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I'm not long in from the game. What was the reason for the three HT substitutions ? Injuries ? And weee Tavernier & Wilson suspended?

Unfortunately for Naismith his name is now mud with much of he Rangers support because of that press conference with him & Whittaker.

I'm expecting to win comfortably. Motherwell are in freefall just now.

Regardless, it's imperative we get into the ELQ's

The CL needs revamped. Should be a knock-out basis IMO instead of 4-team league sections where the favourites have almost always already qualified after 3 games

Too old now with no resale value.

Naismith has supposedly bought a house in Scotland. I don't think there anything more in it than that.

Plod Scotland haven't exactly covered themselves in glory over this have they ? Are they trying to balance out the number of arrests or something ? Hibz caused the problems. Their supporters should have the majority of the arrests.

And when you deliberately remove that fixture you accept the commercial consequences. Instead of 'sporting integrity' I'd call it 'commercial suicide'. It is very noticeable this season how far the standard in Scotland's top division has fallen since we were last in it in 2012.

Go back to 2012. When Rangers got voted out the then SPL because of 'Sporting Integrity' did those ten SPL chairmen never consider the commercial consequences? A crap TV deal & no league sponsorship was the end result Why should SKY or any other broadcaster throw money at Scottish football if they don't have to ? I'm just disappointed we don't have a high-profile Rangers CEO to ram this down their throats. Especially Doncaster's.

I might be tempted to go for Ryan Jack, but there's no way anyone could even attempt to predict who we'll sign in the summer since Pedro Caixinha took over

To think you can be jailed for singing certain songs but not jailed for assault. Shows the country Scotland has become.

Scotland is not a sovereign nation. The UK is the sovereign nation made up of 4 countries: England, Scotland , Wales & Northern Ireland. We're British because we live in the British Isles whose largest island is called Great Britain which consists of 3 countries: England, Scotland & Wales

Should the club at least not be pursuing these lying yahoo blogger via legal firms who operate on a no win no fee basis. Not that we'd get much recompense mind you. The whole purpose would be to silence them & their spurious allegations

unfortunately it seems we're back to the days of 'dignified silence' instead of what should be happening i.e. litigation

And you have to ask why they closed Juninho's EBT. Did they know something we didn't ? And I believe the timing of when HMRC chose to go after Rangers for the EBT's ( just before the 2010 General Election which Labour we're going to lose) is also very significant Timing is everything as they say

Eight EPL clubs supposedly operated EBT's too. Did they cheat ? And Spanish clubs owe billions in tax last I read. Did they cheat ? I'd just like to know why HMRC chose to go after Rangers in the first place but that's another discussion entirely.

WTF has the BTC got to do with King ? Maybe someone could tell Martin Hannan that the yahoos(his team by the sounds of things)were very heavily in debt in the 2000's too. Hence they had a chief exec. called Ian McLeod ( remember him?)who was a debt specialist who specialised in managing companies carrying large debts. Was it ok for the yahoos to carry debt but not Rangers ? And maybe he could look into the overdraft & borrowing facilities the RevFlowers basket case co-op bank gave the yahoos no doubt thanks to Labour MP's.

I always wondered if Dave King managed to keep a straight face when taking the SFA's F&PPT. I bet he knew all about Desmond. What King did in SA pales into insignificance when you research Desmond's background, especially his involvement with the ROI governments. Now this too.

My own view is that Caixinha might see us as a stepping stone to the EPL. I don't have a problem with that because he'll need to be successful with us first to do that.

I don't think Scotland can beat Slovenia from what I've seen of them. Scotland are struggling big time at CB & at this level you will always get found out.

This is why I think you'll see Caixinha trying to move out Waghorn, Miller & Garner before the transfer window shuts at the end of August. It's anyone's guess who he brings in to replace them though

FWIW I wouldn't be surprised if Pedro Caixinha tried to move Waghorn, Miller & Garner out during the summer & replace them with strikers of his choice. They simply haven't got enough goals if we're to challenge for the title

I've always thought Strachan dug himself into a hole when he recalled Brown for the England game at Wembley. It backfired & Brown was virtually anonymous. This latest nonsense does him no favours either. He looks like a manager clinging on to his job. He'll be gone soon & the SFA blazers will be back to square one yet again

Much will depnd on who he brings in during the summer but he's bound to have contacts all over. Get us a striker who can get 25 league goals & get Hyndmann and Toral for next season and it's game on with the yahoos IMO. Might need to look at CB too