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I've a lot of family living in the Isle of Lewis for example, all big bluenoses. What other form of commentary would you recommend they pursue? There are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Rangers supporters who don't attend matches, who have to work during games, who can't access any other form of coverage for matches that aren't televised on Sky or BT. My father for example, is in his mid-70s, there's no way he is every going to try and find an illegal feed on a closed Facebook group. He relies on the radio for a great deal of information and companionship and following the football is a big part of his life. He shouldn't need to be told to go and find another means of commentary he should expect to receive the one he's already paid for his entire working life.

The booking for Morelos was an absolute joke. The tackle on him could easily have broken his ankle and a foul wasn't even given. It's no wonder he was upset and I defy anyone not to act in a similar fashion. For Madden to book him for the kind of 'dissent' we see several times in any one game was laughable. Should Morelos have known better? Maybe but it's clearly he's now a marked man by the officials in Scotland and that's worthy of more comment.

Seriously, is any Gersnetter surprised by this latest episode? At the culmination of the 2016 Scottish Cup final, Rangers made a statement that all members of Rangers staff on/in the pitch/dug-outs that day had been subject to varying degrees of threatening behaviour and assault. They qualified the accusation by referring to prodding, pushing, spitting, ....... etc. Plenty of both Hibs and Rangers supporters appeared in court accused of assaulting each other, invading the pitch, resisting arrest, ..... etc; not one was charged with assaulting a member of Rangers staff. We have designer justice. The design is to ensure that in future, the compiled stats will show that Rangers players were not assaulted, effigies were not hanged by the neck, children aged ten did not have their heads stitched or jaws reconstructed, .... etc.

Nothing to do with Sadiq but Craig Mulholland said yesterday he was in Denmark last week setting up a partner club where we can send our youth players to. He said teams here are not playing the type of football Rangers are wanting to play. He said that he was watching one of our players and the ball just passed over his head for the 38 minutes he was on. He said that is not teaching our youth anything.

so, we've basically won La Liga?

Just for the on going record. Big Dick hosted, Paul Hartley and Billy Dodds(including his EBT) joined him in the studio at PQ. Tynecastle had Liam McLeod and Alan Preston covering Hearts/Motherwell. Chris McLaughlin patrolled Perth for a well rehearsed pre-match interview with Brenda. Saints versus ra Yahoos was very much second on the bill. Here's how it goes, BBC in LOndon want their Scots counterparts to provide material on England's favourite sons, Steven Gerrard. As Big Dick continues to parrot, "because of the on going problem between the BBC and the club", this not happening. We know Sellik Quick News is Lawwell's site of choice this last decade, to air views by proxy. The site has carried Brenda's offer from China and speculation this was used as a lever to persuade the Board to take Sellik to the next level. Thus, Chris asks specifically about Brenda being the recipient of an approach from China? Brenda says, "it's not relevant". Two questions later, the doughty bald one shows necessary tenacity by pushing the issue, "was there an offer in the close season"? Brenda relents, "yes". Immediately, Big Dick and Billy EBT chorus congratulations for McLaughlin's persistence, the Beeb in London have a genuine UK wide headline, it leads across BBC Five Live and is carried on three separate pieces on BBC Ceefax. Brenda remains quite important, Chris delivers something quite important, and PQ relieves the pressure for now. Of course, the reality is Brenda has fallen a long way off the Premiership carousel, no club in that sphere approached him in the close season, after a double treble and two qualifications for the CL. Chris the choreographer is a facilitator, no he really is, and he remains quite important. The semi-final row at the end of the show was revealing. Alan Preston demanded transparency in deciding the venues, dates, and timings. He wanted Hearts to play at Murrayfield. Chris was too busy filing articles to London, but knew he could rely on Paul Hartley to guard Sellik interests. Big Dick is a Dandy. and joined Preston's cry for transparency. Where was the Rangers supporting voice? The occupant of last evening's PQ naughty step was Chic Young. Teams read out pre-match, a few lines on scorers at half-time, asked the audience, "answers on a postcard for guessing what Rangers player has been booked for dissent"? Full time saw another two goalscorers reported and Morelos missing the semi-final. As earlier stated, it amounted to two minutes of air time. I support Alan Preston, as a license fee paying Rangers supporter, I would love some transparency.

I'd confidently say that a significant percentage of our support are barely aware of what caused all this and just want it resolved. One of the downsides of inhabiting a virtual Rangers world (and I assume this applies to all football clubs, political viewpoints etc) is the creation of echo-chambers. Twitter allows us to select who we hear from, people tend to gravitate to forums or blogs that represent our views, and over time we get fooled into thinking everyone thinks like us.

Well we can't. Until we have watched several 'laps of honour' ?

Why does this matter? It shows a disregard for the (as John said) probably hundreds of thousands who support the club from around the country but don't live near Glasgow or just have other commitments.

Not really, we've loaned out Rudden and Hardie. For me the wingers would give you pace and finishing. An alternative would be Arfield who I think would do very well as a link up man and is equally good at finishing, you just lose the pace. Arfield may be the better option but it's all down to how the game is going to be played.

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.

Roddy Forsyth is no bigot and is one of the very few semi-decent journalists within Scottish fitbaw.

Last night i listened to commentry of Liverpool v Chelsea on radio 5 live Alan Green and Andy Townsend a first class commentry throughout kepping the listener fully informed and painting a picture of the action in what was a first class match then near the end we got a call from Roddy Forsyth giving his bigoted relief that the hooped horrors had scored totalt amateur compared to the professionals of Green and Townsend

We lost on sunday against Red Bull away (as expected) and went to the next stage of our cup after penalties yesterday - again a piss poor performance. Coach might be sacked soon and if we wont win this saturday against St. Pölten the fans wont stay that calm anymore I guess. Still think our squad will show a different face next week against you guys. At least they did in most of the other EL matches so far. By the way we got 1.600 tickets in the end.

With Morelos and Lafferty out I was relieved we drew Aberdeen because I do think the other two are better just now. I think we will manage with one of Middleton or Grezda up front, both have a record of good finishing and the pace to get in behind. What we might lack is the focal point that Morelos and Lafferty bring as natural strikers who've played on their own up front a lot.

Yeah, let's criticise Morelos for something that happens 10 times in a game and because he does it he's stupid? He's offered no protection and he's meant to sit there and not say anything and not react when the ref presumably tells him that he's wrong? He's had 2 perfectly good goals chopped off and been sent off incorrectly. He's just being human.

First of all the ref isn't there to administer his form of discipline. He is there to referee the ball being fouled in a game for all players on the field. That means that he has to, as any adult is supposed to, respect all players on the field. There is absolutely nothing wrong with disagreeing with the ref at any stage in the game. Dissent is such an offence that leaves a multitude of open interpretations as other posters have commented. To the letter of the law questioning the word of the ref in any situation is a caution. That includes pleading for a foul or a penalty. However we repeatedly see teams surrounding the ref during such decisions and no one is booked for dissent if the ref doesn't give a pen. Its a joke of a rule and should be scrapped. Another thing that does my head right in is seeing a ref run 30 yards away pointing at a grown man and ordering him to heel.

Absolute crap. Halliday did the exact same later in the game so did the Ayr CB. No bookings

Great performance by Halliday. My MOTM.

https://rangers.co.uk/news/academy-news/academy-announces-fixtures/ Fantastic article on the thinking at the academy , the detail they go into regards formation and even getting the players used to playing 2 legged games with away goals counting shows the thought and future planning of the academy staff .

This from post #13 (posted by Bearger): "He added that Police Scotland advised that the Aberdeen v Rangers game should be played first."

I'll leave jumping on Rangers players backs to 'Timbo' instead.

There is a thread on another forum detailing dispatched orders, My order is in the 9k plus numbers. But someone posted tonight their order 9034 has been dispatched so hopefully not long now. On another note i ordered a small wallet from one of those online discount groups on the 12th Sept, it hasn't arrived, i made an enquiry and they said 14 working days after vouchers was redeemed, expect it before the 3rd Oct. If i get my replica shirt next week i'll be happy.

Might it be the case that Morelos may get booked when others would just get a talking to because refs think oh well he can't speak English so I can't give him a talking to just book him. And I saw someone else raise a good point about his lack of English. How else can he communicate other than hand/arm gestures when he can't say what he's thinking.

Fulham v Arsenal is on BT at 1200 that day. I'm not sure whether that makes any difference.

You're profoundly mistaken. The BBC is never wrong and never apologises ... about anything. That has been a hallmark of BBC operations since the beginning of time. The Rangers situation is hardly unique. The BBC selectively addresses almost every other news issue and has had no hesitation adopting and maintaining blatant political stances in other issues. The idea the BBC will be affected by Rangers reinstating press privileges for a BBC reporter is, frankly, devoid of coherent thought.

You're assuming that I think that exposing the bias and putting pressure on the BBC publicly will eradicate the bias. I don't of course, but I do think that regularly exposing indisputable bias on the BBCs part - in an organised and professional manner - will have an effect. The bottom line is that those who hate Rangers within the BBC are the winners right now because they have a free hand to regularly disrespect our club and we are receiving pretty much no coverage of our games. They are loving it. Re-instate press privileges for 2 people and I think they will be pretty gutted about it, and we have a less bad situation where hundreds of thousands of Rangers fans get access to coverage of our games, which is not always bias.

This should have taken all of 30 seconds to sort out. Hearts v celtic at Murrayfield, Rangers v Dolly at hampden. One kicks off at 12.00, the other at 3.00, giving ample time for any extra time/pens needed in the first match. Doesnt really matter which way round, that can be up to the broadcaster. Had it been Rangers v Hearts same scenario as above with us at Murrayfield and tims/dolly at Hampden. Had it been Hearts v Dolly, Hampden could have been used on both days no problem. It could all have been announced prior to the draw and nobody could have a problem with it, perhaps apart from the broadcaster, but it gives them an excellent double-header to go up against whatever games are on from the EPL on Sky that day, so no big problem there either.

Anybody else think young Middleton should be given the nod for striker in the absence of Lafferty & Morelos?

Is there not a youngster who can step up, a natural striker? He doesn't have to be a goalscorer, just have experience of playing the role. I think that's more important than getting a winger to fill in.

Well that's the question and it's not possible to get to get consensus on it. I don't think the removal of press privileges achieves anything, it is a bit on the petty side. Bias should be exposed by the club in a professional and organised manner, and pressure should be put on the BBC publicly when and if we are not receiving a fair share of coverage. BBC have exclusive rights and they are the devil we have to work with just now, the status quo is disadvantaging ordinary bears (particularly elderly and less well off) all over the country as @JohnMc has explained well.

Sorry but it doesn't exuse ill-discplined stupidity when consequences for team going forward were clear. It's not about either or,.......... Madden can have a poor match and Morelos can be stupid at the sametime.

Quite possibly, but deal with the coverage issue first then deal with whatever comes next when it happens. Don't give up a fight just because it's going to be hard.

It was nothing at all. You see players telling the Ref's to "F*ck off!" all the time. Even Halliday had an angry go at the Ref in the Second half, with no booking. They're just looking to book him for anything.

Someone on Twitter suggested because both Rangers and Celtic are playing in Europe that week, both games may have to go ahead at the same time but in different cities.

I think the party line will be inclusivity SoulS. She probably doesn’t even know this issue exists. The key is to get statements from people genuinely disadvantaged who deserve better public services and present them in a fair and balanced context against the objectives of public service broadcasting. In the case of Broadcasting that is provided by the BBC but BBC Scotland have their own output and she through her colleagues in Westminster and with support from well placed Rangers fans could call the BBC to account. I don’t think she or her party have a negative line on this. This is not really about big bad Rangers v the rest of the world, it is about certain disadvantaged people in Scotland who are being actively excluded from national broadcasting. I don’t think she or Ofcom can or will ignore that. The BBC as has been evidenced can and do ignore it, and are displaying ever increasing disregard for their public duty. The first step step is to create a solid case so I would start with 1872, someone who knows the BBC in detail (Jim T for example) and a lower level politician. Go thru the data, then go thru the mission statements of these organisations and decide who to present it to. It’s 4-6 hours work from 3 or 4 people but once it’s out there it’s out there and pressure can be applied. There must be someone who who reads this stuff who is sufficiently connected to kick this off.

BBC governance is a miasma. If you go to London you will end up back with Ken McQuarrie who is now Director of Nations and Regions and tied in with his chums who made this decision in the first place. I’ve met him and he will have no interest in helping. A dual approach to Ofcom and Fiona Hyslop in the Scottish Govt would be my recommendation. Whilst the BBC is a London operation she is a significant stakeholder in Broadcasting output to and from Scotland. If you raise it to political level you get out of the BBC cycle and can move faster. A question or support from a Rangers supporting MSP might not be a bad thing, backed up with stories from people genuinely disadvantaged. Hyslop will want to be seen to support inclusivity as it’s a stated part of Scottish Govt strategy and values. Club 1872 could actively poll for stories and work with charities that help the aged for example to highlight why the radio is important to many people. In summary 1872, a sympathetic politician, someone who understands the BBC at a working level could crack this quite quickly. I’m sure Rangers fans have links to unionist politicians (seems plenty of young Tories on follow follow) and someone like 26th of foot working with 1872 and a friendly politician could provide the ammo for Ofcom, Hyslop to either launch or be pressurised with. Just needs a bit of time to collect data, find the right network to help (all meet), examine the charters of said organisations, agree breaches and launch.

There's a lot of unnecessary ad-hominem on this thread. A lot of people on here don't realise that not every Rangers fan is a die hard who could recite all of the BBCs transgressions over the past decade. We need to have radio coverage of our games. And when we triumph in Europe we need to have some discussion of our games afterwards just like our rivals get. The BBC are a disgrace for how little they are covering us just now, going way beyond merely not coming to Ibrox. But something needs to be done get coverage resumed.

There should be no meeting half way and no compromise in the PR war. When this is over we should not stop. When we are back on top we should proactively chase everyone of them for their lies and attempts do destroy us. No retreat, no backing down, we go after them all. There spurious fictional reporting has been designed to harm both club and supporters. It’s not just the BBC, but they, along with the DR are the biggest haters out there.