D'Artagnan

Not good enough - in fact not nearly good enough. Journo suggests to a player he pursue civil litigation against our club based upon not one but two complete falsehoods. Beyond belief.

And you dont think if it had been Halliday who was suspended the majority of bears would have taken Barton's side ? I think its more about trusting the manager's judgement than siding with a favourite

But the original question was why people were taking Hallday's side over Barton's and I offered a point of view on that - not the malaise we have suffered for some months now

Perhaps part of the reason for fans siding with Halliday over Barton is that the manager suspended the latter and not the former, which in an incident devoid of finer detail - tend to indicate where the problem lies.

"May all who look upon the old club with a friendly eye stand prepared, by precept and example, to protect its interests and its good name" (John Allan)

These statements may smack of sour grapes to you - they certainly dont to me. For years the dehumanisation of our support has been an ongoing factor - Ive written about it continually in various blogs. The useful idiots like Spiers and others referring to us as sub-human, neanderthal, medieval and underclass. We are now at a stage where both our club and our support are treated differently from others - I would have thought the events following the Cup Final would have been something of a watershed - clearly from your comments here they were not. If you think its merely "sour grapes" when our players are assaulted on the park (in the Jig case - without Police action) verbally abused & spat upon, and opposition fans invade the park and taunt, goad and incite Rangers supporters in the stands then your interpretation what constitutes "sour grapes" is clearly different from mine. "Kill All H***" Flags, Effigies of Rangers supporters hanging from the stands in mock style executions, Banners with "Know your place H** scum" ...all to a familiar chorus of "Sad Orange bastards" but never mind - its all just sour grapes.

Stevie is Legend !

A brilliant RSC - have been a guest of them on a number of occasions. I hope you dont mind Southdown but Im going to tweet your post to one of my best mates who is in the Toryglen RSC

Call it a hunch, but I think Galloway may require a change of underpants

Given the revelations yesterday courtesy of the IPSO ruling - I wont be taking morailty lessons from any journo thank you very much.

Irrespective of who he works for bud - its disappointing that breaching editorial guidelines appears to be of little concern within that industry

I suspect RB, and hope, they are taking their time to issue a measured, appropriate and effective response. They owe it to the fans to do so

Like a mighty gavel thundering down on the bench, the IPSO ruling on the Daily Record story produced by journalist Jane Hamilton was as powerful as it was damning. For those who have not yet seen it in full it can be found here: https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=03188-16 Perhaps of particular significance is the very detailed “Remedial Action” which IPSO attached to their findings and which subsequently appeared in the Daily Record. I will leave you all to draw your own conclusions on that one. The entailment of the findings, and any disciplinary action deemed necessary by either the Daily Record or Police Scotland, will of course rest with organisations which both our club and support have little or no influence. And it’s at this point I would stress caution. Perhaps some of you will remember the fabrication of a story in respect of another group of Rangers supporters – Vanguard Bears – and on this occasion also IPSO were involved and ruled in favour of the complaint raised. https://immortalrangers.wordpress.com/2014/09/24/the-sunday-herald-the-war-on-truth/ The same Neil McKay is now The Editor of the Sunday Herald – it seems this breach of editorial guidelines did his career no harm whatsoever. If these series of events has not convinced you that our club needs a powerful, effective supporters organisation capable of responding to slurs against either our club or support – then frankly I don’t know what will. What a lot of you won’t know however is that following the publication of the Hamilton story elements of the Club 1872 working group were working tirelessly in the background building an irrefutable case proving, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Hamilton’s story was total fabrication. And I know this because I was contacted personally and was able to furnish them with some details to further their objective. One is left to ponder if the same tawdry procedures, failure to adhere to normal editorial guidelines, and other failings highlighted by IPSO would have been present had this been any other group or collection of people other than Rangers supporters. No-one needs told what the potential consequences were of this fabricated story and the impact they could have had on retrospective investigations into the Cup Final aftermath. The seriousness of this matter, the attempts to lay blame with the Rangers support for the failing of others, should guide our board into an appropriate response, considering all the circumstances, to the newspaper in question. The back of the camel is already broken – this incident should prove to be the final straw.

Calum Steele - he tweeted that these anonymous reports "were consistent with reports he had received". When the flak stated to fly he insisted he was tweeting in a "personal capacity" All covered here Al https://immortalrangers.wordpress.com/2016/05/29/7-days-which-shookour-world-part-2/

I'll just leave this extract out there...