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Ashley would appear to have a good relationship with PUMA though would he not?

How about Rangers join a British league and the yahoos join an Oirish league? Sounds fair to me & everyone's happy

this is an interesting point. No idea if he has adidas shares but thought he had a much bigger stake in puma. 20%? Was it coincidence Newcastle changed from adidas to puma when he bought them? And Rangers going to puma too?

That's the way it looks to me, longer term. What I don't understand is why wait until now to do this? Why wasn't the agreement with RRL terminated before now?

Welcome though today's announcement may be I'd suggest it's the PUMA deal which needs binned more than this one from a financial perspective.

If the BBC think McLaughlin is an impartial reporter they are having a laugh.

Linked with yet another MF player. We'll soon be able to fill Ibrox twice over with the number of MF players we're being linked with

What nonsense from Waddell. Aberdeen & Celt@c have an automatic right to a place on the SPFL board.

Hilarious considering the yahoos have had two new newcos themselves in the last 22 years ( pacific shelf 595 & hms402). Do they think we dont know his?

I doubt very much if Wallace & McKay will be first picks when the WC qualifiers begin. Strachan has shown himself to have favourites in his squads who seem to get selected every time regardless

Scottish football's cardboard hardman ?

Why are Scotland playing these two games anyway? I genuinely want to see Scotland doing well but these two games serve no purpose whatsoever.

What a climbdown if true. Will our esteemed politicians from the shortbread senate admit they got it wrong It should not be forgotten that this legislation was brought in by the then lhabour administration to catch Rangers supporters but ended up snaring yahoos who were by far the worst offenders

Liewell must be getting irritable now with us signing Rossiter & maybe now Barton. Their bloated squad needs culled and that will require funds which will need to be taken from the new manager's budget He'll be glad to say adios to Ronny tomorrow & try to appoint someone to keep the green'n'grey hordes happy. A big name with a proven track record wont be easy & he knows it The sensible ones will stay well clear. Moyes, Rogers & others won't touch it with a bargepole & Liewell knows it. He was cutting budgets two years ago & Keane dropped his interest. Others know this only too well. A defeat in the CL qualifiers and a hiding from the Warburton Rangers would mean the new guy in trouble early doors. Who will we sign next ?

It was really unbelievable if Stubz thought that. He should have taken a leaf out of MW's book whose no1 priority all along this season was promotion and anything in the cups was just a bonus. Even if hibz did(god forbid) beat us in the SC final what would it do for them ? They're still not in the top division & I'd suggest about to lose some of their better players to make ends meet

Fully realise that bud. AFAIK we've got Law,Shiels,Templeton & Clark out of contract. I wouldnt expect any of them to get new deals. We've also got Cammy Bell entering the last year of his McCoist deal. Rumour has it Hibz want him. To get him they'd need to deal with us & ( if rumours are true) we'd to do some sort of swap deal for Cummings. I think we'd still need another striker and CB and cover for the FB positions

I think we now have enough MF players now for next season. I'd like to see a couple of strikers being brought in now.

I think Barton would be a decent signing. We need to remember we're still a relatively young side & he is an experienced player who plays in a position ( defensive MF) where we need to improve next season despite Halliday doing a fine job filling in there this season. I'm also a great believer you cant always sign players for the future. You need to sign players for the present as Kevin Keegan said talking about Newcastle the other day. Barton certainly would be for the present and could do a job over the next couple of seasons as we consolidate back in the top division.

How long before they're the second team in Edinburgh? If Stubz is still there next season not too long I wouldnt think.

Should cummings not played instead of stokes?

My big worry next week is Stokes deliberately sets out to injure one of our players.He has nothing to lose. The yahoos dont want him & he's done nothing of note at hibz Who can forget that assault on Sasa Papac at the San Giro a few years ago & weary Willie Collum only gave a yellow for which should have seen Stokes banned for several games. That's what he's capable of unfortunately.

You have to wonder about Stubz don't you? Why would you leave ur best player & top scorer (cummings) on the bench for a game like this?

Is he a yahoo? Didnt think so My only concern all along was to get us back to the top division ASAP & back into Europe. It was obviously early doors McCoist was toiling. We should have got someone in to replace him a lot sooner & Houston always seemed a logical choice to me. You only need to look at the job he's done at Falkirk

Green was an opportunist who saw a way to make himself and his chums a few bob. Looking back many of us were taken in whether we'd admit it or not. He did manage to get 38k ST sales which proves my point. But he was not alone was he ? We had McCoist, McCulloch & Durrant paying themselves around £30k p.w. between them. Was that ok because they were 'Rangers men' or does that make them better than Green and his chums? McCoist was worst of all IMO if(as suggested) he wouldnt negotiate a settlement with Dave King but chose to continue to collect £14k p.w. sitting at home on gardening leave

Perhaps but after he left Dundee Utd I'd have got him to replace the failing McCoist. We wouldnt have had an extra season outside the top division as we'd have got three straight promotions and you & I wouldn't be having this conversation.