Bill

That stage of the season when rotation starts. Good to see Barisic on the bench - even better to see him on the bench ?

There's a simple solution available to everyone. Don't listen to it.

The issue of shutting down football isn't about players becoming infected, since the impact on the wider population will be close to zero. This turns on crowds and so long as thee are none this is a non-issue.

Rangers 3 Livingston 0 FGS - Kent

Even in Tier 4 there would be no need to stop football, any more than there was when the EPL resumed in June with no adverse consequences. If football is shut down again it will be due to either incompetence or megalomania ... or since it's Nikla, very likely both.

I wish you luck with it but I'll be very surprised if the past turns out to be any kind of guide to the future. Bookmakers and their customers are in the business of using form to credit future results. I'd just as soon leave it to them. What I would like to see is a detailed analysis at the end of the season.

I do like trawling through historical statistics in sport. It's always useful to gain a better understanding of how we got where we are. However, I'm far more concerned with the future than the past and unfortunately I've yet to find any statistics that tell you what's going to happen from now on. Far too often I see people drawing conclusions from statistics and projecting them forward. If that was anything other than futile then sport wouldn't be sport.

The central issue is money - where it comes from, how much there is, who shares it. If a European Superleague ever came to pass then the Champions league would very quickly become a second tier affair with greatly reduced funding. Major sponsors and TV companies would fall over themselves to engage with the new body and the lion's share of football money would be beyond reach.

That's bound to come. Exclusion isn't for the mega rich.

I'm not against change. In fact some changes are badly overdue but not changes that are so obviously intended only to increase and concentrate wealth within a small number of elite clubs, especially when the decisions to change are taken exclusively by those recipient clubs themselves. The structure of football in my lifetime has been dictated by a wish to accrue wealth and power and deny the same to the vast majority of clubs in all countries. The upshot is an almost total lack of competition and a ridiculously uneven distribution of wealth. Before I start to sound like a convert to socialism, I should make it clear that competition should reward winners more than losers and equality of outcomes would kill the game stone dead. What's wrong isn't about the game on the park, it's about TV rights and global marketing. It's about farces like the "Champions" League allowing more clubs from some countries to snout in the trough while actual champions from other countries have to squabble among themselves for a couple of months for the right to be cannon fodder. So much of football isn't about football at all, with most clubs being assigned second or third class status before they even kick a ball. Decisions are being taken solely for the purposes of excluding most clubs from any chance of competing, any chance of putting the already-rich at risk of losing their money-status in the even they can't win on the park. It's so corrupt, so far removed from any sense of sport or fair play that if this is what you think football is about then you should seriously consider your priorities. Unless Rangers are involved, I wouldn't even consider turning the TV on to watch European football.

I saw it once at Muirton Park, Perth in the late 60’s. Can’t remember who did it though.

Very difficult choice this time but in the end it had to be Ryan Jack who was constantly involved in the key areas of the park yet hardly put a foot wrong all night. What a midfield squad we have now!

That doesn’t look like someone who will still be in a job a Easter.

That’s the way it should always be seen. Celtic won’t be rolling over anytime soon but that doesn’t mean we won’t get the better of them this time. As the saying goes, it’s all about the Rangers.

Back to back home defeats. Heart rending stuff furra sellick.

Wonderful, just wonderful. Mr Gerrard is building expectations out of hope.

If the premier league is cut short it certainly won't be because of any material effect playing football in empty stadiums has on the Covid crisis, which is to all intents and purposes ... none at all.

Even with our resources, transforming a lower league team into Premier League champions is a hell of a task. Sometimes to achieve a winning mentality you first have to experience failure. I agree with you, things seem to have moved on from last season - partly it’s new players settling but I suspect it’s also about old players realising how much they themselves needed to change their ways. Tavernier, Goldson, Kamara, Arfield, Davis all seem to have pulled themselves together and the confidence they take from that is clearly being reflected in performances and results.

It's like an ant and a flea arguing under a stone at the far end of the garden - hard to give a shit about.

This might impress the big sponsors and media companies but it might finally alienate football fans.

There’s no need for the league not to be completed. None at all.

Standard Liege 1 Rangers 2 FGS - Hagi

In the interests of fairness hope that would be applied retrospectively. Also, since Celtic didn't turn up on Saturday, will we be awarded an additional goal?

FFS you can smell the agenda from here.