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From the Sun. Some promising comments from the manager regarding our future direction particularly in terms of player recruitment.

I think you can only had two and it was decided that the dislike type ones wouldn't be used as it annoyed posters when people disliked a post but didn't type a comment to explain why. Might be wrong on this and maybe Frankie or Zappa can elaborate. It may be possible to have something different if enough posters wanted it but I think last time it came up agree and thanks were the majority agreed options.

Prob true unfortunately. Football just a sideshow.

Even Goram made some howlers. McGregor was absolutely top notch even if that in the same class as Goram.

Can they legally do that though. Even if we have signed to no legal recourse, is there anything to stop us going back on our word and saying fuck you SFA we'll do it anyway. Would such an agreement be legally binding? How can you enforce that? Surely it goes against some sort of rights?

Somehow didn't realise the younger two had scored as many as they had. Thought it was 2 and 1 respectively, not 4 and 3. Fairly impressive from such limited playing time.

Can you"sign that right away". Legally could we not just go back on our word and do it anyway? Could they enforce such an act on us if we have signed something.

For all the negative stats and facts people can throw out about Eck there's at least as many positive ones that dont get the same publicity. First i'd heard of that record.

Especially when you consider its a friendly, whats the point in putting up with that. FUck those fans, just cost themselves the chance of seeing Italys most famous team.

Back to work today, missed the game. But that is disappointing to hear. Still first start in ages and he's not played much first team football.

A guy on FF who is apparently McGowan's mate and several people are vouching for (he had all the right info regarding McGowan and Templeton during the summer transfer window) is saying he's off to China for 9 months until we can register him in September apparently. I dont remember his posting from August/September time so can't add anything to what i've posted above and whether or not he is likely to be trustworthy.

I toyed with 3-1. Not expecting a rout though, think it will be tight however it ends up.

A decent shout on your bet there. No idea what odds you'd get for that though. Could be a lot different though if McLeod is fit to play and the flair players turn up.

Shiels, Kyle, McLeod, Little and Naismith all struggling for this one. What score lines are we predicting for this one? Struggled to a draw there last time out. Not my preferred options in midfield. Going to say 2-1.

Thanks guys. Will hopefully be partying tonight but will check these out properly tomorrow.

Anyone who has an ipad using microsoft office or that type of software? Want to use an ipad to view and edit existing excel and word documents. Anyone know if I can do that and what app is best? Completely new to this. Thanks

Shouldn't take long.

Happy birthday Frankie. Never realised it was today, early birthday present (of sorts) from Rangers!

The more people that read that the more traffic, influence and credibility he attains. And seeing as we all know it is a Rangers hating site dressed up as neutral, why people have a look at all I dont know.

I'm not over reacting. I'm making the logical inference from your post. If that wasn't your intent. Why include the foreign mercenaries stuff at all.

Exactly, and the players don't stand in specific formations outline by simple terms like 4-4-2, 4-4-1-1 etc. So to try and use that to run down the manager when there are such minuscule differences between the formation he started and the one you wanted is foolhardy.

Look at the top two pictures. Difference? Very little. And when does a team ever resemble its formation whilst in open play? never. And the problems today were not up front. It was further back which meant that any issues with the front pair weren't fully exposed. But then, the lengths some will go to to castigate someone they don't like are embarrassing. Edit; Complaints about the manager are fine. But when you are complaining we "only played 1 up front" because we played a formation that can be more easily labelled 4-4-1-1 than 4-4-2 I'm not going to let people get away with pursuing such an agenda.

Grand scheme of things what's the difference? negligible. fuck all. The manager definitely has his flaws, but criticisms of him need to be fair and based in fact. Not just easy sound bites about 4-4-2 or players out of formation when these things are either incorrect, partial truths or simplistic concepts to define difficult to explain concepts that are fluid and ever changing.

Pissing over 4-4-1-1 compared to 4-4-2 is laughable. You can equally say that none of those players are out of position. In this day and age most players dont play just one role. Look at Barca's attacking line up. They all move all over the place. To simple to moan about a dynamic system like a team's formation with a simple series of numbers. Makes it easy to bask a manager you don't like.

Who is out of position? What are our tactics set out by the manager (often impossible to know) and what would you change about them. What would your starting line up and formation be?