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Average SPL player, no more. Never Rangers quality. We need better players than what our closest rival have and Black is not even close to being as good as the likes of Ki, Ledley, Kayal, Wanyama or even Brown.

9 times out of ten the better team does win, the rich teams are the biggest and best, dress it up 11 v 11 how you like, the biggest and best should always win and more often than not, do. The SPL is one example but the world is full of these examples. It was not the boards fault the players were not physically ready or properly motivated. Ally said all through the summer the players would be ready, they were not. He said the players have learned from their past mistakes, they didnt. He said he was happy with all his signings, are you saying he wasnt? Sounds to me like you are saying Ally doesnt understand living within or means?? Like Walter before him, always wanting to spend money, even when they should know we cannot afford it. You also have Walter being messed around, a manager who was allowed to spend almost £40m over 4 years at a club playing in the mediocre SPL. C'mon mate? The reasons were simple, it wasnt excuses it was valid reasons, reasons which too many Rangers fans are blinkered about.

Taking 3, arguably 4 or 5 of our most important players out any team would be seen as ripping it apart, surely? Bedoya could step in for either, i think he deserves at least until Xmas to see if he can offer something. Like i said above, kids will most likely be our squad players next season, all over the park.

I think the truth is the least we deserve mate, sadly its not something we are used to hearing at Rangers, heres hoping Mr Green is the one.

I accept that but i just dont see it, like most Rangers fans my spirit has been tested and my hopes crushed. I am sick and see no way out of this shambles anytime soon.

Both Malmo and Maribor were absolutely pathetic. Dreadful opposition who our reserves should be beating never mind our first team. Pub team is perfectly apt. for both.

Alexander Broadfoot Perry Bocanegra Wallace Naismith Aluko McCabe Ness McCulloch Lafferty This team is with the 3 highest earners being sold. Davis, McGregor and Whittaker, along with the likes of Edu who wont sign a new deal and Goian who has been a liability of late. Mediocre rubbish like Little, Ortiz and Healy etc should be let go, Papac is leaving and Bartley should not be invited back. I would say that would see us posting a profit and Auchenhowie graduates filling the bench. This is where we are now. Best first 11 in the league but after that, kids.

We are completely hopeless at qualifiers, the thought of Rangers playing in Europe again at any level has never been further away. Celtic will sadly now be Scotlands sole representative at that level.

I would happily tear that squad apart anyway. Simply not good enough.

Looks like it is now a certainty we will start next season -10 points again, maybe more if the consecutive punishments comes into play. Complete shambles.

Most likely the aim. For them to make money we must be successful surely? Win win for both parties.

More persecution of the Rangers family.

A club with the turnover of Rangers FC with all our backing and support from hundreds of thousands of fans in a country where there is basically NO opposition to stop us being successful should always be posting a profit, the only thing stopping us is financial mismanagement which we have seen over the last 10 - 13 years. Being run correctly we can be a very productive and most profitable footballing business. Sadly we have not been in years gone by due to Murrays many many mistakes.

It is very strange indeed. We can only guess what Green has promised them for their investment.

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Signforce's foray into Qatar marks the group's first overseas venture. The group also has offers from Abu Dhabi asking it to manage its hotel. Apart from overseas expansion, Signforce was also â??in-talksâ? with potential clients for local hotel management contracts, Allen said. The group may still be young but Allen is ambitious. He hopes to list the company in a few more years. â??We have to put in a lot of money and effort into this business. It took us 10 years to get where we are today and we will continue to do our best,â? he said. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I thought this maybe of interest to some Bears. Another little piece on him here. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://lumirahotels.com/home/?page_id=21 Javed Abdullah @ Jude Allen has over 33 years experience in the hospitality industry. 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Good stuff. Would love guys like Aluko and McCulloch who are out of contract to sign up again. We need them all. Healy is possibly the only player i would let go givenw e cannot sign replacements for anyone. He wont be missed.

The Weiss Man was pretty adamant it wouldn't.

I guess that is true, i think my anger got the better of me there. I think the 5 i named are more important than Davis tbh, and more consistant, but if his salary negotiation was reasonable then i would probably keep him. Boca should be captain btw.

Possibly even less of a loss now. We are on the right track certainly. We were shelling out far too much on wages for far too many players over the last 4 years.

Just how hard was he trying for us?

He also said Celtic were every bit as special and magical as the Rangers. Yep, cheers Souey!

I actually agree with this. Let us rebuild and watch the rest die. Half the SPL will be out the game by Xmas without us.

That was at the start of the season before we lost Weir, Wylde, Jelavic etc etc etc.........

I have heard rumours Sinclair is a Celtic man, is this true? How can he possibly have our best interests at heart?

Given the dreadful standard of opposition in Scotland, of course we can.