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25/01/2016 Mrs colinstein BGC £15.00 BALANCE £489.15 The dinner is now completely SOLD OUT including the two extra tickets. 33 Paid, no call offs and no refunds plus the two speakers, total of 35.

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OK CS, due to horrendous traffic leaving La Rosaleda this evening, I was late back and so you got in before I confirmed the final numbers. Delighted that you will both be joining us on this occasion. Can you please pay the additional £15 asap, so that I can officially confirm a SELL OUT.

5/01/2016 BLUEDELL (GUEST) Counter Credit BGC £15.00 BALANCE £474.15 32 paid + 2 speakers; 1 ticket left to sell.

The Ashoka is at 108 Elderslie St, Mr Singh's is at 149, Elderslie St but in reality it is on the Sauchiehall St, the owner is a well known Blue Nose.

I understand that only one of the two extra tickets will be taken up (albeit as yet unpaid), so in theory at least I have one ticket left to sell. First come first served.

I have had an enquiry for the two (extra) remaining tickets, so at this point, we are sold out are rather over-sold; but I'll confirm later tonight. If anyone else still wants to go please PM and I'll start a waiting list.

This is a highly organised affair, Onevision, the organiser has an offical clipboard (bought at great personal expense, I might add) and everyone gets a stick on name tag with their pseudonyms and real names, colour codied depending on number of appearances. Personally, I would avoid stripping in case of accidents with the curry.

I'm glad you said all that, Pete, not me; you don't have to face FS wrath at the dinner. He's a pussycat really

I will be happy to do that, Ian, after the list is finalised.

"Were You at the Game?" The only resemblance between me and Mr Sanderson is that we are both somewhat follicly challenged. Would that one could aspire to that kind of company, Andy. Of course there's always, "What's your point caller", although the author of that one need not be mentioned here. I'll need to think of one of my own; though I am bound to say that whilst the absolute numbers might not be very high the audience themselves probably would go through the roof, which is precisely why it is most unlikely to happen.

Noted and a reminder to any others wishing a European meal, that these need to be pre-ordered, preferably by this Saturday. Also, I still have the two extra seats available if any newbies or latecomers wish to come along, please PM me for payment details.

At last a constructive comment from you T4C; but why does programming have to start in the evening?

Coming back to the OP; it's highly unlikely any Club will be charged and unless they are comnpletely incompetent nobody's going to be found guilty of anything with the rules as they stand allowing the "reasonably practicable" defence. The Clubs will not voluntarily adopt strict liability which is the only realsistic way of dealing with the issue of unacceptable behaviour; so it is up to the SG to force it on them.

The current context is Stranraer v Celtic and Rangers v Hibernian. See #8 and #10.

I'm pleasantly surprised to note that such an eminent journalist as A Steele, Esq reads any of my meanderings, let alone feels disposed to paraphrase the same in such an excellent article, or even jokingly suggest a career for me as a radio pundit. Certainly it's true that I am not normally accused of mainstream Rangers thinking but I'm not sure that that's a good qualification. I know nothing of the technology and only recently disposed of the pocket transistor radio (or tranny as I recollect they were called) that brought the news from Motherwell to a significant area of the terrace at Easter Road ten years ago on helicopter Sunday. I still have a mini stero system in my kitchen that dates from the pre CD era in 1985 with a double tape deck (one for metal tapes - remember them?), graphic equaliser and volume control that I daren't play above the second notch lest I be accused of harming the protected species in the surrounding greenbelt. However, if Bellway get planning permission my new neighbours may get some rude awakenings from the likes of Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Slim Whitman, George Jones and Tammy Wynette. I don't know if we can compete with the BBC, Sky and Rangers' own online services (Tweets?) but I do yearn for a journalist to ask searching questions, such as: why did you prefer Kiernan (or Wilson for those in that camp) to Ball today, what do you think Zelalem brings to the team/are you aware that a majority of his passes go backwards or across and that most of his forward passes go straight to the opposition, why won't you give Hardie a game ahead of a man old enough to be his father, what did you see in Oduwa, etc and not accept cliched answers such as he'll get his chance/squad rotation etc. I have been on Rangers Chat but am wary of going back; I value my health too much.

The implied comparison was between a cup tie which is organised by the SFA and subject to their rules and a league match organsised by the SPFL and subject to their rules; and Mr Graham appeared to be ignorant of the fact that the home team is responsible for the conduct of all fans within the stadia. I base my opinion of the SPFL Administration on my knowledge of the people involved particulalry Ian Blair and Neil Doncaster.

Mr Graham's tweet was indeed sarcastic but as you have agreed it was based on a false premise or rather two false premises.

Quite so, it's not that long ago since Rangers and Celtic were in the top 20.

McCormack has had an outstanding career just below top level in England and it shows the shortage of quality strikers when a near 29 year old can fetch that kind of money. Pity we didn't recognise his potential, but I'll never forgeet that goal in Porto. On the other hand it also says something about Kike when the Spanish Manager who brought him to the Club, Karanka, is prepared to let him go as a makeweight in the deal.

He might try but I suspect it's highly unlikely that Ken will have any influence on the Premiership or Championship Clubs, but who knows he might be a very persuasive chap. Ken has been a Director of (Ferguson Oliver) since 1989 during which time has successfully built up strong relationships with his large client base. In addition to actively advising clients Ken manages the Ferguson Oliver team of advisers and specialises in the Wealth Management aspects of our business. Ken is married to Lynn with 2 grown up children, one Granddaughter and a friendly American cocker spaniel. Ken is a lifelong Brechin City FC fan who has risen to the grand and responsible position of Chairman of the club. Ken also sits on the SPFL board. http://www.fowm.co/Our_team

Bear in mind he's not representing Scottish Football, he's representing the Ladbrokes League 1 and Ladbrokes League 2 Clubs on the SPFL Board, no more and no less than that.

I don't think anyone, least of all me, was disputing the membership of the SPFL Board.

I did put it slightly differently Ian but I've been called much worse and if he issues silly statements like that then he deserves all he gets because all he's doing is shit stirring.

I understand that Mr Graham is a populist but someone who aspired to the Board of Rangers FC should know the difference between League and Cup games and that the home club is responsible for the behaviour of all the fans inside the ground. Totally groundless accusations of bias against the authorities are of no value whatsoever.