SteveC 150 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Throughout all this, the fans are being treated like shit by everyone at the club - Board, players, management team. We are left in limbo and nobody tells us anything. Quite frankly we should all be descending on Edmiston Drive and creating absolute havoc !!!!! That's certainly what would have happened right back at the beginning if the yahoos had been given even a hint of a sniff of the way we've been treated. And yet we are the fans with "the reputation". Another odd thing in this never endingly peculiar tale. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhunter 0 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Throughout all this, the fans are being treated like shit by everyone at the club - Board, players, management team. We are left in limbo and nobody tells us anything. Quite frankly we should all be descending on Edmiston Drive and creating absolute havoc !!!!! That may well have to happen on AGM day , IF it gets held. That table is going to have Ally , the easedales, somers and lambias sat at it attempting to talk the most god awful pish to several thousand fans boiling with rage. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Cooper 0 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Throughout all this, the fans are being treated like shit by everyone at the club - Board, players, management team. We are left in limbo and nobody tells us anything. Quite frankly we should all be descending on Edmiston Drive and creating absolute havoc !!!!! Any normal fanbase would but we are not a normal fanbase. We don't a fight like that in us. Anyone can do and say as they please with our club and the fans won't do a thing to stop it. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Barristan Selmy 222 Posted December 13, 2014 Author Share Posted December 13, 2014 (edited) Etxeberria played one season for free because he wanted to reach the milestone of 500 games for Bilbao and he wasn't likely to be offered a new deal. An honourable act, but one with a tinge of 'self' about it. It is up to the person concerned whether he wishes to forgo his entitlements or not, but I do wonder how many Gersnet posters would choose to jack in their job in order to do the right thing by the company. I would say a ball park figure would be a little less than one. We were led to believe that the club was more than just a place of work for our manager. Perhaps if these gersnet posters had made millions and purported to love their employer then they would do so. Edited December 13, 2014 by Ser Barristan Selmy 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 not if your bosses were ****s. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmu 0 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 (edited) Off course he is entitled to take us for every penny he can get. Don't expect me to respect him in any shape or form as continues to screw up the football side of our club on a monumental scale. What makes it worse for me is that I expected better from him. We knew Charlie and co were in it for a buck but ally has had his nose so deep in the trough it's a wonder he can breathe Edited December 13, 2014 by pmu 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangersitis 0 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 We were led to believe that the club was more than just a place of work for our manager. Perhaps if these gersnet posters had made millions and purported to love their employer then they would do so. More fool you for believing such nonsense. McCoist has always put himself first, and that is not a criticism of the man. You were talking about honour. That should have nothing to do with money or love for an employer. Even if it did, I doubt that anyone employed at Ibrox has any love for those who employ them. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEARGER 1,829 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Mate emailed me this, its from Ibrox Noise. Hope its ok to post on here. Ally McCoist, Master Manipulator News broke yesterday in the mid-afternoon of Ally McCoist’s resignation. Immediate responses from fans were generally of the praiseworthy kind, in the sense that McCoist had appeared to know finally the game was up and had walked away without the ransom of a severance package. I criticised his apparent refusal to do this in a previous blog, comparing it with Paul Le Guen’s willingness to do the right thing and waive his £2M pay-off having been fired by Sir David Murray. Consequently, the news he had quit, therefore waiving the fee, brought out a huge deal of praise from myself and other fans, proving once and for all that Ally does care about the Club above all else. Only…the rest of the day proved that this was all a great big media stunt. Ally McCoist, master manipulator of the fans, of the press and of those in the sport itself, once again had played a blinder. In fact, his sleight of hand even managed to get fans’ ire off his back, and onto the players. Knowing full well this news would completely destabilise preparation going into the visit to Palmerston, McCoist’s Rangers were miserable and fully deserving of the defeat. Only this time, instead of complaining about McCulloch in defence, or McGregor at RB, or Mohsni starting again, or the useless Shiels starting at all, or Daly up front, or Foster at LB, all of which were McCoist decisions, fans instead solely blamed the players. Sure, they are the ones who go out there and play, but who is the guy who is putting the square pegs in the round holes, and reserving special holes for his favourite pegs? The same man who has managed to swindle his way into playing the victim while he sits there on the highest wage of anyone at Ibrox, mismanaging the team week after week. Because, of course, McCoist has not resigned. He has handed in a year’s notice, meaning Rangers’ board has five options: 1: Pay him off a severance package of around £400,000 – which it cannot afford to do. 2: Pay him off an ‘undisclosed’ settlement to his satisfaction, which will be similar in value to the above. 3: Pay off his entire 12 month wage now - £850,000. Impossible to do. 4: Put him on gardening leave, which will cost the remainder of his current deal – around £550,000. 5: Just let him get on with it. None of these are good options for anyone other than McCoist – he still gets his money no matter what, and ultimately he either stays in the job, haplessly bumbling from one calamity to the next while being paid a near cool million pounds for it, or he is paid off quick – and he knows the board does not have the money to do the latter. Meanwhile he is now Super Ally again, with the blame firmly at the foot of the players. Players who, in the past two weeks, have been canvassing support for him and had been castigated by fans for it: Jon Daly; regaling us with the tale of how McCoist attended his father’s funeral. Darren McGregor; telling us McCoist gave him the chance to play for Rangers and of his gratefulness for this opportunity. Nicky Law; blaming his fellow players and removing all responsibility from Ally. And McCoist, post-match once again laid every inch of blame on those players as well. The guy playing Mohsni, Shiels, Daly, and McCulloch, Foster and McGregor out of position is now the hero, the victim, the one who is the innocent in all this. Did the players produce yesterday night? No, they did not. But given the titanic upset to the preparation, did we expect a glorious night of football – did we expect Ally to have organised his troops impeccably? No. That Rangers lost is no surprise, and that McCoist is now blameless in some eyes is remarkable testament to his canny ability to play people against each other and make others apportion blame to everyone other than him. His skill in manipulation is outstanding, and once again McCoist has pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes and holds all the cards. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilledbear 16 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 That piece sounds like McMurdos latest. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Cooper 0 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Fantastic article. Enjoyed that. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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