28 Dec 2014 15:28:24
This season is lost and should be put down to experience, difficult though it may be, but it might be the wake up call that was needed.
The rest of the season should be used to clear the decks and prepare for the future.
From top to bottom we need an overhaul, so why don't the owners show the transparency that a vast majority request. Start with the title deeds and then clarify who owns the club. Not nameless people behind certain groups, but flesh and blood. However, in the case of certain investors such as company pension funds, this may not be possible, but private pensions would be.
It would then be possible to see the club stucture. The board could then be formed by them, supplemented with hardened, qualified professionals where required.
Included in this structure should be a director of football to completely overhaul the managing and playing staff.
If this was the case we, the support, must play our part and back the club. For all sorts of reasons we protest about nearly everything. The only way we will recover from this is united, so let's try to bridge the gaps between us, where in some instances is like the Grand Canyon.
Maybe then we will go back to being proud to be part of the Rangers family.


1.) 28 Dec 2014
There will always be a natural Rangers support.
The money men are just taking advantage of our gullibility.
We need to stay alive so that we can put Celtic in their place


2.) 28 Dec 2014
You are correct billyb - this season is a wash-out, we might not even make the play-offs. The players and the remaining team management are totally demotivated, dispirited and disillusioned. Just as prior to administration, they know that bad days lie ahead. However many players are out of contract at the end of the season (12?), they know already that they will either be offered a significant drop in wages or the door. Those still in contract are epathetic and see no point in putting themselves out for an employer who are about to screw the club down to the floor. Restructure at the top is desperately required of course but Stephen is also right - the current regime does not give a toss about the fans (this was painfully evident at the AGM) and are just taking us for a ride. Sad and unpalatable it may be but we are now about to take a big step back in order to achieve eventually our short term ambitions.


3.) 28 Dec 2014
Put Celtic in there place?I'm a realist not an optimist, It will take years upon years& European football will never be played for about 10 years or more. we should be heading into our 3, rd year of planning & producing a youthful squad who would be gelling in time for returning to the SPL, alas going backwards, no buissnes plans nothing absolutely nothing, not even a wee chink of light in these dark times, Its a 1 huge cluster f#ck that's imploding!


4.) 28 Dec 2014
I have said this before. It is ure greed as a club that has caused this. U have tried to fast track ure way through the league's whatever it costs. this is why you are where u are. Hearts perfect model as to wot u should have done. Get rid of ure arrogance as a club and u will get somewhere.


5.) 28 Dec 2014
@4 Arrogance pal, are you having a laugh, have you ever listened to your chairman.


6.) 28 Dec 2014
Unfortunately marty is correct in one sense, we have no devine right of success as it has to be earned. Royalblue, that is expected of them, but we should know better.


7.) 28 Dec 2014
Billyb. you know what I mean mate.


8.) 29 Dec 2014
Martybhoy, just what does "your arrogance as a club mean", are you talking about the fans the football management or the directors. We are no different from any other group of football fans we want success for our team. Plenty of us wanted the Hearts model implemented from day one but sadly our manager took us on a different route which has ended in a complete shambles. Arrogance I don't think so, just another hate filled opposition supporter spouting nonsense.


9.) 29 Dec 2014
Who has ever claimed we have a right to success, who said this. Any success we have achieved has been through hard work, just like any other club who has won something. Over the years we have had good managers, good players and good results at the moment we have none of the above but our moment will come again and when it does we will enjoy it,


10.) 29 Dec 2014
Billyb. And royal blue, I know what youse both mean, I wish I was the same, but can't help myself, but I will be hoping my new year resolution will change that, lol


11.) 29 Dec 2014
Yes I do royalblue, but I am surprised you understood my post as I am spelling like them now. I should have said divine. However, my main point is that we need a complete re-think on everything that we portray as a club.


12.) 29 Dec 2014
29 Dec 2014 09:38:21
#4 has a great point. I tihnk the arrogance that he talks about is the way all the bRangers fans, ex players and ex board members behaved when the club were allowed back into the football league at the lowest level. This was deemed un worthy of Rangers and despite what some people may say the behaviour of everyone in the way they blamed everyone other than the custodians was arrogant. The current state of the club should not be a surprise to anyone who follows football and has half an ounce of common sense. It was clearly unsustainable to be paying the kind of wages Ranger were in the 3rd tier. The players that Ally McCoist signed were ll coming form the SPL and they only did so because they were having their wages quadrupled to play againstr part timers. to be honest any one of us would have done the same, money for nothing as the song goes. Things seem to be coming to a head however this issue with Ashley is p[erplexing. The guy own 9% of the club and yet he seems to be the one deciding what will happen to the club, so unless he already has the full backing of the majority shareholders to implement his business plan you have to ask why he has so much power. Rangers in it's current state is never going to work. Dave King is certainly not the answer. Paul Murray is desperate to get his tie and seat in the directors box back, he offers nothing, he invests nothing yet for some reason he seems to be seen as a real Rangers man, he is a fan that is all, same as 99% of the people on here. When Celtic rang the changes the man who took over had a business plan, he surrounded himself with people who were not afraid to make unpopular decisions as there was an end game, it took a long time, a lot of misery, a lot of poor football but ultimately it worked. The people who are circling around Rangers are the same old, same old and they should be chased as far away as possible. The new guys want 2 board members, SO, you then have Ashley's board guys, the Donald Park board guys and the Easdale's in the middle, sorry but it doesn't sound liek a recipe for success to me as they will just be fighting against each other and ultimately for control. I cannot predict the outcome of this but it won't be nice, it will take time and it may involve another trip to the 3rd tier, but maybe that is what is needed to finally resolve these issues.


13.) 29 Dec 2014
Allymac, absolute nonsense when Rangers were demoted to division 3 it was at the request of the fans we did not want any favours from anyone, we embraced the challenge. The sad part is that when we needed a manager with a firm hand and vision we got Ally, a joker who likes a laugh with the guys, he thought if I just assemble a group of guys with some SPL pedigree we should waltz through the divisions, we have no identifiable style of play, we look lost, sometimes when confidence is low you just stick to what you were doing in training and hopefully the confidence will return unfortunately for us three years mucking about in training has left us with a great big vacuum. In steps Kenny, pining for his jovial wise cracking buddy, all of a sudden he looks into the eyes of the bunch of hasbeens and the penny drops, I think that is why he looked so nervous he is finished there is nowhere to go with this bunch.


14.) 29 Dec 2014
Ron 59: Correct, Rangers never had a problem about going to the 3rd div, this is a myth to say we did. Other fans got involved and voted us out and this was the joke created by the SPL, because there was no precedent for this and maybe because it was Rangers, it was too tangled up. No wonder Rangers and the fans got a wee bit miffed as guilty or not other parties got involved who shouldn't have.