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Not to excuse it but it's worth remembering we're not the only football club struggling financially. Dundee Utd posted a loss of nearly £3 million earlier this year, Hibs nearly £4 million, Hearts lost £1.2 million and Aberdeen, despite some remarkable spin in the media, lost nearly £900k. St Johnstone lost well over £1 million, Dundee lost nearly £3 million, Motherwell are late to publish this year but lost over £1.5 million last year and Ross County lost half a million. Only St Mirren, more or less, broke even. In Belgium the Champions, Antwerp, lost around £40 million, indeed only 6 clubs in total out of their top two divisions didn't make a loss. Ajax lost 13 million Euros last year, PSV and Feyenoord also posted multi million Euro losses. In the Republic Of Ireland, where their domestic league is enjoying a renaissance with record attendances and clubs reaching European group stages, every single club in their top league made a financial loss last year. You don't have to look far in England to find clubs haemorrhaging money, despite access to TV and sponsorship revenues we can only dream about. Spanish football is a basket case with some of its biggest clubs carrying debt that would frighten a small country. Professional football in Europe, despite never being better funded, is in a perilous state financially. Clubs (and many of their supporters) take pride in finding loop holes in regulations designed to protect them rather than accept financial downsizing far less simply living within their means. As difficult as this is to type, Celtic are not only consistently well run, they are also very much the exception. We could be profitable. Everyone knows that means we need to find, develop and sell players every season and that is easier said than done. For every Nathan Paterson there's an Adam Devine, for every Joe Aribo there's a Todd Cantwell. Why some players succeed and some don't is one of life's mysteries. There is no excusing our form currently. We're not playing well, we don't score goals, we don't even entertain. We should be better than we are with the money we do have. I remain in the camp that's not convinced changing our manager, again, is the answer. We keep trying that and it doesn't seem to work. Perhaps some stability will pay better dividends long term. A new CEO and Chairman should provide that, although who knows, clearly firing Clement will make a lot of supporters happy and take the heat off the board and buy everyone a few months grace. We're addicted to short term returns, so nothing would surprise me.

While it is clearly obvious we have regressed from last season, but it is unfair to say that happened in his 12 months in charge. His run from November to the start of March was very good and won a cup and put us top of the league with 10 games to go before the wheels fell off. He got Beale's awful team playing some decent stuff and things were looking very good. Night and day from what we have seen this season which has been awful. I really want the board and senior management sorted before I would trust anyone to get rid of Clement and choose a successor. I'm happy to not blow money we dont have in replacing with an interim or poor choice when we cannot win this seasons title anyway. Im not happy about it, but being pragmatic.

I find the timing of this a bit odd. It is naive to think this will make any difference at this stage or is it the Union Bears with a private beef against the board?

Also Miller at Motherwell; for God's sake don't let the dark side get him: he won't be a first pick and they will sell him on for a big fee. He will walk into our side. Maybe McKenzie at Aberdeen.

I did. It just seemed credible.

He started really well but I think he has gone off the boil recently, although I am convinced we arent getting the best out of him out wide. On reflection, I would prefer to keep him as long as we play him in the 10.

Paul Sturrock had a unique approach to management at Southampton. "I sent two players on to a fourth-storey roof to do some slating," he said. "We tried to get players down a pit but they wouldn't go because there was this small cavern they had to crawl through. When I was in Scotland I took my YTS people to a building site one day and slapped them in for an eight-hour shift. It made them appreciative they were in an easy life. I think there are a lot of current squad that could do with a reality check .

Hey, I can be a hipster as well

@CammyF posting xG stats!?

I don't think the timing is odd at all. The Union Bears / Copland Collective have had numerous banners calling out the board, and stayed on at full-time on Sunday to call them out. The UBs do have a beef with the board and it's up to individuals to decide whether that's a legitimate beef or not. I think it's safe to say they'll have a presence at this demonstration and will be the vocal element. They are well within their rights, as are any other Rangers fans to make their frustrations with the board known - better outside the ground prior to the game than inside during.. Some fans will agree with them, some fans won't and some will be apathetic about the whole episode.

Gerrard won nothing in his first two seasons. Going out both domestic cups to Aberdeen in his first season as I recall. And he was given substantial funds. It was perhaps covid which saved him in 2020.

Aye, and a quality centre forward, a commanding central defender, a powerful enforcer/leader and....... Lets continue doing what has got us into this state.

New favourite for the role Knigel Knapp

I hope to be at the match but will not be joining the demo. What are the organisers actually wanting? A change of the major shareholders? A change in manager? or something else? Is the intention to boycott the game or to then take the demo into the stadium? If there is a boycott, it may make for a sparse and quiet Ibrox. Those who shout the most do not necessarily speak for the majority.

I'm more Stone Island jacket, Burberry hat / scarf combo.

Hahaha I'm sure I'm a little old to be called a ned.....

A neds night out

What the heck has happened to the Geordie’s

This XI put on the best Scotland performance I ever saw at Hampden against England in 1962, an easy 2-0 victory. Alex Scott roasted his opponent but that wasn’t enough to get him into Rangers’ cup final team the following week. A young lad Willie Henderson was picked instead. The photo was taken at Love Street during training. I copied it from the outstandingly excellent website, Scottish Epistles Football Magazine. Brilliant photos. Highly recommended.

Leave the club in the hands of a psychopath who knows exactly how to use power?! Can't imagine why that would be useful.

Good luck to Patrick Stewart (he'll need it) and hopefully he gets the scope, support and encouragement (and has the balls to take on the board when / where required) to quickly redress the years of boardroom neglect. If he doesn't it's a pointless appointment. His CV is decent, but as @Frankiesays, he's left one basket case of a club and joined another. Hopefully has a lot of contacts within the game and wish him well.

Cameron at Dundee. The Shankland of last season..

I read plenty of moaners - I’m one of them - but that scares me.