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The minutes from the Fan Advisory Board's meeting with the club have just been released. This meeting was 3 days before the club announced the issue with the stadium. Stadium Upgrades The club shared that The Director of Operations and Venue is working with the Facilities team and the main contractor. Elements of the project are out with our control, and we are working to make sure we have contingencies in place. Everything is going according to plan, at the minute. The FAB asked about the WhatsApp rumours (i.e. Ibrox unlikely to be ready for the start of the new season) and if there are contingencies in place to play elsewhere if something goes wrong. The club responded regarding several options including other Scottish Stadia were being explored. Everything is on the table and being considered. The club finished by stating that the project was a piece that was ever moving but the club are on top of that. The club have since released a public statement updating supporters on the project, linked below: Link to Rangers Statement: Supporter Update 20/06/24 Prior to the statement's release, the club reached out to the FAB to inform them of the planned communication. The club has committed to arranging a meeting with the FAB to maintain open dialogue and consider any concerns regarding the project's impact. It seems that the WhatsApp rumours had more information than the club....or the FAB were lied to. The wording suggests the latter.

I heard on the H&H Daily Update that the Daily Record initially had the article under the heading of "An Ibrox Disaster". 😡

If the board were wanting to leak information through the press, they're much more likely to use the Rangers Review than Keith Jackson.

Taken today

I'm hearing Kenny McLean is a done deal. No other details on it though.

Apparently Kelly didn't have the best of seasons last year, so I doubt he's been brought in as a replacement for Butland. It really appears that he's a replacement for McCrorie.

We've already got one assistant manager, don't we?

Why would we have to move to Murrayfield? Presumably we can still use the other 3 stands, so our capacity would be reduced to 42K for some games that we can't switch to the away ground.

Playing 5 in defence against one striker is laighable.

I don't recall ever seeing a story from him that I hadn't seen elsewhere first, but can't recall the specifics of the Sakala one. As you say, very hit or miss.

Premier Sports bought Viaplay’s UK sports broadcasting business and is rebranding Viaplay Sports 1 and 2 under its own banner.

Agreed. It is good to have a museum and to have NEH, but did it really have to be at the cost of selling off our land around the stadium? Surely it could have been financed in some other way, perhaps over a longer period of time.

The ongoing work in the stadium is great, but selling off a large part of the Albion is so frustrating. We've owned it for many years and it's part of our history. For the directors to sell it off to finance their (perhaps needed) vanity project of NEH is short-sighted. Future generations will lose whatever benefit they may have had from it. It'll be gone forever once it's sold for flats.

The CEO will take his instructions from the PLC board as to the level of confrontation. Also we may not know the level of confrontation. It may be that they think that doing it privately may be more effective, even if it doesn't assuage parts of our support.

Robbed in an OF games yet again. Thought we were the better team and unlucky to lose.

Thanks for organising and keeping it going each week @Rousseau

Rangers 1 - 3 Celtic Tav I may change this prior to kick off but just want to put in something in case I don't get the chance tomorrow as I'm away.

Does extra time count?

I did in the last game lol.

Haven't decided who I'm going for yet, mate, so there's always a chance 🙂

Hearts 1 - 2 Rangers FGS Dessers

Yeah, my wee cousin just got a cheque in the post unexpectedly.

My wee cousin won £4K on the lotto a few weeks ago.

Absolutely. Over the course of the season, he's been our best outfield player. However, it's just really difficult to forgive the red card and the suggestion that he just wanted out of there. He did look as if he'd checked out. It's more than "a very poor 45min performance".

Best players were Cantwell, Silva and Raskin, and I'd go for Cantwell. FWIW I thought McCausland had a poor first half, other than the goal, but did improve in the second.