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If Nacho's wage demands aren't excessive, this sounds like a winner.

And good enough to knock us out the Ramsdens Cup! Current Rangers versus current QOTS - compare and contrast.

Great that we've won the championship. It's the first step and the frankly the minimum requirement from the team and manager this season. Now show us where where we're going next Ally. No pressure to win the league anymore but presure to show us why these players are good enough to wear rangers shirts and how we're going to develop a style of play that is actually going to take us forward. That will be a far sterner test. You and the players reward our loyalty by showing us that you're up to it - or let someone else have a go.

All those 18-20,000 attendances at the Piggery during the 1980's perchance?

Can't go on like this. Sorry Ally. Thanks for holding the club together in the dark days of last summer but you and McDowell and Durrant aren't the management team to take us forward. Time to step aside and let someone else who can work with these players and realize their potential have a go.

Cammy, I started watching Rangers regularly around the time that Jock Wallace took over so I have a soft spot for that team as well. The early 80's team thrilled and frustrated me in equal measure. When they were up for a game they could be great but when they when confidence was low or they came up against superior players (I hate to admit that the Sheep's players of the same period were better, but they were) they could sometimes look clueless. The mid 80's defence, with Patterson and McPherson at centre half, was often an accident waiting to happen but they could defend a heck of lot better than the present lot. Given the resources that Rangers had at the time - the stadium was fully built remember - the team wasn't well managed and we signed quite a few duds. Your namesake Cammy Fraser immediately springs to mind. Jock Wallace's up and at 'em style could only get you so far and up against the likes of McLean and Ferguson it was too often doomed to failure. I think overall that the players from that period weren't as bad as we sometimes thought as we sat shivering in the Copland or stood freezing in the Enclosure on a mid-week night. They were just badly managed and unlucky enough to be playing for Rangers at a time when two of the finest managers Scotland has ever produced (I hate to admit this about Ferguson) were managing other teams. Celtic were equally shite around this time as well remember. Right now the players are worse quality than then - which is to be expected from where we are and Transfer embargo that we labour under. But they should look much better given the standard of opponent that they are facing. The players of the early 80's were occasionally completely outclassed by Aberdeen and Dundee United but that was accepted. They sometimes looked clueless against the likes of St Mirren or Hibs but more often than not they got through. Big Jock was a dinosaur leading us nowhere but his players never looked like they didn't care. Too many of the current lot do and the buck for that stops with the current manager.

Agree wholeheartedly with Pete. A blast from the past when Gersnet was young, and always worth a read. Good to have you back Cammy.

Tuned in briefly to the BBC and heard that twat Cosgrove banging on about how Rangers were still guilty and howthe small clubs will feel cheated after today's decision. What planet does this man live on? Remind me Stewpot what other clubs in Scotland have been slapped with an illegal transfer ban, been labelled cheats and assumed guilty before the facts were fully heard and hounded by a media who twist facts to suit their pro-Celtic agenda? Just one. The one who get 49k every home game while the SPL slides down the pan. WATP!

Well done Frankie. I read some of those comments with embarrassment and rage this morning. Rangers have moved on a long way since the late 1980's and plenty of ComeOffIt's "bead rattlers" have served our club with heart and dignity over the last 20 years, regardless of their background. They have as much right to call themselves Rangers as the non catholic players who played alongside them or who came before them. I don't care where someone comes from or where or how they were brought up. If they embrace what it means to play for our club, give their all and carry themselves with dignity and pride then they have my support and my respect. If clowns like ComeOffit want to live in the past they can stay there. Gersnet is better than the likes of him.

Sad to say but I don't see where we go to improve things with McCoist, McDowell and Durrant at the helm. The players were clueless today. We'll win Div 3 at a canter but we had an opportunity to nurture our youngsters and play a different and better style of football as we went forward. That's been pissed up against the wall. Come the summer it's time for somebody new. Sorry but Ally but this isn't good enough. Not by a long chalk.

After what Rangers have been through in 2012 of course we're weaker on the pitch than we've been in decades. No team could lose the number of players that we did (with next to no financial compensation) and not be. Lennon is simply stating the obvious but in a way intended to rile us and make his own support feel better about the miserable one-horse race that they are conducting in the SPL. Whether we're weaker off the pitch now is patently rubbish. Given where we are and the illegal restrictions that have been placed on us we are on far firmer ground financially than we have been in years. The fact is that Rangers fans have done this by packing Ibrox at every opportunity and showing everybody that the club might be wounded and kicked from pillar to post but it will never die. Celtic may monopolise a joke league for a few more seasons and guarnatee themselves a pot from the CL but the fact is they will need every penny of CL money because their normal gates are plummeting and the value of the SPL TV contract is only going to fall until there is a sense of genuine competition again. Rangers can ride out this storm and come back stronger than any of imagined in the dark days of June-July. Then we'll see how well (or not) Celtic have spent their windfall.

Absolutely. Geoff Randall is a long-term Rangers supporter and is one of the few at the top of the media who have genuine sympathy with our club. He was allegedly told very strongly by BBC management not to wear his union jack cufflinks on news items when he was the Business Coirrespondent and when he refused it was made clear to him that he had no future with the organisation. He seems to be doing much better at SKY these days.

Hi-fucking-larious. Thank you Tommy. You are a bitter and twisted, ignorant fuckwit. But a legendary, bitter and twised ignorant fuckwit. Brightened up my day.

Articulate as ever Frankie. Let's just hope someone out there is willing to listen.

Hately has called it spot on here. I was torn over the idea of the boycott when it was first mooted. I felt we were potentially sending our young team into the lions' den to get slaughtered without any support. Now on balance I feel that it is the right and principled thing to do and that outweighs the fact that Ally and the players will be on their own. At the end of the day every man of them is a RANGER and they will know what that entails and even if they can't see and hear the support for them at Tannadice they will know that it's there. C'mon Boys! Let's beat these hypocritical bastards.

Can't see them taking any kind of financial hit from a boycott because they would just sell more tickets to their own fans in the hope of seeing a weakened Rangers team humiliated, so it wouldn't hurt them in the slightest. I think we need to get in there support the team and stand up to the scum like we always have. Piggery then, Piggery now, Piggery forever.

Spot on. After all the uncertainty of the summer, this season has been a revelation. We forgot there was a whole lot of football outside the SPL and it's been great to get away from the bastards that did so much to kill us. If they die in the process I'll shed no tears.

Fair enough, wasn't aware of that until today. Obviously no conflict of interest there then. Nothing to see...move on. I was wrong when I called the SPL a Banana Republic. What's going on now would shame a Banana Republic.

COULD, MIGHT..... Is this serious journalism or a joke? I COULD walk under a bus tomorrow. An asteroid MIGHT land on my head. Doesn't mean it's happened or going to happen. Now here's the question Mr QC and whatever hack wrote this guff? Has any package containing razor blades or anything else threatening actually been sent to you? Have your staff ever had to ring that emergency number? If the answer is NO then there's NO story here and somebody is shitstirring.

In answer to the original question. This doesn't involve Rangers so we can't give them a serious penalty. How can anyone believe that a Transfer ban that doesn't cover Transfer Windows is any sort of punishment? Another joke from the banana republic that is the SPL.

Couldn't agree more. It's a car crash waiting to happen. The SPL chairmen voted for this and they are about to reap what they sowed.

Agreed mate. Irony to the extreme. But it demonstrates that our history is still intact in the eyes of those who are "meant" to run the game.

Peasie is absolutely right. The other SPL clubs are in enough financial trouble as they are. Rangers are big enough to sustain a 3 season drop into the SFL but none of the other SPL clubs with the exception of Celtic could do it and last half a season without going bust. They might complain if Liewell can engineer a stitch up to protect Celtic but can't jump ship because if they do they will write their own death warrant. What I'd like to know is if this is on the cards then where the hell are all the fans of Hibs and Dundee United who were so puffed up with sporting integrity and full of ultimatums to their club boards during the summer? The only chance their clubs have to reintroduce some semblance of fairness into the SPL power structure and get a larger slice of the financial pie is seemingly about to be snatched away by Liewell and their own chairmen. Surely that flies in the face of sporting integrity and if they had a semblance of real integrity they ought to be up in arms, theatening not to renew season tickets, etc to make them tell Liewell to stick his plan where the sun don't shine. The silence is deafening. Oh but I forgot, sporting integrity in Scotland is defined as "Bashing Rangers" nothing else. Hypocritical shitebags. If you even pretend to call yourself a journalist Spence, how about asking that question?

Spot on. Nevin was fair and honest (a rarity at the BBC these days) and he nailed it on the head when he said that every one of the youngsters that came on was better than their Motherwell opposite number. What does that say about the "quality" on offer in the SPL? Fingers crossed we get another home tie in the next round. I'd love to see SFL Rangers send Aberdeen or another SPL make-weight out on their arses.

Yes from me. The way things are going with clubs not paying their players on time for August, despite all the "Sellout Saturdays" we were promised, the SPL will go bankrupt or implode before we have to make the choice.