The small matter of playing against a new club…………or so they like to tell us!!
As we all know, we face the team from the East of the city on Saturday in the first old firm game of the season at Parkhead.
It will be amazing to see how many empty seats are in the home end as I don’t think many of them will turn up for a small game against such a newly formed club. Then again, who am I to argue against their kind of logic??? Usually I just laugh at it.
The game will be shown live in Trafalgar in Wanchai as usual with a 7pm kick off HK time. We expect it to be pretty busy as usual for this game so I would recommend arriving sharp. We will have the game on a number of screens so hopefully everyone will get a good view of the match.
That time is almost upon as we return to hostilities with our old enemy although we don’t need to take out a full page newspaper advert to tell you that….
The league cup semi-final will be shown live in Trafalgar on Sunday evening with a 21.30 kick-off.
As we would expect a larger than normal turn out for this match, I have asked Trafalgar to reserve a few more tables than usual and to look at the possibility of putting the game on a few more screens. I would advise everyone to get there sharpish and in good time for the match just in case there are any other matches on involving those not as successful as the most successful club side in the world so that we can all get installed with a good view of the match.
We will also be holding a “first & last goalscorer” raffle with tickets only available pre-match. Tickets will be $200 each with up to $2000 available in prize money. All proceeds raised will be going to purchase another 1872 life membership in Rangers First, which you may have noticed yesterday breached the 1 million share mark. If you combine Rangers First with the RST Buy Rangers campaign the fan groups now own 2.5% of the club. Combined they have almost 11,000 members contributing monthly payments from as little as £5. If you haven’t joined up yet, please do so to either or both.
For those of you who attended the Richard Keys and Andy Gray evening on Thursday night, I’m sure you had a very enjoyable time. I certainly did, although my head didn’t quite agree with that this morning. Good fun at the time…
A big thank you to everyone involved in organising last night and great to see such an impressive amount of cash raised for a very worthy charity.
On the footballing side, after the midweek win over the Saints in the League Cup, we move to Scottish Cup duty this weekend and at the same ground where we played last weekend.
We face Dumbarton in the Cup and the game will be shown as usual in Trafalgar in Wanchai with an 11pm kick-off tomorrow. Remember the clocks have gone back in the UK so games now an hour later for us, so hopefully we will do the business tomorrow and avoid a midweek replay.
Tonight Rangers welcome Queen of the South to Ibrox which should provide a decent enough test for Rangers following convincing wins recently against Clyde & Dumbarton.
Kick-off is 10pm and will be screened live in the Trafalgar via Rangers TV.
Bears,
The Rangers vs Hearts league opener from Ibrox will be shown live in The Trafalgar. It will Kick-off at 8:30pm local HK time.
It’ll be interesting to see who unfurls the flag & what type of reception they may get from the fans that are there……
Following the hugely disappointing display and result in last week’s Ramsdens Cup final, tonight the players have a chance to massively redeem themselves in what is easily our biggest match of the season so far.
Dundee United will come calling to a “neutral” Ibrox tonight with a place in the Scottish Cup Final next month up for grabs. There is no doubt we are going to be up against it with injuries to key players, Cammy Bell the most recent suffering through a training ground incident. Steve Simonsen will come in though and has been a more than able deputy. Lee Wallace looks also to be struggling as are David Templeton & Andy Little. Add to that the long term injury to Lewis MacLeod and we are potentially missing 5 starting players. What this means to the remainder of the squad is that they will have to step up and show the qualities required to be a Ranger. Jock Wallace summed it up once before with his famous Battle Fever quote and that is exactly what we need tonight, from the fans in the stand right through to the substitutes on the bench.
Kick-off is 7:45pm and will be shown live in the Trafalgar via Rangers TV.
Rangers welcome Peterhead to Ibrox later today as we get back to league duty.
Today’s match holds special significance as everyone involved has a chance to honour Remembrance Day. As in years gone by Rangers will once again host a card display to show the world how much we honour and respect all those that has made the ultimate sacrifice in the name of our freedom and liberty.
Tonight’s match kicks-off at 11pm local time and will be shown live via Rangers TV in Amici.
Rangers travel to Clyde later tonight hoping to reclaim top spot in the SFL 3rd Division. The game will kick-off at 8:45pm local time and will be shown live in Amici via RangersTV.
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