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    We are improving - we beat Croatia home and away and Macedonia. Would never have got results like that under Levein.
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    I would love to see us play RoI at Ibrox. Can't believe the negativity here. Ireland man for man are not as good as us - they have no Robbie Keane now. Both our keepers are better too. Otherwise not much difference. Would love to see McCarthy and the other traitors get stuffed. Shamefully there are Scots who support Celtic who want to cheer on Ireland.
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    Remember the midfield of Russell, Bett and Redford - arguably better than we have now. A more than decent player for me. Shocked by this. RIP
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    I'll just wish you a Merry MARXmas instead, mate!
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    Has Telfer been released? Marc Wotte rated him as one of Scotland's most promising youngsters. Get rid of Sinclair; the youth job is now actually more crucial than Ally's IMO.
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    I too am a lover of all things Irish literature and heartily endorse Andy's sentiments. The thing that always upsets me is the implication that somehow the IRA et al are somehow 'socialist'; they have always been Nationalist organisations, Bobby Sands and all.
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    The point about Ness and McCabe is telling; we could have had the equivalent of Manu's home-grown golden generation if they had stayed. Though how we fit them all in to the same midfield is a tough one.
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    Once a Ranger, always a Ranger?
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    But the ones suggesting Parslow were not the current board, right? Smacks of desperation. Sooner they all get voted out and we start afresh the better.
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    Problem I have with Remembrance Days is that they no longer seem to be just about the two World Wars; it seems to have turned into support for 'our boys' /'our heroes' regardless of which conflict they are in. Indeed, a minutes's silence at football matches is a comparatively recent event. I just cannot give an unconditional support to our armed forces when we hear of a soldier breaking the Geneva convention to execute a prisoner in a country where the UK should never have been. They are not heroes to me and I resent the hijacking of the poppy to include all of the UK's foreign misadventures. For me the poppy symbolises the senseless waste of young lives engineered by parasitic ruling classes in 1914. My grandfather volunteered at 16 . We would not have had to endure WW1l if it were not for the crippling terms imposed on Germany at Versailles.
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    Just on the McCann stuff. Anyone else think it was suspicious that just a few days after the disappearance an announcement was made over the tannoy at Parkhead? Most parents would be too distraught to organise such a thing. And who else could afford to hire a full-time PRO (Clarence Mitchell I think) to promote their case.
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    Likely changes to football in Europe and North America over the next few years are likely to benefit a big club such as Rangers. Can anyone elucidate? If RFC are to be stuck in Scottish football, are we not limited by that? I fear that clubs from the big five are only going to get richer. Look at Cardiff and Swansea for example - they have smaller fan bases than us but solely because of where they play they are in clover for the foreseeable.
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    He seems to be two-footed too - that's great to see in a young Scottish player.
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    I'm reminded of the old saying: "I'd rather have King on the inside of the tent pissing out than on the outside pissing in..." If he's a real chairman with a bit of power, then he can surely find ways of doing a bit of spiv weeding.
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    Ian Durrant probably.
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    Re the John Buchan and his Scots: what Hugh McDiarmid was trying to do with "A Drunk Man Looks at a Thistle" was to re-establish the language of Douglas, Dunbar and Henryson in a modern context; unfortunately it was criticised for being synthetic rather than having grown organically. Thus Scots survives really only in a spoken sense - there is still no agreed orthography.
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    dB - great piece/lecture but are you aware that Scots was actually included in the EU's list of protected languages? You imply that Scots was a dialect of English/Anglisch but I think it's different enough to be regarded as a language. Problem is that its spelling is not-standardised and it survives best in spoken form.
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24149109 Any idea what our club's position is? Wonder if we'll see Jig wearing them?
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    Agree re Perry and Hegarty. But my point was prompted by the fact that I thought Urquart was considered a special talent - like Charlie Telfer, who also seems to have sunk into some kind of obscurity.
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    It's a shame that it didn't work out for him, but I suppose he was competing with Luca for that 'up and coming' centre back spot. What? Only one up-and-coming spot? We should be building a core group of the country's best youth. If we cannot do it in League One we can't do it anywhere.
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    Looks like Urquart is being moved on so Zaliukas can be shoehorned in. If so, I find this profoundly depressing. If a promising youngster can develop his career in England's lower leagues, then why could he not do it at least equally well in Scotland's? The one thing I thought demotion would allow us to do would be to give a core group of youths - say 6 or 7 - the chance to grow together and maybe sell on for a decent fee. Instead we seem set on recruiting ageing soldiers of fortune who will be all be too old when we eventually return to the top flight. Then it all starts again: no good youngsters to stock the team , but a succession of temporary (but experienced) signings. Meanwhile Urquart will probably make a name for himself together with team mate John Fleck. I find it baffling that we need so many experienced players for the standard of football we find ourselves in.
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    That bit is chilling; much more important than fretting over Jim Spence.
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    welcome to the board mate. And good to see another Bob Dylan fan on here. Steve C. I think is another; we might be able to form a bobcat loyal one day.
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