{"id":10539,"date":"2016-12-16T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=10539"},"modified":"2016-12-16T08:08:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T08:08:26","slug":"mark-warburtons-christmas-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=10539","title":{"rendered":"Mark Warburton’s Christmas Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/strong>El cormaco<\/strong> somehow got his hands on the text for Mark Warburton’s christmas message to the supporters of the Ibrox club…<\/em><\/div>\n
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Hello to all the Rangers family \u2013 brothers, sisters, husbands, wives; sometimes both.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 Firstly thank you for your unstinting support this season \u2013 you are simply the best, always backing the team except when we aren\u2019t winning and we will always remember your colours and songs \u2013 some of which aren\u2019t prohibited. Hearing you sing about being up to your knees in Fenian blood or hating Catholics really gets guys like Rob Keirnan and Michael O Halloran fired up to perform for you.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 When we came back to where we belong this season we stated clearly we were going for 55. With so many points already on the board I m confident this ambitious goal will be reached. If we continue as we have been we will achieve our goal of playing European football next season, as long as the SFA ignore our four years of eye watering losses, which we are confident they will, as they always did before<\/div>\n
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\u00a0We are of course returning to Europe in the new year, with our glamour friendly against Red Bull Leipzig \u2013 I m not sure what gave the guys in the<\/div>\n
boardroom the idea of speaking to a new club with no history of its own, unpopular among supporters of all other teams in their league, spending money they don\u2019t generate themselves and backed by murky characters who allow them to operate at a level above where they can afford to be, but we\u2019re Ready to go!<\/div>\n
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Since our return to where we belong (do I have to keep saying this James?) we have seen our club criticised by outsiders. These people should be<\/div>\n
ignored so I\u2019ll only spend the next couple of paragraphs talking about them. To all the journalists, ex players, pundits, fans of other clubs who are pointing out that with the second biggest budget in the country we should be at least putting up a challenge to Celtic, I d just say, respectfully, please stop it.<\/div>\n
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Before coming here I spoke to Walter who told me what to expect, and I\u2019ve seen none of the Chic Young or Jim White fawning I was promised. If you discount Chris Jack, Derek Johnstone, Barry Ferguson, Billy Dodds, Hugh Keevins, Richard Wilson, Kenny Mac Intyre, Kenny Mac Donald, Keith Jackson, Matthew Lindsay, Roddy Forsyth, Stephen Craigan, Neil Mc Cann, Gordon Dalziel, David Tanner, Ally Mc Coist and Kris Boyd I d challenge people to name one person who works in the media who has given us any positive coverage this season at all.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 But we don\u2019t listen to the haters, we hear what they say, think about it and respond in a thin skinned manner, but we don\u2019t listen to them or give them any \u00a0thoughts at all, except the brief few paragraphs here where I\u2019ve called them all out. I have too much respect for the role to bring myself down to their level by saying they are all a bunch of disrespectful sh*ts. Others may chose to do that, but I d never say they are all a bunch of disrespectful a**holes with their talk of \u201cno plan B, only knows one formation\u201d<\/div>\n
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No sir, not me, Mark Warburton.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0The club now is in such a strong position. While weaklings like Hearts agreed a creditors agreement to keep their club alive and their fans raised millions of pounds to save and rebuild their club, we are proud that Rangers fans stood outside the ground waving sheets with poorly spelt messages directed at all the wrong people while waiting for some one to do something when the club was in its darkest days. Liquidation and a new beginning in division 3 was your reward.<\/div>\n
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Please donate.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0We now see us able to sign players who are out of contract, retired, available on a free or on payment plans spread over numerous years \u2013 a clear<\/div>\n
message of our great financial health and the wisdom of our strategy over the previous few years.<\/div>\n
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Please donate.<\/div>\n
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While some signings over the past year haven\u2019t quite worked out as we might have hoped \u2013 Joey Barton, Niko Kranjcar, Joe Garner, Philippe Senderos, Matt Crooks, Josh Windass, Michael O Halloran, Jordan Rossiter, Joe Dodoo, but so many others have been a great success like Clint Hill and, well you can see my point, but don\u2019t expect the press to report on this positively!! The disrespectful sh*ts, not that you\u2019ll hear me complaining of course.<\/div>\n
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These additions have taken time to settle in, which is normal when they come from the unfamiliar environment of lower league English football to the SPL, which is in no way similar at all and was never used as a reason for not signing players from overseas. We are used to this; last season we started with a great unbeaten run while integrating a team of new players. The similarities are eerie, apart from our<\/div>\n
terrible form and me insisting it will take time to integrate these players it\u2019s virtually an identical situation really.<\/div>\n
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Did I mention we beat Celtic? Well, we did. Ignoring the last two results then our record against them is highly impressive and those that say we have been living off that result ever since are respectfully talking sh*t. Even in the games we didn\u2019t win, any fair minded pundit would agree we were massively unlucky in those games and will surely right these wrongs at Ibrox so long as the roof is still in place and Celtic don\u2019t try.<\/div>\n
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So it\u2019s onwards and upwards for Christmas and the new year. Please remember not to buy anything for the Rangers loving people in your life as we are stuck in a futile war of attrition with a rival with much more resources than us \u2013 Sports Direct, not Celtic<\/div>\n
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You can though join club 1872, where for a monthly subscription you might be able to buy a stake in the club before a new share issue dilutes this holding to worthlessness or you can watch as your money is eaten up in day to day expenses which only keep us standing still, spending money you expected Dave King would be providing \u2013 imagine being able to tell your grand children about what you did!<\/div>\n
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The boys all wanted to say thank you too, they have shared a little of their Secret Santa gift ideas with me to pass on to you, and their choices for our club CD we put on our world class coach on our way to away games.<\/div>\n
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Secret Santa:<\/div>\n
From the club: a hard hat for everyone<\/div>\n
Clint Hill \u2013 a bumper bag of Werthers originals<\/div>\n
Kenny Miller \u2013 a tin of creosote<\/div>\n
Joe Garner \u2013 a diving mat<\/div>\n
Philippe Senderos \u2013 Bob the Builder DVD<\/div>\n
Josh Windass \u2013 a big bag of cotton wool, to wrap his muscles in<\/div>\n
Lee Wallace \u2013 a serving tray for his world class breakfasts<\/div>\n
Mark Warburton \u2013 a subscription to the Financial Times \u2013 he worked in the<\/div>\n
city in case you never heard<\/div>\n
Tavernier \u2013 a go kart \u2013 neither can go backwards<\/div>\n
Joey Barton \u2013 a Lisbon Lions DVD<\/div>\n
Rob Keirnan \u2013 an Irish tricolour, for his end of season lap of honour<\/div>\n
Niko Kranjcar \u2013 a can of WD40 for his creaking joints<\/div>\n
Jordan Rossiter \u2013 a map of Glasgow, to help him find his way to Ibrox<\/div>\n
Frank Mc Parland (head of scouting)\u2013 a SIM card with enough credit to make<\/div>\n
calls to Europe<\/div>\n
David King \u2013 a locksmith\u2019s telephone number, to help him open up his<\/div>\n
warchest<\/div>\n
Paul Murray \u2013 a Barrel of V05 styling wax & a copy of Accountancy for<\/div>\n
dummies<\/div>\n
Stewart Roberston \u2013 a torch, to help him find his way from Jabba\u2019s rear<\/div>\n
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Ra Bearz Toons:<\/div>\n
Mark Warburton \u2013 RESPECT Aretha Franklin<\/div>\n
Kenny Miller \u2013 Golden Brown<\/div>\n
Joey Barton \u2013 Let the people Sing<\/div>\n
Philippe Senderos \u2013 Another Brick in the wall<\/div>\n
Jordan Rossiter \u2013 Fix You<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Andy Halliday \u2013 Blue eyes crying in the rain<\/div>\n
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Merry Christmas-And A Happy New Year<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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