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Members Blogs - Archives
Blog 7 - Season 2010 - 2011 - August - SCOTT SLEITH
Blog 6 - WALTERS SMITH is SIMPLY THE BEST - April - SCOTT SLEITH
Blog 5 - A Rant - February 2010 - Scott Sleith.
Blog 4 - Thats Why We@re Champions - January 2010 - John Hunter.
Blog 3 - Me and Ma bro! - November 2009 - Danny.
Blog 2 - My Way - October 2009 - Neto.
Blog 1 - Thanks Walter, Sir David Murray and Barry Ferguson - September 2009 - Scott Sleith.
Blog 7 - Season 2010 - 2011 - August - SCOTT SLEITH
SEASON 2010...here we go again guys, a new season.
We can now get back to having a Saturday afternoon to ourselves without having to do the good guy thing and go shopping or doing lunch or any other boring things that we feel obliged to do so we don't get moaned at.
To all those partners out there we have a message for you....YES WE LIKE RANGERS MORE THAN YOU (only kidding honey) ....so please just let us go out and enjoy ourselves on a Saturday afternoon without moaning.
I was going to write this was written by Steve Stewart but seriously who would believe Steve would have the bottle to write this.
The site is now in its second season and we hope to improve it even more this season (well at least some of us are).
Any ideas you have send them in.
Also any photos, especially older ones would be greatly welcome.
We will extend the Legends page and will include another legend to join Super Cooper...let me know who you feel should be our next legend.
Please be patient while the site is updated a bit more, as soon as big Willie finally gets round to parting with a cheque we will start the ball rolling.
We'll also be looking for ALL MEMBERS to send a wee blog in now and then or at the very least send a message now and again.....Willie , Steve , Alan , Robbie , Winker etc etc ...if you need a hand to send an email we gladly show you how..look forward to hearing from ALL of you.
FOLLOW FOLLOW.
Blog 6 - WALTERS SMITH is SIMPLY THE BEST - April - SCOTT SLEITH
Walter Smith OBE has just won manager of the year;
personally I think he should be awarded MAN OF THE DECADE.
This man is MR RANGERS and deserves all the praise that's going.
He has just seen off yet another manager of the great unclean and personally i think he still has plenty to offer.
While writing this we haven't yet won the league but are just one game away.
( let's hope we don't f@@@ up or I'll need to leave the country)
Whether you agree or disagree about just how good he is i would be amazed if anyone could disagree that he is the only man who could have steered us through the current era of turmoil our great club is in.
If it wasn't for this man I hate to think where we would be just now...THIS MAN MAY JUST HAVE SAVED RANGERS FOOTBALL CLUB.
Winning the league for the second year is in a row is essential for us and in doing so will also turn the finances of the great unclean upside down.
I'm not saying he hasn't made mistakes, far from it, but what I am saying is that I wouldn't want anyone else in charge of RANGERS at the present moment.
Let's just hope that we can get new owners in soon, secure our management team, secure our best players and build on our recent success.
The man is RANGERS through and through and is the glue holding our club together just now.
He is the link between the fans and the unknown faces that are currently running the club.
It is also brilliant to hear someone speaking out from our club with regards to the split and fixtures.
It's about time someone spoke of facts and not the false, pathetic propaganda that we constantly hear from Peter Liewell of Selick..Maybe, just maybe we will eventually get our backbone back as a club and start flexing our muscles again, after all
WE ARE THE PEOPLE.
Blog 5 - A Rant - February 2010 - Scott Sleith.
It's January, a new year, a new beginning blah blah.
I'm usually quite an upbeat kind of guy so maybe it's just the January blues that makes me want to have a good rant about a few things.
So let's get started.
I'm going to start my rant by moaning about our own fans.
I do agree our fans are the most LOYAL fans in the world but boy do we like complaining (and yes I know that's what I'm doing now ).
I am sick and tired of listening to the real radio phone-in and hearing the RANGERS SUPPORTERS TRUST spouting a load of shit.
The spokesman for the RST has constantly over the past few years been demanding Sir David Murray sells he club and how he single handed ruined our great club...bullshit .
This guy, it seems to me ,has a personal agenda against SDM , probably because SDM won't give him a seat on the board.
Yes SDM has made mistakes over the years.. Who hasn't.?
Yes SDM has looked after his own businesses and interlocked them with Rangers...who wouldn't.?
If you look at his 20 year reign it is pretty clear that the first 10 years were a lot more successful and fun than the second 10 years.
In fact looking back the first decade was absolutely brilliant, and we all love looking back at our success and the great players we watched.
As I have said previously on this site we all bought into a dream ... a dream of European success and a field of great players.SDM gave us what we all wanted at the time and I for one cannot remember the RST demanding he go then.
The other thing this group fail to realise is that SDM HAS been trying to sell the club over the past 3 years...NO ONE IS STEPPING UP TO THE MARK.
Another thing that annoys me about the RST is that they decided to launch their WE DESERVE BETTER CAMPAIGN last season when we were fighting it out with Timmy for the league.
Yes we deserve better but was this the right time for our club to be split? NO.
They now seem to be launching a campaign against the LLOYDS banking group for not walking away from the millions we owe them.
Seriously RST do you think that by making a few daft banners and speeches on Real Radio a bank will walk away from what they are owed.
It pisses me of the media coverage that this banner protest has been given because it is non-existent and I could tell them for a fact that it is a very small minority (probably about 0.1 %) and the coverage it is getting is laughable.
The RST have stated that maybe the Rangers support would boycott the Lloyd banks...firstly not everyone banks with that group and I know for a fact that if I changed banks it wouldn't be a loss to them.
Secondly with this high profile protest wouldn't it just mean Celtic fans would just leave them if LLOYDS did do us a favour?
Now if you check out the RST website you will find that they have done a lot of good in the past so I don't want to knock them too much.
I just don't think they represent the vast majority of fans and that before they start any stupid protest they should get the true feels of the majority of fans.
Remember RST....TOGETHER WE STAND
Blog 4.. Thats Why We@re Champions - John Hunter.
Sundays 1.1 draw at Legoland proves why we're CHAMPIONS.
The mankie mob fielded what could be described as their strongest team, the Bears turned up minus Miller, Bougherra, Thomson, Mendes, Beasley, Naismith and lost Novo early doors.
Walter set out his side as he would have done in the nineties, knowing a draw would suffice with his much depleted sqaud and send their management team and fans home feeling defeated.
Again there are cries of conspiracy and agenda against them from the east end, but in reality they are not good enough. Sunday proved that they have a powder puff strikeforce, a crap defence ( 16 goals inferior) and the new Stillian Petrov in Barry Robson who goes to ground in a very uncanny fashion.
It also shows that Rangers are playing with the character required in a blue jersey and to come back after going a goal behind with 11 minutes remaining proves this . This character was not evident in the early part of the season but now seems to have been installed into the team since Walter and his staff announced they would be working with no contract.
Here's hoping the Lloyds group dont see the need to offload any of our current sqaud. Injuries and suspensions are now taking their toll which showed on Sunday with names like Wylde, Ness, Fleck and Little on the subs bench. No direspect to these youngsters but we need our strongest squad possible to finish the season on top.
Happy New Year to all readers - Seven points clear!!!!
WE ARE THE PEOPLE
Blog 3 - Me and Ma bro! - Danny
Big John: the love of the gers!
Since the age of 6, that's way back in '86 (see, am no that old), iv
followed rangers. I remember the souness revolution and grew up
watching legends the likes of coisty, cooper, durrant, mccall, the
goalie, gazza, laudrup and filip sebo! I lived rangers and never gave
ma mum peace for the new strips! But not all the family were chuffed
wae my choice of teams!
Motherwell 'support your local team'
When I was big enough (a few stone lighter than iam now), my dad took
me to my first game, Motherwell v st mirren! I wisnae happy, I said
'dad, I only came to see the rangers'. My dad persisted but eventualy
gave up and and took me into the old main stand at ibrox to watch, you
guessed it, rangers v Motherwell! He didnae give up! It was like that
for a few years and even when ma wee brother came to games it was off
to the old teraces at fir park! I know where my dad got it from! My
grandpa was forever sayin, 'it's no right son, your no fae govan, you
should b supporting your local team' but what my grampa doesn't get,
is that rangers are in my blood! It was different on my mums side tho,
My grandpa mckinstry was a true blue and loved watching the gers wae
us! I never seen him so happy when bomber brown scored in the n'er day
game!
For the future!
Even tho I live in carfin (don't hold it against me!) and there's more
bumblebee tops than actual bees in my street, my son john is following
in our family tredition, and not listening to his great grandpa
Russell! He and all other young rangers fans are the future of our
great club, and the pleasure it brings me to bring him on the bus wae
my brother and you's guys and experiance being part of the rangers
and holytown loyal family. Over the years goin to the football wae my
brother, there's been the highs of winning titles and going to
Manchester,(did you get a ticket martin?) to the lows of the le guen
era and loosing to urinea, but whatever the future brings at rangers
there's one thing for sure, I'm rangers till I die!
Daniel Russell- Brotherly Rivalry:
Anyone that grew up with their brother surely knows what it's like to fight
with one another. We fought about everything, who was having what, who was
playing the computer even as sad as who was getting in the toilet
first!...it was very annoying being the little brother though, because most
of the things we fought over... John won them all. The most annoying thing
of all though being the wee one that had to stay at home while John went to
the Rangers games. Meanwhile I had to be content staying at home and playing
johns Amiga, listening to the gers on the radio. (yes john-i was playing
your Amiga while you were out!)
The 12th man:
It wasn't all that bad as whe I got a little older and John started to drive
he would take me to the odd Rangers game. It was great, I always remember
the excitement when there was a chance of going to Ibrox. Ibrox always
seemed massive when you were younger and the atmosphere for a boy that age
was something else. Infact the greatest atmosphere I've ever heard at ibrox
was a game my brother took me to. It was a Champions league game against
Parma, he came home from work one day and we darted in To ibrox without a
ticket just on the chance someone might be selling two, it was a bit iffy
because no-one in their right mind would Sell these tickets, it was a huge
game, a complete sell out. (well i say darted in, we would've been quicker
walking, we took the m8 and it was a nightmare..it didn't help that the car
was an overheating piece of crap my dad used for work neither)We got to
govan just round the corner from the stadium bar and sure enough through the
large crowd was some guy standing at his house with 2 tickets. John applied
the brakes, lets just say rather abruptly and jumped out the car and bought
these tickets. Both suffering from whiplash, we got into the stadium and
I've never heard anything like it, it made the hairs stand up at the back of
my neck, everyone sang their heart out for the full 90mins and belted out
every song they know..we won that day and I swear it must have been the
atmosphere that done it, we definitely were the 12th man.
Wee spot in holytown:
I had always dreamed of a season ticket and it wasn't until I got a full
time job that I managed to get one with John, by then John had settled down
with wife and kids, so because we didn't see each other a lot it definitely
got on better. The next step as season ticket holders was to arrange how we
were going to get into ibrox every week. We thought the bus was a good way
to get in because then could get a wee drink and avoid trying to park in at
ibrox. I tried several times to join another bus but nothing ever came of
it. With our first game coming up we were struggling and then my partner had
said she got the bus at holytown a few times and I could probably go on
that. So we went to the Masonic arms and became members with holytown loyal
supporters club and from the moment we entered we were always made welcome
by everyone. This is now the third season we have been on the bus and unless
we lose our tickets, then we wouldn't go anywhere else. I had spoke about
the atmosphere in the last paragraph and we all know it's not the same as
the good old days as rightly or wrongly they have banned most of our songs
now and its took away all atmosphere from the games at ibrox, but the thing
that makes up for it is when the holytown loyal bus is in full voice!
WE ARE THE PEOPLE
Blog 2 - My Way - Neto
1. BORN AND BRED
HI fellow bluenoses welcome 2 my blog 2 u bluenoses who dont know neto born in chapelhall that wee place just over the flyover. The best thing about it was leaving, 2 many tims peter grant and co. Was adopted by holytown mods about 1980 Archie Hall, Wully Gunn, Ricky Hill, as time went on things went down hill i ended up meeting guys like beefy n smith, the rest is history people.
2. ART OF SELF DEFENCE
During my visits 2 holytown i seemed 2 be a easy target for the hard men of holytown i had 2 walk chapelhall once or twice after they stole my bus fair so i decided 2 join tae kwon do, 4years later i held a black belt and various titles including Felix O'Neils lightweight title that i am very proud of. oh aye and smithys fys superheavyweight title. The worst thing that happened was when big SCOTT MENZIES went 2 canada if ur reading this scott i haven,t had a decent fight since u left.
3.THE CHAIRMAN
One of my proudest achievments since crossing the border was my role as holytown colts coach and chairman. 2 be involved in such a great football club and 2 c all the kids develop is a fantastic thing. I stepped down as chairman in 2008 but i left the club in good hands JASON McCREADIE AND COMMITEE.
4. THE REF
Of all the hobbies 2 take up i went for the man in black. My eyes were opened from standing at the sidelines shouting abuse now iam the guy taking abuse. Believe me guys its a lot harder in the middle than u think asked big GILK. Refs only get one chance at a incident we dont have the luxury of tv.
5.THE GERS
I cant think of a better way of ending my blog than RANGERS i have been watching the gers since i was a boy of 8 how things change from 9 years with no title then9 in a row. too players like McCOIST, GOUGH,
LAUDRUP, MOLS, compare these players to current players and easy to c quality is not there anymore we have to be relistic now we used shop at m+s now we shop at farmfoods. under the current climate the club is under i think walter smith has done very well yes his tactics r hard 2 watch sometimes . But as with any team u have 2 play 2 ur strengths. the main thing is we all must support the club no matter what.
All the best for now lads enjoy the rest of the season.
WE ARE THE PEOPLE
Blog 1..THANKS WALTER, SIR DAVID MURRAY AND BARRY FERGUSON
LAST SEASON the league flag returned home along with the Scottish cup.
It wasn't the best season or football we have ever seen but let's be honest...WHAT A RELIEF.
It just makes the whole summer that wee bit easier on us and allows us to have a wee snigger at the SELIK fans wearing those stupid ugly bumble bee tops...seriously what's that all about.
WALTER SMITH has now been back for a few seasons now and I for one am extremely happy with the work he has done.
Now I know everyones not his biggest fan this time round but at this particular stage of the clubs history, where basically we are skint, could anyone else do a better job?
Champions again and to be honest we should have been champions from the previous season as well.
The football hasn't been great but people often forget what he had to do.
We were absolute miles behind SELIK before he returned and the manager did tell everyone his first priority would be to shore up the back and make us harder to beat...no one disagreed that's what was need at the time and he duly delivered.
I for one am fed up with the SELIK fans and their media friends talking about playing football the Selik way and how we play anti-football.
Don't be fooled this is a pure and utter myth.
Selik haven't played good football since the late Tommy Burns was manager.. That includes their last two managers.
SIR DAVID MURRAY has stepped down as chairman and I would like to thank him for a job well done and wish him luck in his future.
He had a dream, we all bought into the dream and we were so close..good memories we have...9 IN A ROW.
BARRY FERGUSON has moved on and again I wish him all the best and thank him for the many times he played through the pain barrier for us and dragged us single handed to league and cup titles.
I'm positive he will do well again down south but also agree it was definitely the right time for the club to let him go.
Hopefully this will allow others to step up to the mark.
So there you have it my thoughts...praising Walter, Sir David and Barry Ferguson...If only everyone felt the same.
Cheers for now and let's hope we have a great season..The next blog will be after the SELIK game and will be written by big Neto so please allow for his spelling mistakes.
WE ARE THE PEOPLE
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