JABBA THE AGNIVORE

THE AGNIVORE STRIKES BACK

Yay! Big Jabba I is back, and making a complete erse of himself as usual! He has a go at the league reconstruction plans but doesn't bother telling us all what's wrong with it. His main gripe is that Rangers weren't involved in the decision-making process. This is all part-and-parcel, he tells us, of the great conspiracy to put Rangers down.

According to Traynor, it's a disgrace that the 'biggest club in the country' was left out of these important decisions. Sorry, Jim, but how do you make out that Rangers is the biggest club in the country? Attendences? All down to the tickets being cheap, my dear fellow! Those figures will soon dwindle when Green puts the prices up, as he will have to in order to maintain that huge wage bill! This is a new club, remember. You can rant and rave all you like about 'holding companies' and 140 years etc etc but the fact remains that Green's Rangers is the newest club in Scotland. 

Traynor hasn't quite got the hang yet of Green's and his followers' doublethink. Green yells about his team never having been in the SPL, yet he still thinks he is owed money from last season and bleats about having 'bought' the history. The absolute truth is that Green did not buy Rangers; he bought the assets for a song, probably illegally, and set up a new club. Not being associated with the old club, he is perfectly, and legally, entitled to call his new club 'Rangers.' It does not, however, make it the same club.

Traynor tries to foster the paranoia he had already been trying to whip up in his Daily Record column. He perpetuates the lie that Rangers were punished and punished again. Where does he get this from? A transfer embargo; that was it. No other punishment was meted out to Rangers; absolutely none whatsoever. Granted, I'm quite willing to concede that the transfer embargo should not have been imposed but, equally, the rules should not have been bent to allow New Rangers into the Scottish league at all. You can't have it both ways, Jim lad!

He goes on about Rangers accepting their 'sanctions.' That's not plural, Jim, that's singular - sanction. But why let the truth get in the way of a good rant? Rangers are going to come back 'better and stronger' he tells us and warns us all that we're all going to pay. He also warns the denizens of the Scottish meeja that they had better tread carefully and watch what they're saying! He seems to have fitted in quite quickly at Ibrox with his triumphalist rhetoric and threats, eh? I take it Leggat was right and Jimmy Boy is going to encourage his new masters to start suing everybody left, right and centre. One example of these evil hacks that criticise Rangers? Somebody said Green 'speak with forked tongue.' My God, the courts will be meting out justice soon for that one!

My favourite bit of his whole twisted diatribe is at the end, where he says. 'Tolerance and sanity. That's what Rangers will demonstrate and maintain, especially when back at the summit.' 

Tolerance and sanity! Of course, that's what Rangers have always been renowned for! The tolerance bit speaks for itself and the whole country will be laughing at that one! Sanity? Not much of that displayed in your paranoid rant, Jim!

He also, again, decides to have a go at the 'deranged' on social media. I wonder if he means the Rangers supporters on Facebook, bragging about going over to Belfast to fight with the police! Probably not! In fact he tells us who he means earlier on; it's Celtic fans and their club. They're the ones that caused all of Rangers' problems and are still putting the boot in! 

'And they are still at it on social media sites and on blogs clattered out by individuals who are no better than semi-literate.'

Now, maybe Traynor is what passes for an intellectual giant in Airdrie but things are different elsewhere. One blogger I read has a Law degree and I myself have a university degree as well. I also know, unlike Traynor, not to use mixed metaphors and I know too that the relative pronoun in his sentence about blogs should be 'that' rather than 'who.' 

I phoned 'Your Call' once and Traynor offered to send a psychiatrist round to me because of my paranoia. Reading Traynor's new rant, and those he latterly published in the Daily Record, I think he's the one that needs psychiatric help. Oh, and save a space on the couch for your Uncle Davy Leggat!