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Aberdeen need to be taken seriously because McInnes has delivered season after season despite having to rebuild the squad on a a pittance every summer. Surely to goodness we’ll pull away from them this season but they are due respect until that happens.

Say what you like about the pond life at BBC PQ but the joke’s on the likes of us who have to pay for this biased juvenile crap thro the outdated licence fee. in the real commercial world where BBC PQ would have to earn its income, nonsense like the stuff 26th foot refers to would have been binned long ago. I can honestly say I’ve never listened to any of the sports programmes on BBC Radio Shortbread and the pond life on these broadcasts would have crawled back under their stones long ago too

I, for one, enjoy 26th taking on mantle of reporting back for the rest of us. Keep your enemies close and all that...

Another test. How to approach a home second leg already a goal to the good. Getting the balance between defending and attacking will be difficult.

It’s fair to say the original deal was a shocker Darther and the Board were in a difficult position but this 2017 deal doesn’t look much better. In some respects it looks worse particularly in regards to the rolling and matching clause. What we don’t know is what was agreed out of court a couple of days ago and its also not clear whether we can just walk away and pay £1m to Ashley if the fresh negotiations break down on disagreement over what constitutes material terms for example. But from what the judge said it is only the material terms which can vary in any new contract. Whether or not the rolling matching aspect is s material term relating to duration is probably one for the lawyers. It’s noticeable JD have not said anything yet either but that’s probably wishful thinking. No doubt they are just waiting for the SD deal to be signed before formally saying anything. Whilst folk appreciate it was an incredibly difficult situation I think a lot of the anger is that following the £3m payoff we were given the impression in 2017 that there was more of an equal partnership between us and SD and we had paid another £350k to lawyers to clarify our obligations when money is needed for players. We don’t have what anyone would call a fair contract if all we are doing is changing the price and framework for the 3 areas SD wanted broken down in detail. If you add in the disastrous financial outcomes associated with Pedro many folk think the Board have not done very well over the last year. I wish bonus schemes for my annual performance had been as generous as those for some Rangers Board members.

Presumably the JD deal had confidentiality clauses of its own, so how could Rangers share it?

I think we should have signed lafferty last season and I'll be happy if he does show up this season. He has shown he can score goals in this league and important goals when it matters most. As long as he has screwed his nut which I think he has then he'll be an asset to the squad overall. If you look around and what else is available for the same amount of money then it is probably not a lot. Stevie G cannot rebuild this team in one transfer window and will need to build in stages, if lafferty helps fill avoid until something better comes along further down the line then it's a good bit of business.

It amazes me that Rangers feels a need for a retail partner at all and certainly not at this particular time.

An early goal for us would help.

I don't think what they have done in the last few seasons has any relevance to this season. This was our record against them last season with a manager who wasn't working out and a problematic defence. won 2-1 away won 3-0 at home won 2-0 at home drew 1-1 away Took 10 out of 12 points from them which was a better league record against them than the yahoos had and I see no reason for that to be any different this time around. What has to be different this time around is the stuttering to also rans particularly at home. And so far the pre season and Euro ties seem to suggest we have gone a long way to solving the defence problems. I simply don't see them as being a major challenge to us. But as you say it's all speculative until the season gets up and running for a quarter or so but taking everything into account I feel my speculation is the most likely outcome. They weren't a challenge to us in head to heads last season and shouldn't be this season either.

What would happen if Rangers did there own retail again and offered themselves the best price possible? Surely SDI would have to match it or walk away.

The problem is that I neither the SFA nor SPL/SPFL has rules or guidelines for such stuff, unlike - AFAIK - the US chaps concerned with the Penn State affair had. They would have to utilize some flexible paragraph and make up rules as they go along. Not that they are inexperienced here, as we all know. Problem 2 would be that those ruling about it would have to have guts the size of a sabretooth tiger, as there will be enormous pressure being put on them ... and a certain club will ensure that if it gets punished, anyone remotely concerned with similar affairs will be chased too. And we won't see any sort of objectivity either .... I mean, just look above. One club's name is excluded wherever possible, yet ours thrown in at leisure, even if we acted instantly and in line with the law. IMHO, this will only get dragged into the open if someone BIG from outside Scotland takes it up and causes a reaction.

I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking this BG but you must be awful uncomfortable down in England’s green and pleasant land....

I will never listen or watch any output and content from BBC CSC, hopefully others take heed and the listening and viewing figures continue to plummet. This thread however keeps me interested in their death throes, look forward to their last Uuuuuuuuuuuughhhh, keep up the good work 26th.

It’s possible that the deal is tapered mate so for example we get 100% of the first 60000 sales which pays off the 3m at £50 per shirt and then reverts to SDI favour after that or some other sliding scale is in place. we can all invent variations but neither SDI nor Rangers have come out and explained to the fans what a great deal it is for Rangers fans who want to support their club and why we should be investing in shirts. I doubt they will because it’s probably a rubbish deal for fans who want to help Rangers in what are still turbulent times. The more you think about it and the more we understand about how kit prices are broken down (they cost about £5 to make) the more clear it is that buying kits is purely emotional and does not help us right now. Perhaps we should divert that emotion to other areas than kit. Answers on a post card but it ain’t SDI.

I need to buck up though. David got more laughs than me this week. I will need to try this arithmetic thing.

We cant be seriously hampered by something that doesn't yet exist? As it currently stands there is no new contract the Club have not released a statement to suggest the negotiations have ended or that we indeed have a deal. All we have is that his Lordship has instructed both parties to get to the negotiating table.

Depends who you believe & as already posted we will probably never know

I wouldn't worry about the arithmetic, it will have been the Betfred Cup and it's rules that confused you. What I do worry about though, is when messageboards or podcasts start speculating about the number of points a set number of league games will bring. I have never seen it go well. Our good runs have tended to come when I haven't seen such.

I think we should be grateful that 26th of Foot lends us his ears, so regularly. Of course, one has to ask just what kind of previous deplorable sin-filled lives he led, to have such a burden upon him in this one.

http://www.beinsports.com/en/football/video/steven-gerrard-the-boss/939054/amp?__twitter_impression=true Enjoy

In my opinion it should be the club's that employed these beasts that should pay compensation plus the deduction of titles , cups won whilst the beasts were at these clubs and if that includes our own club then so be it .

Sorry Tam not enjoying it having a bloody good laugh and celebration

It's quite simple Keef. Pep owns 90% of the lad, all four limbs and torso; Brenda's only interest is Daniel's head and arse.