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Rangers will be able to call on reprieved Jon Flanagan in their Scottish Premiership finale at Kilmarnock on Sunday. The former Liverpool defender was cited by the Scottish Football Association after a post-match video consultation suggested he had elbowed Celtic's Scott Brown during Sunday's Old Firm game. But it was confirmed on Friday afternoon that Rangers had won their appeal over the retrospective red card. Celtic might be on track for another treble but Gers have struck upon a winning formula since their Old Firm defeat at Parkhead, with last weekend's derby triumph their sixth in a row. "I've just been told we've never had a clean sweep of wins after the split so that is a good incentive for us," Gers assistant boss McAllister, speaking in place of boss Steven Gerrard, said. "We're on a good run so it will be nice to finish on a high and have that buoyancy for next season." Kilmarnock are looking to cap a fine season by sealing third spot but manager Steve Clarke will have to watch the final game of the season from the stands after being handed a two-match touchline ban following recent comments about referee Steven McLean. But his Killie future remains in doubt amid links to the Scotland job and assistant Alex Dyer has admitted Clarke would find the national job hard to turn down. Team News While Flanagan is available, Nikola Katic and Scott Arfield will miss the Rugby Park clash after both were given extra time off ahead of summer commitments with Croatia's U21s and Canada respectively. But Graham Dorrans could end his seven-month knee injury nightmare against Steve Clarke's side. "Graham has featured well in training recently," said McAllister. "He's had a couple of games behind closed doors and done very well so Graham will come into consideration for the weekend definitely." https://www.skysports.com/football/kilmarnock-vs-rangers/preview/406788

Aye, “mon eh saints”!

Going by the procedure, the CO looked at incidents and in her football wisdom decided there was a case to answer. She got her three referees at it and they made the unanimous decision (else it would not get to the 'offering of a ban') that it was a red-card offence ... despite being seen and evaluated by the referee (and thus being a case for a side-paragraph rather than the usual ruling on such matters. Then they had a hearing with Flanagan and our representatives and independent people from somehwere decided that the appeal was dismissed? So the CO and three referees were wrong and the Clancy was correct. I really would like to know how this whole actually goes on and who sits and sat on the various panels looking at the incidents. Kent gets done for a shove on Brown that didn't really happen but looked brutal from one angle, fist clenched et al. Simonivic floors Oli Shaw and is not even yellow carded, elbows Arfield and Defoe, yet there is nothing. Brown brings the game into disrepute twice at the OF games behaving like an idiot in front of the opposition support, has at least two attempts at simulation as has Burke in the Oli-Shaw Game vs Hibs. It is absolutely bizarre how case are picked, analyzed and decided ... and anyone thinking that there is impartiality involved in a small football country like Scotland needs their heads examined.

Accies pull off their traditional escape act on the last day of the season for them which pleases me as a born and bred Hamilton man. And all the best to St Mirren in their upcoming play off with DU.

Also on all the usual Gersnet links, Derek Johnstone, Chris Jack, Willy Irwin join me to discuss DJs career, fabulous youth update from Willy and a round up of all the latest Rangers gossip Let us know if you enjoyed it!

I always get far too excited at all the big-name players released at this time of year. I just read that Swansea City have released Leroy Fer, Luciano Narsingh, Wayne Routledge and Wilfried Bony. Clearly, players are released for a reason, but these guys are/were quality players. I think it was the wages that have caused Swansea to release these players? I wouldn't mind us picking up a few freebies of this quality.

I think a fully fit Dorrans is a really top class option in the middle of the park.

The BBC have their own skeletons in this particular cupboard. They ignored Saville and the rest of them for years despite strong suspicions.

Re. Peter Smith tweet I'm not seeing the same level of questioning coming from investigative journalist, Mark Daly. Looking at Daly's twitter account, I don't see a retweet for the DR report, the Peter Smith reaction to it or a reaction from Daly himself. Whether he has made a comment elsewhere, I don't know. ------------------ Victims could do with holding public protest demos to allow others to show their support and further highlight this case, eg. outside PQ. No football colours to be worn.

Being overturned is a double win. We have the player available for the first game of next season (not bothered about tomorrow) and It'll help generate more headlines that will only go towards ensuring that the process is changed.

Will PQ use it's various programmes today to highlight the lack of reaction from Celtic FC to the growing momentum that is ever more damming in detail, that rips up the club's 'nowt to do with us Guv' stance ? My bet (shorter odds than City to win the Cup) is that PQ will adopt the 'nowt to do with the fitbaw but we will talk a lot about the Celtic statement on Flanagan line'

Going to be an odd match. We have nothing to play for aside from continuing an unbeaten run they have a third place finish and a guaranteed Euro spot to play for. They’re going to be the more motivated to risk injury. The last thing we want now is more injuries on that plastic hell.

Under Clarke kilmarnock have become a hard team to beat so it wont be a walk in the park , but I would love to see us give them a good thumping .

The way city play the ball out from defence is a delight to watch

Every effort should be directed towards provoking the Compliance Officer to take strike action.

Enjoyed listening to that Stevie ! Good to hear DJ talk about his time in the 70's. Like the way you bounce the conversation around very different perspectives....youth expert / ex-player / journalist and yourself.

I think it’s pretty clear the whole “Compliance” system has no discernible basis for compliance at all. Instead, almost everything I’ve seen suggests it’s a licence for subjectivity and unaccountability, issuing arbitrary judgements with only a cursory connection to the laws of football. What the SFA has done is provide a platform for suspicion and cheating.

A mass protest from members of the public of all ages outside both BBC and STV studios demanding an investigation into the historical child abuse at the Celtic football club .

Not really, it's something else that they are very quiet on.

On a wee sidenote, it was the last home game of the season, and probably the last game for a few players at Rangers too. But anyway, the amount of garbage coming from the club that doesn`t do statements* turns heaps into hills ... *According to the man who has teeth like stars (i.e. yellow and distant from one another).

I think there's a strong possibility that we could get a quality player for less than £5m but it's a risk isn't it. Kent is a young lad at the start of his career but already he's shown that he adds quality to our first team. I'd be inclined to spend that money on him rather than taking a risk elsewhere. It's a lot of money but if he continues to perform even at the level he did this year, it's an investment rather than a sunk cost. I am biased though because Kent is the type of player I like to watch. At the games I'm drawn to him, Kamara and Tav (and now Defoe too) because they have a real element of unpredicatability about them.

If i win tonight's euro millions i will buy him for the fans .

When the 4Lads pod was posted on here I thought I'll listen to the first 20 minutes and then save the rest until later. Well, all my tasks are still in my inbox because I ended up listening to all of it. Thoroughly enjoyed that again, and great that @Stevie - 4lads Blogwas able to get that insight from Chris and Willy too. Now I know McPake isn't playing on Sunday I'm off to change my GPL prediction from him to Dapo Mebude instead. No wonder @buster. was happy to make that bet with me!!! Listening to DJ is always great. Unlike many of the recent era pretenders, he's a real Ranger. He loves the club and that comes across in everything he says. He's a top man, and his story was told with real passion. That story about the Bayern Munich outfield players was astonishing. I had never heard about that before and it's important we don't lose fascinating details like that. It makes the win that year all the more incredible. You asked him some great questions and he seemed delighted to take the time to answer them all. Keep up the tremendous work, and of course great job again by the Gersnet team in producing this. Top quality!!!!

As an extra point about the game on Sunday, the match day program was a fantastic read. Full interviews over several pages with SG, Robertson, Mulholland as a sort of review of the season, and lots of other smashing bits and pieces. I bought the electronic season ticket last July, so I get an electronic version of the program to download through my Rangers program app usually the day before the game, so can read it while on the way to the game or like this week, while watching soccer Saturday and seeing my coupon get beat as usual! IIRC it was £50 for the season or thereabouts and I would thoroughly recommend it, especially for those bears who can’t get along to Ibrox for whatever reason. You can buy game by game as well but the ST was great value. I will certainly be renewing that ST come the new season.