Spark Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Any truth that Garner was only signed because Waghorn was supposed to be going to Bristol City before they pulled out of the deal, leaving Sevco with the pair of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 27 minutes ago, Spark said: Any truth that Garner was only signed because Waghorn was supposed to be going to Bristol City before they pulled out of the deal, leaving Sevco with the pair of them? Probably not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beardy Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 i'm not sure what Rangers fans expect from this squad. The signings they are making are just lower English League players that established teams like ourselves, County, Aberdeen etc have been signing for the last few years. If these guys were truly standouts in the English Lower leagues they wouldn't be coming to Scotland. The step up to Premier League was never going to be bridged easily signing a couple of veterans. To underestimate the jump in quality is just unprofessional. The media is guilty of talking up Rangers,  their record in the Championship was worse than Hearts and only a couple of points better than Ross County and Partick when they went up. The media talks up their signings like they are superstars. They're the same standard as everyone else is buying. (Except Joe Garner who it appears cost as much as 3 Dembeles ) It would take an exceptional manager to somehow turn these into a title contending team (Not that I think Rangers fans actually expected to compete for the title) I'm not so sure the former city trader (to give him his full media title) is actually that good a manager. in 210 minutes of Warburton's tiki-taka they've had 5 shots on target against Celtic, we had that many last week, even Lincoln Red Imps had 4 on target. This will be a long season for Rangers because their squad is not actually any better than the rest and their manager is inflexible to the point of being a Deila. IMHO Warbiola is a poor man's John Hughes (and less successful)    Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Warburton now facing SFA charges  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jailender Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 That made your day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 2 minutes ago, jailender said: That made your day? no why would it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parklife Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 22 minutes ago, vanderark14 said: Warburton now facing SFA charges   20 minutes ago, jailender said: That made your day?  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu101 Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 2 hours ago, jailender said: That made your day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parklife Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 The Vanguard Bears have issued a lovely statement  Quote  Should Sheep Be Shepherded Or Policed? Written by: John McCrae Tuesday, 27th September 2016   It is with no surprise that I read of Rangers fans being arrested during and after the weekend defeat at Pittodrie. I am told by one travelling Rangers supporter that police standing guard over the travelling support stood open mouthed as their colleagues lifted Rangers fans without cause. Another tells of one zealous policeman shoving a Rangers fan around and treating him 'like scum'. Yet another says that he was pushed and then 'skelped one' simply for trying to move away from the area where some fans were being baited by Scotland's finest. One Rangers fan had the hood on his jacket pulled up, his arms outstretched and held by two policemen, while a fourth had the fan's neck in a stranglehold. Coins were thrown at Rangers fans, while Aberdeen stewards stood and watched. Most damning, I feel, is this, from another travelling supporter: '100% targeted while Aberdeen supporters were given free rein to provoke. Even the police that go with Rangers said it was a joke.' One man told me 'You can only poke a dog with a stick so many times until it bites back.' Thankfully, some Rangers fans had the foresight to get their phones out and film some incidents. Whatever happened was certainly not helped by television and radio pre match coverage concentrating on the history of the bad blood between fans of the two clubs. Why, even the Joey Barton fiasco was put to one side. What stuck in my throat was the BBC, who have a long history of hatred toward Rangers, holding vox pop interviews with Aberdeen fans but not Rangers fans. One sided journalism yet again. The gist of these 'interviews' was that everything said or done to or about the Ibrox club was fair game. One woman in a red scarf stated it was all just 'football banter'. Really? Mocking the death of 66 men, a woman and children? Repeating ad nauseum the lie that the Ibrox club 'died' in 2012? I can't think of one instance, in all my years of watching football any fan of any club slagging Celtic for the Pacific Shelf scenario or Motherwell for going into administration twice in recent years or Airdrie for buying the ghost of Clydebank, simply to survive. There exists video footage of a seat being thrown into the Aberdeen crowd. What has not been said is that the immediate area where the seat flew through the air was totally inhabited by Aberdeen fans. The on-line footage clearly shows it coming from further up among the Aberdeen crowd. Or '¦ perhaps there was a solitary angry Rangers fan in there, who tore the seat from where it was bolted into concrete, lifted it and threw it. If such a fan existed, might I ask why no Aberdeen fan tried to prevent this happening or why, afterwards, they didn't hand out some street justice or even hold him until the police or stewards got to him? Of course, not all Rangers fans are angels. But there is not one club in the land whose fans are 100% clean. Anyone who thinks Rangers fans are arrested more might work out it is that there are more of them to arrest. It is because they travel in greater numbers than fans of Ross County, Raith or Brechin, for example and, as we saw on Sunday, are targeted on the way to a game, on the way in to a ground, during the game and leaving the ground and making their way home. The official attendance for the game was 19,263. Previous games 'attracted' 13,559 (Hearts), 11,049 (Partick) and 11,356 (ICT) in the league, 8,829 (St Johnstone) in the League Cup and 12,570 (Fola Esch), 10,672 (Ventspils) and 17,105 (Maribor) in European competition. Aberdeen's average home attendance this year is 13,050. Their ground holds 20,866. Despite the glamour of European ties, it seems to me that, even this early in the season, there is only one show in town. I have a simple remedy. I say again that no Rangers fan should give the blue pound to any SPFL club, remember, they all tried to put us out of business, given that Milne, along with Lawwell, Petrie and Thompson were the ringleaders in the attempt to execute us before the trial, we should simply deny them our money. Don't give me the line about the team need our support. It is more important that we stop funding clubs that hate us. Given that we took around 1,800 to a game where we were charged £25, we could have, by boycotting them, denied them £45,000 gate money plus whatever we spent on programmes and pies (presumably mutton). Add to that any money spent in shops, chippies, pubs and hotels which, is stopped, might even have local businesses hurting and complaining to the local Chamber of Commerce, who might take it to the Council, who might take it to the football club. Meantime, until we next have to travel there, I trust the police will spend time studying footage of both sets of fans and go lift some sheep fans. It won't happen, I know. After all, how many Hibernian fans, out of the maybe 8,000 '“ 10,000 that invaded the park have been arrested and taken to court by comparison to the couple of hundred Rangers fans that had had enough of the taunts and seeing their players and management team being assaulted? One Scotland, one Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill yet two sets of rules for football fans whenever Rangers play. Don't shepherd the sheep, police them!   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spark Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 (edited) I love the way these bams talk about Pacific Shelf or Motherwell going into administration like it's even remotely similar to their club being liquidated and dying. Get it up the bigoted pricks Edited September 29, 2016 by Spark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 When was the 2nd time Motherwell went into administration, I missed that. Load of rubbish as ysyal from that mob, whoever they are. If they think they are victimised by the police (as well as the BBC and everyone else) they should try going in a crowd of 300 and standing up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 "Given that we took around 1,800 to a game where we were charged £25, we could have, by boycotting them, denied them £45,000 gate money plus whatever we spent on programmes and pies (presumably mutton). Add to that any money spent in shops, chippies, pubs and hotels which, is stopped, might even have local businesses hurting and complaining to the local Chamber of Commerce, who might take it to the Council, who might take it to the football club. "  my personal favourite part we should all be grateful for the blue £  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 12 minutes ago, vanderark14 said: "Given that we took around 1,800 to a game where we were charged £25, we could have, by boycotting them, denied them £45,000 gate money plus whatever we spent on programmes and pies (presumably mutton). Add to that any money spent in shops, chippies, pubs and hotels which, is stopped, might even have local businesses hurting and complaining to the local Chamber of Commerce, who might take it to the Council, who might take it to the football club. "  my personal favourite part we should all be grateful for the blue £  I'd presume the downturn in the oil industry was as a direct result of the lack of blue pounds flowing into Aberdeen over the last 5 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 Just now, sbcmfc said: I'd presume the downturn in the oil industry was as a direct result of the lack of blue pounds flowing into Aberdeen over the last 5 years. I don't know how the City of Aberdeen has coped with out them. People have been heading to the food banks asking the volunteers when ra peepil will return to save them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandydunn Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 1 hour ago, Parklife said: The Vanguard Bears have issued a lovely statement   Beautiful. I believe Aberdeen gave out the official away attendance as 1903,not 1800 or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 1 hour ago, dandydunn said: Beautiful. I believe Aberdeen gave out the official away attendance as 1903,not 1800 or so. Imagine the uproar if they'd added another 109 to that!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandydunn Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 37 minutes ago, sbcmfc said: Imagine the uproar if they'd added another 109 to that!!!! It would've been worth it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossy Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 I thought the Vanguard Bears were all over in Belfast, getting involved with some bigoted anti-Catholic protest. I saw their banner on the TV news along with all the other Butcher's Aprons from various sectarian f*ckwits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartan_Don Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 3 hours ago, vanderark14 said: "Given that we took around 1,800 to a game where we were charged £25, we could have, by boycotting them, denied them £45,000 gate money plus whatever we spent on programmes and pies (presumably mutton). Add to that any money spent in shops, chippies, pubs and hotels which, is stopped, might even have local businesses hurting and complaining to the local Chamber of Commerce, who might take it to the Council, who might take it to the football club. "  my personal favourite part we should all be grateful for the blue £  That's got tae be a joke....canae believe they are that deluded they honestly believe they are oor saviours Then again.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exglasgowasc Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 Got to love the Vanguard Bears. Given that the crowd for Sunday was 19263 and 1800 were sevco bigots my maths tells me that there were 17463 Aberdeen fans there. 17105 was the crowd at the Maribor game, take away the 22 Maribor fans means there were 17083 Dons fans there. By my calculations then only 380 more Aberdeen fans turned up to watch "the rangers". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brassrubber Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Heart of Midlothian close the gap on Celtic with first win at Motherwell in 6 years well played The Glorious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 How bad is Craig Samson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShedTA Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Number 1 on the coupon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bannannan Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 If only we could turn time back and have Faddy again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fringo Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 42 minutes ago, Bannannan said: If only we could turn time back and have Faddy again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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