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I actually much prefer the way we have been dealing with our business! the Scottish gutter press have no idea what is happening with Rangers!

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Like the rest of us, you'll get all the statements and direction you need ... when the time is right.

We don’t wish to know that. Kindly leave the stage.

Frankly, what Gerrard does from now on is of absolutely no interest to me.

Kent also gets us "up the pitch" into the opponents defensive 3rd very quickly. He wins corners and free-kick and can either deliver a cross / pass or a goal scoring threat.

The thing with Kent for me - and you saw it against Ross County - is that it isn't just the end product that Kent brings to the team. We often forget that Kent actually opens up more space when he plays because, when he wasn't in the team, opponents actually pushed their back line higher, squeezing all the space out of the midfield because we didn't have any pace either side to hurt them. Kent comes back into the team and all of a sudden there is more space - because opponents genuinely fear his pace to get in behind them if they play a high line.

It wouldn't matter anyway - if Gerrard wants Kamara it wouldnt matter what his release clause is because Kamara's agent would just tell Villa anywayi

Qualification for the ECWC quarter-finals had been done the hard way. We had put out the French cup winners by a single goal and dispatched the Portuguese cup winners on goal difference. The draw for the last eight ratcheted up the pressure another notch, we drew the Italian cup winners, Torino. An article in the Herald explained the boys in maroon were the only talk in the Toon. Turin is a two club city, the more famous Juventus drew it's support from the rest of Italy and beyond. Torino were the favourites of the denizens of the city, reinforced for another reason. Ferrari. The Agnelli family owned the majority of the Juve' shares. Since the majority of locals worked for FIAT, they refused to support their Bosses club. Talking of which, the Agnelli family works team has seen off Aberdeen in the first ever UEFA Cup(taking over from the Fairs Cup as Europe's third competition). Juve' had defeated the Dons 3-1 over two the two legs. The Dandies were Scotland's only losers, all other progressed. St Johnstone had lost 1-0 in Hungary but triumphed 2-1 on aggregate over Vasas. Sellik also made it into the European Cup quarter-finals, defeating the mighty Sliema Wanderers of Malta 7-1 on aggregate. A very fine Dundee side fought back from being 1-2 down against Cologne to win 4-2 at Dens Park for a 5-4 aggregate victory. Rangers return from Lisbon saw them travel to Muirton Park to meet the Perth men. St Johnstone under Willie Ormand was always a tough ask, they had a very good front five. Henry Hall scored plenty, he was the recipient of plenty of service from inside forwards, John Connolly and Jim Pearson(both later transferred to Everton after failed Rangers bids). Winger, Kenny Aird was a handful and midfielder, John Lambie enjoyed a tackle. It was real drama that day in the fair city; ding-ding, seconds out. After our morning school game, we found out our amateur Boys' Club game in the afternoon had been cancelled due to an SFA investigation into S-Form registrations. The opposition manager concerned was Eric Smith who would spend several years as Hamilton Acas boss and where, S-Form registration would revisit him and Acas owner, Jan Stepek. Anyways, four of us caught the Tannochside RSC bus and joined another 20,000 avidly waiting on the tag team action. The teams were : St Johnstone - Donaldson, Coburn, Argue, Rennie, Gordon, Whitelaw, Aird, Lambie, Pearson, Connolly and, Hall. Rangers - McCloy, Jardine, Mathieson, Greig, Jackson, Smith, Henderson, Conn, Stein, Fyfe and MacDonald. Willie Johnston was on as a Sub' for Fyfe at half time. Muirton Park was a dump, I remember looking down from the back of an end terrace and you could not see the roofless brick toilet for the enveloping cloud of water vapour. The view of the pitch was not much better, Willie Waddell, Jock Wallace and, Willie Ormand rushed on to the pitch, attempting to separate the brawling players. Johan Fyfe was clearly hobbling after a number of late challenges. The Referee awarded Rangers a hat-trick of penalties, all converted by Johnston. Doddie added our second goal in the 55th minute and Pearson notched a consolation for the home side in the dying minutes. Rangers won 1-4 in a bad tempered match. Pittodrie was and remains a toilet. Half a century past, it had an open high terracing running the length of the pitch. The SFA took Tommy Docherty's second match in charge of the national team to Aberdeen. Belgium were the opponents and the Doc' consolidated his good start with a second victory, Derby County's John O'Hare scored the only goal in the fifth minute. Thirty-six thousand squeezed into the toilet to see Sandy Jardine stroll the game. Those in the cobalt blue that evening were - Bobby Clark, Sandy Jardine, Davie Hay, Billy Bremner, Martin Buchan, Pat Stanton, Jimmy Johnstone, Stevie Murray, John O'Hare, Eddie Gray and, Alex Cropley. After five weeks at number one, Rod Stewart had given up appealing to Maggie to wake up. Slade had taken over the top spot with, 'Cos I luv you'. The Wolverhampton stomping rawkers could not fully subdue Rod the Mod, his LP, 'Every Picture Tells a Story' had re-established itself as number one album for a further two weeks. Slow burners were all the rage, November'71 saw a couple of unofficial Miners' strikes in Yorkshire and Kent. There was an NUM election for Presidency between Joe Gormley and Shotts born and bred, Mick McGahey. Gormley won and led the NUM into a seven weeks national strike at the end of the first week of the new year. CPGB founder member, Mick McGahey was the more moderate choice. Next week, Rangers would host Dundee at Ibrox. Another win, our sixth in a row could see us challenge for the number one spot over the festive programme? Benny Hill had just released, 'Ernie the Fastest Milkman in the West'; who would win the race to number one?

It's more about the league we're in than the club itself.

From the moment Gerrard arrived at Rangers there was incessant reference to his ultimate destination at Liverpool, the inference being that Rangers could only ever be a stepping stone on his march to a far greater destiny. It always irritated me that this universal truth was meekly accepted by every Rangers fan, not because aspiring to manage Liverpool was a bad thing in itself but because our opinion of our own club had apparently slipped so much that we were happy to be used as a tool in the pursuit of someone else's ambitions. Maybe now the fans of Aston Villa can take their turn to be the road under Gerrard's feet. There are people out there who would still see managing Rangers as an end in itself. Hopefully one of them will be chosen to be our next assistant manager, so that the meek really might inherit the Earth one day.

I've just realised that perhaps the reason why so many are hurt by SG's move is because he has left us for another club. Usually our managers are shafted because they've failed, or they retire at the end of a spell. It's quite unusual for a manager to leave us. I can understand why a Rangers man would be hurt by that - for us, there is no better, bigger club than Rangers. I think I've been so used to the managerial merry-go-round in the PL that I forgot that. I don't know why it took me so long to appreciate that?

Today's discussions may be done via social media platform as I would assume it will just be to iron out small details ?‍♂️ However, to be on safe side will spend my days holiday at Edinburgh Airport....

I don't think that Knutsen is a great choice for Rangers. I do think that Knutsen is a great choice for me and my football hipster credentials.

Just reading on FF that the new manager will NOT be announced tomorrow and that Frank Lampard wasn't on our list.

What do you expect? A minute by minute update on discussions related to a new manager? IMO, this has been planned for a while. It's too coincidental that this all happens during an international break.

True but you can only beat what you are up against

Who can say that the Rangers support has not moved on?

I've no idea who you're referring to ... but he would be my choice too ?

We were complaining the attacking play was sideways and backwards, almost static. Kent sets off on a diagonal run, right to left. That compels whoever is out on the left to move forwards or inwards even backwards but that player will likely take a defender with him and so the defence opens up a bit giving opportunities for the other attackers. I hadn’t realised this until he was out for so long.

How can they inform the fans and yet keep the media in the dark ?

Definately, especially as he bought Cantona for 1.5m and Keane for 4m and Ince to kick start the domination of the 90s and 2000s

His tabloid column, for me. Can't stand him.

It's like seeing a beautiful modern building set right next to a glorious Victorian edifice.

I honestly dont think it would be any different with any other manager these days, even Scottish ones. If a EPL outfit come their way they will take the job. While I dont like it either, we are just a big fish in a small pond and the EPL is a much richer and better league. That's just the way things are with money nowadays. In Souness' era we signed several England internationals for small money. They would cost £50m a pop today, its not a level playing field now. We are now paying £7m for a Liverpool reserve who hadn't played a competitive game for them.

Thanks should have worded it his assistant chose to stay there,which is what I really meant.?

Good stat, but i suppose Fergie saved a fair bit by having Scholes, Beckham, Giggs, Sharpe, Butt, the Nevilles, Wes Brown, Fletcher, O'shea, Evans and Wellbeck come through, whereas Wenger struggled after the defence he inherited got old and the replacements were poor.

God help us if he is on the shortlist.

I would assume the assistant was not left by Gio, but wanted to remain there. Grown up men and all that. ?

Sounds terrible. I hope that it turns out to be a load of rubbish.

He left China as soon as pandemic arose and left his assistant there.

I'll be sceptical of every story linking AV to our players, but Kamara is the most likely one to be targeted imo. I think he'd do well in the EPL.

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The club needs a certain amount of privacy to get important things done. Some people are always demanding information. These demands are almost never accompanied by any justification.

Not sure what you want them to say. The likes of H&H and FF dish out anything remotely relevant, albeit often in a vague manner.

The young man's performance and goal must have added to his transfer value, but I would prefer it if we gave him a run in the first team

Anyone looking for semi-final tickets, I've just purchased one from Rangers website. Looks like it's open to season ticket holders who haven't already purchased a ticket

I love Ryan Kent and on his game he is really special and a match winner and there is a but. He lacks consistency, can fall out of games and for all his possession the end product can be poor. I am not sure he would be a success in the PL. Having said all of that I don't want to lose him.

I'm prepared to believe Gerrard's family situation was a major factor in him wanting to leave. The others? I guess they go where their meal ticket goes.

At least to start with Fergie could build and manage teams with little expenditure. Maybe Wenger also to some extent. But the others on the list are all cheque book managers. I have no doubt that Mourinho et al could turn Doncaster Rovers into world beaters but only if they were allowed their usual budget.