The Official Glasgow Rangers Thread

[2013ZetecS]

A solid 3-1 home win to start the league season at a packed Ibrox.

Was quite nervy at times as we can still be more clinical in front of goal and put the game to bed, but kept going until the end again, such a big improvement compared to the turgid displays of the last few seasons.

[Driver101]

2013ZetecS said:

More examples of amazing Scottish football fans


No doubt they'll all claim their Twitter accounts were hacked and get off with it, meanwhile if a Rangers fans sings a song, he's sent to jail.

The Republic of Scotland, don't you just love it?

I guess the last couple of days prove why taking silly tit for tat comments into an argument is silly?

The abuse aimed at Allan now is 1000x worse and by far more people.

It doesn't help when mainstream journalists fuel the fire talking about how his life will be made a misery now.

technodup said:

The Edinburgh Celtic are hurting.

It's amazing how things can turn. You do have to laugh.

[Kakopetria]

That's right driver get you're dig in , you really are a tit

[Driver101]

Kakopetria said:

That's right driver get you're dig in , you really are a tit

Oh come on, less of the insults.

I could have said something really to wind people up, but I didn't. It's just banter in keeping with what people have posted here.

Just read the earlier comments, the digs were flowing when there was the chance, or should I say potential chance?

It is hugely ironic, and funny, that Rangers fans still get on their high horse, but it still keeps exploding in their faces.

2013Zetecs trying to paint Scotland as some hateful country on the basis of a few people and Rangers fans as saints. However I'm sure most people would agree that Rangers fans are by far, far the worst. His earlier comments have been absolutely ruined by the insults and threats that Allan is now getting. Like I said earlier, there is no need to bring them into the public domain as they happen a lot. There is plenty of idiots that support every team. They also take to social media for other matters too.

I didn't even quote the statements so he could remove them. He didn't, so he can have some humble pie.

Then there was all the gloating in Hibs faces, thinking Rangers could bully their way into signing a player that was apparently desperate to play for them.

This has been an embarrassing situation for Rangers. If they had the money to buy Allan, he would have been a Rangers player weeks ago. Offering poor money and having to pay in instalments was always going to fall flat on its face. Surprising the offer was so tight for the player that all the Rangers fans said was the best young Scottish player, and potentially world class, is what I've read over and over.

Got a feeling he'll spend the next 4 years warming the bench at Celtic, or loaned out soon enough.

The whole debacle shows where Rangers are at just now.

Aren't you a bit frightened that your team can't even afford a few hundred grand for a player?

[moanthebairns]

Money wasn't the reason.

Hibs wouldn't sell to a rival club. This has to be commended.

[Driver101]

moanthebairns said:

Money wasn't the reason.

Hibs wouldn't sell to a rival club. This has to be commended.

If Rangers offered a good price, he would have been gone. They offered poor money and could only pay it in instalments. That isn't a good deal for Hibs at all. One of their best players gone, yet can't replace him as they have to wait for the money.

Now they've got some cash, plus a player to add to their team for a year. They were going to lose Allan for nothing after a while.

Every team in Scotland has a price for every player, this scenario was really poor for Hibs. It was good they stood up for themselves though proving they can't be bullied around by Rangers.

I still can't see Hibs coming up this year. I think Rangers will win the league by a few points, maybe 6 or so. That's assuming that they can balance the books this year.

[Kakopetria]

Driver are you trying to give Hibs some kind of integrity here ,what' a laugh we won't sell , well not until we get our latest share issue out of the way first .Their fans taken for a ride again but everything is ok because we've put one over on those bds .Celtic and Scott Alan why? About to lose their centre half , desperately needing a full back,also a centre forward of genuine quality yet what do they do sign a midfielder when they are already overrun with them .I doubt Ronnie had anything to do with this signing it's got LieWelll written all over it

[technodup]

Let's get this straight, Scott Allan won't be a world class player. Especially now he'll be warming Celtic's bench until he moves on again. Rangers offered an amount of money they thought was appropriate and were knocked back. Celtic offered a bit more and were accepted on the basis they were not direct competition.

For those wanting Rangers to pay over the odds for average players fk me, can we not learn anything from recent history?

And as for Allan, good riddance. Money hungry turncoat wee bawbags are the last thing we need at Ibrox. I can't stand the sight of Miller for the same reason. And it wasn't like the offers were coming thick and fast, he had his head turned by Celtic's well worn ruse of buying up promising players and letting them rot so nobody else gets the benefit from them. Not much of a Rangers man and not much brains either.

Have a great career Scott. Somewhere in the lower reaches of England's League 1 probably. We might see you on the bench next year.

[Granfondo]

technodup said:

Let's get this straight, Scott Allan won't be a world class player. Especially now he'll be warming Celtic's bench until he moves on again. Rangers offered an amount of money they thought was appropriate and were knocked back. Celtic offered a bit more and were accepted on the basis they were not direct competition.

For those wanting Rangers to pay over the odds for average players fk me, can we not learn anything from recent history?

And as for Allan, good riddance. Money hungry turncoat wee bawbags are the last thing we need at Ibrox. I can't stand the sight of Miller for the same reason. And it wasn't like the offers were coming thick and fast, he had his head turned by Celtic's well worn ruse of buying up promising players and letting them rot so nobody else gets the benefit from them. Not much of a Rangers man and not much brains either.

Have a great career Scott. Somewhere in the lower reaches of England's League 1 probably. We might see you on the bench next year.

"If they spend £5 we'll spend £10!"

Funny how he was good enough for new rangers to make 3 offers but now he is only good enough to play at the bottom of ED1.
But still he would have looked a world class player in your mob!

[technodup]

Granfondo said:

"If they spend £5 we'll spend £10!"

You're using quotes from a guy who's not been at the club for 5 years?

Granfondo said:

Funny how he was good enough for new rangers to make 3 offers but now he is only good enough to play at the bottom of ED1.

Hilarious until you realise the level the Scottish Championship is at. Unlike some I couldn't give a fk about Scott Allan, I only want players who want to play for Rangers. The sort who would never dream of entering the piggery never mind play for them (or not play as it's likely to be).

And remember you're currently behind Hearts who were in the Championship last year, and you're about to get found out for the 4th time in two years how good you are at European level.

[2013ZetecS]

Another tremendous victory today, this team under Warburton are playing so well right now, can't wait for the next game! 5-1 victory including two goals chopped off for offside and hitting the woodwork twice.

Edited by 2013ZetecS on Sunday 16th August 14:51

[Driver101]

technodup said:

Let's get this straight, Scott Allan won't be a world class player. Especially now he'll be warming Celtic's bench until he moves on again. Rangers offered an amount of money they thought was appropriate and were knocked back. Celtic offered a bit more and were accepted on the basis they were not direct competition.

For those wanting Rangers to pay over the odds for average players fk me, can we not learn anything from recent history?

And as for Allan, good riddance. Money hungry turncoat wee bawbags are the last thing we need at Ibrox. I can't stand the sight of Miller for the same reason. And it wasn't like the offers were coming thick and fast, he had his head turned by Celtic's well worn ruse of buying up promising players and letting them rot so nobody else gets the benefit from them. Not much of a Rangers man and not much brains either.

Have a great career Scott. Somewhere in the lower reaches of England's League 1 probably. We might see you on the bench next year.

I know he'll never be world class. However I'm sure we all read how many thousand Rangers supporters had been saying that for weeks on end. They were going mental about the prospect of signing the guy.

I've never seen such hype about singing any player before as the Rangers forums had for Allan. On the Hibs forum and they had 100 pages of people getting upset. They linked to the Rangers forum and they had thread running with over 400 pages and worshipping Allan and bigging him up massively.

The word average was never used.

In light of him signing for Celtic, the huge thread and all the others were deleted as if it hadn't happened.

The money Rangers offered was more than they could afford. They had to offer the money in instalments. Let's not pretend the vast majority of fans were begging for Rangers to spend more for Allan, asking King to actually show a little cash.

They were still fully expecting him to move. Look how many Rangers men took to the press to tell Hibs there is no point keeping a player that wants to move. Everyone was queuing up to heap pressure on Hibs.

I'm sure we all thought it was going to happen too. We've seen the same standoff before with clubs. Scottish clubs just can't afford to pass up on money. Hibs couldn't afford to lose the guy for nothing when his contract was up.

People hang on to this idealism about a boy living the dream playing for the club they support. Look how many guys come through at the club they supported, then move on to bigger things.

You can't really blame a player showing some ambition to play at the highest level they can.

How can you call him a money hungry turncoat?

Firstly you've no idea what Rangers would offer him in wages. We've no idea what he's getting at Celtic either.

As you say, he never had the option to move to Rangers as they didn't offer enough to give Allan the option to move to Rangers.

He's just a professional footballer trying to earn a living. He'd probably be getting paid poorly at Hibs. You can't blame anyone trying to do the best they can in their career.

Edited by Driver101 on Sunday 16th August 16:25

[technodup]

Driver101 said:

The money Rangers offered was more than they could afford. They had to offer the money in instalments.

It's hardly unusual for transfer fees to be paid in instalments. You don't know what Rangers can afford.

Driver101 said:

How can you call him a money hungry turncoat?

Firstly you've no idea what Rangers would offer him in wages. We've no idea what he's getting at Celtic either.

As you say, he never had the option to move to Rangers as they didn't offer enough to give Allan the option to move to Rangers.

How is he not a turncoat? A Rangers fan 'playing' for Celtic? If he is a Rangers fan then only one thing would make you play for Celtic and that is money.

At any of the three clubs he'd be on a decent enough wage all things considered. If I was him I'd have waited for Hibs to accept an offer from Rangers, or wait until an offer came from another club. Any club except Celtic.

All the other stuff aside, Rangers men don't play for Celtic.

[shocks]

technodup said:

All the other stuff aside, Rangers men don't play for Celtic.

This ^^^ sums up what is wrong with bigoted Glasgow side of the beautiful game.

Players are professionals with a limited working life with which to make money. As for the above statement, Kenny Miller, Alfie Conn, Mo Johnstone, Steven Pressley and Mark Brown... Would disagree.

[reggaj]

technodup said:

All the other stuff aside, Rangers men don't play for Celtic.

Really? Paul lambert being one.. I really couldn't give a monkeys who he supports if I'm honest, fact is we got him on the cheap and you never, can't see him getting much game time ahead of the internationals already ahead of him in the pecking order, we certainly won't lose on him that's for sure. Could even loan him to you if your that desperate

[technodup]

shocks said:

technodup said:

All the other stuff aside, Rangers men don't play for Celtic.

This ^^^ sums up what is wrong with bigoted Glasgow side of the beautiful game.

Players are professionals with a limited working life with which to make money. As for the above statement, Kenny Miller, Alfie Conn, Mo Johnstone, Steven Pressley and Mark Brown... Would disagree.

Mo Johnston was a Celtic fan ffs, and his was a different case altogether. And as for Kenny Miller, he's turned more times than a referee's coin. We should never have had him back imo. Maybe I should have said real Rangers men don't play for Celtic.

'Rangers have treated me so well, the fans have become like a family to me. 'No matter how much money was put in front of me, I would never sign for Celtic.' - Nacho Novo

"Celtic could offer me all the money in the world, I'd never play for them, I simply wouldn't do that to Rangers, my fans and to myself" - Jörg Albertz

Are they bigots too? I hope Allan enjoys his money, he'll have plenty of time on the manky green bench to think how to spend it.

[Driver101]

technodup said:

Driver101 said:

The money Rangers offered was more than they could afford. They had to offer the money in instalments.

It's hardly unusual for transfer fees to be paid in instalments. You don't know what Rangers can afford.

Driver101 said:

How can you call him a money hungry turncoat?

Firstly you've no idea what Rangers would offer him in wages. We've no idea what he's getting at Celtic either.

As you say, he never had the option to move to Rangers as they didn't offer enough to give Allan the option to move to Rangers.

How is he not a turncoat? A Rangers fan 'playing' for Celtic? If he is a Rangers fan then only one thing would make you play for Celtic and that is money.

At any of the three clubs he'd be on a decent enough wage all things considered. If I was him I'd have waited for Hibs to accept an offer from Rangers, or wait until an offer came from another club. Any club except Celtic.

All the other stuff aside, Rangers men don't play for Celtic.

It isn't unusual to pay transfer fees in instalments. However I don't recall anyone paying such a small sum in instalments. It's pretty embarrassing.

You're right I don't know. However they can't afford to pay the debts they already have, plus the fact they needed to make this transfer attempt by paying in miserable instalments, plus the fact they've been hanging by a thread for long enough having to rob Peter to pay Paul, and the chairman has said the club needs investment, it's pretty clear Rangers can't afford much.

No money has magically appeared. Given the club's financial position for long enough, spending any money is too much.

Also the banks don't trust Rangers to loan them money, so it's very unfair to ask Hibs to trust Rangers, more so given the previous collapse.

Hibs don't pay that much money. I'm sure if you had the chance to treble your wages, it'd be a job to hold you back.

What is a Rangers man? Haven't you learned that all the men you thought were Rangers men will look after number 1 at the expense of the club? Look how many have stated they don't see you as the same club.

We read for two years that Lee McCulloch was a true Rangers man and a legend after he TUPED over after liquidation. Fans wanted him installed in the hall of fame.

The Rangers men in the stands then turned on this loyal Rangers man and booed and abused him every week. He left on a very sour note.

Spend 10 minutes reading any football forum and Rangers men can't get on with each other. The internal bickering is way more than any club.

So what is a Rangers man when you all happily turn on each other very quickly?

Football is just a job to many. They are all there to earn as much as they can.

Most people don't care about the politics and religion like you think.

The dream of a this Rangers man doesn't really exist.

Edited by Driver101 on Sunday 16th August 21:45

Edited by Driver101 on Sunday 16th August 21:46

Edited by Driver101 on Sunday 16th August 21:49

[Kakopetria]

Driver
are you in the green brigade? You certainly are a bitter bitter man

[Driver101]

Kakopetria said:

Driver
are you in the green brigade? You certainly are a bitter bitter man

Bitter? Where?

[Granfondo]

What is strange about this transfer is the fact it was only a few hundred thousand pounds and Mistur King said he was going to invest £30 million to rebuild the team?

Of course he is a "real rangers man". A lying cheating tax evading ...,,;)