One of the most refreshing aspects of Rangers new adventure in division 3 has been the "loss" of the Old Firm hostilities.
Speaking for both myself and many fellow bears, we have enjoyed this journey, even if the results have not been at a level we would naturally expect.
The liberation of not having any distraction from across the city has more than softened the blow.
Most of the Rangers fans I know have lost all interest in the SPL.
The only remaining interest for many is the dwindling crowds in the largely forgotten league.
You'd have thought, therefor, that Celtic fans would be enjoying the SPL without Rangers, and their first season in the Champions League for a number of years. Sadly not.
As their crowds dwindle, and their officials release false crowd figures, it becomes apparent that up to 10,000 season ticket holders who paid their money up front cannot be bothered to support their team.
While the money men will be less concerned, the crowds of 31-35,000 must be a huge disappointment to the players and football management.
Why these fans have lost interest is pretty clear. Their "support" of their own club is motivated more by an obsession and hatred of Rangers than it is by a love of their own club.
This is not only evident at the stadium of green seats, but all over the web sites polluted by these haters.
The hatred as been oh so evident this week from usual suspects Phil Macgiollabhain and his useful idiot Alex Thompson, but this expanding world of hatred online has spawned a couple more haters this week on two seperate blogs.
One one called "fields of green" the writer displayed a level of obsession that has to be seen to be believed (just once) to see just how poisonous a mind can get.
His basic tenet was that we (the Rangers support) are too emotional and would be angered by him telling us what all our "faults" are.
The problem was that about two pages in to his rant it becomes clear that the only person consumed with emotion and hatred is the writer.
It's not a healthy level of disdain either, it's a pathological hatred of Rangers, and our support from someone who is disturbed.
I actually find it disconcerting that there are such damaged individuals out there in our midst.
It's something all Rangers fans should be aware of, in order that we understand the type of people we may be dealing with.
We as a support should be clear with each other, and with the club.
We should not compromise and should not give an inch at all, as some of our enemies (and they are enemies, make no mistake) will never be happy and will never stop demonising us and trying to damage our club.
Take note.
Bill.
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