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Gersnet's Rev I M Jolly enjoys another afternoon watching the teddies!

51 games played this season and beaten just the twice across four competitions. Once with nine men, the other with just one centre half on the pitch. That's, to be honest, incredible and I just hope we do that statistic justice by going on now to win the Scottish Cup and remain undefeated in the league. It might not be a treble, it might not be a European trophy win either but, if we can do this, then there's an argument it's our best season ever.

This season has been an amazing success even before today and would still have been a success if they had won. However, victory today means that Celtic have nothing to hide behind, no valid excuses, and, best of all, no trophies.

£15M? Are they only wanting him on loan?

Equivalence? I have not been in Northern Ireland in nearly thirty years. The dozen years before, I was a regular visitor to the Province. All six stays were professional, assisting the civil authority. We called the visitations, 'Tours' and they lasted between three and six months. I began in Londonderry in Spring'79 and finished in west Belfast, Autumn'92. The civil authority in most cases was the Police, but could easily be the District Nurse, Midwife, Postie, the Gas Board, ........ etc. My final tour included commanding the protection of Dr Joe Hendron. The Falls Road GP had committed the crime of defeating Gerry Adams in the '92 General Election for the West Belfast seat. The SDLP man was dedicated, insisted on continuing to do the occasional shift at the practice. Home visits, particularly those in the early hours were problematic. Gerry made Joe and us pay a heavy price. The approach to every patient's house had to be cleared before medical care was administered. The brave bhoys always knew when Joe was on shift and the calls increased knowing Hendron would always attend. An OAP requiring pain relief was a pawn to King Gerry's hurt pride. You got around the Provence, and the majority of my sympathy was always for the young folks on both side of the divide. Their social lives were rarely expansive. Republicans in Turf Lodge were the same as Unionists in the Waterside, the social horizon did not extend beyond a dozen streets. Of course, those streets were controlled. Think about it, access to amenities such as a Library, a swimming pool, a public park, ...... etc? Being denied amenities was a legitimate complaint, denying the other side access was equally important. It was a false equivalence. Rioting was a gift, controlling forces allowed and encouraged it when an attention shift was necessary. Those participating looked forward to the action enormously. Lobbing bricks, petrol bombs and, coffee jar explosives was fun, fun, fun. It took your mind off depravation and relieved the boredom. On the receiving end, we prayed for two things, something good on the telly and torrential rain. Rationalising the trigger mechanisms was a waste of time, why are we enduring a third night of unrest in Fermanagh, when it began with a cancelled parade in Antrim? I rediscovered some of those feelings of being nonplussed a week to a fortnight past. Unionist youths were rioting in Belfast for a week. Largely ignored in the rest of the UK but being reported quite prominently in Scotland, particularly by BBC Scotland. We are in a run up to the Holyrood elections and political capital can be made from teenagers waving Union flags and aiming fireworks at Police officers. The usual suspects appeared on PQ's various current affairs outlets and call-in shows to parrot, "see, it's like a few weeks ago when Rangers won the league, it's a disgrace". Why were we the equivalence? A lot of the contributors are known to be sympathetic to the Scots Nationalist aspiration. Further, they ignored the legitimate causes of depravation, poverty, boredom, ..... etc. The rioters were similar to celebrating Rangers supporters, both enjoyed ENTITLEMENT. The death of the Duke of Edinburgh has intervened, it has stopped this false equivalence. I suspect temporarily? The only entitlement bestowed upon Rangers supporters from PQ is to marginalise and demonise us at every turn. Occasionally, they have taken opportunity to dehumanise us too. The Club and support no longer engage with BBC Scotland but I think we might have to find a way stymie such unfettered equivalence. I understand the trigger mechanism for the riots was the PSNI 's decision NOT to take action over events surrounding the funeral of IRA Volunteer, Bobby Storey. Three thousand people lined the streets to pay respect, there was no social distancing and no face masks. The Sinn Fein leadership followed behind the coffin to church, attended Milltown Cemetery and, the crematorium. Prince Philip's funeral is taking place today with 30 mourners, all socially distanced and face masks are being worn. I hope PQ can do the equivalence of entitlement but I am sure they will simply ignore. Last Saturday, the minutes silence at Celtic Park lasted eleven seconds before the first firework exploded. The organisation often lionised by PQ employees, the Green Brigade could not share the respect being awarded by their club, as the pyrotechnics continued the Ref' cut the silence short, it lasted twenty seconds. BBC Scotland's Liam McLeod was doing commentary on the Celtic - Livingston game and he made no comment. Richard Gordon cut in and the line to Celtic Park was temporarily cut as he explained frequency changes. There was a return for live coverage from the kick-off. Still, there has been no mention of this deliberate interruption on BBC Scotland. The Green Brigade can rely on such entitlement, absolutely.

Celtic players have scored more goals for us than they have against this season ??

Obviously 1992/93 was a huge season - a treble and an amazing Euro run in the CL but the overall context was different. What an incredible run of games. We must note that when we talk about this season.

Rubbish!!, Separate Entity FC are the best team in Scotland and have the best players!!!, we are lucky to be 2-0 up ?

The regularity with which we now swat them aside is healing a lot of hurt. The memory of them toying with our Championship teams is at last being put in its proper context. We’re no longer a club that’s arrived after a long and difficult journey - we’re a club preparing for dominance. Stephen Gerrard and his entire staff and players deserve more than they know.

City and ‘Spurs are the other two according to some reports. celtic will of course be automatic entrants.

i really wish we would stop just pissing about in these games once we go up. I know they are fairly easy at that point but we should go skelp them some time.

They are taking it well as usual

Well played Rangers, not bad for 2nd best team in Scotland

Bitterness dripping out of Sutton, love hearing it

We look amazing going forward but shaky in defence (McGregor apart).

Hartson and Strachan having a wee bitch fight live on TV.....?

Been very impressed with Helander so far. Paterson a revelation. Just don’t concede early after the break.

Patterson seems to be the real deal, some really incdredible runs and skillful passes. It's going to be pretty interesting to see how we get him involved more because it's clear he deserves some first team action.

That challenge on Kent in the build up to Davis goal was a booking 100%

A massive game today and while our season will still be a successful one if somehow we mess today up, we really must be winning games like this, even more so given the opponent, and also the way we were eliminated from the league cup. I would hope the inane ramblings of Kennedy, backed up by their useful idiots in the mhedia, will be pinned front and centre of the dressing room as a final reminder before we take the field of what we still have to prove, and ensure we not only want to beat them, but totally smash them. My nagging doubts, (which always come to the fore before an OF match) are that we have certainly not hit the heights of our form since getting over the line several weeks ago, that we only seem to hit our groove when we play twice a week, and it may be that the bheasts want this more to salvage something from a disastrous season. Being positive, if we play at the tempo we can, get our pressing high and fast, pass and move in the forward areas, we will be far too good for a very poor back line that they have. If we can get good deliveries from set pieces into good areas, we know we can create goal scoring chances as we have done in previous OF games this season. If our key players, Kent, Morelos, Davis all have good games, we usually win. I don’t know that I have really really wanted to win an OF game more than this one in recent years, (the LC final last year is comparable) so let’s do this Rangers, let’s just feckin do this.

We need to brace ourselves for bids for our players this summer. Won’t be easy to keep everyone like we did last summer

Several players really shone. Patterson, one bad pass aside, was magnificent. Allan McGregor again proved unbeatable when the odds were against him. Ryan Kent looked a thread every time he got the ball. For me, has to be Steven Davis though. An overhead kick to open the scoring and a superb performance where he was head and shoulders above every opposition player.

Great reading and for me a great big thank you to Celtic for:_ NOTHING

You can our players are very happy playing for SG/Rangers, especially with the chance of CL football and continued domestic success, I also think the days of us selling players below value are over!.

I 'm guttered. Was round the mates to watvh the game, battered themn. We defeated the best team in the league and they missed the panilty they never get awarded. Still, it gets garder; we face the second most successful club in the last decade in the next round. Keep up your fluids level RSC.

Steve Davis has scored an Old Firm goal and Alan McGregor has saved a penalty in 3 different decades.

Of course because they are the best team in Scotland after all

+ another £5m after today's show.

Kent is worth a small fortune and £15m is peanuts in the English market. I'd be disappointed now if he didn't go for a record fee in Scottish football as he's a fantastic player with further improvement to be made as well.

I would expect Ofoborh to be a squad player next season; filling in, playing the odd game here and there -- a bit like Scott Wriht this season. It takes them a while to get up to speed. Ofoborh's a holding midfielder, but I don't know if he's creative at all, like Davis -- playing DM, but actually the creative hub--; or if perhaps he'll play one of the wider centre-midfield positions, like Aribo and Kamara do now?

Agree. We have one more go at them before the season ends and I really hope we ditch the walking football and up the gears.

What about the lad from Bournemouth we signed? Is he not a holding midfielder?

I've no doubt Jack will be fully fit to make a much bigger contribution next season. I've also no doubt that we will make a statement in terms of a central midfield signing before the end of August.

It's slipping through my fingers... !!

Some brilliant performances today but for me Davis shaded it

Whoever is doing Rangers Twitter deserve to be mentioned when discussing player of the year ?

Bad start from us, hopefully we've woken up.

Premier sports is rubbish. Celtic are even worse.

I know it's a bit left field but I would be curious to see how Kent and Wright would do together in the same starting line up. Would love to see them both running at their back line.

It's about time we gave them a jolly good thumping