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http://www.setanta.com/portal/article/football::european?open&articleid=06bc312956e2d4618025722c005d997a Just how the hell are we going to compete with that? It's getting beyond a joke now.

But he contributed to the opposition attacks by giving them the ball and when he does so he leaves a lot of space behind him...

But it is about average for an experienced Rangers first team player who plays regularly for his country. It won't break the bank either and is less than half of what Ricksen was on.

I thought Clement looked a bit dodgy and lost the ball on several occasions. He shows promise but isn't anywhere near the standard of Fergie of late.

Evening times is usually not available till 5pm to try and get you to buy the paper... and it doesn't print at weekends.

That's what I meant by "it's easy to bring out the bigot card"... Although he could have a point if it's just Lithuanian players that get booed and no Scottish player who plays badly gets booed. As an aside, it's pretty self destructive to boo your own players while they are still playing. Boo at the end yes, but you can't motivate the team by doing it before they're even on the pitch. The same goes for us.

I presume you mean "condemn" instead of "condone"...

That's good news.

I think a big part of that is that Lovenkrands and Ricksen are no longer taking them. They were both woeful at it.

To those that were there was there any monkey noises made by Rangers fans to black Hearts players? We have been accused of this by a Hearts fan and I want to know if it's bollocks or not. If it's true then I'm pretty disgusted at and affronted by these fans. If not then I want to have a go at the Hearts guy.

Lol!

I think someone needs to look at the footage and time the ball boys. Then take another 5 games from that night at random and time the ball boys there. Finally do a rigorous statistical analysis to see how far our our boys were from the norm. If there is a significant discrepancy then maybe we deserve to be punished, but maybe the most appropriate punishment would have been to add on an extra minute or two at the end of the game.

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In my memory, Kanchelkis had four or five good games for us, the rest he was pretty much a passenger. Never value for his 5.5M fee and astonomical wage. Comparisons to his days at Rangers are not positive in my eyes. Now the Kanchelskis of Man U - that's another story...

Funny on the same day they are accused of racism by their own club... Not to say they are racist but it shows you can pull out the bigotted card any time you like without explaining it properly. The patheticness of the article is that it doesn't explain what it was exactly that was bigotted... It's easy to go on about battle cries but what is wrong with that? Gerry McNee thinks that following your team to Dublin is sectarian..., Spiers thinks Derry's Walls and the Sash are sectarian, the Tims think the bouncy, the national anthem, the Great Escape and the Dambusters are sectarian... A load of people think the use of the Irish F word is sectarian when it's used by Celtic fans and some Irish to decribe themselves... So, if someone is going to accuse us of sectarianism, please would they include the offensive words and explain why they are so offensive! I'm not saying Rangers fans aren't offensive but it's just too easy to sling mud without explaining yourself. There are many songs I'd like to get rid of but I'm not going to take mock offence at songs that although are nothing to do with Rangers, are not sectarian in any way.

That's how the big man prounounces it himself. I listened very carefully quite a few times while watching the Rangers crossbar challenge. The vowels sounds are very short though and the consonants sort of run into each other. So just say Prooshow, very quickly but slightly dwell on the "sh" and you'll be pretty close.

He does seem to be a bit of a liability sometimes. I'd take Pressley for free and on a modest wage (say 12 grand a week) for a year and a half.

I can't see why just because players played for another SPL team means they are not good enough. Goram and Kenny Miller played for Hibs, Gough and Druncan for Dundee Utd, McCoist for St Johnstone, John Brown from Dundee, Ian Ferguson from St Mirren and Davie Cooper for Clydebank. Then there's Caniggia and Novo for Dundee, Boyd for Kilmarnock and Ian Murray for Hibs, Davie Robertson and Stevie Wright for Aberdeen. Weren't they good enough? Brown and Thomson play for Hibs and they are two of the most outstanding young talents in the country. Dundee Utd and Aberdeen produced fantastic talent for years. Celtic are flying high and three former Hibs players in their squad. You have to start your career somewhere and if we're signing 30 year olds from these clubs then I could understand the point, but not the youngsters. Far from making yourself, closer to these teams, it is easily argued that cherrypicking from the other teams separates from them by make you stronger and them weaker. This also keeps the money in Scotland allowing SPL teams to buy from lower divisions which gives them money to invest in youth. Spending tens of millions of pounds of Scottish money abroad has never been good for Scottish football as whole. There has been a snobbery against Scottish players that has been around for a while and caused the SPL to be flooded with average foreign players no better than their Scottish counterparts and thankfully that has been changing recently, Hearts appart. Lets pick players on merit, not nationality or standard of their previous team.

Hibs are the form team in the league at the moment and so we shouldn't take them for granted, especially as many a decent Rangers team has lost to a lucky goal from a poor Hibs team. The Hibs acid test will be on Sunday against their Glaswegian Irish counterparts.

Marvin Andrews is no longer praying for us... He said: "I'm not praying for Rangers; God has used me to do good things for Rangers but I am not there now." Coincidence???

It would seem a bit risky to put him in from the start in such an important game - although all games are very important now. I'd rather he got a run in the reserves before throwing him in.

Some good points there.

I don't expect a penny from DM's pocket, he hasn't done it before (unless you count swapping cash for equity) and so I doubt he'll do it now. What we need is for him to manage Rangers finances with a far more open mind. He single mindedly, wildly over borrowed and overspent due to a very unprofessional and naive "chasing [of] the dream", now he is single minded about eliminating the debt no matter how that affects the performance and success of the team. He's done the Daddy Bear, now he's doing the Mummy bear, what we need is the Baby bear - everything just right... He's a bit of a Thatcherite in that he swings too widly in financial decisions, thereby creating boom and bust. To emulate the stable economy of today, we need many small pre-emptive changes and tweaks to our spending policies.

This is probably the easiest occasion we'll have to beat Auxerre. I'm not saying we'll do it but it will be a poor performance to get less than a draw -unless the Frenchmen play out of their skin.

Barry and chilled bear, I think you missed my point completely. I think a minutes silence OR applause are BOTH reasonably appropriate for Bobby Shearer. It's reasonably arbitrary which one you pick. Thinking logically, my own PERSONAL conclusion is that the applause is slightly more appropriate for an entertainer without a tragic death. However, the thing that I believe is WRONG is using the fact we have a silence for 1.1M young soldiers killed tragically in the world wars while defending their country, as a reason that an old man who died of natural causes should have the same - and only because he played football for Rangers for a short part of his long life. I'm not arguing that he shouldn't have the same, I'm arguing against the reasoning. If that's being self righteous then shoot me (by the way that's a cheap shot to use against any moral argument, like shooting the messenger). If you want to argue that we should do it as we've done it for other players, then THAT is a valid argument, if tempered by the fact that we don't always have to do the same thing forever. I think if I die of natural causes at a decent age, I'd rather be applauded than have a silence and if Shearer’s family did indeed choose this for him, then I can highly empathise with their wishes. The decision may or may not be due to not trusting the fans but as there are other valid reasons it's hard to be conclusive. Besides, even though Rangers fans have an impeccable record for silences, it only takes a couple of idiots in the home or away end to spoil it. Would you rather have your remembrance as a tumultuous applause or a dignified silence that is interrupted by a numpty and the resultant boos? But the disappointing thing is that the whole thing has already lost a bit of dignity to me due to people complaining about the applause and using it as a stick to beat Celtic fans and other enemies of Rangers.