SteveC

How do you know they "contribute more" when Ferguson has not played? You are stating the results of a comparison that has yet to take place. Then again, you did the same, and startlingly incorrectly, re Vuckic. Lets not prejudge (again) Naturally, playing anyone who has been out so long is always a risk, but you never know, he might have learnt some things when playing against Italy, Denmark and Serbia that our youths have not yet come across in the rarified atmosphere of lower league or youth Scottish what-passes-for football. Anyway, why is it an either/or? It is our senior players who most need to be replaced.

Not re the night itself but jut a personal note to say that I ordered an Ibrox brick to commemorate my dad 7 weeks and 4 days before May 23rd. They say " 8 - 10 weeks" but I might get lucky. Would make the day complete if that was there, we win the play off and no-one throws up during the guest's speech

Does anyone know if he was there?

I've only seen it once but I seem to recall Meekings pointing to his cheek as though the ball had hit him there. All players cheat like that, I know, even over trivial throw-ins (and I detest it) but it puts his comments above in perspective. "I admitted" = "I admitted it after lying about it until I saw the TV had me bang to rights"

Indeed so, Abramovich went to buy Spurs, they didn't fancy him so as he flew away he passed over Stamford Bridge and asked "who plays there?".

....at Airdrie, though: https://twitter.com/lucagasparotto3

It may come to pass quite soon as we are approaching the point where there is so little money coming into the Scottish game with or without TV that the difference in reverting back to Saturday kick offs at 3 (wth the occassional TV game at another time by STV or BBCeltic) will be marginal in financial terms. I can't see Sky or BT Sport offering much in the next 'negotiation' rounds and increased gates for Saturdays at 3 would compensate to a degree if they just buggered off and left the game alone.

His interviews started off brilliantly but are beginning to transform themselves into the same patronising, useless pap we have been served by the previous two accepters of failure (and drawing with Livingston for Rangers is unacceptable failure whether the pitch be dry or not, ffs).

Agreed - though we still should do as TRPB says

Was there not something in the terms of the SPL swallowing up the SFL that nothing would be allowed to change for 3 or 5 years?

As far as the original question goes: "He can't, it is too late, it is impossible now." Even if he suddenly saw sense and atoned by returning shares and funds he should not have kept you'd be left with the thought of why did it take so long/why now etc. (Not that I expect such a thing to happen). My mother adored him (well, we all did) and finds his behaviour inexplicable and unforgiveable and I never thought I'd live to hear her ever criticise him far less feel this.

Like most people they do what the people who employ them want them to do, especially if they are unofficially "head hunted". They have excelled in that regard, so other slip ups will be overlooked.

Luca was subbed at HT. Gallagher then put us 2 ahead. Aird taken off injured. EDIT: FT = 2-1 Info courtesy of "weenizzy" on FF

Tuesday April 14, 2015 Dundee United v Rangers Station Park, Forfar, 2pm HT 1=0 to us (Luca Gasparotto )

No problems, I wasn't annoyed or anything like that - just 'clarifying' (God how that word has been ruined!) And yes definitely more money

I realise that but the post I was replying to, and quoted, was only about attendances.

On the other hand we might get more going for the Championship title that we would if we were mid table or worse in the top division

Interesting points, barca72, but the idea of us gaining revenue from Europe in 2017 seems wildly optimistic to me. To do that we'd have to: get into the top division get into a Europa qualifying spot get through the qualifiers to the Europa League make money from the Europa league (not that easy to do and not significantly unless you go to the late stages) or get into the top division win it get through the qualifiers to the Champions League If we do the latter this decade it will be quite an achievement from where we currently are. Some of our best sides when we could attract top class players never got through Euro qualifying rounds.

IS that because you doubt the Club Statement (which seems to say that it would be) or just because it is wise not to trust Ashley or??? ...

My immediate thought was, of course Robert should get some suggestions so he can start planning and focussing....and so rushed to type in the eras I am most interested in....but, naturally, that'd be silly as those are the eras I have read/witnessed/exulted or agonised over already. There has been a lot of tremendous work in recent years in unearthing Founders' tales and info. So, that leaves me thinking of two eras I know very little about and am curious to learn what went on during them - namely, the War Years. Both First and Second. I only have a vague idea of what went on, I know the titles we won and have read those players who sacrificed their lives - but not a lot else.

Money sent for two (I am guessing my pal John, though I can't contact him just now, will have loved it so much last time that nothing will stop him joining us )

Rangers manager tells Andrew Smith Queens defeat not a disaster, and players must atone for last Raith game at Ibrox THERE are more cautionary tales for Rangers from this season than the collected works of the Brothers Grimm. Stuart McCall doesn’t have time to run his players through their failings in the 3-0 loss away to Queen of the South on Thursday night that has punctured the recent promise engendered by three straight wins. He considers a better use of his time to be showing them their failings the last time today’s visitors Raith Rovers came calling to Ibrox. That produced a Scottish Cup loss under McCall’s predecessor, Kenny McDowall, that meant the club’s pursuit of all silverware ended with February only a week old. “I watched it on TV and then did Sportscene that night,” McCall remembered. “I did the game up there [at Kirkcaldy later in February] when Rangers won 2-1 and played quite well. “The cup defeat was a low point, the size of the crowd around 11,000, the manner of the defeat it was just so flat. It was a poor day in an up and down season.” If there is any comfort to be drawn as McCall looks for his team to bounce back after the Palmerston play-off blow it is that Rovers are one of only two Championship sides – Dumbarton are the other – against whom the Ibrox men boast a perfect league record. Queens’ win three nights ago means that all three of the teams Rangers nestle among in the top four of the second tier have taken more points from the Ibrox side than they have surrended to them. McCall refuses to consider that his first defeat as Rangers manager – which came on the back of victories over Hibernian then Hearts that seemed to cement the Govan club in second place – suggests that fragility remains as grave a concern as it has been in recent months. “You have to bear in mind we were not playing a poor team, we were playing a team that have got some good results recently, that had beaten Hibs. They are a decent side, especially on their [artificial] surface. “I’m not trying to make excuses for it. It was a disappointing result, a disappointing performance to an extent, but not an absolute disaster, a result that was rotten, rotten, rotten and that meant we have gone back from there [holds hand above head] to there [drops hand to below his knee]. That is not the case and we have to make sure it’s not the case by going and putting in a real positive performance against Raith. “For 32 minutes the other night we were so comfortable. We had a lot of possession, although we weren’t a major threat. There’s not a lot between the teams, just because we’ve won a few games we aren’t all of a sudden world beaters. We know the only stat that counts but it was 15 to one in terms of corners and that shows we must have been pressing and on the front foot. Fourteen shots and seven on target compared to four on our goal but they scored with three and were clinical. “The second goal killed it. I don’t think we should have gone in at half time a goal down having watched the game again, but the second goal [seconds after the break], we’ve got to stop shooting ourselves in the foot and making individual errors. It was a really poor goal to lose.” So often that reason has been forwarded for Rangers shipping points. It has been offered up so many times, and now by three men, with McCall following Ally McCoist and McDowall in requiring to give vent to such frustrations, the wonder of it is that the Ibrox club are still best-placed to finish second and so require to negotiate four, rather than six, play-off games. For the final push, which will see Rangers travel to Livingston on Wednesday night, McCall hopes his winger options may be boosted. But to that end, he is looking at Tom Walsh being returned to full fitness rather than Newcastle loanee Shane Ferguson making an impact, even though Ferguson was scheduled to train at Murray Park yesterday, his arrival delayed by a day as the result of a sickness bug. “Horses for courses has been the way for us recently. We will change it for certain games, certain teams and how they play and whether it is home or away. I’d like to get young Walshy back because for our first two games he was our biggest threat, and he’s a talent, the kid. Even if it is just to come off the bench he can give us a different dimension really. “Ferguson’s had two weeks of training at Newcastle. We had that clarified, it has been two weeks contact training. All I can say is we’ll have a look at him. He had a knee op in October, so I’d imagine if you’ve been out six months it would take you a month to get anywhere near playing games. “I don’t know the lad but he might come up and join in training and he might be one of these athletes. He might have been doing a lot of fitness work. Until we see him out here, we don’t know. “Obviously, I got it relayed to me, from a medical point of view, that it might be difficult in a short space of time for him to have an impact. I’ll have a chat with him face to face and we’ll see where he’s at. Again, with the contact it might be ‘just be careful’ or it might be ‘let’s get in about it’.” Just when Rangers thought they were getting in about it, Thursday’s setback has caused them to be treading carefully once more.

What a misleading papraphrase on the Beeb (via the Liam). What a shock, eh? Can admin delete this thread or at least change the title to: "BBC gives false impression that....."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32274535 On-loan Newcastle United defender Kevin Mbabu has told Rangers manager Stuart McCall that he will not play on artificial surfaces. (Sunday Mail, print edition)

We didn't play on Thursday either, unfortuantely....