Rangers sent a big message today........

Like most Bears I've spent today it's my chest puffed out proud of the stance the fans and club have taken on our away ticket allocation.

But Dundee Utd and the medias response has been puzzling to me.......

We as Rangers fans categorically stated the vast majority of fans would never set foot in SPL teams grounds again.

The first test has come along, and guess what?

The majority of fans said ,"No thanks" then the club responded in kind by refusing tickets.

So why the surprise? Why are the SFA having a EGM? why are Dundee Utd releasing statements saying they won't release statements?

Is it because they thought we were all mouth?

Is it because they thought we wouldn't actually be here?

Time for a reality check haters!

To me, today shows more than ever that we are the best supporters in the World as we've yet again came together very quickly to get a message out and the club have responded, this is so refreshing as a bit of me thinks that Charles Green and his team would rather we did take the tickets and fill the away end, and if we did accept the tickets i believe the away end would have sold out.  I know some dont agree with the boycot and I understand why and would never try and change someone's mind either. It's a case of agree to disagree, but it's been fairly civil between us all for the most part. 

For me this has never been about money, it's a statement to show the haters that we will never accept being treated like that again. We knew we were in the wrong, we as fans had our hands up saying,"ok, we did wrong" But the bile and hate that came our way was wrong, very wrong and it looks like it is backfiring bigtime now. 

Reality is setting in for the haters.

So take today as another huge victory for The Rangers football club. We the fans ARE The Rangers football club. 

We've never gone away anywhere to come back.

We are the biggest show in town and by Christ are we making a lot of noise and "they" are not liking it and long may it continue.

The Worlds media is watching and we are doing ourselves proud by showing up the people that kicked us when we were down instead of letting us take our punishment and get on with getting our house back in order. Now the spotlight will hopefully turn onto them, they can answer the awkward questions presented to them by the world media as to why we don't want tickets....

Cheers for everything all the fans have done, the bloggers, the message boards, the tweeters, the RSC's, the club itself and you reading this

We really are showing the world why we are the people!

A proud Franky

@RangersUnified

My Rangers Facebook page

Rangers not guilty!!

I have to admit that i thought we were going to be guilty as hell over the EBT thing. How wrong was i?!?!?!

I arrived home in Thailand at around 4PM Thai time (I'm 7 hours ahead of the UK) I have 4 weeks off as that's how my rotation works, 4 weeks on 4 off.

You can imagine the first few hours home are busy getting stuff sorted at home, having fun with my daughter etc.

Around 11PM i went to bed and turned on the Ipad to see what was happening. My timing was perfect as thats around the time Twitter was coming alive with the news we were NOT GUILTY of cheating the taxman therefore giving Rangers an unfair sporting advantage over other clubs. You and i all know that was poppycock anyway, we won our games and trophies by scoring more goals than the teams we played, thats how football works. But with the vigour, and lets be honest at times intellectual way our haters explained why we were going to be found guilty did sound plausible.

I rarely talked about the EBT issue on here, my Rangers facebook page, my Rangers twitter account for a few reasons. The first being i'm not a financial person at all. My job involves nuts, bolts, oil and drilling for black gold, so it would have been foolish for me to talk about something i can't give a good honest opinion too.
The other reason, and the main reason was i was shit scared and had my head buried in the sand. I also was sure we would have titles stripped, i didn't know how i was going to handle it if/when that happened. The chances of that happening now are pretty slim, next to none so the REAL experts say like Cathcartboy whom is a financial wiz kid. Someone all Bears should pay attention too.

I'm not one for gloating, its not a classy thing to do, but you know what Bears. I'm absolutely loving the Gloating thats going on today. This is a huge moment in our history so enjoy it for days, weeks and months to come.

THE HATERS WERE WRONG!

Imagine this.................. imagine that yesterday unfolded a different way, Imagine we had been found "guilty" The feeling we would all have now is of sheer emptiness. Going into work would have been a nightmare for many, but alas, we won, and by Christ are we loving it and so we should.

There are many many Bloggers and journalists that have more than egg on their face, they have a battery farms worth of egg on their face!!

We all know that the vile little man Graham Spiers has been keeping his career going on the back of his hate for our amazing club and fans. Last night our very own Chris Graham owned him, absolutely owned him live on TV. Obviously the picture at the top of this blog shows the moment in this horrid knew he'd been caught bang to writes. Right after this picture he tried to squirm out of Chri owning him by saying he had "Never said TBTC was cheating" Really spot? Well you've been caught and had your brown half mast cord trousers took down and your skinny litttle arse well and truly slapped

From the bottom of my heart Chris......Thank you. its a moment all us Bears have been waiting on for YEARS and boy did you deliver. I owe you more than a pint mate, i owe you a night out no hold barred.

I'm a very insignificant blogger compared to other Bears, but the standard of bloggers this time has produced is something all rangers fans should be proud og. Guys like Chris, Shane and his crew at The Copland Road Org, Bill McMurdo, John DC Gow, the lads at The Rangers Standard and my favourite Rangers message board Gersnet ran by Franky (not me BTW)

I could go on but each and every online Bear, message board etc had a huge part to play in this.
We are not out the woods yet, there's a lot of legal wrangling to go but with the intellect we have amongst the  fanbase we will get there in the end with each and every hater that went out their way to kill us getting their just deserves.

My final and most important point. We MUST take this opportunity to come together. Please forget any niggles we have with each other, talk to each other as the more unified we are the stronger we are. Swallow some pride and contact those Bears you joust with and draw a line in the sand.

Together as one we can take these bastards down.

Franky

Why not let Rangers FC and the fans get on with it?

We ARE the biggest show in town, always have been, always will be. The rest of the nation hates this, I don't need to remind you about the way we have been treated this last 18 months.

We did deserve punishment. But anyone not living in the bitter nasty little country with a chip on its shoulder called Scotland thinks what has happened is nothing short of astounding.

Now to my point.

Why not leave us alone and let us get on with the football?

This week we've had the Dundee Utd chairman, a bitter and twisted little man say we won't be allowed into the top league, even after reconstruction.

Ermmmmmm...... When did Rangers football club or the fans ask for that? We want to earn our way back up the leagues, we are enjoying it, the away trips are enjoyed by the traveling support and Irbox is more or less full every home match.

Then we had that crank Alex Thompson tell us the World is round and that a football club has loonballs attached to it. EVERY club no matter how big or small has them
So why can't the news papers, haters, bloggers and cranks not let us get on with it?

If we play your team in a cup, then yes, the usual banter and comments are the "norm" But this seriously delusional infatuation, addiction, illness, obsession (insert adjective here) other smaller clubs fans have for us is actually worrying. Football will always have banter, it's part of it and is great fun done the right way, but I genuinely fear for these obsessed people's lifestyles. What happens behind closed doors? Are their families safe? Are they themselves safe? What long term psychological damage are they doing to themselves?

This is acutely abnormal behaviour.......and dangerous.

In any other country, and I do mean any, the rest of the nation would have allowed us to get on with it and encouraged us to get back on an even keel and back into the top league for the most part.

Its obvious that the shadow we cast over EVERYONE else in the footballing world in Scotland was a lot longer and darker than Rangers fans knew we threw over them.


Let us get on with it please. That's mine and I'm sure many others message, you will find your health gets better very quickly as your obsession is not good for you at all.

A huge victory for Rangers fans against the Sun and a troll

I don't like to talk about our haters and normally totally ignore them but yesterday i got involved with the backlash against the lies, bile and hate the Sun spouted from that evil little man that claims he's Irish.

The rhetoric both him and the Sun told got my back up, and it takes a lot to get my back up.

It was amazing to see the backlash happen. The hateful CFC supporting editor that sanctioned the piece removed his twitter account nearly right away because of the stuff he was getting. Hopefully he is sacked from his job and can't find employment in the media again.

I, and may others tweeted the Sun asking them to remove themselves from the Help for Heroes campaign as the vile little man is a servant to the IRA, raising funds for them over the years which means he paid for the ammunition and ordinance to kill and maim British servicemen.

The Sun today issues a statement saying they had pulled the serialisation because after checking the Vile hate filled liars blog they saw they had made a huge mistake. Naturally they had a pop at Rangers fans along the way.

The Sun, par for the course, lied about why they puled it. They say it wasn't because of the online backlash, well why was it?

Of course it was, we brought it to your attention that this man hates our country. The Sun obviously had not looked into this man, why else would they have allowed it?
WE, The Rangers support DID make you take these drastic and out of character actions.

Now, there's a few significant issues here.

1. When was the last time ANYONE got the Sun to pull a piece, EVER? We all know what it's like, a hateful paper that will hack into dead children's voicemail etc.

Rangers fans stopped the Sun in it's tracks and made it make a grovelling cringy statement.

That is brilliant and well done to each and every Bear that got involved.

2. This shows what power we now posses as a fan base. No more will we be treated as the dirt of society. No longer will we allow our good name to be used to make people money.

3. The hate filled blogger that wrote the crap in the book which the sun was going to published has been destroyed. The Sun has said these words,"

"We believed Phil Mac Giolla Bhain to be a proper and sound journalist. Channel 4 News chief correspondent Alex Thomson obviously agreed and wrote the foreword in the book.


He was wrong and so were we."


In one full swoop the Sun has totally utterly destroyed this man. His "reputation" is in tatters. For a guy that hates "main stream media" in the UK to get his book serialised in the UK's biggest paper, then to have it pulled in such a bad manner is wonderful to see. No doubt he will be on the offensive saying he doesn't care blah blah blah. Bollocks. This is a huge public humiliation and a massive victory for the ordinary decent people, not only in the Rangers support, but the public at large. It's also a victory for society as the UK public don't like these kind of people. people that hate our country and want our servicemen to die.

What a great way to start a monday

Franky
Read the article here

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/sun_says/1460642/The-Scottish-Sun-Says.html#ixzz25NOPHpKe

Living “rent free” in other fans heads

I don’t.

I’d rather they all survived as the best way to get back at them is by beating them on the park. Don’t get me wrong, if clubs go into admin then Hell mend Them! And don’t blame The Rangers if that happens, blame the people in control at your club who have “balanced the books” on Rangers being around to finance your club.

I think it’s safe to say Ibrox has not been the best for atmosphere at games for a very long time, since the early 90’s i’d say. It’s not the fans fault as such, it’s the make up of Human DNA. You get “used” to winning which brings in complacency in fans.

Now with this whole mess slowly starting to level out, the thought of being back in the SPL is exciting, there will be a lot better atmospheres at games from now IMO. The great big V sign to these people that wanted us kicked out the SPL for “sporting reasons" (see Jealousy for the real reason) will be large and wide.

Imagine relegating Aberdeen or Dundee Utd towards the end of the season? that would be outstanding and the best way to get one over on them.

It doesn’t sit right with me that a lot of Bears want other clubs to fold, why? That’s not what we’re about, rise above the hate, be patient, as the time will arrive when we can do what we do best as The Rangers, win trophies and beat these diddy teams.

We are, and always will be the biggest club in the country, make no mistake about that. As i’ve said before, the shadow we cast over every single team in the SPL is far bigger and longer than we thought, it’s plain to see, and that flatters me. I didn’t realise we were living rent free in these peoples heads so loudly for all these years.

The week ahead for The Rangers

Here we go again. Yet another huge week for The Rangers

Here we go again, yet another huge week for The Rangers. This one with a completely different twist compared to the others as we are "saved", yet have a power struggle developing already. 

We should be happy with this, yet its causing friction amongst the fan base. 

I'll state from the off i'm very against this march on Ibrox to back Walter. It could, and probably will turn into an Anti Charles Green protest which will play nicely into our haters hands, again. 

If Walter's group wasn't in the picture and Charles Green was the only show in town i would be for a peaceful march to get the man to open up, talk to fans and to stop telling lies. It surprises me in this day and age that people in power, not only in football but any sector of trade, business and politics try and pull the wool over their target audiences eyes by putting a lot of sugar on top of their public statements, telling us what we want to hear with false promises they themselves know they can't keep hoping we suck it and and believe what they say.

We have these fancy phones in our hands that the Google app will go a long way into clarifying what the person says is true or not with in seconds of the words coming out his mouth. If we don't find it in google there and then, within 48 hours we will know the truth. It's very hard to BS then general public now, especially when it comes to an institution like The Rangers. There's millions of Bears out there, amongst them some very smart people who have the means to find out if the likes to Charles Green are lying.

I keep reading Bears saying that we should get behind Charles Green because he saved us, and if he had not come along we would be gone, no newco, no CVA Rangers, but actually extinct.

RUBBISH!!


There was a minimum of two, possibly three other groups watching what was going on, including Bill Ng and a hybrid of the Blue Knights. If Charles Green had not come in, either of them would have bid for us, and got us, but would have gone straight for the newco route which would have been highly unpopular, but alas, would have been the same result as Green got.

The Rangers were never ever going into extension!

Green came in saying we'll get the CVA etc. If we are all honest with ourselves, we were never going to get it. The boldness and brashness of Charles Green has to be admired, he got a lot of Bears hook line and sinker. Many of us were not convinced by him from the off and have been proved right with our doubts about him. He said there was 20 people from around the Globe in his group, where are they know?
He said he had £8.5M sitting in an account ready to be transferred at the click of a button, where is it? Then the £30M for new players!! Total popycock.

One of his backers was going to give him £4Million, this person did due diligence on the others in the group and ran for the Hills.

Now's when the alarm bells should start to ring in every Bears ears.

People rightly ask where Walter and co were all this time? Why didn't they come in months ago?
There's a very simple answer to this in my own opinion. None of them really wanted to own The Rangers, they were happy enough to let others buy us. I think it's very unfair to criticise Walter at all. He's been an amazing servant to our club, he deserves his retirement to spend time with his family, especially his grandkids who he adores.

I'm not of the school that rich, famous or past players should have put money into The Rangers. People should have the rite to do what they choose, to do what they want with their lives and money, they shouldn't be press ganged into buying into something that's going to take a hell of a lot of their time, money, the stress and negative publicity it brings owning The Rangers. Especially with little or no financial return.

So why did him and Mr McColl come in at this late date? I'm lead to believe roughly two weeks ago news reached McColl and Walter though the business contacts they'll no doubt have that Green was going round the high end business people in Glasgow and beyond with his cap in hand  asking for people to invest. This is when Walter and McColl decided to meet with Park and the others involved that we don't know about yet. There's rumours that there's an even more sinister undercurrent to Green and his business plan for our club that's not reached the public domain yet (i personally have no clue what it is by the way)

So, again, Walter is coming in to save us hopefully, not through choice, but through his love for The Rangers. He saw we were heading in a very bad direction under the stewardship of Green. He wants us to be run by fans, ran with in our means, get the rite people in the rite positions of power at Ibrox and the best bit is, him, Park and McColl are not in here to make money, Green is, which, i hasten to add is not a bad thing, if done correctly.


People ask why don't they work together.?

 NO CHANCE

To start with the huge personalities on either side would clash, then their business plans for The Rangers are chalk and cheese. It would be virtually impossible for them to sit in the same room together for more than an hour if they both were involved with the running of the club which would inevitably lead to terrible headlines in the press for us again.

Do we really need any more?


To finish, the march is wrong as i've already stated. Do you honestly think that either Walter or Green need a march to know that Walter is the man we want with the keys to Ibrox? These guys aren't dumb, they see the news, they read the internet forums, or at least get told what's being said. The march will make not one tiny bit of difference to the sale of Rangers to Walter. This sale WILL happen, my guess being between 9-14 days, possibly sooner. Green and his team want to sell, it comes down to how much for, and make no mistake, Green has every rite to make a few quid out this.

And ask yourself this, would Walter and Jim McColl come into the frey making all this noise NOT to get the keys to Ibrox?


Not a chance, they will get us



Frankie

Be careful what you wish for haters

I wrote this on the 6th of March on Facebook

This is the one and only time i will talk about CFC and their issues.

We have seen our club and fans come under attack from many angles these last few weeks, you could say it's self inflicted and no ones making but our own? I don't, we were conned and many of us, myself included were sucked in. from the DM era till 2 weeks ago

Anyway i see many fans saying "Lets start again in Division 3 of the Scottish football league" so to show the other teams how much they actually DO need us

In principle this sounds great, a great big V sign to everyone, especially those from CFC who have, as usual, conducted themselves "in the Celtic way", which is with outright unprofessionalism, no class, no dignity and down right stupidity if i'm honest.

They do need us and we do need them, as does the whole of Scottish football from grass roots up.

We're the biggest team, have the biggest support and as we, and the rest of the footballing World know are the most successful football team in the World. That won't change any time soon.

Now, if we go down to Div 3 in Scotland, what SPL will we return to? I think it would cripple it beyond repair. The Chances are CFC would win the league at a canter. I think we would loose our Champions league places and a Europa cup place. The standard of players at CFC would drop considerably too which would effect us too. The league would be like the Welsh or Irish league in the end. The Kilmarnocks etc would probably go out of business too

The issue of Rangers and CFC going into the EPL comes up regularly. The other clubs, especially those in the lowers leagues rightly say, ”If you want to go into the EPL you have to start at the bottom “(Div 2)

WELL NOW’S OUR CHANCE

What biggest “get it right round yie” could there be to our haters. The carrot at the end of the stick is EPL football, something we would all love. We are not guaranteed to fly up the leagues either, but by Christ it would be some adventure to go to these games. I doubt it would be long before we did have a genuinely rich big investor come in and buy us too.They have two Welsh teams in the English professional game so it would be very hard for any lawyers to argue against us getting in there

We all need to calm down and think before we speak on this subject. I for one, want us to go to England, not Scotland.

What this last few weeks has shown to us is the shadow we cast over EVERYONE in Scottish football is a LOT bigger than we thought it was, I’m actually flattered by that

Time for all fans groups to come together as one

The Gloves are off

There has been a lot of fractures in the various supporters clubs, message board and official supporters groups at rangers for years. 

When we went into administration 70+ days ago there should have been a unification of the fans. That was out “first” opportunity to draw lines in the sand, forget inter group/club squabbles and move forward as one unified Rangers support. 

We didn’t take that chance even though the club itself was now being represented by Duff & Phelps which is far from ideal as they don’t have any sort of history with the club.

We’ve had numerous chances since and have not taken them, in fact as far as i can see there’s bigger divisions appearing. 

Now, with yesterdays ridiculous sanctions and not to mention the timing when we are due to get a a preferred bidder, we MUST unify now. If we don’t we never ever will. I think it is now actually starting to dawn on people that there is a genuine reality that our club could seriously go to the wall in a matter of weeks. This is what has to happen>

All of the official supporters organisations, and reps from the main message boards need to meet in the next 48 hours, wither it’s at the Wee Rangers club or Ibrox it matters not, a venue should not be hard to obtain. 

Every single representative should look the other in the eye, shake hands and say,”by gones are by gones, this is serious, we’re far stronger as one than a divided unit”

It doesn’t matter what you called someone on a message board, or wrote about them on twitter, who cares? This is about keeping the heart beat of Rangers Football Club alive, the fans, we are Rangers Football Club. 

You all need to sit down and talk, and talk for hours, make sure everything is out your system, then talk about what the plan of action is. 

I see a protest has been arranged on saturday for a walk from Victoria road to Hampden starting at 13:30. I believe the Union bears are the catalyst here, Good on them. 

Emailing the SFA and SPL sponsors to say you will now be boycotting there product is another good idea. As long as you carry that out

The biggest thing we can and must do is boycott away games next season. No excuses. I know people will say,”The players need us” Sorry, the long term future of Rangers is more important right now, those players are only here for a few seasons, we’re here for life. The team are heading for mid table obscurity anyway, i know, again, that some will say that this is an even bigger reason to follow the team away, sorry, it’s not in my eyes.

Please, each and every Rangers fan that reads this absorb what i am saying, and i’m not the only one by the way. All Groups swallow your pride, lift the phone, Email, private message those you have fallen out with and say,”Lets get together and for the good of Rangers move on as one big Unified Rangers”

Frankie #Rangersunified

Ally McCoist is my BIll Struth

Ally McCoist has catapulted himself up into the upper echelons  of Rangers legends


Each and every single player and member of the coaching staff is now a legend to me, no matter of their ability as a coach or player. 
The second we went into administration with the threat of going out of existence the rules changed, big time.
Ally McCoist is "my" Bill Struth now (it was Graeme Souness).
 We all know as a coach he's made a few strange decisions with questionable tactics. But the work he's done to keep our club alive has been amazing, if it wasn't for Ally's work behind the scenes we might not have a Rangers right now, that fact has bypassed the fools that are slating him now. I would bet my bottom dollar that a lot of the players that took the wage drop wouldn't be there and the club could have gone to the wall. Ally would have been instrumental in persuading them to stay, and the reasons why to stay.

He's also been meeting with potential new owners, we know the kind of character he is, people like him instantly, he knows the club better than anyone and is an intelligent guy. Who ever buys us will no doubt tell us how much Ally impressed them and helped them make the decision to buy us. Another fact missed by the people that hate him.

Right now the football takes a huge second place, each game should be a party in the stands showing the footballing world that we here, we're loud and we love our team. These guys, especially Ally have given me hope that the longest love of my life is going to hang around for a few more centuries, a fact by passed by the people slating Ally. I still find it unbelievable that people are slagging the guy???

The results don't matter and if you think they do you're an absolute disgrace!
What do you want? To win meaningless games or have a club to support in the future? You obviously don't see the bigger picture and are a very selfish individual. I could give two fucks if CFC win at Ibrox next week, so what? We're still the Worlds most successful football club and it's acutely obvious the shadow we cast over them is a lot longer and darker than any of us thought, as i said before, we should be flattered with the venom they're aiming at us, why else would the threat of us going out of business trigger such a twisted outpouring like this? I can't think of anything other than jealousy and twisted logic.

Ally will and should be our manager for the start of next season, he deserves it. No one reading this right now can say what kind of financial state we'll be in, or if we'll be here at all. We could be bought by the BK's and scrimp and scrape and have 5/6 years of mid table until we're stable again. Or we could be bought by someone with money to burn and still be the team to beat in the SPL. Lets hope it's the latter.
If Ally does get money to spend and get the players he wants with out loosing too many player from the current squad, then who knows, he may have learned from his mistakes and improve his tactical know how next season. I hope so, but Ally himself will know he's "on the clock" and will need to come out the blocks flying or else his job will be on the line.

If you're slagging Ally now, keep away from me, your priorities are very very wrong. I see the bigger picture, you don't and you are threatening the very existence of my club.

I want my club to survive, not win meaningless games during this traumatic period of our history.

Frankie

Could Craig Whyte be a twisted "blessing in disguise"?

To kick off i want it to be perfectly clear that i hate Craig Whyte and all he's done to our club, the fans, and the credibility of our team.


Now, because i'm human, i'm going to contradict myself straight off the bat. "If" we get through this without going to the wall and have a smooth transition out of administration with respectable well off owner(s) that us as fans have taken to, could Craig Whyte have been a "blessing in disguise"?

I think he could. Ok, it's been a very awkward, uncomfortable, embarrassing **insert your own adjective here** for us all. We're all looking at the internet, written media and TV through gaps in our fingers right now but it is getting better when it comes to the clubs future, but i'm ready for a few more kick in the balls yet, don't worry about that.
There'll be people reading this asking ,"Why didn't the new owners and the bidders buy us before Whyte?" The answers simple, we're on our knees now and are easier to buy than we were back then. I personally don't care about "back then" these guys are businessmen and know what they are doing (yeah, i know, we've heard that before) they had their reasons, and may be there was other technicalities behind the scenes that we didn't and won't know about back then?

So if in a few weeks time we have a new owner presented to us in the Blueroom with a clear solid manifesto for our future with his own business history out in the open, well, maybe we'll look back in years to come, laugh, and doff the cap to CW in a twisted Ironic way?

Just putting this out there and i know many will tear a strip off me for this which i fully understand

Frankie
#keepibroxblue

"The Blue Knights" are a no go for me.

The Blue Knight will not be getting a penny from me

As we know the "Blue Knights" have been making a lot of noise in the press about buying our club. In the last 24 hours Duff and Phelps have categorically stated that there are serious bidders that have yet to raise their heads into the public eye. Some UK based, at least one in the States and one from the far east.

Over night on Follow Follow Mark Dingwall has told people on there that,"It's the Blue Knights or liquidation" 


This is a lie.

Why?


Because for him to say that he would have to have know who the other bidders are, how much money they have, what their business plan is for Rangers and who they will bring into the boardroom at Ibrox.  


There's no chance of him knowing that. Business people keep their cards held firmly  against their chest as they don't want other bidders to undercut them. How on earth Mr Dingwall can say what he has is frankly insulting and should warn us all what kind of people the "Blue Knights" have involved with them. He's treating the Rangers support with contempt. He thinks we're stupid is what i'm getting at. Do NOT be fooled people.


 I hold my hands up and will say i don't know much about him, but what i do know is i've yet to read anything positive about him. It's my opinion that Mr Dingwall is the cancer that keeps us as fans from uniting under one big blue umbrella. I have no doubt he's a die hard Rangers fan, but with obscured visions and ideas of gander for his own ego, which is a very dangerous thing for any Rangers fan to accept.

If i am wrong about Mr Dingwall, then please let the Rangers fans know what your own PERSONAL vision is of yourself and your involvement with OUR Football Club

It's now very plain to see for anyone with a brain that this guy is in this for himself. He wants to be in the boardroom at Ibrox and will do anything, and say anything to do it, that is very dangerous for Rangers fans to accept.

It also seems to me that Duff and Phelps are not to convinced with the Blue Knights. They have called them out twice now in the media
Here's what they said in the last 24 hours,"Clark said that only "serious bidders" would be considered by the end the week. "So anybody who has just been talking – and there are a few out there who have done a lot of talking – we want to seek them out and, as it were, put their money where their mouth is. If somebody wants to involve the media, that's fine. And if they become the owner then they can sit on the front page of all the papers saying: 'I did it.' But don't be surprised if that owner isn't one of the people that is media friendly."

There's also the issue with them bringing Tickitus into the frame as a backer. That set off a huge alarm bell in my own head as well as many other Bears. Duff and Phelps have said that the money is not secured against anything to do with Rangers, and the fact that Mr Whyte used the money to pay off the bank before he owned Rangers means the chances of them getting that money back are slim. It's almost verging on the insulting to Rangers fans who've been put through the ringer these last few weeks. 

They're panicking that they're not going to get their money back, and from their point of view, getting involved with Rangers will hopefully mean they the cash back.
We all  have to ask ourselves, "are they really in this for the good of The Rangers, or are they in this to get their money back and even make money out of Rangers?" Think about it, each and every penny that Tickitus take back could be used to either strengthen our clubs playing staff, pay off the small creditors that we have undoubtably  have, or improve Ibrox stadium. 
They've already made a hash of the £24 MILLION loan they gave to Craig Whyte, is that the sort of company we want with some sort of control at Ibrox? You also need to ask "why have they never bought a football club in the past?

To be fair and honest, they may well have a business plan that would benefit us in the long run, and if they, and the Blue Knights have sat down and come up with a marvellous vision for our future, then lets hear it NOW! We're tied of these games, we need clarity.

I personally don't think the Blue Knights will be our new owners anyway. By all accounts there are interviews in todays sunday papers with various powers that be, including David Murray, who don't believe the Blue Knights will be the new owners, he believes it will be someone that has no connections with Rangers at all. That is what i would like. A clean slate with someone with money to spend, and good clean transparent background. 
Yes, i also know that this could be sour grapes from David Murray. Think of this though, no matter what we think of David Murray, he was our owner for 20 odd years, it would be wise for a future investor to lift the phone to him and have a "chat" about our club. I very much doubt David Murray would under sell us, he will give them the cold hard facts and tell them that there is money to be made, but be aware of the pressures that surround Rangers Football Club, but still, i think he'd finish the call by saying ,"It's a great opportunity for you"
I am NO David Murray fan for the record. This mess is all his, but the guy is a businessman, so i'm giving him a the benefit of the doubt there, which i know others won't and will shoot me down for, which i do understand. (in the same article he says the Rangers situation is NOT his fault)

I'd also like to say a huge thank you to the players that took the wage reductions therefor saving all jobs at Ibrox and at our training facility. We won't forget it.




Frankie

#keepibroxblue

The Damage Done

The Damage done by our haters has long lasting effects that has put lives in danger at future football matches.

As we know, we're in a very sad predicament in the history of our great football club. We may survive as Rangers football Club, we may not. For the purpose of this blog that does not matter as some form of Rangers football club will still be here.

Now, we all know who the haters are, it's the way it is, as i said in my first blog the shadow we cast over the other teams is far bigger than any of us thought, and it flatters me, i had no idea they felt so inferior to us. Why else would they be filled with so much hate and venom?

The problem is there's now a real evil "rivalry" evolving at a swift rate. Games will now not be about normal football banter between various teams. It will be "hahah fuck you Rangers! you died as a club and we helped do it!"

It's human nature for a lot of us to react with more than words back. I'm afraid that there's going to be a lot of physical violence inside and outside football stadia in bitter and twisted Scotland now. I am not condoning this, but i honestly can't see it not happening. God knows what's going to happen at the next OF game, and if anyone thinks that Rangers fans are going to be Angels at it is wrong IMHO.
I know that the various Chairmen and others reading this will say that they can not be held responsible for the actions of other people, sorry, you can, you have a responsibility to the footballing public to act in a dignified manner, you're supposed to be the "brains" in our games and at our clubs, well, you're not acting like it at all

I know there will be people reading this say i'm talking shit and Rangers fans are above that kind of behaviour, that's fine, but i don't believe it, not by a long shot, not when these people have helped burry our club and rejoice in our demise.

The SFA and SPL powers that be, as well as other clubs chairmen past and present are helping to stoke this cauldron of hate by acting in a unprofessional manner. Is this what they really want? Have they actually thought that the words they say in the press and spoken media is actually putting peoples lives at risk at their own football grounds? More to the point, do they realise they have lost tens of thousands of pounds in gate revenue from Rangers fans with long memories?

They've missed a chance to help bring fans of other teams together with either helping us in one way or another (like we will do with Dunfermline) or at least having sympathy with our situation. I am not saying we should not go unpunished, we should, but not with these new "Rangers Rules" they are inventing each and every day it seems

One thing's for sure, these away stadium should have ZERO Rangers fans in them in the following years. Rangers should beam back games to Ibrox where we are with our own and the money we pass over to the  food kiosks and turnstiles goes into the pockets of Rangers football club, not bitter and twisted rival football teams. We should also only give them the minimum amount of tickets required at increased prices.

For the record i am not talking about the Casual element we have at Ibrox, i am talking about the normal fan that basically just can't handle having someone in their face about this, i know i would struggle personally

 #keepibroxblue

Frankie