Rangers Rumours Archive September 03 2012

03 Sep 2012 21:36:28
Still we have people posting in a negative way. Just take a look at the way Lee McCulloch handles everything. He cherishes the fact that he signed for us and now as captain he can lead us, by example, to great things. We now have the basis of a good team, so let us get behind them and always remember, 'the road may be broad and narrow but follow we will'. We are lucky to be Rangers supporters so let us back them to the hilt and stick together.

Big jig should have been given the armband the minute he offered to play for free! Boca didn't deserve it.

Here here mate! Well said. Let's get real about the whole situation and get behind the team.... Like the 46000 fans did at the wend (second biggest crowd in Britain after Newcastle, so the reports say)

Lee McCulloch has been superb for us and I reckon he has plenty in the tank to get us where we belong a true blue that's what I say!!

Whilest I commend him for not jumping ship like the other rats (naismith and davis), big jig is nothing more than average - never has been never will be. is he captain material, probably not. if rangers were in the spl should he still be playing for us, probably not. i guess that since we are in the last division and we cant sign any1 for 12 months he will have to do.

Big jig has been a rock 4 the BEARS since Barry left. Plays for the jersey more than can b said about 90% of the players who have plyd for us over the years.

Brilliant posting, lots have tried over the summer to divide us, true Rangers men know they will fail. Big Jig is one of us, so we will follow, follow ...I trust he stays fit to see us back to the top and into Europe in the not too distant future.

Lee mculloch would get into every team in the spl apart from Celtic. To question the mans ability to cOmpete in the fourth tier of Scottish football shows you know very little. Hes a true professional who is a worthy captain of our great club.

All the badge kissers were first out the door as for jiggy he would have been away if any one had wanted him,if you deny this you should be watching jackanory,OLD BOB

Totally agree with the first answer - Jig should have been made club captain as soon as he agreed to stay with the club with Wallace as vice captain. Should never have been given to Boca as it was obvious he wasn't staying. As for Old Bob - several clubs were linked with McCulloch at the start of the window and he stated that it didn't matter who came in for him, he was staying to help the club get back to where we belong - a true Ger and one of us!

All the badge kissers were first out the door as for jiggy he would have been away if any one had wanted him,if you deny this you should be watching jackanory,OLD BOB

In reply to this .... your talking rubbish - he is up here for the love for the club, his coaching and mainly his family issues - so u either dont know enough or your just ignorant!

Big Jig - RANGERS LEGEND!!!

So if a english club had come forward,and doubled his money he would have said no.if you beleive that,as i said before jackanory,OLD BOB

OLD BOB needs tae stay aff the pipe am sure plenty teams would have took big lee, look how long it took broadtoes tae gt a team ffs he didnt leave because he's one of us true rangers fans.
MF WATP!!

What 'great things' is 'Big Jig' going to lead you to? The div 3 and 2 titles and maybe at a stretch div 1??

WOW how your ideas of greatness has changed!!

Oh he also may lead you to the coveted Ramsdens cup :-)

Oh well the first cup and title are always important I supose foe any new team starting out.

Have fun Bears

JGD

Obviously big jig would move if he was offered double his salary. Would you leave your employer if someone else offered to double your salary?

Jigs a blue legend

The guys who walked away will probably not be welcomed back at ibrox.but they are still the same guys who took an 80% wage cut to save peoples jobs and now they are public enemey no.1. talk about people with short memories.

Well said m8 ur a glass half full kinda chap good to see!

Best post in a while on here ,big jigs the man ,legend in the making,aint giong nowhere so so happy he got made captain and should of been captain before boca (yes the usa captain and over 100 international caps) good few years in him yet in the future u gonna look back at big jig the legend

Big Lee is writing himself into history. Whilst McGregor,Whittaker,Naismith,Ness,McCabe,Lafferty,Davis and Aluko will be remembered as desserting us in our hour of need, Big Jig has stood tall. He will be remembered and revered for this the rest of his life.

If I'm not mistaken the guy's who took an 80% wage cut was actuall 75% + they aint short of a bob or 2 at 20 - 30 grand a week. What about all us rangers fans who donated our hard earned cash to the RFF and so fourth. Seems like youv'e a short memory too my friend!!

True. Big jig will alway recieve a welcome at ibrox

Give Aluko a break. He paid his own way to join Rangers and was only signed till the end of the season. Do you think his contract would have been extended given the circumstances at the time of his departure?
Why did you not add Wylde and Celik to your list? They were the first to walk. Or does that not fit with your warped agenda.
Al

OK instead of a boycott get the supporters associations to organise the following. The Gers get 15% of the gate money and the rest is split 50/50. So have supporters donate 57.5% of the ticket price to the Rangers Fans Fighting Fund on the understanding it given to club to cover the costs of the game. That way the leeches of the Septic Premier League get next to nothing.. MIGHT WORK... PS come on Serbia rip Levein and his clowns a new person on Saturday!!!!! Sun headline 'This squad can all the way' Don't make me F##KING LAUGH!!!!!! John F

Lee McCullough was the most obvious choice as Captain, he would have played for Rangers for no wages? So why did McCoist choose Boccanegra??
I am sorry I still have doubts about McCoist's ability to manage???

Old bob i can tell you that southampton offerd jig 12k a week and he turned it down. he didnt want to leave as he wants to play for rangers and rangers only.

Big jig only stayed coz he new he wid never get another decent contract anywhere else FACT

To the guy who grudged given his hard earned cash to the RFF fund.once again its all about you,what about the guys who kept hard working class people in jobs but are still being victimised because they would not go down to play against part timers every week.

OP best post on here for a long time your right we are LUCKY to be rangers supporters. what a lot of people dont understand is rangers supporters are born they are not manufactured.

He leads by example !! by kicking everything above the grass !! is that what you mean , the man is and has always been a carthorse .

Kicks everything off the park... A bit like your captain dignity - broony

God almighty, the original post is admixture of utter denial and sentimental, emotive garbage. 'lucky' to be rangers fans? What you on about mate? Did the last 6 months happen to you? Rangers are dead. A combination of ego-maniacs, asset strippers, thick, moronic supporters associations and a compliant media helped murder your club. You are now trying to operate as a Phoenix club. That will be brought to a halt shortly, I can assure you. Now, you were saying something about being 'lucky'?

Rangers are dead?

i know 46,015 people at the weekend who think otherwise...

opposed to the 45,867 who think otherwise?

Majority wins ;)

To all the Celtic fans and any other fans please get this correct,the company that owned Rangers football club has gone,yes but Rangers football club continues all that has changed is the company that owns us.If we go by your thinking that would mean Celtic became a new team three times,having had four different owners over years,last time being 1994.

Cant wait to big jig lifts 3 tropheys this season legend

So If you win a trophy this season, will it be recorded as your First Trophy by the football authorities?

Celtic have not been formed by buying assets from an administrator. The difference really isn't that hard to understand.

History will always be intact old bhoys you canny handle it!

Are cleltic a shinty team. never really heard of them before. i follow rangers and only rangers. wish these other sports followers would get back to their gailic football or whoever they are. There team clearly arenot worth following as we are far more interesting. rangers a new begginning with hundreds of thousands of new young supporters. with mcculloch and super ally.

03 Sep 2012 11:29:08
Traynor this morning saying stripping titles going ahead. He says 2 days set aside next week by authorities to rubber stamp it.
Says Green and McCoist shouldn't be involved as they are new club and this is old club business.
Will they give titles to second place? They do it in every other sport from Olympics to horse racing, also in football so why not in SPL? There would have to be a very good reason not to!

They can take all the titles they want and hand them to the SECOND best team. However, what they will never and can never take are our menories: who will ever forget that day at easter road where we defied the odds and walked away champions, or the day we had to put a power past dunfermilne - which we did. Or stevie davis goal at ibrox against them which all but won the league. But guys, my personal favourite was allan mcgregors penalty save which lead us to yet another title.

Rangers then, Rangers now, Rangers FOREVER

Celtic better hope not because they will owe millons to ex players for championship bonus.

Rubbish. A massive can of worms that the Stupid Football Assoaction do not know how to deal with it. The SFL who run the league cup have no desire to strip any cups . Sowher does it stop . The tsam that is 3rd get moved up to 2nd and who is voing to repay the prize money and do Selic start to cllaim ffor compen. You can also be found not guilty . So lets just wait and see. Or we could phone Dempsy and see what has actually been agreed.

This stripping of titles is a non starter, was Scott Macdonald on a dual contract when he scored two in the dying minutes, were the Inverness players on dual contracts when they beat Celtic. Eleven Rangers Players won the league.
This stripping of titles nonsense is being driven by media and Gallowgate green and grey brigade as was the calls to SPL chairmen.
Enough is enough, will we be punished? Newco or Oldco where do we stand or will we be set up to fund the near bankrupt SPL coffers with a huge fine?

If you start "stripping" titles it could be opening a massive can of worms. All the way from who "could" have been in Euro competition on a specific year to who "should" have earned a certain amount of cash for finishing 2nd instead of 3rd in league etc. Its a minefield and won't happen in my opinion.

I stopped reading Traynor 16 years ago when he wrote of Rangers giving Kenny Dalglish a roving role to spend 80 million.

I quote:

Murray knows the name of King Kenny will not only help capture top stars, but will increase interest from potential investors.

That Dream Team in Full

Ajax attackers PATRICK KLUIVERT and MARC OVERMARS would immediately create a £15 million hole in the Ibrox funds “ but would no longer be an impossible prospect.

Paris St Germain's brilliant Brazilian RAI would also come into the equation and players like JURGEN KLINSMANN and PAOLO MALDINI would become targets.

Dalglish's brilliant record in England could prompt moves for ERIC CANTONA and ROBBIE FOWLER.

Top agents like Edinburgh's Jake Duncan reckons even Barcelona's RONALDO would not be out of Dalglish's reach.


Do you remember any of that coming true?

BARNEY BEAR

If the old co has nothing to do with the new co why are we paying depts and have a transfer ban, this whole thing stinks.

I dont care i simply want to see my team work back up the divisions building momentum injecting our cash in to the lower reaches of Scottish football and not in to the pigs of the spl i look forward to celtics total domination of the spl sitting 30 or 40 points in front of the team sat in second! brilliant. Im just glad my team are still here. i cant wait to see the spl teams below celtic ( such as hearts ) fall apart at the seams.

If rangers are deemed to have cheated and fielded Ineligable players then surely every game that these players Wer involved in must be awarded to other team. That'll be interesting for the outcome of cups and also European football. Obviously if they feel fit to strip the titles then everything else must be taken into account. As a rangers fan this should be fun to watch. But as usual they'll find some way it affects rangers without a proper plan of actoon

If has been suggested in some quarters they were to award every match played by Rangers 0-3 to the opponents this would work against teams that beat/drew with Rangers as they already have points in the bag. This could mean a team that finished say third having beat Rangers could be leapfrogged by a team getting points in this way. This is NOT going to happen.

Well only other case in world football concerning dual contracts was Melbourne Victory, in this case the titles in question we declared null and void......

Spl need us so they wont punish us anymore. Once celtic have the league tied up by xmas just watch the attendances plumet

Typical obsessed mhank clutching at straws as usual , surprised Liewell hasn't tried to lay a claim for Lance Armstrong's titles !!

So bitter.

Lighten up guys.

Always look on the bright side of life.

We dont want your tainted titles. Just for them to be made null and void as in the case of Melbourne Victory. Its the only fair conclusion. And the only way they can deal with the problem is to make them null and void and not award them OR any points or 3-0 wins to anyone. That way everyone stays in the same league's. If anyone actually believes that the SPL are going to start getting into 3-0 losses for every game that Rangers played a player illegally then you are deluded. Its not even being considered believe me, thats why the titles wont be awarded to 2nd place either. And like i say, i have no complaints about that.

Not a rangers fan but in peace. If you are found to ave fielded in liable players thn you ought to be stripped of titles. I do not think they should be awarded to anyone else, they should simply be removed from your history. Only then will everyone be able to move on. It is not fair on all of the fans as if things are left then it will always hang over your head.

The guys who have got the 5 stars tattoos are going to look silly when the titles get stripped .especially on a roasting hot day wearing a long sleaved jumper to stop the sniggers and laughter leonbhoy

When Ben Johnson won gold then failed a drugs test they ave the gold medal to Carl Lewis.when Sharon Davis won silver in the swimming, the USSR girl who won gold got stripped because of a failed drugs test but they never gave the gold to Sharon Davis.So the Olympic committee are more corrupt than anyone,so it doesn't happen in all sports

I think anyone with honesty and half a brain will agree that if found guilty then the titles should be stripped. Im another one who believes they should not be awarded to anyone else, just made null and void. This avoids the can of worms aswell.

I don't think many Celtic fans would want anything to do with such titles.

Not even been found guilty what a joke

If RFC 1872 cheated in registration than punishment is necessary. Stripping titles is not the punishment, it is only the return of wrongly acquired goods akin to shoplifters not being able to keep their booty. There should be an actual punishment for the offence over and above stripping the titles but that club has now ceased to exist

Grout

If as you claim , the Newco (And i quote) has nothing to do with the Oldco , then why are all you lot saying you are the same team with the same history ? you either are the same or you're not ! you cant just discard the bits you dont want , its all or nothing m8t

Exactly. It's always the same though, people want to decide what punishment the deem fair and it doesn't work that way because they are biased in their view. e.g Newco Rangers demanded and fought tooth and nail to use they're old registration, but didn't want the punishments that were still to be served with it. They claim the history is tranfered over but some guy a few post back is trying to suggest that the punishment for dual contracts shouldnt be stripping of titles but something else and get this, the punishment should go to Oldco Rangers lol unbelievable. It's frankly embarrassing how many conradictions there are on here. How about biting the bullit, taking the punishment (if found guilt), not pissing and moaning about it, and getting on with the football for a change.

Try readin the original post again it says we shood keep out because its old co business if thats the case then y are we liable to pay the debts surely we ir just a new club or are we only a new club wen it suits and the old club wen they want money

The sfa and spl should be checking regestations on a year to year basis not wait till ten years later