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And note that the study marked Man Utd out as the luckiest team despite the claims of Mourinho that everything goes against them. If I remember correctly Liverpool could have missed out on a top 4 place on the final day if they hadn't won. Yet with the table adjusted to take erroneous decisions into account they would have finished a comfortable second 10 points ahead of Totenham in third.

I would have preferred that too. Pull the yahoo stunt of making the opposition stronger when playing them but a first pick down when playing us.

Yep, I had a look around the usual suspects and as usual they're obsessing on us more than they are on their own team. The hubz are actually at least as obsessive as the yahoos. I think it was a couple of days ago they had 4 seperate threads on their front page all obsessing about the Rangers. Not a word about how strong a team this is shaping up to be mind you and the current obsession has been around a long time. They're skint, where is all the money coming from, every stone should be turned to find out, if they don't make the Europa league group stages it's admin 2 by the turn of the year. There appears to be a real fear that we will indeed make that group stage and an unspoken suspicion among them that we appear to be capable of making it. That would have them literally frothing at the mouth especially so if we turned out to be the only Scottish team in Europe beyond the Summer holidays. Though I think that unlikely, who might the yahoos face to get to the Europa league? Derry City I think.

If there are presumably Barisic and Katic could tell us about them. I think this is a very good signing indeed and it's going to be all the better for him and for us that he has a fellow countryman he was apparently already friendly with here.

I'm hoping that the presence of Gerrard gives them some food for thought. Everything he says is going to be reported and scrutinised a lot further afield than Scotland and presumably specific incidents will be scrutinised. We have ideal circumstances to make any questionable decision making a lot more uncomfortable for certain parties. Might be the case that Stevie was aiming for his recent comments to go far outside the Scottish bubble to be examined by people with no possible cause for bias.

Would love a similar study to be conducted on the SPL. Full Article

Odd choice unless he's just itching to get back into the game and there are no other offers. Did Crystal Palace fit that list?

I think the lottery pretty much sounded the death knell for all the traditional football pools, Littlewoods etc.

Best news I have heard all day is Ryan Jack released from hospital with no apparent problems. If it's not questionable red cards taking him out of our team it's questionable challenges.

The window still has weeks to go and Gerrard said just last week another 2 or 3 still to come in. If we consider Barasic a done deal there may still be another 2.

Was it not the sheep about to usurp us? No wait a minute they don't have two bob to throw around far less 2 million. No wait a minute that's Rangers who are skint. I'm so confused.

Numerous sources. Google it and take your pick.

The earlier news stated that it was a done deal providing the medical threw up no problems.

I haven't heard of anything Walker has been saying but if it's as venomous as it sounds here he's going way over the top when all I presume he is talking about is the club using what they thought was a legitimate tax avoidance scheme. You would think it had been a paeodphile ring leaving countless ruined lives in it's wake being covered up. But to be fair i'm sure Andy would be all over that if it had ever happened in Scottish football.

I see no point in not appealing it.

So they might have issues trying to punt a player who isn't fit to conduct a medical.

I want us to make the group stage not just for the obvious financial reasons and the buzz it would create for the rest of the year but for the sake of Gerrard too. What a start to his managerial career if he can get us through this. An achievement that would make it all the more difficult for the usual suspects to continue their digs at him. They would then be taking underhand digs at a man who didn't just boost the finances of Rangers but gave the national co-efficient a boost in the process. As far as i'm concerned this would be a far greater achievement than that of Rogers after getting the yahoos to the CL group stage following the failures of Deila.

Gerrard said right from the start that he's not going to be a fixed formation guy and that it's going to be horses for courses. There may even be the opportunity to rotate from game to game depending on the opposition just to give players game time.

It would appear that the one sure thing to come out of all this will be the end of Wallace career at Rangers. I hope he can find another club before the window closes because he wont be getting a game at this club.

I don't anticipate the window closing before that's rectified. But there is always a chance that if the right quality just isn't available at the right price we may have to go with what we have till the next window.

Difficult to see the captain being dropped but I like the fact we are now developing a situation where choosing who to start may be a conundrum. And I doubt Flanagan came here to sit on the bench. He's trying to resurrect a career not put it on hold.

He has 1 goal and 2 assists in this Europa league qualifying campaign and of course one of his assists came against us on Thursday night.

I was reminded by his penalty yesterday what a magnificent striker of the ball he is. Think he took just a couple of steps and got terrific power on it.

Yep, seeing that from multiple sources now. Medical underway as we speak.