Rangers FC On Field Gossip & Rumour Thread 2017 Mod Note in OP(Updated 14/08)

A Dub in Glasgo

You had no idea? it is tumpeted at every turn! World records and all that

General Relativity

Good showing by the Rangers fans, no doubt. I'd like to see ticket price stats too. Surly they can't be charging SPL prices in Div 3.

Broxi_Bear_Eire

General Relativity wrote: »

Good showing by the Rangers fans, no doubt. I'd like to see ticket price stats too. Surly they can't be charging SPL prices in Div 3.

No your right ticket prices are about £15 for a home game, but they will be rising season by season along with the price of season tickets of which there are roughly 38,000

Broxi_Bear_Eire

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

You had no idea? it is tumpeted at every turn! World records and all that

Nah not worth it

Peppa Pig

Celtic are only getting 23,000 for home matches:eek: That's not good.

Charles Green wrote:

"You only have to look at Celtic's league attendance," he added. "The most successful team in Scotland today is Celtic, yet for a home league game they can't get half of what we are getting.

STV Link

Broxi_Bear_Eire

Peppa Pig wrote: »

Celtic are only getting 23,000 for home matches:eek: That's not good.


STV Link

They may well be but with season tickets your looking at your 45/46 thousand which is fair enough the difference is if you look at the stadiums we are actually getting the crowds

Oat23

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

You had no idea? it is tumpeted at every turn! World records and all that

I know this is sarcasm..But I don't pay much attention to Scottish football to be honest, only realised the attendance stat because I spotted the article on twitter. That is why it's news to me

Peppa Pig

Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »

They may well be but with season tickets your looking at your 45/46 thousand which is fair enough the difference is if you look at the stadiums we are actually getting the crowds

You didn't read the link, did you. From the same STV story

Strathclyde Police figures recorded by officers earlier in the campaign showed that the number of people attending the first three league games of the season for both clubs were lower than publicised.This is because clubs publish the total sales of tickets, including season books, rather than the actual number of spectators who physically attend.

Police numbers showed 6,944, 9,071 and 11,060 fewer fans attended Rangers’ Third Division fixtures versus East Stirlingshire, Elgin City and Montrose than were credited in figures given by the club to journalists.

Celtic’s had 6,731, 7,328 and 9,324 fewer in attendance than was publicised in matches against Aberdeen, Hibernian and Dundee respectively.

Celtic's numbers are actually higher when you count people in the stadium.

BhoscaCapall

lol Charles Green runs his mouth about Celtic once again and shows himself up once again. Can't decide if he's a compulsive liar or actually cracked in the head. Although being generous it could just be that he knows constantly talking about Celtic is the best way to keep his club relevant.

blahfckingblah

ignoring charlie greenes sh1te from now on... only just discovered charlie and the bhoys are on spotify thats me entertained til tuesday night

Broxi_Bear_Eire

Peppa Pig wrote: »

You didn't read the link, did you. From the same STV story


Celtic's numbers are actually higher when you count people in the stadium.

Aye whatever I know when I look at our stadium it's almost full Celtics isn't and though it is a 70.000 seater.
Really the whole crowd thing is ludicrous we are getting great crowds Celtic ard getting slightly more so what they are in the SPL we are a lowly third division club that people are fixated on. It's the same with sky crowds our viewing average is better than Celtics for away league games big deal

BhoscaCapall

Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »

we are a lowly third division club

Oh you are when it suits I see, but every other time you're adamant you are the same club, meaning you are essentially an SPL club playing in Div 3. Of course you're going to pull in large crowds, something like that would galvanise any club.

I mean fair play and all that, and I can understand there hasn't been much to celebrate so making such a big deal of out the crowds is understandable, it's just a bit embarrassing for you when you're constantly saying they're better than ours when they're factually not despite your tickets costing much less and you not being in Europe.

Peppa Pig

Charles Green wrote:

"You only have to look at Celtic's league attendance," he added. "The most successful team in Scotland today is Celtic, yet for a home league game they can't get half of what we are getting.

Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »

Really the whole crowd thing is ludicrous we are getting great crowds Celtic are getting slightly more

Fair play BBE - you are one of the few Rangers fans who don't believe everything Green says.

Genuine question for the Rangers lads - what do you make of Green offering Murray Park to Juventus?
It would be like Man City offering their training ground to Real Madrid.

Broxi_Bear_Eire

Don't talk rubbish yes we are the same club but after finding ourselves in the third division we of course don't have the same players surely even you can see that. If you can't then by Christ you really can't see beyond the end of you'd nose

Broxi_Bear_Eire

Peppa Pig wrote: »

Fair play BBE - you are one of the few Rangers fans who don't believe everything Green says.

Genuine question for the Rangers lads - what do you make of Green offering Murray Park to Juventus?
It would be like Man City offering their training ground to Real Madrid.

Well see from what I am hearing he didn't it was talked when they met at the ECA I think and it was agreed there now other clubs and countries have used it its a big non story IMHO

Eirebear

Peppa Pig wrote: »

Fair play BBE - you are one of the few Rangers fans who don't believe everything Green says.

Genuine question for the Rangers lads - what do you make of Green offering Murray Park to Juventus?
It would be like Man City offering their training ground to Real Madrid.

I don't understand the big deal over this, a number of Celtic's opponents have used auchenhowie in the past, South Korea used it as a base pre-world cup in 2006.
Just because the media have nothing else to stir up today, this becomes a story.

Pompey Magnus

Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »

Don't talk rubbish yes we are the same club but after finding ourselves in the third division we of course don't have the same players surely even you can see that. If you can't then by Christ you really can't see beyond the end of you'd nose

I assume what he means is that while technically Rangers are a 3rd Division team, in reality the fans are going to see 9 or 10 players of mid to upper table SPL quality playing and a couple of others of slightly poorer quality.

I'm not downplaying the fact that Rangers have such good crowds, just I think the fact that it happens to be in Division 3 may be less relevant than is being suggested.

Broxi_Bear_Eire

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

I assume what he means is that while technically Rangers are a 3rd Division team, in reality the fans are going to see 9 or 10 players of mid to upper table SPL quality playing and a couple of others of slightly poorer quality.

I'm not downplaying the fact that Rangers have such good crowds, just I think the fact that it happens to be in Division 3 may be less relevant than is being suggested.

We might have players that are mid table SPL players but they don't look it our younger players are the ones that ard showing the way ie McLeod McKay Crawford Hegarty etc not black Shiels Templeton etc

Broxi_Bear_Eire

Just a last word on this whole Juventus training at Ibrox here is a wee bit I took of the UEFA rules on the matter my reading of it makes it clear that Celtic had to agree to it. As I said non story

Training sessions on the pitch
14.09 The day before the match, weather permitting, the visiting club is allowed to
train on the pitch on which the match will be played. The length of this training
session may not exceed one hour, unless agreed otherwise with the home
club. If holding such a training session could render the pitch unfit for play the
next day, an alternative training ground approved by UEFA in advance must
be made available. In addition, the visiting club may hold private training
sessions at a location to be agreed on with the home club, but not at the
stadium where the match will be played.

Broxi_Bear_Eire

Rangers team for the game versus Queens Park

Rangers: Alexander; Argyriou, Hegarty, Cribari, Wallace; Hutton, Black; McKay, Shiels, Templeton; Little.
Subs: Gallacher, Faure, Crawford, Aird, Mitchell.

Good to see McKay back in the line up and hopefully Little plays through the middle

CSF

To be fair, Rangers having the highest average attendance in the 4th tier is serious stuff.

Broxi_Bear_Eire

CSF wrote: »

To be fair, Rangers having the highest average attendance in the 4th tier is serious stuff.

No its not far to much being made of figures if we are keeping the same sort of numbers next year then I will be more impressed

BhoscaCapall

Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »

Just a last word on this whole Juventus training at Ibrox here is a wee bit I took of the UEFA rules on the matter my reading of it makes it clear that Celtic had to agree to it. As I said non story

Training sessions on the pitch
14.09 The day before the match, weather permitting, the visiting club is allowed to
train on the pitch on which the match will be played. The length of this training
session may not exceed one hour, unless agreed otherwise with the home
club. If holding such a training session could render the pitch unfit for play the
next day, an alternative training ground approved by UEFA in advance must
be made available. In addition, the visiting club may hold private training
sessions at a location to be agreed on with the home club, but not at the
stadium where the match will be played.

Yeah I don't see anything wrong with it personally. Did they not make the same offer to Spartak, Benfica and Barca though?

The only comment I'll make is I found it quite funny the Rangers site announced the offer (not accepted yet) on their site. Bad times if that's news. Big Jim Traynor needs to pull the finger out.

CSF

Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »

No its not far to much being made of figures if we are keeping the same sort of numbers next year then I will be more impressed

Its still ridiculously impressive. A higher average than everyone in the top division. I don't know if theres another club in another country who could manage that.

Coillte_Bhoy

Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »

Aye whatever I know when I look at our stadium it's almost full Celtics isn't and though it is a 70.000 seater.
Really the whole crowd thing is ludicrous we are getting great crowds Celtic ard getting slightly more so what they are in the SPL we are a lowly third division club that people are fixated on. It's the same with sky crowds our viewing average is better than Celtics for away league games big deal

Eh???

Also i agree the training ground thing is a complete and utter non story

Broxi_Bear_Eire

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

Yeah I don't see anything wrong with it personally. Did they not make the same offer to Spartak, Benfica and Barca though?

The only comment I'll make is I found it quite funny the Rangers site announced the offer (not accepted yet) on their site. Bad times if that's news. Big Jim Traynor needs to pull the finger out.

Don't see anything about an offer just they agreed to let Juventus use it

RANGERS have agreed to provide training facilities for Italian giants Juventus when they visit Glasgow next week.

The Turin team will play Celtic in the first leg of their round of 16 Champions League tie at Parkhead on Tuesday night.
And after they arrive in the country, they will prepare for the game at Murray Park on Monday morning then return on Tuesday morning.
Gers chief executive Charles Green and head of football administration Andrew Dickson met Bianconeri counterparts at the European Clubs Association conference in Qatar last week.
While they were in Doha they agreed to let the Serie A side, currently top of their league by three points from Napoli, work at Auchenhowie.
The Light Blues have been drawn to meet Juve twice before themselves in Europe’s premier club tournament in 1978 and 1995.
On the first occasion, goals from Alex MacDonald and Gordon Smith gave the Scots a 2-0 win at Ibrox after a 1-0 first-leg loss in Italy to progress from round one.
Juventus gained their revenge in style 17 years later though, winning 4-1 at the Stadio Delle Alpi with Richard Gough scoring for the visitors.
They were even more comprehensive winners two weeks later as they scored four more goals without reply in Govan on their way to winning the trophy against Ajax in Rome.
Sergio Porrini, who turned out for Juve back then, later went on to play for Rangers and won a Treble with the club under Dick Advocaat in 1999.

Broxi_Bear_Eire

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Eh???

Also i agree the training ground thing is a complete and utter non story

Sorry that should have been 60.000:(

BhoscaCapall

:P

CSF

BhoscaCapall wrote: »

:P

Whatever jokes you might want to make, its still pretty embarassing for Celtic.

BhoscaCapall

Celtic's attendances are a discussion for the Celtic thread, although if you think it's "embarrassing" that they have the 3rd highest attendance in the UK behind Man Utd and Arsenal then I'd suggest you don't make a show of yourself there