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Subject: RE: Opening Scottish Fixtures
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:48:21 +0000








>Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
>Subject: Re: Opening Scottish Fixtures
>Date: 30 Jul 92 13:37:20 GMT
>From: cbar40@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
>Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster
>Message-ID: <1992Jul30.133720.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
>References: <1992Jul29.144330.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> <1992Jul30.073833.20051@spid
er.co.uk>

>> As far as I know Dumbarton have chosen to play at Hampden and that is the
>> venue listed on the fixture list issued by the Rangers ticket office. At
>> least this time we'll get more than 21,000 tickets for the national toilet.
>> 
>> -- 
>>  Scott Jackson              e-mail scottj@spider.co.uk abuse  031-554-9424

>Don't get me wrong now Scott, you understand, but The Mighty Glasgow Rangers do

>not have any right to claim more than their given allocation, for any match,
>albeit lower than their own claim on what is and isn't fair.  Ticket
>allocations for cup matches are one thing, as yet, outwith the control of Mr.
>Murray - he's in it fir fitba ma erse - and Rangers I'm afraid will have to
>comply like everyone else.  

Everyone has a right to claim more, it doesn't mean they'll get it though.

>Wasn't the friendly atmosphere at this years TSC final ruined by by bluenoses
>entering the small portion of the ground allocated to fans of The Diamonds.I

I go to Ibrox with seven others who all hold seasons tickets. We all applied to
Ibrox for cup final tickets, not one of us got any. Meanwhile Airdrie were 
returning 2500 tickets on the eve of the final. We eventually got tickets
from Airdrie. Apart from a small section of AIRDRIE fans trying to taunt
Rangers fans into a fight, the two sets of fans mixed together without
any trouble.

>I can understand the reasoning (it's not difficult with Huns) behind the demand
s
>for more tickets but ask yourself would Rangers have filled stadia week after
>week as much as 8 or 9  years ago - would you then be screaming for more than
>21000 tickets to watch a 2nd round league cup match against Dumbarton -
>faithful through and through Rangers fans are not so why should the league or
>SFA give in to calls for more tickets when they are winning?

Of course not, neither would any other team, but we ARE WINNING now. I stood
for years during the bad times watching the drivel served up by Rangers as did
many others, even in our worst season our average attendance was still 26500.
Where were all the faithful Celtic fans last season when the Celts were
pulling in 13500 a game?

> I'm off on holiday for a month so if we're gonnae ge tsome more of the same
> Hullo Hullo style arrogance can it be before the weekend. 
> Hoping your season starts disastrously and I return to find T.P.11 leading
> Airdrie in the league, Dumbarton still in the Skol Cup and you and Sandy still

> posting the same old shit on R.S.S. 
> HAIL! HAIL! 
> THE CELTS ARE HERE!!
> Dan  
>CBAR40@ 5INA.ROW.MY.GIDDY_AUNT

You'd better believe it, 5ina.row to be followed by 6, 7, 8 etc.


James Ross
(j.m.ross@man0507.wins.icl.co.uk)