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"we want to hear from Rangers supporters". Since the turn of the year, it has become a constant refrain from Tam Cowan. I suspect those inside the PQ gang hut have realised they no longer speak to or for the Rangers support? Of course, it's important that they are seen to have some communication, the BBC are the biggest broadcasters in the world. They have tried VoxPops with Bears, introduced guests with the most tenuous Rangers links, and regularly claim that some regulars on their shows are Rangers supporters, when they are clearly not ie Wullie Miller. The BBC charter promises to broadcast to all, it's a pledge to license fee payers. The bait laid by Tam Cowan was the ridiculous red card awarded to Daniel Candeias. He wanted to hear Rangers supporters' views? The means is social media, e-mails, tweets, facebook,.... etc. The show's Producer decides what is broadcast. There is no telephone communication anymore because it's a loss of control, and well how many Beeb Scotland Producers are still willing to call up, pretending to be Bears? Anyways, a few contributions were read out, a Bear claiming inside knowledge, and a couple of St Mirren fans; but hey, they have satisfied the license demands by claiming to want to hear from Rangers supporters. It also fails on a more important level. These last four weeks, the name Kenny McIntyre has featured. He is reckoned to be the last Rangers supporting staffer involved with football at PQ. DrStu' has attempted to paint a target on his back on a couple of occasions. We know DrStu' is attracted by purity, and loves the idea of a cleansing. It's all very rational to his mindset, Rangers supporters, "are H-u-ns and typical orange wankers". To be fair to DrStu', he doesn't want to hear from Rangers supporters. On Saturday, Cowan re-introduced his favourite comedy sketch idea, he advocated the BBC Scotland 1979 Ricki Fulton/Gerard Kelly skit of Rangers supposedly signing their first high profile catholic. They pulled it from discussion two weeks back because they heard from Rangers supporters, the sketch was based on a false memory. Tam did not want to hear that Rangers had signed dozens of catholics in their first fifty years, "aye from you Kenny"; he re-framed the sketch as Rangers signing their first prominent catholic. Really, it's all small potatoes because the bait was not intended for Rangers supporters, it was an attempt to draw out Jim Traynor. DrStu' suspected Jim had penned Rangers statement on the St Mirren match and was particularly interested in comments reference Willie Collum which included, "underlying issues". The PQ speculation was sectarianism is at play. The second half of the show had a guest that supported the underlying issue with Collum is his habit of running thirty yards with the red card already in hand ie not taking enough time to arrive at the correct decision. What is it with PQ and their constant need/desire to attack a former colleague? It has become a most unedifying habit. Perhaps, some transparency from Beeb Scotland is required, they want to speak to Jim Traynor. On Sunday, the A Team was assembled in Livingston. Big Dick, Liam McLeod, Wullie Miller, Pat Bonner, and Scott McDonald spun a nil-nil draw into a really good game. The pitch took pelters, ra Sellik's exertions against Champions League level opposition on Thursday night was to the fore, and Dolly Menga MUST be cited by the Compliance Officer. At quarter to three, Rob McLean read out both teams and substitutes involved in the three O'Clock kick-off at Ibrox. The show finished at 3 O'Clock, another Dandy Don, Jeff Webster took over to talk Rugby until Five O'Clock. Rob McLean remained on the PQ naughty step to cover events at Ibrox. There was a few goal updates, and a half-time report; it was hilarious listening as Rob tripped his way through, seriously attempting to avoid mentioning he was watching RTV in the studio. Even Jeff Webster could be heard laughing in the background. BBC Scotland's five O'Clock news and sports headlines told us all where they are at, we received a match report from Livingston, all the English football results, and the newscaster offered, "you can read the match report from Ibrox on BBC Scotland's website". Seven goals from the good guys was just too much of a choker. "we want to hear from Rangers supporters"?

THE ceremonial breaking of the ground on the new Academy stand took place yesterday afternoon at the Hummel Training Centre. https://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/ground-broken-on-new-stand/

Motherwell fan vlog from Saturday, 19 mins & 9 secs you will never get back.?

Surely it is the ref who should be cited - it is his job to ensure a game starts at the allotted time and it is his job to tell the teams when to leave the changing rooms.

My lad and me often have a kick about in the garden. I got him a pair of boots for £20. I was rubbish at football, so never bothered with boots. It's easy to say 'No!' to overly expensive items when you're a tight git. Our leagues are full of players who started out with nothing. A pair of boots doesn't make you into a good footballer.

The manager has already said he is delighted with the extra work Middleton puts in after training and has to drag him of the training ground

In PQ podcastland it's as if it never happened. Monday, normally a day to go over significant weekend events hardly mentioned the first seven goal haul of the top flight this season. The Monday edition talked more about the rescinded red card of Morelos at Aberdeen of 100 days ago than our performance in scoring seven goals yesterday. Scott MacDonald offered more analysis on a 7 goal Celtic victory over Motherwell from 2016 than yesterdays Rangers performance. It might have only been 15 seconds but that was more. What was featured was over 20 minutes arguing the toss about whether it was a penalty when McHugh did his Sepp Maier impression. It was your now customary Michael Stewart righteous crusade that dominated the programme, rather than a proportional representation of events on the pitch. Livingston didn't get any credit either but Celtic did manage to sustain the sensational form dialogue as they took their time drooling over why Ryan Christie got his contract extension. St.Johnstone's excellent run of results got some time with Richard Foster in the studio and a couple of the veritable pack of Hyenas prepared the ground for a full-on attack on the Scotland manager in the coming days. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06rjy0f

If only Windass had a heart and a brain, one day it will dawn on him how he f*&ked up the biggest chance he'll ever get.

This really annoyed me. On a day when our display of gratitude towards the fallen spread across the stands and made me feel proud as punch, at the start of the second half the UB completely embarrass themselves, and therefore the rest of the Rangers support, with that "motherwell grasses" banner. I hadnt a clue what it referred to. If the story in this thread is true, then one of the UB has run over another person and not reported it. No matter the provocation, you cant do that. If the roles were reversed and a young UB member had been run over by, frankly, anyone, I would want the incident reported and let the law take its course. If there were mitigating circumstances like being fearful for your life in amongst an angry mob, then make your case surrounding that. The banner makes them as pathetic as the Hibs fans who claimed Wallace was a grass for seeking the protection of the law from unlawful actions by scumbags.

I think retired players tend to be more candid, the 'omerta' of the dressing room can be broken then, so they make for more interesting interviews. I was really surprised to hear Durrant say he didn't like Graham Roberts for example, it always looked like that side had no cliques. I guess every dressing room has cliques and groups that get on better, it's managing them that's the skill. As for Kenny Miller I find him fascinating. He's a hugely important player in Rangers modern history, one of a very select group to have been signed on 3 separate occasions, to have played under some of greatest managers and some of our worst, to have enjoyed great success and terrible failure and to have polarised our support like few others. It wouldn't surprise me if he makes it back to the marble staircase again some day. I can't wait for his book.

A new low for Scottish football..? https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/news/scottish-fa-announce-scottish-cup-broadcasting-deals/?rid=2107 So we will need 3 subscriptions to watch Rangers games next season. Fans of all clubs are getting ripped a new one here! Do these plonkers at Hampden even realise this is the same mob under a different name (Setanta) who almost collapsed Scottish football a few years back when they went bust? Nice to see absolutely no lessons have been learned whatsoever! Apparently their coverage of our European qualifiers was ‘high quality’ yes, it certainly added to the excitement the screen going blank for at least 10 minutes in every game..

I suppose I was a very handsome young fella.... Even better that I've retained those good looks into my 40s...

As you touched on earlier. This rule is broken on most European match-days in some stadium, somewhere and it will always end up with a charge.

You still got them. Ryan Jack has just pulled out of the Scotland squad.

No, I can't quite remember the shop's name but they were one of the first shops at the original Kinnaird Park. Where Currys/PC World is now, there used to be a small indoor emporium of shops, one of which was the sports shop.

Lightweight ,stylish, and comfortable.

Every team knows the rules and I think this is quite right. UEFA are consistent with this one so we can't complain. The TV rights results in plenty of revenue for us so we have to respect that.

Nice picture but, trust me, compared to mine, these are positively Gucci.

The hard, fast and whipped-in accurate delivery from corners is almost essential in modern-day football. More especially in those games that goals are difficult to come by. Seems as though an 18 year old Middleton sees this and is prepared to work hard on this aspect of his game in his own time. A good attitude makes his progression in the game much more likely.

Middleton and Halliday's set pieces have offered some difference from Tav's norm. Generally I'd like to see us have a bit more imagination from them but two goals from corners the other day isn't bad going.

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1062103770786598914/vid/480x480/BJdC2hevtARWcQUc.mp4?tag=8

Indeed - they don’t show Rangers games. Do we and Celtic not have a veto over these telly deals? The last time they sold tv rights to this mob, Sky & ESPN ended up having to bail them out!

And yet the clowns at Pacific Quay have not yet interviewed SG! and hardly even mention his name just because he is the Rangers manager