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Not sure about you Frankie.

What inconvenience would those attending the game have? They show every other game on Rangers TV and only to those outside Britain so what would the difference be? They will be recording it anyway to show it later so I don't see what you mean really.

Celtic 43.000.

I just didn't see what he did tonight. He was rarely on the ball and just seemed to jog about the midfield. He never got near the Denmark players. Gordon done well and I still feel unfortunate we didn't sign him and Mulgrew was also decent, Tierney was probably the pick of the bunch but I really don't see these players stopping us without kicking us off the park.

Funny the rush to watch a dead club.They haven't been turning up all season.

Bulgaria U19 1 - 2 Scotland U19: Kiltie and Hardie secure win Scotland Under 19s ended their Elite Round group campaign with a deserved win against the Bulgaria in Croatia thanks to goals from Rangers’ Ryan Hardie and a penalty from Kilmarnock’s Greg Kiltie. Scotland were already out before yesterday’s dead rubber in Kostrena after two defeats to Belgium and the hosts without scoring a goal, and it’s now ten years since Scotland last qualified from an Elite Round. But Scot Gemmill’s side deserved to win yesterday and he praised his side’s performance. He said: “We haven’t become a bad team overnight – we have to hold our hands up and say Croatia were better than us, but I don’t think Belgium are. “It was important for the players to show some character today. “That was the main objective because we’ve not won our first two games and credit to the players because they did that.” Scotland dominated at the start and grabbed their first goal of the tournament in the 15th minute. Celtic right-back and Scotland captain Jack Breslin delivered a cross from the edge of the box and it was flicked into the net by Hardie. But the Bulgarians crept increasingly into the game and they levelled seven minutes before the break after Celtic’s Joe Thomson was caught in possession in midfield and their captain, Aleksandar Georgiev, lashed past young Celtic goalkeeper Ross Doohan. Scotland took the lead again with 12 minutes left after a Breslin cross was handled in the box by Georgieve and Kiltie stroked home the resulting penalty http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/scotland/bulgaria-u19-1-2-scotland-u19-kiltie-and-hardie-secure-win-1-4084786

I admit I am not a total Brainwasher but they were both brought up with Rangers strips and Rangers thinking. When they were growing up there was only really Dutch football on the TV. All their friends were mostly Twente supporters. Going to games with them was a big pull. My son became a Feynoord supporter when he was in hospital in Rotterdam and he played football with some of the Feynoord players including Mario Been. With his ties with the Rotterdam hospital (Who saved his life) and Feynoord players regularly coming to the hospital he picked them as the team to support. My daughters friends are all Twente supporters so she goes with them sometimes and looks for their result, She doesn't like football enough or have the money for a season ticket though. Having no other teams to support and being able to watch Rangers on the TV\computer these days will make a massive difference. I think. me not being able to watch Rangers when they were young and having live Dutch football from the beginning probably didn't help either.

Brilliant read Frankie. I have also said you cannot kill what is in the heart. Unfortunately due to my geography my kids, although having a soft spot for Rangers, one supports Feynoord and the other FC Twente, so my line has been broken. Just for information it is a 50-50 toss up if FC Twente will be given a professional licence next season. They could be the next European team to disappear. A member of the Dutch FA has already said he will be surprised if they are playing professional football next season.

One thing we also have to remember in this list is Kenny McDowall didn't want to be Rangers manager and Delia won against a team that didn't want to play.

Seems Rangers managers do OK as debutants. All this crap says nothing though.

Excellent. Gave me a lump in my throat.

IT is almost 20 years since Rangers won a record-equalling ninth consecutive Scottish title. The achievement was secured by a less than wholly familiar line-up, with injuries depriving manager Walter Smith of key men such as Andy Goram, Richard Gough, Stuart McCall, Jorg Albertz and Ally McCoist during the run-in. Here we look at what became of the 11 players who clinched the championship with a 1-0 win over Dundee United at Tannadice on 7 May, 1997. ANDY DIBBLE The Welsh international goalkeeper was signed on a short-term contract from Manchester City to deputise for the injured Goram and made his Rangers debut in a crucial 1-0 win away to Celtic on 16 March. Dibble made just seven appearances for Rangers but kept another of the most significant clean sheets in their history in the match at Tannadice which was on the day before his 32nd birthday. He left Rangers at the end of the season, joining Sheffield United, and continued his itinerant career until hanging up his gloves at Accrington Stanley in 2006. Dibble, who marked his cameo role in Rangers’ historic title win by having a ‘9 in a row’ tattoo, is now goalkeeping coach at English Championship club Rotherham United. ALEC CLELAND Signed from Dundee United in the summer of 1995, Cleland quickly earned the approval of Rangers supporters when he scored in a 2-0 win at Celtic Park on his Old Firm debut. Solid defending, rather than scoring crucial goals, would become his trademark as he held down the right-back slot in Walter Smith’s side for the next three seasons, including the memorable campaign which saw nine-in-a-row won back at his former club. Cleland followed Smith out of Ibrox in 1998, joining him at Everton but his four years at Goodison were hampered by injury problems which eventually forced his retirement as a player in 2002. His coaching career has included brief caretaker manager stints at Livingston and St Johnstone. He is now the under-20 coach at the Perth club. DAVID ROBERTSON A powerful and pacy left-back, Robertson joined Rangers for a fee of just under £1 million in 1991 and was a key figure in the last six of their nine successive title wins. He made 251 appearances for the club, scoring a handy 19 goals, before leaving shortly after the completion of ‘9 in a row’ to join Leeds United. Injuries disrupted his time in English football and he returned to the north of Scotland where he had managerial stints at Elgin City and Montrose before relocating to the USA where he is currently a coach at the Sereno Soccer Club in Arizona. Last year, Robertson emerged publicly to question the then Rangers board’s wisdom in turning down a takeover bid from his friend, the US financier Robert Sarver, whose son he had coached in Phoenix. READ MORE - David Robertson: Money problems ‘just an excuse’ for Rangers’ flops GORDAN PETRIC The powerful Serbian central defender made his initial mark in Scottish football at Dundee United, helping them win the Scottish Cup in 1994 and deny Rangers a domestic treble in the process. He moved to Ibrox the following year in a £1.5 million deal and became a regular starter in the side which secured the ninth consecutive league title. Petric left Rangers in 1998 and after brief spells with Crystal Palace and AEK Athens, he returned to Scottish football the following year when he joined Hearts for a couple of seasons. He finished his playing career in China before returning to his homeland to become a manager. But after resigning as coach of Belgrade club Zemun last year, Petric switched to working as a football agent. ALAN McLAREN While the injured Richard Gough collected the trophy post-match as Rangers won the ninth successive title, it was McLaren who was their captain at Tannadice that night. Signed from Hearts in 1994, in a deal worth around £2 million and which saw Dave McPherson move the other way along the M8, McLaren made less than 100 appearances for Rangers in his four years at the club as he was afflicted by a series of injuries. They eventually forced his retirement at the age of just 27 in 1998 with Rangers showing their appreciation for his truncated but valuable service when they awarded him a testimonial match against Middlesbrough the following year. McLaren is now an ambassador for the Football Aid charity and also appears as a regular analyst on Rangers TV. JOACHIM BJORKLUND Swedish international defender Bjorklund was signed from Italian club Vicenza at the start of the season which brought Rangers nine-in-a-row. Combining power and poise at the back, the man inevitably referred to as ‘Jocky’ by the Rangers fans was an influential performer during the campaign. Bjorklund moved on after just two years at Ibrox, joining Valencia in the summer of 1998. Although he finished his playing career in England, where he had spells with Sunderland and Wolves, Spanish football would provide him with his employment after hanging up his boots. He now scouts for Valencia in Scandinavia, while also working as a pundit on Swedish TV’s coverage of La Liga. CRAIG MOORE A versatile defender or midfielder, Moore joined Rangers as a youngster from the Australian institute of sport in 1994. He enjoyed two productive spells at Ibrox, punctuated by a season at Crystal Palace in 1998-99, before moving on in 2005. Moore then played in Germany for Borussia Moenchengladbach and had a brief stint at Newcastle United before returning to his homeland to play for Brisbane Roar. After finishing his playing career in Greek football, he went back to Australia once again where he was coach at Gold Coast club Coomera Colts before being appointed football operations manager at A-League outfit Brisbane Roar last year. PAUL GASCOIGNE At the zenith of Rangers’ spending power under David Murray’s ownership, the capture of Paul Gascoigne from Lazio in 1995 was certainly their highest profile signing. While the England midfielder did not bring the Champions League success Murray craved, he did light up the Scottish domestic scene with some of his performances. Gascoigne scored a hat-trick in the 3-1 win over Aberdeen at Ibrox which clinched Rangers’ eighth successive title in 1996 and was a regular contributor of both goals and assists when they made it nine. He left Rangers to sign for Middlesbrough in 1998, before being reunited with Walter Smith when the former Ibrox boss recruited him at Everton two years later. Gascoigne’s life and career have generally been on a downward spiral since then and he continues to be seriously troubled by his alcohol addiction and mental health issues. GORDON DURIE Rangers signed former East Fife, Hibs and Chelsea striker Durie from Spurs in 1993 and he enjoyed a trophy-laden seven years at Ibrox. Durie was sometimes overshadowed by more glamorous names at Rangers, most notably in the 1996 Scottish Cup final when his hat-trick in the 5-1 win over Hearts at Hampden was not enough to prevent the match being referred to as the ‘Laudrup final’ owing to the brilliance of his Danish team-mate’s display. But Durie remained a fairly consistent contributor to Rangers’ successes of that period, even playing a fringe role in two title wins under Dick Advocaat before leaving Ibrox to sign for Hearts in 2000. He later returned to first club East Fife as manager, but resigned due to ill health in 2012. The following year, he was appointed under-20 coach at Rangers and was promoted to the first team coaching staff when Ally McCoist resigned as manager. Durie left Rangers last summer following Mark Warburton’s arrival. A failed business interest outside of football saw Durie declared bankrupt earlier this year. CHARLIE MILLER Named Young Player of the Year by the Scottish PFA in 1995, Miller was a precocious talent whose lifestyle off the pitch partly contributed to his failure to totally fulfil his rich potential. He made just seven starting appearances in the league during the nine-in-a-row campaign but his involvement on the defining night at Tannadice was crucial as he provided the cross for Brian Laudrup to score the only goal of the game. Miller left Rangers in 1999 to embark on a far-travelled career which took in stops at Watford, Dundee United, Brann in Norway, Lierse in Belgium and Brisbane Roar in Australia before hanging up his boots following a brief spell back in Scotland with Clyde. He published a well-received, entertaining and refreshingly frank autobiography last year and is now a regular match analyst on Rangers TV. BRIAN LAUDRUP Still revered by Rangers supporters as one of the most gifted and entertaining players ever to have served the Ibrox club, Laudrup’s talent illuminated Scottish domestic football following his capture from Fiorentina in 1993. The Danish forward was twice named Scotland’s Player of the Year, first in 1995 and then again in 1997 when he was pivotal in Rangers reaching their ninth consecutive title. Laudrup was their leading scorer in that campaign and fittingly netted the clinching goal at Tannadice when he headed home a Charlie Miller cross. He left Rangers in 1998 for Chelsea but struggled to make a positive impact at Stamford Bridge. He ended his playing career with Ajax, hanging up his boots in 2000. Laudrup, who was successfully treated for lymphoma in 2010, is now a pundit for Danish TV on their coverage of the English Premier League and also helps run a recreational football scheme for disadvantaged youth in his homeland. http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/rangers/where-are-they-now-rangers-9-in-a-row-clinching-team-1-4084133

I would think there is a certain own risk for a certain time that covers most injuries say 8 weeks and then the insurance would pay most of the wages. I have no idea though to be honest.

Just as a matter of interest will the insurance not pay a players wages if he is injured?

I am more worried he starts beating up Scottish women.

I am just thinking about it but the best substitution when we were 4-1 up would have been Zelalem. His ball retention skills would have been a better option than certainly Law and probably Shiels as well.

That is already been cast in concrete. Well on paper anyway. We have of course had professional gardeners in the past. Does he know his Ash from his Elder?

Is that learning from mistakes not just a cliché though. Every player makes mistakes whether he is 20 or 40. I have never seen a player that doesn't make mistakes. Every game is different and throws up different challenges.

I may be wrong in this as I was young but most of our birthday parties ended in Sash bashes. I am sure his father was belting out the sash on a number of occasions.

The story I heard from his father and mother was that the headmaster of the school had connections with Rangers and arranged meetings with representatives of Rangers. Before the meeting they contacted them to say they were not interested and wouldn't be taking any further action. His parents believed it was because of his name. The 2 stories could be true but it would be strange if his headmaster arranged things they did not know what school he went to. My father played football with his father and worked alongside his mother in the veterinary Collage. They were regularly at Birthday parties in our family. They turned from red hot Rangers supporters to red hot Celtic supporters. His mother was very bitter against Rangers.

Tavernier is absolutely fantastic going forward but his problem is he cannot defend. He completely lost his man at the second goal. If I was Delia I would be making sure I had a left winger pushing up on him.

I think it is just an SPFL tribuneral and not a court of law. I don't think we would have much legal fees.

I was thinking in the scenario of a young Danny McGrain who Rangers would not sign because of his name. Although his family were red hot Rangers supporters he signed for Celtic. If as a schoolboy Rangers had released me( Like Kenny Dalgliesh) and Celtic offered me a contract then for me I would be professional enough to make the same decision. In those days the other option was probably Partick or Clyde. In saying that a friend of mine who is now a coach at Ross county could have picked from all the big teams including Rangers, Celtic, Manu, Liverpool and Leeds(old) but chose for Partick Thistle. As you say it is your personal choice. I still think it would be stupid to rule out any move through a bias though.

While I eat sleep and drink Rangers and hardly a moment of the day goes bye without thinking about them, my professional life is different. If I only had the choice to play for Celtic or drop down to the lower leagues then I am afraid my decision would be to cross the divide. I don't believe in cutting my nose off to spite my face. Maybe you will think me a lesser supporter but by the same token I would say anybody willing to drop out of football or not get the best out of life they can because they wouldn't play for a certain team is an idiot.

Or getting as smart!