The Sun report this week that “Rangers fans” had bought 100 tickets for the upcoming Dundee Utd versus Rangers match may well be true, but it should emphasise even more that Rangers fans should NOT be buying tickets for this match and should not put one penny more in to Dundee United.
While it may be accurate to state there will be 100 supporters in the away section in the aforementioned match, how can anyone be sure that the supporters are Rangers fans?
If we work on the assumption that those that have purchased said tickets are Rangers supporters, they have not only acted against the wishes of the vast majority of Rangers supporters, but also against the wishes of the club.
They have also just been used by Dundee United in a propaganda war against Rangers. How else would the Sun have concluded that 100 Rangers supporters have bought tickets?
So, just in case it isn’t sinking in how much this club detests Rangers, the ticket sales information mysteriously found its way to the Scottish Sun. How did it get there?
Would it be beyond the realms of possibility that Dundee United, in an attempt to undermine Rangers’ boycott and to cause friction within the Rangers support leaked it?
They may have failed spectacularly to achieve the former, but they have most certainly succeeded in achieving the latter.
I don’t doubt that some of that 100 will indeed be Rangers fans, but their “loyal” actions have compromised Rangers’ bargaining position, and allowed an enemy of Rangers FC to indulge in some (albeit desperate) one-upmanship that they should never have been allowed to do.
There is no good reason why any Rangers supporter should consider buying tickets for this match.
An unbroken attendance record?
Is it really worth giving power to our enemies, and to go against the wishes of the vast majority of the support and against the club, for some bragging rights?
Who are you going to brag to?
Most Rangers fans I know would be distinctly unimpressed by such a boast.
Let’s get things clear
The boycott was decided for a reason, and not on hearsay but cold hard fact. Dundee United were central to Rangers being shafted by the SPL last season, and not just when our application to transfer our SPL licence was refused, but also when the rules were changed on Administration and Insolvency events AFTER Rangers entered Administration.
If there was any chance that Rangers would come out of Administration, the risk that they would go back in to Administration was too much for even the hapless Duff and Phelps to consider, with such consequences.
http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/rangers/103942-spl-clubs-approve-new-financial-fair-play-rules-after-meeting-at-hampden/
It’s called shifting the goalposts.
Don’t forget, that while it’s easy for Rangers’ detractors to lambast Charles Green for making a stand and stating once and for all that Rangers and our support will no longer prop up those who tried to kill our club during it’s darkest days, and accuse him of over reacting, Green was the one who sat on the other side of the table during weeks of negotiations.
He is also well aware that the SPL knew last October of Rangers financial situation but stood by and did nothing as Rangers slid towards Administration.
He is also aware that the SPL are determined to punish Rangers, with a pre determined punishment of stripping Rangers of SPL titles.
He knows that Dundee United, along with Aberdeen, Celtic and Hibs are central to this ongoing agenda, with a hearing on the SPL’s flawed “investigation” of Rangers due to be heard just a week after the cup tie
Not one Rangers fan should be financing any of these clubs.
If you do so, you are sending out a clear message that Rangers fans are mugs and the club and support should continue to be shafted, as we will just accept whatever anyone chooses to do and continue to line pockets of Rangers’ enemies all over Scotland.
Rangers statement this morning is a subtle message to the support to put the club first, not your own personal attendance record
“The Club would like to remind supporters of the decision not to accept tickets for Tannadice and believe our fans, even those who take pride in following the Club to every match, understand our position.”
I’ve heard these supporters likened to as “scabs”.
That may be offensive, but, in many cases scabs shafted their workmates and compromised their bargaining position in order to put food on the table for their children, as unpalatable as their actions were to their colleagues
Our fans have no such excuse.
So, if you are one of the hundred, this would be the time to privately admit your mistake, bin the ticket, take the financial hit, and ensure that in future your actions are not selfish, but taken in consideration of Rangers the club, and the wider Rangers support
The club needs the support to back it, in order that the club, the team and the support are no longer shafted at every turn. A handful of matches should not be too much of a sacrifice to make to allow the club to strengthen.
This should be the position of ALL Rangers fans with regards to the hate filled four, until they apologise for their actions and are removed from the decision making processes of Scottish Football.
Bill.
Last time i looked this was the UK, and not North Korea.
ReplyDeleteCharles Green/Ally McCoist/Rangers' support dont pay my wages, nor do they take Taxes from me to use as they see fit, so they have no right to determine what i do with my money. Purchasing a ticket to watch this football match IS NOT against the Laws of the land.
If i choose to go, that is my right, if i chose to boycott that is also my right.
But to state that any of the 100 are worse than scabs as they have no real reason to go, is so far out of order, you couldnt see order if you used the Hubble telescope!
Will i go to the game...no way on this God's earth, but to paraphrase what is wrongly attributable to Voltaire, i will defend anyone's right to go to the game to the utmost.