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I must admit I am now getting to really like the change. I love the way when copying an article the foto's come automatically with it. And! I haven't deleted any more threads recently.

GERS IDOL Ibrox legend Nacho Novo wears Rangers top as he recovers in German hospital after heart attack A friend revealed medics fitted the star with two vital stents — after discovering he had a potentially fatal blocked artery By Ben Archibald 14th January 2018, 9:20 pm Updated: 14th January 2018, 11:53 pm NACHO Novo wears a Rangers top as he gives the thumbs up from his hospital bed after his heart attack. The Ibrox legend’s girlfriend Stephanie Heaney, 33, revealed he is getting “stronger every day” as he recovers in Germany. 3 Novo on the mend wearing his Rangers shirt Stephanie praised fans as well as nine-in-a-row idol John “Bomber” Brown for their support during a post on Facebook. The model said: “Thanking everyone for the well wishes and messages and the Rangers football club and all the staff for their support especially John Brown. “Nacho’s totally overwhelmed by the support and looking forward to getting home. “And he’s sporting his best Rangers top, getting stronger every day.” Supporters told of their delight at seeing Novo, 38, on the mend following the scare. Jamie McGirr wrote: “Get well soon mate. Can’t keep a legend down.” While, Janis Reid McKeown said: “Absolute legend! So glad you’re on the mend.” Laura McCahill-Scott replied: “Get well soon Nacho, love the top. You’re a strong fighter.” Mark Reilly added: “Glad to see he is doing well, Stef. Wouldn’t be surprised if he had boots on under that blanket.” 3 The Spaniard with his girlfriend Stephanie The Spaniard has been in a Berlin hospital since he collapsed at a charity football tournament last Saturday. Former Gers ace Derek Ferguson, 50, told how he spotted the striker “struggling” after a match. He said: “I noticed near the end of our last game that Nacho had come off and was leaning over the barrier. “You could see he was struggling. I didn’t read too much into it as a few other guys with good fitness had struggled. Rangers legend Nacho Novo reveals he’s been learning German after heart attack as he shares pic from hospital bed “We were in the dressing room when the physio, who was with Nacho, got the paramedics in. “John Brown, who was in charge of our team, went to the hospital. “I couldn’t stop thinking about Nacho.” We told how his ex-Light Blues team-mate Fernando Ricksen, 41, who is battling with motor neurone disease, joked: “Nacho, at your age you need to take it easy.” A friend revealed medics fitted the star with two vital stents — after discovering he had a potentially fatal blocked artery. 3 Nacho playing football just minutes before heart attack Stephanie caught the first flight from Glasgow to keep a vigil at his bedside as he underwent the emergency operation. She revealed last week Novo had started to learn the language and was testing it on nurses. She said: “He’s starting to pick up a little bit of German. Danke.” https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/2092435/rangers-ibrox-nacho-novo-heart-attack-hospital-germany/

I wonder if he was biting on a stick when he tweeted that.

Surely nobody believes singing the Billy boys is a part of the Rangers Heritage. It is a good anthem and it does get the crowd going and I personally like hearing it but to say it is a part of our heritage is pushing the boat out a little. Get rid of the fenian blood and it can be sung again without fear of arrest. Whether rightly or wrongly.

i will be honest while i think Cummings is a good player i think he is the same style as morelos. I would have preferred a Moult type striker to compliment Morelos and offer a plan B

David Edgar is also saying he has heard from well positioned people that Cummings is further advanced than we think and that Hamilton want 750k for Docherty and we offered 600k so we are not far away from them. He thinks Alves will be leaving to let Martin in. Cardoso stated that he wanted to stay.

He needs to improve his positioning and not get caught out in an advanced position and his 1 on1 needs to improve.

6pm

Tavernier apart from his goal has had a nightmare of a tournament. He was definitely at fault for the second goal.

Does it not increase the capacity in 1=1.5.

I have been in the Dortmund standing area and I can assure you it does bring a lot of atmosphere into the stadium there. It is not for me as I am small and have to jump about to see the game but I think we should have it for the people who want to stand and sing. I am sure that there will be far more than the Union Bears take up the offer. I think it will be easily filled.

I will let you know my dogs listen to me. Unless they see another dog then they are gone,

The commentator kept saying it was Foderingham that came on in goal. I kept shouting at him that it was Kelly but just like the wife he never listened to me.

The Corinthians will be a much harder game as it is their first team squad.

ByGary Ralston So, that will be Rangers heading into administration then. What do you mean they’ll make the announcement on Monday? My sources (a friend of a friend of a friend) was packing the bags of Dave King’s mum in Tesco and heard her on the phone to her boy in Johannesburg. It’ll be announced on Wednesday morning at 10.37am on the button. Apparently, it’s a pre-pack deal (the administration, not her shopping) and the Ibrox chairman will receive £10million, walking away to be replaced by a consortium fronted by Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. Further investors will include Bradley Walsh, Paul Sinha, Anne Hegerty and Mark Labbett, offering conclusive proof Rangers do, indeed, welcome The Chase. As Rumours go, this latest one has been hanging around longer than anything recorded by Fleetwood Mac - and has enjoyed just as many re-releases. Like the first cuckoo in spring, swallow in summer and robin in winter, the sightings of ‘Rangers in administration’ are certainly consistent and, time and again, have proved to be nothing other than pie in the sky. King and the Three Bears - Douglas Park, George Letham and George Taylor - have invested heavily to wrestle control from the discredited former board and put their club on a firmer financial footing in the past three years. Conservative estimates put the total at around £20million, much of it from King himself, who has given a further undertaking to auditors Campbell Dallas that he’s good for another £7m to underpin business losses over the next 12 months. Campbell Dallas are hardly a firm of back street bookies. If they felt there was any likelihood of those sums being unavailable, they would not have signed off in the annual accounts on Rangers continuing as a going concern. Speaking of the bookies, they apparently closed their satchels on the prospect of Rangers being relegated this season, foreseeing a hefty points deduction and player fire sale if they fall into the abyss. These, of course, are the same bookies who closed the book on Alex McLeish being named new Rangers boss last month when he had never received so much as a phone call about the position. Rangers are in debt to no one but their investors, all of them wealthy fans who have pledged to convert much of their loans to equity when a new share issue is launched, most likely later in the year. Forget the fact they’re supporters, why the hell would they pull the plug and plunge the club into further financial chaos, knowing they would lose almost everything they have put in? By the end of this year, King will have committed around £40m of his business fortunes to Rangers - half of which was frittered away, much to his disgust, by former chairman David Murray. In the past 12 months alone he has written a £3m cheque to rid the club of the odious influence on Mike Ashley and £1.5m to UEFA to ensure his team’s UEFA licence. He has bankrolled Pedro Caixinha, however botched the project, and only this week signed off on a package for Jamie Murphy that will ultimately cost his club the guts of £2m. There was £1m set aside in an escrow account to pay Aberdeen compensation for Derek McInnes and almost the same again on the table for a salary had the club’s former midfielder decided to leave Pittodrie for Edmiston Drive. Undoubtedly, King must be held to account. He rode roughshod over the Takeover Panel, for example, who recently concluded he acted in concert with the Three Bears and have demanded he offer 20 pence to all shareholders for their stock, only around two-thirds of their current value. King has launched an appeal, which will keep it kicking around the legal long grass for a few months to come. He’s confident of his position. If he loses? He’ll have to fork out around £300,000 for a prospectus knowing no-one will sell for the price he is legally bound to offer while his family trust fund, New Oasis Limited, ring fences £10m just in case. The geography of the Rangers board is far from ideal with King in South Africa and Alistair Johnston in the States, while Park spends much quality time in Spain. Other directors have bases in London and Hong Kong and if sound doesn’t travel in a vacuum, mischief can certain be made when strong boardroom leadership is lacking on a daily basis from G51. That’s something King may do well to consider and address in the coming months but hold on, a call’s just coming in - he’s just been spotted at the Ladbrokes on Copland Road. He’s slapped £100 on Pep Guardiola at 500,000-1 to become his first-team manager next season. Administration? Aye, right. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-heading-administration-thats-more-11834964

This was the Brazilians Development team they never brought their first team. I woulddn't hold my breath waiting for a new manager. Unless Mutry has a mare between now and the end of the season he will be offered a new contract.

Goodnight Craig.

Numan was never a central midfielder. He may have been a left sided Number 10 if you want but he was more wide than central and I don't give a shit what he wrote as I watched FC Twente for years. If you want to be right then okay. Arthur Numans first game in turning from a central midfielder to left back was a nightmare.

Sorry i don't have the contacts you do.

I watched him for years Craig and I can never remember him as Central midfield. Yes his number was number 10.

I am not saying Dalcio is a player but I will say that one of the worst performances of a winger getting put back to a wing-back was Arthur Numan. He turned out not bad.

We have had most of the play but not really been dangerous. Murphy had a couple of nice moves and I agree Goss looks a not bad player. Tav looks like Mr Bean on Holiday and Kranjcar should be smoking his pipe on a rocking chair on a Croatian veranda. Apart from that a typical Friendly game.

And Rangers FC