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Me too, but is Neil a Celtic fan?

These bookies odds are utter mandness, McGhee at 34/1 !!!! Goes a break, I'd get the job before him.

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People should have st least one day off from drink and drugs.

See the papers and social media are all over this "story". First of all its a horible illness for anyone to have and its just as bad for those around the sufferer. But I thought it was common knowleged that Bill McNeill was suffering from demetia and had been for years? He sat just along from me at this seasons LC semi-final. I did wonder why he was there as he was obviously not with it.

It's an age thing, nobody my age would miss out one really world class player, James Curran Baxter.

Southampton director of scouting Ross Wilson has humble roots By Richard Wilson BBC Scotland Ross Wilson joined Southampton from Huddersfield Town There have been dramas and difficult choices along the way, but Ross Wilson's journey has taken him to the summit of the British game. If there was a moment when the sheer scale of his progress was emphasised, it might have been during the summer, when he met the Southampton manager Ronald Koeman for the first time. "I was taken aback by Ronald because he's so low ego," the club's new director of scouting and recruitment reflects. "He is a legend of the game." Wilson has never played football to any significant level and graduated in social sciences at Strathclyde University. Yet he is representative of a growing trend in football, with clubs beginning to acknowledge that leading positions are not the sole domain of former players. "There will be some clubs steeped in the tradition that you do need to have played the game, but fortunately the club's I've been at, the mindset has been very open," Wilson says. Each stop on the road has been a reward for his ability, passion and intelligence, qualities that Southampton prized enough to take the 32-year-old to the Premier League from Huddersfield Town. Beginning as a Bairn Wilson started out at Falkirk, where in effect he stumbled into a career in football. A friend's father worked for the media department and needed reports on the under-18 team's games. There was no looking back, and particularly not after the first-team manager John Hughes decided that Wilson was a good fit for the club. Falkirk's backroom team of season 2010-11: kitman Stephen Sproule, physio Kenny Cross, Lee Bullen, Steven Pressley, Embassadors Club member Bob Worgan, Alex Smith, goalkeeping coach Jim Preston, academy director Craig McPherson and director of football Ross Wilson Falkirk's managerial and backroom team of season 2010-11: kitman Stephen Sproule, physio Kenny Cross, Lee Bullen, manager Steven Pressley, Ambassadors Club member Bob Worgan, technical director Alex Smith, goalkeeping coach Jim Preston, academy director Craig McPherson and director of football Ross Wilson "At the end of that first season he said to me that they wanted to bring somebody in to do a player liaison role," Wilson recalls. "I just agreed, because that's what you did with Yogi. "I was playing at it at the time, I never thought that 12 years later I'd still be in the industry. I only did that job that they created for six or seven months and then they created another one, and it took off from there. I loved it. "What you see is what you get with Yogi, he's very straight talking, very direct, absolutely intense, driving you on all the time. You could go in the shower at 10 o'clock at night and come out and he's phoned you five times. "It might be something that wasn't that important, but it was to him. If you give your opinion when he asks for it and you work hard, he's phenomenal." Following a plan Wilson did not enter football with a specific ambition, but his five years at Falkirk left him with a clear idea of where he wanted to go. Hughes left for Hibernian and wanted Wilson to join him, while another opportunity arose to work alongside John Park, Celtic's football development manager and chief scout. Wilson, though, had his sights set on England. "To not go to Hibs with John was really tough," he admits. "There was a point where I thought he was never going to talk to me again. It just didn't fit for me at that time. John Hughes Wilson describes former Falkirk boss John Hughes, now at Inverness, as "phenomenal" "How many times do you get the opportunity to join Celtic? Probably once. The success that John Park has had at Celtic in terms of player recruitment is huge. I'm close with John and he's been a huge influence on me as well. That was a big decision, but it was for the same reason, that I had something else in mind." Instead, Wilson ended up at Watford. That decision initially seemed a misjudgement, after the man who hired him - Julian Winter - left when Wilson was four days into the job. Twenty-four hours later, the club was taken over, but Wilson embraced the upheaval as another opportunity to grow. "You're sitting in the office thinking, 'God, I'm a guy from Falkirk, what am I doing here? They've just sacked the fellow who's brought me in and the club's been taken over'," he laughs. "But I had a brilliant chairman in Graham Taylor, who gave incredible support. We had three different owners, but they never replaced the chief exec so I got a whole host of responsibilities that I probably wouldn't have got otherwise. "After the final change in ownership [to the Pozzo family in 2012] I could have stayed and worked with an Italian technical director, but I went to Huddersfield, who had just won promotion from League One. "Dean Hoyle [the chairman] is a Huddersfield supporter and he's ploughed £40m into the club. What he wanted to do was build the model that we had at Watford, a proper training ground, academy and scouting network. The club finished in three consecutive highest positions and made quite a lot of money in player trading." Lured to Southampton and chasing Van Dijk It was during lunch with Les Reed, Southampton's executive director, that Wilson was offered the chance to move to St Mary's. His role is to manage the scouting and recruitment of players, with the club's approach considered to be one of the most extensive and rewarding in the English top-flight. Virgil van Dijk Ross Wilson worked to bring Celtic defender Virgil van Dijk to Southampton Among the first tasks was signing at least one centre-back for Koeman's starting line-up, which ended with the signing of Virgil van Dijk from Celtic for £13m. "It's not rocket science," Wilson says. "I oversee the process and we have a team of scouts who are constantly looking at players within their territories. They know the attributes we're looking for at Southampton, which is part of our identity, so they know what a player needs to be able to do in each position. "But alongside that we're speaking to agents, we're doing due diligence into their background, finding out about their character, speaking to people who have worked with them before. So it's just building that whole dossier, while the analysts are building a technical profile alongside that, looking at his statistics and comparing them with other targets. "At any time we might have 20 in the mix for one position, then we narrow it down to three or four. I wouldn't say there were concerns [with Van Dijk's European performances]. We look all across Europe and we know what the market is telling us in terms of where the centre-backs are and the ones that fit Southampton." Wilson has come a long way from writing match reports for Falkirk's under-18 team, but it has been a worthwhile journey.You

BF should be nowhere near Ibrox.

As long as BF does not get mentioned.

Update on Meeting with Stewart Robertson Dear Member Following our update last week, Club 1872 is disappointed to report that our planned meeting with Stewart Robertson on Monday has been postponed. We understand that there are pressing matters that require Stewart’s attention - not least of which is the ongoing process of appointing a Director of Football and/or Manager. It is absolutely correct that this should be his priority until a satisfactory outcome is achieved. However that does not lessen our desire to seek clarity on what we feel are some very important questions regarding the future direction of Rangers and the current situation the club finds itself in. The Club 1872 board shares the concerns of a growing number of our members over a perceived lack of progress both on and off the park and believes it would be in the interests of all parties to address those concerns sooner rather than later. Having communicated this to Stewart Robertson, he has agreed that the meeting will go ahead before the match on Wednesday 1st March. Club 1872 operates solely for the benefit of the Rangers community, our members and the football club we all support. We remain committed to engaging in constructive dialogue with Rangers and will update our members with details of those discussions after Wednesday's meeting. Club 1872

Update on Meeting with Stewart Robertson Dear Member Following our update last week, Club 1872 is disappointed to report that our planned meeting with Stewart Robertson on Monday has been postponed. We understand that there are pressing matters that require Stewart’s attention - not least of which is the ongoing process of appointing a Director of Football and/or Manager. It is absolutely correct that this should be his priority until a satisfactory outcome is achieved. However that does not lessen our desire to seek clarity on what we feel are some very important questions regarding the future direction of Rangers and the current situation the club finds itself in. The Club 1872 board shares the concerns of a growing number of our members over a perceived lack of progress both on and off the park and believes it would be in the interests of all parties to address those concerns sooner rather than later. Having communicated this to Stewart Robertson, he has agreed that the meeting will go ahead before the match on Wednesday 1st March. Club 1872 operates solely for the benefit of the Rangers community, our members and the football club we all support. We remain committed to engaging in constructive dialogue with Rangers and will update our members with details of those discussions after Wednesday's meeting. Club 1872

You may be in the know you may not be. But I find the quote in bold to be highly unlikely for two,main reasons; 1. The chances of keeping the meetings secret is very difficult, agents, potential managers etc. talk if it suits their plans for the future. 2. Why has no board member resigned if it's true, nobody with any self respect would stay on a board/committee where they are being not just ignored but deliberately not informed of serious discussions going on. The other board members positions are untenable imo if it's true.

£20 a ticket!

NARSA have posted this on various social media outlets e.g. twitter

Club 1872 Statement on Members’ Concerns 20 February, 2017 As the fifth largest shareholder in RIFC, Club 1872 is committed to ensuring that our members’ voices are heard on all issues affecting the Club and its supporters. Members have contacted us in recent days and weeks to express concerns around some such issues. We have now had the opportunity to discuss these concerns with Stewart Robertson, who is keen to continue this dialogue in a further meeting with Club 1872 Directors. We will use this meeting to continue to share with the Club our members’ concerns around the nature of communication between the Club and the wider fan-base, and how the Club intends to resolve the management situation and other issues. The Club 1872 Board appreciates the significance of these matters, and we will approach all discussions with the Club on this basis. Issued by Supporters Voice Limited, a Club 1872 company < Back

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He was a PT teacher at my school for a while, built like a brick shithouse. Nice guy.

Garner scores, never doubted the guy for a minute And then gets himself booked stupidly.

Rangers should be counter suing Warburton for leaving us with this bunch of talentless, gutless, useless wasters.

Too weak, second to every ball, too many just not good enough, too many hiding. Warburton has left us in some state.

Jordan Houston who has just turned 17 ?

Don't wish to get into a Indy debate but it looks like there have been cover ups for years by Labour/Tory/Liberals/RCchurch etc. Why would Indy ensure the cover ups continue? Could possibly have the opposite outcome?

You mean like Ted Heath? Why the need to play politics with such a subject.

So it looks like the 3 resigners don't have any legal way they can win compensation.

Yes I would be surprised. According to this report Rangers, Ross County, Inverness Caley Thistle, Dundee and Hamilton face significant rises. I find it hard to believe that someone would increase these other clubs valuations just so they can put ours up. Could be that these other clubs are due to be increased and ours not. But that would be paranoia. There are standards in valuations and an appeals procedure which I'm sure the board will use if they think its worthwhile.