The Good, The Bad and The Petty

So we’re now four matches into the new Scottish League One season and I think all Bears are in agreement that we couldn’t have got off to a better start. Three clean sheets and eighteen goals is quite a remarkable tally, despite the level we are currently playing at.

New signings Nicky Law and Jon Daly have been a big hit amongst the Ibrox legions. I was quite critical of Daly in an earlier blog I wrote during pre-season, but I hope the big Irishman continues to prove me wrong.

Nicky Clark started for The Light Blues against East Fife yesterday and scored within seconds of his debut. He looks a bright, young spark in the new-look side and hopefully there’s many more goals to follow.

It’s also been refreshing to the Rangers support that faces like Kal Naismith and Darren Cole have left the Club. Naismith has moved on to Accrington Stanley to ply his trade in English League Two. Personally, I wasn’t a fan of the guy, but hopefully he’s found a level of football that matches his ability.

Cole was gave his jotters after failing to show up for a friendly featuring our reserve team. A severe breach of contract was commited and Ally had no choice but to show him the door. Questions must be raised as to why he was given a new contract in the first place, given his long injury history.

From the Champions League to the local Jobcentre… Now, that’s quite a journey.

Our Nando’s generation is being torn up player after player and for the Club, that can only be a good thing.

Our pitbull in midfield Ian Black has also been in the news after he allegedly broke several rules over betting in football. 160 times he placed bets through an online Ladbrokes account. Three of those bets he wagered upon were against his own team. Something that is morally indefenceable.

It is not yet known if he was a Rangers player when he placed those three bets. And due to the incompetence of the SFA, we may possibly never know.

However, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. But if there has been any wrongdoing on his behalf then he must go. We are a Club of high standards and holding on to him if he is proven guilty would be hypocritical of everything Rangers FC stands for.

It’s a shame really, given his wonderful start to the new season. He looks like a different player in comparison to last season. This silly SFA charge has taken the attention off his booming introduction to the new season.

Whilst things have been great on the field, the same can’t be said for off it. Our boardroom is in chaos, leaving our devoted supporters baying for blood.

Rangers bloggers and fans of the Club are constantly bitching amongst themselves and throwing around personal, petty insults about each other.

Every RFC-related forum also seems to have it’s own wee agenda in the works.

Some bloggers and organisations have made complete fools of themselves and at the same time, others have launched needless, scathing attacks on fellow Bears.

I was recently speaking to a girl named Joanne Taylor (@JoTaylor_rfc) on Twitter and she made the very good point that we’re supposed to be football fans. She couldn’t have been more right.

We should be leaving the finances to the people who have been hired to take care of them and to the shareholders of the Club, who for obvious reasons would hold an interest in the balance sheet of Rangers FC.

All I care about is the team winning trophies. And a lot of people share that very same view.

I visit Ibrox to watch my favourite football club play. I have done since I was a wee boy growing up in Glasgow’s East End. I don’t buy a season ticket every year to chant poppycock or to protest about current or former board members. It would be a complete waste of money, in my honest opinion.

I go to Ibrox in the hope that the eleven blue jerseys on the field that day can walk back down the tunnel with all three points safely in the bag.

These people on the board at Rangers don’t pay my wages at the end of every month or put food on my table, so I really couldn’t give a toss on what they say or do. It doesn’t affect my personal life and if it ever does start to worry me or possess my every thought, then I’ll be in trouble.

I can understand though, to an extent, why some fans are so interested in the behind-the-scenes malarkey over in Govan but I personally couldn’t give a shit.

I never knew so many of our fans had business degrees and whatnot either. On a plus note, Caledonian University will have a great alumni.

Some of these folk seriously need to get a life and tune out of the Internet once in a while. Perhaps even get a girlfriend or a job instead of being glued to the web 24/7.

Or an equally better thing to do would be to go to Ibrox, sit in the stands with your scarf on and actually support the football team without bringing up all the boardroom rigmarole.

I blog occasionally as a hobby. I like to write and for those reading, I aim to please, regardless of whether or not you agree with me. I don’t do it to throw around personal insults to fellow Bears or to boost my over-inflated ego, to give me a big head or to make me think I’m worth more than I actually am.

I have too much going on in my own life to give a toss about the movements or dealings of a guy in a suit and too busy to constantly document or highlight it over the Internet.

But each to their own. Whatever floats your boat.

Yes, I believe it’s a supporter’s right to be informed, but I, like many of us Bears, are football fans. Not business admirers but just admirers of the Beautiful Game.

Sure, I chat about the boardroom upset with friends and read about it in the tabloids. One thing I don’t do is let it warp my mind completely. We all have our own problems and worries in life.

No, I don’t agree with the 100% bonuses paid to Charles Green and Brian Stockbridge for the team winning the Third Division last season. But it’s done now. There’s nothing we can do about it. We can try our best to ensure it doesn’t happen again, but it ultimately boils down to the valid point that businessmen are only interested in making money. There’s nothing wrong with that either. After all, those are the guys with the money to put up.

It’s about time some of us stopped obsessing over the bureaucracy of football, grew up and starting paying some attention the actual football team who we supposedly love.

When we were in administration, the unity between our fans was just about the only thing that wasn’t broken over at Ibrox.

In just over a year-and-a-half, it’s all went to buggery. What on Earth has happened? Look at yourselves and ask that question.

Don’t let social media and pettiness destroy our amazing fanbase.

We are the World’s most successful football club. Our fans should be acting in a much more dignified manner. Leave it to Timothy to fight with his fellow supporters.

Also, I’d like to offer my sincere condolences to the family of the Rangers fan who tragically passed away at Ibrox during our 5-0 win over East Fife.

Hopefully this sad incident taking place will put a lot of stuff into perspective for certain people.