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No more loanees let's buy players who can do a job or start giving some of the younger lads a chance.

It looks like Gerrard is obliged to take a loanee from Liverpool every season, which is a concern. Kent was hugely overvalued and has largely been a waste of money, in my opinion.

We won't win the league then.

I completely disagree. (this is despite my hope that Stewart would succeed as I have a few friends in common with him.) Jones, Stewart, Murphy and Polster are not good enough. They would get nowhere near Celtic's team and should in turn be nowhere near ours if we want to challenge.

It's all about opinions, but I am a Tav fan, he is our most creative player consistently, he is very rarely injured and bombs up and down the right flank all game every game and is by far the best RB in Scotland. Very skillful & and very strong on the ball.

Tav is a modern full back that pulls his weight with goals and assists , his numbers show that , he is right up there . we did not lose the league because of goals lost , we lost the league because we simply cannot compete with Celtic with goals from midfield , they completely out gun us season after season , it’s not rocket science , and to come back to the same guy time after time is just boring and pedantic . We need to have a team that can score from all over the park , we rely on Alfie , when he stopped producing after Xmas , season over , end off .

Was at 25000 a few weeks back Most will leave it as late as possible

It was a mans game back then played by real men not the Jessie's we watch today .

Sigh. yet again, dB's anti-Tav agenda comes to the fore. Polster is nowhere near as good as Tav, and I'd suggest that he's not even as good as Patterson.

We didn`t twice in a row with e.g. Kent and Morelos and Arfield and ... Stewart got 24 games last "season" and an average of 26 mins per game. Thrown in every now and then or with a weakened side for 90 mins, didn`t play like Ronaldo and was quickly removed. Despite being a good impact player every time a I saw him, but each game a few mins here and there. Polster played a few times, hardly set a foot wrong (rather on the contrary) yet as sson as Tav was fit, no matter how dire he played, was constant pick. He does "so much" for the team ... only that I don`t see it. He was smashing in his first season, had a good partnership with Candeias (and hardly a good partner after that, granted) ... but ever there was nothing that would make him an instant pick ahead of others. (And don`t come up with his goal tally or assists ... 90 % of his goals of these last 2 yeasons came from the penalty spot and for every assist he has five or more crosses that end somewhere in Nirvana. Yet if Polster lashes one into the stands, he "is garbage" for eternity.) Jones, Stewart, Murphy, Polster et al have all what we need to put the Killies and Accies of this league to the sword. But we let Kent and Tavernier and Co. at those team with an end product that is dire time and again.

It looks that way. Not that it would be a problem if we got good players out of it but the results so far have been very mixed.

I would hope that a morally bound government/justice secretary would launch an investigation into these linked goings on at two connected 'separate entities'.

Pederasty Inc: the story continues, with its East Coast affiliate. Not a separate entity, I'm afraid; perhaps we could call it "semi-detached". From today's Times Secretary at east coast Celtic feeder club was child abuser Marc Horne Tuesday June 09 2020, 12.01am, The Times Celtic FC launched Celtic East Youth Club in 1989 to match its “excellent counterpart” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/secretary-at-east-coast-celtic-feeder-club-was-child-abuser-lsx0jm87x Celtic FC created and funded a second feeder club which became embroiled in its own child abuse scandal, The Times can reveal. The Parkhead club has repeatedly distanced itself from systemic abuse at Celtic Boys Club in which four members, including the founder, Jim Torbett, were convicted of molesting dozens of children over four decades. Now evidence has emerged that Celtic FC was behind the launch of a second youth feeder club in Edinburgh, called Celtic East Youth Club. Neil Strachan became a leader of one of Scotland’s largest paedophile rings In 1997 Neil Strachan, the secretary of Celtic East, was jailed for sexually assaulting a young boy and gained further notoriety when he was exposed as the ringleader of Scotland’s worst organised abuse network. Celtic FC has always denied any formal connection with the Edinburgh club, which no longer exists, when Strachan was convicted. However, official documents show that it oversaw the launch and provided money as well as coaching staff. The creation of the east coast feeder side was announced in the Celtic View, the club magazine, in May 1989. It confirmed that the venture was being overseen by Benny Rooney, a youth development officer with Celtic FC. “Celtic are currently in the process of setting up a Celtic Boys Club based in Edinburgh which will cater for all east coast youngsters,” it said. “The new club will be known as the Celtic East Youth Club. The boys club will be run along the same lines as their excellent counterpart in the west run by Frank Cairney, Jim Torbett and their men.” It adds: “Celtic would help out with the initial costs and Benny himself will be helping out with coaching at the beginning.” A report on the club’s first game was featured in a Celtic FC matchday programme three months later. Strachan became a long-serving club official and referee despite being convicted of an indecent assault on a child in 1985, when he was 17. In 1997 he resigned from Celtic East after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a boy and sentenced to three years in jail. After his release Strachan tried to rape an 18-month-old boy on Hogmanay 2005 and took a photograph of the incident. Strachan, now 52, was at the heart of an organised abuse network, photographing his attacks and trading them with others. Detectives recovered 7,400 images and a succession of emails which were so graphic that experienced investigators were offered counselling. Eight men were convicted in 2009 for their part in what police described as the “largest paedophile network dismantled in Scotland”. They included Strachan’s co-conspirator James Rennie, now 49, who was chief executive of the charity LGBT Youth Scotland and used the name “kp[kid porn]lover99”. Both men are serving life sentences. Torbett is two years into a six-year sentence for abusing boys between 1986 and 1994, having also been jailed in 1998 for molesting players at the feeder club between 1967 and 1974. While expressing sympathy for his victims, Celtic has sought to distance itself from Torbett’s crimes, insisting the boys’ club was an “entirely separate organisation”. The club did not respond to a request for comment yesterday.

We already are to some extent. The results being more miss than hit. Ojo and Ejaria were found wanting and Kent whilst showing some signs has still yet to prove his worth for me.

Hope we are not going to become a testing ground for liverpool's young prospects

An email in today, I see Rangers have decided to be flexible now, with a week to go until the B72 renewal deadline. I wonder why that is... Dear VIP Hospitality Client I hope you and your family are well through what has been an incredibly challenging time and are looking forward to returning to Ibrox as soon as the advice allows. We are very much looking forward to welcoming you back as soon as possible, and here, work is continuing across the club to ensure we are best-prepared for the challenges to come both on and off the park. Everyone at Rangers was thrilled to secure the services of Ianis Hagi and Calvin Bassey recently – moves which were financed, in no small part, by supporters renewing their seasonal hospitality and season tickets in such fantastic numbers, with more names set to follow. The closing date for renewals, if you haven’t yet renewed, is Monday, June 15. Given the extraordinary circumstances we find ourselves in, we are pleased to offer two flexible payment options for the upcoming campaign, those being: Pay 50% now with the balance due at the end of October 2020. Pay a 25% deposit followed by six monthly instalments, to be paid in full by December 31, 2020. Following the deadline on June 15, we will be unable to guarantee your VIP seat for the 2020/21 season with clients on the waiting list having an option to purchase. In the meantime, everyone at Rangers sends their continued good wishes as we begin to emerge from this unprecedented period. Kind regards Commercial & Marketing Department

Pleased with the Bassey signing. Don't get me wrong, I knew nothing about him before this but that just tells me that our scouts are doing their job. Gone are the days of Sportscene scouting at Rangers and thank goodness for that. He fits the profile; 20 years old, low fee and wages and lots of promise. I've watched a Wyscout video of him and he certainly looks promising. Strong as an ox and he has some engine on him, very fast and better than I expected technically. He could play as a left winger quite easily if need be. And a real left winger who gets to the byline at that. Hopefully more signings like this to come.

Was he not a loanee same as Ojo,Ejaria and other like failures of that system. This time at least he is a permanent signing.