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Deja vu all over again. The last week has just seen more of the same at PQ, We've had another apology from Beeb Scotland, admitting their headline on MoJo's signing from thirty years past, 'Rangers first catholic' was incorrect and later changed it to, 'Rangers first high profile catholic'. The second headline is wrong too, but hey it shows the PQ bigots are beginning to acknowledge facts. Then, there was the removal of a headline. Covering Rangers Europa Cup tie in Gibraltar against St Josephs, 'Rangers avoid Europa Cup upset by defeating St Josephs'. After complaints, Auntie Beeb settled on, 'A comfortable win for Steven Gerrard's Rangers'. Their twitter feed of the game had a couple of lines removed on the stroke of half time, apparently Rangers were hanging on for half-time after St Joe's had created several good opportunities. It's comforting to know that our license fees are being utilised in a proper manner ie an adult enters the room and puts an Editorial red pen through much of the childish contributions. the biggest win away from home for a Scots club in Europe in over a decade should cause so much consternation! Speculation over Tierney's proposed transfer to Arsenal has dominated the entire week. PQ has been assured he will only go for gazillions. It was interrupted momentarily by the transfer of Filip Helander to Rangers. By the late evening, a Scots club paying in excess of £3 million for a Swedish internationalist, was relegated to sixth story. PQ wanted to know where the money was coming from? Oh, and the PQ CSC are laso assuring the readership of two things; Kieran has not asked to go, and he remains a big Sellik man. Self interest always intervenes and Big Dick's comment on Saturday is worthy of recall, "the scoreline at Pittodrie in no way tells the true story of Aberdeen's level of dominance". Compare and contrast with Rangers 0-4 victory away? It's comforting that PQ prefers to talk about things that are close to their hearts. Beeb Scotland's Ceefax and on-line coverage has had a couple of quiz questions to drum up interest in Scots teams participation in Europe. Name Sellik's opponents during the club's UEFA Cup run in 2003, and name Sellik's Euro scorers from last season? Still, it will fully engage the minds of those former Chairs of Sellik Boys Club currently being housed at Her Majesty's pleasure. The collective hatred of all things Rangers at PQ, is something that requires considerable effort. They all endeavour to be seen/heard offering mutual support. Who can forget Big Dick offering special congratulations to Jum Spence twice on Dundee United defeating Rangers in the Scottish Cup, five and six years past? He stated with solemnity, "I know it means so much to you Jim". Thus, with this in mind, might I remind all sailing the good ship Pacific Quay, last night's League Cup result - Montrose 1 St Johnstone 0? It would appear the Saints failed to avoid a League Cup upset. Who is going tell DrStu', I know it means so much to him. On Thursday evening, PQ has promised live commentary from Finland and Rugby Park. Some bugger will be deemed het and left in a room to watch a screen showing RTV, which allows Big Dick to claim they are all across events involving Scots clubs.

Why shouldn’t we expect to qualify for the EL group stages? We managed it last season. And we’re a team which has improved since then

On Sunday last, I parked on Brand Street and had several minutes to catch kick-off. I walked on to Whitefield Road and turned right into Ibrox Terrace. Thirty yards in on the right is a recently created kids' football pitch. It is a five-a-side affair, thirty yards by twenty, with five yard wide and one yard tall goals. Behind each goal is large green mesh fence to catch flying footballs. It's construction was part of the refurbishment of Ibroxholm Oval. It has been open for eighteen months and I have seen Kids playing on the facility. Not on Sunday, the grass was the height of the goal frames. Further on up Ibrox Terrace, half-a-dozen Glasgow City employees were working in three pairs, issuing parking tickets to vehicles parked on the Terrace, Ibroxholm Oval, and Merrick Gardens. Two City Council hydraulic lift lorries were waiting to take a couple of vehicles to the city pound. The City Council were easily raising revenue in excess of a grand from those three smallish streets. Those parking have no excuses, every other lamp post has notification of parking restrictions and the abolition of free Sunday parking in Glasgow has had considerable publicity. Given the recent drug related death figures, the local Nationalist councilors insistence on the Hinshelwood football facility being open to locals to improve health, as opposed to being rented out on Saturday afternoons to Rangers for a Fan Zone, and the general constant cry as to the decreasing lack of facilities; is it reasonable to ask how much it costs the council to cut the grass? Surely, if they are accruing a grand or more in under an hour in the surrounding three streets, they can afford £20 for an employee on a tractor-mower to run across the pitch? Failing that, if Rangers inquire as to it's availability as a possible venue for a Fan Zone, I am positive the local Councilors will be out mowing the grass themselves. The hypocrisy of Glasgow City Council, who would have thought?

I think we should try our hardest to qualify. It helps the coefficient, the financial positives are obvious and it's good to put ourselves up against better quality sides. Having said that, I think it's unlikely that we will, unless we are lucky in the draw.

If you don't want your excitement levels to be increased even further don't listen to this. https://play.acast.com/s/recordrangers/2f1b2a91-b503-412a-9151-9351dcc0acab

Clearly an important result. Although it’s quite meaningless in itself, the extent to which it will piss off the riffraff cannot be underestimated ?

Its a poor show all around our stadium areas....compare that to the prestinely kept areas around the ahem ''velodrome'' ahem areas.

Borna Barisic on the 'truth' behind Rangers omission and his relationship with Steven Gerrard Croatia international fell out of the first team reckoning last season but has returned with a bang this summer. Borna Barisic has opened up on his relationship with Steven Gerrard as he looks to nail down the left-back slot at Rangers . The Croatia international had an inconsistent spell last season after his £2million move from NK Osijek. As he struggled with form and fitness, Barisic only played once in the club's last eight fixtures - that being the last game of the season at Kilmarnock. But Barisic is back in the starting line-up and has revealed how he sacrificed his summer holiday for extra training in a bid to hit the new season running with the Ibrox side. The full back scored last week against St Joseph's in Gibraltar with a free kick as Rangers romped to a 4-0 Europa League win. Barisic, in an interview in a Croatian publication, can't wait to work with Gerrard again this season after brushing off doubts about his future at Rangers. He said: "The truth is I couldn't get back into the team last season after an injury because they kept winning games. That's the way it is with Rangers - they are a great club with great players. "I really have a brilliant relationship with Steven Gerrard. We talk about tactics and current issues. There are no problems. I feel great here and I am completely devoted to Rangers. Life in Glasgow is really good." The left-back also revealed his determination to have a successful season this term after making a goalscoring start against St Joseph's. Barisic said: "I had a week off during the summer, but decided to use that vacation to do additional training instead. "I did it to try and make sure I was ready for the new season ahead. So it was nice to hit that free kick against St Joseph's. Some people gave the goal to me and others to Connor Goldson, but it doesn't matter anyway. "I know all about the philosophy of the club. It's all about winning and I want to be a part of it."

AFAIK he had aserious injury the season before last and another one halfway last season. When he was playing, he was still scoring and assisting in a poor team. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ryan-hardie/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/249063/saison/2018/verein//liga//wettbewerb//pos//trainer_id//plus/0 Always hoped he`d get his chance in our Championship seasons, but was also injured there or Miller was always picked ahead of him. IMHO, at least at the time, a natural finisher, but the injuries and poor footie at his loan-teams cut his progress. Hope he does well in England against non-brickwall sides.

Oh it did Bill, I seen the tweet with this story in it, and the replies were virtually all from bheasts foaming at the mouth!

RANGERS’ Europa League second leg against St Joseph’s is LIVE on RangersTV everywhere in the world. https://rangers.co.uk/news/rangers-tv/st-josephs-clash-live-on-rtv/

He’s in squad for tomorrow.

We're a bit thin in the striking department

Widely read, old boy, widely read.....

Fair shout, but wouldn't call Next to Gap a relegation - maybe standing still for a mo. £ for £ I think Chelsea have still outspent West ham with £60m Pulisic coming in, plus 4 of the loan players back in the 1st team squad being valued at over £100m, Batshuayi, Van Ginkel, Bakayoko, and Zuma, plus the signing of Kovacic from Real. West Ham won't trouble the top 6 IMHO.

Ryan Hardie has left the club to sign for Blackpool - fee undisclosed.

The way the Rhebel are controlling the narrative for this overpriced wee ned who cant defend and is injury prone is truly remarkable. Imagine just for a minute this scumbag was our player. The Rhebel would be laughing at suggestions that Arsenal were preparing a bid of around £2M and adding that as he is injury prone, has defensive flaws in his game, cant even get a game for his lowly ranked country, etc etc. The power of the press is a valuable tool to be using as somehow it still has some respect down south where they will read these stories and give them some credibility where none exists. The Rhebel (and the others) continually downscale our players values and deliberately overhype the scum players values.

Should have said I hope it’s a dodgy refereeing decision which puts us out after a flawless performance

And the knock on effect of his rehabilitation is William hills closing 700 shops .

If you can't establish yourself as a first team pick at Livingston, you aren't getting anywhere close to our first team, at least anytime soon. Hope he goes on to develop into a decent player.

Plus Tripper is moving to Atletico Madrid. A good move for him. He was one of Englands best players at WC 18 yet had a bit of criticism last season.

Excellent!

Not necessarily @Gonzo79, Dudelange have dropped down into Europa and will play in R2 next week, and as the higher ranked side they get to choose which night they want to play. As they have been playing Tuesdays they may want to continue with Tuesday for their next home game, or they can pull rank and play Thursday, which would mean Progrès would have to move to Tuesday (can’t be Wednesday as visiting team need pitch available at kick off time the day before to train on). Its a wait and see job for everyone involved, and I’m guessing the earliest an announcement will be made will be Friday once Progrès have officially qualified for R2, and confirmed the date change with UEFA.

Just been looking at Bert Kassies site to see how the seedlings are working out for us and it makes depressing reading. The list of seeds for R3 is daunting and we have to be as lucky as last year to get a hopeful draw. We were the last of the seeds for R2, and we are 2nd bottom of the unseeded teams for R3. The list of seeds for R4 is even more impossible, and, like last year, we only have a chance of drawing a 50/50 winnable tie if we actually draw one of the top 13 seeds in R3, which means we would be seeded for the R4 draw as this takes place before R3 is completed. This is what happened last year when we got Maribor in R3 who were one of the top seeds, and therefore we were actually the seeded team when we drew Ufa in R4. The 13 sides we have to hope for are 2 from the CL dropouts plus Sparta Prague, Braga, Legia Warsaw, Eintracht, Steaua, Feyenoord, Espanyol, Malmo, Partizan Belgrade, Standard Liège & Wolves. How many of them would you think we could reasonably hope to beat? It looks very difficult indeed, not impossible but very difficult. Should we not not draw one of those sides, we will be unseeded for R4, which means we get drawn against one of the above, but when they are more up to speed and into their season which seems more dangerous again. Of course we have to get our co-efficient up in order to get better seedings in the process, but you need to beat a lot of good teams to get the points to get you up there. It’s a real double edged sword. Our achievement to reach the group stages last season was the real highlight of the season and a magnificent accomplishment given just how difficult it is, but we must acknowledge we got really lucky with the draw in that we were actually seeded for R4 due only to the timings of the draw, and we got Osijek who were 5th bottom of the seeds when we could have got Sevilla or Besiktas amongst many others, Maribor who were probably not as good as they had been in building their coefficient instead of Olympiakos, Bordeaux, Feyenoord or Copenhagen who were the other 4 seeds in our mini group, and Ufa who were about the poorest R4team we could have got when Leipzig & Atalanta were in our mini group. It was nothing short of a miracle to get so lucky, can we get just as lucky again?

Chelsea could be a PPI compensation company as they are always paying compensation to someone,

I believe it full-heartedly.

How true. Well put. Bruce doesn’t have a glittering managerial career, does he? Failed at Sunderland. Failed at Villa. Making him manager is like fishing a drowning man out of the pool and appointing him lifeguard.

There are new rules concerning drop balls @Gribz, the team last in possession get to keep the ball unchallenged as near to where the ref stopped the game as possible. Not arguing about the rest of your comments, utter guff being dressed up as quality just to suit the equality agenda.

Endeavours? I spoke with several Oxford United fans yesterday, a couple of the guys got access to Bar 72 through their company having an office in Glasgow. They enjoyed their day thoroughly, the trip proving popular with over a thousand of their fellow Yellows. One of the lad's sister works at BBC Oxford and she was surprised at the blunt refusals from PQ to furnish their sister station with commentary, live updates, and text updates. Like all BBC regional stations, Oxford provides these services to both viewers and listeners for supporters in their broadcast footprint ie Reading, Swindon Town, and Oxford United. Apparently, there had been a few discussions and confusion over, 'Rangers dispute with the BBC'. I endeavoured to provide an objective appreciation on BBC Scotland's dispute with Rangers supporters paying their license fee. The Return of the Hag. The spectre of Lyra McKee's murder is dissipating and Angela Haggerty is again being wheeled into numerous BBC Scotland studios to vent forth on an entire spectrum of issues where she is deemed expert. Last week, three exposures on radio included twice on Shereen Nanjiani's show(current affairs) and once on Kay Adams show(an appeal for a more measured approach during on line debate). Obviously, a Producer or a grouping of Producers(what is the collective noun for BBC Scotland Producers) like the sound of Angela's voice! Angela's on line presence is the epitome of the measured approach. On the night of Lyra McKee being shot dead by a balaclava clad republican, her twitter feed was a case in point. Another contributor set out the extreme circumstances surrounding the young Journo's death ie a line of police being confronted by a hundred youth who had lobbed in excess of fifty petrol bombs at the police, and had several shots aimed at them from an automated pistol; Angela replied it was not an unusual occurrence. Further, stating it was a usual Saturday night event was most measured. The last Journo murdered in Northern Ireland was during 2001. I am mystified as to Angela's frequent appearances, because she appears vacuous. On Saturday morning, the first twenty minutes is taken up by Andy Murray's return to SW 19. Shereen is particularly delighted that Andy has teemed up with Serena Williams for the Mixed Doubles. She suggests the team should be known as, 'SerAndy'. Angela's only contribution was, "ah don't get it, it sounds like Sir Andy, is that the point"? We a\re all beneficiaries of Angela's measured approach. Whenever Angela appears, there is a guarantee that she will state, "ahm fae the Isle of Bute", followed by, "ahm 33", and concluding, "ahm a big Sellik supporter". I propose Angela is worthy of a sobriquet. I suggest, 'Angela Interesting Haggerty' ? Let's hope Love Island is relocated to Bute next year, Angela can say she is from the Isle of Bute, she is a big Sellik supporter, and in keeping with measured interest, "ahm 34". As a Rangers supporter, or as Angela would say on line, 'a member of der Klan'; I would say that, wouldn't I? Big Hooses. We know DrStu' has been heavily exercised with Big Hooses down south during the tenure of our last two national managers. DrStu' was demanding both Gordon Strachan and Alex McLeish sell their family homes in Engerland and commit to Scotland. The current Boss, Steve Clarke also has his family home(Big Hoose) in England's green and pleasant land, but no demand as yet from DrStu'. We should be told why? DrStu's green steak of jealousy is regularly exposed when the salaries of his fellow BBC presenters are revealed. Gary Lineker, Chris Evans, Jeremy Vine, .... et al - they all have numerous Big Hooses and DrStu' resents contributing in part to their purchase through paying his license fee. Of course, DrStu' has told us on numerous occasions about his Big Hoose in Dennistoun. On Saturday, he revealed he was once again off on holiday to Sri Lanka. Further, his motivation for buying his property(Big Hoose) in Sri Lanka was the location is called Kinross Beach. Now, I wonder if Gersnetters are allowed to feel resentment about contributing in part through our license fees? As DrStu' often says, "it's the hope that kills you". I note last week, Sri Lanka was advertising for two Executioners, the first appointment in over 45 years. Here's hoping.