BEARGER

I agree.

Tidying up my pc and came across old reports from games in 1800's and early 1900's, included was this photo of the 1906-07 team. was there not a thread previously on old phots etc?

Don’t see this elsewhere. 32 year old arrested for throwing bottle at last weeks game. 32 ffs! https://news.stv.tv/west-central/man-charged-after-glass-bottle-thrown-onto-ibrox-pitch-during-old-firm-game

GvB states that Ramsey was fit but he decided to use other players,ffs.

Var to the rescue again.

Very poor corners and free kicks from Tavernier. Sakala just doesn’t look like footballer. 1-0

Still continuing with McGregor in goal, managers have to be single minded and a bit stubborn but making the same stupid mistake over and over is not good management. McGregor will probably be man of match now.

Talk about this morning on Talksport, this from BBC a week or so ago. Uefa proposes new spending rules Proposed new spending rules to replace Uefa's current Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations would limit club spending on wages, transfers and agents' fees to 70% of their revenue from 2025. www.bbc.co.uk Proposed new spending rules to replace Uefa's current Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations would limit club spending on wages, transfers and agents' fees to 70% of their revenue from 2025. If agreed, the plans will be phased in from 2023, when clubs will be allowed to spend 90% of their income, reducing to 80% in 2024 and 70% a year later. Europe's top clubs will be updated on the new spending rules at the European Clubs Association's (ECA) two-day meeting in Vienna this week. Crucially, the plans, that are being put together by Uefa and the influential ECA also double the permitted losses over a three-year period from €30m (£24.98m) to €60m (£49.96m), providing they are covered by cash injections. The idea is to address complaints that the current system protects the biggest clubs by limiting additional owner investment, although many have also been uneasy at the 'artificial' funding of what La Liga president Javier Tebas has dubbed 'state' clubs, such as Paris St-German and Manchester City. It is thought new, reinforced punishments, including points deductions, demotion to lower-ranking competition and potential exclusion from European football completely, will be introduced as part of the new regulations. In his new role as ECA chairman, PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi is due to speak to the media on Tuesday after his organisation's meeting. As one of the clubs who could benefit from additional investor funding, his thoughts will be monitored with interest. Newcastle are an associate member of the ECA and it will be observed with interest whether the Magpies are represented in person on Monday at the first General Assembly of the ECA since the Saudi-backed takeover of the club in October. In addition to FFP, ECA clubs attending the General Assembly in Vienna will also be updated on the situation in Ukraine from a football perspective. The country's World Cup play-off with Scotland has been delayed until June, although there has been no clarification from Fifa about what will happen if Ukraine are unable to play at that time. There is also likely to be further debate around the two Champions League slots due to be allocated for the 2024-25 season onwards to clubs with the highest coefficient that have not qualified directly for the competition but have for a different European competition. If the controversial concept had been in place this term and the current standings remained as they are, Manchester United and Roma would be the beneficiaries even though both clubs are sixth in their domestic leagues. In the Premier League, Tottenham are fifth, but would remain in the Europa League, as would Atalanta in Serie A. What are the current FFP rules? Currently, clubs can spend up to €5m more than they earn per three-year assessment period. However they can exceed this level to a limit of €30m, if it is entirely covered by a direct contribution/payment from the club owner(s) or a related party. According to Uefa, the idea of this was to 'prevent the build-up of unsustainable debt'. Uefa has a wide-ranging list of potential punishments for clubs who break these rules, from a warning to loss of European titles. In 2020, Wolves were fined €200,000 and given a 23-man squad limit instead of the usual 25 after breaching Uefa's FFP rules. However, given the financial impact of COVID, which has seen European top flight clubs lose £7bn, Uefa felt the rules needed to be changed. There had been speculation around the implementation of an actual salary cap but this idea has now been abandoned.

Don’t see how the broadcasters can stamp down on people using a VPN?

Should not be a bother to anyone with a VPN.

John Lundstram by a good bit imo.

Bit over the top I thought, in fact cringeworthy.

1. We have no plan B when Morelos is not playing, manager seems incapable of coming up with something different. Roofe is entirely different player. 2. Aribo way off the pace. 3. Kent too inconsistent. 4. Goldson thinks he's Beckenbauer. 5. Manager slow at changing things and when he does its the wrong one e.g. keeping Aribo on.

Sydney Tournament - Club 1872 Comment Dear Contributor, Club 1872 welcomes the decision to pull out of the Sydney Cup. We hope now that through meaningful engagement with supporters and shareholders Rangers will find a more suitable way to give overseas supporters an opportunity to see the team playing live in November. Club 1872

Muscle overload.

24 with links to Celtic. https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/bombshell-abuse-dossier-includes-names-26529791?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

DAVID GRAHAM, HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME Hi David You’ll remember me. I’m your ex friend who used to collect your tickets from the ticket office and make sure they were safely in the District Bar for your arrival where we’d meet for a beer and a catch up. Not seen you in there for a while. I’m your ex friend who texted to wish you the best of luck on the day of your appointment at Rangers only to get a call from you soon after accusing me of selling a story about investment and threatening that “it wouldn’t look good for me” if a private text you’d received from a journalist which included my name would some how become known to others. I’ll repeat what I told you then, I built up relationships with many journalists during the protest years and if any of them texted you suggesting you should ask me about the things they done for the campaign then I’d have no problem in educating you on their credentials. Anyway, enough of the introductions and back to why you should hang your head in shame. Yesterday you penned a club statement that would have been expected of the old board in the days when Jack Irvine was the PR man for the most despised board in our 150 years. Jack Irvine however is an experienced PR man who, despite being highly controversial, understands how damning the words you used yesterday to describe and threaten Rangers fans would inevitably have zero positive outcome. You managed to do the club more harm than those you suggest are acting to harm the club. In any other business you’d have been frogmarched out the front door for even suggesting publishing such an attack and threats to that business’s life blood. The only logical reason that you are still in employment today is that your ultimate boss must have the same distain for the rank and file as you obviously have. Your ability to coattail others has been remarkable. You seem to have a great ability to utilise relationships to get you access to someone of greater importance. The unfortunate side of your character allows you to soon forget those you coat-tailed. You arrived on the back of a “no surrender” video and had us believe you’d be taking the fight to others. My only recollection of you taking any fight to anyone was a teenage blogger while those intent on writing bollocks about our club still do so at will. Your abuse of fan media is worth noting as you’ve actually set these guys up for a fall because of the amount of pure lies you’ve fed them which they’ve accepted as gospel and passed on to the rank and file as the truth. Earlier in your stepping up career you promised the good people of Belfast that you’d serve them well and do your best for your community as a DUP councillor. You were touted as a potential Mayor of Belfast which would have gave you the ultimate opportunity to do so yet, unknown to many, you were looking for a way out and an unsuccessful attempt to become Linfields General Manager months later only delayed your u turn in your promises of looking after your people. Now you seem happy to forget those people you went to games with and stood beside supporting your team with, the rank and file. Your words used to describe them as “rump” and use of inverted comas around “supporters” suggests those who don’t toe the part line are not proper supporters. Does that mean those ignored by the board and seen simply as a cash cow are now to be considered the enemy of the club because they won’t bow down and accept every decision the club make without the right to question and debate? You taught history David. You’re now creating history but instead of being remembered like a brave man of the Somme as you’d like to be you’re going down in the books as a spin doctor for Kim Jong-Un. Your threat yesterday to deal with the disrupters and their propaganda war at the end of the season is laughable. I’ve no idea if I am one of the “rump” that you intend to target but I certainly hope I am because I’ve spent near a decade telling the Rangers fans the truth despite being arrested, sued and threatened with my life for doing so. That won’t stop me because it doesn’t suit you or your employers agenda. I thought I’d retired from campaigning but your threats and insults yesterday have made me change my mind. I’m out of retirement and stand proudly with the rump. Craig Houston Rump

As title. Good time to get it I suppose.

To be fair(I know) Club1872 have tried to speak to the club but have refused to talk. "It is a source of great regret that we are having to raise these matters publicly – having always attempted to engage privately and constructively with the club – but the current custodians of Rangers Football Club have refused to speak with us privately despite repeated attempts to do so."

Can you purchase a one match Sky day pass through Virgin? Usually purchase from club but don’t see it available today.

Would be a pity if that was a reason given for any cancellation, would just embolden the morons in the future. They already think they’re the most important thing about match days.

Sydney Tournament - Update Dear Contributor, Club 1872 is pleased by reports this morning from Australia that the Sydney Super Cup, Old Firm ‘friendly’ may be in doubt. We wrote to Stewart Robertson last week on this issue but have not received the courtesy of a response. It has, however, been clear from public communication from James Bisgrove that the Rangers Executive team is doubling down on their wish to participate, despite the backlash from supporters. However, if reported issues with the organiser have now presented an extremely fortunate opportunity for Rangers to pull out of this debacle then we would urge the RIFC Plc board to step in, belatedly take the correct decision to remove Rangers from any participation in this tournament and find a more suitable way of enagaging with our loyal overseas supporters in Australia and beyond. Club 1872

Celtic and Rangers will meet in the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup, while city rivals Hearts and Hibernian also go head-to-head at Hampden. It is the first time the Glasgow and Edinburgh clubs have all made it this far together in the history of the tournament. The ties will be played on the weekend of 16/17 April.