Oleg_Mcnoleg

powerful words. Hope everyone fully appreciates the state we've been left in. The increasing number of 'if Ronald De Boer's not installed as manager by next game I'm out' posts suggests not everyone does.

Nice to see normal service has been resumed.

it sounds like they're hoping for a bit of a response from the team to the new board, packed Ibrox,etc and that that might get us up. But he also clearly said we may well not go up and that there'd be no rush to appoint. Keep the heid, people: we've been bottomed to within an inch of our life and it'll take a wee while to sort out.

I'm waiting on a phone call from work but I really, really really want to start drinking immediately.

Thank feck for that. Wish I was in The Louden rather than sat on my sofa in London.

Sodding hell! Hurry up! Hurry up!

Sky reporting Capita have left Ibrox, presumably having done their work. Getting close...

'Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop taking amphetamines' Can safely say no work is going to be done today. Nervous wreck until we hear.

That's you telt for getting all high faluting. Tried a Milton pun on FF once. Got one response in a thread running to about 10 pages. Lesson learned

Questions that could even more justifiably be levelled at him: he has no NOMAD and has put in no money. In fact, his primary concern, and that of his cohorts, has been to remove as much of it as possible.

I can't see what everyone's so worked about. We've no scouting and player development (always an issue anyway) has been pared back, the training ground and stadium are coming to bits, the pricks in charge have gifted many of our revenue streams to Sports Direct and the IPO money has disappeared into the pockets of a bunch of crooks and imposters only a small proportion of which have been on the field. The management should certainly shoulder their share of the blame for an underachieving team. But short of finding King and the 3Bs can shit million pound notes, of course it's going to take us time to get to where we ought to be. But, come Friday, I'll finally have some confidence that we will actually get there.

If Forsyth says the current board didn't want WHI to resign, then I'm inclined to think it a good thing. But maybe not.

Sky apparently reporting that it's because King won't say how much he's planning to invest (though I'm in the office so getting this through FF). I must have missed the full details of the huge wodge of cash the current board have committed to putting in. King is surely waiting to see how little they've left: they'll probably have sold the carpet and board room table in return for a fish supper.

Is that in perpetuity? I thought buying back unsold stock was a one-off? Custodians? Crooks. I don't we'll ever fully get to the bottom of it but I sincerely hope somebody's got an incriminating email somewhere that allows to get them done for breach of fiduciary duty.

The team would probably need to play in a shirt and SD sell it. But the obvious thing would be to do the absolute minimum promotion contractually stipulated and informally encourage fans to buy Lion Brand shirts or some such. Contractually obliged to provide players for a photoshoot to 'promote' the official shirts? Send a 12 year old and the fourth choice goalkeeper, papers 'accidentally' carry a photo of our new captain (Lionel Messi, naturally), off duty, wearing the unofficial shirt, etc, etc.

Everything that not's nailed down will be on it's way out of Ibrox and Auchinowie and heading for Sports Direct HQ. I'm pretty sure a lot of this is illegal but no doubt Ashley will drag it all out through the courts using his bottomless pockets against our very limited funds. I wish all them nothing but I'll health, misery and an early death. Robbing pricks.

Maybe the last few years have made me particularly pessimistic, but I will be a lot happier once Llambias and Leach get the f*ck out of the building. It's going to be a tough few years--the last few years have been utterly wasted and we're back to square one in the rebuilding job but without the benefit of the IPO money--but at least we can actually feel like we're all pulling in the same direction and are in it together.

My dad's era rather than mine but he was recognised as one of the finest midfielders in the world in his day. Could also put a high quality shift in in defence. Hard as nails (as the infamous pic of him threatening to give the noted hard nut Billy Bremner a pasting highlights) but with excellent touch, vision and passing and a real leader. Can remember some pundits in the 80s putting him in an all-time world xi. Maybe not, and those are always just opinions, but it does show the regard he was held in. One from the top draw. Seems to have been a genuinely nice yin too.

Busy few days at the shredder before they follow the others out the club, no doubt.

Nice to hear, obviously. But if that's the 5.00 o'clock good news, I'm out to murder those responsible

Quite so. Pretty much the only visible aspect of 'sectarianism' in Scotland (outside the odd West of Scotland Labour Party candidate selection panel) is football. If it wasn't for us and them singing nasty things, nobody would recognise there's an issue. We have a football problem, not a sectarian problem. That shouldn't be taken as advocating carte blanche for the support to yell anything and everything, just a call for a bit of perspective.

All true, and I've paid little attention to the SPL of late too, but McInnes' coaching record doesn't begin and end at Aberdeen. He had St Johnston playing well--can remember them passing off the park on at least one occasion before our meltdown--and keeping Bristol City up looks a better achievement in hindsight. Does seem that he's a decent manager. Whether he'd come in the near future is a different matter

Realised the game's up or is there something nasty about to happen? It reminds of the scene in Ghostbusters when they think they've seen off the bad thing , just before it reappears as the marshmallow man,

It's seemed that when Black's played well, the team's played well. That we're in the state we're in shows how often that's happened. I thought he'd do well. I remember him bossing our midfield when he was at ICT and seemed to have a decent delivery to go with his obvious appetite for a tackle. But he's been, at best, horribly inconsistent until this season. Recently he found consistency but he's been consistently terrible. Perhaps being benched will be the kick up the erchie that he needs but I suspect he's done with us.

It's maybe ten years since we last went through this pish so it's profoundly depressing to be back to square one. At one level, I couldn't give a crap: Scotland hasn't got a sectarian problem in any meaningful sense and cheapens the term to have it bandied about to what amounts to nothing more than football fans calling each other nasty names. But it gets us into trouble and we won't be told. So, in a week we know we're going to be under more scrutiny than usual, we respond by belting out the problematic song endlessly? I know they're after us and it's not fair. But why make it so fucking easy for them?