buster.

Betis, a team we beat Home & Away last season in pole position to be Chelsea's opposition in the Final. Now 2 goals in front of Fiorentina on aggregate. Edit. Fiorentina equaliser on the night. Now just one behind. Edit 2. Fiorentina go in front on the night. Aggregate level. HT Bilbao get a goal back. It's the hope that kills. Fiorentina have lost the last two Conference League Finals. Only ever been three.

United and Chelsea are already in the final and Spurs would have to Hibsit, not to get through.

Result is more control over UB messaging (TIFO) within the stadium and if UB don't comply then we'll see what happens. I don't think the new owners would think twice about getting rid of the UB section. They would probably welcome it. Lip service to traditions. Actions will be more financially orientated. So unless fans vote with their feet, I think that this only continues in one direction.

I labour the point because it seems memories are short and selective for some. Real Madrid are establishment in a fundamentally corrupt country where football plays an important part.

Good point, well made regarding The Alkas Cup winners. Given pressure on management to win games then you can see why they may be reluctant to use youngsters. Add that to the regulations that mean the cream of the academies now being poached by well off English clubs, eg. Gilmour/Chelsea and Wilson/Villa. We do the same with Rice/Motherwell but he just stagnates in a Scottish youth system that makes it harder still. Difficult conundrum to solve.

It was our own fault or rather Sir Duped of Murray.

Yes we have and its better we don't ignore the fact but actually learn from it. Regarding the continuation, I am not saying we started again but as a football club we ballsed up our finances big time and got badly burnt.

Not many have been liquidated.

Don't know but it will be the potential new controlling shareholders that will be determining how the club goes forward. Will Patrick Stewart have been representing their vision on the public expression of traditions at Ibrox ? Bear in mind that the owner of the San Francisco 49ers has had a Catholic upbringing and the surname, Cavenagh has an Irish origin 😂

The red numbers that have accompanied us from that moment led to "our Gotterdammerung" and they have persisted ever since. We need to rid ourselves of the red before we can look forward with any confidence.

Watson has more than 1800 league minutes this season. Wales, 1300+ Miller 2500 Wilson 1200 Bailey Rice 180

Has Rabbi Matondo fallen completely off the radar ?

Strange but Lawwell the businessman will actually want us to improve and provide competition. When we were in the lower leagues, they closed the top tier of their stadium. Both us and them need each other to exist. Much better if the provincial clubs could put up a sustained fight. Given the financial gap, a Big ask.

A very good manager is worth 3 or 4. Disclaimer: That may become 0 once the bounce has finished

Basically, our recruitment would have to be very good and their recruitment, poor. Value for money is key. They spent 20M on 2 players a year ago and have got little in return. I reckon they are going to hit a bad patch in the next year or so, transition. If we could use next season to lay foundations, it may pay dividends.

Keith Jackson who has been ITK regarding parts of the takeover story said middle to end of April for completion at one point. Then it became end of May. Now DK says mid June. No big drama, but it is dragging on a bit. The bit about a "90%" chance of going through was slightly surprising. Although it seemed like a number plucked from the air and might not actually mean much. We need a new manager appointed before June.

Had any of those four been at Rangers, they wouldn't have got the game time to develop as they have.

The name makes me think of Cologne and Juventus in 1978. Not a good year for Pope's, come to think about it.

Less than a month between going public with offer and probable acceptance, seems rapid. Just hope they spend wisely and can help improve the Scottish game.

Barry is going to be the new CEO. Apparently Patrick isn't staunch enough.

I have said on more than one occasion that I am not directly comparing them as like for like so with regard to what I said, that is inaccurate. After what happened to Rangers what is ludicrous, is not to employ due scepticism to new owners who want to make money out of us.

I sniped from the sidelines when Craig Whyte arrived and I got Pelters from many. I sniped from the sidelines when Green&Co arrived and I got told that for him to make money, Rangers would have to be successful. Got Pelters for a long time as the support in general lapped up his pish. Right now, I am sceptical on how this plays out and don't go along with the general vibe of large warchests and that we are going to be able to quickly go through the process of becoming sustainable at the same time as starting to repeatedly win trophies. Their intentions may well be to make the club into a modern functioning football club that can turn a profit, fine. How long does it take? Will the support be happy waiting? If it doesn't work, what happens? The controlling interest will have different bottom line goals to the support. How much they converge is open to question.

Well said John !! ps. Rather than just a Scottish thing, I think it may be more a message board thing. Maybe 20/80 😂

I mentioned their stance but let's forget that and concentrate on ourselves. I call out the murdering of thousands of children. You can do whatever you want.

The uncertainty worries me. The 'certainty' being shown by some supporters that the takeover will lead us to the promised land, concerns me. If you use the simple logic that the new controlling interest will make all the right appointments, signings and decisions then we shouldn't have any problems. However, we are a serial loss making business in pursuit of on-field success. Our expectation levels don't tend to allow for much patience and that is what we will need to become sustainable. We are a very particular football club operating in a very particular environment that is highly pressurised. We have been an Omnishambles for years and it has led us to this point where we don't have many choices. We are rolling the dice. I don't see this being a smooth ride but that is only my opinion and time will tell us how it goes.