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Yes. But they benefit from their infringement.

Did these swine get the benefit of their own infringement after McG's (1st) save?

Better than I thought, significantly better than I feared. A puncher's chance in the second half.

Don't listen to the Manager - the players don't.

As if, mon ami, as if!!! I don't suppose many have thought that if Scotland was an Independent Republic, then Club and Country would be able to bring UEFA to heel, and quickly. I am not quite sure how, but it stands to reason.

We don't know what happened behind the scenes, and perhaps we shouldn't speculate. Travel insurance. Surely organised trips will be covered for cancellation by force majeure, Act of God, or UEFA caprice. Independents? Surely no one is travelling without some kind of cover for accidents, medical emergencies, theft (Naples, FFS!), and the rest?

I really don't know what people expect the Club to do. It appears to me that: Poileas Alba has said you can't play on Tuesday, but you can play Wednesday. However, if you elect to stage the match on Wednesday, we cannot accommodate/police any away support. UEFA has said that the match may be moved, but if there are no Napoli fans allowed at Ibrox, then, in the interests of fairness, or, dare I say it, 'sporting integrity', no away fans will be permitted to attend the reverse fixture in Naples. And them's the rules. The Club, I suppose, could complain, lobby, or even do a Stugeon, stamp its feet in irritation, and denounce a scapegoat, but none of these options seem like to move Poileas Alba, or UEFA. Perhaps the Club should have tried to have the fixture switched to a later date, leaving the game in Naples unmoved, but that would need the agreement of UEFA, Napoli, and broadcasters, to do so, and consensus on an alternative date, in a crowded calendar, made worse by the ridiculously timed World Cup. Would that help any travelling Napoli fans, booked for Glasgow this midweek?

You'd want it turned on, and not off, but I take your point.

A focus on competing, and making a big splash, in European football, at the expense of the home market, would make sense, perhaps, if the aim was a disposal.

We might have sold them.

Compo has a point (perhaps for a change): they defend like the White Heather Club.

Presupposing that all our players are fit and on form, and assuming that we intend to win the game, what is the best XI to start a run of the mill SPL fixture?

Consider the following : Can the team defend? Can the team attack? Can the team retain possession of the ball in the middle of the pitch (or, indeed, anywhere else)? Do the manager and his coaches appear to know what they are doing? If you answered 'Yes' to these questions, you are an idiot, and may return to bed. If you answered 'No' to these questions, ask: a. What, then, is the purpose of the team? b. Where does it go from here? Answers to: The Manager, The Famous Glasgow Rangers, Ibrox Stadium, Edmiston Drive, Ibrox, Glasgow. Try to get your responses in before the weekend, as there is a tricky away fixture to play.

I suppose Big Sam is out of the question

What does the Captain actually do, in this day and age of highly paid, highly skilled, and highly trained, professionals, who do not need to be whipped to pursue a win bonus?

The Champagne Charlies are forking out 200+ GBP per match, apparently, and most of them will not even put a reasonable dent in the Club's mark-up. I don't like it, but it is what it is.

Indeed. But that was last season, and, if I was a betting man, I'd think that there was some disconnect within the Club, and consider my positions accordingly.

The only panty wetters I have seen recently were on the pitch at Piggery Place on Saturday, at at the Amsterdam Arena tonight.

The perspective I should like is for others to say, "Wow! Look at the fuckin' Rangers!"

Winning points in the League, our focus, as you have it.

Walk a while, walk a while, Walk a while with me, Walk a while, and in a while Maybe we'll agree....

Well, it's just that we fucked that up royally...

And his domestic results are... shite, and he is living off his Euro results last season

Were we not supposed to be doing that last week-end?

I agree. But what did Chelsea do?