It’s not like we didn’t warn them. Charles Green, with his ‘blame it on bigotry’ and ‘Rangersitis’ nonsense was an even more transparent charlatan than wee Craig Whyte. Green moved in, fed them the nonsense they were oh so willing to swallow, and made off with their millions. All carried out in broad daylight.
The financial realities were self-evident from day one of Newco’s existence. For a while you had to wonder if any of vast number of fans, journalists and fan-journalists with computers had a spreadsheet between them. But, a more powerful force than Rangersitis had taken hold – vanity. The kind of vanity only those afflicted by a notion of supremacy are susceptible to.
Their club was liquidated, a newco was formed. It adopted Rangers’ name while the original club was still an SFA member (and granting permission for their players to turn out for was for the time known as ‘Sevco Scotland’.
Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. This isn’t an easy pill to swallow. Around these parts people invest the kind of sentiment in their football team which goes into nationalism elsewhere, occasionally causing wars. It’s a primitive but natural part of all of us, so perhaps we should have been more respectful of the feelings of others at the time. Cough.
If someone was able to chart the world’s Cognitive Dissonance harvest it would have been off the chart for the last two years, brought about when a degrading reality met a supremacists vanity. The subsequent scarcity of Armageddon (biff), Celtic’s flourishing Champions League action (bang), the new New Firm (whallop) were all late blows which none of the Jokers at Ibrox anticipated. Even Kilmarnock managed to sort themselves out without collapsing into administration.
Without the ability to accept credit or debit cards, or with the bank’s authority to allow fans to automatically renew season tickets, the signs are written as tall as Ibrox’ Club Deck. I can’t see more than a few thousand being prepared to throw their money into a landfill site.
Season ticket renewal deadline has been moved to a week before when next month’s wages are due. Right now the directors have a reasonable aspiration that tens of thousands of fans will renew but on 17 May, the day after the deadline, reality should crystallise. If there was a spread bet available, I’d put my money on administration in the days to follow.
Money talks, it don’t sing and dance and it don’t do walking away….
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DBBIA .
Arent Rangers players always Jelly Rolls ?
Lennybhoy
Nice group of CQNrs at new gazebo today, even had Jobo over spying to look at singing competition :-)
But
With opening of Celtic Way, on 3rd May where will we gather, and have our sing off
Hail Hail
There’s a sevcozebo?
Two Gazebo’s?
James Oregon
Re PC:-
From Wiki:-
“Political correctness” is a label normally used for left-wing terms and actions, but not for equivalent attempts to mould language and behaviour on the right. However the term “right-wing political correctness” is sometimes applied by commentators drawing parallels; one author used the term “conservative correctness”, arguing in 1995 (in relation to higher education) that “critics of political correctness show a curious blindness when it comes to examples of conservative correctness. Most often, the case is entirely ignored or censorship of the Left is justified as a positive virtue. … A balanced perspective was lost, and everyone missed the fact that people on all sides were sometimes censored.”[34]
One example is the Dixie Chicks political controversy, where a US country music group criticized U.S. President G.W. Bush for launching a pre-emptive war against Iraq in 2003;[35] the remarks were labelled “treasonous” by some rightwing commentators (including Ann Coulter and Bill O’Reilly).[36] The newspaper columnist Don Williams said that such criticism is the price for speaking freely about one’s disapproval of the Iraq War, and that “the ugliest form of political correctness occurs whenever there’s a war on. Then you’d better watch what you say”.[36]
Paul Krugman in 2012 wrote that “the big threat to our discourse is right-wing political correctness, which – unlike the liberal version – has lots of power and money behind it. And the goal is very much the kind of thing Orwell tried to convey with his notion of Newspeak: to make it impossible to talk, and possibly even think, about ideas that challenge the established order”.[37]”
I have never used the phrase political correctness to advance or defeat arguments. It is a term I hear used 95% of the time as a criticism of a yolk that people feel restricts them from exercising free voice of their bigotries and prejudice, because it is always the “weaker other” who gets the pejorative terms attached.
I only argue for common decency.
Do not describe Muslims as islamofascists because some amongst them are.
Do not describe jobseekers and welfare dependants as scroungers because some among them are.
Do not describe foreigners as sub-standard just because you are proud of your own nation.
Because, once you go down the road of stereotyping, it can be turned on you and the characteristics of whichever group you identify with.
Forget railing against PC. Just be decent. Take people as you find them and do not judge them because they are poor or weak or not of your tribe as being fair game for abuse and belittling.
Now back to the football.
bournesouprecipe
18:38 on
27 April, 2014
Two Gazebo’s?
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awfy braw ………….
Good evening all
Just in from the game and haven’t read back. A very enjoyable game and met some more esteemed CQNrs. I will never remember all you monickers so, without insulting anyone, it was an absolute pleasure meeting you all and of course the ones I met at the last home game. :-)))
Weefra HH supporting and praying for Wee Oscar.
timbhoy2
18:24 on
27 April, 2014
Timbhoy2 still the most handsome man in the whole of west lothian xxxxxx
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Not much to boast about…. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Hillshaveeyesposter.jpg
BSR
I smiled before I even clicked on that link. I knew what I was about to witness!!!
noshitsherlockcsc
Neustadt Braw
Trigger?
No, who’s trigger?
James_Oregon
Gazebos are like corporation tram cars…
Ninety minutes chat with ole EuroChamps67 is like a year in any other place.
DBBIA
I`d wait all night if I knew they 2 were coming…..
Who`s copping it?
Cowiebhoy @ 18.31,
Absolutely.McAvennie was a fabulous worker.That’s what I love about players like that.
Players who earn their corn and are willing to cover every blade of the field.
Griffiths comes into that category.
The Dixie chicks…!
Could it be Billy Bhoy?
Setting free the Bears
Thanks you
“Take people as you find them and do not judge them because they are poor or weak or not of your tribe as being fair game for abuse and belittling”.
Couldn’t agree more, very Celtic minded
Regards
James_Oregon
TCR
Comparing Griffiths with Macca.
That’s a good shout. On the field, Leigh’s attitude will easily win the crowd to his side.
Now, if he can work a wee bit on being a decent man off the field, we should be able to do without the kind of banner that appeared before the game.
P.S. I hope Leigh’s energy levels do not come from a similar source from that which Macca, allegedly, used :-)
James Oregon. You copped it! Are you a hun?
What a fantastic day that was at Celtic Park today……..wonderful atmosphere, wonderful result……and, to cap it all, Brogan Rogan joined my friends and I ……great craic, and, for those who don’t know him, Brogan Rogan is not only a Celtic Crusader in the AuldHeid, Phil, Paul67 etc mould, but he also a very genuine, friendly individual…..Hail Hail to all Celts….!!!!!!!
BSR
She could be doing with a couple of CQN badges.
Doc’s badge sales are slow :-)
HH
CRC
just seen efe’s somersault
i think it was a bit untidy, maybe points taken off for artistic impression, but maybe gets extra weighting for difficulty
score of 8.1 would be fair
if he works on his landing and the shape of his body through the air then there is scope for improvement
Wee Juliet Barnes is going through a similar torment in Nashville, after her remark about god was taken out of context.
Me and Wee BGFC just in from the game.
Thought Celtic were a bit side-to-side before Stokesy’s first goal – really struggled to get through a very defence-minded ICT, and we didn’t seem to have many ideas about how to break them down.
After the goal, however, we really sharpened up the passing, and the game was a bogey for ICT after that. Could have had a few more in the second half when we were rampant :-)
Thought Lizzy was absolutely magic throughout the game, and would have been my MOM. Good to see Charlie, Adam and big Lustig back, and glad to see Stokesy getting the goals his efforts deserve – I think he often gets an unjustified hard time for lack of effort.
Only concern, and it is a big one, was the small crowd, which looked about 20-25k to me – home crowd seems to be getting smaller every week. Being so far ahead of everyone else has really taken the edge off for a lot of people.
HH
BGFC
CRC
Where would you pin them?
bournesouprecipe
18:38 on 27 April, 2014
Two Gazebo’s?
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Where did you get that photo of my wife…?
BobbyRussell
HAHa, remember when “Are you a Hun” was a sought after comment on here.
No I’m not a hun, my credit cards are accepted and debt free. :-)
Regards
James_Oregon
bsr
I’ll see yir gazebo with a rather nice sombrero….
http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/20900000/Eva-Mendes-eva-mendes-20950413-1600-1200.jpg
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
18:47 on
27 April, 2014
bournesouprecipe
18:38 on 27 April, 2014
Two Gazebo’s?
>>>>
Where did you get that photo of my wife…?
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You mean she`s a bigamist?
Evening all. Lovely down here just now.
Just in from a very enjoyable day at Celtic Park. A lot of supporters were posted missing from one of the best performances of the season.
It was good to see a couple of saltires among the Green Brigade. Hope that continues, whether we vote for Independence or not.
James_Oregon
…..
here he is …enjoy …http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI
braw
James_Oregon
18:49 on
27 April, 2014
BobbyRussell
No I’m not a hun, my credit cards are accepted and debt free. :-)
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Oh sweet Jesus…am a hun :O(
The Gazebo Bhoys 2
Be warned Dena29 was joining the green brigade today for singing practice :-)
Hail Hail
Fine day out today at the footie
Good performance – good game all round
I’ll take seasons like this for a few more years – no bile and bitterness from Huns/ Zombies and being able to concentrate on the actual football
HH
James Oregon
Didn`t think you were, but you did post number one six nine zero!!!
Good to see Official Inverness kept their sense of humour.
bournesouprecipe
18:38 on 27 April, 2014
Two Gazebo’s?
Whooooft……..
justsayinCSC