A quick update again as we enter the final SPL weekend. As it stands it seems today is yet another D-Day in the potential sale of the club…..but as you know we’ve heard it all before!
Back to footballing matters Rangers travel through to Perth to face St. Johnstone in our final SPL fixture of the season. Whether this may be the final Rangers appearance for a number of our players is the question.
This match kicks off at 7:30pm on Sunday evening and will be shown live via Rangers TV in Amici.
I will give a more detailed update regarding the Soccer 7s next week, but I would urge everyone to purchase their tickets in advance via HK Ticketing. http://www.hkticketing.com/eng/
It’s with great delight that we can announce that Rangers will be sending 2 teams to compete in the HKFC Citibank International Soccer 7s. http://www.hksoccersevens.com/
The Rangers Youth team have been competing in this tournament since 2005 and had been invited once more. With the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the Club itself we were unsure if they would be coming to compete. Thankfully they are though and everyone here at the Hong Kong RSC look forward to welcoming them back. Tommy Wilson will once again be leading the side and details of the squad can be found on the excellent Soccer 7s website: http://www.hksoccersevens.com/teams/team/rangers
As an added bonus to Bears in Hong Kong, a team of Rangers veterans will be coming to the 7′s to compete in the Masters section of the tournament and they will represent the Citibank All Stars. They will be led by John “Bomber” Brown who was the winning coach back in 2008 when the “Rangers Legends” won the Soccer 7s Masters event.
Not all of Bombers squad has been named as yet, but at the moment the squad looks like this: Andy Goram, Lorenzo Amoruso, Marvin Andrews, Scott Nisbet, Neil Murray, Alex Rae, Derek Ferguson & Charlie Miller! 2 more names have still to be added and we will let you know who they are when we do. In the mean time further details on the Citibank All Stars team can be found here: http://www.hksoccersevens.com/teams/masters
The actual tournament will be held from the 18th to the 21st May at the Hong Kong Football Club in Happy Valley and tickets can be bought in advance from HK Ticketing. http://www.hkticketing.com/eng/
With 2 Rangers teams competing in the tournament be sure to get your ticket and get down to the HKFC and show the Rangers players how much we appreciate all of their efforts this season.
With all the off-field news its almost been easy to forget that we have an Old Firm game to contend with this coming Sunday.
Even though the league has been decided there is a lot of pride at stake with this game, so I fully expect Ally to have the players well up for this match.
Kick-off is 7:45pm and will be shown live in Amici via Goal TV
Be sure to come along and don’t forget to bring along your Red & Black scarf!
The Gers travel to Tynecastle this coming Saturday evening to face Hearts in the first of our post-split fixtures.
Clearly we have bigger issues to contend with as the administration process just drags on and on so it will be nice to focus in some football for a change.
Kick-off is 10pm and will be shown live in Amici via Rangers TV.
A special thank you to everyone that came along to the game last night and either bought a “Killie” Pie, donated money or bought one of our club polo-tops. In total we received HK$4,500 (Approx. £365) on the night and we have already transferred this entire amount to the Rangers Fans Fighting Fund.
It’s a huge weekend as our city goes rugby daft for a couple of days as 7’s fever takes grip and then on Sunday night we face Celtc at Ibrox.
Last weekend provided another tough lesson as a number of young players were asked to come in and do a job for us as we suffered from multiple injuries and suspensions. In fact 3 players that started for us last weekend all played at last year’s Soccer 7’s; Ross Perry, Rhys McCabe & Andrew Mitchell and to be fair they all did very well. If you add McGregor, Little & Davis, then more than half of the starting line-up have all played at the Soccer 7’s!
Thankfully both Bocanegra & Goian are back from suspension plus there are rumours Whittaker & Lafferty may also return following long term injures.
It will be a real test for us, as if Motherwell fail to win on Saturday, it could mean Celtc could win the title at Ibrox if they were to defeat us.
We all know our home form has not been great but I for one think the players will rise to the challenge as this game will take on much more than a simple 3 points, so I say bring it on!
For the Red & Black scarves we ordered they have still not arrived as yet, but we are hoping they will be here tomorrow as ideally we would have them for the game on Sunday.
For those going along to the rugby the actual cup final is due to start at 7pm on the Sunday night and our match will kick-off at 8pm, so there should be just enough time to make it along to Amici for kick-off following the cup presentation scheduled for 7:25pm.
Finally have a good weekend and hopefully see you all in Amici for the game on Sunday night!
The Hong Kong RSC fully supports this excellent initiative by the Rangers Supporters Trust. If any fans in Hong Kong wish to buy a scarf, please contact the Hong Kong RSC as we hope to put in a bulk order this week. Each scarf is GBP 10 pounds each with the Hong Kong RSC picking up the tab for the shipping costs from our bulk order.
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