Bluedell

To be fair, you're probably right. The QP game has perhaps coloured my view, together with the Celtic and Fenerbahce results. However the home losing streak is extremely bad.

I'm not sure that we are worse now. Either way Clement had to go as the atmosphere around the club was toxic, and whoever was being appointed was always going to be a holding role given the change in ownership and the forthcoming sporting director.

Yeah, Martin Bain seemed to do a good job when Murray was moved to one side.

We came out of 9IAR with no net debt and cash in the bank. It was only after 1997 that the spending went crazy.

Very old school

A lot of it is behind the scenes and unseen by the support, so I'm not convinced it's driven by them. My (uninformed) view is that it's the board that hasn't had the conviction to follow through on it, perhaps by employing the wrong people, and perhaps they have a lack of patience with their "toy".

I didn't realise that you could vote for more than one manager.

St Mirren 1 - 2 Rangers FGS Dessers

A valid concern, but perhaps, for the first time, we may have owners who are willing to commit to the model for the medium term and not throw it away after 6 months, which will hopefully lead to big improvements throughout the club.

Very good news. Certainly a good appointment on paper.

Overlee in Clarkston and the Bank in Muirend. Both bear friendly, as I understand it.

That looks pretty damn good to me.

The big difference is that we're part of the same country (UK) whereas France isn't. I reckon that the main reason that it wouldn't be allowed is that it would raise the question of whether there should be 4 separate UK teams which both the FA and SFA wouldn't entertain.

Nope, I don't think any sort of lawyer would argue that, mate. Wales's inclusion isn't because it's a constituent member of the UK. The rules could presumably be rewritten, if required, but as they stand, it's a non-starter in terms of relocating an existing club.

Technically there is. Clubs need to be associated with a County FA to take part in a competition and a club based in Scotland wouldn't be, for example. There's also the rule that "all Clubs shall have Grounds and headquarters situated in England, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man if applicable or Wales". There are many other hurdles, such as needing a licence and permission needs to be sought to play against non-English teams.

I doubt they would allow a team to relocate out of England.

Given they're apparently only going to have 51% of the shares, they'd need to invest themselves. If they're going to do that anyway, it may be easier to just issue shares to themselves, as has been happening over the past few years, than going to the expense of a full share issue, the costs of which may wipe out any cash raised from the support.

A joke that Dessers got booked.

Feeling very nervous. The home performance has given me hope which I previously didn't have. C'mon the teddies. Another Thursday night of exceeding expectations please!

The post you replied to was about the directors, and the title of the thread is blaming them as well (hence my question). From Stan Gordon's post, I just don't see what the club could have done under these specific circumstances. Yes, we want to lash out and blame someone, but do we really want to be the club that vets every single person that does charity work and a major contributor asks for access to the stadium (which I presume was what happened)? Are you really saying that we should measure ourselves by their standards?

If someone at the club was told that Andy Smillie had arranged for a charity to lay a wreath, and by the way, could they be allowed into the stadium for a quick photo, are we really going to turn round and insist on a list of people attending and then google who they are, when AS has asked for it and it's for charity? I can't really see what anyone has done wrong other than AS perhaps being a bit too trusting, but even then it's for charity.

If the fans are expecting the directors to sit down and vet everyone who enters Ibrox then no wonder the club is so badly run.

That doesn't answer my question.

AC 2 - 1 Rangers Dessers

At what stage should the directors have been aware this guy was about to walk into the stadium?