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The Principled Gang Hut. "We support all Scottish clubs participating in Europe". Above is a constant refrain we hear on BBC Scotland. Of course, the evidence continually tells us something different. Someone who had Beeb involvement for half a century, Archie McPherson has told on a number of occasions of his surprise at popping into the Queen Margaret Drive canteen on the evening of the 2008 UEFA Cup final to see Senior Producers jumping atop tables to punch the air when St Petersburg scored against Rangers. At the turn of this year, the Sellik State of Mind contributor, Amy Canavan appeared on View from the Terrace to tell of the joy she and colleagues experienced watching Aaron Ramsey fail to score in the penalty shoot out at the conclusion of the 2022 Europa Cup final. Establishing PQ's principles is most important in a week of Scots clubs participating in all three Euro competitions. Sellik, fresh from defeat at Rugby Park were up first on Wednesday evening and they achieved something they have fail failed to do in over a decade, a Champions League group stage victory. If you're Irish come into the Gang Hut was the principle. Cillian Sheridan, Pat Bonner and, Tom English squeezed in, joining James McFadden and, Amy Canavan pitch side. Of course, Tom remains contained on the PQ naughty step because he criticised Brendan and Peter. Being a principled crew, you would expect the others to exhibit solidarity with Tom being told he is not welcome at ra Stade de Gadd? Compare and contrast the solidarity shown to Chris McLaughlin having his press credentials withdrawn at Ibrox? A five year determination to provide BBC License Fee paying Rangers supporters with little to no service whereas the PQ CSC bus continues to depart timeously. The principle of penalties was on display too, Sellik awarded yet another spot kick with little to no debate; the only times the word, 'controversial' is an attached prefix is when Rangers are beneficiaries. Big Dick will pen a column, Michael Stewart will analyse whilst shaking his head and, the opposition Gaffer will be provided with the national megaphone to shout, 'BIAS'. Post match, Sellik were lauded by the party hat replete Beeb contributors and the Gang Hut was bedecked in streamers and balloons because Sellik had finished rock bottom of their CL group. There are no dead rubbers in the Champions League particularly when ra green'n'grey hooped horrors are £3 million up and the national coefficient is improved. Ah, only good arithmetic is adorned upon Sellik whereas dead rubbers are confined permanently to Rangers when defeating PQ's favourites 3-zip last April. Continuing the theme of dead rubbers, Aberdeen took on Eintracht Frankfurt in the Euro Conference League at Pittodrie in the early kick off on Thursday night and Big Dick, Wullie Miller and, Liam McLeod banged the drum. The staccato tattoo was beat with such enthusiasm, the Dandies had defeated a Bundesliga side 2-0, a Bundesliga club that had just defeated another Bundesliga team called Bayern Munich five zip. Good arithmetic too, £500,000 gained trumps any accusation of dead rubber. Barry should be bullish because this result demands bullishness. The confident hot air emanating from the Pittodrie toilet bowl should have been captured and fed into the national grid. Big Dick adhered to the first line statement when handing over from the Dons broadcast gantry to Alistair Lamont and Steven Thompson in Seville, "let's hope Rangers can continue the good results achieved by Celtic and Aberdeen"? The Granite City Harbour authority immediately declared Big Dick's growing nose to be a hazard to navigation. Half time in Seville, the score was Real Betis 2 Rangers 2 and Big Dick took control again. Post match interviews from Pittodrie ensued, Barry was bullish and we were reminded Aberdeen had just turned over a Bundesliga club and augmented the Scottish coefficient. Given the 2-2 at the Seville break, Big Dick proceeded to provide the bad arithmetic. Rangers were languishing in third place in their Euro group, would only receive £300,000 in prize monies, would drop to the Euro Conference and, were contributing zero to the national coefficient. Back to Seville and I turned off the radio in preference of the TNT Sports commentary. I did not switch back on, it was the constant hypocrisy surrounding those dearly held principles that did it. Rangers won 2-3 in Seville and I do not know if Big Dick eulogised the good arithmetic? The three points gained for the coefficient, winning our Euro' group, direct entry to the the last sixteen and, the millions of pounds accrued. Is it a PQ principle to extend the feel good factor to matters Rangers? I feel we Gersnetters should remain on the moral high ground, entrenched in our magnanimous state of mind we must congratulate all Scottish clubs that have taken on and defeated foreign opposition this week. Thus, well done to Rangers, Aberdeen and, Kilmarnock.

We’ve done well so far under our new manager a decent win tomorrow could be a wonderful boost going into the Christmas period mon the gers.

One. game. at. a time

I was buzzing for tomorrow - even more so after the JT's winning at Parkhead. Cmon - the treble is on!

Desmond Roach and Stephen Conroy? You may know both retired Referees, Des Roach and Steve Conroy have a Podcast? Anything remotely controversial occurring during a Rangers game sees Des and Steve add weight to ongoing conspiracy. Print and broadcast media have their telephone numbers on speed dial, they can be relied upon absolutely to conclude Rangers are beneficiaries of favourable decisions. They are being paid to ensure Rangers pay the penalty. Today, the afternoon before tomorrow's final; PQ CSC have Des and Steve on Off the Ball as RAB Cosgrove and Tam the Token's guests. It was two hours of firing shotguns from the collective hips : Boom - Tam suggests both Todd Cantwell and Ross McCausland should be permanently employed as the men lying prone behind a defensive wall, as both spend so much time on the ground. Boom - RAB wants more power back in the hands of Referees, "including those ones raised in Lodges". Boom - Des and Steve both utilised incidents involving Rangers to highlight the need for refereeing change. Boom - Des admits he is a Sellik fan whereas, Steve claims to support Renfrew Juniors. I suspect if he had claimed to be sharing Michael Matheson's season ticket for the Partick Jags it would have been a more credible answer? Boom - Both Steve and Des were keen to talk about, "the rituals" required to be a Scottish Referee. Much guffawing amid suggestions but no specifics articulated. We should recognise the effort sustained by BBC Scotland to exert influence upon Don Robertson.

Just go at them from the whistle.

I take no joy from their misery, I would describe it as pure elation

80 minutes on the clock. Half an hour to go.

F that. Go to their place and win. Put pressure on Brenda.

How quickly it changes

This game tomorrow has huge ramifications for us as a club imo. Haven't been this tense since Seville for a game.

FT. Noice.

I'd say Europe wide mate, considering we've come back from oblivion. No team had qualified for the Europa league from the number of qualifiers we had under Gerrard in his first season before. Then we reached the last 16 back to back and reached a final with a load of bosmans and players bought for 6 figures (or 5 including Kamara). Look at the financial gulf between us and the teams we had in that ucl group as well, that's why I say pound for pound. I'm confident we'll find our feet in the UCL, especially with the new format. We just need to start winning the league domestically to gain entry ffs ha.

I went for Archie Gemmill Dessers

They also had jocyln angloma(sp) who played before at Ibrox for Marseille in that famous season, Amadeo Carboni an Italian fullback who was solid. Roberto Ayala who went on to captain Argentina at the World Cup, Gerard Lopez who joined Barca shortly after, Romanian striker Adrian illie who we played in the CL in 1995 when he was still at Bucharest. And the manager was Rafa Benitez. All in all the Aberdeen of Spain were a decent outfit.

Yes. Kemar cant play 90 minutes in 90 days. Blue tinted glasses after last night? Dessers has to start on Sunday

Will they have Michael Stewart on to represent ginger failures?

'Soft free kick'? Carter-Vickers wrapped a leg around the forward.

Nathan Patterson has been brilliant so far tonight for Everton imo. Looks like he's starting to kick on for them, great to see.

Steady. Acknowledge it and move on. Respect the juju.

I must say, I'm in a jolly fine mood this evening.

Lang may their misery continue

Do you buy them new, or second-hand.

They’re no happy with the current scoreline in Timland

Testing the extra time clock:

Guys, it is twitter api thing usually Musk is a money grabbing twat. When X or twitter whatever we wana call it these days has "peak" traffic, he takes huffs and cuts the api to free software that allows embedding tweets. It doesnt just affect Gersnet, (usually) Edit - that isn't exactly what happens but it gives you the gist. He messes with it anyway

I want him to partner Lundstram tomorrow: together they will take care of Shinnie et al.

Have a squint at this from another website. The txt quoted in the OP is a sellick view but it gives you the gist. https://www.followfollow.com/forum/threads/the-irish-flag-controversy-1952-vs-2008-run-our-demotion.47341/

Dessers should start ahead of Mr. Glass. Kemar is like a flare gun...it's brilliant when you do it...but you usually get one shot. I personally think we should save him till the scum game. If the team have their heads removed from their asses they have enough to beat Aberdeen without him.

Roofe doesn’t need to play 90 minutes but he certainly needs to start

I wouldn't take anything Hugh Keevins says seriously. He's happy for people to ignore paedophilia and child abuse.

I think Dessers would work better with a more clinical striker alongside him. But I'm a dinosaur.

Big Sellik man and Sunday Mail columnist, Hugh Keevins stated Valencia were the Aberdeen of Spanish football. Hugh also stated Ibrox on a Euro' evening was akin to a Nazi Nuremberg rally. Hugh established his credentials in the same column by mentioning four Priests attended his daughter's wedding.

That Valencia team were up there with the best I've seen at Ibrox

Very interesting competition, the League Cup. Some facts. Little-fancied Partick Thistle and Raith Rovers both won sensational finals against a club from Glasgow’s east end and it wasn’t Clyde. East Fife had won the trophy three times before that same Glasgow club had even got to the final. Rangers and Aberdeen have met in the final six times, with the Famous winning five including the very first in season 1946/47. The Rangers side that notable day was: Brown; Young and Shaw; McColl, Woodburn and Rae; Rutherford, Gillick, Williamson, Thornton and Duncanson Ever dependable Willie Rae in for Sammy Cox and Eddie Rutherford for Willie Waddell and unusually, Willie Thornton at insde-left. Jimmy Duncanson cantering about on the left wing scored twice and Torry Gillick and Billy Williamson once each for a 4-0 result. I demand the same score or better on Sunday, the goals spread evenly throughout the game. No extra time and no bad starts or nervy last twenty minutes. I’m too old for that sort of nonsense.

Who was it that said Valencia were the Aberdeen of Spain when we played them, you know, that side that reached the EC final that year? In the Scottish press or punditry? That Valencia side of the early 00's really was a team that doesn't get enough credit. Players like Canizares and Pablo Aimar, jeez-o. And some journo likened them to Aberdeen.

Similar to the yahoo victory - a meaningless match. And another thing, Aberdeen couldn't sell all their tickets and yet have the audacity to complain about their allocation for Sunday. I hope trains back Aberdeen on Sunday get cancelled. 😀

Frankfurt had already qualified and couldn't improve their standing in the table, so you can play it down.

We should celebrate victory the way we have always done and not start behaving like a diddy club because of a few years of adversity.

Aye pound for pound we're probably the best performing club in Europe over the last 5 years - you'd get derided for saying it but I think there's a serious case for it. Scottish clubs weren't meant to get to European finals in 2008 yet alone 2022, yet we did and did it with bosmans, loans and 6 figure signings. We're used to it and it's not like we need flowers but not enough is made of it imo, we're pretty much solely giving hope to clubs in Europe with less than 100m in revenue that they can win major European honours. Proud of the team and club, hopefully we can start winning domestically too now starting Sunday 🤞

SykesBear a couple of weeks ago... "Celtic took 6 off this shower. 6! And we needed a penalty to snatch a f*cking draw. Pathetic. We're winning nothing under PC. Bookmark this. Save it. Do whatever you want, he's winning nothing here. The club is toxic."

Lundstram, Butland, Sima ... all MOTM contenders but for me the influence of Dujon Sterling in midfield when he came on was pivotal to the result, so he gets my vote

Lundstram. He's been our best player during the Wallonia period.