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Really pleased with that performance and result last night. That's the kind of attacking intent and commitment we want to regularly see from the players and it's no coincidence we're improving as we have more fitter/sharper options available. Great to see the fan reaction at FT too. Having more options available allows the manager to find more flexibility in his setup and that, in turn, makes us much less predictable. Going to a 4-1-4-1 meant we could push Killie back and had much more options in an attacking sense. Full backs higher after HT helped too. All in all, that's a statement performance. The win in France followed up by a hard fought victory in Perth then last night's rout shows this team are capable of dominating sides and making the most of that. We simply must maintain and build on that momentum. No excuses.

Lyall Cameron on a free end of this season, Lennon Miller, Slobodan Rubezic is better than Robin Propper, wouldn't mind Ross Graham from Dundee United who is on a bosman end of '25. Also I'd take Shankland on a free (we all know you hate him you don't need to mention it ) Its not always about improving the starting XI. We play lots of games, get lots of injuries. Have the ability now to make 5 subs per game. We need to build a squad.

And think how much we will save on win bonuses with another season of winning nothing.

Wow. No words. The same board that said during the AGM they are doing an excellent job. Deluded doesn’t cover it.

Tough market they say? Celtic got 4x£800,000 for Micky Johnstone

Lyall Cameron had another good game last night I see.

Again it details the sheer incompetence of signing a guy and 12 months later being willing to take a multi million pound hit to get him off the wage bill. Amateurs, it’s astonishing any of these clowns have successful businesses.

Our audited accounts perhaps?.

You could change Shankland for Dessers in that sentence, quite easily. I don't want to see us signing Shankland, but big Dessers was circa £5M, has a big wage and little or no sell on value. We do this far too often.

The most worrying aspect is the complete and utter apathy towards, and acceptance, of this contunied gross mismanagement from the majority of the fans. Impatient and unrealistic they scream, give them a chance to get things right they say. No thanks, times up. There's more chance of them closing us down than there is to make us a force against.

Generally it was the usual AGM fare of some interesting questions (more than usual) but few credible answers. Plenty mea culpas from the board but difficult to have faith in their future actions when their past ones have been so poor. A new makeup with NED element to the board may help but finances a bigger challenge than ever. Best example is moving from a sporting director model (and back again) across the last 2-3 seasons whilst allowing a novice manager to spend huge sums on players and only bringing in less than £1m in the summer. That's mismanagement at any level and someone like Park should be resigning not hiding in plain site at the top table whilst refusing to answer questions directed to him. I don't know what the future holds for Rangers but apologies from Gilligan (well meant or not) don't make up for years of clear failures. We can only hope lessons have been learned and board changes allow us to compete going forward. Unfortunately, our finances remain poor, expectations low and the gap widening with every passing year. We continue to live in difficult times.

So we want to sell the leagues current top goal scorer and sign a player who has scored 1 goal this season (IIRC) and has 3 "good seasons" in his entire career? Such a Rangers thing to do. Signing Shankland is as ambitious as signing McInnes as manager.

First game I've enjoyed for some time. Hope we are turning the corner. The ref was appalling even by his lousy standards.

I'll be surprised if we sign Shankland as he's not an improvement on any of our 3 strikers. If he were to come, presumably of of the existing strikers would be leaving. So what's the point?

Held today with some interest. A few accounts worth following on X for the bulk of the content. https://x.com/AMcKellar89 https://x.com/atcolin

I quite like Malachi Boateng of Hearts. His numbers, as a pure midfield destroyer, are great. Aerial duels, ground duels, interceptions, ball recoveries are all top percentile in the league in midfield. Only 22. I'd like a destroyer, but is it a priority? Probably not. We could pick him up when they get relegated.

This is like your use of stats: make up your own extremely narrow parameters to suit your position. And then you'll move the goalposts. We will not be recruiting 'exclusively' from Scotland. I think it's good that we're looking to explore the Scottish market. We just picked up Barron, we picked up Souttar a wee while back, Ryan Jack even further back. Mordor picked up some orc from Dundee. I would have taken Nesbit and McKenna. Miller and Cameron are highly thought of, just like Doig, Hickey and Ferguson over the last couple of seasons. There are good moves to be made.

Db cited one example of transfermarkt web site reporting circa 2 million. Rangers review reported 2.5 million. https://www.rangersreview.co.uk/news/24480289.rangers-sam-lammers-transfer-windfall-payouts-due/ Serveral other outlets reported similar iirc.

A bit of a left-field suggestion but has anybody considered Shankland from Hearts yet? He's a Rangers supporter and a goal scorer. Exactly what we need.

Oh Compo you old tease!

Agreed, but at this point in time Dessers is a better option than Shankland.

“The comparison is Billy Dodds or even Gordon Durie. Neither was greeted with acclaim but both performed pretty well. I don’t suggest that Shankland is nearly as good as either but it’s the market Rangers are currently in.”

Aye his best is in the past ,like myself.

How these people succeed in business is beyond me

They (the board) remain the biggest obstacle to Rangers moving forward as a club.

It's the continued lowering off expectations that the majority of the fans have bought into.

No argument from me. Tell the board and investors. Our summer business was exactly that vibe and everyone seemed happy with it.

Just to confirm that Cantwell, Goldson, Lammers, Wright and McCrorie were sold in the summer for a combined £810K. A lot, lot less than rumoured fees in the media so a lesson learned there.

Two of the more interesting tweets: https://x.com/atcolin/status/1864660207176994967 https://x.com/atcolin/status/1864644798184907220

False economy. Is Lawrence Shankland the only striker in the world available in January in our wage bracket? If signing Shankland is a sign of our ambitions and imagination when it comes to recruitment, we'd as well just shut the doors now.

Fair point. Didn't think of wage costs.

At 0-0 I lost the picture second time that’s happened in a week thinking of canceling my subscription had to watch the Aberdeen game

No brainer, get him on a pre contract.

What was it like?

He wanted more decision-making power but that's been given to the new CEO.

Im slightly redeemed with 5 out of 6 predictions for Wednesdays results. Newcastle and Liverpool throwing up another classic, and with Arsenal and Chelsea winning the gap is closed slightly. Chelsea are just absolutely flying, I cant credit Maresca enough for what he is doing. Its refreshing that him, Slot, Nuno Santos and the Brighton manager are "at the moment" in line for manager of the season rather than the same old. Arsenal with 2 set piece goals again, how long can they rely on that, teams will start to work it out. Everton give Wolves a walloping at the bottom. Wolves manager must be another who's job is on the line. I had Wolves to go down at the start of the season. Bournemouth must be laughing, they got rid of him and got mass criticism.

As well as the ref, why / how does it take so long to check offside on VAR? Both the goals checked were clearly on-side, took an eternity for VAR to confirm them.

The lottery numbers for Saturday are as follows...🤣 Gut Feeling 1 Ju Ju 0

I'm enjoying your work, sir. 😎

My information is that Barry Ferguson will be revealed as the new Chairman tomorrow and his first act will be to sack Patrick Stewart and appoint himself as CEO. Insiders say they are happy that someone who knows what the expectation levels are all about at Rangers will have so much responsibility. They expect an immediate change in fortunes on and off the field with no reason to worry about finance. When asked about the upcoming transfer window, the words sink, kitchen and warchest were all used.

If we sign Shankland (either in January or summer), it will show exactly just how little ambition the club has.