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Does anyone fancy writing a preview for the Alloa game on Saturday? There's certainly lots to talk about!

Had a right laugh at the number of Celtic fans phoning up Radio Clyde to talk about Rangers tonight when they've got a European game tomorrow.

 

Their European campaign is as good as over - we are the only show in town and the Tims need something, anything, to avoid having to talk about their own shambolic team and club

 

Rangers occupy their minds full time,more than their own club

A percentage of them are completely demented, almost like zombies in fact.

When there's some Rangers news released you can just imagine them slavering and wondering around with their arms out in front of them going 'aaarrrggghh'.

So at the same time we are trying to amalgamate supporters groups (a GOOD thing) we also have supporters (presumably) opening up competing clothing lines... and by apparent plagiarism.

 

Only Rangers fans.....

Hopefully plgsarmy reads this and can give us some more details because I know that she had previously been working tirelessly on posting out orders for Lion Brand shirts, but I don't know if she's still doing it or not.

According to Suck on FF this is a stand alone enterprise, all monies raised will be given to RST ( or merged fans group) to buy shares in club. One point being made is that only 1% will go on tax while buying shares, whereas TheLionbrand sometimes buy tickets etc. from club that attract 20% tax.

I have not received any communication from RST and cannot access website at present. It looks like that this is not organised by RST but is a stand alone enterprise as previously stated.

Having said all that it looks like a bit of a rip off re redesigns from TheLionbrand not surprise it's upset. New designs should have been the first thing a new campaign should have had IMO.

Thanks for the info mate.

I don't understand why these things seem to always end up coming down to petty politics, but they just do unfortunately.

Maybe it's an admin error over there, but the founder (or one of them) of The Lion Brand being banned from FF maybe does raise questions when AFAIK MD was directly involved with The Lion Brand work.

Had a right laugh at the number of Celtic fans phoning up Radio Clyde to talk about Rangers tonight when they've got a European game tomorrow.

The instigator of TheLionbrand has just been banned from FF for pointing out the shirts are very like his and that this new enterprise has no connection with the TheLionbrand.

So what's going on with the new 'The Loyal Standard' brand anyway? I could understand folk starting up a new unofficial brand to do something different in terms of concept & design from what The Lion brand have been doing, but why stick with the red & black vertical stripes and a badge based on the lion?

That's the predictions thread now up for our game against Alloa on Saturday - Predictions for Rangers v Alloa - Championship match 13 (GPL game 19)

That's the full sets of results and standings for the St Mirren & Hibs games now posted on the relevant predictions threads....

St Mirren v Rangers results and standings

Hibernian v Rangers results and standings

Updated with the rest of our 2015 fixtures........

Folks, we're always looking for volunteers to write our match previews, so if anyone fancies writing a preview for a certain match just say which one and we'll put your name down for it!

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Upcoming:

NOV 21 - Livingston v Rangers - SPFL Championship - Frankie

NOV 28 - Rangers v St Mirren - Petrofac Training Cup SF - Stewarty

DEC 01 - Rangers v Dumbarton - SPFL Championship - ???

DEC 05 - Raith Rovers v Rangers - SPFL Championship - ???

DEC 12 - Rangers v Morton - SPFL Championship - ???

DEC 19 - Falkirk v Rangers - SPFL Championship - ???

DEC 28 - Rangers v Hibernian - SPFL Championship - ???

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Completed:

JUL 25 - Hibs v Rangers - Petrofac Training Cup R1 - Frankie (done)

AUG 02 - Rangers v Peterhead - League Cup R1 - Pete (done)

AUG 07 - Rangers v St Mirren - SPFL Championship - 26th of foot (done)

AUG 16 - Alloa v Rangers - SPFL Championship - Rousseau (done)

AUG 19 - Ayr Utd v Rangers - Petrofac Training Cup R2 - Germinal (done)

AUG 23 - Rangers v Hibs - SPFL Championship - Zappa (done)

AUG 26 - Airdrie v Rangers - League Cup R2 - Frankie (done by last minute stand-in)

AUG 30 - QotS v Rangers - SPFL Championship - Rousseau (done)

SEP 05 - Rangers v Raith Rovers - SPFL Championship - JohnMc (done)

SEP 12 - Rangers v Livingston - SPFL Championship - andthefoxsays (done)

SEP 19 - Dumbarton v Rangers - SPFL Championship - LucyBlue (done)

SEP 22 - Rangers v St Johnstone - League Cup R3 - Pete (done)

SEP 27 - Morton v Rangers - SPFL Championship - Germinal (done)

OCT 03 - Rangers v Falkirk - SPFL Championship - no volunteer (done by Frankie)

OCT 17 - Rangers v QotS - SPFL Championship - Pete (done)

OCT 20 - Rangers v Livingston - Petrofac Training Cup QF - no volunteer (done by Germinal)

OCT 25 - St Mirren v Rangers - SPFL Championship - Frankie (done)

NOV 01 - Hibernian v Rangers - SPFL Championship - 26th of foot (done)

NOV 21 - Livingston v Rangers - SPFL Championship - Frankie (done)

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Good use of the RFFF?

 

A better use of the RFFF may be dealing with the footballing-related fall-out that may come from this decision.

There maybe isn't a hell of a lot of the RFFF pot left after it was recently used to help fund a new artificial pitch at Auchenhowie.

By pure chance I caught most of Craig's call-in appearance live on Clyde earlier. He spoke well, articulated his points well and had reasonable answers to the questions put to him.

Unfortunately, some of his points and answers to questions came across on-air in a slightly vague, wishy-washy manner, probably because for a whole bunch of reasons he clearly had to be very careful what he was saying.

For example, he was asked about whether Rangers need to pay for any unsold merchandise (something we've been vaguely aware of for a while now), but his answer wasn't particularly clear because he focused on the fact (or is it possibility?) that it's only what the Club over orders and SD don't sell which the Club's liable for.

Is that a grey/unclear area in the Club's contract/s with Sports Direct or is it all simple and just can't be spoken about by Craig because he's not really supposed to know?

A one month loan? That's a bit unusual. Suggests it's either a sort of trial period for them to get a proper look at him or else they've got injuries and/or suspensions in the centre half positions and need emergency back-up.

Don't forget to post your predictions for the Hibs game tomorrow lunchtime! - Predictions for Hibernian v Rangers - Championship match 12 (GPL game 18)

It's a 'tour' Gazza's doing. He was in the Concert Hall in Motherwell Civic last weekend with Lee McCulloch and John Rowbotham alongside him.

In terms of entertainment in Motherwell that night there wasn't anything to touch it, but these things just aren't my cup of tea at all.

Got off leniently imo.

He definitely did because he completely lost the plot.

Shrewd move from the board!

That's a right pain in the arse.

That's the predictions thread up for the Hibs game! - Predictions for Hibernian v Rangers - Championship match 12 (GPL game 18)

Apologies for the delay folks, I've been snowed under this week.

Really? What about, "poor buisness practices", "corporate governance failures", "not conducting buisness affairs in an appropriate manner","unconcerned with other stakeholders".

Well,i can read between those lines thanks.

Are those phrases really new/news to us?

The phrase "Sports Direct continues to litigate with the Club in an attempt to enforce its wishes and demands" is news to me.

Sports Direct continues to litigate with the Club in an attempt to enforce its wishes and demands. This seems based on the simple logic that Sports Direct can outspend the Club in legal fees and thereby deal with the Club as it pleases.

Overall, Dave King's statement is short on info and it's almost impossible to read between the lines, but there's actually quite a lot of information in just those two sentences alone.

That's all of our new players now added to our '1st Team' smilie category alongside the rest of the first team players.

Don't forget to post your predictions folks! - Predictions for St. Mirren v Rangers - Championship match 11 (GPL game 17)

I don't know when the list is released but I see the man who cannot see or is scared to make decisions, Andrew Dallas has a top flight game and the money that goes with that.

That must be his reward for letting Livingston kick 7 shades of shit out of our players.

Another problem is that you can do this (video evidence, cameras, 5th officials) "only" at a certain level of the game. Say the top division in each country, at internationals etc.. You won't be able to do that at lower level though, in Scotland probably simply because of the finances involved. Which in turn may cause aggravation down there, as you would create a two-class variety of refereeing.

There's already class divides in terms of how Scottish football is officiated. You just need to look at the weekly referee & match officials appointments from the SFA to see it laid out in black and white. Here's the SPFL appointments for this weekend - Appointments Saturday 24th / Sunday 25th October 2015

Don't forget to post your predictions for the St.Mirren game tomorrow! - Predictions for St. Mirren v Rangers - Championship match 11 (GPL game 17)