The member of the Ranges Supporters Trust voted 98% for unity, Rangers First by 91.3% and season ticket holders by 94%
The task is now to bring membership, shares and other assets together quickly in time for next season and take full advantage of the feel good factor that both the takeover of the club by King & Co and the promotion back to the top flight will engender in the support.
Whilst the crisis and campaigning which saw ‘ordinary’ fans play such a vital part in getting rid of the old regime is over, we should acknowledge it was a huge part in stimulating interest in fan ownership. However, with a friendly club board supporting the new organisation I believe we can all build a huge organisation which will enjoy a substantial shareholding in the club (with the possibility of more to come) and provide a voice for a support which Scottish football needs to hear louder and clearer.
There will be naysayers but the vote shows they are irrelevant except as nuisance value. I can understand people get attached to their own groups or their holy causes and that many imagine themselves to have split the atom through this campaign or that slogan. Get over yourselves. The vast bulk of our support remains to be mobilised for the good of the club.
In the earliest days of the Rangers Supporters Trust I remember the first chairman, Colin Glass, saying when we started out on the hard and lonely road to take on David Murray that “I’ll be happy when we can disband the Trust - because that’ll be the day we know we’ve won and the club is in safe hands.”
The major battle to free the club from the hands of strangers has been won - now we need to work together to may it the club it can be.