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Worrall's not good enough; I'll be glad we he returns to Forrest.

Agree but "THAT" surface at Rugby Park is wrong place to make comeback IMO.

Rangers will be able to call on reprieved Jon Flanagan in their Scottish Premiership finale at Kilmarnock on Sunday. The former Liverpool defender was cited by the Scottish Football Association after a post-match video consultation suggested he had elbowed Celtic's Scott Brown during Sunday's Old Firm game. But it was confirmed on Friday afternoon that Rangers had won their appeal over the retrospective red card. Celtic might be on track for another treble but Gers have struck upon a winning formula since their Old Firm defeat at Parkhead, with last weekend's derby triumph their sixth in a row. "I've just been told we've never had a clean sweep of wins after the split so that is a good incentive for us," Gers assistant boss McAllister, speaking in place of boss Steven Gerrard, said. "We're on a good run so it will be nice to finish on a high and have that buoyancy for next season." Kilmarnock are looking to cap a fine season by sealing third spot but manager Steve Clarke will have to watch the final game of the season from the stands after being handed a two-match touchline ban following recent comments about referee Steven McLean. But his Killie future remains in doubt amid links to the Scotland job and assistant Alex Dyer has admitted Clarke would find the national job hard to turn down. Team News While Flanagan is available, Nikola Katic and Scott Arfield will miss the Rugby Park clash after both were given extra time off ahead of summer commitments with Croatia's U21s and Canada respectively. But Graham Dorrans could end his seven-month knee injury nightmare against Steve Clarke's side. "Graham has featured well in training recently," said McAllister. "He's had a couple of games behind closed doors and done very well so Graham will come into consideration for the weekend definitely." https://www.skysports.com/football/kilmarnock-vs-rangers/preview/406788

Yes, he can play anywhere across the front line or just behind the striker. Might be worth putting him into the Arfield role.

The sooner these pitches get banned the better.

Turn the sound down, Jean Jacques.

Do we start sending our scouting team to the Masters events ?

An absolute roasting. City can now be measured with the great Man utd and Arsenal teams from the premier league era. And Wolves go into europe with this result, i wonder how that will affect them. Teams in the europa go backwards but i have a feeling they will take it in their stride

Would be nice to finish the season in style and surpass the 80 point mark but the best result today would be for the players to come off that pitch injury free

Yes, but as far as this thread is concerned, it's about BBC Scotland and how it is reporting/reacting to ongoing events in and around the Celtic Boys Club abuse scandal. We'll have to see how things develop but the question that emerges is would PQ deliberately slant coverage (or lack of) to favour one side of the compensation claim case that victims have made on Celtic FC ? And beyond that, is it part of an ongoing editorial imbalance that permeates throughout the organisation ? This issue in particular is more about the News programmes than Sportsound.

Correct Number of goals scored by Messi in each of the last eleven seasons. 38 being 11 years ago and 50 his current total (one game to play)

Similar problem to last week but for a very different reason.

Well that's it season finished and on usual crap game with nil at stake for us. A few things obvious:- !)Tavernier sorely missed and we need better than Flanagan. 2) Worral goodbye with a little thanks but again we need better. 3) Halliday still a squad player but better at left back. 4) Morellos needed for another season to compete/play with Defoe. 5) Katic & Davis missed today. Finally "The Hobbit" continues in his merry sh*t way,another dreadful refereeing display. ONWARD AND FORWARD TO NEXT SEASON

Tav would be a bigger miss to our side than Morelos IMO.

The Goldson one was more clear and right in front of the ref. The refs have been worse this season on a whole as I have ever seen!.

Collum had refused something similar earlier with Goldson.

Ach, Killie were always going to be the more likely team late on but that's a ridiculous decision from Collum with Brophy making the most of very light contact from Barisic. When Sutton and Craigan both say it's not a pen then it says it all. Onto next season lads!

Means the sheep our out of Europe?

Barisic has been at fault for both goals

I agree. I'd take him, but I wouldn't be making him our main target.

Collum is an officious wank. Everything wrong with Scottish referees summed up in one performance

... and Collum referees us as a nigh-non-contact sport while they get away with all these snide kicks and all. Okay, we haven't been that good, but also were out of luck before and after they scored. Yet, if that is football for Scotland, it will be blood, guts, and bone-break kick and rush stuff. That stuff delivered by Killie is embarassing, making the most of their aweful pitch, press and tackle and destroy any sort of football, while haring after any ball up front as if they attempt Blitzkrieg Mk. II. Even more embarassing is the way they foul our folk, yet fall down by the barest of touches and go mad if the ref doesn`t agree. Go Bears, horse these f@ckers by 5 or more now!

The Killie midfield trio of Power, Dicker, and Mulumbu have the game in front of them. We are not turning those three, let alone their back four.

Hmmm, we've not really got going here in an attacking sense. Lots of the ball and we could easily have been in the lead before Killie scored but after that we've not created enough and Killie want it more given they have something to play for. The pitch is an utter disgrace though. The ball bounces anywhere but you'd expect it to. However, we need more in terms of quality in attacking areas. Kent looks in the mood but his final ball isn't good enough again: same with Candeias and Morelos looks short of sharpness.

Five changes and Kilmarnock's knack for good organisation has made it very difficult to create anything decent. It is what it is, an end of season game with more at stake for Kilmarnock. Just get this 45 minutes over with and go on holiday.

As a manager Allys a dud

We will miss Tav, I want to win this big time so I hope the other players step up, I also hope our fans don't sing about the Killie manager!

Regarding Morelos, IMHO, 25 to 40 % of talk about his indiscipline comes from hyped up media talk. It is in your face nigh every day and it might very well get to you. He is being treated to a different standard than 7 out of 10 other players in the SPFL, not least the Scottish ones. That doesn`t excuse his own wrongdoings, but he isn`t allowed to treat fellow "players" like they treat him and that`s abnormal. Discussing him without keeping that in mind is stretching any talk about his supposed indiscipline.

His salary at City is probably more than all the defenders at our club combined and he hasn't played more than 17 league games in a season since 2014/15.

Wrong. Every single match is a contest to be won. This nothing to play for nonsense goes back decades derived from the journo pack who are only interested in trophy winning. The original glory hunters.

Final will be a repeat of last year....Rangers v Newcastle Utd

I think a fully fit Dorrans is a really top class option in the middle of the park.

Enjoyed listening to that Stevie ! Good to hear DJ talk about his time in the 70's. Like the way you bounce the conversation around very different perspectives....youth expert / ex-player / journalist and yourself.

The BBC have their own skeletons in this particular cupboard. They ignored Saville and the rest of them for years despite strong suspicions.

Re. Peter Smith tweet I'm not seeing the same level of questioning coming from investigative journalist, Mark Daly. Looking at Daly's twitter account, I don't see a retweet for the DR report, the Peter Smith reaction to it or a reaction from Daly himself. Whether he has made a comment elsewhere, I don't know. ------------------ Victims could do with holding public protest demos to allow others to show their support and further highlight this case, eg. outside PQ. No football colours to be worn.

http://fourladshadadream.blog/2019/05/16/sfa-farce-continues-and-its-not-whataboutery-to-defend-our-position/ Answer back to the media attack on our club today

Can't understand some Rangers fans that want our most exciting talented young striker in years not being involved in the first team and in fact want rid off him!!. Unless there is a huge fee involved I want him to stay and improve his game, he terrifies defences and knows where the goal is. A striker we could not afford if we were to try and buy him now!.

Agreed. You could compile these posts into a single volume/publication and I for one would not hesitate in parting with my cash. Fantastic work 26th. Take several well deserved bows sir

It's a bit like Laudrup playing in Scotland. I can't get over the fact an ex-pongo is such a wizz with words

Quite simply, another masterpiece of literary genius 26th???

A High Noon Turkey Shoot. Tension rippled through the PQ Gang Hut on Sunday morning. The Narrative must be protected, Auntie demands strict adherence, threatens transgression with strict liability. Reassurance is right next door, Mikey has our backs. Two dozen camera angles is big artillery, any forward movement by the H-u-ns and an air burst of off the ball incidents will saturate their expectations. This week we will let the hope kill them. The narrative is a mantra, 'Rangers have NOT been improved by Steven Gerrard'. The tension begins to defuse, Gang Hut members find solace in the narrative. On Sunday, the Gang Hut was populated by Big Dick, toting numerous lines of communication with Mikey. Tom English, Billy Dodds, Jim Duffy, and Neil McCann sat watching Sky Sports, whilst Rob McLean commentated from the same means. It took three minutes for the narrative to feel the pressure, Tav' scored and Rob McLean articulated the alarm. Half-time was 1-0 Rangers and thus the topic for discussion for the next twelve minutes was, Jim McIntyre being the recipient of the tin-tac by Dundee. Scott Brown was running down the Ibrox tunnel, when Big Dick brought the chat back to the game they were covering. Mikey had screamed, 'shot out'. Big Dick spent the remaining three minutes of the break demanding Defoe be cautioned for simulation. He pointed out he had struck out at the Hibs Keeper last week and here he is having a kick out at Simunovic, whilst throwing himself to the ground. Big Dick was in full venom spitting flow, reminding the listeners of serial offenders, Morelos and McGregor. We can only assume Mikey didn't spot Simunovic's elbow on Defoe, or maybe he did, but it was contrary to the narrative. The second-half progressed and the Gang Hut was galvanised by Flannagan's elbow. No equivocation, straight red; however Kevin Clancy was right not to award a penalty, because the ball was not in play. Then, the walls came tumbling down. Rob sounded as if he was being fisted by an Anatolian wrestler, as Kamara ripped the Broony, and passed to Defoe who sublimely dummied, Arfield finished with aplomb. Spluttering, gasping for air, Rob succumbed to each thrust and the inevitably of the narrative being rammed home without lubrication. Full time saw the narrative being restored, it was patch repaired, renamed SS Titanic and presented as a safe vessel for Arctic navigation. Mikey was still shouting Flannagan and elbow from the sidelines; later on Sportscene, we would be presented with ten separate angles on the incident. It was the sonorous timbre of Tom that stilled the panic. The narrative had morphed into Brendan bailed, Lenny had been tasked to win the triple treble. He read out a list of eleven Sellik players who will leave the club next week, and a further list of six players with one or two years left on their contract. Dermot Desmond was cast as Virgil Tracy, rocketing across the silver blue to rescue Sellik. Jim Duffy agreed, Sellik will spend, Rangers cannot match Dermot's reach. Soothing calm is almost restored, when Jim throws in, "ah don't think Neil will get the job, if has the job, he would know by now". The narrative is sinking and Virgil is more intent on stringing along Lady Penelope. Tom grasped the nettle, "Steven Gerrard has signed some turkeys". Neil McCann filleted Tom, he let him know he was not falling out with him; but calling professional players turkeys was disrespectful. He offered, Rangers have improved considerably under Gerrard, he asked for Billy Dodds to confirm, "Billy and I know as coaches, the enormous amount of unseen work needed to effect such change"? Billy decided to keep his EBT sheathed, Neil battered Tom around the head with his. Tom acknowledged improvement, but it has come too late. Big Dick added, "there's been improvement, but it has been hard to see"! No post match interview with Lennon, thus the only manager telephoned post match by PQ during the entire Ibrox season, is Derek McInnes after Aberdeen's 0-2 quarter-final replay victory. PQ spend more time servicing the narrative than they do servicing license fee paying Rangers supporters.