It’s all about The Rangers

Sometimes I think that its Rangers who are keeping the fires burning of the Scottish media.

Of course, they are also joined by Channel 4 stooge Alex Thomson, who seems to be intent on sacrificing his own diminishing credibility to keep some bloggers tarred with a sectarian brush happy, and Graham Spiers, who has done a complete u turn against the Offensive Behaviour at football Act, despite being one of the main driving forces for it happening, and indeed advocating that thought crime should be punished.

In theory, I’d like us Rangers fans to be in a position to ignore these two cretins, and focus on the very pressing matters with the Rangers board, Dave King, and various supporters groups keen to gain a shareholding backed voice within the club but I have to say it gave me great pleasure to see Thomson ridiculed on Twitter on his latest claims that Rangers were set to announce Administration yesterday.

Spiers has largely escaped the wrath of the support and can count himself lucky that Thomson won clown of the day and deflected attention away from the disgusting move by Celtic to rescind the Act, now that the Act has shone a light on the dark republican underbelly of the Celtic support.

After decades of campaigning against “bigotry” and “sectarianism” it seems that the campaigners didn’t sit on some moral high ground at all, but were instead only seeking a licence for Celtic fans to do as they wish, while Rangers fans get jailed for challenging Irish Republicanism and support for racist terrorist groups.

Elsewhere the club’s financial woes keep the Daily Record in business as Dave King prepares to fly to the UK amidst some smoke and mirrors from the Rangers boardroom in a propaganda battle for the hearts and minds of the Rangers support.

While I noticed a poll on Vanguard Bears that only 3% of their members polled supported the current board, the relatively high percentage willing to give Graham Wallace a chance was something I agreed with, probably until this morning, when it became apparent that Sandy Easdale had misled supporters on Sky Sports News by claiming that Dave King had not offered to invest in the club.

Graham Wallace is a very credible board figure, who has a very impressive CV of the kind of level a Rangers CEO should have, but he must feel that he is surrounded by sharks and piranhas in murky boardroom waters, and he will need to assert his authority in that boardroom before his very impressive CV becomes tarnished.

I suspect that Wallace will need to bring forward his 120 Day review if he has any chance of maintaining the levels of confidence that many have in him,

Let me be clear, I have no agenda for any of the competing fan groups, or even for King, but for the club to be stabilised by someone capable of doing so, and structured in such a fashion that trust is earned and maintained in those running the club, and that we have a believable plan to return to the top of the Premier league within 3 years.

Will that happen under Wallace? Will it happen under King?

Frankly, until either of them tell us in detail how they will get there I can’t judge.

All I do know is that there needs to be a relatively quick resolution to this battle in order for the fans to believe the club are on the right track – whether it be through one side gaining control, or through some happy medium where both “sides” join forces for the good of the club.

Time will tell.

Bill