Rangers in crisis: Fans hold Ibrox protest

More than 1,000 Rangers fans have staged a protest outside Ibrox Stadium over the situation at the club.

Some supporters are angry with the Charles Green consortium, which bought the club's assets after it could not be saved from liquidation.

Former player John Brown aims to lead a bid for the club on behalf of fans and urged them not to buy season tickets under the current regime.

Brown appeared at the protest and spoke to the crowd.

Earlier on Wednesday he said: "We don't want to buy in with Charles Green. The Rangers fans are going to buy out Charles Green's consortium."

The protest was organised by supporters' group the Union Bears, which said: "We demand answers from Mr Green immediately. The situation is critical and we as fans must act now."

Banners tied to railings across the road from Ibrox said: "Rangers fans demand answers" and "Murray, Whyte, Green. Same face different name".

Rangers players are due back at training on Thursday morning for the first time since the formation of the newco and the imminent liquidation of the old company.

Several players have already made it clear they will not be part of the newco.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18619863

This is a shambles - gutted for the fans and would hate to see this happen to our club.

If we chase away Vincent Tan, we'll soon enough know what a shambles really is!!

I feel for them, I really do but will this protest really solve anything? If they were to take control of the club would it really put them on a better footing for the future?

First official act would be to declare that, from immediate effect, every season ticket holder that buys over 200 pies by the 31st of July will be entered into a draw to win free pies for the year! Yay

Rhys wrote:First official act would be to declare that, from immediate effect, every season ticket holder that buys over 200 pies by the 31st of July will be entered into a draw to win free pies for the year! Yay

I'd become a Rangers fan for that opportunity, and they play in blue you say...

And another thing..... Rangers newco is exactly that, a new company. Rangers FC is as dead as Woolworths, MFI, Clinton Cards etc etc. and all that history went with it. This new club, however they want to dress it up is not the same entity, it cannot be, to all intents and purposes there is no such thng as a fan of Rangers anymore because its dead and cannot come back.

Those former Rangers fans can choose to support this new club that bears the same name, but there is no way they can claim this hospry of the former Rangers FC.

This is at the heart of the whole Red or Dead debate, that without moving ahead, whether we like it or not, if Cardiff City FC went into liquidation there would be no coming back. Any new co Cardiff City would be as much about Cardiff City FC as Grange Albion, Inter Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil or Barry are.m

Mr Cholmondley-Warner wrote:And another thing..... Rangers newco is exactly that, a new company. Rangers FC is as dead as Woolworths, MFI, Clinton Cards etc etc. and all that history went with it. This new club, however they want to dress it up is not the same entity, it cannot be, to all intents and purposes there is no such thng as a fan of Rangers anymore because its dead and cannot come back.

Those former Rangers fans can choose to support this new club that bears the same name, but there is no way they can claim this hospry of the former Rangers FC.

This is at the heart of the whole Red or Dead debate, that without moving ahead, whether we like it or not, if Cardiff City FC went into liquidation there would be no coming back. Any new co Cardiff City would be as much about Cardiff City FC as Grange Albion, Inter Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil or Barry are.m

For the uninitiated in these things that is useful to know, cheers

Mr Cholmondley-Warner wrote:And another thing..... Rangers newco is exactly that, a new company. Rangers FC is as dead as Woolworths, MFI, Clinton Cards etc etc. and all that history went with it. This new club, however they want to dress it up is not the same entity, it cannot be, to all intents and purposes there is no such thng as a fan of Rangers anymore because its dead and cannot come back.

Those former Rangers fans can choose to support this new club that bears the same name, but there is no way they can claim this hospry of the former Rangers FC.

This is at the heart of the whole Red or Dead debate, that without moving ahead, whether we like it or not, if Cardiff City FC went into liquidation there would be no coming back. Any new co Cardiff City would be as much about Cardiff City FC as Grange Albion, Inter Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil or Barry are.m

Great post and absolutely spot on