded as misconduct, so there's nothing to appeal against. If Hearts came out of administration tomorrow they could sign players straight away. In the meantime, the club can make multiple appeals to have individuals registered with them while the process to exit administration goes on. It's a course of action Hearts should take as quickly as is humanly possible. Sam Nicholson suddenly appeared on tea-time television on Thursday night. I only know his name because a caption appeared underneath him as the kid spoke about Hearts and his place in the squad as one of the teenagers the club's been forced to rely on. And for the first time I could sense the inadvisability of exposing fragile youngsters to a grown up's environment on a regular basis. The sanctions imposed on Hearts have done their job and the club will be relegated at the end of this season. They've taken their medicine with fatal consequences for their league status. A vestige of dignity while the club is in its death throes, and fulfilling their remaining fixtures, is what's being asked for. I'm told a fourteen year old was played in goal by Hearts at a recent Under 18 match because there was nobody else. Someone's going to get hurt here, and mental scarring is going to be as prevalent as the physical kind. Hearts brought all of this on themselves through business mis-management, and nobody's denying that. But if any player wants to sign for them this month in the certain knowledge he'll be in a lower division next August, assuming the club is still in existence, he should be allowed to do so. It's not preferential treatment. It's showing compassion to the terminally afflicted. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cotter 0 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Fuck off my website Hugh.. (no offence Ian, just doing your job I know ) 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,410 Posted January 12, 2014 Author Share Posted January 12, 2014 Fuck off my website Hugh.. (no offence Ian, just doing your job I know ) I did think about not posting it!................ 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Moon 1,113 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 I would prefer not to read what that reptile has to say on a Sunday morning but I realise that is burying my head in the sand. The number of articles slating the entire Rangers establishment from the media in Scotland is staggering. It would have been interesting to see his interpretation of the allegations of corruption that have been big news this week, but no, he prefers to rake up nothing stories that weren't even very interesting in the first place. It makes you want to vomit. Rangers fans who buy the rags and listen to the radio stations that these creatures work for are subjecting the rest of us to this sort of rubbish. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc 280 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Never forget. Where was your compassion when Rangers didn't know if they were going to get a licence to play, let alone put a team of god know's who on the pitch in dark summer of 2012? Gone missing along with your integrity Hugh. What a sad bitter little man you are. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,255 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Can't Hertz sign U21 players? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrahimHemdani 1 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 (edited) Hearts have to abide by the rules and get on with it; just like we had to do. But all our employees need to stop whinging and let the team do its talking on the park. In the first quarter we were steam-rollering all the opposition; but have gone of the boil of late (Dunfermilne away excepted); perhaps because of the growing realisation that we are going to win this league in a canter. Time the management and players realised we pay our money for the whole season and they don't get to switch off when it suits them. Edited January 12, 2014 by BrahimHemdani typo 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 £1.40 people pay on a Sunday to buy a paper filled with drivel like this! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrahimHemdani 1 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 £1.40 people pay on a Sunday to buy a paper filled with drivel like this! No need; just read the important bits on Gersnet. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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