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Do you think that Green should not be scrutinised, Allan?

Nice touch, mate.

What's the meeting for, and why wasn't I invited?

I remember Arteta's debut v AC Milan at Ibrox, wee Gattusso got booked for kicking him. Arteta looked like a really good prospect at the time, suppose he's not had too bad a career.

I have to agree with McMurdo. Rangers have been shite to watch since Advocaat left. We had a wee spell under PLG where I thought we were going to be immense, but that fizzled out and since then, we've been pretty poor. What sums it up for me is the Scottish mentality, win at all costs crap, that has crippled the game up here. We're in a situation where we are under "no pressure" to win the league as we will, so Ally should be installing a footballing ethos within the football club at all levels which will stand us in good stead for 10 years +. I watched a programme on SS last season, maybe. Anyway, they were interviewing Johan Cruyff before an El Classico. Cruyff was instrumental in laying the foundations at Barca which enabled them to go from perennial underachievers to "The Greatest Club side ever" in many peoples eyes. Cruyff was asked what was more important, the result or the performance. Cruyff said that it didn't matter if Barca won 8-0 when he was manager, if the team played poorly then he was unhappy. Which is what I think Rangers coaches should be instilling in the players. I remember Rangers getting played off the park by Hamilton Accies at New Douglas Park and I'm thinking, we've got guys on the park earning more in a week than the Hamilton players make in 6 months, we've got Lafferty, Jelavic, Miller, Davis at a cost of £15m-ish and getting outplayed by Hamilton Accies!! The game was settled by a last minute winner from Kenny Miller and Walter was getting interviewed after the game and he came out with "3 points are the main thing" and I just shook my head. In Cruyff's interview, he said he would be happier with the players to get beaten playing well, than win playing poorly because he knew that if the players continue to play well, then by the law of averages, they would win more games than they would lose. Rangers have been poor to watch most of my time going to Ibrox. I've had a season ticket since 1989 as a 10 year old but we have been pretty dire during much of that time. I really want Ally to succeed as he was my idol growing up but sentiment can't get in the way of building a better club.

Not a chance that this guy will wind them up. Especially not for £16k. It'll cost him about £5k to wind them up!! It's just a disgruntled business man trying to shame them into paying him.

If that's the case then we'll be getting hit with a hefty Corporation Tax bill. Need to get Starbucks accountants on board!

Don't like it. 40,000 season tickets sold. £25m raised via share issue. But we can't buy anyone, so, what do we need the cash for?

Great piece by Archibald.

Or a player whose team is getting gubbed, could be encouraged to walk off the park due to racist chanting, when in fact, there was no such thing and it was just an elaborate ploy by the losing side to regroup. Dangerous precedent imo.

He could buy himself a failure or two if it seemed that the side was heading in the right direction instead of playing in a style not too dissimilar to the dirge served up more often than not by Big Eck's and Walter's sides. Namely, uninspiring, boring football with no excitement or zest. I've been going to Ibrox since the 80's and can't be arsed with more of the same shite. ENTERTAIN ME RANGERS!!!!

Fuck knows, some orange band from Govan/Kinning Park I think, though I may be severely wrong.

Now you know, bud.

Season ticket holder in the West Enclosure.

Only Bill Gates, or someone of similar wealth, could've afforded to buy us with HMRC claiming that we owed them £100m in UNPAID taxes.

Toadfish too!!

Stanley Baxter, Andy Cameron, the Krankies.

Where could one possibly see Sky viewing figures to compare and contrast this season viewers compared to last years?

Don't forget Ross Tokely - the teuchter Cafu!!

The logic that you're using would mean that every other league in Europe has no TV deals because they have bigger leagues ergo meaningless games. Look at the SPL, 12 team league, Celtic already won the league , bar a miracle, Dundee are down, rendering most of the rest of the games 'meaningless'.

I used to work with his pals from Kinning Park, I think he was in the Proddy Boys.

The four times a season schedule is killing the game. Get it to fuck. We've been in SFL3 for 6 months and no offence to them but I'm sick of the sight of Elgin already.

You need a laugh one, like the one from the BBC 606 site.

Sounds good, Max, but I can't see any pics? Granted, I'm on my phone though.

If he chose Scotland then some of the more learned Rangers fans would use this as proof that the SFA was pro-taig and that the Tartan Trannies were all inherently anti-Rangers and that there was a conspiracy led by the Pope to rob Scotland of it's Presbyterainisms and install Alex Salmond as the President of the Republic of Scotland before aligning the independent Scotia in a holy Union with Ireland. Moral of the story, who gives a fuck which country McCarthy chose to represent, more and more Rangers fans are nonplus when it comes to the national side and you wouldn't get many protests if you said that by choosing direland, he has a better chance of playing in the major tournaments then he would have had if he chose to play for Scotland such is the shambolic state of the national game here.