Bill

It was because he turned in performances my granny would have been ashamed of. He was given every chance, started well but couldn't or wouldn't sustain it.

Nope. All it would do is create yet another layer for Celtic to manipulate.

I’m not hugely convinced VAR would stop the lunacy from Parkhead and it’s associated media trash. VAR would simply be another source of bias against Celtic and would have to be controlled if possible, attacked if not. Who would decide who sits on the VAR panel? Could they be trusted to be impartial? Before you know it VAR would be just one more Masonic conspiracy.

These bastards are really worried now. Having assured themselves they had years stretching ahead littered with trophies, they then entered a phase of total denial that, while things might be improving at Ibrox, any realistic challenge was impossible for years to come. Suddenly they're confronted by the truth, that Rangers could well take the title this year and it's full blown panic. Total hysteria. No lie is too outrageous, no deceit too shameful, anyone and everyone is fair game.

Not so in cricket. The umpire makes his decision strictly in response to the appeal of the players. That decision can then be reviewed but again only at the appeal of the captains.

That's not leniency. That's effectively collusion.

"a grade one whistler says" Sure he does.

I'd want more too and I'd be delighted if it was a lot more. However we need to sell if we're going to keep on improving the squad and it's just a fact of life that the demand will always be for our better players. Besides, maybe we could even get someone who can take a decent corner kick. I doubt he'll actually be allowed to go but it will be interesting to see how our current management team conduct any negotiation.

I'd be sorry to see him leave but I'd take £7m for him all day long.

They've even got Fat Smell Andy on the case, so it must be serious ? SNP hypocrisy over ‘Go Home’ jibe is laughable by Andy Muirhead On Tuesday, the Scottish National Party’s leader at Westminster Ian Blackford was abused by Tory backbencher Nicholas Soames MP as he stood to discuss the Brexit fiasco. Soames, the grandson of Winston Churchill, told Blackford to ‘go back to the Isle of Skye’ – abuse that stunned the SNP politicians who showed their feelings quite clear towards the Tory denouncing his comments. But while I stand with the SNP on this disgraceful show of abuse from a politician whose party is lurching the country towards chaos, I have to laugh at the SNP’s hypocrisy. For well over a decade, Celtic fans have been targeted and abused by Rangers fans chanting ‘the famine is over why don’t you go home’ – in relation to Celtic’s close ties with Ireland and in reference to the Irish Potato famine. Millions of Irish died due to the British Empire fuelling the famine by committing genocide and the forced emigration of millions more. Yet the SNP which has been in power since 2007 has done little to combat the rise in sectarianism and bigotry – other than implementing the now defunct and discredited Offensive Behaviour in Football Act which targeted ordinary football fans using their right of freedom of expression and did little to curb the sectarian singing and anti-Catholic hatred that emanated primarily from the Rangers support. In fact, the Act saw the Police target specific fan groups using kettling tactics that are used specifically for crowd control and heavy-handed policing with doors being kicked in as if it was a drugs raid, rather than to arrest someone for singing a song. In 2009, saw a Rangers fan jailed for singing The Famine Song and despite appealing his conviction, Lord Carloway ruled that the song was racist and his conviction for breach of the peace, aggravated by religious and racial prejudice stood. Former Celtic and current Hibernian manager Neil Lennon has been the target of sectarian hate and violence ever since he signed for the Parkhead side in 2000. The Northern Irish Catholic has been subjected to physical assaults on Glasgow’s streets and has been attacked on the touchline by a Hearts fan who was disgracefully cleared of assaulting the then-Celtic manager after an Edinburgh Sheriff Court jury the case against him not proven – despite a wealth of footage [broadcast worldwide] showing the assault clearly. Lennon was also the target of two Rangers fans who sent bullets and homemade bombs through the post to him and other prominent Celtic supporters. This season Lennon once again was targeted with sectarian abuse by Rangers and Hearts fans again with the leading Scottish anti-sectarian and anti-racism charities failing to make a statement in support of him altogether. An article on Commonspace, quoted a 2017 survey by Show Racism the Red Card Scotland which ‘reported 56% of respondents had experienced anti-Irish racism, while 60% had witnessed instances of anti-Irish racism’. It also highlighted that around 93% said they had not reported the incidents to Police Scotland. We live in a modern society, in 21st Century Scotland and yet there are elements who are living in the 17th century freely abusing and attacking people because of their faith and perceived faith based on the football club they support – all the while the SNP merely pay lip service when the cameras are shoved in their faces or when an election approaches. Our game is stained with the sectarianism and bigotry that is on show every single week and with the SPFL and Scottish FA doing nothing to punish clubs – due to their own rules – the SNP themselves either remain silent or throw a few more quid to organisations that do little to comment on the majority of instances of bigotry, sectarianism and racism – picking and choosing who to support and when to issue statements over. So while I am disgusted by the comments of Nicholas Soames MP – who is following in the racist footsteps of his grandfather – I for one can only laugh at the SNP’s outrage when they do little to curb the racism, sectarianism and bigotry that many face every single day in Scotland. This weekend will see such hate-filled songs being belted out at McDiarmid Park as Rangers visit St.Johnstone and once again Scotland’s politicians will remain silent on the matter or worse still praise the fans for their behaviour despite tens of thousands belting out their bile. Why should I take my son and daughter to football games in Scotland? Why should they be subjected to hate-filled sectarian and bigoted bile because of the team they support and over their religious beliefs? Can the SNP answer me that once they have come off their pedestal pointing their fingers at Soames? https://thecelticbhoys.com/2018/12/22/snp-hypocrisy-over-go-home-jibe-is-laughable/

"The best advice comes from people who don't give advice."Matthew McConaughey

If Rangers supporters don't know by know-how to treat rumours then there's little point in offering advice.

There's a mental illness among Aberdeen fans. It seems a profound and incurable sense of inferiority does that to people.

I find a sense of relief that the stream of leaks from Rangers seems at least to have abated and the media is having to conduct its own rumour factory with respect to our club. I like it that no one at Rangers has taken part in the Defoe/Davis circus. I like it that we can trust our own people not to spin stories for effect. I like it that we hear nothing from Rangers until there is something to hear.

On the money

They’re rank with the stench of fear and hatred. It’s a very peculiar madness, ugly and vile.

If we were 10 points off the lead I doubt we'd be after them but as it stands we have a chance of winning this league and have to go for it ... otherwise what's the point of it all.

Are there still folks around here advocating Rangers find a way to appease the BBC and settle the “banning” dispute?

Deflectors on maximum captain.

No problem. Let's keep on reducing each other's away allocation until every seat at Ibrox has a decent human being on it.

The Rangers board has shown a lot of balls getting us this far. If they dig even deeper in their pockets and take us to the league title they’ll be due as much credit as any player or manager.

Figures

The Scottish media will focus on Morelos’ indiscipline and sectarian dongs - anything but the football and Celtic getting their arses tanned at Ibrox.

Ryan Jack “arrived” a long time ago

The reality is we won one game today by the narrowest margin. We won it well and it’s great it was against our main rival.... but it’s still only three points and brings no trophies. Let’s keep our feet on the ground.