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There's a few from QSTB who have travelled across to Spain and staying in La Manga, and are hoping to get access to the closed door game. Good luck to them for that dedication!

He's going nowhere. Nobody else is going to pick up his salary at that level till the end of the season, so we're stuck with him. I wouldn't be surprised if he then retired.

Apparently there isn't. Edit - we're apparently looking for 2.5m for him and not sure that they can afford that, but we'll take it from anyone.

It's well publicised that Butland took a wage cut to join us rather than be 3rd choice at Man Utd.

Sterling hasn't been playing that much football. We brought him in primarily as cover for the right back position and has never looked that great there. He had one great game at left back coming on as a sub, but he has done well as a defensive midfielder, but still isn't first choice in that position. Let's hope As for Jack, I p[resume that you mean Butland? There's an element of risk bringing in a 30-something player who has hardly played over the last few years. Goalie is probably the easiest position to do that. We've won a watch with him, but we've been burnt in the past with bringing in similar players. I'm not sure using him as a basis of a trading model will lead to long term success.

That is the current model, but it's also the model of many other clubs around Europe. We have had some limited success with it, but it's not that easy to do AND be successful on the park. We've also still not had a profitable year over the last 15 years. We need to aim to consistently break-even over a period of time before we can build up a reserve of cash to look at stadium expansion.

We were previously told that we couldn't get rid of the screens for structural reasons, I think. When we're not generating enough cash to cover our annual costs each year. a significant redevelopment of the stadium appears a pipedream.

Given there's a been no mention of it anywhere else in the past week, we can probably file it under "lot of shite".

So he should persevere with Lammers? 😂

I'm sure we have one of those in our squad already

One of the Gersnet members is now a tour guide at Ibrox.

I think that you need to book, but it can be done easily online with hourly slots.

I'm not sure that the Arsenal thing will have much of an impact. Calling for stiffer sentences for carrying a knife would be better. I think that the "Everyone Anyone" campaign does have merit though. A gay friend of mine suffered homophobic abuse abuse, albeit mild, at Ibrox and my daughter learned some sectarian terms a few weeks ago, which I'd have preferred her not to hear. Attitudes on things like this are changing and continued campaigns can help. In addition, it's helpful from a UEFA/KIO situation that they can point to it and show that they are trying.

That's great to hear!

Background noise is surely better than silence? Your argument falls down when you complain about them singing about players in the team. You obviously have no objectivity, which I guess is due to your interactions with them.. I can understand them being criticised for some of their repertoire but don't see what's wrong in creating songs about individual players. They are trying to support the current team. Are they meant to limit their songs to past players and BSOI? There's loads to complain about the UBs on, but the songs about the current players is bottom of the list. Tell me you didn't join in with the Lundstram song at the Leipzig game?

VAR has given us penalties against Hearts, Livingston, Aberdeen and Dundee this season when the ref missed the incidents (and maybe more, that's all I can remember). It's got its faults but it's hardly a waste of time. It generally does pick up referee's errors, deliberate or otherwise, and generally works in our favour when refs in general are so pro-Celtic. They can't get away with all the stuff that they did before VAR was introduced and that's why Celtic are so against it. There's obviously a human aspect involved and it's never going to be perfect but things are a lot better than they were before its introduction.

They've said that flags should not be raised while the ball is in play. It'll be interesting to see if they stick to that. I'd have thought that a big issue would also be those remaining in CF whose view may be obstructed by the singing section who stand for the whole game. I'd be asking for a seat move if I had to stand for the whole game. TBF, virtually all atmosphere in regular games is created by them. the stadium would be a morgue at times without them.

There's been a couple of incidents this season where nobody has claimed but VAR has picked up a hand ball and we've got a penalty. Obviously tennis has natural pauses after each point. I'm not sure it would work the same in football. If the captain isn't near the ref or management are busy trying to review the incident on screens to decide whether an appeal is justified and the opposition try and restart the game to prevent the appeal could be problematic.

That's more an issue with the corrupt officials than it is with the principle of VAR. Without VAR, they've got more of a cop-out that the ref didn't see it. It's the existence of VAR that's proven the corruption. Without it, it would just be another "honest" mistake.

VAR is, in general, a good thing. It doesn't pick up every error, as we saw on Saturday, but it does clarify a lot of issues. There are issues with things like handballs, but the problem is with the rules of the game and not VAR itself. Given Brendan Rodgers wants it scrapped, I'd have to conclude it's generally made the game fairer.

I'm fairly sure we can't afford Shankland and I'd be stunned if we signed him.

I thought McCausland had a really poor first half apart from the goal but was excellent in the second. Big improvement.

I'm hearing that he's going to Torino.

2-0 Dessers

FFS. Do not only did he not know the IFAB interpretation, he's making things up 🙄