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Craig is right, Jake's dad and his family are Tims but he only used to go to certain games, like big name CL games and cup finals and sometimes took his son. I rarely seen Jake with a hoops top on when he was young and was always playing or training from a very young age, they pushed him hard but it paid off. His mum's side are Rangers fans but she wasn't really interested in football apart from Jake playing and her family never visited much, don't think they were close. His dad told me both Rangers and Celtic tried to sign him but like Craig said Celtic didn't go through the official route but thought they would get him cheap. Rangers done things the right official way but they turned both down as he wanted to stay more local and have more of a chance breaking into the first team. His dad always said he would have no problem with his son playing for Rangers if the money was right. A really nice family,. I've not bumped into them for a while but if Jake signs I will be going to see him and wind him up a bit ? He looks a good prospect but still has a long way to go, I just hope he gets game time if he signs!

If some clubs are happy to lose ticket revenue then it's time for plastic pitches to go Kilmarnock kicked off a row about ticket allocations this week by slashing the number of briefs they will give Rangers for the final game of the season from 8000 to 4000. The Rugby Park side’s chairman Billy Bowie has since confirmed this will be a long-term step and admitted that the potential financial costs are something that “doesn’t really bother” him, according to the Daily Record. Despite the prospect of losing out on hundreds of thousands of pounds every season, Killie also cite what is best “economically” for the club as the reason for refusing to rip up their plastic pitch. There’s little argument that having a surface that can be used regularly and rented out can have major benefits for a club – but when they seem to willing to turn their nose up at money from visiting fans then it needs to be looked at. Clubs surely can’t plead poverty as a reason for keeping sub-standard pitches then turn away sizeable sums of ticket money and leaving thousands of empty seats. If Kilmarnock were regularly selling out Rugby Park then they’d be more than welcome to cut allocations to allow more of their own fans in. But as it is, visits from Rangers swell the gates from an average of 6500 to over 12000. Bowie hopes to get an extra 1000 punters through the doors by cutting Rangers allocations and good luck to him. Next time someone brings up ripping up their plastic pitch though, hopefully, they’ll be quick to remind him how the financial implications of this “doesn’t really bother” him. https://www.rangersnews.uk/columnist/clubs-cant-plead-poverty-over-pitches-then-leave-thousands-of-empty-seats/

johnnyk from Gersnet (I think it is johnny anyway) previously stated that he is/was neighbors with Hastie and his parents and said that the family are diehard Tims but not the type who are the lunatic fringe but more stable (didn’t know there were any of those...). He also said, I think, that Celtic tried to get Hastie on the cheap and thought the family would jump at the chance just because they’re Celtic fans. The family decided on Motherwell as he had a better chance of breaking through.

Have spoke to enough to seem convinced on Hastie, Stewart is a 3 year deal he apparently signed yesterday! Huge transfer stories on the first ever 4lads pod tonight

If there was an ounce of pride left among us it would be none at all.

The PSV game in Eindhoven was epic.PSV had never been beaten at home. I could still watch that game on a daily basis.

We'll take what we're given and accept it with a whimper. I have no idea why Bears want to fund people who openly mock us but they do. Until it stops, they'll continue to mock us.

Think it's circa £700 in the central area but a lot less in the wings.

The Rugby Park side’s chairman Billy Bowie has since confirmed this will be a long-term step and admitted that the potential financial costs are something that “doesn’t really bother” him, according to the Daily Record. Sounds to me like a man intent on running his club into the ground.

A horrid club and a horrid corrupt SFA .

Voted ??

Very refreshing to see it. We're seeing Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and now Juventus all losing their edge. It only needs Messi to retire and Barcelona will be the same. Hopefully have some different winners for a couple of years.

Or maybe watching your team?

Bosman!

Those arses won’t be ours! It’s 4k from now on and no more.

Once Clarke leaves they will be desperate for bums on seats

The thing is Man Utd fans and directors dont want to rip up the book and start again and wait 5 years but Ajax have just shown thats what you have to do. The German national team have always been a top side and even they did it 10 years ago as well as the Spanish side. Man Utd are wanting a quick fix but having Pre-Madonnas like Pogba to build a team around wont work. And then Sanchez - absolute world class player but played way to much football for 5 years non stop due to international summer commitments and didnt look after himself so he could continue into his 30s and now they are left with his 500k a week. Imagine telling a Liverpool fan in 1990 you wont win the title again before 2019, its like telling Man Utd fans now they wont win it again until 2048 which is science fiction story time. Time in football is amazing to think Man Utd didnt win it for 26 years in 1993 yet talk about success with the Busby Babes etc. 5 years should be nothing for Man Utd and nobody is saying they cant be successful while starting again. The issue was giving OGS the job before the end of the season on the back of 8 or 9 good spirited games. They needed a Zidane or someone like that.

The prospective Shinnie to Derby pre-contract has stalled due to the club operating under a “soft transfer embargo” while the English Football League (EFL) look into the club’s financial dealings . Just Saying One curious aspect to Derbys interest is that you'd think Frank Lampard would know a midfielder when he sees one and you'd imagine he has given the okay for this deal.

It's been apparent that they need to change things beyond the football operation for a number of years now #Woodward To put it bluntly, they repeatedly make a horses arse of appointing the first team manager and their recruitment has been all over the place as well. Thing is, what happened with Moyes, LVG and Mourinho was predictable. They hired Moyes because SAF told them to but they weren't convinced, didn't really back him and got rid as soon as they could. All you had to look was into LVG's history to see that his confrontational nature/style would come unstuck in England. At Real Madrid and Chelsea, Mourinho had already showed the direction his management had taken and surprise, surprise.... he did it again.

Another fabulous performance by Ajax. Well deserved win.

I remember that European run well. Starting off by listening to a David Francey commentary from Turin ! Coming back to the subject of value, the lad from Shettleston Juniors scored the first ever winner for an away side in European competition at Eindhoven in more than two decades of trying.. I think we got value for the 200 quid !

PQ Jottings. 1. The PQ Gang Hut has been the usual hive of self interested activity this last month. It should not go unremarked. The new Beeb Scotland second TV channel has launched and after the initial come on such as Tutti Frutti, it is settling down to a regular schedule. DrStu' was a heavy promoter of the then upcoming channel, praising the talent it was attracting(DrStu' thought the new News Editor, James Cook was worthy of particular praise) and, enthusiastically anticipating the outlook to be provided by the new news coverage. All to be expected of a new, modern Scotland. Another staple of the second channel is football. We are provided with live coverage of a Championship match each Friday evening. During Rangers four seasons in the lower divisions, DrStu' was a loud and constant complainer of PQ providing any coverage. He opined as to the national broadcaster devoting any time or energy to a lower league club, the focus should remain on the top tier. DrStu' has changed his tune, he tells of how much he enjoys the exposure being awarded to teams, "in Scotland's most competitive league". Let's be honest, the presentation has had teething problems, at best it's shambolic. You would expect the uber professional that is DrStu' to inject some objective reality; ah mean he never stops telling us of the many important decisions he had to take whilst managing aspects of Channel 4. Last week's match was Ross County against Dundee United, a dozen minutes of the 15 minute half-time break was taken up by broadcasting a mini-documentary on Victorian Scots pioneers taking football to South America. What new modern Scotland expects and what it receives was right there in those dozen minutes. The Presenter was 67 year old DrStu', stone facedly narrating over a dozen black and white photos. I wonder if the production company was connected to DrStu'? There you have it, dearly held principles can be flipped if the constantly grasping aspirational DrStu' is assured he can dip another finger into another revenue stream emanating from the PQ Gang Hut. 2. As discussed above, Sunday was a Dandy Don/Yahoo sound fest on Radio Shortbread. At the beginning of the second half, Liam McLeod was bemoaning the plight of his favourites missing Graeme Shinnie through suspension. It was a theme he returned to on a few occasions as the second period progressed. He explained it was unfair on Aberdeen. They were having to field a teenage midfield pairing of Dean Campbell and Lewis Ferguson because Aberdeen had had to play five matches over three rounds. Replays against Stenny and Rangers had done for the Dandies. He concluded the SFA must look at this and change the sanctions for teams in Aberdeen's position in future. Pat Bonner agreed. There is another self interest theme developing, Liam's fellow Big Dandy, Big Dick was broadcasting similar thoughts from inside the PQ Gang Hut on the evening of the Rangers - Aberdeen Scottish Cup quarter-final. Big Dick was apoplectic that the referee had cautioned eight Dandies that night. Again, a theme he returned to on a number of occasions. It morphed into, "eight Aberdeen players booked, then the ref' relented and booked three Rangers players". When speaking to Wullie Miller after the game he concluded, "surprised eight Aberdeen players have been booked, Graeme Shinnie is out of the semi-final; on another night with another ref, that would have seen three or four of those players not booked"? Wullie agreed. As a BBC License fee paying Rangers supporter, can I add? Rangers had also played five matches over three rounds, and I did not hear anyone at Beeb Scotland asking the SFA to change the rules, particularly reference Alfredo Morelos. Further, on another evening from a Rangers supporters' point of view, the Referee should have sent off at least two Aberdeen players. But then, neither Pat or Wullie would agree with me; the Gang Hut would not allow it. 3. Just a query? Michael Stewart or DrStu', which one goes for the fullest full throated consummation of Humza Yousaf's cheesy cock? In a week where Humza is demanding clubs show him their plans to deal with continuing fans' misbehaviour, both Michael and DrStu' say nothing; well in Michael's case, nothing of substance. Everybody else would retort with demanding Humza show us a valid car insurance certificate, and not accept any misogynistic excuse blaming the ex-wife. DrStu' or Michael, who will get up off their knees first?

Sadly this is the yahoo-infested, SNP-run state we now live in. No one seriously believes they accidentally lost evidence of the 2 hanging effigies. It was deliberate.