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Why all the negativity? He and his team has won every league they have played in. There isn't another club which can boast such a success rate.

Who Ate The Pies?

This farce has been comedy gold for so many of us. And they just keep it coming. A few thoughts.... Many fans of other teams are taking particular pleasure from this not because a club is in distress, but because of the years of arrogance which those other clubs have suffered at the hands of Rangers and their fans. Were it Celtic which was in a similar predicament, the reaction would be pretty similar. The attitudes of many fans since the meltdown has done nothing to engender sympathy from other clubs. Some humility would have gone a long way - there was some evidence of it for a while, but I'm afraid that many have reverted to type and talk of Rangers' "rightful place" in the top tier just irritates fans of other clubs who see such a place as earned, not granted. The continuing turmoil at the club is, in my opinion, the fault of the fans. Not directly - but by continuing unswerving support and loyalty with season ticket purchases, there is absolutely nothing to deter the money men from seeing the club as an opportunity to make a fast buck. The best thing that the fans could do would be to get refunds on their season tickets en masse, refuse to go to home games and force another administration. That would give them the opportunity to have a real clear-out at the top and to put in place people who had the interests of the club (not the company) at heart. It would be painful, perhaps returning to the third division or whatever it's called - and this time, it would be with players who were paid at third division wages. Winning SFL3 on £7m a year is a somewhat hollow victory. The opportunity for radical surgery required to save Rangers was not grasped last year. The cure is now that bit more difficult and that bit more painful. However, I cannot see how RFC can find its way out of this turmoil any time soon. And having absolute clowns like Traynor and Green involved really does the club no favours at all. McCoist, for all his perceived faults, loves his club. Smith walked away - but, to me, that speaks more of his integrity and love for Rangers than anything else. As chairman, he could do little else if he could not run his Board the way he wanted to.

A painful reminder of some great footballers who played for RFC and how far the team has fallen from grace.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-22351486 Starting 'em young.... Well done.

Fizzog, if my recollection of The Beezer is correct.

One has to ask where the GIFs which accompany your posts come from. They are often the only thing worth viewing on this topic. Your DVD collection must be a revelation.

Maybe you should start.

....Scotland....? (Just teasing)

Out of interest (and referring to a post a few pages back) - Rangers International Football Club in Nigeria and with a pedigree that stretches back to the 1970s...can RIFC (UK) use that name? One could be somewhat mischievous and suggest that, as the newer organisation, the Ibrox outfit should amend its name to avoid any prospect of confusion between the sides....

On a footballing par with Salmond's Arc of Prosperity....

And yet, on another page......HMRC to appeal against ruling in Rangers 'Big Tax Case' The old Rangers was under the control of Sir David Murray when it began using EBTs. He sold the club for £1 to Scottish businessman Craig Whyte in 2011, while the tax liability was in dispute. The FTT, before three judges, concluded in January, one month before the old Rangers, now under the control of Mr Whyte, was forced into administration by HMRC over non-payment of tax totalling about £14m. HMRC subsequently rejected proposals for a creditors agreement that would have allowed the old club to continue. Administrators Duff and Phelps then negotiated a sale of assets to a consortium led by Charles Green for £5.5m. He has since formed a new club, now playing in the Scottish Football League Third Division. Hope that helps. ETA: Beaten to it by Bairnforever....

Have to say, that, given the glee which some posters (and I include myself) viewed the potential outcome of the FTT, I have to allow the RFC fans their day in the sun. It does raise some serious questions about the performance of HMRC in all of this. Given that, even without the FTT going against them, RFC had a massive debt problem and would have been highly unlikely to have avoided administration and liquidation. However, the absence of an adverse FTT outcome would have made the sale of RFC a very different proposition. HMRC has had 9 months to make its decision known and many fans will feel that the delay in publishing its findings has put the club in a much worse position than it might otherwise have been.

Calling other posters "diddies" and "plastics" doesn't help your argument....and the plea was to all posters, not just the "plastics and diddies".... It would be interesting to find out how many pages the thread ran to if all the off-topic messages were stripped out.

Can you honestly guarantee that there are no terrorist-supporting elements within your own support? Wasn't that long ago that I saw a guy selling "Combat 18" mags outside a Rangers away game. He wasn't there at other weeks, and the RFC top was a bit of a giveaway. And we are all (well, those of us in the West of Scotland, anyway) familiar with the drunken neds sporting RFC tops following Orange parades and peeing in gardens. I expect that every club has an element of "fans" of which it is ashamed but, being highly vocal, have a public profile which far exceeds their number in terms of the overall fanbase. Can we all agree that, within our own support, there are certain elements which are formed from the dregs of society and with whom we wish to have nothing to do, and get back to posting about the RFC admin/liquidation?