Tannochsidebear

That is truly wonderful news, considering the time of year when many are still on holiday and a Friday night. It would be quite magnificent if we managed to sell the rest and put the sold out signs up.

Unfortunately there is always room for a rabid Rangers-hater in Scottish media. I dont think Jum will be signing on anytime soon, and fully expect him to be "guesting" on Radio Scotland, picking up a column in one of the tabloids, and continuing his "new club" crusade at every point. The best we could hope for is he gets a gig as PR chief for DUFC, that would at least stop him talking about us for a while.

I heard he done very well and wiped the floor with English, but my self-imposed ban from listening to anything on that bigoted anti-Rangers station means I will not be clicking the link. If anyone on here listened to it and wants to give us a run down of the main points from their viewpoint that would be great.

With 13,000 members paying in an average of a tenner a month, that is a lot of money coming into RF every month. I am guessing they must have more than enough to complete this purchase, buy their full allocation at a future share issue, and still be in the market for more. Of course purchases like this should also encourage more fans to join with them, and with the thought that your tenner a month may help to buy out the Easdales is a very strong emotional selling point to use to get more Bears involved.

There were some on here that would have given another year to Ricky Foster. Sighs.

Away to Airdrie, that is good. Not too far to travel.

Any home game will do me, thanks very much. There is nothing to fear in the unseeded section.

Cheers FS, that's the one!! One of Galloway's best that one.

I might be one of the few to get (and love) the Volvo insert Zappa. One of my all time favourite jokes that one, don't know why but it makes me laugh!

Stubbs has always been a classless guy, well suited to some of the clubs he has been at. You would have thought having had the horrendous time with cancer that would have given him some humility, but nope, still an absolute cnut! Reading some of the articles from his time as an unsettled player (it seems that was at every club) he has always had a much higher opinion of himself than anyone else had, and has absolutely no problem with hypocrisy. I really really hope that they get pumped in the playoffs, by either QotS/StM/Falk or by 11th in top league and need to spend a third season in the second tier. And a fourth etc.

Hardly recognise any players these days! Hopefully start to recognise them better after Sunday.

I know where you are coming from Zappa, we just have to hope that, this time, we actually have some spine to deal with this in the short and long-term game.

I agree that it wont cure all the ills in the Scottish mhedia, but we have to start to make a stand. However this will only work as one small piece of a much larger effort to get some fair media attention, but for starters I can live with the safe knowledge that two of the journos that hate us will no longer get free programmes, pies, coffee and facilities at our ground and training centre, and hopefully this is extended to many more. I am hoping that we had contacted their bosses in advance, asking for assurances of impartial reporting, and when we didnt get a sufficient answer, removed their press privileges, and warned their editors/bosses that we will not accept such shoddy reporting of our club. I am on record as saying that I believe we should not need to hold press conferences at all, and we should not be spending money on advertising in the press at all. In this day and age papers are dead. Give a tv conference for local/national tv stations, and give a RTV pre-match interview and post a pre-match written interview with the manager and a leading player so fans have something to read/watch in advance of the match. It then gives the scum mhedia nowhere to invent a slant on the media conference as they have done many many times before. Long gone are the days where the written media were helpful in us selling more match day tickets.

Great news, get both these pieces of pond life removed from Ibrox press room, and ensure that we keep this up and ban the others who will come along and who are not fair or impartial. Get the message out that those days are over and we insist on impartial reporting of our club, or you dont get in to report at all.

As well as paying silly fees to agents, silly signing on fees, and silly wages.

A quick google search confirms that Douglas was Celtic security chief for a few years, taking over the head of scottish footy security chiefs from our own Alistair "Herr" Hood in the late 90's. So another job for the bhoys, another hatchet job. Our club should investigate to ensure this is correct, then seek the sacking of Douglas for leaking the info to Scrote, and see what can be done to the untouchable Scrote at the beeb, if anything. As more info becomes available about this, it seems more likely this was agreed in advance for any singing they can get us for between known Rangers-haters, then ears pinned for any verses of any songs. They must have been gutted at the very low arrest numbers but clearly Scrote had his piece written in advance and just had to fill in the blanks.

Apparently George Douglas was the former chief of security at celtic. Unconfirmed.

It was reported as £250K

Only just got back from holiday after kick off yesterday so missed the first game. Sign me up however and I will get started next week. And thanks very much for running this again and putting your time into it for others enjoyment, much appreciated.

I dont think it means we will play 33 players, more the line-ups will be very different. I expect MW to play the same formation and style of play each time, with players perhaps being tried out in a couple of different positions, and linking up with different players.

You would think that with a CL qualifier next week they would finally spend some time talking about their own team on their own boards. Sighs.

The author makes a lot of good points, but I almost splattered the screen when I read that Wanyama is a top class midfielder. Hilarious. If that really was a serious assessment of this no-mark, it takes away from the article. The point he was making about buying relatively unknowns for peanuts and selling them on to the EPL for large fees is a valid one, but he fails to mention the role our Scottiosh media have in getting the bheasts such high fees with their indulgence in talking up these players as superstars, vastly inflating their selling prices, lying about three or four clubs being really interested in signing the players etc. It is a tried and tested policy that our press and the bheasts have got down to a fine "dark" art. However this only really works for so long if the players they sell on continue to be duds when placed in the higher level of the EPL. I feel that time might be about now as the last two or three that have went down south have pretty much failed to make any significant impact. They also lie about the fees they get in order that they can try to get more for the next one. The transfer fees are always officially "undisclosed", but the press tell us for example that the Korean boy that went to Cardiff/Swansea was sold for £6M. Two days after signing him, the Welsh club announce on their official website the purchase of another player for a club record £5M fee. Not one note or correction from the media up here at this clear error. In contrast, we always got our players prices talked down in the media. Players every bit as good as their celtic counterparts are somehow only worth half the value when the papers run their rumoured to be leaving pieces. Anyone underestimating the importance of getting the gutter rags on board for this type of policy to work is missing the trick. And this trick is every bit as important as the scouting and development mentioned in the OP as it will most certainly affect the overall success of it.

Dont disagree with that dB, although I heard from a good source at the weekend that Motherwell had the second lowest wage bill of all top flight clubs outwith St Mirren last season. No surprise that they came 11th and 12th if that was the case I suppose.

I toned it down quite a bit from what I really think about him, I can assure you.

While there is certainly some credit in what you are saying there dB, it also has to be remembered that Motherwell finished 11th last season in a really poor league, hence these players with their journeymen pedigree were actually exactly what it says on the tin. Two good performances, the likes of which 'Well fans hadnt seen all season, doesnt make then good players, and certainly not good enough for where we expect and want to be. In reality our 14-15 vintage were a broken lot, most of whom knew they were leaving anyway, and showed exactly the sort of commitment most people do while working their notice, not a lot. It was never going to take much to beat us when we look back at it in the cold light of day.