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What David Edgar actually said: "The Rangers Supporters Trust received a huge number of complaints from members at the treatment of the club by the SPL and the SFA as the club were fighting on four fronts last season. Fans are looking for the club to express its dissapointment at this treatment. Suggestions from members already include withdrawing players from international duty, questioning participation in Cup competitions if still involved in Europe and refusing away ticket allocations from certain clubs, Dundee Utd in particular. The RST would like to stress that no decision has been made, but we will consider all suggestions at our board meeting and deliver our recommendation to the club. At this juncture, it would be wrong to rule out any course of action at this stage." ========== For what it's worth, I doubt that the RST board would vote for proposing that Gers players don't play for Scotland. My own opinion is that Rangers comes first, and there should be occasions when our players withdraw from internationals, but that already happens to an extent.

A simplified explanation is that the Board are elected by the members to represent them. It's obviously not practical to consult the membership in the thousands on every matter, but the members have the chance to express their dissatisfaction or otherwise of policies and/or Board members either at the AGM or by correspondence. The statement quoted above by Keevins is inaccurate (quelle surprise). My understanding from reading the reports in the Sunday papers is that the matter has not even been discussed at an RST board meeting so they seem some way away from "being ready to make a formal request."

Are you a member?

Yeah, like France obviously did.

WTF? Why France?

Good to see. Thanks for posting, Ian.

That's something on which none of us would argue with you.

The fact that they aren't revealing it is ominous. I guess it's something similar to this. I had heard that there was going to be "pinstripes" but looks like a weird design on the back, better seen here:

Vinnicombe played a few times and ws reasonable but was never going to be good enough to be first choice. Just didn't have that little bit extra. Did he play in that league decider against Aberdeen in 1990/91? I know Tom Cowan did and he was another who vied for the left back spot at that time. I thought at first Vinnicombe did, but now reckon he didn't.

Yes, fairly sure he was a full back.

The only Canadian i remember was Colin Miller.

Burke had a spell of 5 or 6 games in a row when he was our only bit of creativity, but then seemed to totally lose it, particularly the Dundee Utd final when he seemed unable to even do the most basic things. An enigma who, as Frankie says, will not make it.

See what happens when you sack your usual proof reader.

And some folk are trying to justify them getting a subway station.

They have already dealt with this by changing the colours to "carmine and cream."

The simplest answer is usually the correct one.

Celtic's away strip is getting released before their home one?

It appears to me that it's a case of trying to benefit Celtic, and the fact that it benefits other people or things is a side-product. Perhaps I'm over-cynical where GCC are concerned, but why do they need it? Is the bus and train network not satisfactory? If there is money available then why not spend money on improving them for the whole city and not just for some councillor's favourite football team? Is a link to the north side of the city not more preferable as one to the east for example? Why not use the proposed Glasgow Airport rail link as a reason for giving Ibrox a train station? I know that there were meant to be talks about this, but I get the feeling that they have not progressed.

Millions of pounds being spent to benefit them? Why Parkhead and not other areas of Glasgow? Celtic Park has 4 train stations within a mile of it. Ibrox has 1. It follows on from GCC selling them land for �£1. They are doing everything they can to benefit Celtic, and not doing the same for Rangers. I have a feeling that Murray is about to find out how much more they are favoured. PS Welcome to the site, 26th of foot.

I had heard a while ago that she wasn't well and that was a large influence on why Brown had lost form. I got told it by a journalist and I believe that the press did not publicise it, which is good to see that they respect some level of privacy. A real shame that someone should die so young.

We haven't made a �£30m profit though.

In which case, it's very strange.

Salary caps may punish Rangers, and prevent us from signing who we want.

From what you have said, there is nothing to prevent a county from employing or playing whoever they want, so it doesn't fall foul of employment law.

Murray surprised me by giving Walter a transfer budget of around �£11m last year after a fairly dismal season, particularly financially. It will therefore be interesting to see what he does this year. Will he take the same level of risk and spend big? Will he try and steady our financial position by keeping some of the funds generated last year to reduce the debt? Will the �£700m redevelopment plans have any impact on our spending? Somany questions, so few answers (at the moment). I haven't a clue where Murray is coming from on the spending front, but some of last year's spending was to try and snap up promising Scottish players (Whittaker, Naismith) and perhaps as there isn't the same level of players available this summer, that might keep the purse strings a bit tighter than many would hope.