We don’t need to listen to the noise, we can filter it out.

[Zappa 0]

If ever there were a more appropriate cliche which could be dredged up from the dusty depths of the old cliche vaults than ‘patience is a virtue’ and applied to the situation our Club finds itself in, it really is a difficult task to think of one.

 

It may well be tired and it may well be old, but that particular cliche fits our Club’s current circumstances to a tee - both on and off the pitch - at a time when some of our supporters are perhaps understandably becoming prematurely impatient.

 

Off the pitch, the new regime has only been in place for two weeks since Dave King’s successful EGM and the virtually immediate boardroom takeover, while on the pitch, the newly appointed management team of Stuart McCall and Kenny Black have only been in place for one week.

 

In fairness to any Bears starting to get slightly impatient or carried away here, there were clearly loud surges and spikes of ‘noise’ (a fitting word Dave King used recently), both in the mainstream media and in the online build-up to the EGM.

 

Our support were subjected to PR propaganda and spin which would have made you dizzy if you weren’t grounded, jaded speculation and the usual blatantly biased commentary, not only from the mainstream media, but from PR agents and provocateurs trolling Rangers forums.

 

We also had so-called ‘sources’ supposedly feeding a relentless stream of inside and/or classified information to those keen to inflate their blog hits along with their donation tally, but the important thing to remember is that it’s mostly just spin disguised as different colours of noise.

 

Some of you might not know this, but noise (in a literal sonic sense) is actually commonly used as a form of psychological torture on prisoners and enemies by certain countries under certain circumstances. Could we be the prisoners or the enemies here?

 

Take a step back from your mind and think about these things, even just for a fleeting or glancing listen and what do you hear? You might well hear banging on about this or bleating on about that, but it’s all just noise.

 

We are where we are and it’s not a great place, but it’s a better place then we’ve been in for over 3 years, maybe not financially due to the catastrophic mess left behind for Dave King, his colleagues and the rest of us to sort out, but it’s a good place and we don’t need to listen to the noise, we can filter it out.

Edited March 21, 2015 by Zappa