alexscottislegend

A better chance of what? Making the second division of elite football? The CL revenue will be nothing like what the ESL will command. I can even see it turning into a franchise system with ManU say, being moved to a super stadium in the desert. It's all tv-driven.

Rangers have a tough enough task qualifying for next season's CL group stage as it is. Any new structure would place any chance we have of competing at the highest level out of reach. Cannot see how any Rangers fan would welcome this.

Big difference dB is that it would effectively be a closed shop; with the EPL and SPL there is a pyramid system, so that Rangers for instance were able to progress up through the leagues. They will make it impossible to access the super league unless you bring untold riches with you.

I'm well-balanced; a brown ale in one hand, a single malt (Cardhu especially) in the other. My way of bridging the class divide.

Doesn't mean he's not sincere though in his view. He does have ownership of a small club, Salford I think.

And Labour members thought he was a safe pair of hands after Corbyn.

Tells you all you need to know.

We can put a stop to it by banning all the players from internationals and their respective leagues; they must not be allowed to have their cake and eat it. I fear though that there will eventually by some sort of mucky messy compromise with sweeteners. Speaking parochially, I don't think they will give Rangers a sniff.

Unless we are backed by Middle Eastern capital, or owned by a country like Man City - we don't. This is football being taken over by rapacious capitalism; the working man's game controlled by corporations who only want to maintain their profit margins. No thought for the fans who dream of their team getting to the top by sporting means only.

No problem but we must absolutely sell only at the right price. Look what Edouard will be going for and what VVD and Dembele for instance went for.

I was always prepared for losing K. for a big fee. But I trust our backroom team to come up with a suitable replacement.

Oh, I'm not for one minute suggesting it's a gimme; but I'd be more concerned if Kent or Barasic or Morelos were unavailable.

Almost a mirror image of Kent's v. Hibs. I always saw him as Clark Kent's understudy.

Losing Kamara is a blow, sure. But Roofe is not always a certain starter and if we can't get through the qualifiers with Hagi and Zungu as replacements, then we must be in a bad way indeed.

We Must appeal against this. The victims of racism are now being punished too. Kudela ran 30 yards to commit a crime of race hate. Disgraceful.

'Rassa' did he say? I thought he was Clark Kent!

Has he been mentioned in gossip, Frankie? We certainly could improve him, like we have done with Wright.

Worrying about Jack. I wonder if that's his season over?

I'm disappointed that Glenn's lawyer hasn't made more of the fact that Kudela ran fully 30 yards to whisper his bile through cupped hands; there was no need for him to get involved. It was a pre-meditated race hate crime and should be treated as such.

Number of times they kept getting home draws in the Scottish Cup was unreal. At last the spinner of the Fates seems to be smiling on us.

I just hope we can hold on to Kamara and Barisic. No one is irreplaceable but those two come very close.

Now I get you but I think John M. was just trying to show that both situations had a common denominator which was that they both attracted an equal amount of obloquy.

If you mean that all international sport (between nation states) should be ended, then I concede you have a point. George Orwell said as much in an essay after the Moscow Dynamo tour of Britain after the WW2.

Then - will you explain it to us lesser mortals?

Yeah but the four nations also complete separately in a tournament, so that would be nullified if an all-Britain team was to be imposed.