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I'm with you except for this. I think the notion that Hibs made no consideration to the potential for the subsequent festival of tears, snot and rage is far, far, funnier than if they deliberately did this to wind Rangers up - and I think they should just continue to act oblivious and somewhat surprised from now on, and remain silent on the issue. If pressed, Hibs should simply say they were selling tickets to meet demand, and the demand was coming from the Hibs end, end of story. Some of the uglier parts of the Rangers fanbase thrive on that 'no one likes us, but they still want our money' vanity. Having both their opinions and their money be irrelevant simply does not compute, and that's behind the hilarious breakdown we're seeing.

What we're seeing is a subscript variable, but if that's the case, then the statement becomes meaningless, unless T_x M is just shorthand for a product of something that results in a set (and the most likely candidate there is the cartesian product anyways). The most likely explanation is a naive user just using 'x' as a multiplication sign, and their software just automatically turning it into a subscript x. This is just a chartered accountant being transcribed by a random Rangers fan, after all, not some mathematician with LaTeX-guru skills writing up a research paper.

No. Thats the beauty of it. Hibs do nothing to encourage the "rivalry". They just wait until they are due to play Rangers, somehow find yet another way to cause megaseethe and statements, then swagger off with the 3 points, leaving detached nappers everywhere. I hope at some point in the not too distant future, Rangers will give up on us, and treat us with the same depression, apathy, and resignation they display to the now untouchable Celtic. When that time comes, another team will have to step up and get handed the torch as Keeper of the Megaseethe. The Clarke/Killie juggernaut looks like a promising fit - they can beat Rangers, they can do it at Ibrox, and they can bring enough away fans there that they can irk everyone around them by enjoying beating Rangers a little too much, and their manager is suspected of having gone to the wrong school in the past. Sadly, their stadium is too big to reasonably cut away allocations, but they can surely find their own unique way of inadvertently triggering outrage.

In goad we trust...

Unless he's using some funny notation, isn't his "equation" just 'v is a member of the cartesian product of sets T and M' (allowing for that subscript x just to be a typo multiplication sign, in the interests of having it make some kind of sense). That's not even a number!

Listen to tha peepul, Rangers! The fans are calling out for you to cut Hibs' allocation at Ibrox down to 2,000! Do it, I dare you!

Part of that, I believe is down to attainability. Sevco realises it's out of Celtic's league, and can't do anything at all to hurt them. It's hard for them to have strong feelings about Celtic when Celtic is almost oblivious to their very existence these days. Especially since April 2016, when Dermot Desmond rebuilt Celtic's business strategy around the concept of never, ever losing to the likes of Rangers ever again. To a Rangers fan, hating Celtic is a bit like hating Mount Everest. It's going to sit there being a big cold, indifferent chunk of immovable stuff, no matter what your feelings are about it. On the other hand, we're not completely out of their league, yet. Even the limited Rangers imagination is able to conjure up somewhat realistic w**k-fantasies of beating Hibs in the future, without suspending too much disbelief. Some of them maybe go beyond that into thinking not only can they occasionally beat Hibernian, they're *entitled* to do so. And it's not helped by Hibs fans visibly enjoying breaking Rangers a little too much, and the team occasionally schooling them in the art of how to actually give Celtic a game now and again. It's not all Celtic's doing - we do have ourselves to blame for this sad, sorry, state of affairs.

The Sevconian response is all over the place. The vast majority of them are seething, but they're not sure whether they want the allocation back to the full stand, or whether they want to boycott Easter Road entirely, or whether they want the allocation to stay as-is so that we flatter their egos by begging them to sell more tickets at some unspecified future time. They all know they don't like this, but they don't seem so hot at knowing what to do about it. Also, the outrage seems a bit funny when they unanimously want to cut Celtic's allocation at Ibrox down to the regulation 900 seats or so. It hurts them that Hibernian has done to Rangers what they've been urging Rangers to do to Celtic. Also the whining about their 'meagre' allocation of 1500-2000 seats out of a 20,000 seater stadium is amusing to contrast with the 900 tickets that away fans get when visiting the 50,000 seater Ibrox. Hypocrisy much? For any grumbling Sevco fans looking in - you're angry because you're being treated the same as most other teams. Hibs have just sent a message that you're not special - you belong beside the Aberdeens and the Motherwells and the St Mirrens of this world. That's why the complaints are so hypocritical (you're complaining that you're being treated the same way your team treats away fans) and why you can't work out the correct course of action (because you can't come out and say 'we demand special treatment to make our egos feel better', you have to make up one or other story to justify the seethe, and nobody's agreed on what the made-up-excuse is, so everyone's response is different.)

Wow indeed. Could it be that the Rodgers era with the unbeaten 1.5 year run, and the (not quite certain, yet) Double Treble were all caused when the Rangers team decided to be a gang of rude dicks to the actual Celtic Team at the 2015-16 Scottish Cup Semi, and only succeeded in making the guy with all the money *really fucking annoyed*? With that sort of outcome from a fairly trivial slight, perhaps Rangers could indulge in some self-reflection and some behaviour modification in future...

What makes you think that the magic cup is for the benefit of Rangers? They drink a toast to the health of the Queen, and that certainly seems to be working, given that the idle old bat looks like she'll live to about 250 years old.

Hey, guys, you know Rangers fans are having a really bad week? And that Hibs are threatening to cut their away allocation at the end of the season, which has caused some measure of grumbling over at their fan forums? And that you've got a game coming up at Easter Road, where you'd ordinarily have about half the South Stand, and nearly filled that last time. Here's a thought: if you sell your allocation out as quickly as possible when the tickets go on sale, there's every chance that Hibernian FC might feel inclined to increasing your share of the South Stand to something larger than what they're planning on cutting Rangers down to. It does mean that Hibs fans might have to be a bit slower to buy tickets for the game, but we've got home games vs both Celtic and Rangers too, so you're probably a distant third on the prospective games-to-go-to list for some of the more casual fans, no offence. Anyways, just imagine the righteous, indignant, outrage as Rangers fans find out that some wee diddy team that can't even fill up 1/3 of their own stadium is getting a bigger share of Easter Road than the orcish hordes who bring that blue pound they all go on about? It would be glorious. So how about it? If you're going to go to Easter Road, make sure and buy your tickets as early as possible, and pass the message on. Do it for the seethe.

You left out Dabrowski, who has eked out a semi-regular role as dugout seat-warmer in first-team games, but does have the usual problem of the 'dead man's boots' form of career progression that second-choice reserve keepers tend to have.

The Vanguard Bears are still doing essential research into which school everyone went to before deciding whether to side with the players, the manager, the board or the fans.

Waitwaitwait - the Union Bears are protesting by buying the ticket, going to the match, but they won't be singing their most hateful party tunes? This day just keeps getting better and better. Also kudos to the Union Bears for issuing a statement that isn't a begging letter.

Maybe a coded signal that the mole is Declan John.

Mo only played for one of the Rangerses.

Said bamming provided all of Scottish football, particularly Hibs, with the biggest laugh it's had so far this year, so your analysis might be a wee-bit off...

Just take a step backwards and think about it. This is Craig Levein, we're talking about - a self-made master of mindgames. A few weeks back, you guys were forever bigging up his Svengali-like masterstrokes, like the initially-successful 'Natural Order' bait, and the phantom injuries-that-never-were before the last derby. Hitting the Czechs with a surprise 4-6-0 strategy that they'd never in a million years expect. Instigating injury time dugout confrontations with opposing players to waste time. You all know what Levein's about by now. Craig Levein isn't signing Maclean for his football. He's signing Maclean to send a signal. It's his thing. And what signal would Hearts send by signing up a geriatric striker in his twilight years, probably for bobbins? Simple: don't expect too much from Hearts next season. Craig's talking right at you guys with this one. Hearts are doing next season on the cheap, and he's managing expectations appropriately. I'm guessing that if he goes all out for a 'we're going to get a Europe spot or a cup win next season', sign up some flashy superstar from Bundesliga.2 or the English League One and barely scrape top 6 again, you guys will whinge about stagnation, and next year's season ticket sales will plummet. Look where the inflated expectations of the Sevco fans are getting them? Every OF match, they're demanding the heads of Graeme Murty and Dave King for not beating the team that's only lost two league games in two years. The board are being pulled into risky financial behaviour and pawning their facilities to payday lenders to gamble on actually playing some European football just to keep their heads afloat. And that's so that those overentitled fans can feel like winners again like the old glory days to keep them buying those sweet, sweet, season tickets. Rangers are being squeezed on the pitch, in the stands, in the courts, and in the shareholders meetings. Nobody in Scottish football wants to be The Rangers right now. Not even poor oul' Brechin would swap places. Dave King's hedge fund is a riskier investment than the Glebe Park hedge, which at least provides a guaranteed income from the occasional curious football tourist. Budge is obviously smart enough not to go down the Sevco route, and Hearts are sticking within their means, even if that means the football will be decidedly mediocre in the near future. Perhaps they know there's trouble brewing, like those anonymous multimillion donations are starting to dry up - or perhaps Craig is lining up a proper signing later on in the year so you at least get a small frisson of excitement at some point. Either way, Craig knows his limits and he's priming you to avoid massive disappointment. Steady income, straightforward, mid-table football, low-profile signings, or better still, 15-year olds on work experience, season ticket sales down by only 10% or so over two years, etc, etc. Keep the business ticking over until next year, when maybe something will turn up. Last thing Hearts needs is a full stadium of hyper-excited fans in August drifting away before the winter break and swearing off ST renewals altogether. Besides, Maclean has form for going apeshit after scoring goals versus Hibs. Having him do that again, or, in the alternative, crippling Kamberi or Ambrose with a horror-tackle, will have you guys amused and gleefully posting gifs all over Kickback like nobody's business. Craig Levein knows how much the fans lap that stuff up. No need for spectacular results if he can keep you distracted and happy for a wee while. This is the entertainment business, after all. Meanwhile, your team is in safe, solid hands, with no chance of administration or relegation. Relax, guys. You should respect the mindgames of the most devious man in Scottish Premiership football. Craig knows what he's doing with this signing.

The tinpottery here is that her tactical input couldn't have been worse than what actually transpired.

That's clearly a very glorious thing indeed, and doesn't belong in this thread.

Hah, fair enough. The trouble with sarcasm on the internet is that the people who use it are indistinguishable from the many folks around that are genuinely that stupid!

You're showing your age, since if you were around in the 1990s, you wouldn't talk such utter pish. This was 1998, not 1978. Political correctness, as a mass media buzzword, was around since the *early* 1990s (it's use by the left as an self-deprecating joke was around for a bit longer). People were *far* from universally homophobic then (though the world has improved markedly on this issue since 1998, I'll concede). Overt racism was much less common then than it is now that those alt-righters have been congregating in the more disgusting shitholes on the internet and occasionally seeping out into proper society.

All the funnier when you remember that they have multiple 30-page threads on rangersmedia demanding that the club reduces Celtic's away allocation. Apparently us upstarts have some nerve to start acting the way they do...