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Indeed. No doubt he'll get move into a coaching role somewhere.

Ha ha ha ha ha Post up the reply if you get one...

The 'I'm just focused on the big games coming up' will only satisfy me to a degree. Fair enough he doesn't want to worry about it but if he is genuine about staying, you would have thought he would instruct his agent to go an do the deal so that he can then announce that he's staying for another 3 years (or whatever). I think that would settle things in his mind, for that is what I perceive to be his biggest weakness.

Oofft. Aint that the truth!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Got me anyways. The missus got me a cracker this morning. She posted on twitter "number 4 due in September. We must be mad". I feckin shat myself when I read that.

Tremendous work Frankie! A few possible questions: Q. Who is your favourite Rangers player from your tenure? Q. Are Rangers and Celtic ever likely to leave Scottish football? Q. In hindsight, was sanctioning Barry Ferguson's return worthwhile? Q. Could you have done more to respond to the mis-information, bias, and, occasionaly, outright lies spread by certain quarters of the media during your time?

As a lapsed RST member, I have to agree with this. As much as I may want both fan ownership and the RST to work, I think they are both flawed. I, for one, would love to get involved in a fan ownership scheme but know that I just don't have the funds to spare at the moment and so would be one of the excluded suggested by MF. As much as there are some who can and will afford it, there will be many more who might struggle to justify renewing their season ticket, never mind finding additional membership fees which amount to more than what they are already paying just to go to the games.

Yeah I'm getting the feeling he might be for the off. I also suspect it might be of his own volition.

I'll take the United game. Fingers cross it'll be the championship clinching game! :spl:

2-0 to the Champions. Boyd to get 2 Is the game on the telly?

Robbie Keane is an irrelevance. A populist signing to attempt to placate the throng of dissent and to get punters coming back to the San Giro. It failed. Get over it. Mmmm, the Scottish Football Writers' Association's player of the year. I repeat, the year! Not 11 games, the full season. It should reflect which player you think has had the biggest influence over the entire season and its outcome. Over Keane's 11 game spell so far, Celtic have dropped even further behind Rangers and disgraced themselves with a woeful results against Kilmarnock and St Mirren. Some influence that boy has, eh Ronnie? And for good reaon Ronaldo, his signing has made not one jot of difference to the outcome of the league. He's scored 11 goals, but not when they counted. They didn't get him a goal in the Old Firm derby, nor the Killie or St Midden defeats. I make that 9 points his lack of goal scoring prowess has cost you. Y'know, when the chips are down and you need someone to drag the team out fighting - HE WAS POSTED MISSING! Indeed. You should listen to your colleagues. They have other flaws, but listening to your pish doesn't seem to be one of them. Streets ahead of whom exactly? The way its going, you'll be behind Dundee United by the end of the season. Really all your saying is that, by his supposedly masterful standards, he is underperforming....Whaddaya think of them apples Ronster? Right, so he wasn't good enough to score? Are you sensing a pattern here, Ron? So now you want the player of the year to be decided based on games which occur after its been pretty much decided? Your argument becomes more and more bizarre the further I read it. . There was me thinking that Celtic had a sparkling post-xmas run in Europe there, inspired by Robbie Keane.... No, wait.... my head hurts.... . He got no service in what is probably Celtic's most crucial fixture of the season and he isn't Diego Maradona...... Dear oh dear. Was the lack of service he saw due to a particularly effective and defensive and midfield performance by some Rangers POTY candidates? Were you on the sauce writing this stuff? . So Jobbie Keane got Mowbray the sack. How does that make him a POTY candidate? So his only positive is that he helped prevent Celtic from being over 20 points behind at this stage of the season? :shakeshead: You betcha Ronnie - they'll be cacking it when the mighty County come to town! . So there are plenty of worthy candidates, yet you can't bring yourself to consider them because they're all Rangers players? I can sense the bitterness eminating from your words... . Finally, some realism. . Pish. He is not a better goalkeeper than Allan McGregor. He is not a better defender than Boughie or Weir, nor a better midfielder than Davis. Are you attempting to mask the Celtic team's inadequacy by overstating Keane's individual contribution? IT MADE NO DIFFERENCE. No, because he made a decisive contribution to the outcome of the match. Keano has not had that influence over Celtic's season. So what exactly are you saying? That you agree your whole article is pish? I'm surprised your editor lets you do anything other than make tea. :box:

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What a load of pyscophantic narrow minded drivel.

To move from the current model to full fan ownership is too big a jump for me. Any fan ownership model would need to include all supporters groups with open transparent governance structure which doesn't appear to be there at the moment. Added to that, as Totti el al have said, what relevant experience do they have? I can't help but feel the RST is getting a bit carried away with itself. They should have simple achievable goals within a long-term strategy. For me, their first goal should be to regain the club's trust, then seek to unite the support. At this point, fan representation on the Board might be achievable and palatable to the then owners.

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Funny how these hacks now feel able to get stuck in now that Mowbray has gone. Too scared to before that?

Agreed. Future Rangers captain! (If that's not premature?)

Welcome Bandit. Is Smokey joining you?:spl:

Agreed. He's been pretty consistent in a Rangers shirt despite his 'limited ability'.

I would be for it too. But as Walter and Ally have been saying in reaction to Mowbray's demise, football is a results business. And if 4-5-1 doesn't deliver reasonable results, he will get criticised. IIRC, we spent most of our 6 CL games this season playing that same system.

I alluded to the same earlier in the thread. Clubs from the major nations will not let their stranglehold of the finances go without a fight. If Platini is serious,, I could see talk of breakaway leagues, refusal to play in UEFA competitions and much more.

Its an interesting idea but it seems pretty flawed from the limited information the article offers. If you try to put limitations on how much somebody wants to invest in a football team, they will find ways of legitimately working around it. It would be like tax avoidance. No matter how much companies and individuals are taxed, those who want to, will find ways of legitimately avoiding it. What would stop the owner of a club also becoming its main sponsor and giving the club a bumper flexible deal each season to add to the money that is invested? Perhaps the way to address this in part would be to introduce solvency rules, similar to those imposed on banks. E.g. clubs must have a certain percentage of reserves to cover their liabilities.

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We've mostly bounced back from poor performances this season so I reckon we might win by a couple. Think it will be tight though as I can forsee some tired legs near the end.

For a new manager, this must be the ideal time for them to come in. They can hardly do much worse than Mowbray so someone like Lambert must surely fancy himself.