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Probably about as subtle as Shagger can be https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/1251159922357624835

I'm still getting my head around the fact that people actually listen to BBC Sportsound!? ? A bunch of nobodies talking pish for over an hour sounds like audible Hell to me.

Posterity must be kind to the good guys? Since the turn of the millennium at Beeb Scotland, the 'good guys' are always ra Sellik. Whatever is broadcast, and that can sometimes be difficult to fully control(see last Saturday with Tom English and Michael Stewart), those in the future will mostly have what is printed as a reference. The banks of ra Sellik-minded at PQ have become choreographed, rehearsed to such an extent, they have become most predictable. I am sure the analogy with medieval monks relentlessly transcribing victors' history will be accepted as a compliment? Any story that is negative or embarrassing to their beloved will be sculpted, words and phrases softened. The mood music of the hidden hand will be completely removed. Last weekend's events have already been crafted. Peter Lawwell's considerable involvement has been disappeared. We heard Neil Doncaster's first action after the vote was advisably guillotined at 17.00 hrs, was to telephone someone who is NOT on any SPFL Committees, call minuted at 17.01hrs to Peter Lawwell. Those looking back will not read that fact. Talking facts, the whole narrative has morphed into Dundee's journey to enlightenment, whilst any influence exacted by Lawwell, Shifty McGifty, and Rod McKenzie has been quietly disappeared. Beeb Scotland's concluding narrative began, "Initially, Dundee registered an aborted NO vote". It ends with a congratulatory, the majority of Scottish football is grateful for Dundee's change of heart". The phrase 'change of heart' is not one the Beeb will ever attribute to Rangers, a Rangers player, or Rangers supporters, we do not have a heart. Of course, back in the day, 'Off the Ball' had a regular contributor, a Rangers supporter who was a school Janitor from Largs; for several years he was introduced as, "the H-u-n with a heart". Who remembers such broadcasting posterity? During the week, a concurrent story embarrassing ra Sellik and Scotland appeared. The FC Copenhagen player, Michael Santos was disciplined by UEFA, a three match ban for, "assaulting another person" in a, "last 16 Europa Cup tie". Now, we know the efficaciousness employed by Sellik Park Stewards and Police Scotland in ensuring no opposition players or supporters enjoy the experience scoring a goal, particularly a winning goal. Ranks of high visibility Hectors stand immediately in front of the away ion, deliberately preventing anyone from espousing joy. PQ deployed another regularly used tactic. They have to report the story, but the wording will be kinder, and the main participant will be demonised. Further, the stories life on the shelves of both the official Beeb website and Ceefax will be short-lived. The full story below lasted less than four hours : Danes' Santos Banned for Celtic Assault. FC Copenhagen's Michael Santos has been given a three match ban by UEFA for assaulting another person during the side's Europa Cup tie at Celtic Park. Santos and a Copenhagen staff member were charged by Police Scotland in connection with an alleged assault on an Officer, as his side celebrated their second goal in their 3-1 win in Glasgow in February. The attacker reportedly pushed a Police Officer to the ground during the Danish side's celebrations, in their 4-2 aggregate win in the last 16 Europa Cup tie. Factually, it was a last 32 tie, but posterity being kind will low those in the future to know ra Sellik went at least as far as Rangers ie the last 16. The report is an interesting interpretation of events. A rushing, excited player careers into the side of a Polis moving at right angles, and it's assault. The Sub-Editor's headline is a disgrace and a travesty. It derivates from the Angela Haggerty school of HND Journalism. A manufactured 'Celtic assault' will ensure posterity will not be kind to Michael Santos. I have no doubt that tomorrow's broadcast beano from PQ will concentrate on castigating, 'the Great Survivor', Neil Doncaster. His telephone call at 17.01 hrs will not be mentioned, neither will the names, 'Peter', 'Shifty', or, 'Rod McKenzie' be uttered either. Doncaster is rewarded with an annual salary a smidgen under £400,000. His standard of life will be maintained, as long as he continues to telephone Peter. A wee bon mot from 8 years past. As Rangers imploded, and Peter decided we were not worthy of our second place prize money; Peter(again, not on any then SPL Committees) was spotted on a flight to London, sitting side-by-side with Doncaster. Further, he was then photographed beside Neil on the Underground. We assumed correctly, Peter was leading Neil to the headquarters of SKY TV for urgent talks. We asked, why is Peter involved? Being caught on camera gave no wriggle room and later that evening we found out Peter was a member of, 'the SPL TV Rights Committee'. A committee no one had heard of, we asked who else served on this committee? No answer was forthcoming, and we know the committee was never reconvened. Neil might be sacrificed, he might fall on his sword, it depends upon THE necessary posterity. Will Peter offer Neil a posterity like the stars of heaven? We should be told.

buster, do you genuinely believe that if we play nice with PQ that anything changes ? Fair enough if you think that. I, however, believe that by doing so we effectively capitulate to the lies and propaganda that Chris McLaughlin has spouted about our club. His lies were completely outed, yet BBC dug into the trenches over it. If we capitulate, and you can be assured that it will be seen that way, then we will still be cast as pariahs by that lot. Even if it was a silver bullet, I suspect Rangers would be the ones taking it in the head.

Budge has obviously contacted mid table premiership teams who said absolutely no.

Too little too late - if any of them had shown a bit of backbone and backed us then we might be on to something

A solution to the problem: All League Competitions abandoned. Premiership: Leaders Celtic. Last Position Heart of Midlothian (Repeat down the leagues) No declared champions in any league. No relegations , automatic promotions or play-offs for second promotions. No admissions from the Highland or Lowland Leagues. Prize money to be distributed equally among all clubs with a small proportion for the deemed champions of the Highland and Lowland Leagues but excluding any club occupying a relegation place in any league including League 2. Entry to European competitions deferred pending UEFA decision. If Rangers presented this proposition the only drawback for the Club is diminution of share of prize money. The relegation and promotion clubs will be displeased. I expect Brora will be secretly thrilled. But it won’t work because the anointed won’t get anointed.

I'd imagine they weren't made fully aware of how things would transpire and voted with full focus on cashflow.

So why did he and his fellow chairmen vote for this in the first place? All too easy having a go once the deal is done. He should have had the balls to not only speak out before the vote, but to also vote this deal dead, and ensure his fellow chairmen also seen through this for what it was.

"Look for a consensus with the BBC" If that's really how far we've travelled as a support then we might as well give up now. Thankfully, right-thinking fans realise this is just pie-in-the-sky lunacy.

One that didn’t make it that I know is on elfi’s list is Michael Stewart..... thankfully ?

But you can give them back if you don’t sell them, no ? Take them and then don’t even offer them for sale

I kinda thought that might be the case. Another of your cracking finds.

It's at the same time surprising and unsurprising.

Edvard Grieg and I have two things in common we can play the piano and were both heart failure patients ?

Craig, it´s not about playing nice with PQ. It´s about taking advantage for ourselves with a telefonic presence in what will be an important 90 minutes or so regards the ongoing narrative. Given the extraordinary circumstances, I don´t see why we need to kiss and make-up so to speak. Not sure who it would be though, they´d need to be very sharp. We might be able to get a word in via a proxy, would very much depend on who. The SPFL will be looking to contain any discussion on accountability with a message to move-on and they´ll be well prepared. We need to take advantage of the bad feeling towards them and if the likes of Tom English agrees with us then all the better. --------------------------------- Generally speaking,.... Too many people are hung up in this never ending battle with the rest of the world where it seems we need to burn bridges and shout at people. We seem to collect enemies,...yet are somehow surprised when the same world consider us as enemy, move with greater politcal dexterity and pish all over us repeatedly....You don´t have to love everyone, you start by operating with much more savvy and a defined strategy. We are well down the road to Espanyolification. Generally, it´s not a good idea to do keep doing the same old things that were in part, why we find ourselves in such a bad place. The club too often seem to tailor output for X, Y or Z,... dependent on what the support are saying in social media. It might give the support the equivalent of a temporary high but it very raely does anything constructive. You do that for years and it contributes in no small measure to why we are where we are. Putting it bluntly, politically we have been and remain pretty f**king awful. The club, the support, the lot. It wasn´t so bad or in your face when the football team were successful but that was nearly a decade ago. Now the disparity between us and them is significant. Politically, financially and on the park...hence full blown Espanyolification is getting closer. We have made some good appointments within the club re. commerce, youth development, etc but the tangible benefits may take some time to come through. IMO, really what we need is three fold (ignoring the virus fallout for a moment) 1. Finance / better revenue generation 2. Above all a successful football team 3. A fresh holistic strategy regards the politics/media and the like.

Don't see that in what English, Stewart and Ralston are saying. They are asking why the rush and who's gotten something to gain by calling the season? They have all called out the vote, the bullying and the fact that reconstruction has magically made it's way onto the agenda.

The Stenhousemuir Chairman speaks out in The Scotsman - doesn't miss I found the statement from the SPFL staggering. Another reminder if I may, the vote was to end the season for the three leagues below the Premiership. This means relegation for two clubs. Relegation by committee, not through football, which by any standards is harsh. And the statement from the SPFL? There will now be talks on “league restructuring, in time for season 2020-21, around an expanded Premiership model”. So no mention of the impacts on lower leagues, but assurances to the top flight that clubs in the Premiership will be looked after as the starting point for reconstruction talks. The demise of the lower league season is to trigger protection built around the needs of the Premiership. As it stands today, the Premiership season is still live. They continue to hope to play this out “when the time is right” as they have said. But the statement says that the reconstruction “process has already been commenced today”. So reconstruction has begun, when a season in still live? The reconstruction group will be led by the two teams currently occupying the bottom two spots in the Premiership so are the two that are most likely to face relegation. So if the Premiership season does start back up, the two teams in the drop zone have nothing to fear. They will be driving the reconstruction discussions and can keep themselves safe. Is this the sporting integrity that has been mentioned so often of late?

i thought the same mate. if the SPFL celtic place men are gotten rid of due to bribery coercian or whatever, then Stewart, English and Ralston might want to be on the right side of history and not spewing their anti rangers nonsense. makes sense to fight our corner to cover themselves

Perhaps they have a sense of fairness, after all.

Jings, compo. We won with a ten man team and a Norwegian composer at left back! I’d forgotten about the ‘keeper Lawrie (?) Blyth. Who did he play for?

The pressure appears to be continuing on the SPFL to conduct an independent inquiry with 3 news outlets carrying a piece on this today. We need even just a little new news to come out today to ensure that this is the main sports story up here over the weekend. After that news cycle we will then need to see if our board can keep it going, perhaps with an update on legal action. Only sustained pressure will result in any change. Maybe the lack of any other sports news will help our cause here. As we know, our reporters up here are lazy and will take the route of least resistance. At the moment we are writing their stories for them.

Been trying to think of a post to keep the blog ticking over. In this I have looked at some Rangers trialists. https://rfcyouths.wordpress.com/2020/04/16/rangers-trialists/

I don't think we are. I think the host club is obliged to offer them, that's all. I think what we cannot do as a club is tell our fans directly not to attend - but I could be wrong about that.

Is that it? After all the talk about "evidence"? That's beyond disappointing. How can we criticise the SPFL when our own board acts like this? Ffs.

THIS. The bears who still want their away day can still go along with no tickets and support the team from outside, just imagine the impact if there were more fans outside than inside. Donate your ticket money to Rangers charities.