Rangers Banter Archive April 02 2014

02 Apr 2014 11:19:34
Heard some guy on SSB phone in last night state that his supporters group are having player of the year party and that he had contacted Rangers in order to try and get a player or two along to the bash. He said he was finding this difficult to arrange, but said one player offered to come along if he was paid 500 quid, he refused to name the player in question, if this is infact a true situation the player in question should be ashamed of himself and be named and shammed.

I can relate to that it was arranged for steven naismith to come to local club player of the year do despite living very close never turned up never answered his phone never offered an apology nothing then showed his true colours when he led the way for the exodus south firdt class plonker

£500, for a player to show up at a supporters player of the year party, reasonable considering some of them don't even show up on match days for £7000 a week.
then there`s the fuel for the Bentley and the cost of a five star hotel for a overnight stay.
God forbid these guys should have to mingle with the people who pay for their wages, for nought.

@1 wouldn't have expected anything less of Naismith. You could tell what he thought of the fans when he walked out on the club.

We're trawling the bottom feeders here. Give it a break and leave Naismith alone. He's a top class player, a Rangers fan and a family to support.

This is a great forum to let off steam but for crying out loud, keep it reasonable.

@4 no matter how you try and dress it up Naismith did the dirty on the club and don't give us this crap about family to support. No one expected Naismith to stay at the club but could have signed over with a stipulation that he went for a certain amount. Even £500k would have seen him get his move and Rangers get some cash. Naismith chose not to do this and even had the audacity to hold a press conference and declare Rangers dead and that he had no obligation to the new company. Is that the comments of a Rangers fan? It's no worse than what Jim Spence has said and he was slated by the Rangers support

Who would really have got to keep any transfer funds generated from the sale of the guys who left? not for team use anyway and the ones who left knew that, I would have done the same if I knew what they did.
jammydodger

Naismith he is no gent he started the movement that to acept defered wages they would be allowed to leave in the summer on free transfers he never even had the decency to phone to say he wasnt coming countless kids standing at the door waiting his autograph it he did no give 2 fffcs for the guys that paid his wages or the club who twice when he was injured long term paid his wages total plonker and u say leave him alone

The money would surely have gone into the creditors pot, but in reality would have gone into duff & phelps pockets

OP, unfortunately with a lot of these characters, money is their sole motivation. However, many past and present players have done a hell of a lot, with very little publicity.
Also, Ally and his coaching back-up have done a lot for fans and friends in their time of need.
I am a critic of Ally as our manager, but as an ambassador of the club there are few better.
To jammydodger, I don't think the usage of the funds were in their thoughts, but I totally agree that the money would have been sifted from the coffers just as many millions have.

Stewie your spot on we can only hope what goes round comes around my thoughts are he is a total person and should never be allowed back inside ibrox or murray park never mind hall of fame when u think about I he is almost as bad as whyte

Ibj d

Good post mate 100% agree with u. Him and the other pretend Rangers fans that left should never be allowed back at Rangers and they are just as bad as Whyte and Murray

@11) I would put McCoist at the top of that list of so called fans I just wish he had left but no chance of that.

Cant see what Naismith did wrong, he took a huge wage cut to try and give the club some breathing space and then when it all went wrong he didn't want any part of it because they no doubt were offering him a tiny percentage of what he was on. When asked he told the truth, can hardly condemn a man for that, think you guys need to get over it and realise that the days of playing for love of the jersey are long gone, trust me, one month without wages and all of your current stars would be off!

It's wasn't a simple as that. Not wanting to have a go at the players for taking the wage cut however as in the case of Greg Wylde he left the club and signed signed for Bolton who then couldn't register him to play the remainder of the season. If the players had left they could have been in the same situation and would have no club and no income. Even with the wage cut they were still getting money which is better than nothing. As for getting a tiny percentage to sign on this wasn't the case. As I have stated before no one expected them to stay however they could have signed over with clauses in their contracts that they could go for a certain amount. Now maybe the transfer fee wouldn't have helped the club but at that time no one was sure. The players chose to leave and to hell with the fans and the club. Naismith in particular owed the club this much as twice the club had helped him through 2 major injuries 1 of which was down to his own fault.

N14 well in stewie my thoughts exactly

02 Apr 2014 07:39:29
I hope the club and SFA take Kayal to to task over his comments in todays Metro in which he expresses his dislike of Lee McCulloch and alleges McCulloch deliberatly injured him in their first old firm game. If this had been the case Lee would have been sent off or charged by the sfa however he was not and Kayal's comments are without foundation, slanderous and bring the game in to disrepute.

The unofficial s f a supremo from the east end won't allow that to happen

02 Apr 2014 10:50:04
Think he must have been saving that one up until Rangers have a couple of big games and then putting it out there in the hope that referees have it in the back off their minds whenever Jig is involved in any kind of debatable tackle.

Debatable tackle. it should be a national holiday when one of his tackles isn't debatable.

Jig was booked at time so no further action can be taken. As much as u seem to want him punished this would open a can of worms as far as some stupid statements from Ally is concerned. Who can forget his demand to know the names of the 3 man board that put them all in danger when in fact he already knew. Remember be careful what u wish for it just might come true

Liewell will be raging first Griffiths with stupid stupid chanting now kayal with stupid comment still nothing surprises me

The lad has obviously not seen his manager on You Tube standing on a players head. It actually features in a 10 dirtiest players video.

Kayal knows he is going of the numbers at parkhead I think his comment was kayal offering an excuse for not getting a game his manager obviously doesn't think he is good enough or he would have played him

@tmwnn. Spot on!