Rangersitis

Is moving seats to another area of the stadium not open to all season ticket holders? Also is there not a system already in place that allows friends and family to sit together if the seats are vacant?

Probably because he never got anywhere near him, not that I have seen anyway. Because they were covered by the rules on red cards for violent conduct?

Erwin's push was worthy of nothing more than the yellow card that he received. Handbags like that are routinely seen in matches. Mohsni, Ainsworth, Moore and Kerr all received automatic two match bans for violent conduct. Mohsni received a further automatic two matches for his previous exploits. The extra three matches Mohsni received was for the excessive nature of the violence.

If he had responded to the push with a similar push he would have received the same punishment as Erwin. The degree of his punishment was for the degree of the retaliation added to his previous record of indiscipline. There really is no just reason to defend him.

The manager of the team that beat the team that beat them?

Only teasing.

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You do the CL stats for the last decade if you feel so inclined. I gave you five years as that is what the UEFA co-efficient is based on. The stats for the Europa League show that the high standard that you claim exists in the English game would not appear to go much below the top 4 or 5 clubs. The Spanish and Portuguese teams are consistently reaching the latter stages of the competition. It wasn't so long ago that you were slagging off Brentford as a tinpot club when Lewis McLeod went to them, yet now we have you waxing lyrical about the merits of Rangers buying players from that league and below....and picked by the very same manager who was in charge at that flash in the pan club!

What happened to that 'wait until they have played for Rangers' mantra?

Brazil, Argentina, Chile.....

i think that you may have swallowed the Sky Sports hype. Despite being awash with cash, they consistently fail on the big stage. Here are the statistics from the last five years of the Champions League - they make for interesting reading. Also, I wouldn't have any English - based players in my world XI although I do concede that it is something which is subjective. The same stats for the Europa League appear to show that despite being plundered by the EPL there is sufficient talent to do the business where it matters.

A quick Wiki check shows that the number of English players playing in La Liga and Serie A over the years have been less than half of their Spanish and German counterparts. If the standard of player in England is as high as anywhere in the world, why are the top English clubs largely recruiting players from elsewhere?

It reads to me that it will be added in order to stop any further breaches of the rules, rather than it being used to bar anyone who has done so in the past but I'm certainly no expert. Was further detail provided at the GM?

Not if you have already been prosecuted for it, no, you wouldn't. If Ashley was to pull another stroke which breached the rules, then there would be further sanctions.

Jim Ballantyne at Airdrie? Your last sentence sums it up for me. This has become deeply personal between two egotists, a battle of wills and to fuck with the consequences.

I'm with you on that, Frankie.

I don't believe anyone is arguing that there wasn't a breach, but it is not something which is ongoing. Anyway, was the plan not to stop the voting rights of anyone who had an interest in another club?

What's the story with Richard Gough? He was front of shot along with King on the ST boycott only to disappear without a trace.

If the retail contract was considered to be in any way illegal, would the club not just break the terms and put the ball into Ashley's court instead of looking to renegotiate?

More leverage!

He wanted more money than Rangers were prepared to offer.

How much will it actually bring in bearing in mind that a number of shares have already been set aside for the two loans?

This thread is surreal.

Is that a Craig Whyte £12m which includes wages, agents fees, hotel bills, 85p for a bottle of water.....?

Apparently so.