Rangers’ participation in the Australian Stavros Cup is now looking in major doubt after it was confirmed the club is strongly proposing pulling out.
Following a massive groundswell of opposition back home to the ‘friendly’ against Celtic, including controversial protests at Dens Park on Sunday, not to mention objections from the board about the timing of the announcements (it’s only March and we have much more important things to deal with right now) it is now being strongly considered that the club will withdraw.
We mean this with the highest respect, and we do value our Australian fans, but the fans back home are the bread and butter of our club and the vast majority are unhappy about this friendly.
We want nothing more than to have a friendly tournament in Australia to meet our Rangers Family Down Under who we know would love to see the team in the flesh, which many of them may not ever do in their lifetimes, but unfortunately this particular tournament is far too close to getting into bed with Celtic.
The morals of being involved with a project spearheaded by them has gone down like a lead balloon with most UK fans, and with Glasgow fans especially right at the epicentre of ill-feeling towards the Parkhead side, continuing with this tournament is just a horrible distraction at the worst time, and as we saw at Dens, it could spill over into affecting matches.
While the money is useful, nothing else about it is, and it’s good the club is considering reversing the decision.
We can surely find other avenues of revenue to use, other friendlies, maybe even something in Australia, but nothing in Celtic’s honour, thank you very much.
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No old firm anymore!!
Why the f would we want to go after what’s been spat at us in the past 150th anniversary tour should be about 1thing our club 🇬🇧
I have been a Rangers fan since my father took me to Ibrox in 1963. I moved to New Zealand in 1995 and keep as up to date as possible watching as many games on Rangers TV as possible. It appears to me that its the way that Celtic have sold this to their fans that’s the main problem here. I am not aware of the tournament organisers selling it as a Celtic tour and to be honest could care less if they have as for me its all about the Rangers.
Like many fans down under I am looking forward to seeing Rangers in the flesh again and what better game for us to go to and beat other than them for the other side of the city. Tickets are on sale now and I have just spent over $300 on tickets for the 2 games. If Rangers are really looking to pull out of the games as per some reports, then they need to do that sooner rather than later before flights from New Zealand and around Australia have been booked.
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