Originally Posted by indiana44:
“It is absolutely sad and pathetic how so many Rangers fans make clear that they would really like to see some SPL clubs really suffer, indeed maybe go bust, as if in some vengeance on the SPL, who are not the ones responsible for where Rangers are today.
Look, Rangers administration and eventual liquidation was all to do with Rangers and not the SPL. And then the SPL decided not to take the quite unprecedented step of inviting newco Rangers to fill the vacancy left by the oldco.
Vengeful pathetic spite on others, who had nothing to do with where Rangers find themselves today. Rangers collapsed from within and just about all their problems are self inflicted with the various murky characters who helped put them there and then these with much more mouth than money when real help was needed to get out.”
“It is absolutely sad and pathetic how so many Rangers fans make clear that they would really like to see some SPL clubs really suffer, indeed maybe go bust, as if in some vengeance on the SPL, who are not the ones responsible for where Rangers are today.
Look, Rangers administration and eventual liquidation was all to do with Rangers and not the SPL. And then the SPL decided not to take the quite unprecedented step of inviting newco Rangers to fill the vacancy left by the oldco.
Vengeful pathetic spite on others, who had nothing to do with where Rangers find themselves today. Rangers collapsed from within and just about all their problems are self inflicted with the various murky characters who helped put them there and then these with much more mouth than money when real help was needed to get out.”
I totally understand the bitterness from Rangers fans but i think its directed in completely the wrong area.
The one thing i dont get is the continued desire to see the SPL clubs fail and the references to how pathetic it is to have a club in Div 3 with the biggest attendances.
Rangers are a massive club with a huge fan base who are artificially placed in Div 3 - what do they expect to happen?
Rangers HAD to be punished and demoted. As it stands i think they have got off VERY lightly - not the fans - they dont deserve ANY of this, but the club itself.
The reason for the "its a new club" mentality from other fans isnt an attempt to have a cheap shot at Rangers fans, or at least i dont think it is. It is simply trying to enforce some sort of punishment on the club for what has gone before. If we accept that it is possible to spend your way to the top, go bust, not pay anyone what they are owed and simply re-invent yourself under the same banner in the same ground with the same fans and be the same club, is that really a punishment?
My heart goes out to the genuine Rangers fans, i have mates who have been gutted by the last 18 months, the likes of SCSS on here as well. These people dont deserve any of this. The club itself, on the other hand? Yes, they deserve it all and more in my view.
