BL11
Well-Known Member
On the contrary, doing this "off our own back" is just plain old positive PR.No. Basic PR means that you shouldn't have to announce that you welcome everyone because most will then suspect you have a problem in the first place.
What some are saying is that gestures like this will have absolutely zero impact on the way the club is treated in Scotland. In fact, it is likely to be counter-productive because people like Pauline McNeill will not want to be made to look like they're backing Rangers when the support - almost inevitably - is accused of 'sectarianism'. Both her and Frank McAveety support Celtic!
There is absolutely no evidence there is a specific problem concerning Rangers more than other football clubs in terms of the groups the club mentions - apart, of course, from Scotland's religious/political/tribal divide.
If the club thinks it can bracket this alongside all the other categories it lists then it is in for a nasty surprise.
It looks like we still have no-one at the club with the courage or the nous to tackle the so-called 'sectarianism issue' head on.
The fact that we have shown that we have fans from all different backgrounds and not just the background of one section of society can only help shout down our detractors in the media and beyond.
It may have been obvious to anyone who regularly follow Rangers that we have guys and gals of a whole plethora of backgrounds, races, religions and sexual orientation, so the Board are advertising it. Big deal.
It doesn't highlight that we have a 'problem' - far from it in fact.