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    As stated, attended last night ie the second Q and A session. Yep, Souness reaffirmed Kennedy was convinced he had a deal to purchase the club, only to find Duff and Phelps reneged on the agreement . He implied Whyte's determination to see Duff and Phelps appointed saw the delivery of pre-made decisions. Confirmed if Kennedy was to get involved again, he would do what he could for no remuneration, Smith similarly. He named his best Rangers 11 he had played in/signed as thus : Woods, Stevens, Munro, Butcher, Gough, Steven, Wilkins, Durrant, Cooper, Hateley, McCoist. Interesting to see Stuart Monro named as his preferred left back, a fair number of the support did not care for Munro, but I always rated him because of his recovery pace. Confirmed the '89 Scottish Cup final story, threw his runners-up medal away and promised the Sellik supporting journos that he would wipe the smiles from their faces in a matter of weeks. The MoJo deal was already done and MoJo was keen to sign right from the off. He thought this was a major block in the nine-in-a-row foundation, ra Sellik took years to recover from the loss of face. Two good stories about conducting deals/signings whilst the subject/opposite number was pissed. He knew Spurs were close to signing the England skipper, thus he caught Terry Butcher coming off a plane from Mexico world cup, he was sparkled. Brought him up to Scotland overnight, Terry sobering up was having second thoughts about Scots taking to him, Souness leaked it to a few journos and several hundred Bears were waiting at the stadium doors to welcome him, he signed that afternoon. On the other hand, he met Brian Clough of an afternoon with the purpose of securing Stuart Pierce. By early evening, a deal had been concluded and he contacted Clough the next day to confirm details, Clough had no recollection of the day before/week before, ...etc. Souness thought Derek Ferguson could have/should have been better than Barry. However, he lacked professionalism and pace. The first fault, particularly application at training caused the second. Candid about pressures at Rangers, Gerry McNee was to the forefront of a coterie(is that the correct collective noun) of Sellik supporting journos in both broadcast and print media that had clear agendas undermining their professionalism. Genuinely distressed at Durrant's suffering from that tackle. World class player deliberately chopped by Simpson. More as I recall.
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    Attending tomorrow night.
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    Jon is the Govan prospective parliamentary candidate for the Natural Law Party.
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    This week's reality will differ from next week's reality.
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    BBC Radio Scotland have been broadcasting a series of Chick Young interviewing the surviving national managers, wee Craigie got an hour on Saturday. Richard Wilson has lifted/précised the piece from Brown's PR production. I listened and Gough got it in the neck. Apparently, as Roxburgh's assistant, Craig had observed Gough's behaviour in team bonding, found it lacking and noted his lack of willingness to comply to team uniformity. I seem to remember big Richard refused to participate in Roxburgh's organised sessions of Trivial Pursuits and reacted angrily to Craig Brown standing at the dressing room door, armed with a black ink marker to darken tie-ups. Anyways, Craig was determined to manage the team on his terms and listening to Craig, most successfully so. All reversals were a combination of Lady Luck refusing to smile and the prevailing statistics NOT bearing the expected fruit. Even that humiliating 3-zip defeat by mighty Morocco was unfair. They were African champions, have a population 7 times the size of Scotland, and Craig Burley wrecked Brown's careful plans by being sent off.
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    I hope I am wrong, but the empirical evidence continues to damn. Dave King, McColl, Chuck Green, the current Board, ......... etc have all laid claim to the necessary leadership. They have shown a remarkable ability to march the Bears up to the top of the hill, deliberate, then allow those same Bears to wander back down the hill. I suspect Amelia Earhart will be back in communication before all mentioned indulge the Bears in a burst transmission?
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    Yesterday, BBC Radio Scotland sport was broadcasting whilst thinking aloud. Throughout the morning and early afternoon, the struggle for comfort was obvious and ease of mind did not arrive until Newsdrive, after 4 O'clock. The sport headline on the hour, every hour was the release of next season's fixture list, the strap line being, 'the most attractive opening day fixture'. The morning was all about ra Sellik; well, they are Scottish champions and they deserve their due. The green'n'grey hooped horrors were opening at Perth on a Wednesday night. At lunchtime, we received an explanation that Sellik should open against the Harry Wraggs, but remedial Commonwealth Games work has postponed the match. One O'clock bulletin continued the refrain and informed the listenership that Rangers were opening against Hearts. Afternoon saw Aberdeen's opener against Dundee United as the most attractive opening fixture, 3 O'clock announced Rangers/Hearts was "ARGUABLY" the most attractive opening day fixture, and Newsdrive delivered the unequivocally verdict, no mention of us at all and Aberdeen/Dundee United was THE most attractive opening day fixture. I know news is a dynamic, but it seemed to me the politics between BBC Scotland and our club became the overriding factor. Ra Sellik were out of the equation and the commentary team must go somewhere, the hill of dung is that venue. You see, they cannot talk up Rangers/Hearts because they would then have to explain why they won't cover it by commentary. What a pickle? Other than the usual last two season's two minute match report by one of BBC Radio Scotland's usual suspects, do you think BBC Scotland want to cover Rangers matches? Cosgrove banged on for a decade that the Scottish First Division(now the championship) was the most attractive, most difficult, and most competitive league in the country, do you think he will continue this line between oral consumption of Anusol? I suspect they might wait to see how we start the season. Yesterday was a microcosm of the season long problem BBC Radio Scotland will have dealing with the football matters of our club.
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    Lawwell has recognised there is a huge disciplinary problem at ra Sellik. Three players due in court on serious charges, star centre back is front and centre in his own home-made porn movie with £400 per hour hooker, and the last management team were shagging/drinking around town. Collins is a disciplinarian.
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    I suspect there may be a correlation between Vincent leaving post and the resignation last month of dearest Neil?
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    I note the day Scotland play Georgia in the Euro qualifiers, the 11th October; we are away to Cowdenbeath. Could we see the absence of Wallace and Bell? Further, are Nothern Ireland playing that day too? If so, then Dean Shields could be a gonner too.
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    Piss-poor excuse, it's official - you are a part time supporter.
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    I believe the SPFL Championship fixtures for season 2014-15 will be released tomorrow. This gives the forum an opportunity for some harmless, and ultimately useless speculation. Who will we face on opening day? I assume we will be at home, allowed to unfurl our Division one championship flag on a sun-drenched, thrumming Ibrox? I suspect we will be paired with Raith Rovers. Foghorn Turnbull will be blowing, Ramsdens memories to the fore, and endless re-runs of Baird's goal in the build-up. Oh, and BBC Scotland's Rover-in-chief, Scot Davie will interview Val McDairmid, before she guests on the Cowan and Cosgrove hatefest. Raith Rovers it is, and we will replicate the score the first time I witnessed Raith at Ibrox in the late sixties, 10(ten)-2 to the Bears.
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    Harry Belafonte had a number one hit with a faux bossanov beat entitled, 'oh island in the sun'. I believe Matt McGinn changed the lyric to 'oh Hampden in the sun'? The homage to that League Cup final originally contained the second line, 'celtic seven, the H--s one'. There are a few Sellik books by the usualmsuspects that are titled, utilising various lines from that song, includng the opening line. It's a piece of unecessary Sellik triumphalism that I hope does not confront Bears on a Rangers forum.
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    Johnny Russell finds our defence fertile ground. I am sure he is lookin forward to ploughing a familiar furrow. An interesting snippet, the night we secured the ECWC in Barca, Brian Clough's Derby County were playing Airdrionians in the Texaco cup final at the Baseball Ground. It was a season long cross border tourney, and I think County narrowly pipped a very good Airdrie 2-1 in a two-legged final. Do Derby County list the Texaco cup as an honour?
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    Several weeks past, I did a couple of pragraphs entitled, 'Doing the Arithmetic'. The figure breakdown for renewals, pledging to the Dve King initiative, and non-renewals have pretty much panned out. The largest grouping is non-renewal and I would subscribe a considerable percentage of that figure is done to the standard of football we have endured these last 2-3 seasons. It's another aspect of club administration tht this Board have failed to deal with, among numerous others. In conclusion, I suspect the nature of competition in this season's championship, will see an average of mid-40k crowds at Ibrox. Thevslicers will probably still get their dosh, they will just have to wait longer for their booty. The rotisserie will turn slower and it will take longer for the roast to drip, perhaps they will invest in rotisserie alarms? It may be both Hearts and Hibs relegations have provided the most important slice upon the Board's daily bread, that of luck. In the original piece I explained Abe Lincoln's journey to, 'doing the arithmetic'; another General coined an equally famous phrase. Napoleon kept his armies up his sleevies and cut off every intelligence officer briefing on the merits of the opposing General by demanding, "stop tellingme how good he is, tell me is he lucky"? Will our Board continue to be lucky?
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    Martin Bain will be in rapture. All those pictures of, "modular build facility".
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    Through the auspices of the ether, I have been in correspondence with His Pokeyhatness and he has revealed his new RSC song : We are the loyal, The Pokeyhat loyal, Stars and crescent moons, Fashioned from silver foil. Sing wth gusto, and praise the wizard of the blue Fadouk.
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    Haw Graham, daub a tad more marinade on the club's rear flank. Oh, and mill a bit more pepper on the shoulder. We don't want the juicy bits becoming over caramelised. Grab the windlass and turn the rotisserie; the usual suspects want it dripping before taking another slice. Graham's job is pretty straight forward, Toxic Jack's involvement could be more than stroking the Easdale ego.
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    Burning the bean, grinding the bean, , baking the bean, ............ etc - all worthwhile pursuits. However, counting the bean .......................................zzzzzzzz
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    Haw Chuck, Craig, Sandy, Graham, .............. etc, turn the rotisserie, the roast is dripping again, it's ready for another slice to be cut.
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    Jum Spence will love spinning his Furher's line, Cosgrove will breathe as much air time into it as possible, and the rest of the usual BBC Radio Scotland suspects will continue to snigger.
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    Why doesn't Jim ask fellow Labour Party representitives about their actions on various GDC/GCC committees, Development Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, and and Sports Scotland? Recently, I note Margaret Curren MP, her role in questioning and ensuring ground given to ra Sellik for peppercorn rates, has now been redesignated to allow development and worth ten times more. Go on Jim, you know it makes sense. Oh, did you ever tell us who paid your three day all expenses trip to Seville?
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    Currently, I reman in Mallorca. Tonight, Real Mallorca must win their last match of the season, away to Cordoba to ensure they avoid relegation for the second successive season. Spain's third tier would see Real backnwhere they began when I first saw them in the old Luis Sitjar stadium, 40 years ago. Let's hope 'the sufferers' do not have to endue further pain? Anyways, I enquired of a couple of Mallorquines in my local bar in San Telm of what they knew of Ronny BumBhoy? Apparently, as an8 year old, Ronny tuned through the crackle to listen to ra Sellik commentaries in Euro competiton. Even though Swiss minows Xamax were horsing ra byoys 5 zip, Ronny did not lose faith. Further, he was known to kayak his green'n'grey canoe across the fjord to school every morning. Ronny canoed, just like Jock. I note from the Herald website that a chap brought the M8 to astandstill yesterday, running across lanes in his boxer shorts. I suspect the Ronny has landed.
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    Andy McGowan is Jim Delahunt, I claim my tenner. Over the years, a few of these piss takes have resurfaced on both print and broadcast media as gospel facts. There is no end to what our club haters want to, indeed need to believe about club and support. My own favourite was penned in the Sunday Herald by Sanjeev Kohli, yep that Sanjeev Kohli. Like both his brothers, Sanjeev is a product of Jesuit education, St Aloysius College in Glasgow. He received no hassle as an out and proud Bear at school, both fellow pupils and teachers were the epitome of liberal tolerance. He attended ra Piggery on 2nd January 1988, stood in the Rangers end, and watched Mark Walters debut in a 2-0 defeat. In two and half pages in the Sunday Herald supplement, 'Seven Days' Sanjeev explained his instant conversion from Bear to Yahoo over his two hour experience that afternoon. Fellow Rangers supporters in monkey and gorilla suits pelted the unsuspecting Walters with bananas. Bears booed Walters every time he touched the ball, and a banner pronounced there was no black in the union jack. False memory syndrome on Sanjeev's part? Maybe, or could it be he utilised an opportunity presented to him by Editor, Charleen Sweeney to reposition himself in artistic circles. Hasn't done him any harm, tell a whopper about Rangers and the support, get ahead. The bigger the whopper, the further you will get ahead.
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    I love, 'quality scouting'. I was both a cub and a scout, I did BIG woggle time. Anyways, taking this seriously in a wolf cub sixer type of way, is it a full house, a line, or four corners? Waiting oan ra wan Loyal RSC.
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