BrahimHemdani

I think that's been obvious for some time has it not based on Mr King's actions or lack of action and seeming disinterest even in watching the team play.

Not something you would do unless you had another job to go to. Alternatively they were asked to go and then started negotiating.

Or the Club said they could go and they were looking for a pay-off.

That's a very good question and it begs another one. Did the Management Team's representative approach Rangers or did Rangers approach them and say we'll let you go to another Club if you want and we'll waive the compensation to make it easy for you to go?

Latest on the BBC is Warburton saying he has not stood down.

Well if the statement is accurate then strictly speaking they didn't resign because they hadn't agreed terms or tried to renegotiate the terms; but equally they don't seem exactly keen to stay.

I don't agree with that; Barton could have been an excellent signing but I think what started Warburton on the downward slope was his inability to handle the situation that developed in the aftermath of the Celtic game.

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Why am I not shocked at this.

Confirmed on BBC and SKY ; all three gone.

BBC has Rangers "have accepted the resignations of manager Mark Warburton, , assistant David Weir and Head of Recruitment, Frank McParland."

According to Sky Sports.

I was told when the three arrived that Kiernan, Tavernier and Waghorn all had the same agent and that there was a deal done elsewhere that sweetened there move north; however I agree that Kiernan has no agent listed on Transfermarket (although that may just be because they don't have the information as with several others) and he is not listed on the Key Management site. If I had a choice I would rather that the Manager did not have the same agent as any of the payers but I appreciate that that may be idealistic.

I took some stick months ago for drawing attention to the fact that a number of our recruits share the same agent, Key Sports Management, as our Manager: Tavernier, Waghorn, Zelalem and Garner and I believe Kiernan as well (though can't find confirmation of that). Of course McParland was not involved in most of these but he and Warburton worked together at Watford and Brentford for 5 years and he cited their relationship as a major reason for coming here.

I'm wondering how we actually know that accurately. In training they have some kind of gear on that measures the distance they cover but in a match situation do they have pedometers in their boots or their mobile phones in their pants measuring the number of steps they take? Perhaps they have microchips attached to some part of their anatomy In any event surely the most important thing is how effective they are not how far they run?

I agree with your main paragraph and have also said consistently that I do not agree with loan players keeping back our own youngsters with the objective of "sending (the loanees) back as better players"; but in the case of Hyndman, IMHO he's better than anything else currently available, so I'm not clear which of our "best players" he is keeping out of the team? Halliday?

Any player who pulls on a light blue jersey for us should get maximum encouragement and backing from the fans; abusing players on or off the pitch is totally out of order IMHO. However, that should not stop us expressing our opinions hereabouts on a player's quality; and for me Kiernan, despite his improvement this season under Hill's tutelage, is simply not up to the required standard. He has been found wanting when it really mattered e.g. against Celtic in the first game at Parkhead and Hearts the other week. Also he had 10 different loans in 5 years and never played more than 17 games for one club in his career. We are the only Club who have ever paid money for his services. Perhaps we saw something that others didn't? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Kiernan http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/rob-kiernan/profil/spieler/99463 I wouldn't lose any sleep if he left tomorrow and we got some kind of return from Senderos for the rest of the season; he's played at a level that Kiernan can only dream about.

Getting Kranjcar back even gradually would be a major boost, we will need him IF we are in the EL Qualifiers in June/July.

Let's be honest, Frankie, anything other than a win for Rangers in the SPFL is bad result; so far this season we have won exactly 12 out of 24 league games and are by no means guaranteed to finish 2nd or 3rd which, barring a win in the Scottish Cup, will be required to ensure European football albeit in ELQ1 next season.

So we beat Ross County 15 corners to 1; unfortunately you don't get points for corners. "nine times out of ten we win that game of football. " but 3 times out of 3 we have failed to beat Ross County. "The randomness; the ball goes to the back post,*Kenny*heads it to Jon Toral and it could go in. Joe Garner’s header pops off the goalkeeper, it could go in. Joe in the first-half at the far post is a stud away. " Bollocks. It's nothing whatsoever to do with random statistics; it's because they were not good enough to put the ball in the back of the net, simples. " there is no denying the fact we dropped two points at home.” got that right (twice) Mark (once away as well).

The national team's performance does not count. Team's coefficients are made up of 80% of their own performances and 20% of the average of the clubs in their country over the past 5 years. http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/calc.html I believe that if the CW finish second or third in the League then yes the 4th placed team qualify because we are entitled to 3 teams in the EL.

Thanks. Contrary to popular opinion, referees are human beings and like all human beings including players and managers, they make mistakes from time to time. The best ones (and I'm not offering an opinion here about Mr Thomson) get it right more often than they get it wrong. It is very often the case that a referee knows instantly when he has made a mistake because of the reaction of the players; oftentimes they and the players just have to live with the error but sometimes they can find a way out by consulting one of the other officials. However if a referee does that more than once in a blue moon his credibilty will be shot, Furthermore nowadays with TV cameras covering different angles, referees can see when they have made mistakes but it takes quite a big person to apologise.

I would doubt that very much, Thomson is at the top of the tree and I doubt any other referee would be comfortable offering him such advice. I strongly suspect that he acted of his own volition or may have consulted his supervisor first. He's not the first referee to apologise for making a mistake and he won't be the last.

There is indeed such a system of points which are assessed by the Clubs as well as the SFA Supervisors although it doesn't operate in quite the way you would like it does determine the leagues/games appointments a referee gets and most importantly the FIFA List.

OK, I've replayed this about a dozen times and it is very difficult to freeze frame at the precise moment when the ball is headed forward but as best as I can do it the winger is out of the picture on the right i.e. he is in the light shaded grass area whereas the defenders are in the dark area, which would suggest that he was indeed offside at the moment the ball was last played by a member of his team. Schalk is in an offside position as well but whether or not he could be penalised depends on whether or not the referee considers that he is "interfering" or "seeking to gain an advantage". (My opinion is that that players are almost always seeking to gain an advantage!) I don't think Schalk is offside from the pass inside as it seems to me he runs past the Rangers defender; but it's a bad angle so difficult to tell.