What was the first thing that made you feel old following The Teddy Bears?

[George Goudie]

Tonight, after the game, my youngest had the temerity to teach me a Rangers song that I didn't know the words to.

Felt a strange mix of pride and a temptation to skelp the cheeky young grinning upstart, but he is 6' and goes to the gym.

Old and Pathetic Loyal.

 

[George Goudie]

Sorry - the song was this one:


Every Saturday we follow
We cheer the boys in blue
Most successful team in football
We're Scotland's gallant few
Times they have been hard
We've followed near and far
You will always hear us roaring
On the stands of Ibrox park.

Oh oh oh oh oh oh! etc.

 

[Sheamaker]

What song was it?

Mine was at some point at the start of last season or end of the season before when we had 11 players on the pitch and every single one was younger than myself. I was only 29 and dream of someday playing for Rangers took a huge blow.

 

[giantchelsea]

Walking to the match and a young yin saying "Gies a lift over mister"

 

[Michael Mols]

When the first youth players I remember coming through ( gary mcswegan, Steven Pressley, Neil Murray etc) where all retired from playing.

 

[Rt. Hon. Bearman]

Tonight, after the game, my youngest had the temerity to teach me a Rangers song that I didn't know the words to.

Felt a strange mix of pride and a temptation to skelp the cheeky young grinning upstart, but he is 6' and goes to the gym.

Old and Pathetic Loyal.

Is he also 13 stone?

 

[George Goudie]

Is he also 13 stone?

....... exactly why I added that in, makes me feel like an old FF'r.

Jeezus - I wonder if he logs on here? I doubt he will know the thread we are referring to.

 

[shrewed wullie cf2]

Coming down the stairs tonight in South stand knees back aching,,on bus back I thought im def getting auld .2 large malts supped ready to go on Sunday again oap loyal

 

[wilse]

When Davie Weir retired it was the last time in my life that there was a first team payer older than me.
Finally admitted to myself that I'd never pull on the jersey.

 

[I.M.A.Bear]

makes me feel like an old FF'r.

You are!

 

[Charliedontsurf]

When a 20/30 year old Bear said to his mate. Last year .Here let the Auld Yin in .First time I had ever been called that .

I thought I'm gonna buy grecian 2000 and get my gnashers done .

 

[amabluestar]

Coming down the stairs tonight in South stand knees back aching,,on bus back I thought im def getting auld .2 large malts supped ready to go on Sunday again oap loyal

What about Tuesday?
Just away games you go to?

 

[ScotiaPapac]

Once Kenny Miller goes there (probably) won’t ever be a Rangers player who is older than me ever again.

 

[Ascott]

Tonight, after the game, my youngest had the temerity to teach me a Rangers song that I didn't know the words to.

Felt a strange mix of pride and a temptation to skelp the cheeky young grinning upstart, but he is 6' and goes to the gym.

Old and Pathetic Loyal.

My seat in the Govan front was "taken" following my season boycott. I literally got the same seat but unfortunately in the Govan rear row U. I think row U means Utterly Fu?ked by the time I get there!! Yes and old very very old.

 

[dcbear]

Derek Ferguson's debut. First game I was at where there was a first team player younger than me.

 

[sonowilliam]

When i first logged onto FF about twenty years ago

 

[Mr. Blue]

Is he also 13 stone?

Classic FF there

 

[AirthBear]

Sorry - the song was this one:


Every Saturday we follow
We cheer the boys in blue
Most successful team in football
We're Scotland's gallant few
Times they have been hard
We've followed near and far
You will always hear us roaring
On the stands of Ibrox park.

Oh oh oh oh oh oh! etc.

 

[AirthBear]

I said exactly the same to my son tonight, it will take me ages to get the words. I stood there just clapping like a happy seal.

 

[Steph85]

My 6 year old girl said to me after beggers game at Ibrox, dad a wish we could go back and watch rangers when you were a wee boy cause they beat them all the time. So do a girl!! Only 32 but made me feel old

 

[IrvineLoyal]

When the first youth players I remember coming through ( gary mcswegan, Steven Pressley, Neil Murray etc) where all retired from playing.

That’s what I came on to post

 

[Blue Lou Boyle]

When i was reading one of the "first rangers game you went to" threads and someone said his first game, as a kid, was in 2005.

 

[punk]

My hair fell out and my knob looks like Don King

 

[The Royal Standard]

Being out of breath after conquering the club deck stairs

 

[Duranman]

Being older than the entire team, Kenny Miller asides.

 

[The DazzleGer]

The realisation i was a lot less tolerarant and patient regards our current standing that the younger guys .

 

[GBOY]

When the players suddenly overnight (to me anyway!) became younger than you. It dawned on me during wee Advocaat's first season I never charge.

Oh and the wee fella giving me a row for not knowing the Josh Windass song!

 

[kielbear]

Two things.. young boy asking "Mister goany gies a lift" second was maybe a season later when a kid asked "Mister how long to go"

 

[Graemelins]

When Davie Weir retired it was the last time in my life that there was a first team payer older than me.
Finally admitted to myself that I'd never pull on the jersey.

I'm the same with Kenny Miller- hope he keeps playing for a few years yet!

 

[orjan_persson]

Policemen at the match.

When they put my arm up my back and threw me in the meat wagon, it played havoc with my arthritis.

 

[Papa Sasac]

My mate's 30th when we were talking about him being a ball boy the day we beat Dunfermline 6-1 to win the league.

Thought that was only about 3 years ago

 

[Sideys]

Pretty much when the players I was watching were all generally younger than me. So probably when I was 32 or 33.

I’m 39 just now.

 

[Berrytoon Bear]

When Davie Weir retired it was the last time in my life that there was a first team payer older than me.
Finally admitted to myself that I'd never pull on the jersey.

Came on to post exactly this

 

[Mckellar]

Thinking back to the CL games in 92/93 and then realising that was 25 years ago but you still remember them vividly.

 

[Sam English]

Being older than the manager and probably most of the board.

 

[Bluejak]

Climbing up to the Club Deck and thinking maybe a standing section might not be for me

 

[superallythe2nd]

When some of the players on the pitch were born in the mid 90s. Even worse now that there are players breaking through that were born in the early 2000s


Mind sitting in the West Enclosure in the 3rd division days and calling Barrie McKay "son" - made me sound like I was 60-odd, I was only 26 at the time

 

[foreverblue56]

My age

 

[johnkp]

Not old, as such (I was only 16!), but when Derek Johnstone played in the League Cup Final in 1970, it was the first time a Rangers first-team player was younger than me.

 

[Barnster Bear]

The half-time scores that only corresponded to letters of the alphabet in the match day programme.

 

[djberney]

Being older than the manager and probably most of the board.

This....and also my lad is now older than most of the team. Grandad Loyal

 

[413]

The first time I was knocked back from the boys gate. It happened at East End Park. A big polis pulled me out the queue and said I was too old so I had to pay in at the mens gate which meant that I had no money left to buy a programme. I was 14 at the time Derek Parlane scored 5 that day.

 

[Kylebeg]

When players you saw make their debuts are called senior pros or veterans and you realise you have watched their entire career.

 

[shrewed wullie cf2]

What about Tuesday?
Just away games you go to?

??? ???

 

[shrewed wullie cf2]

What about Tuesday?
Just away games you go to?

think cf2 might be a clue

 

[Polar bear]

As a wee boy sitting in the stand at Hamdump watching the 1957 league cup final,
and the Tinkers kicking our ass,7-1

 

[Wee buds swagger]

Not as far back as some but realising my first game seeing the famous was more than 40 years ago

 

[Wee buds swagger]

As a wee boy sitting in the stand at Hamdump watching the 1957 league cup final,
and the Tinkers kicking our ass,7-1

Am glad it never put you off ☺

 

[Arkansasgerstill]

Taking my old man to Ibrox for what I knew would be his last time (1999) and realising the onus was now on me to ensure his grand kids and now great grand kids would follow follow too. Much harder from America, but we have the season tickets still in use and both my American son-in-law and American daughter-in-law go to Ibrox when we come home.

 

[kenikinif]

when i started sitting at the front of supporters bus