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Regardless of who does what & who appointed them it is vital we see a drastic improvement on the park this season. Some of what we had to endure last season must not be repeated next season otherwise Ally will not last until the New Year. In an ideal situation there would be no 'jobs for the boys' but in football a manager will always want his own backroom staff whom he can trust. However that is not to say the credentials of some of the recent backroom staff at Rangers haven't been questionable, particularly in the scouting roles.

I thought there already was a police investigation into Whyte's takeover at Rangers? Is this another one by the Insolvency service? won't they both just come to the same conclusion i.e. Whyte duped ticketus into giving him money to pay off Rangers debt to Fullerton & Kane at LBG so as he got ownership of Rangers? don't give me the nonsense his business background wasn't known about. SDM got plenty warning prior to Whyte getting control (AJ & Bain to name two) but went ahead with this deal regardless. Why was that ? That is what should be getting investigated as a priority. Does anyone seriously believe SDM got 'duped' as he put it ? I don't. Does anyone believe that he was blackmailed into selling to whyte? That's what should be getting investigated IMO. After that they might want to turn their attention to HMRC & find out why they pursued a fictitious tax bill on a perfectly legal tax avoidance scheme used by thousands of UK companies. Did a former lhabour cabinet minister who now sits in the Lords use his political influence on HMRC to do this which effectively crippled Rangers making it unsellable until you-know-who came along?

Quite honestly the Daily Rhebel should have been banned from Ibrox long ago along with BBC Scotland, Radio Snyde & certain so-called journalists too. I presume as a result of this they'll now be banned ?

I get the impression our CEO Mather is trying to build bridges with certain individuals & certain organisations. Someone has to tell him it won't work. Diplomacy doesn't work with these people in scottish football who were trying to put Rangers out of business altogether last summer. Outright bans for the Daily Record & Radio Clyde along with bans for English & Speirs should be added to that which BBC Scotland currently has.

I look forward to Jim Henry taking up his role with Rangers after reading some comments here. Certain players' fitness looked suspect last season to put it mildly

BT can look forward to some poor viewing figures that's for sure. No OF games, no Dundee derby & maybe no Edinburgh derby too. Be interesting to see the actual financial figures in this closely-guarded TV contract

Club in newco has same SFA licence as club in oldco. Therefore club hasn't changed i.e same club SFA, SPL, UEFA, ECA, ASA etc all recognise this. Just the braindead, bigoted would-be journos & their hangers-on who infest this country who deliberately refuse to accept this.

Does anyone know exactly what is happening regards McGregor, Naismith, Whittaker etc ? are we still trying to get money for them breaching their contracts when they left?

Sooooo pleased about this. We don't need to give out freebies or close stands. WATP

do you think these figures are too high or too low? my opinion is that the Rangers manager should earn more only if he has a successful season.

We were seriously short in MF after losing an entire MF after Davis, Edu etc all left. There was an opportunity if ever there was one for youngsters to come in & take their chance but Ally has now added both Law & Peralta so clearly he think the MF needs strengthened after last season when we totally failed to control MF in too many games. I'd tend to agree with him.

wonder how none at Ibrox ? surely something will get arranged

I think players will leave before the end of August. The most notable ones being Goian & Bocanegra. Also following the recent signings I wouldn't be surprised if the likes of Perry & Hutton left too as they don't look Rangers class to me. Some of the youngsters not getting a game going out on loan might not be too bad an idea too. I hear certain SPL sides are short of players after cost-cutting forced them to ditch a number of players at the end of last season. If we loaned out youngsters it would allow us to assess them at a higher level & give a better idea whether they'd make it or not

have we no pre-season friendlies at ibrox?

We need to realise that not all the youngsters who played last season will make it with Rangers. In my opinion only one or two will still be with us when we get back to the top and to be brutally honest I'm not convinced some of the youngsters made the most of their opportunities last season. They'll find it much harder to get into the side next season after the signings Ally has made

Even if hertz exit administration via a CVA what will the new owners be getting ? a club with no money which has lost its best players over the past year which will almost certainly get relegated at the end of the season to a division where promotion will not be guaranteed the following season with Rangers in it that division.

The fact is that the Sectarianism Industry has provided a platform to attack Rangers for fading, no mark journalists & two bob politicians who gleefully accept this to vent their ant-Rangers bigotry. The fact that the response from both us(the support) hasn't always been what it might have been has allowed this 'industry' to gather momentum at times(against us)

my point is mate how do we destroy the liewell-led cabal before it totally destroys Scottish football?

Like it or not we need to rebuild friendships with other Scottish sides if we're to smash the Liewell-led cabal which is destroying Scottish football. Hearts, being the 3rd biggest club in Scotland, would be a good start along with Dunfermline who are another biggish club. If we can add the likes of Motherwell,Dundee & Killie then who knows maybe even a breakaway league could be set up, which would need to allow for some sort of financial amnesty, and we could take the fight directly to the cabal

There's been too many people paid too much money who haven't delivered in recent years. Performance related pay would stop that

In my opinion(if true) Ally is getting £750k p.a. Once we return to the top division however should the manager's salary be performance related ? for example BASIC: £400K LEAGUE WINNERS: £300K bonus SCOTTISH CUP : £200K bonus LEAGUE CUP : £100K bonus IN EUROPE AFTER XMAS : £200K bonus If we won the treble & we were still in Europe beyond new year he'd get £1.2m p.a. His coaching staff would be paid this way too. Anyone think this a better way than simply paying £750k p.a - £1m p.a regardless of how successful the team is?

I simply do not understand why the club do not give this fading, no mark excuse for a journalist a life ban from Ibrox and also give THE HERALD an indefinite ban until such time that an unreserved apology is issued by them. Spiers claims to have been a Rangers supporter in his early days. Well he most certainly is not one now. He is most firmly in the pocket of the dark side as far as I'm concerned. I've often thought he was touting himself for some sort of media position at the girodome should such a postion ever become available. It seems to have passed him by that the SFA, SPL, UEFA, ECA & most recently the ASA all recognise Rangers as the same club. What makes Spiers think they're all wrong & he's right ? He is part of a group within the corrupt scottish media who seem to take it in turns to attack us often making the most outrageous statements & claims that any sane publication would not dream of publishing. Well now is the time for CEO Mather to grow a pair & make an example of Spiers & this newspaper no Rangers supporter should ever consider buying. Prove you're not Bain in disguise. Over to you Craigie boy.

Scottish football's problem is that there are too many senior clubs. 42 is a ridiculous number for a country the size of Scotland the majority of which are wee clubs who'd be better off playing in the junior & amateur leagues. Two professional leagues of 10 or 12 (div1 & div2)would be sufficient. As for this Lowland league I fail to see what it brings to the game in Scotland other than even more wee clubs with dillusions of grandeur and a begging bowl.

They're either extremely poor journalists/reporters or they're at it. They're pushing their luck as they know they'll get away with it. As I said previously the BBC is largely unaccountable & does what it likes