stein and johnston
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Mate, I’m just a few years older than you so I can relate to what you’re saying.
Watching Rangers is like a roller coaster ride.
But I’m positive there’s more highs than lows to come.
It’s a tough slog at times being a Rangers man
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Watching Rangers is like a roller coaster ride.
But I’m positive there’s more highs than lows to come.
Blue114
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I liked your comment, and I agree with most of it in principle… the first two sentences…
But the last sentence, I’m a little confused as to who that’s referring to !
Apologies as I’m a little pissed , but are you really referring to a specific type of ranger’s fan as an entitled mouth breathing puddle drinker lol ?
Blue114
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You kinda nailed it mate, but it’s way too long for a Tattoo unfortunately lol…I often think to myself ‘why, oh why do I do this to myself?’. Other times I wonder, sometimes out loudly that I wish I had never become interested in football. I even, on occasions, genuinely think I really ‘hate’ football. I’d certainly be much much better off financially if I didn’t bother with it
Then I walk up Mafeking Street and the stadium enters my view. The singing when the team comes out, the cheering, that feeling when we win. That’s what makes it all worth while. Our heritage, our colours and the passion of 50,000 other supporters.
Life would be a boring old slog until you die if nothing could raise your BP and adrenaline levels a bit, and you didn’t have an absolute passion.
WarnbroTavernier
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This is my worry. At this stage it’s inevitable they’ll overtake our trophy haul in everything. I was brought up through NIAR and never thought we’d be second best for so long like we are now. There doesn’t seem enough desire to change that either
weetam3106
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Supporting Rangers is like having an abusive partner that you keep going back to after a fall out. We are in love with the club but sometimes they treat us really badly, yet time and time again we go back for more, we do so in the hope that this time it’ll be better. Sadly, in recent times it has not.
When it appears like they are trying at least we can see that but in recent weeks it’s been kind of hard to accept they either give a %^*& or that they care enough.
I fear for the next few years when inevitably we don’t win this years league. The scum are there to be stopped but I’m just not sure if the current squad care enough about us to make it happen.
When it appears like they are trying at least we can see that but in recent weeks it’s been kind of hard to accept they either give a %^*& or that they care enough.
I fear for the next few years when inevitably we don’t win this years league. The scum are there to be stopped but I’m just not sure if the current squad care enough about us to make it happen.
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The Sultan
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A fine analogy, and sadly one which I think sums up the modern relationship between football fan and board, not just in the case of Rangers but across football.
Burgh-Ger
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I disagree, they may have the financial advantage but there is a limit to the standard of player that can be attracted to the league.
This season should be much closer than the 3 points gap, thats been well covered on here.
We need to get the recruitment correct - it’s vital. There are gems out there!!
BlancaBear
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What happens when this rich persons money runs out? Do we just keep finding new rich people to spend their own money on Rangers.
We need a proper, sustainable planning.
Martin1983
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Was talking to a young supporter at a job I was at, then it clicked , she had only really seen us win one title. Fair play to them for bring real Rangers supporters !
BlueHaze
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The problem is they have the financial clout to up their game whenever they see the need and access to next seasons champions league will add to that advantage.
correct mate
football is unpredictable ( atalanta v liverpool )
real life isnt a computer game where you set parameters
bob1873
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Well mate what about Red Bull? Was strongly rumoured a couple of years ago. Done okay for Leipzig and Salzburg.
Saltcoatsblu
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I'm in the same boat bud, seen the highs, suffered the lows, but do you know what!, i wouldn't change it for the world, to be like them. had the misfortune of being on a train heading back to Ayrshire when that rabble boarded, the ugliest shittiest support i've ever seen, self entitled rsoles
if there ever was one, good days will be back, 2012 was hard to take, but i wouldn't swap their one- horse e-mailed trophies for any thing, PC will bring his own men in and we'll roll on, every trophy we win kills them, lets start today with this semi-final
I agree, sometimes it is a tough slog, particularly the last decade, outwith 55. But, getting back on a supporters bus after a great win, or being in a Rangers pub or club with your own, or even any pub watching the Gers with others of the same ilk, there's not many things better.
BlueArmada
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Been following since the early 2000s where we shared trophies between us in what was an entertaining decade of football. Then 2012-2018 was a period largely of grinning and bearing it as we suffered some of our worst ever humiliations.
This current spell might be the most frustrating though. We're not a million miles off them but they seem to just be able to hold us at arms length. They're not unbeatable but you get the sense that our players don't really believe they can win against them.
Overall it's like we're back to us needing them to have a bad season while we also have a really good season (including good fortune with injuries) in order to win anything. It shouldn't have been this way after 55.
As it stands I'm clinging to the notion that things can change quickly in football. Wish these changes would hurry up though.
This current spell might be the most frustrating though. We're not a million miles off them but they seem to just be able to hold us at arms length. They're not unbeatable but you get the sense that our players don't really believe they can win against them.
Overall it's like we're back to us needing them to have a bad season while we also have a really good season (including good fortune with injuries) in order to win anything. It shouldn't have been this way after 55.
As it stands I'm clinging to the notion that things can change quickly in football. Wish these changes would hurry up though.
rinosprayer
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Very similar age with similar aged boys.
I gave the one LCF ticket I had to my eldest (20) as he had never seen a trophy lift at Hampden
Caldow3
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Judge, jury and executioner on here sometimes mate.
Perish the thought we put our thoughts on this forum
I was thinking the same the other day. But as soon as the CL spot (that we earned) is taken away, they'll start coming back to us.
It's not ideal - I'd rather catch them, given the choice. But them regressing is inevitable, as they're not knocking out a PSV/Benfica/Lille level club in a qualifier. No way.
So 5 years tops before it's level again, in my opinion.
GillespiesLeftBoot
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Large swathes of the modern support grew up in the "next year will be even better" era - late 80's to late 90's, I think that's a major factor contributing to things tbh.
That goes for the football era in which we were smashing it, and equally just the era to be in the post-Cold War/Berlin Wall era. Both being a supporter of Rangers, and growing or coming of age in an era of continued growth, hope, and optimism...wild in retrospect.
That goes for the football era in which we were smashing it, and equally just the era to be in the post-Cold War/Berlin Wall era. Both being a supporter of Rangers, and growing or coming of age in an era of continued growth, hope, and optimism...wild in retrospect.
The People
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A lot of good points in there mate
Sadly Them regressing not us progressing is the likely case
