flyingrodent

Is this the first run out for the best Celtic first eleven? Have to be confident, given a worse Celtic team were pretty unlucky to lose the last game at Ibrox.

This is some hilarious irony, right here. The Rangers fans' idiotic insistence that the Oldco didn't benefit from multi-million pound cheating is actually taking most of the heat off Dave King for the Newco's financially catastrophic European exit. That is, their desperation to retain the trophies they scammed in the past is actively helping to prevent them from winning any competitions in the future. it's Darwinism in action, right here on the football forum.

I don't think anyone in Scotland really believes that's true, not even you. To be fair though, everyone in Scotland readily accepts that the Newco has no sporting advantage.

If it's so obvious that Rangers didn't cheat, you'd think their fans would want some kind of overarching inquiry, if only to confirm that they didn't cheat once and for all. But they're not keen on the idea, for some strange reason. Very odd, that.

Is the The Kincardine who is repeatedly insisting that LNS found Rangers guilty the same The Kincardine who responded to the LNS verdict by repeatedly insisting LNS had only found Rangers guilty of "administrative errors"? I'll say this for the "moon howlers": you get the same exaggeration and over-excitement you do on most online forums, but their position has been fairly consistent since the Rangers cheating story broke. The Newco fans though, they've been all over the place for years, desperate flailing. The only consistent position they've held is their utter refusal to look reality in the eye.

God, check out the excitement on the Rangers fans. They never learn. Going by the glaring tactical ineptitude of last season's performances, it's clear that giving Pedro a better team is like giving a gorilla a knife and fork.

So to sum up, the Rangers fans really, really don't like being reminded that their new club is a new club. Fascinating information, I'm sure nobody will use this knowledge to wind them up in future, on a daily or hourly basis.

Not sure how upset Dundee fans are going to be about an insolvency event from almost 120 years ago m8

Of course there was a media frenzy, ya daftie. That's what tends to happen when people learn that one of the largest clubs in the country's most popular sport has spent ten years cheating; has deliberately covered it up and is about to go bankrupt & die. Exactly the same thing would happen if it was Celtic or Chelsea or Real Madrid. The point is that the media sensation is a reaction, not the action itself. Most people don't have to be instructed to be angry about being scammed, because they can see it for themselves. If you crap on my rug, I don't need the Daily Record to tell me whether it stinks.

It's a strange world that the Rangers fans live in, really. Maybe there are people who, without encouragement from the press, would look at what happened at Ibrox and think: Perhaps that was all perfectly legit. I do like the idea that the papers and the evil bloggers "whipped people into a frenzy", as if less sensational reporting would've meant everyone would've been quite happy to learn Rangers had been cheating for ten years and were attempting to walk away from their bad debts. As if everyone would've looked at the liquidation of the club and the sale of its assets and said, Yes, that is a club that is alive and kicking and is in no way defunct. It's a bit like that mental Vangaurd Bears piece the other day, in which the author watched Celtic stroll to three easy wins against Rangers and concluded that it was the media's fault, for being overly nationalist and irish.

Very much enjoying the new season of The Rangers Saga. I thought the writers lost it a bit last year - a bit so-so and humdrum - but that explosive finale at Hampden, this year's comedy performances and the whole Barton sub-plot has proven that there's years of hilarity left in the show.

It's naive to assume that Rangers have lost the head here. As mental as their statement is, it was written by professional public relations hacks. They know exactly what they're doing.

Cynically, if I was on Rangers' PR team and I was quite shameless, I'd be saying anything to get "We are the victims" onto the front pages before the cops and the SFA start reviewing videos and handing out fines. It puts pressure on the authorities to make an example of Hibs and to go easy on Rangers, regardless of what the evidence actually shows. When the beaks hand down thumping fines to both teams, as they will surely have to after looking at the videos of who was attacking whom, then the fun will really start.

That's quite an impressively mental way of looking at it, mate. No doubt loads of them are hypocritical posturers, but not everything that happens in the Parliament is a maniacal quest to annoy the Scottish National Party.