Devil's advocaat

Top, top quality player when he's fit. Which isn't very often.

It's one of the big parts of being a manager, knowing when to get out before the inevitable decline starts, these guys have to keep their stock high.

Someone admitting to reading the Daily Mail is the real story here.... ? I recall a few years back a particularly rampant couple having a frisson parked up in a busy local beach side car park both were put on the register, I trust this fella will be treated with the same consistent approach.

A decent enough player, but (and I've been saying this all season, not just since he came back into the side) I see no point in developing someone else's player ahead of our own. Katic and Goldson were brilliant in the euro run, and the big yin has slotted back in again during the run in. All the best, Joe.

I'm with Gonzo, get Katic back in, I'd much prefer to develop our own players than loan players, and CH isn't an area that we should be buggering about with.

Brilliant news.

To be fair, that was an away match for us, and as much as it's a shite time, it happens both ways. This isn't an away match for them, it's a neutral venue. I recall the same thing happened to ICT a few years back, impossible to get to the game in time on any form of public transport. Fans are just an inconvenience, once again.

Fuck that, we've wasted enough time and money on hasbeens from darn sarf over the years, with very little in the way of success. As said above, I have every faith our management team can work tactically to overcome such circumstances.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mareorless/status/1043950393410113536/video/1 Gordon enjoyed yesterday result at rugby park....

It's early says, but we've been to pittodrie and the glitterdome and still have a lead over them, and the sun tan Santa looks like he's trying to engineer an exit to me. Bring it on.

What a prick of a boy.

Aye, Somerset is a great wee ground, proper football.

Sounds like he's not fit, as opposed to injured? ie, he's not been playing games so Panucci decides against playing him.

How many Morelos threads do we need? ?

Was it not against AEK that Wattie had another brainwave, to play Gary Stevens on the left of a back 3?. I loved GS, but he was done after that game.

I recall a similar no mark in the 10 in a row era, Plastic whistle midfielder, coming out with the same sort of nonsense, what he was going to do to Gascoigne. These types are best ignored.

On Radio Scotland (I know, I know) the other night, someone, a journo, a little better informed that the usual indolent crew, made the point that research in Scandinavia indicated, and indicated actually quite clearly, that the incidence of injuries on plastic is not significantly worse than that of grass. I had a wee tidy up done on my knee last year, the surgeon - supposedly the top consultant in such procedures - was absolutely adamant that knee injuries on 3G and 4G surfaces, in particular to teens and younger were a huge part of his working week now, and increasing annually. Possibly down to more of these pitches around, but his thoughts were the lack of 'give' un synthetic surfaces, ie studs catch, the sub surface doesn't 'break' like grass roots would, and also the drainage, these surfaces are great when they are wet, but if it's windy or sunny, they dry up very quickly and become even grippier.

Jocks, sweaty socks et al doesn't bother me, but in a journalistic sense the jibes are as described, lazy and show a lack of coherant material to fill a column. The greatest paroqial putdown goes to the French, and their utter contempt for the English diet - Les Rosbifs. Tremendous.

Nothing to do with Rangers, should be in chat forum.

'The constant need to bring back old players is like a disease at Rangers.' I have to agree.

Ooft. No doubt that'll be Rangers fault as well. ?

Yep, also talk of him being valued at 10 million, so maybe not....

No, a few weeks ago some fickle fans would have sold him for that.

Absolutely correct, BBC Scotland is a rather bizarre arm of the Auntie. The coverage of English football really gets on my tits, I was in the car coming back down the A77 one evening a few weeks back, and their only sports story was that Willian was to stay with Chelsea. What the actual fuck does that have to do with Scotland? If I want to know that, I can listen to the national news, there was loads of sport going on north of the border, never mind some bloody Brazilian playing in another country's league. Happens all the time as well.

Coke and hookers.