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We’re delighted to say that our Restoration team got back to work this weekend and have restored the stone of Rangers legend Tom Vallance. Tom rests in Hillfoot Cemetery in Glasgow. Tom Vallance. On the 27th May 1856 the Rangers great that was Tom Vallance was born. To quote his Rangers team-mates from the 1870’s‘’ The whole of Rangers loved him like a brother’’ Tom was born at a small farmhouse known as Succoth near Renton in the parish of Cardross.When young he moved with his family to the Old Toll House at Shandon on the Gareloch. He came to Glasgow in the early 1870’s following the path taken by his friends whom he’d known since childhood the brothers McNeil and Campbell . Tom Vallance had an astonishing 60 year association with the Club,and his is an incredible CV. He was a master oarsman, a champion athlete (he set a Scottish long jump record of over 21 feet), he studied at the Glasgow School of Art, had paintings accepted by the Royal Scottish Academy and was Rangers Club Captain and President for many years. We have details of Tom Vallance being present at the ceremony held on 1st January 1929 which saw the opening of the Main Stand at Ibrox and also at a dinner which was held in the St.Enoch’s Hotel after a Rangers match in 1933 when we faced Sporting Club of Vienna. He was also a guest of the Club at the New Year’s Day fixture that season against Celtic. So the lad who was present at Fleshers Haugh in 1872 is still attending Ibrox some 60 years later where the Club that he’d helped form and nurture were now playing in front of crowds in excess of 100,000. Tom was paid the ultimate accolade by the Club in May 1898 when he was made a life member. Tom Vallance was one of the originals, one of the greats. thefounderstrail.co.uk

what would make it funnier still is if Hearts win the court case and take Utd's place in the SPL

Just watched the Magpies game again nothing to shout home about but marred for me by the intensely annoying"Kneel". Think Newcastle and their first goalscorer should be taken to task by his kneel and raised hand salute as it could have caused riots should there be a crowd in. Fair enough if teams are allowed to kneel (without raised hand) before game if agreed or ordered to do so but then end of.

Another day of knee-bending from the virtue-signalling EPL. It's funny how moral that large sums of money can make you.

I'm planning to block everyone apart from buster. That way I'll get the real geopolitical knowledge, straight up. ?

Oh no! not another poster wanting to block me for my shite posts! ?

A boardroom leak according to C1872 if I’ve read it correctly

They have had plenty of time to set it up, but I just hope they have massively improved from previous, some of the quality was terrible and there will be huge demand, more than ever! so let's hope the site doesn't crash!!!

They’ve had plenty time to get it set up but to be fair I’ve no idea how difficult these things are. Lot of folk a bit pissed off that they gave the exclusive to the Sunday Mail only a week after that scurrilous pishy article they wrote. Strange decision at best!

Or we beat them 3-1 and then win the shoot-out. ?

Arteta is doing well enough, I think (outwith this last couple, but he was up against Man City in one of them). He needs to get rid of the dead wood, which I believe he has acknowledged and they're looking to do so in the summer.

While the club administered the scheme, the players were direct beneficiaries. You could argue that Rangers was an indirect beneficiary because without the scheme at least some of the players would not have signed to play at Ibrox - but that's impossible to prove, let alone quantify. Obviously, Rangers did benefit directly too.