Danny

The captain issue isn't isolated to Rangers at all. English clubs are exactly the same, so are other Scottish clubs, and Italian clubs as well. If anything, possibly France is the odd country out.

I'd say 'bordering' on impressive rather than outright impressive. But yes, he's probably been our most potent attacking threat - which isn't saying much at all really given how much we've struggled.

I don't have any daggers, and I'm not seeing any from S_A either. We're just not exactly ejaculating over Aluko's performances as some seem to be. I like him, he's been decent and he certainly hasn't been a failure. But imho some are utterly over rating his influence on the team.

I'm not asking Aluko to do anything, I'm disagreeing with the majority who seem to imply he IS at that level already! We lost away to Killie with him in the side.

And yet our results don't match up to Naismith's presence. With Naisy in the side, for example, we trashed Celtic. With Aluko in the side we meekly lost and he was withdrawn after 66 minutes. Aluko is talented, but not the presence, influence, and overall workhorse Naismith is.

S_A's getting a doing here, and while I understand our desperate need for creative quality on the wings, I'm not sure Aluko is quite the sensation he's being portrayed as by the majority. Don't get me wrong, he's got skill, and he's bloody quick, but he's an 8th of the player Naismith is and that our results since signing him have been no better than they were prior to it (and after Naisy' injury) supports the notion that he's not quite the Messiah many consider him to be. My issue with him is how patchy he is. For one brilliant piece of skill he then switches off totally and disappears. If he was as good as he's being rated as, he would not have spent so much of his career thus far at Aberdeen and he'd have more than one cap for Nigeria. Our squad is better with him than without him, but I don't really see him as a great deal better than Weiss who was similarly great in patches then utterly anonymous in others. If he could keep up the good stuff more frequently rather than disappearing so frequently he'd do a lot more damage than he does.

Problem is Boca's only been at Ibrox for half a season. Has he earned the right to captain a club of this magnitude after such short service? (btw, I'm a big Boca fan, probably Ally's best signing, I just don't know if he's earned the right - but I do agree Davis is not a good captain)

But even if there is evidence, it would be disputed regardless. As has happened with the BBC documentary on Whyte. Evidence isn't convincing unless it supports a case you're already on the side of. In modern times even hard evidence, documentary evidence, often doesn't sway opinion. Anyone who dislikes Bain would not consider his view OTT. It really just depends which side you're on.

I never sued Rangers for 1.3M quid. That lowers the opinion of many of a man many already regarded to be less than honest in his dealings. Furthermore, to be pedantic, as the chap has suggested, he used the word 'criminal' as opposed to saying Martin Bain is one.

Why is it when someone makes a post with a strong opinion about something they believe, they're often met by the whole 'proooooooof' rebuttal. And a slightly snide invitation that they should begin a self-serving campaign of justice and should acquire handwritten or printed documents to hand over to the powers that be. A bit of a nonsense reply. Why can't people disagree with one other without the PROOOOOOOOOF fallacy being brought in?

Ah right, he was being less literal than I realised.

This 'bubble' has been going since the days of ITV Digital. That was as far back as 2002 and earlier iirc. If Sky crapped out, ESPN would pick up the scraps. ESPN, far as I know, are worth a shitload more than Sky are. But intelligently decided not to go the Setanta route of competing with them in Europe, and instead opted to work alongside them.

Youngsters and trialists. Oh what joy this window is filling me with.

Yeah right! Not remember when we got tied with Leeds - the English laughed and 100% expected their boys to make the group stage. When we won it was an absolutely massive shock. Sadly that was as good as it got for us in the 90s, 9iar aside we were miserable in Europe - I dunno where the respect you claim came from.

From what I understand it doesn't quite work that way. It is them, you're right, but verification happens when an account gains credibility and 'media exposure' plus a significant number of thousands of followers. The site (Twitter) automatically verifies an account once it begins to publicly emerge that it's really the person. Of course, occasionally the site gets it wrong and the real person disputes it, which gets said account closed down. Which has happened a few times. It has nothing initially to do with the players' clubs verifying the accounts, albeit they may do as well.

Wasn't well known to me Just had a look at his autobiography and he says he started supporting us when he was 7 or 8.

You mean the one on STV or the 4 DVD box set (which I got for Xmas)?

I don't really see what club other than a lower league (or more likely non-league) side would want a 41 year old defender, but it seems to me Weir is holding on a bit too much and really should concentrate on coaching. Good luck to him though. And I have to say this is the first time I've ever heard that he supported Rangers as a boy. I hope the official site isn't doing a Robbie Keane to him there.

I'm not sure I agree with the logic of the cash though - no one knows how the format would work. Would we end up in non-league and work our way up, meaning it's still 20 sides in the EPL (like we'd get there ) getting an equal share of the spoils? I doubt we'd go straight into the top league - frankly it would be embarrassing if we did.

In both clubs' current state, we'd probably reasonably compete in League 1. Very optimistic article to say the least. The Championship is a far far stronger league than the SPL, with only the OF being contenders to compete in it. But the truth is neither squad is particularly impressive and would probably struggle to face equal (and stronger) strength sides week in week out. Because therein is the crux - in the SPL we face one equal side and 10 weak teams. In the Championship it would be all equal and maybe better. I'm not even entertaining the notion of the EPL because we'd be crucified there.

Not a great game, Milan derbies are usually a lot better than that. Milan were terrible, and had zero incision in the final third. Pato was reekin' pish and he'd have joined PSG if it wasn't for the fact Silvio Berlusconi's (incredibly hot) daughter is pregnant with his baby (allegedly). They're most certainly an item. Kinda gets in the way.

I didn't actually see the report, or did I, but that was only the BBC. No one else did that.

Fuck me, why the fuck did I mention Barry Ferguson...

Do a Google m8, see if any stories actually use Rangers allegiances in relation to the lads who ended up in court over it.

My first favourite player was probably Trevor Steven. I absolutely loved the guy. In fact there's no 'probably' about it.