Rangers Banter Archive March 27 2015

 

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27 Mar 2015 23:19:21
After hearing paul murray's interview regarding restructuring rangers its very clear that the board are considering other candidates for the permanent rangers manager's job at the end of the season irrespective of what stuart mccall does in our remaining league games this season, all murray said was that they would take their time on choosing the next longterm rangers manager as their wanting the best candidate that can work & fit into the new structure that murray is looking to implement at rangers, all murray would say is that stuart mccall is one of a few candidates there looking at to become the next longterm rangers manager

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27 Mar 2015 22:07:05
What's the predictions for the lineup lads?

All those defenders out, daly might play in defence! Lol the midfield I would like to see us step it up a notch. Play the 3 but have temps playing in behind the strikers so when we are on the attack we have 5 players (2 strikers, wing backs and temps)

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27 Mar 2015 21:55:22
I know it was a good England team he was up against but Zaliukas was virtually taken to the cleaners at every attack. He has no pace, very poor touch and even worse vision.
I know he can play better, but he is running out of time for getting a permanent place in our defence. I think he is signed until 2016 but he may well become a forgotten man if McCall can sort out out a formula at the back. With Zaliukas and McCulloch at the back we must have the slowest central defence anywhere in the UK

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28 Mar 2015 17:24:18
Moshni should play with one of them though if McGegor is right back, he adds pace which we lack lol

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27 Mar 2015 18:05:01
Getting away from our club's trials & tribulations for a moment fellow bears, I was with some other friends reminiscing there regarding a lot of the class players we used to have at rangers, we got on to airing our different views about the class left backs we've had playing for rangers over the years, my two favourite left backs were davie robertson & arthur numan and most of us were in agreement with that as they were 2 fantastic full backs, I honestly couldn't split these 2 as to who was the better of the 2 because both were rapid although I'd say robertson was faster, numan was better technically whereas robertson was harder in the tackle, what's your views fellow bears and the ed?

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27 Mar 2015 20:05:19
Don't think there was much in it j r but I would pick Numan. I think he was a class act. A good footballer and his partnership with Neil McCann was terrific. Mind you Robertson was some player as well. Quick and athletic and fierce in the tackle. Sasa Papac was another I liked a lot. We have always had good left backs. well maybe apart from Alex Miller. I thought he was a liability

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27 Mar 2015 20:14:17
Both great left backs, but Eric Caldow was extra special and a great captain. However, probably his most important feature was his dignity and pride to be our captain. He was also a really nice guy and a great ambassador for our club.

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27 Mar 2015 20:37:30
Great choices, I would have to go for these guys as well. Davie Robertson was Lb when I first started following Rangers. Him on the Left and Cleleand down the right. They were amazing players and Scottish as well, which was a bonus.
Human would be a close second, he was amazing on the ball and had some left foot on him. I imagine he scored a few more than Robertson, so was a but more glamorous. I wouldn't say no to either of them these days haha.

Just having a look, we were short in that department for a few years after Numan. Olivier Bernard, Paulo Vanoli, Michael Ball.
Although not a natural left back, Papac was pretty solid and always ran all game.

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27 Mar 2015 21:11:20
Wee thought for Stuart munro who held his own in a glamorous team at the time.

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27 Mar 2015 21:11:20
Wee thought for Stuart munro who held his own in a glamorous team at the time.

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27 Mar 2015 21:25:08
Eric Caldow for me liked Robertson and Numan, but lost respect for Numan the night he got sent off and through his jersey on the ground in from of a full house at Ibrox, think it was a European night!

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27 Mar 2015 22:00:25
Always liked Robbo, lightning pace. agree about Miller, he was howling. I started watching when Willie Mathieson was lb. Namu the killer wan fit. Right leg was only to provide balance.

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27 Mar 2015 23:33:05
robertson was good at running over cars to

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27 Mar 2015 23:39:46
One things I will say for Miller he scored a belter against that lot at Celtic Park

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28 Mar 2015 06:29:04
I forgot about that Stewie. Maybe Miller wasn't so bad!

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28 Mar 2015 06:40:45
Aye Caldow was also a great player. Sustained a bad leg break at Wembley. That was the game where Jim Baxter actually sat down beside Eric while he was receiving treatment and walked to the side of the pitch with the stretcher and medics etc. Slim Jim was a class act! Speaking of Baxter an ex player told me of the time he turned up at a Nottingham Forest teammate ' s house for dinner one night. Jim was so drunk he staggered past the player and his wife, fell over and ripped the curtains off the window! Apparently he liked a wee dry sherry from time to time.

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28 Mar 2015 09:21:43
I agree with Robertson and Numan but also Munro cost us Β£15000 and played with all of Sounesses superstars I think pond for pound he may have been our best ever signing post Souness.

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28 Mar 2015 09:48:05
Aye RM. Met Stuart Munro a couple of times as he stayed local at the time. Really nice guy - very quiet. The ultimate professional. And a very good player

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27 Mar 2015 14:48:19
just listened to the interview with Paul Murray on Rangers official web site. Talked a lot of sense and comes across as a genuine guy.
Was also interested to hear the voice doing the interview on behalf of Rangers TV!!
waited patiently to hear him say "well Paul it's YOUR CALL :) "
Is he working for RTV now or just freelancing?

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27 Mar 2015 17:16:42
I was thinking the same thing. Obviously Rangers use his company Level 5, but as it was Rangers TV who did the interview, you would imagine he is 'in' there. I asked a while ago, what information did he glean in his time under the old regimes.

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28 Mar 2015 09:40:21
Rangers TV probably has no staff like every other dept at Ibrox following Llambias and Leeches cost cutting. Sure we did not have enough ground staff to clear the snow at the last Hearts game!

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28 Mar 2015 11:08:02
Stevie
Alex Miller always loved playing against the Septic first name on the team sheet

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27 Mar 2015 12:53:40
Hey guys, just an idea. Sadly due to the fact that I live abroad these days, I won't be able to help impliment this but was wanting the opinions of the Ibrox faithful on here.

My idea is. Would it be possible to arrange some get well soon banners or posters or flags or something along those lines at Ibrox for the young lad gael bigirimana. It sounds like whatever illness the lad has is pretty serious. The transfer was no fault of his own and from what he is saying in the press, the lad would really love to pull on a rangers shirt one day.

Our support has recieved a lot of negative press in the last couple of months and rightfuly so on the most part. Why don't we show people that it's only a minority of our fans who are idiots and the rest of us really are the greatest fans in the world.

I feel a gesture like this would really make the yound lad feel welcome and even more determined to play for us one day. It would really show the rangers fans true class.

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27 Mar 2015 16:32:10
Why have the fans "rightfully so" got negative press?

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27 Mar 2015 17:47:21
Great post OP

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27 Mar 2015 17:57:44
For some continuing to sing sectarian and bigoted songs perhaps JYF?
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27 Mar 2015 20:42:18
Yes it was the continued singing of horrible and outdated sectarian songs I was referring to. Also I don't think the way the Colymore incident was handled by some fans put the club in a great light either. The chants and what not.

I just think the image of rangers recently has been of an unwelcoming dinosaur. I think a gesture like this would not only show people how wrong that image is for most fans. It would also be good for the player himself.

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28 Mar 2015 01:55:13
Interesting, no response from the man who asked the question? Do you need more time to consider a response JYF or are you content with the answers given? 😏

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28 Mar 2015 08:07:18
OK Bay. I posted at 16.32 your first answer to my post was at 17.57 1hr and 25 mins later am I meant to sit looking at my post till a reply comes in and then immediately reply? Buy the way your last post was at 01.55 you want to get yourself a wee life mate . Anyway what's your opinion of " the Rangers fans " do you think we are all scum? Of course not! I happen to think we are amongst the best fans in world football and would defend our reputation to anyone. We get bad press Bay and its mostly unjustified, when is the last time you read about the amount of money raised for various charities in buckets at every home game? I know of one collector who phoned the DR hotline to tell them how much the Gers fans raised on the Saturday and it never made the cut. Even on Fernando Ricksens day the good things that were being done (including the CSTs generous donation) never really got the positive headlines that they deserved, ( imagine two drunken idiots got into a fight in the stand that would have been the headline) and money is still being generated for the motor neuron charity. So that's where I was coming from.

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28 Mar 2015 09:28:27
If I'm honest the guy is getting enough cash from the Rangers fans without us buying banners to plaster all over Ibrox too. Remember the guy signed the loan documents knowing he was Ill and would never play for us so I'd think twice about the outpouring of love, sympathy and expense.

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28 Mar 2015 10:08:30
RM, yir a hard man!lol I agree mate, he's admitted he was ill before he got here.Anyone who is ill has my sympathy to an extent, but he's a young guy, he'll be playing soon enough.

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28 Mar 2015 15:22:51
πŸ˜‚ JYF, did you really go to the trouble of noting down the times of postsπŸ˜‚ and it's me that needs to get a life is it? πŸ˜‚ I posted at that time as I'd been out enjoying life and had a wee look on here when I came home.
Listen pal, you asked a direct question and I gave a direct answer, specifically mentioning "some" fans. I couldn't care less if it's one fan singing all that p1sh. Fact is if it was the papers would focus on that one guy. It's unacceptable behaviour, end of. You cannae say "ah but look at all the good stuff we do" and think that makes it alright. Media want stories that get a reaction and they focus on the negative. It's not just Rangers that are a target for negative press and this idea that there is an agenda against Rangers is just nonsense. At the end of the day it's like I tell the kids, "if you don't want pulled up for doing daft stuff, stop doing it, simple". FFS, next you'll be telling me the Queens a space lizardπŸ˜‚
Aye, it's an illuminate conspiracy against Rangers right enough. Have a word mate!

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28 Mar 2015 18:49:49
Over a number of years looking in on this site and a lot less time posting it is fairly obvious the Rangers support fall into two camps.
One that I would suggest JYF and others fall into and that is the "Loyal " Rangers support. This section feel those of us with a different, questioning, criticising stance are absolutely disloyal and these two sections are hopelessly divided and continually at logger-heads on here.
The loyal supporters who will always defend the club, their heroes, the manager and the support. They quite simply cannot understand the rest of us. They will not say anything about the worst ever manager because he is one of their heroes and to carp about the manager would be disloyal and unacceptable.
They will always buy a season ticket and are just happy the club is still existing and will do all they can to enable the club's continuance.

The rest of us are disappointed with our club for all sorts of reasons
We feel we missed a trick when the club came out of liquidation
With the best custom built youth development facility we are beyond disappointed and some of us are quite angry that youth was not given a chance and feel we are where we are because of the safety first approach of the traditionalists like the previous manager.
We wanted a youthful exciting team filled with or half filled with our own youth- affordable, fresh attacking exciting football at the very core of this "new" (but continuing) Rangers

We have a section of our support who are biggots- out and out biggots whose vile hatred of the original christian religion of this country continue to embarrass and be-little the club both sections of our club support

I have no idea who these pathetic little people are but just wish they would go away and stay away.

My suspicion is they belong to our "traditional loyalty above all else" section. Who claim they would do nothing to harm the club but who ironically by their tacit support of these mindless buffons are assuredly harming the club they claim to love more than the rest of us.

Name them and shame them and let's get rid of them they have nothing to do with the club formed by the 4 pioneers

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29 Mar 2015 10:04:58
Agree 100% Mannering. Great post.

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27 Mar 2015 12:00:55
Our ex northern ireland striker david healy says in this morning's daily record newspaper that he wonders why his dad still follow, follows rangers through the leagues ie.from division 3 up to where we are now my answer to david healy is straightforward, its because your dad is a true loyal bluenose who supports his club through thick & thin and isn't just a glory hunter like some so called rangers fans are, I'm a true and loyal 'gers fan as I'm the same as healy's dad and go still to watch rangers and have stuck by the team I adore, it's called supporting your team, david healy, I've said it before on here and I'll say it again the best & true loyal rangers fans can always be found in adversity!

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27 Mar 2015 13:08:03
JR
I'm not one for telling people to do things as I've stated before, I'm a Rangers supporter of over 55 years but because I chose not to renew my season ticket this year, because of the things happening you mock people like me. I'll tell you this JR. if the guys that stayed away hadn't taken a stance this season, we would have been out of business by now, there are times in life when you have to say enough is enough good for you you went to the games that's your choice and it's your money doesn't make you any better than the people who chose to stay away and I'm still refusing to buy Rangers merchandise again my choice suppose I'm a bad person for that as well! Mon the Gers.

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27 Mar 2015 13:42:50
Not at all bongo, I do also understand your views and you're spot on in your post ie.everyone to their own mate, I'm having a go at people who make out to be true 'gers fans and have NEVER been to watch glasgow rangers or contributed anything to our club and you find those are the ones who do the most shouting, no offence to yourself bongo or all the other true blues who go & have contributed greatly to our great club over the years, I've been a season ticket holder for close on 40 years now mate myself

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27 Mar 2015 14:05:18
Cheers JR thanks for clearing that much appreciated!

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27 Mar 2015 14:19:06
Don't mention it bongo, you're a good 'gers man just like myself mate who like me only wants the very best for our great club, I know by your posts that you're a trueblue mate and very passionate about the famous glasgow rangers who are not only a football club but a famous worldwide institution, we'll be back bongo, don't worry about that my friend, cheers!

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27 Mar 2015 15:10:58
I also did not renew. #1 People stealing my money (in my opinion). #2 I work in Aberdeen and games were now on a Friday. Sunday and Monday. How was I to attend?

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27 Mar 2015 16:03:39
You must be the exeption to the rule then jr, because you do all the shouting(posting)on here.

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27 Mar 2015 16:41:45
Wow, a pleasant exchange of differing views. How refreshing πŸ‘πŸ˜Š
Spot on Bongo, for some reason they're are many who seem to label stay away fans as glory hunters. I for one never renewed this season or last as I felt the very essence of my club had been destroyed and the badge was being used to fleece fans. It's been horrible not having Rangers but once I'm convinced my club has got it's soul back I'll be back. Tentative steps for this bear in hibernation but it sure ain't about waiting for glory. It's about values, honesty and integrity for me.

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27 Mar 2015 11:56:53
The next couple of games will tell if McCall's new impetus continues. A convincing home win against Cowdenbeath (3-0 or more) then a win at home to Hearts would do nicely. Meantime, Hibs play Raith, QOS and Hearts over the next couple of weeks. Hibs lost their bottle last season. I wonder if our win over them will lead to the same happening again?

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