ecto Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Are Airdrie United not Clydebank with a new name? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaffenThinMint Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 (edited) Notice a Scottish retail site quote the following figures There are 960,000 Rangers fans in Scotland, making it the biggest fan base of any club. Research conducted by Sportswise a few years ago suggested more than 50% of the 40,000 fans going to a home match spent £10 or more in a pub pre-match while a further 70,000 fans watched the match from the pub. So that's near 1 million just in Scotland, 100,000 watching in the ground or pub....probably double if you include home viewers With groups travelling today from London & Blackpool etc and from the pictures a lot of complete families going along ......isn't 6-7000 fans turning up today ( not even close to 1% of fans ) a bit crap and not fitting of guys e-mailing that they are not able to be there but are weeping at the sight of such a massive protest ? Only a few year ago 40,000 turned up to see Ian Durrant's reserve team comeback 6-7000 with probably only about 5000 from Glasgow (population 600,000) bothering to turn up Just asking You wait. This time next year, St Mirren, Hearts, Dundee, Partick Thistle, Kilmarnock, Ayr, Airdrie (with little appreciation of the irony), Irvine Meadow (ditto!), etc, etc. will be full of brand new faces that will swear on their bairn's lives have "always been fans of the club", deny thrice before cock crow ever being Rangers fans, and "wasn't it a laugh seeing those dirty cheating Ibrox bigots going bust!" Edited April 28, 2012 by WaffenThinMint 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
)typically Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 (edited) 666 pages, I hope that's not a bad omen. Edit to add: I'm too slow at typing. Edited April 28, 2012 by Cammy35 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 It was confirmed in the press that the penalty stays with the member share, so will remain if they transfer to a newco. the press may be incorrect but I don't think Rangers would be quite so angry if that were the case. My error. I'm thinking of a Newco in the Airdrie United mould which was a completely new club, rather than a find the lady style switcheroo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrik's tongue Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 667. The neighbour of the beast. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattBairn Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 666 is not the number of the beast! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wunfellaff Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 667. The neighbour of the beast. 666 is not the number of the beast! 2 QI viewers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaffenThinMint Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Are Airdrie United not Clydebank with a new name? The only thing Clydebank had in common with Airdrie United in reality was the letters A, D, E, and N. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Are Airdrie United not Clydebank with a new name? Yes, because the Newco Airdrie United was refused entry to the league as an example that clubs couldn't go bust, start again under a different guise and pick up where they left off. Rangers, if liquidated, should be forced down the same route. Refuse them entry to the SFL and watch as they buy up some defunct diddy club such as Clyde, before rebranding it and moving it to Glasgow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claymores Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Billy Hill is my new PB (Preferred Bookie). For every fiver the currant buns boycott gambling with them, I'll lose £10 :-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattBairn Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 2 QI viewers One of the best shows on TV Although definitely not always right 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecto Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Takeover Clyde, what a brillant idea 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaffenThinMint Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 667. The neighbour of the beast. Splodgenessabounds fan I take it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Are Airdrie United not Clydebank with a new name? Yes - they are Clydebank. Originally a group of businessman + other Airdrie-minded people formed a new club called Airdrie Utd - presumably this was viable for SFL in 2002 - but it lost the election to Gretna FC. Then they bought Clydebank. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 You'd think they would have better things to worry about http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=218464 Dont need anyone with that sort of attitude around Ibrox at the best of times let alone right now, No way should the club have allowed to send him on loan to PT with a tarrier in charge.f**k the rest of scottish football, If we are going to send players out on loan, we should either send them to England or to a club with good Rangers / protestant connections. i.e Cowdenbeath etc.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanky_ffc Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 (edited) There's a cringy picture doing the rounds on Facebook which has today's SPL attendances on a picture of the protest with some comment along the lines of "10k supporters that won't be at your ground next season". Edited April 28, 2012 by lanky_ffc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chico Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Where's my old Iron Maiden album... Oh f**k it'll be r*sh next. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILLIEA Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Just read the Sandy Jardine statement again. Now, I know he's not the most intelligent of guys and the true significance of his words may have escaped him but surely he can be charged with incitement or something for such a blatantly offensive and inflammatory statement? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBR Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Notice a Scottish retail site quote the following figures There are 960,000 Rangers fans in Scotland, making it the biggest fan base of any club. So, not a huge sacrifice from each to pay the debt? Why haven't they? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambomo Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 My error. I'm thinking of a Newco in the Airdrie United mould which was a completely new club, rather than a find the lady style switcheroo. Ahh gotcha :-) - yeah I see what you mean in that scenario. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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