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Smooth Operator

[⁸ @makesbluessing]

@sloanybhoy7 @BMCRangersRants No, not like any of them. Only one of those names were a loan and we were never signing him permanently due to his age and wage at his parent club. What the fuck are you talking about?

[This Is Ibrox - Your Rangers Podcast @thisisibrox]

We were invited along to an online call with Andrew Cavenagh and members of the board alongside other Fan Media, the Fan Advisory Board, NARSA and others this afternoon to have an informal roundtable chat on Rangers, the vision for the future and generally a discussion on the club.

🧵 Main discussions points below 👇

[Rangers Football Club @RangersFC]

💙 Happy New Year from everyone at Rangers.

[Scotland National Team @ScotlandNT]

IT'S FULL TIME AND WE'RE GOING TO THE WORLD CUP!

#SCODEN

[Scotland National Team @ScotlandNT]

GOOOAAALLLL SCOTLAND! SCOTT MCTOMINAY THAT IS SENSATIONAL!

#SCODEN

[⁸ @makesbluessing]

@krumkachy @nocontextfm1 Still love you lads, thanks for the result against Denmark 🇧🇾

[⁸ @makesbluessing]

@Fmccelticlife @_RyanRFC_ Look at this cunt's profile man 🤣
Joined August 2025 and every single post bar 3 is about Rangers 😭

[Johan Aurifer ⚜️ @johno_xi]

Rangers fans have been patient, if there is even a glimmer of evidence to show progress, but there are limits even to endurance. Let’s get one thing straight:

Patrick Stewart and Kevin Thelwell have spectacularly misread Scotland, Rangers, and the very fans who keep this club alive.

Stewart, parachuted in from a floundering Manchester United, brings pedigree on paper but catastrophe in practice.

Thelwell, ex-Everton, has installed a network of familiar faces, cronies, and even relatives — Dan Purdy, Nathan Fisher, Robbie Thelwell — as if comfort hiring could replace competence. It hasn’t. Scotland isn’t a Premier League sandbox. Rangers isn’t Everton.

Russell Martin has overseen five wins in 16 matches. The defence is a sieve. Clean sheets are rarer than logic in a board meeting. Europa League humiliations pile up. And yet, the board clings to its project as if shielding Martin protects them from scrutiny. Fans are told to be patient, to “trust the plan.” The plan is failing. It has never been clearer.

The rebuild itself is a disaster. Style has replaced substance. Rangers fans do not care about possession stats or philosophical ideas. They care about points, trophies, and pride. Any board that insists otherwise is dangerously out of touch. Worse, recruitment has been equally tone-deaf. Players imported from overpriced English markets, like Youssef Chermiti, leave a lot to be desired. Meanwhile, low-cost success stories — see Alfredo Morelos or Igamine — demonstrate what intelligent scouting can achieve. Yet the board persists, guided by familiarity and ego rather than evidence.

Fans confronted Stewart and Thelwell at the team hotel after the Sturm Graz defeat. This was not hysteria; it was desperation. We pay the bills, we sustain the brand, and we can see the collapse unfolding. Yet the board continues to dismiss us as “overly emotional.” No. We are historically informed, forensic in our anger, and entirely justified. It shows how out of depth they are when they ask the fans who they would have appointed.

The truth is stark: the project is collapsing in real time. The team is worse than under previous managers who had far less money and fewer resources. The board’s unwillingness to acknowledge it is not strategy; it is ego preservation. Time for excuses is over.

Immediate action is required: accountability at the top, transparent recruitment, smarter scouting, and above all, results. This means replacement the full management team, director of football and Stewart.

Fans will tolerate no more experiments, no more “foundations” that exist only in rhetoric. Rangers is not a laboratory. It is a pillar of Scottish football. Arrogance, ego, and blind faith have brought it to a precipice. Heed the warning, act decisively, or watch the club unravel while the world looks on.

[Cyriel Dessers @CyrielDessers]

It was an absolute honour to wear the nr. 9 at Rangers, something that will fill me with pride for the rest of my life.

I want to wish everybody at Rangers all the best, take good care of the club, you guys are so important.

[⁸ @makesbluessing]

@nathouf_fr @Tripoli20 @Phantomthe55th @KNEECAPCEOL How are they preventing a genocide?

[⁸ @makesbluessing]

@rfc187255_ 👍

[Grok @grok]

Ah, the eternal clash: a giant Cyril Dessers, Rangers' striker turned 10ft colossus, versus a swarm of 1ft Tim Henmans on their sacred Wimbledon hill. Home advantage might rally the wee Tims—they're nimble, racket-wielding pests who could climb and poke like angry pixies. But Dessers' sheer boot-stomping mass wins it; he'd flatten 'em like a bad serve. No contest, big man triumphs. https://t.co/BFoTHXdgYAh, the eternal clash: a giant Cyril Dessers, Rangers' striker turned 10ft colossus, versus a swarm of 1ft Tim Henmans on their sacred Wimbledon hill. Home advantage might rally the wee Tims—they're nimble, racket-wielding pests who could climb and poke like angry pixies. But Dessers' sheer boot-stomping mass wins it; he'd flatten 'em like a bad serve. No contest, big man triumphs. https://t.co/BFoTHXdgYb

[⁸ @makesbluessing]

@weareboxt @RangersFC @RFCTNB

[Fulham Football Club @FulhamFC]

The best of Bassey.

Your 2024/25 Player of the Season. 🇳🇬🤍

[San Francisco 49ers @49ers]

🔴🔵⚪️

[Rangers Football Club @RangersFC]

Rangers Football Club is pleased to announce that a consortium of investors, led by Andrew Cavenagh and 49ers Enterprises, has purchased a majority stake in the club, with approval from the Scottish FA.

The consortium will chart a new strategic vision for the club’s future prioritising on-pitch performance and long-term financial sustainability.

More information: https://t.co/lAW1Z9J55H

[⁸ @makesbluessing]

@weareboxt @RangersFC @RFCTNB

[Grok @grok]

@ottawascot Celtic FC asked supporters to improve hygiene in 2015 after body odor complaints, sending letters to season ticket holders. No other notable cases found, including in 2024.

[Kerrydale Meltdown @KerryFail]

This is assault by the way. Pure fucking assault.

[⁸ @makesbluessing]

@Cfc78N @FellowsT1888 @FuckBeale Not really relevant though. We were talking about knockout football, in which Celtic FC 1994 haven't won a tie in 20 years.