Norris Cole

I'm impressed no-one's groaned Shroomz yet :fish:

I confess I don't know much about this Efrem boy, but I reckon young Dean Furman is more than capable of doing a job for us, certainly next season when our squad will be stripped to the bare bones.

RST = Petty political games and self-advancement. Their appeasement of our custodian is disgusting.

Got that in an e-mail today. The RST, while a noble concept, really is a busted flush and after reading that I'm glad they aren't receiving any more of my cash. Lost interest after "key discussion point" 2 re. season tickets. The RST have nothing of interest to say to me and they certainly don't represent me. No doubt they'll still count me when asked their membership figure

Nein chance. He's so far out of their league now it's enough to make you wince. I reckon the fans' choice would be McGhee, who has good Abergreen credentials.

Exactly. Their best manager since Alex Smith. In fact, their three best managers of modern times - Ferguson, Smith, Calderwood - I wonder what they all have in common

Clough's family say they are refusing to watch the film because the book was so far from the truth. Peace did say it was fiction though.

My favourite Brian Clough story was when, at Forest, Roy Keane underhit a passback to the keeper and the opposition forward nipped in and scored. At half-time, and without saying anything, Clough goes up to Keane and just punches him in the face. Keane mentions it in his autobiography. Old school management, you can't beat it

Well done Frankie and Gisabeer.

Rangers FC official historian David Mason has recently found that Kris Boyd's great, great, great uncle was William Dunlop, who was a member of the very first Rangers team. Question is (for those of you who haven't seen the FF thread) - which one is he? Incidentally Dunlop was Tom Vallance's brother-in-law.

Unless you play a blinder Steven, you will take pelters.

Perhaps the poll could have been worded differently (no offence Gazza), and asked whether we were right to take Smith back or would another x amount of time under Le Guen have seen him come good. Taking him back is purely hypothetical since the club is now so petrified of 'revolution' that our next manager will be Alistair McCoist. The longer I think about it - and this is only hindsight since no-one can possibly know what might have been - the more I regret getting rid of Le Guen. Okay, he wanted to leave, but perhaps if he'd received stronger backing from Murray he'd have carried on. I thought Le Guen underestimated what Scottish football was all about, yet I think he would have learned had he been given the time. His ideas were always going to be new, revolutionary even, but was that not exactly what we were looking for after the trauma of 2005/06? I remember the fans being delighted at his hard-line approach to training and discipline when he first arrived, we seemed to recognise that this was exactly what was needed at a club where standards had slipped alarmingly and whose players appeared to be drifting from mediocrity to mediocrity. It's just a pity certain players didn't recognise this. Speaking of Ferguson, our decision to back him and eventually reinstate him as captain was a terrible move, and it would be pertinent to ask what it has achieved us in the two years since. The Le Guen experiment was packaged as a revolution so why did the club and the support forget that so quickly? We were heading for fourth place but we'd have got a revolution. As it turned out, none of us will ever know what could have been achieved. He may well never have turned it round, I don't know, but he should have been given the three years he was promised by the chairman. Three years should be seen as a minimum timescale for a 'revolution'. Le Guen said so himself before he arrived. The above may be "blind faith" as you say, but surely that's all you can have when you only have six months to go on? It's certainly not long enough to deduce that he's a bad manager. This shouldn't be construed as being "misty-eyed", but rather recognising that the very nature of the Le Guen experiment required it to be given time. He wasn't being asked to continue a period of recent success like Advocaat and McLeish for example, he was being asked to create such a period anew just as Souness was. Souness's methods were revolutionary and unpopular with more than a few but look where it took us as a club. As for your lack of preparation argument, that may have been the case - as I said he underestimated Scottish football but would most likely have adjusted in time. But his lack of preparation was no worse than the man who, as Basile Boli once claimed, left it until half an hour before kick-off to discuss tactics in a crucial Champions League qualifier against AEK Athens in Greece.

"isn't necessarily over" sounds like it

Oh, and I trust Mr Crerand won't be celebrating if Broadfoot scores for Scotland again?

He couldn't have been any good if I haven't heard of him. He might be before my time but I've still heard of Baxter, McGrain, Henderson, Lennox etc.

I haven't read the papers or seen the news this week, but I'm sure that having sung "Warren Feeney you're only a hun" and "sad orange bastard" with regard to Walter Smith, the Celtic fans were mentioned in every newspaper, were the lead story on yesterday's Reporting Scotland, the SPL match observer mentioned their sectarian singing in his match report, and that the SPL and SFA are currently investigating.

Never heard of him.

It's a bit of a joke we're allowing Bougherra to go away with Algeria to be honest.

You'd think after Phil Boersma we'd have entered the professional age when it comes to injuries (regardless of whether Boersma did any damage).

I don't think we can complain at those fixtures. Having three away games is simply the price we pay for getting the last OF game at home and in any case, as far as shedding points is concerned we don't seem to be discriminating between home and away games. To a slightly lesser extent the same goes for Celtic, whose days of going through the motions at home are long in the past. These really shouldn't be hard games, but I've no doubt we'll make them so. I actually believe our best performances this season have all been away from home - Celtic, Hibs and Kilmarnock.

I've heard worse ideas. It would be interesting to know Middlesborough fans' opinions on him. Being an ex-England manager I'd imagine he'd still command a sizeable salary, but Twente can obviously afford him. With respect to Twente, I was a bit surprised he jumped so far down after the England job, even if he did make an arse of it.

I'd rather have Dick Campbell.

I think McLeish is and always was a far better manager than Levein. He also carried himself in a manner befitting of the office and in the best traditions of Struth. Levein is a snivelling, embittered, classless tool.

While Ferguson has bickered his way through his Rangers career (threatening to leave when Smith used him sparingly in 97/98, splitting the camp under Le Guen, various rumoured training ground spats, etc), Gough was the man that held that 9IAR team together - all for one and one for all.

I remember that one well and have to say it was completely different. McCoist had a cheeky smile on his face as he did it and it was clearly light-hearted. Barry appeared to mouth "shut it". While I would never boo a Rangers captain, I do understand why he is disliked. He passed his sell by date as a captain over 2 years ago.