RANGERRAB

Would SKY (or BT vision next season) be happy to televise live Rangers games with the knowledge that the club was vehemently opposed to them doing so ? and what do SKY make of the derisory amount we've received for the number of televised games we've had ? frankly it's insulting and probably intended to be antagonistic. CG & JT must do everything possible to sort this out. As I said earlier Rangers must not subsidise the parasites and subsidy-junkies of Scottish football.

Wonder if they spoke to the two bhoys who were running LBG's Scottish business division at the time of the takeover ? surely they'd nothing to do with the takeover. Did they?

CG is on record saying he will not sign next season's SKY deal. After reading this it's imperative he sticks to his guns. We must not subsidise the parasites and subsidy-junkies of Scottish football. Sabotage the SKY deal if necessary. Refuse to have our games televised

Can't see how reconstruction would save Dundee utd. Must be something we don't know why Thompson is so keen to get this vote through.

Sorry but nobody there appeals to me. We have to look further afield

Don't think we'll be in the third tier..............just watch the house of cards collapse very soon. BTW £16K pw still too much though

Media standards in general in Scotland have deteriorated so low in recent times. The likes of Speirs, Cosgrove, English, Keevins etc cannot hide their bias and make no attempt to do so. I've said before & will say again it's time the likes of BBC Scotland, Radio Clyde & the Daily Record were given indefinite bans by Rangers from Ibrox & MP until they improved their reporting of Rangers to an acceptable level.

Let's just wait til the vote has actually taken place. We all know what kind of people we're dealing with here don't we?

This is the bit I don't understand. It must be connected to the SKY deal in some way or another

Good points. Especially the one about the future viability of the SPL. As I see things the SPL could face 3 major cash demands in the months ahead:- 1)harper mcleod's legal bill for the EBT commission 2) BDO for our prize money last season 3) linisi pub chain's recent claim for damages I'd reckon these come to between £3.5 - £4m which is money I don't think the SPL has got. I also believe the SFL could, in theory, start a league with ourselves in it & invite teams into it, particularly the ones in financial difficulty and promise them No penalties or punishment i they went in to admin or worse.

In this country we've national newspapers trying to produce exclusives where there really isn't news at all. I do not believe Whyte has any control or influence in our club today and he never again. I believe we're seeing the last acts of a desperate man who knows he's facing a jail sentence in the no too distant future. I'd rather these publications concentrated their efforts on finding out the truth in how Whyte managed to get control of Rangers from SDM. Was SDM blackmailed ? if so by whom & for what reasons ? was it the two chancers at LBG ? I'd much prefer us to get back to discussing the football side of things because what we're watching at present simply isn't acceptable & CG must decide sooner or later if he's to allow Ally to bring new out-of-contract players this summer with a view to registering them on September 1st

A bit like a boxer claiming to be world champion without fighting his nearest challenger.........

If this reconstruction does go through I can't see the SFL simply handing over the 18 club league to the SPL without a fight. And I can't see CG being happy about us continuing to subsidise the SPL via the SKY deal and whatever else. There's a lot still to happen yet IMO

But it won't help viewing figures without OF games will it? SKY are a subscription service first & foremost. Viewing figures are crucial to them. And if the 12-12-18 goes ahead who runs the 18 team league ? the SPL ? can't see the SFL & CG giving this up without a fight.

How will reconstruction help SKY's viewing figures ? Makes no sense to me

on the excuse of a radio station Radio Scotland tonight Chris Graham magnificently destroyed both Speirs the no mark so-called journalist and English the Irishman who scribbles for the Scotsman. But my point is that shouldn't our handsomely paid Mr Traynor be doing this instead of the afore-mentioned Chris Graham? Week after week it's open season on this programme. Have they nothing else to talk about? It's true what young Bill McMurdo constantly states in his daily blog that there's really only one show in town isn't there?

going back the the original OP about planning a shake up, what will have changed now under the new regime is if someone within Rangers offers someone like Sandaza a 4 year deal on a vastly over-inflated salary then he manages a mere 2 goals in first season, then that someone will be held responsible and shall take the consequences. The days of easy money at Rangers are over from top to bottom.

To marginalise & bully Ross County & St Mirren that'll be their next move. I don't understand why this reconstruction is so vital ? it may well be to do with the SKY contract but I'd have thought SKY would be insisting we were in the top flight next season because without us there's little for them in Scottish football.

Wonder who's behind all this ? Whyte doesn't own a penny of Rangers now. Do I detect the usual elements within the mhedia up to their tricks again ? CG 's statement last week about the SPL trading whilst insolvent would have ruffled more than a few feathers I'd guess. Is this attempted payback time i.e. a made-up story about Whyte owning part of Rangers. Don't think so. Try harder next time bhoys.............

Thought this wasn't resolved yet? How can SFA impose this ? So wee Specky McLaughlin still claiming club was placed into liquidation. Club was 'sold' It's SFA licence transferred from oldco to newco hence history continued. As yet nothing has been liquidated. The oldco is simply an empty corporate shell with £5.5m in its account. All its assets have been transfered to newco.

Later this year the above-mentioned will be 12 years old. I wonder how many of us regard it as a success ? As I recall it was to provide the first team with proper 21st century training facilities(instead of being bussed around Glasgow to train at various locations since the Albion became a car park) and to provide us with a conveyor belt of young talent groomed from our scouting network ready to step into the first team when ready thus saving a fortune in transfer fees. To go back to the title I wonder what CG makes of it when he watched the recent SFL3 performances? players unable to do basics like passing accurately to nearby team-mates, players taking setpieces unable to clear the first defender, players constantly losing possession under no pressure, players unable to do basic defending - I could go on and on. As for youngsters breaking into the first team I don't genuinely think we've produced any who have reached a decent level in the game since the likes of Alan McGregor, Alan Hutton, Charlie Adam etc, all of whom must be nearing 30 now. Has our scouting network dried up ? Or simply not good enough as Neil Murray's departure may suggest? When I look over to the other side of Glasgow I see a scouting network which seems vastly superior to ours. I was always cynical about Murray Park regards youth development but I've become even more cynical in recent months after watching some of the first team's performances of late. I wonder what CG makes of it? I'm not suggesting it gets shut down or anything but it's got very high running costs (around £2m per year I believe) which may need to be reduced somehow unless it starts paying its way more effectively than at present

Only time will tell. I do hope whoever gave Sandaza that 4 year deal is out the door.

Is he getting rid of under-achievers & non-contributors?

I reckon Ally has until January at the very latest for there to be a vast improvement in team performances. The current status quo simply can't continue which is torture to watch. If he is to make a success of being Rangers manager(assuming he's there for next season) he has to think long & hard about the players he wants to bring in. He must get players we genuinely need for specific positions in the team rather than just bringing in players who are available at the time as happened last summer. That left us woefully short in positions such as MF & CB.

What about the Stirling Albion players forearm smash on McKay two weeks ago ? was nothing done about that ?