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10 changes. 3 goals. Crap pitch. Windy conditions. No injuries. Progressed to the next round. Job done

Shame on you,...it's Craig Brown.

I'm not sure that's fair. Linfield, Glentoran and Crusaders all have players from the ROI as do Coleraine, Portadown, Glenavon and Institute and all are considered clubs with largely Protestant/Unionist supports. He'd get far more abuse from other team's supports than from ours. As long as he's doing it on the park our support will stand behind him in my experience.

I don’t think the majority of our support are the least bit interested in international football nowadays

Also I wonder if Jermaine Defoe has had something to do with it as well - he's a role model for any young pro.

A lot made of the conditions ,..didn't stop Aribo though.

Can someone wake Kamara up. He's needlessly given the ball away twice and the second time we nearly conceded.

The first trickle of water before the dam bursts........

Even if there is prejudice towards Rangers and their players I will not surrender my support. Hopefully he'll stick with Scotland.

Aribo shone above everyone else so my m.o.m. but Defoe also up there. Kamara too many errors hope he isn't starting on Thursday.

Defoe is unplayable just now! I know it was only East Fife, but his desire, touch & movement is great to watch, something the other strikers can learn from him, outstanding professional.

Terrible pitch , terrible conditions , job done , move onwards and upwards.

Truth be told Compo, I have mostly watched the cricket today. Only switched back and forward from the game.

Dreadful draw I wouldn't give bad money to watch any of those ties .

They're a nonentity this season but I think they'll be up there challenging for promotion next season. ???

Aye, they should have refrained from scoring, even though the draw will take place when it was scheduled to anyway. The sheep are a nonentity and should be treated as such.

Not really surprised we've looked so disjointed but disappointed with quite a few of the players: Halliday, Kamara, Docherty and Polster have all been poor and we were very lucky not to go one nil down early on, only Wes saving us from that after appalling defending. OK, the conditions are poor, the pitch is crap and we've made a lot of changes but that doesn't excuse laziness on the ball. Kamara in particular isn't doing himself any favours today. Meanwhile, at full back Polster has looked OK defensively but poor on the ball, whilst Halliday has done OK on the ball but has been very poor defensively. Hopefully the manager sorts it out at half-time as the first half showed we're still in a game here.

Hating Rangers is a far more important qualification than intelligence, objectivity, integrity or academic success, seemingly.

Aye, it would but that's besides the point you made.

That's bollocks.

If anyone thinks the climb in the clubdeck is bad they should try the upper regions of the Dortmund stadium. You nearly need an oxygen mask.

He would probably not get less BOOOOOOOOOOOS from the ROI fans, and have a better chance of playing in a major tournament!

Reading the above shows me how much I am now interested in the Scottish team I cant even remember who's the manager and cant be bothered to look it up .??

Apparently 70-80% of Bears are Yes voters and yahoos are all Unionists. I got this from a very reliable source.

Every time I watch Alfredo this season I'm convinced Gerrard has had him spend the summer on a psychologist's couch, in a manner of speaking. The difference in his demeanour and his reaction to being fouled is huge. He looks a much more confident and happy player, without having lost an inch of his ability. It says a lot for our management team that they've steered his attitude in so positive a direction.

I was just thinking that: there were two Premier League games on that I completely forgot about. I've had the Cricket on all day, other than flicking across to catch our game. Cracking day's cricket.

Not a bad draw. We need to start beating all of these teams regularly, so it's another challenge which will stand us in good stead.

And of course if we had been drawn at Ibrox against the only non SPL team left in it there would have been screams of fix and masonic conspiracy.

Rubbish draw and another horror pitch at Livingston!!

Yeah... job done; nothing more than that.

A bit harsh Gaffer. I reckon if we played our regular XI the game wouldn't have been too different. I'd rather judge these players in bigger games not cup matches in trying conditions

Happy enough with that. Rather slack on the ball at times but professional enough for the most part and good to score a few more goals. Aribo, Foderingam and Helander arguably the pick of the bunch and good for some of the fringe players to get a run out.

Eh? Have you seen their squad?

It really does seem that no qualifications are required to work in journalism in Scotland, only family links & supporting the right team (not Rangers). Chris Mclaughlin has got his sister a job at BT Sport it seems. Last week Tom English was tweeting about how he never went to uni but still got a job at BBC Scotland, then there’s that woman who got a HNC from Cardonald college.. must really p1ss off folk who have degrees in journalism but can’t find work!

Foderingham, Polster, Barasic, Edmundson, Helander, Docherty, King, Aribo, Hastie, Stewart, Barker. Don't think we will but it's great that we could change 11 players from Thursday night and still have a team that looks decent.

If the wind is a factor (and it usually is there) then it will be good practice for the players selected to keep the ball on the ground, one touch and get them to do the the running. Possession football will be the name of the game at the business park ground!!!

I agree, however we have two players for every position, as SG keeps saying, and all should be capable of beating East Fife if they want game time for Rangers

I think it is a certainty the Defoe has been helping him improve

The ex Scotland & current Separate Entity FC captain had his testimonial v ROI, a big thanks to all the tranny army fans who spent money, time following and supporting the SFA team

Talking of central casting, you should have seen the riff raff loitering in Aberdeen today. Every washed-up extra from Brigadoon was there, giving it the full 14th century grunt. Sooo embarrassing.

Childish attempts at insults from ScotNats... heartening.

Reminds me of the incoherent banners one sees at ScotNat marches.

A few years ago in Lambhill Cemetery in Glasgow we managed to locate the final resting place of Rangers President George Goudie, unfortunately the stone marking the plot was off it’s plinth.Subsequently our team re-erected the stone and blast cleaned it. As a token of our gratitude, thanks and respect we at the Restoration of Rangers Graves Project thought that it would be fitting to mark Mr Goudies plot with a plaque, this was put in place last week. This is today’s generation of Rangers supporters saying thank you to Mr George Goudie. President 1882 – 1883 - Vice President 1883 – 1885. George Goudie was a Paisley “Buddie”, born at 2, Hamilton Street in the town on 9 April, 1859 to Humphrey, an engine-fitter (although later records would state he was a marine engineer), and his wife Anne. It would appear young George spent his formative years overseas. There is no trace of the family in the census of 1861 or in that of 1871. They do appear in the 1881 census. By then the family home was at 14 Union Street in Leith. The census records twenty-one year-old George had three siblings. Eighteen year-old Matthew and sixteen year-old William had been born in Greece. The youngest of the four sons, fourteen year-old Henry, had been born in Turkey. George’s occupation was given as “clerk”. Research has, as yet, failed to reveal how the young clerk from Leith became, within a year, vice-president of Rangers Football Club! Goudie’s first appearance in the Glasgow PO directory was not until 1886/87. We do know, though, that he was an accomplished athlete, being successful at distances ranging from 100 yards to 880 yards. It is not an unfair assumption that George became friends with Tom Vallace on the athletics circuit and he was brought into the Rangers’ circle through Tom. When Archie Harkness died so tragically young in November, 1882, Vice-president George Goudie assumed the presidency of the club. These were not good times for the Rangers. There had been no attempt to build up the club membership. The club was in such financial straits, the committee approached President Goudie requesting he provide a loan of £30 (just under £3,000 in today’s terms). This he did. Would Rangers Football Club have survived if Goudie had not agreed to provide the loan? We have to assume that without it, the end may have been nigh. By the summer of 1883, the club was £100 in debt. George served just a matter of months as president. He stood down at the annual general meeting in May, 1883, held at the Athole Hotel. Tom Vallance became president. George served as his vice-president for the next two years. The fact the committee felt they could approach George Goudie for a loan would suggest he had already established his business as a produce merchant with some success. George married Jane Currie on 14 April, 1887 at her family home at 20 Kelvingrove Street. George had been living at 89 Grant Street, a short distance from Rangers’ old Burnbank ground. The first marital home would appear to have been at Sandyford Street. By 1891, the family, now augmented by George, Jnr had moved to 20 Kelvingrove Street. George had had offices in Waterloo Street and York Street. Such was the success of his business, the family could afford to employ a domestic servant. By the time of the 1901 census, George, Jnr had been joined by sister Jane and brothers Alexander and James. Five years later, the Goudies had moved to Pollokshields, the family home being “Dunard” at 14 Leslie Street. George had retained his sporting competitive spirit, turning his hand to bowls. He had been a member of the St Vincent Club, then, on moving south of the river, Titwood Bowling Club. His final business address was in Howard Street. George suffered from heart disease for the last eighteen months or so of his life. He died, aged only fifty-one, on 24 February, 1911. His funeral took place at the Western Necropolis, attended by his “wide circle of friends”. The funeral directors were James Henderson and Co. Yes, the same James Henderson who, too, became president of Rangers and at the time of George’s death, was chairman of Rangers Football Club Limited. We do not have a great record of George Goudie’s time on the Rangers committee. That one act, however, the granting of a loan of £30, will ensure his place in our history will live for ever.

So far so good

So it's going to take 5 years to implement the changes? Are they really saying that?