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There's a difference between those who championed Whyte and Green and the Ashley situation. The championing of Whyte and Green took place prior it being proved that they were not good for the club. Many fans want the directors to be good and are willing to always be half glass full until it's proven otherwise. The difference is that Ashley has proven that he's not got the best interests of the club to heart and was willing to shaft us for his own gain. Very few would now trust him, no matter what he promised.

It should also be remembered that although Ashley has "put" £129m into Newcastle Utd, it's all loans, which he will expect to be repaid at some point. I don't think he's actually invested any cash into the club.

THE Rangers’ Development Squad’s Games Programme continues tomorrow with a glamour trip to take on FC Bayern Munich. https://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/academy-heads-bayern/

I don't think anyone else could have destroyed McCoists' Rangers reputation more than he has done himself?

Lets not forget the various contracts and merchandising deals he intertwined with NUFC for the benefit of Sports Direct, whilst playing on the emotions of a massively loyal supporter base; as well as all the advertising he pays nothing for (sound familiar?).

You dream about me?

I am almost completely speechless at how out of touch these guys are. I don't know whether to be astonished, disgusted or sympathetic (to their obvious mental problems). Boyd, Ferguson and McCoist should have Rangers' best interests at heart, and I don't think any of them are this stupid to believe what they're writing/saying. I can only therefore assume that they need the money so badly that they'll say whatever it takes to get an article printed. Either way, these are sad days for these guys. How low can they stoop? I agree with Stewarty ..... let's get these guys a gagging order for their own good. Their reputations are in pieces already. They are in real danger of losing any shred of respect we had for them.

If not, how much would it cost to get one?

Can BBC not give Ally his gig back on Question of Sport? Recreate all that sexual tension with Sue, be a purveyor of jolly japery, and talk unmitigated pysh. Leave the important stuff to the adults Ally.

Plus we have Barry Ferguson in the Record who can't believe we didn't sign Naismith!, he says he wouldn't like to think it was because of the way he left the club!!, nobody can blame him for walking away!. These guys are so far out of the way Rangers fans feel it's incredible!, you can throw Boyd in there as well.

Utterly deluded and cringeworthy. Even if Ashley wanted to invest Man City levels of cash I wouldn't want him anywhere near us. First and foremost, we know all about his character and his methods. If that doesn't spell it out to you clearly, you clearly haven't been paying attention.

Drugs are bad.

Larkin is the latest member of a group led by Phil 3 names that I referred to as the Magobbligooks in a response to Paul McConville's attack on me in his Random Thoughts Re Scots Law blog a few years ago. The mission of the Magobbligooks, whose executive branch at the time included Alex Thomson, McConville and Phil himself, was the destruction of Rangers FC. I explained how this was an impossible mission for the simple reason that the nature of Rangers was something that couldn't be destroyed. While always doomed in their effort to destroy Rangers, the Magobbligooks would be very successful in destroying something very unique that had taken more than a century of evolution to create. This was part of my response to McConville: The Old Firm was essentially a theatrical pantomime where Billy Boy and republican anthems echoed throughout the land, preventing the testosterone fuelled blue and green masses from actualizing carnage – a psychological proxy, if you will. The following paragraph illustrates the nature of this peculiar paradoxical symbiosis of this lost horizon that was the Old Firm: While growing up in Springburn hardly a day went by that I, or any other wain for that matter, didn’t beat up a catholic or, in the alternative, was beaten up by one; and later that same a day, I invariably, as many protestant wains did, returned home from the public park with an arm around my best pal – a catholic. On Saturday afternoon fathers taught their sons to hate their old firm rival; and invariably, those same fathers, got pished together on the same Saturday night. and, on their way home from the pub, while calling one another a fenian and orange bastard, they supported each other until they arrived at the close where they both faced a common enemy - she who must be obeyed. These same Old Firm supporters were also brothers in arms annually when they met another common enemy – the English. They were the unified vociferous nucleus of the Scotland support. Like most symbiotic relationships, though, it was fragile entity. It didn’t take much for the magobbligooks to undermine it. After their considerable efforts, Scotland awoke one day to hordes of predominantly Catholic Celtic supporters, Scotsmen of irish ancestry who had once considered themselves Scottish but who were now Irish.. Many glorified ira terrorists. Some joined their ranks to murder innocents, and others donated to the cause of terrorism. The tricolour was no longer a prop to be waved at parkhead in the wonderful Old Firm pantomime, now it was a call to arms. Allegiance was for the Republic of Ireland football team and not Scotland. It was a new dawn. Scottish born players of irish descent who, unlike the Paddy Crerands, rejected the Scottish jersey for an irish Republican one. On that same day, in response, hordes of Protestant Rangers supporters, Scotsmen who once considered themselves more Scottish than British were now more British than Scottish. The Union Jack was no longer a prop to be waved at Ibrox in the wonderful Old Firm pantomime, Now it was also a call to arms; These Scotsmen now rejoiced at the defeat of their national team. Many glorified the UDA. Some joined their ranks while others donated to their cause. While there are still some enclaves of this unique protestant/catholic relationship, as some posters on here have described, they are sadly, thanks to the Magobbligooks, only a vestige of what once was the Old firm and Scotland.

"We want folk in 30 to 40 years to still be talking about the forthcoming Rangers game in a similar fashion so they can tell their grandchildren where they stood that day in 2018 when the famous Glasgow Rangers came to Bellslea." The words of Fraserburgh Chairman Finlay Noble in The Press & Journal. There's little doubt that this is by far and away the biggest game in the 108 year history of Fraserburgh FC and as far as the town itself is concerned the only time that the general vibe has approached anything like the current buzz was in 1992 when Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited for the celebration of the founding of the town's 400th anniversary. Much has been said among Rangers fans about the scarcity of tickets for the game with Rangers receiving an allocation of 360 but lost in that debate is the fact that Fraserburgh FC earned the right to play and to ergo host Rangers on the field of play and where as moving the game down the road to Peterhead or Aberdeen may well have resulted in a bigger pay day there never any serious possibility of it being moved. While the Bellslea Park may be both pretty compact and basic it really isn't any worse than many of the grounds we visited on the journey up through the leagues. The stand is called the Jim Adams Stand after the former Chairman who was a founder of the towns largest employer Gray & Adams, no doubt at some time or other you'll have been stuck in traffic behind one of their refrigerated trailers or even had the pleasure of a ride in their prisoner transfer vans. Sadly Jim is no longer around but rumour has it the Fraserburgh players would like his daughter Marieanne Adams to give them one of her famous group hugs! Fraserburgh the town is referred to locally as "The Broch" and its inhabitants as "Brochers" however I don't consider myself as a Brocher having only emigrated the 17 miles up the road from Peterhead 33 years ago and as everyone from Peterhead knows they aren't Brochers anyway they are in fact Puddlestinkers. The name Fraserburgh stems from 1592 when King James VI granted a charter to Sir Alexander Fraser and what was known as Faithlie became literally the burgh of Fraser. The name Broch coming from an old iron age tower that stood in the town but now long since gone. Among the local places of note are Fraserburgh Golf Club a links course which is the 5th oldest in Scotland and the 7th oldest in the world. The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses at Kinnaird Head and the adjacent Heritage Centre. Not forgetting the harbour to which the town owes its existence, the harbour is enjoying something of a renaissance after decades of decline due to the EU's Common Fisheries Policy and new boats have once again become a regular feature although sadly no longer being built in Fraserburgh itself since the boat yards have long closed. Famous Brochers include Thomas Blake Glover who emigrated to Japan and helped found what became the Mitsubishi conglomerate, Charles Alfred Jarvis the recipient of the first Victoria Cross awarded in World War I, Bill Gibb the fashion designer and of course one Dennis Nilsen the serial killer. The game itself takes place on the 48th anniversary of the Duchess of Kent lifeboat disaster on which 5 of the 6 volunteer crewmen lost their lives going to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Opal, the men who perished that day were John Stephen, Fred Kirkness, William Hadden (my wife's uncle), James Buchan and James RS Buchan with Jackson Buchan being the sole survivor. Ironically the Duchess of Kent was a replacement lifeboat for the John and Charles Kennedy which capsized in the harbour entrance with the loss of 6 of the 7 crewmen in February 1953. Also another disaster befell the town in 1919 the lifeboat Lady Rothes capsized a mile from port with the loss of 2 lives. It would be remiss of me not to mention that on 28th of April 1970 Jock Stein took his Celtic team to Fraserburgh to play a game in aid of the lifeboat disaster fund the week before their European Cup Final defeat at the hands of Feyernoord. Now onto the game itself, whilst the rest of Scotland seems to be under a deep blanket of snow the north-east appears to have gotten of lightly, there was a brief snow shower earlier today it wasn't anything of note and shouldn't in any way affect the game. The club have been loaned covers from Arbroath FC but as it stands they shouldn't be needed, it will however be cold so if you're one of those fortunate to get a ticket I'd put the long johns on if I were you. Team wise where do we start? Will Cummings, Goss, Murphy or Martin make their competitive debuts? Will Halliday or O'Halloran feature on their return from being frozen out? Probably the only player we have with previous experience of the Bellslea is Ryan Jack who's unlikely to feature but should return in time for the Aberdeen game. We all know what Cummings is capable of as we've been on the receiving end of his skills often enough. Over in Florida Goss looked a decent tidy enough player with good delivery especially from dead balls. Murphy knows what its all about and will be keen to get of to a flyer playing for his boyhood heroes. I'd like to see us start with both Cummings and Morelos up front as there's absolutely no reason to play one up front in this game. We should be going for it and getting the business done early in the game. Will it be 442, 433 or 352? I'd plump for 442 with the following Alnwick Tavernier Bates Wilson John Candeias Goss Windass Murphy Cummings Morelos However I doubt the either the formation or the personnel will prove to be correct. There's no stand outs in the Fraserburgh team, they are almost all local to the north east with a fair amount of Bears (and a few of them)in the side.One Bryan Hay whose last minute penalty secured qualification for Fraserburgh in the last round away against Spartans will no doubt give his usual wholehearted no frills display, I saw him play for Fraserburgh U20's against Rangers U20's at Auchenhowie a few years back and he played well until his sending off (somewhat harshly on that occasion). A few of the Dave Smith Loyal have been trying to get odds on him seeing a red card again on Sunday. One player in the Fraserburgh ranks who has previously been on the victorious side against Rangers is the managers brother Dean Cowie (one of them) who was in the Peterhead side that beat Rangers 1-2 at Ibrox almost 5 years ago.

A cursory glance at Ashley's "stewardship" of NUFC, his "management" of Sports Direct, his previous flirtation with Rangers, and his general habit and demeanour, surely would indicate, to even the meanest intellect among supporters, that, if he is not currently the worst person to be in control of Rangers, he is in the bottom one. If this "captain of industry" came anywhere near Ibrox again, the only advice I could offer Board members, creditors, shareholders, and supporters would be to consider the end of the siege of Ilium/Troy, when the Achaeans (Greeks), by appearing to offer a gift, were able to infiltrate a great city, put its people to the sword, and raze it to the ground.

His performances and facial expressions when he plays us make me think he hates Rangers.

We could use a nippy right winger to be fair.

Given our recent signings (Declan, Sean, etc), I think an O'Hara and O'Halleron combination up the right flank might be just too much for some fans...

FS does that journey every 2nd week!

McCoist regularly demonstrates that he is so far removed from the fans. Why would we welcome back a guy who openly ripped us off via the merchandising deal? We lost out of tens of millions due to his dodgy dealings!

Ashley is a completely contemptible bastard, and anyone who would support his return to any form of involvement -whatsoever- in Rangers is, inexcusably, a completely contemptible bastard as well.

''But I’m sorry. For the life of me, I have no idea why my old team mate wasn’t being paraded around Auchenhowie - back in the one shirt that he always wanted to wear.'' There is the answer in bold!

I don't know if its whether these folk live in a bubble, or whether they just make up whatever random nonsense enters their mind that they just speak without thinking. Either way, I guess I'm even more alarmed at the prospect of fans taking their point of view seriously.

Nice post baxterboy. It sums up my thoughts on what happened and how we got to where we are now. Some who possess more youth than I do maybe don't understand how things were in the past and I've had many discussions with them over the years. Imo the changes began when Ireland erupted. The divide between the supports had always been there but apart from the few zealots on both sides, the phrase 90 minute bigot was probably correct. But that phrase only came later when instead of recognising thousands of hard working men blowing off steam for an hour and a half a couple of times a year, the mock offended complained about the language and songs being used. Ireland changed all that. I began to notice more union flags than saltires at Ibrox. Something I never thought I'd see. I remember driving home from Wembley with my dad in 1965. Various folk were hitch-hiking back up the road but I kept saying, nah when dad asked if we should pick them up. We approached a roundabout on the outskirts of London where 3 men were standing. Dad said, what about them ? I was about to say no when one of the guys pulled out and began waving a Rangers scarf. We dropped them off at Rutherglen after they'd bought our dinner and left a load of change in my hand. The union flag was something the English waved when their team played. Not now though. Civil war across the water changed it all in my opinion.

He had injections before recent games in order to play. Not a good idea, especially someone at his age.

You're right baxterboy but they certainly won't stop trying...

Not such a huge loss as it would've been a month ago. I thought Alves was signed on a 12 month contract. He'll be here until at least the summer now.

Pitch inspection now 12 noon tomorrow.

Far too many - moments with former players and managers these days. Have started to bypass most of them to avoid diminishing their once-upon-a-time hero status.

I'll change mine too - pitch inspection at 5 on Saturday!

CELTIC’S hopes of keeping Moussa Dembele have been boosted as Brighton look to tie up a deal for another target. Reports claim the Seagulls are closing in on deal for PSV striker Jurgen Locadia worth £14.1million. Chris Hughton has been linked with an £18million move for the Hoops hitman during this transfer window. The Frenchman has interested some top clubs in the UK and abroad. However, the Premier League new boys are now closing in on the Eredivisie striker. Fellow English side Stoke City watched the Hoops star in the 0-0 draw with Rangers in the final game before the winter break. But Potters boss Mark Hughes has since been sacked and replaced by ex-Hoops midfielder Paul Lambert. https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/1991075/celtic-transfer-news-erik-sviatchenko-liam-henderson/

Broxi Bear

Seems to me they are all holding grudges against Rangers for whatever reasons!

That would be good to hear, but unfortunately these guys would run a mile from it because they wouldn't be soft-soaped with easy questions and letting them off the hook when they make clearly bonkers statements like they have this week.

That's a loss for us, but I would prefer him to take the time off to recover completely; we don't want to waste that talent. Fortunately -- or perhaps not, really, as Murty knew those two would be struggling a wee bit -- we have replacements in that area.

Best to ensure he makes a full recovery. Looks a cracking player.

One thing is for certain there have to be players leaving, however Tav, Fod & Windass will not be leaving unless there is an offer that can't be turned down!, more likely the ''fringe players''........................

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Thought the SLO would have put this on Gersnet also. Following a number of complaints and feedback from Rangers Supporters, the club arranged to hold a post-match debrief of the experiences of our supporters at the recent Old Firm match. The meeting included discussion of topics that had been raised by our support in feedback to the club and supporter groups. The issues discussed at this meeting included ingress/egress of supporters, segregation, and potential flashpoints. Police have given assurances that they will make changes to the operational plan for the next fixture at Parkhead.We would like to take this opportunity to thank the support for getting in contact with the club with their experiences and would encourage supporters to continue to do so in the future.All feedback is appreciated – slo@rangers.co.uk