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56 minutes ago, Dave M609 said:

Absolutely no way we would be able to afford him even on a free, he has been touted at clubs like Liverpool, Man U and Arsenal. Most likely scenario I could see is Arsenal cutting their losses with crispy hips and making Frasier a LWB

Might depend in some scenarios. For example transfermarkt values Fraser at around £15 million while according to this link he's on around 27K per week at Bournemouth. AFC Bournemouth 2019-20 Payroll

So let's say Rangers were to sign him on a 4 year contract and almost triple his wages to 75K per week. With a view to selling him after 2 years with Euro experience thrown in for £15 million.

The two years wages would cost around £8 million but if everything came to pass in the way I envisaged it's a profit of £7 million.

3 hours ago, craig said:

They can’t Jerry mander it though.  Which clubs in too flight are going to vote to lose a home tie against the OF every season ?

Perhaps the ones the ones who are informed by fan clubs that if you nix that don't expect us to visit your ground next season. If there even is a season in which crowds are permitted.

The likes of Heart and Hand and Gersnet could get a movement on such a proposition going by disseminating the idea which might then filter through to the fan clubs for consideration. 

Putting this here simply because it has Andy Halliday in the title. Do any of you have any experience with editing wiki pages? If so could you fix the problem with Halliday's page? You will see what the problem is just by having a look.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Halliday

I think I read somewhere that in Scotland there is a caveat somewhere in the rules which mentions an incomplete season giving them scope them to award prizes as it stands when it ends. And apparently they don't have that caveat in England.

I wish it were the other way around, in Scotland while it's probable the yahoos would have won anyway it's nowhere near as certain as Liverpool being champions in England if the season had completed.    

They're CL quality. None of us would confidently have bet on reaching this stage at the beginning so it's been a good run. And I still think we could have gone further with a kinder draw. They're capable of winning it.

Be surprised if it isn't a penalty. I would want one.

27 minutes ago, Franc Ergs said:

Goes back to the ot then .

 

Surely null and void is genuinely the only way ahead.

I see no other way if 'sporting integrity' is applied on all not just Rangers. What about the Championship? Are DU declared winners and automatically promoted at the expense of Hearts?

And if so what about the runners up? They miss out because play offs can't go on? So then Hearts would be relegated but not Hamilton? Null and void is the only way out of this if sporting integrity means as much to them as it does when it's aimed at Rangers.

1 hour ago, der Berliner said:

Seems like the SNP wants all events above 500 spectators cancelled or postponed, starting on Monday. ?

 

Somewhere from beyond the Clyde, a brown dog barks that Celtic shall be declared Champions if league is cut short. 

And what about the bottom end? Hearts and Hamilton declared relegated within a few points of those above and 8 games remaining? 

It appears ever more likely football seasons may be cancelled all across Europe. The way I see it that means little to Rangers financially as the bulk of the domestic league gate money is in the form of season tickets, banked long ago.

Out of the Scottish cup so no revenue to be lost there. Already made around £18 million in Europe so did very nicely on that front. As for the rest yahoos aside I can see that it may indeed have dire financial consequences for them. But all I can feel on that is boo hoo.

We all know what the response was when Rangers had financial issues and it wasn't sympathetic. On the contrary it was hilarity and glee. Which has in fact continued even to the present where there are still constant wishes for a Rangers financial collapse. For that reason I can't find a shred of sympathy for them.

Who is skint now and who is laughing now.  

The club got lucky in a sense. Leverkusen and yahoos at home are 2 of the most financially lucrative games left this season. And they both appear about to escape any upcoming ground closure due to virus. I would guess those two games have to be worth at least £2.5 million or so of income which could have been lost.

Bayer Leverkusen are monitoring advice on the spread of coronavirus but may host Rangers in their Europa League last-16 tie in an empty stadium.

The teams meet at Ibrox in the first leg on Thursday, with the return leg in Leverkusen seven days later.

Germany's Health Minister, Jens Spahn, has called for gatherings of more than 1,000 people to be cancelled.

North Rhine-Westphalia, the region that includes Levekusen, has the highest number of recorded cases in Germany.

Armin Laschet, the leader of the region's government, said that the state intends to follow the Health Minister's advice, with Saturday's Bundesliga game between Borussia Dortmund and Schalke potentially being played in an empty stadium.

"I will let the clubs decide if they want to play without spectators or if they prefer to not play at all," he said.

Paris St-Germain's Champions League last-16 match against Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday will be played behind closed doors because of coronavirus, but RB Leipzig's home game against Tottenham Hotspur will be played in front of spectators.

Meanwhile, the Israeli FA say their preparations for the Euro 2020 play-off semi-final against Scotland on 26 March "continue as usual" despite coach Andreas Herzog having to self-isolate.

The Austrian is forced to remain in his homeland for nine days due to travel restrictions because of the coronavirus, meaning he will miss a national training camp for Israel-based players.

Players playing outwith Israel will head directly to England for the pre-match training camp four days before the match at Hampden, but no request has been made to Uefa to postpone the fixture.

Uefa said it is "closely monitoring" the situation regarding coronavirus and will look at decisions taken by national and local authorities which may affect fixtures.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51803987

I know for a fact at goes on at some level. I know a guy who played for a Scottish league 2 side at the time who was let's say striving to manipulate matches he was playing in for betting purposes.

2 hours ago, Frankie said:

Yet, without playing well per se, we actually didn't do as bad as I thought later in the match and how we didn't score at least once in the 90mins was quite incredible. 

Exactly what I thought of it. On another night with pretty much the exact same performance it could have been a comfortable win and there would have been talk of 'turning the corner' rather than the current debate. In saying that I wont feel comfortable until Ross County are beaten.

2 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

Regards our form before the winter break I think it just goes to show how reliant we are on an on-form Morelos. That needs to change if we’re to challenge for the title next season.

I think that may be the key. How many times did he pull it out of the bag for us? Just one example is it was him who scored the crucial goal to qualify us for the Europa league groups. And when he's misfiring so are the team overall. We need more than one prolific goal scorer.

15 minutes ago, weebluedevil said:

Don’t even think we tested the keeper that much actually. 31 shots and no goals = terrible performance. We lost to Hamilton, but we played well. The future is bright right enough. 

No one would dispute it's a terrible result. But again, if the exact same performance had resulted in a few of the shots going in there would have been no thoughts of a terrible performance.

Hearts was a terrible performance. And even if we had fluked a late win at Hearts it would still have been deemed a terrible performance.

This was one of those days when nothing would go in. It reminded me of the famous Scottish cup game where Adrian Sprott did the same thing after a horrific blunder by Dave McPherson. I was at that game.

1 minute ago, weebluedevil said:

I didn’t pick you up on the dominance (possession stat) but to say it wasn’t a bad performance - speechless 

Well if you want to label a lack of finish a poor performance obviously that's a matter of opinion. I doubt anyone would have been calling it a poor performance if the exact same performance had resulted in a few of those shots going in. 

3 minutes ago, weebluedevil said:

I was obviously watching another game in a parallel universe 

We had 69% of the possession and 31 shots and 16 corners. That's dominant. The problem was no finish.

I'm giving up on the title now. It hasn't been that bad a performance as such they have been dominant. But it's gone now.

And we're 1-0 down. They're going to close up big time now.

The play has been okay as such just can't finish. Continually 'knocking at the door' as Tom keeps saying.

Apparently the shirt has been anonymously returned, probably taken by a yahoo given the circumstances.
 

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A rare football shirt stolen from the National Football Museum has been returned anonymously by post. The 30-year-old Celtic top, valued at about £600, was taken after a man entered the Manchester museum without paying on 1 February, police said.

Dumb enough to steal from a museum that's certain to have CCTV. And didn't pay to get in. All adds up. 

Much as I love Alfie I think we have reached a point where he has cost us a number of crucial matches. I feel the Hearts match would have been a different game if he had been in it. And this isn't the first time a crucial game has been affected by his indiscipline either reducing us to 10 men or being unavailable.

In saying that I would still like to keep him as long as possible in the hope he gets his act together. 

If he's going to be sold which would appear likely now he has to be played to extract the maximum value from any deal. He's currently damaging his own chances of a move to the upper echelons in England and somebody should be pointing that out to him.

He's probably already a millionaire and coming from such an impoverished background I have come to wonder if he has begun to lose motivation. Likely already has more money than he ever dreamed of as a young boy growing up in Cerete selling fruit from a wheelbarrow with his father.

Well let's think outside the box. If people think there's a mentality problem when being kicked off the park by the hammer throwers have a motivator so to speak in the dressing room who will deal the culprit at halftime. You think those guys are kicking you hard? You don't want to have to deal with this guy.

53 minutes ago, CammyF said:

As do the coin throwers, they should be identified and banned for life. 

 

I've (like 1000s of others) followed Rangers home and away since 1983. I've witnessed defeats on par and much worse than yesterday whilst drunk, having a few beers and stone cold sober. I've never, repeat never felt the need to throw coins (or any other objects). 

 

Find them and  ban them.

But heaven forbid don't label them as anything but fans. That's worse than the coin throwing in some minds.