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  1. A special mention for / to RTV tonight. Brilliantly presented by Emma Dodds, analysis from Walter, Souness and Neil McCann and commentary from CT and Super Ally. Setting a standard that national broadcasters could only dream of matching.
    5 points
  2. The leftist myth is that capitalism has been foist upon the natural order by greedy outsiders. Capitalism is in fact the default condition of humanity - and of nature in general for that matter. Capitalism has driven evolution on Earth for 3 billion years and continues to underpin all human activity. Capitalism is neither good nor bad and those who participate in it have to take responsibility for the outcomes they generate. To condemn capitalism is like condemning the wind or gravity ... pointless. The ritual condemnation of capitalism is not really about capitalism. It's about the justification of other synthetic systems that are little more than emblems for the disaffected and those who underachieve their own aspirations. If you hear someone disparaging capitalism, you'll know you're listening to a reality-denier.
    4 points
  3. Souness,eh? On the pitch: a rare mixture of class and aggression. Off the pitch: about the same. Mellowed somewhat, these days.
    3 points
  4. Magnificent result. Cannot describe how pleased I am. We never underestimated Galatasaray which was vital as they’re still a decent side with a very good coach in Terim. A great evening just a pity we couldn’t be there to enjoy it.
    2 points
  5. That’s an absolutely fantastic result. Heroes punching above our weight again.
    2 points
  6. The Ewing's the Sturgeons and now the Yousafs no more party conferences just a meeting of the clans then .
    2 points
  7. Thankfully, we'll never know! He never hides has colours, always speaks well of the club, not something we are used to in the media.
    2 points
  8. 2 points
  9. Listening to Souness, unashamed to say I have a tear in my eye. God I miss these games ?
    2 points
  10. No. She let everyone else down.
    2 points
  11. Ok, I am going to open the boards again. I will keep an eye on this for the next day or two. Had some proper bother repairing the tables and it's not normal to crash again after I only fixed it this morning, but hopefully we are good to go. really sorry to have closed the boards on a match day but the double posts/cache problem would just have got worse and crashed it completely eventually.
    2 points
  12. I imagine those taking Highers today would see it as a challenging exercise and to some extent it probably still is. I just think they'd get a bit of a shock if they had to meet the standards we were set back in the 60's and 70's, before education became a political toy and some university entrance requirements became a sick joke. Talking of which, I just finished my first-ever online lecture. Two hours on volcanology about how different chemical compositions of magma determine lava viscosity and volcano morphology. I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea starting this journey.
    2 points
  13. I estimate Mack1960 got his Higher in about 1966/67 when it still meant something. Yon Chaucer was a bugger right enough
    2 points
  14. To take that argument to the extreme, then we might as well focus on finding a core of suitable loan players who can win us trophies now and forget about promoting from within. Personally I want us to win with a nucleus of players that we have developed and who have some affinity with the club. I am so glad that we haven't the glut of loanees which we had 2 seasons back.
    2 points
  15. Maybe they now have a manager whose mindset is not just to finish mid table and try for success.
    2 points
  16. I imagine that supporters from the other half of the Old Firm are spitting feathers and chucking out their Tommy Hilfiger gear, setting fire to pairs of boxers, stuff like that. Brilliant.
    2 points
  17. "Crap". Centuries of universal literary acclaim clearly count for nothing in the rarefied cerebral world of Gersnet. What spectacularly stunted times we live in.
    2 points
  18. It really is top class and what we deserve, instead of the sectarian bias we have to put up with in the Scottish gutter press
    1 point
  19. Like us all I'm sure, I'm just so fucking damn proud and buzzing. Sure we all seen a few Turks on SM giving it the big "We're coming". Well, now you're going...home empty handed! Superb performance with 2 great goals that command respect for any neutral looking. I think anyone who aims unfair criticism at Tav going forward really should take a step back and remember. A fantastic performance again by the skipper who I think is hitting his peak. Yes, he is going to fuck up but his positives FAR outweigh the negatives and I'm delighted for him as much as any. Scotty Arfield, what can I say except I was wrong to think he was done. A class above at times. Playing with smarts, guile, confidence and swagger. Well done lads, you've made my Friday here in Melbourne absolutely brilliant and it's only 7.30am with me still having to do a hard day's graft at work. Don't care though, cause we are the people!
    1 point
  20. Tav was just exceptional tonight, not just for his forward play, the contribution to the first goal and his goal, but defensively he was solid as a rock. MOTM for me. Shout out to Goldson, Helander, Kamala, Davis Arfield and Hagi who were all superb. No failures, even Alfredo played his part despite not have the best of nights in front of goal. Proud bear tonight!
    1 point
  21. I'd imagine there will be interest in a few of our players but there's no doubt we need another central midfielder. That has to be a big priority even with Jack available again and others such as Davis, Kamara and Arfield playing so well.
    1 point
  22. She was looking for Dominic Cummings.
    1 point
  23. Tav again for me, every player was excellent, although I thought Morelos was poor. Tav's scoring and assist stats are absolutely outstanding since he signed for Rangers, and yet the amount of abuse he receives from Rangers fans is embarrassing, he has done this since he signed for Rangers!!! It has to be mentioned how well Arfield has been since fighting his way back into the team, what a player he is
    1 point
  24. I thought that was our best European performance, we managed the match excellently and score two cracking goals
    1 point
  25. That's the only negative from tonight; some of his lay-offs were good, most were careless. Seems to have lost his shooting boots. Still think we are a better team with him in it.
    1 point
  26. Loads of players played well. Kamara the best midfielder for me and Hagi the best of the forward three. Helander was very good and both full backs were a real threat. And Arfield did what he does. He had some hairy moments but he brings that threat from midfield that others don’t bring, he had other moments when he made great runs forward too. Loads to be positive about. It’s hard to believe we have two of our best players to come back in Aribo and Roofe.
    1 point
  27. All about the team performance again tonight, as has been the case but several players can really be proud of their displays. The captain led from the front (literally for the 2nd goal) but the defence and midfield were very good after galf-time. Davis and Kamara were top class as usual and Goldson imperious late on. Loads of positives to take from this!
    1 point
  28. Another superb Euro result. First half was scrappy but second period really was first class at times, typified by two excellent goals. Late consolation was frustrating but team reacted well and were comfortable as Gala went direct for last few mins. Gerrard, his staff and the players really deserve a lot of praise for qualifying three years in a row.
    1 point
  29. That is a fantastic win, no doubt about it, I thought we were very professional tonight without being brilliant. Great win, well done Rangers
    1 point
  30. What a relief. We deserved it but that was a nervous ending.
    1 point
  31. Aye, very even game, both teams have not looked like losing a goal, however we still have another gear to go up and we need to start testing the keeper, final 3rd from us is not at it so far
    1 point
  32. It's a positive message to put out obviously but the footage is now a bit stale and needs a rework. The ventriloquist fella is very good though. Glad we welcome talented showbusiness people of all types to Ibrox; Souness even has a magician's scarf on in that photo Ian posted above.
    1 point
  33. Very even first half, two evenly matched teams trying to find the right balance of attack and defence. It has felt very nervous, a bit squeaky bum time from about 20 mins in. That’s going to make for a very long night! It looks like it will come down to a bit of brilliance or a mistake to find a winner here, or perhaps a set piece. We are well in this, but need to up the tempo a bit and try to force the issue, force them back a bit, and get some shots in. On a separate note, am I the only one who cringes when watching the everyone anyone advert? I’ve got to the stage now I have to mute it.
    1 point
  34. All football clubs would have been out of business a long time ago if they were run only for profits. How many clubs anywhere continually show positive balance sheets?
    1 point
  35. You can want all you like but the reality of experience is that it happens so seldom as to be a complete waste of resources. Any business that continues to invest in something that delivers as little return, for such a large cost, over such a long and sustained period, as youth development at Rangers should be changing its directors. Or do you think the future success of Rangers will be better served by your wishful thinking?
    1 point
  36. Everton’s standards are falling, though. They only scored 4.
    1 point
  37. Yep. Another one. Not the only one either. There are a number at the club from what I am led to believe.
    1 point
  38. The State of the Nation. I have waited since Saturday to see if any fall out evolved from a couple of broadcasting points. I suspect collective discipline has been restored, temporarily? We know the Scottish Government’s Clinical Director, Jason Leitch has been regularly appearing on BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Off the Ball’. I think it’s quite an astute move, allowing Leitch and his message to reach a differing audience and demographic. Despite DrStu’s constant attempts at politicising the weekly 45 minute slot, I think Leitch has mostly played with a straight bat? Anyways, on Saturday, just after Leitch’ s contribution; Cosgrove went into a minor rant. He felt general discipline in the country was beginning to break down, and folks were mistaken if they thought the end of Covid was in sight. Then, he got after some PQ colleagues, “people I work with, people who’s views I respect and admire, someone I agree with politically, are spouting views not helpful to the country’s wellbeing”. Off the Ball finished at 2 O’Clock, and Sportsound began. Big Dick introduced Michael Stewart, Tom English, and Billy Dodds. Sellik TV’s Ginga Ninja was revealed as the show’s VAR expert. Mikey launched into an appeal for crowds to be back at football in Scotland, as usual he did not understand the risk of folks viewing the beautiful game in the open air? Billy Dodds agreed, and Big Dick thought it was a decent argument. I realised what DrStu’ was getting at, Stewart’s line was straight from Peter’s mouth. It’s a bit of a give a way, Cosgrove revealing he knew what Stewart was going to say, an hour before it occurred. Last weekend, Cosgrove specifically questioned Leitch on Lennon’s plea that week for the return of crowds. The Lugan Bigot cited Kansas City playing in front of 18,000 the evening before. Leitch shot both the point and Lennon down, “ah don’t think referencing the USA in this current pandemic, is a good reference”. The Yahoos have been consistent on this drive, for whatever reason, they are determined to be allowed to host an attendance. We can speculate on sponsorship, corporate, or redundant disco lighting being the motive? The Michael Stewart aspect is not surprising, I have been told by a decent source that ra Sellik were attempting to get Stewart placed on the Sky Sport staff, over the last couple of years. Indeed, his James Traynor rant was deliberate, burning his bridges before moving on. Sky did not bite, and after several weeks in the wilderness, he signed up for Sellik TV and came back to a position of prominence on BBC Scotland. It’s only ten- twelve weeks past that Michael was telling us how valuable an asset Neil Doncaster, Shifty McGifty, and Rod the Fraud were to Scottish football. Maybe, some of the a Gang Hut could remind Mikey that those three cost Scottish football in excess of three-quarters of a million quid per annum. Surely, they should be persuading government of the Scottish football case, and they could find a national and league sponsor while they are at it, and we know, they’re at it. It’s time for PQ to decide what’s most important, what Peter wants, or the National Health? Michael has made his decision, Cosgrove is telling us so.
    1 point
  39. It’s eighty years since Stalin attempted to starve my father to death in Siberia. Perhaps that’s why I think as I do about the latest controversy over capitalism. A row has broken out over new guidance from the Department for Education. Teachers in England developing their school’s relationships, health and sex curriculum are told that they “should not under any circumstances use resources produced by organisations that take extreme political stances on matters”. The guidance says that such stances include a desire to abolish democracy and free elections, using racist language and opposing free speech. These examples have been relatively uncontroversial though it isn’t hard to imagine individual cases causing controversy in the future. There is, however, already a row about another example. “A publicly stated desire to abolish or overthrow . . . capitalism”. This has led to accusations from the likes of John McDonnell, the former shadow chancellor, and Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek socialist, that the government is guilty of totalitarianism, authoritarianism and McCarthyism. Now, it’s easy to dismiss this as overheated. Teachers are not being banned from teaching about the history and deficiencies of capitalism, nor from making students aware of the activists and dreamers who wish to abolish it. All that’s being suggested is that organisations which advocate the abolition of capitalism are not suitable providers of teaching material for schoolchildren. Yet overheated or not, this dispute is important. The government’s critics suggest that while nobody could respectably propose abolishing democracy, or use racist language, proposing the abolition of capitalism is an entirely different matter. I don’t believe it is. The government is right to include overthrowing capitalism in its list of extreme stances. There are lots of ways in which capitalism can be reformed and its institutions changed. Much of human progress over the last two centuries has come from gradually improving the regulation of private enterprise and the provision of social support. Abolishing capitalism is extreme, reforming it is not. It is the attempts to replace a capitalist economy altogether that have, without exception, ended in murderous disaster. In his book Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies Kristian Niemetz puts to the sword the excuse that socialism hasn’t really been tried. Of course it has. As Niemitz notes: “Over the past 100 years there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society. It has been tried in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Albania, Poland, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, North Korea, Hungary, China, East Germany, Cuba, Tanzania, Benin, Laos, Algeria, South Yemen, Somalia, the Congo, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Nicaragua and Venezuela.” Each of these disasters has gone through three stages. First there is a honeymoon period in which the latest socialist model is proclaimed to have avoided the pitfalls that doomed its predecessors. Not for Venezuela, for instance, the errors of Stalin. Then there is the excuses stage when obvious calamity is blamed by advocates on western imperialist intrigue or sanctions. And then, finally, when the whole sorry dictatorial, poverty-creating mess can no longer be denied nor the blame diverted, the model and its leaders are disavowed. It wasn’t “real socialism” after all, we are told. It is for this reason — because there isn’t a single successful socialist state in more than a century of attempts — that Varoufakis has had to resort to fiction when challenged to explain how his socialist alternative could ever work. Fire up your Kindles everyone, for Varoufakis has written a novel. Not content with his disastrous management of Greece’s finances five years ago, he has brought similar skills to the service of literature. Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present recounts what happens to a man called Costa when he invents HALPEVAM (the Heuristic ALgorithmic Pleasure and Experiential VAlue Maximizer), a computer with the ability to satisfy every consumerist thought and desire. In 2025, while testing one of his inventions, Costa stumbles on an alternative reality in which, after the financial crash of 2008, the Ossify Capitalism movement brings down the western economic order. Another Now is a terrible book — one of the worst I’ve read that wasn’t Affluenza by Oliver James. It combines the bizarrely improbable with lengthy digressions on the Finnish benefits system. I don’t read science fiction so maybe I’m missing something. But I’m not missing something when it comes to the flaws in the author’s utopia. The core is that by 2025, in a parallel world, they have found a way to abolish share-owning capitalism. Significantly, they have not done away with all market exchange, which even Varoufakis can see would produce a rationing system “too dreary for words”. In this parallel world, nobody owns companies and when you join you get a say in how they’re run. There is no management and everything is determined by open votes. Anyone who joins can simply move jobs inside the company and pay is decided by merit rankings that are also voted on. Anyone in the company can set up an inquiry into a “misbehaving” colleague and the committee will then deliberate “in full view of any staff wishing to observe” before an all-member vote decides whether the colleague should be fired. One of Varoufakis’s characters asks, reasonably, how this whole ownership thing would work. What would happen if they set up a café and spent years getting it going, risking their savings, and then employed a couple of waiters. Would the new staff be able to take over the business and overrule the founder? The answer, it turns out, is “yes”. In that case, why on earth would anyone ever set up anything? Why would they ever learn any skill? Why would they ever risk anything? I once challenged readers to tell me who, under socialism, would work in the human resources department of the company that makes the ink on Twix wrappers. And why. One reader developed an elaborate system in which everyone got to vote on alternative chocolate bars. Varoufakis’s Other Now reminds me of this. Organisations that want to overthrow capitalism want to burn society to the ground without the foggiest idea of what to replace it with. The government is right to suggest they aren’t fit to help teach schoolchildren. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/enemies-of-capitalism-have-no-place-in-school-tdr7wt6xs
    1 point
  40. It's going to be be increasingly difficult to hang onto our better kids. The money and facilities on offer down south plus the lack of young players establishing themselves in our first team will only lead to more of our 'in-demand' players leaving. Us attracting young players from Ross County and Glentoran is exactly the same, just on a lower level. All that said there still seems to be little correlation between being a fantastic prospect at 16 or 17 and becoming a top level professional, no matter what Scottish side you're at. Believe it or not, at one time the most sought after young player in Scotland was Michael Stewart, an outstanding youth player he was eventually wooed by Man Utd, at that time one of the best club sides in the world with a great record of developing talent, but he had his choice of clubs to sign for. 6 years later he's playing trial matches unsuccessfully trying to get a contract with us. I wish the lad Mebude well, but I don't blame him for leaving and I'm not sure it matters much anymore.
    1 point
  41. 1 point
  42. The departure of Mebude, Minor, clearly one of our most talented youths, given the identity of the acquiring franchise, has to be disappointing. However, our Club consoles us: "This summer we have recruited Tony Weston from Blackpool, who was much sought-after in the EPL having made his Blackpool debut in the FA Cup at only 16; we have recruited James Graham from Ross County who has been involved with the national team and, like Charlie Lindsay who joined us from Glentoran, had many options. “The combined spend to recruit these three exciting talents was less than the fee we will receive from Manchester City which is significantly greater than mandatory compensation figures." Frankly this is just making a virtue out of necessity. File along with "MacBumfarty's return from injury is like gaining a new player."
    1 point


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