Bill

Great post.

Shocking from an Aberdonian. They have more than enough linguistic challenges of their own without importing the west coast inability to handle the past participle.

Gone. ?‍? "Would have been gone through with a fine....." Weegies eh? ?

The evidence Rangers claims to have could easily be revealed to an independent and qualified third party under a binding non-disclosure agreement, who could give a general opinion as to the importance and potential impact of the information disclosed.

They're the original virus. They enter every part of the national fabric and replicate. Before you know it they've overwhelmed the whole society and reduced it to a corpse.

Unfortunately it's only "all three should go"

Left or right footed?

That'll be the independent investigation concluded then and the entire affair put to bed. I think we can take it that no further questions will be accepted or answered. It's good to know there was nothing to be concerned about after all.

I think social distancing at football sounds is a pipe dream. Ibrox will either be shut to the public or open to 50,000. As for live TV screening of games, it seem inevitable this is what will happen. Whether that is on terrestrial TV or pay-per-view is another thing. In either case, I think the only way it will happen is under a general contract that sees income divided between all clubs and some mechanism that gives Rangers and Celtic a preferential share. What I'd like to see is clubs given the right to broadcast their own games.

It doesn't matter what actually happens over the next year or so. The point is the board should be hoping for the best and planning for the worst - from what we can see so far it seems they haven't got beyond the first part.

There's much in what you say. I used to work for a well-known "company doctor". A Helensburgh man, now sadly passed away. He was the sort of guy who would be sent into an ailing company by the administrators or main shareholders to halt the decline a prepare the organisation for sale or recovery. Invariably his first action would be to lock away the cheque books and put a stop on all bank accounts - to immediately stop all cash outflow. Only then would he even think about ongoing operations - and those thoughts would always be about cutting costs and turning assets into cash. Now that's not the situation at Rangers but many of the same broad principles should be employed right now. Rangers has no idea how long they might have to endure having no income, so should be prudently assuming the worst case. Maybe they are already. I just see no sign of it.

It won't matter what fanbase we have if there's not still a club for them to support.

Rangers could quite easily survive a prolonged shutdown ... but only if we accept we may have to and take appropriate actions. My big fear is that the board and its executives are sleepwalking into neglect.

Yes you can

Are you Buster in disguise? ?

They won it according to the criteria laid down by those running the league. The fact those criteria were ultimately different from those set out at the start of the season is merely an academic point. You could say the fact the team at the top of the table didn't win the trophy is evidence that the new criteria were based on the fairest possible principles available. It's OK to say a championship should be decided over the full planned number of games but when that's no longer possible then the contest should either be abandoned with no outcome (which I think is what should happen) or some other basis agreed. If the latter prevails then it's pointless to say such-and-such team didn't win it. They clearly did.

That is a very good question and I suspect you are right. There's a growing bandwagon to curtail social distancing measures and I'm unclear whether it's the usual sheep syndrome or just a reflection of the lack of stamina for anything in current society. I'm fairly clear about one thing though - if we lift restrictions to soon and too quickly, the repercussions will be a damn sight worse than persevering until infection rates are much lover than they are today. People need to show some bottle and get through this, not f*ck it up at the half way stage.

Ooh professor, thank you.

Out of interest, if Rangers was 13 points ahead in the league after 30 games and the competition was cancelled, after all we've been through these last 8 years, can you honestly say you wouldn't want the title awarded to Rangers?

Buster being creepy

It’s wasted on them. They don’t care.

I think Barry Ferguson was summed up when he left Rangers at the top of his game to be an average player in England and return to rangers half the player he had been. The nature of his exit from international football and his conduct during the le Guen era further enhanced his reputation as a downmarket ned.

I remember turning to my son that day and telling him to savour every moment because it would never be as good as this again.