GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - JUNE 05: Russell Martin is unveiled as the new Head Coach of Rangers Football Club at Ibrox Stadium alongside Rangers Sporting Director Kevin Thelwell, on June 05, 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Williamson/SNS Group via Getty Images)
With his beloved Tribute Act about to disappear across the Atlantic into private American ownership loyal bears had the opportunity to ask pertinent questions to their newly installed Chairman and vice-Chairman at an EGM.
Rather than use the iconic New Edmiston House to stage the even a city centre hotel was used as Andy Cavenagh and Paarag Marathe dished out the soundbites and platitudes to the Gullible & Deluded.
Cavenagh was first up on the podium, laying it on thick that ‘Rangers’ fans are created in the womb and that Ibrox is a castle. He could be right on that with the stadium looking fragile and crumbling after years of neglect under a succession of owners from Dave Murray through Charles Green and more recently Dave King.
Cavenagh carries the threat of trying to drag the supporters out of the 16th century, recent events celebrating Pride and the end of Ramadan didn’t go down well on social media among more traditional supporters.
Q from Andrew Simpson – why are there a lack of ambulant tickets? And can we get the church parades back again?
— Colin ? (@atcolin) June 23, 2025
Church parades is simply shorthand for Orange Walks, popular through the fifties and sixties they haven’t been staged at Ibrox since the mid-eighties.
Glasgow City Council does go out of its way to pander to the anti-Catholic hate marches closing hundreds of city streets throughout the summer months but the new regime at Ibrox are keeping a distance from the true motivations of supporters.
Earlier this year UEFA applied a two year suspended sentence on the closure of the Copland Road Stand after repeated racist chanting alongside banners supporting far-right-ideology.
Current manager Russell Martin is a vegan Buddhist and member of the Green Party, in line with the clubs Everyone, Anyone PR gimmick in 2019 on the back of UEFA sanctions.
Answer – we can’t look into wheelchair and ambulant spaces and can come back to you with a full response. There is no plans to bring back the parades but it does raise a broader point where we need to address what we can do to make our core supporters feel welcome at Ibrox.
— Colin ? (@atcolin) June 23, 2025
Ffs some people shouldnt be allowed into these things
— tony watson (@gorbalstony) June 23, 2025
Church Parades ?? There’s an element of this support who will never leave the Dark Ages…Feckin’ morons.
I’ll call it as it is Terence – Orange Bastards !!!
Only if you wore a sash and played the flute Scousebhoy.
Clach…do you know the difference between an apple and an orange ?
Ye canny get an apple bastard.
HH
Ha Ha – Very good Terence !!!
Created in the womb? Like afterbirth.
In the case of the huns they threw out the baby and kept the bloody mess.
And yes, Aye Brokes is a carsie.
I think that’s what he meant to say.
The proverbial Bastard Child Tony !!!
Bunch of fckn slevering orks.
I haven’t heard that ” born in the womb ” thing since that wee arsehole Nacho Novo used it …Now there was a FUD.
Martin looks gormless as in no idea what he has signed up for.
Walking about with their arses hanging out their trousers not a pot to piss in and they ARSEHOLES are going on about parades.
Sam Dingle&Benjamin’s not a bad name for a group .
Church parades ?
The last time I heard it call that was when the vicar of a church told them all to F*ck aff cause none of them had seen the inside of his church…I hope they bring back not signing catholics as well….Brain dead everyone of them!
Would churches of all faiths be invited ?. Everyone anyone .
Only if you wore a sash and played the flute Scousebhoy.
Our A C will fix their wagon for them !!! Gwan A C ya good thing yer playing a blinder kid !!! Haw !!!! Chortle Chortle !
I once met an Orangeman who was also a member of the Black and Purple Orders.
I asked him if he believed in God and will never forget his answer:
” Ah don’t believe in any ae that Shite ! ”
Quite.
Black, Purple, Orange – How many bloody colours do they bloody need !
At least there won’t be a Green and White one – Probably no Gold one either !!!
Personally I’d be all in favour of Orange Walks inside Ibrox. In fact, the more the merrier. They could march in a loop around Ibrox Stadium, as a certain organisation used to do in Nuremberg in the 1930s. At least the toon wouldn’t have to be on lockdown.
Hail Hail.