The R*****s are coming, AGAIN. This time they’re going to reclaim political power from Celtic so we can no longer run the game in Scotland
The Raynjurz are cummin' for the 15th season in a row...
Eric Knott 
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - MAY 10: American Businessman and Owner of the San Francisco 49ers Jed York alongside Rangers CEO Jim Gillespie during a William Hill Premiership match between Celtic and Rangers at Celtic Park, on May 10, 2026, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Alan Harvey/SNS Group via Getty Images)
For too long now, the Ibrox side has been the deluded outsider of Scottish football when it comes to political power in the game.
After all, every single individual of an Ibrox bent has been screaming it from the rooftops all season that Celtic run Scottish football.
The Ibrox side believes that they do an awful lot of ranting into the void.
And not to much effect either.
Now Ibrox CEO – Jim Gillespie – aims to get them back where they belong.
Yes, you read the right, the Ibrox side are coming once again.
Gillespie is on a mission to restore them to their rightful place in Scottish football, both from a footballing perspective and politically.
Time to knock Celtic off their perch.
Indeed.
Because we’ve never heard this before around the time the season concludes, have we?
It’s tough for them this year because they don’t even have summer bragging rights, and the close season cup looks like it could be under threat too.
It’s also funny that Jim Gillepsie wants to return them to the top of Scottish football.
He believes the Ibrox side once used to be there.
Let’s get this straight, the club that was at the top of Scottish football is dead.
Liquidated, with its remains lying in a file in Companies house.
The current iteration is a run of the mill Scottish football club which has won as many trophies as St. Johnstone since it came into existence in 2012.
It flirted with the idea of being at the top of Scottish football when the Covid season 6 years ago caused all other Scottish clubs, including Celtic, to lose the ability to compete in any meaningful way.
They can never really be taken seriously as a Scottish footballing power after that single anomaly.
Because let’s make no bones about it, that’s what it was.
So Gillepsie’s mission to return them to the top is the epitome of “ranting into the void”.
You cannot return to the top of something you have never really been top of.
But according to this morning’s Daily Record, you can.
The Record has been cheerleading the Ibrox side’s “return to the top of Scottish football” for 14 years now.
Here is some of Andy Newport’s story this morning:
New CEO Jim Gillespie is the man tasked with carrying out the clubs politicking – and just as he’s determined to put R*****s back on top on the pitch, he wants to see it lead from the front off it.
Speaking in his first interview with the Scottish Press since making his move from St Mirren to Ibrox, he said: “We were in a meeting with the SFA on Friday about how we can improve Scottish football.
“We have a great belief at R*****s that we are the leading club and we want to be the leading club. We want Scottish football to be the best it can be.
I love the fact that Gillespie has great determination to put the Ibrox club back where it has never been.
It appears that he’s also a magician, as well as CEO of the club.
But let’s be honest.
This article talks about ranting into the void.
It’s right about this time of the season every season since 2012 that the Ibrox side does exactly that.
They rant into the void about how they’re going to return to the top of Scottish football.
Because what else could it be?
The Ibrox club is the perfect representation of the saying “all talk, and no action.”
They do an awful lot of talk about what they’re going to achieve, with very little end product.
Gillespie also states that they’re going to lead the way in fixing Scottish football’s biggest elephant in the room, refereeing:
Our request is that at the moment regulators and governing bodies start leading alongside us. That will improve all standards and particularly refereeing, the hot topic at the moment.
Our view is that there are lots of concerns and how do we get involved to improve it and make it stronger and increase resources?
That includes leadership from the governing bodies but also from the other clubs around us. We can either make things better or it can be a race to the bottom.
R*****s has got a long history of being the leading club. And how we behave at those times is really important to the club’s values and that is what we will be pushing forward.
Would one be shocked if one of Gillepsie’s suggestions to improve the standard of refereeing would involve scrapping the SFA’s Poundland version of VAR?
Because it certainly wouldn’t involve referees declaring their allegiances, would it?
As for the Ibrox side having a long history of being a leading club?
Ranting into the void.
How can a club that came into existence in 2012 have a long history of being a leading club?
Like I said, a magician, as well as CEO of the “leading club in Scottish football”.
Gillespie continues to wax lyrical about restoring the Ibrox side to the once great power it was in Newport’s article.
He goes on about how excited he is to be at the forefront of that.
People might be genuinely interested in this kind of talk if any of it was serious.
But you cannot take a club that has been a comedy act and a parody for the last 14 years seriously.
Every close season, they are coming.
They’re going to be the simply the best, and they’re going to return to their rightful place at the top of Scottish football.
Gillespie might be making all of the right sound-bites, and he might also sound like he’s serious.
But there are many more before him in the last 14 years who have done exactly the same thing.
Yet nothing changes.
But we’re supposed to believe that next season it will?
It’s always next season, isn’t it?
“The Raynjurz are cummin”, again.
Jesus wept.
Geez peace, wull ya?
Key Takeaways
- The Ibrox side has faced criticism for believing they can regain political power in Scottish football despite their recent history.
- Jim Gillespie, CEO of the Ibrox side, aims to restore the club’s former glory but faces scepticism about the feasibility.
- The club’s claims of a long history as a leading team are challenged, especially since its current iteration began in 2012.
- The article criticises the Ibrox side for consistently making bold statements without substantial results or actions.
- Despite their claims of imminent success, past patterns suggest the Ibrox side’s hopes may remain unfulfilled.
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Aodhán Ó Conchobhair 
Bhoycie 
Give us your season ticket money and we will be the best next season and they will swallow it AGAIN
£5m total income from Europe could put a spanner in his illustrious plan……..
HH
RIP Mikey Galloway.
Are the new Rangers or should I say the Glasgow 14 ers given there age, coming back with a new song. Simply 3rd best. Not even the best of the rest. No matter how they dress it up they are a new club and have only won 1 title. As for the original Rangers, whoever the judge was that said they did not benefit from paying EBT’s deserves to be jailed himself.
It’s not rocket science without the EBT,s they couldn’t have attracted the same class of players. Total cheating and they should have been stripped of the titles in that period.
Ffs, the Scottish Cup Final has not yet been played, and for the 14th time in 15 years, the Huns are already the runaway leaders in their next attempt to land the coveted ‘Close-season Cup’.
Hail Hail.
I think it’s a lot simpler really.
They know our board are weak and spineless.
That mob will get their act together at some point.
The 49ers owner certainly didn’t come over just to watch a match.
We need to have fresh leadership NOW and ensure we qualify for the CL.