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In case anyone hasn't seen it yet.

 

 

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/...t_campaign.php

 

Rangers supporters launch protest campaign

 

 

by Thomas Jordan

 

RANGERS fans groups today launched a "We Deserve Better" campaign to try and pile the pressure on the club's board.

 

Chairman Sir David Murray's decision to sell off one of his leading players this month to balance the books has been met with a furious reaction from some Gers fans - who held a banner during last night's win over St Johnstone asking him to quit the club.

 

The agreed sale of striker Kris Boyd to Birmingham City in a �£3.8m deal was the final straw for many and various groups such as the Rangers Supporters Trust and the Blue Order have now issued a statement urging supporters clubs and fans to unite and let the club know their feelings.

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Trust chief David Edgar said today: "This isn't a campaign to get the chairman out or anything like that.

 

"We know he is in a situation where he hasn't been able to find a buyer for the club but we want to know what direction the club is moving in and we're looking for improvements."

 

The statement lists areas in which he says supporters are concerned with and want explanations and they are as follows;

 

- Only 2 league titles in 8 seasons

 

- Only 2 cups won in last 3 full seasons

 

- Losing to the worst European opponents faced since Valletta in 1983

 

- A state of the art training facility, yet no advancements in technique or set plays

 

- No discernible strategic vision, either on or off the pitch

 

- No long-term transfer or team-building plan

 

- Only two youth players (McGregor and Hutton) of genuine quality produced in the last decade

 

- Selling first team players to cover losses previously made on fringe players

 

- Consistent failure to move fringe players on for reasonable transfer fees

 

- Lucrative pay-offs for failed players - Failure to profit from our most lucrative ever season

 

- Failure to engage with or interact with the support in any meaningful way

 

- Treating Rangers fans with disdain as customers instead of valuing and working with them as supporters and part of the Rangers family

 

- Inability to either attract inward investment, or to convince fans to invest in any meaningful way

 

- Reduction in the status of our club from leading football force in the land, to almost social pariah status through a failure to challenge those seeking to link Rangers with sectarianism

 

- A PR operation which only acts when senior club figures are personally criticised and all too often fails to defend the Rangers support

 

- Fan morale lower than at any time in the past 24 years

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Ill be interested to see the reply to this. No doubt we who back this campaign will be branded in the usual "your not true supporters" way.

 

 

waiting till 3 oclock before entering the stadium on Saturday would be my way of letting them know im not happy. Its a peaceful protest and would get the point across to those concerned.

 

If you had enough people behind the idea...

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While it's quite obvious why the statement says this is not a Murray out campaign, surely there's no need to be so coy amongst ourselves. Of course it is a Murray out campaign, what the hell else could it be?

 

 

I think Murray is the Chairman of the 'Murray Out' campaign ....... but in the mean time!!

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- No discernible strategic vision, either on or off the pitch

 

- No long-term transfer or team-building plan

 

I assume these 2 points are pointed towards WS for his constant selections of poor players and not giving talented guys a chance!!!

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if anyone has ever read arthur numan's book you will see that the fans of one of the dutch teams he played for were unhappy with what was happening at the club. the way they highlighted their disapproval was to stay outside the ground for the first 15 mins and then enter but make no attempt to cheer the team. this would certainly highlight our concerns over the shambles we are fast becoming.

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if anyone has ever read arthur numan's book you will see that the fans of one of the Dutch teams he played for were unhappy with what was happening at the club. the way they highlighted their disapproval was to stay outside the ground for the first 15 mins and then enter but make no attempt to cheer the team. this would certainly highlight our concerns over the shambles we are fast becoming.

 

It was Den Haag(The Hague) I don't know if Numan played for them but they done it a few times with the first supporters carrying a message banner as they entered.

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Having slept on it, I have to say that the statement issued yesterday is a bit like describing the effects of a fire raging in you home but insisting that there is no need to call the fire brigade.

 

"This isn't a campaign to get the chairman out or anything like that."

 

What a gutless crock. How will we ever change anything if we are so afraid of alienating those whose fear of change helps maintain the status quo.

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