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Nonces get what nonces want. Why am I unsurprised by this? Why am I no longer disappointed by the catamites of the SPFL?

Rangers first priority should be the health of our supporters, players and staff, everything else should be secondary. Based on the available public health advice the game on Boxing Day shouldn't have a crowd at it. As has been pointed out by others the likelihood of these crowd reduction measures being reversed by mid-January seem slim, so for me whether we go into a winter break now or in early January as planned is fairly moot, we'll all be playing behind closed doors at some point I think. The argument that a delay to mid-January will benefit Celtic as it allows them more time to get players fit is fair, but with Balugun, Barasic, Davis and Roofe, all potential starters if fit, also in danger of missing out perhaps a delay might not be that bad for us either. The African Cup of Nations taking possibly 3 of our players away for nearly a month is a problem. Losing 3 players does mean we can legitimately ask for postponements of matches but that would really cause fixture chaos, particularly if our next 3 matches are postponed as well. The club is well within its rights to point that out. I suspect Rangers, and every other club in Scotland, will be looking to minimise the number of matches played with few or no spectators allowed in. A look at last year's accounts shows just how important having a full Ibrox is for the club's finances, and that applies to every club up here. There's no fat for us to fall back on, losing our biggest revenue stream, again, provides some significant challenges for our board. I can understand why bringing the winter break forward is appealing to many boardrooms, if it means there's a chance of fewer matches being played behind closed doors. Of course no one actually knows the answer to that. Politically these recent measures have been unpopular, and with populist governments in place in Edinburgh and Westminster, it maybe that opinion polls rather than health advice carry more weight around cabinet tables this time round. So maybe restrictions won't last as long as they did last year. Or maybe they will, no one knows for sure. (I'm not trying to make a political point or agree or disagree with Government and public health advice. So don't @ me, I don't care.) All we can expect of anyone in our boardroom, or any other club's, is to deal with what they know, not what they suspect. For now that means a loss of crowds and revenue for 3 matches. That being the case bringing the winter break forward and so moving those 3 matches to later in the season is the sensible thing to do, even for Rangers. As an aside, as none of us really know what will happen, it's worth remembering that Celtic are in the Vauxhall Conference Euro Cup. Despite everything that's a tournament they could reasonably expect to progress quite far in. It's not inconceivable that come March and April Celtic are still playing European matches while trying to fit in 5 postponed SPFL matches around a diminishing fixture calendar. I think our board should be looking to book a tour of Japan for this summer, just in case.

Finished 0-0 in Paisley

Karma strikes early and hard.

Let's face it, with the horrible incompetent folk in charge of both the SPFL and the kiddy on government in Edinburgh, there is absolutely no chance in hell this is a 3 week window with no fans and then we are back at 50,000 at Ibrox. I dont think we will get inside a full Ibrox again until Easter at the earliest. Obviously hope i'm wrong but wee Nippy and her cohorts have plenty of previous. The bheasts will know this also and are only wanting the break brought forward to get their squad back fit before they play us. Everyone else in the SPFL will of course vote along with the bheasts, as they will swallow the empty promises of an early break and full houses straight afterwards, which is virtually impossible to make happen. The only thing we can do about it is not allow our players to go to Africa if/when the fixtures are rescheduled for the same timeframe as the African Cup, and other than that, just keep winning and have up our sleeve that the bheasts were running scared of us and use it as incentive to knock them over at full strength in their own midden when we finally get the chance.

no way will there be crowds by then but they will be hoping to have half a new team by then. maybe they will get a covid outbreak by then though

The public doesn't 'deserve' any investigation and least of all the truth. The public insists on voting for people who piss all over it year after year. The public swallows every political fantasy set in front of it. The public is greedy, shortsighted and tribal. The public is beyond stupid and deserves exactly what it gets.

No sign of McGuire being prosecuted for sectarian behaviour? any comments from Humza Yousaf ? James Dornan? what a nasty wee, horrible one-sided country we live in

I'm not really understanding the panic about who will and who won't be available. Injuries can crop up at any time and we have first team players due back in the next few weeks. The internationals situation is all a bit muddy too. Will Balogun get picked, do we need him - will any big bids come in for Aribo? Let's just see how it all goes. One thing's for sure, the scum will be absolutely devastated if we're still top of the league on 3rd February.

Japan play Australia in a World Cup Qualifier on Feb 1st..... Wonder if Celtic will ask for it to be moved again.......🤷‍♂️ should just let them tell us all when it's suitable for them and we'll fit it in to our diaries

SPFL a football entity who continually vote to stop football from being played. You couldn't make it up. Wonder if our board will say something? Anything? Against the people ruining/running our game? 0

that was beyond wrong.

so the spfl board shaft more than half the teams in the league in order to let celtc bottle out an old firm game. you would imagine that the clubs will wake up to them at some point but no sign of it yet.

The board can't say much. What they going to say we smell blood and want you all to take empty stadiums to suit us. we just need to go out and Win again and again. We all know celtc are running scared here. Lets make that fear real it's a good sign.

And that's why I think we really need to find a way to get him game time or we need to sell. If he doesn't get game time he wont develop. A loan at this point isn't worth while either.

At 30 years old and a ready made replacement waiting in the wings, I'd take any good offer for Tavernier but I reckon that particular boat has sailed.

In an ideal world I'd sell Tav, keep NP and potentially sell him for more than that in a few years, but there has never really been much interest in Tav....

Realise there is somewhat of an overlap here but can we keep the political/social commentary stuff separate from the football chat. We all have our opinions on vaccinations, boosters, etc but these can be saved for the Lounge.

According to figures, the implementation of passport requirements has had a minimal impact on vaccine uptake (if you read football forums you'll be aware that many fans were getting into matches with fakes) and the latest restrictions now mean that the vaccinated can't get into matches anyway. The vaccine doesn't seem to be having much impact on the spread lf omicron either. Will these restrictions be curtailed after three weeks - I have my doubts.

Where did he say that being vaccinated stopped the spread? EDIT; To add, some studies have shown that it can reduce transmission. That said, I agree with the sentiment - those unwilling to get vaccinated are delaying the progress. We’re not going to get back to normality any time soon, but everyone needs to do their part to help society be as normal as possible as it can lead to bigger and longer term issues. Relevancy to this thread is that football is a life source to many people and we should be playing our parts to keep it alive.

I found the Hampden DJ playing the Wolfetones more concerning that what she said. Does that mean we can get a flute band on next time we win there?

Celtc writing to the SPFL to get sport scene cancelled as we speak.

Even 5 is way too much! no stoppages! no injuries! scandalous!

We should be asking why you can have 500 in a 500 capacity but we are limited to 500 in our glorious home.

Yes, and bring on the 4 match week!

There is no need to panic but people really to need to wake up. One team calculated that this would benefit them and made it happen.

Probably get played at Parkheid 😆

That's very interesting. Especially, if rumour has it, that Stavros is planning to ship a barrow load of them over here to beef up his squad!😜

The vote completely stinks. Not least because it has three options. Governance for cretins I guess. One option, play as intended, makes sense. Some teams may be unable to fulfil fixtures. Postpone those specific matches. The other two options are idiotic. We don't know when fans will be permitted back. There are not enough free match days to complete the delayed fixtures prior to the intended date of the split. The idea that a handful of teams should lose matchday income on boxing day, while others might be protected, is blatantly unfair.

Also worth noting that after the winter break we have 4 out of 5 games at home. Sure the board will be doing what the deem best to protect that much needed income?

we got 5 million for danny wilson. we never missed him and the money won us the league.

Would love to know how much public money has been spent in total from the HMRC side pursuing this. HMRC staffing costs, multiple legal fees, court time, and then the cherry on top of the cake we went through an administrative process protecting assets which results in HMRC being able to claim very little back. I am at risk of repeating myself but the public deserve an investigation into this and the individuals responsible should be held to account.

Exactly, everyone lost out on TV revenue so Celtic could be awarded a title. And the other clubs voted this madness through.

Still dignified silence from the board....... Hearing we'll be able to rearrange any rearranged games if our players are still involved in African Nations.

For Patterson? I think someone who can't even get a regular first team place is never going to command high valuations. In that respect, while I'd want more, I think £10m is in the right ballpark.

The £10m fee quoted is derisory; if the eastenders could get £11m for Frimpong then we would be underselling.

Sky agreed to take the payment out of future payments over 5 years. It cost us a fortune.

I reckon we will sell Patterson. If we cant give him game time and a club like everton are willing to give him game time and potentially much larger pay then its not fair to keep him tbh. As long as they pony up with the transfer fee.

On the contrary.