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On Thursday Rangers get the chance to right a huge wrong when Prógres Niederkorn come to Ibrox. I don't need to tell anyone that they surprisingly put us out of the Europa league at the first Qualifying round two years ago. Prógres had never won a game in Europe and scored just one goal. Even although Rangers only managed a 1-0 win at Ibrox it was unthinkable that a team who had never won in Europe and had only ever scored one goal could put the mighty Glasgow Rangers out of Europe. Niederkorn soaked up Rangers early pressure and gradually started to insert themselves more and going into the second half looked more and more dangerous. Disaster struck for the Gers as Olivier Thill crossed for Francoise to finish at the near post. Shortly after that a Sebastian Thill free kick, crossed in at pace, managed to avoid everybody and the ball ended in the back of the net. Rangers had incarcerated what is judged as their worst ever European result. Pedro Caixinha the Rangers manager stood by a hedge telling Rangers supporters that things would improve but after our worst ever 1-5 home defeat against Celtic and losing to Aberdeen for the first time in 26 years his days were numbered and after more poor results he lasted a total 229 days in the job before he was sacked. He goes down in history as the Rangers manager to last the shortest ever time. This was the Rangers team that day. 1 Foderingham 9 Miller 2 Tavernier 4 Cardoso 8 Jack 18 Rossiter (Substituted for Herrera at 77') 5 Wallace 24 Bates 19 Kranjcar 20 Morelos (Substituted for Dálcio at 45') 21 Candeias (Substituted for Windass at 58') Substitutes 7 Dálcio 11 Windass 15 Herrera 23 Holt 25 Alnwick 33 Waghorn 40 McCrorie Looking at that team only Foderingham, Tavernier, Jack and Morelos are still at the club. Replacing Morelos with Dálcio at half time in retrospect is an "Oh my god" moment. Rangers are a completely different beast under Stevie Gerrard so dare I say we really should be strong favourites to win this tie at ease. Therein may lie the danger that even under Stevie G our biggest problem has been with teams soaking up pressure and hitting us with a sucker punch. While under Caixinha with Kranjcar in the team Rangers never ever looked fit and that is completely different to the team at the moment. Rangers look like a super fit high pressing dream machine. Surely with this team lightening cannot strike twice in the same place? Looking at the Prógres team that played against Cork they still have five players who were involved the last time round. The standout name is Sebastian Thill who scored their second goal that knocked the Gers out. Their goalkeeper Sebastian Flauss was injured in the first half the last time we played them but unfortunately we hardly made their substitute keeper make a save. I hate using the word revenge as it sounds as if you have to win at all costs for past performances. I think we should have that mindset in every game whether we lost to a team in the past or not. I am pretty sure Stevie G will have that mindset as well. European money has become a major player on how much you can improve your team and Dave King has stated in the past that we need to get through to the European play-off rounds on a regular basis to keep improving the team to get to the level we need to be at. We really can't let teams who can't even play in their own stadium get in our way. While I have already booked a hotel in Luxembourg for the return game I will be happy to go there with the tie already decided by an emphatic win at Ibrox. Picking a Rangers team is a nightmare at the moment as we have two players for every position. I think McGregor is making a lot of mistakes at the moment so I will go with: Foderingham Tavernier Goldson Katic Barisic Davis Jack Stewart Jones Arfield Morelos To be honest I am not a Goldson fan and would prefer Edmundson and Katic but I think you can set Goldson's name in stone to play. Come on the Gers, get intae them!

David Edgar said that he thought this was not over and could go on for years. All avenues have not been exhausted. Rangers are also suing SD for 3mil that they say they owe us.

We will be learning if anyone is coming or going to the two top leagues in England in the not too distant future.

The modern footballer has to be flexible these days. There is no such things as an old fashioned winger. They have to defend as well as attack, come inside as well as outside. As people say Candeias struggled against the 10 man defences. I think he still had a part to play but obviously Gerrard has given him a message that his game time will be reduced.

It's only words and words are all I have To take your heart away

Just remember he will be basking in the sun when our baws are freez'n off.

Yes I would rather of kept him but he seemingly wanted away himself. I guess that is why he was left out of the last Euro game. Oh well time to move on.

Is the footprint of the same size?

There is not a surge of people at one time. The reason Ibrox was built as it is was to get people on the the street as soon as possible without queuing and a build-up of people. An escalator would cause a build up of people and could start a crush. When Willie Waddel built the stadium at first he said there will never be the chance of another crush at Ibrox and designs since have been based on that fact.

I was impressed at Schalke where the biggest climb is outside the stadium with just a slow gradient up to the gates. after you are in the stadium you have to go up or down which meant far less of a climb,

Escalators would be murder and dangerous with so many people at once. At the end of a game you would have a queue for hours'Not an option in my eyes.

That guy from Eufa was murder at English, Gamea rounda Homea, Shocking for such a high ranked person. It is better than my German right enough and I have lived here 6 years.

61/2 hour 629km drive for me or 245euro's flight from Dusseldorf. Fancy doing the drive actually. I can do that on one tank so say 100 euro's on diesel. Anybody know what the roads are like in Denmark

4 FC Midtjylland (DEN) away first game.

Have you ever sat up the back at Dortmund it is twice as bad. You need an oxygen mask. Against Celtic in December last year I sat up the very top of the Club deck and can't really remember any issues except the climb. I am not sure if I could see the nearside touchline or not but i was too nervous and happy to worry about it.

I suppose the crusaders are the easiest followed by the Finns. AZ are always a technical team who can blow hot and cold. I really would want to dodge Wolves at this stage and possibly Warsaw but we should be OK with the rest.

If Celtic don't upgrade their midfield we will win it at a canter. If they do that then i will reconsider my choice.

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Don't forget to tune in to Colin Armstrong, Christine Sommerville and myself at 9.30 this evening.

I hope so. I can't believe clubs consider paying millions more for Tierney.

I doubt we would have him mate if he was 22. We can't even match Chelsea for a 16 year old.

I am not in the know mate I just remembered your posts on the subject. I probably listen better to you than your family do.

I am still pissed off at him for scoring that 6th goal and beating me for a correct score. Hang him I say!

It costs me 17 pound 50p per month for unlimited. You would be better taking that for a month and cancelling it after the month is over. You would get all the matches inside that month.

When I first moved to Holland the price of a flight to Scotland was almost 800 guilders. Once you bought the ticket you got 400 guilders back to supposedly book a hotel. Nobody did of course. I would have thought we could get something like that worked out that someone puts in a massive bid which Ashely won't match and get paid back in another way.