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Snodgrass has been exceptional whenever I've seen him in the EPL this season

JJ is another of Liewell's useful idiots. Hilarious but harmless. No one takes him seriously do they ?

what if he's better than what we've currently got ? seems he can play defensive MF as well as CB. Might play there & allow Halliday to play in his proper position

I'd agree the gap isn't that big except for up front. Sinclair & Dembele are streets ahead of anyone we've currently got. Solve that & we can challenge. Even if it means loan signings

Daly is another of Liewell's useful idiots. One of the most dangerous ones

He's a defensive MF player from what I have read. Might allow halliday to play in his proper position

UNPROFESSIONAL is the word I'd use to describe yesterday's SC cup draw. Can't imagine the English FA allowing anything like that for their FA Cup. Too professional to let something like that happen

The problem with loan players is that the parent club holds all the aces. If the player does well and the loanees club tries to buy the transfer value may well increase. Or the parent club may recall the player with a view to loaning elsewhere to gain further experience. Or the parent club may decide they've made a mistake & reinstate the player in its first team squad. What we really need more than anything a global scouting system to identify young players with a view to selling them on at profit at a future date. Sadly whilst we're in Scottish football it will always be that way unfortunately. Hence why we always need to look at all other options whenever possible to get out

I think we have to hope Toral gets match fit before we assess him better. If both impress I wonder if we'd be able to afford them. Both are at an age where they need first team football & aren't going to get it at their parent clubs. At least we now seem to be looking at younger players instead of players in their 30's past their best

The absolute train wreck aka Project McCoist became evident all to see in those two play-off games against Motherwell.

Are they Morton directors now ?

A I'm seeing progress perhaps where others don't. We're heading in the right direction although perhaps not as fast as some would like. I still don't think many of us realise how bad McCoist was. Signing loads of SPL journeymen on exorbitant wages to get us promoted. What was he planning to do with them all after he'd got promotion ? Not win the title that's for sure. However we must never again get ourselves into a situation like last summer where we need to bring in 11 players. There was no way they were all going to be successful. And I'd argue the majority of them haven't been successful so far. But regardless of what some say the team has improved. Recent results show that. The next step is to challenge for the title next season. I believe we will do that

I really can't get some of the negativity from our own support from today's game. Not the greatest Rangers performance I agree but consider two points please: one year ago we'd have lost that game. And we're still very much work in progress. Please consider the absolute train wreck both MW and DW inherited from McCoist 18 months ago. At the start of last season they'd literally 2-3 weeks to put some sort of squad together to get us back to the top division. They did that. Our next step is of course to challenge for the title and both domestic cups as well as get back into Europe. I'd argue we're on schedule with that but would suggest anyone who thought we'd challenge for the title this season was being over-optimistic. We don't yet have a squad as big as the yahoos yet but the last two OF games suggest to me whatever gap is bridgeable if we can get strikers scoring more goals than we've currently got. I believe that is achievable unless the yahoos go out & start spending £10m plus on players which I don't think they will. All in all I believe next season we'll truly be back & going for 55

Toral doesn't look match fit to me. He looked off the pace

If McKay continues the impressive form he showed in December clubs from outside Scotland will be queueing up for him & his value will only increase. What is important now is to get him to sign an improved longer contract so that when he does go we get decent money for him to reinvest in the team

If RB Leipzig bid £6m he'll be gone. Simple as that

This is long overdue. Hopefully he'll sign a new deal. It's vital we get as much as we can for McKay when he goes

What 'old Rangers' is this ?

They're certainly starting early aren't they ? the ink's barely dry on the current contract !!! When those 10 chairmen voted Rangers out the SPL in 2012 did they even consider what the consequences might be ? We've got a TV deal worth a mere £12.6m per SEASON. Compare that to the EPL TV deal which is worth something like £10.8m per GAME. There is absolutely no chance of a vastly improved TV deal. Why should TV companies all of a sudden starting chucking money at Scottish football now because Rangers are back. Scottish football dug its own grave in 2012 when 10 buffoons voted Rangers out the SPL. Commercial insanity or sporting integrity call it what you like. The impoverished game in Scotland is fecked big style

Probably not. Trying to negotiate a new TV deal more than 3 years before the current derisory deal expires. Hilarious. You couldn't make this up

If the current deal doesn't expire til 2020 how can they be trying to get a new deal ? what's changed to make them think they can get a new deal ?? let me think. Big bad Rangers are back. Only one show in town. And they know it

Nothing we didn't know already.Liewell's sporting integrity has set Scottish football decades and it may never recover from it. The nine other SPL chairmen who voted Rangers out tbe SPL in 2012 had a duty to stand up to Liewell in the interests of Scottish football but bottled it. Voting Rangers out always meant would go to the bottom tier of the SFL. I cannot believe these chairmen didnt realise this Since then the sponsorships & TV money Scottish fotball gets is derisory compared to other similar sized countries. And there is little chance of that situation improving any time soon.

This is why I'm dubious about spending vast sums of money on a youth set up.

I'll be surprised if McKay is still with us next season.

offering McKay a new longer term contract on vastly improved terms should be priority no1 for us. He has made the step up now & is beginning to look a real class act