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The criticism of McBurnie is ridiculous and you can't help feel his stated club allegiances play a part. It's not like he's keeping someone better out of the team, when Dykes is fit he plays and McBurnie is the sub, it's hard to think of a Scottish striker any better after that. Griffiths, if fit and in form, would probably be picked ahead of him, and it would be hard to argue with that based on footballing ability. But Griffiths is clearly not fit or in any kind of form and it underlines the lack of quality that he's even making the squad currently. The players themselves can see Griffiths isn't fit and must wonder why someone with his attitude is making the squad far less getting game time. For me that's a far bigger talking point for the media, but I won't hold my breath waiting for someone to raise it. In reality Scotland played 3 matches against average opposition, they drew one and lost two, scoring only one goal in the process. Our qualification, whilst very welcome, has helped mask reality. Richard Gordon in particular was highly critical of McBurnie, yet strangely uncritical of the manager who chose and played him. Surprising...

Sturgeon criticised Scottish football following the Aberdeen 8 and Bolingoli incidents so the SFA said they would increase penalties for future breaches. It's no surprise that these 2 received bigger punishments as everyone was warned that would happen.

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I'm not too bothered about Jones being shipped out but hope we give Edmundson a chance to redeem himself.

It's not as if these two are essential at Ibrox we can do without them but let it be a warning to the rest that punishment is going to be severe by the club and the authorities.

No. Dopes will always be dopes.

Steve Clarke is a Genius. The international break lasted a fortnight. Scotland played three games, drew 1-1 in Serbia, and lost 1-0 in both Slovakia and Israel. The Serbian game was a final qualifier for Euro'20, thus went to penalties and Scotland triumphed 5-4. Steve Clarks has managed to accomplish something that George Burley, Craig Levein, Walter Smith, Alex McLeish, and Gordon Strachan could not. Our qualification has been backdoor, and the result of converting ten penalties in a row. Both Israel and Serbia could only manage eight. Steve Clarke is a genius. Steve does not have to satisfy the conditions laid down by ultra-nationalists such as Cosgrove. He demanded constantly both McLeish and Strachan sell their family homes in southern England, "the national manager must live in Scotland". The former Killie boss has kept his family home in southern England and Cosgrove says nothing. Of course, Steve has already thanked Chelsea for allowing his escape from vile sectarianism thirty-odd years past. Maybe McLeish and Strachan attended the wrong school? Keeping the hate warm during long international breaks demands greater creativity. DrStu' has long been a hater of Oli McBurnie. He has taken a number of opportunities to explain his sneering attitude. Despite McBurnie moving clubs on a few occasions for an accumulative £20 million and notching almost 50 goals in over a hundred appearances, Cosgrove is at pains to let the listeners know, "it's not because he's a Rangers supporter". No, no, and thrice no, McBurnie is simply not good enough for the national team. Unsurprisingly, fellow members of the Gang Hut agree with DrStu'. Michael Stewart took his disgust public on Twitter, Big Dick proclaimed McBurnie as being, "disinterested". Ryan Jack's last two performances have confirmed something I have long thought, once he settles into the demands, the slippers and pipe will appear. Now, this is awkward for the Gang Hut, the only H-u-n in the team is performing. McBurnie is an easier target and he supports the H-u-ns. Oli took to Twitter and replied to Stewart with a single word reply, "Helmut". Steve Clarke protects his players and he briefed off the record, asking for the Gang Hut to lay off. Remember, Steve is on record as publicly thanking Chelsea for removing him from Scotland. There's a piece of footage doing the rounds, it's recorded inside PQ during the Serbian penalty shoot-out. Two lines of chairs, the back three contain Steven Thomson, Neil McCann, and Billy Dodds. The front two have Tam Cowan and Stuart Cosgrove. As Marshall sts himself for the Serbian fifth penalty, Neil McCan is already off his seat, clapping his hands in encouragement. As our Goalie saves, there is a back row explosion, the front row has Cowan on his feet punching the air. Cosgrove remains seated and raises an arm. On Saturday, Cowan was speculating on how long it will take before the BBC Scotland schedules have both Craig Levein and Michael Stewart in the same studio? This enthuses DrStu' to run interference. Again remember, it's only a couple of weeks past where Levein calmly labelled Stewart, "a Bully" on their show. Cosgrove decided there was even more tension to be mined between Neil McCann and Steven Thomson, "you have to look closely, but there's something cooking there". Neil and Steven were Rangers team mates, playing together in a Treble winning season. I wonder what we'll see or hear first, McCann and Thommo' having a spat, or Cosgrove getting out his chair. Fast approaching his seventieth year and the hate continues to rip out of him, that's what gets DrStu' out of his chair.

https://www.rangers.co.uk/article/annual-report-and-accounts-and-notice-of-2020-agm/1RoXtgfv66hyiAbwnX8Eff

Its OK Celtic fans will do it for us! Admin 2...............

Too much wine drunk to start my review of the accounts tonight

All I'm think right now is thank God that international bollocks is over and we can get back to the real stuff.

He should be sacked for that alone XBox Loyal

I first heard about this game in Hugh Taylor: 'Follow Follow'. He also mentioned the 12 men on the field. For a different take George Orwell wrote a famous article denouncing the Stalinist regime but I can't find a reliable link. I do remember he annoyed me by referring to Rangers as 'Glasgow.'

I am in ac cord, before the puns get too threadbare, and one of us makes an arras of it.

the dons are rather physical and we should avoid any provocation just get the ball down and play football and the result will come

Aberdeen are not Barcelona but they’re a lot better than we give them credit for. They know how to beat teams at their own level and how to make it hard for better sides. They even managed a point from celtic. If he’s fit Roofe’s got to play. Morelos can knock them down. Roofe can bang them in. Miller and Brand?

I think we'll draw the curtains on that one?

During the international break the brain has processed trillions of stats and form indicators hence the perfect prediction: Mags 0-2 Chelsea Villa 1-2 BHA ’Spurs 3-1 City United 5-0 West Brom Fulham 2-1 Everton Blades 1-0 Hammers Leeds 2-1 Gunners Brendan’s FP 3-0 New Brendan’s Burnley 2-2 Palace Wolves 3-1 So’ton

It's another big match (aren't they all). Aberdeen are having a good season and have some decent players, as well as a manager who knows how to set up not to lose. Having said that, we are also having a good season and are in good form and have players who are well capable of scoring goals against far better sides than the sheep. Hopefully the international break doesn't negatively impact us and we turn up and win (an early goal would help). I'd play Kent, Hagi and Aribo behind Morelos.

Uilleam, I was sent an e-mail with an attached screen grab of the Tweet. It said, 'Helmut'. McBurnie probably meant Helmet, just like he meant to score last night. Maybe Oli is a polyglot and he was fcuking with Mikey's intellectual capacity?

Enjoyed the account, as i remember my grandad recounting that him and his mates couldn't afford the ticket price and stood outside Ibrox listening!! Dynamo's visit certainly got the post war footie fans out in numbers. This is the Chelsea west stand in a purported 100,000 gate (they stopped counting at the 74,000 who paid!

That's nothing, Scotland players managed that last night when shooting at goal.

The history of Dynamo Kiev is fascinating, there's a few books on it well worth reading. They not only had state backing during Soviet times but because they travelled to the 'west' regularly for matches they were used as a cover for all sorts of scary stuff. I must have mentioned this before @der Berliner but on my only trip to Berlin I struck up a conversation with my airport taxi driver who it turned out was a Dynamo Dresden supporter. The first match he ever attended was Dresden against Rangers in the old Fairs Cup in the late 60s and he'd followed Rangers results ever since. We were flailing around in the lower leagues at the time and we sympathised with each other's plight as Dresden were doing something similar. Ended up sitting outside my hotel chatting about football for about 20 minutes. He got a good tip.

Typical BBC. Both my grandfather and father attended the game. The BIG talking point was the fact Dynamo played a substantial part of one halve with twelve(12) men on the park. Imagine the BBC describing a game with dubious refereeing, whilst deliberately ignoring the most dubious happening during the match. Further, Moscow Dynamo in 1946 were the same as Moscow Dynamo in 1972, they were the preferred club of the KGB(secret police of the Soviets).

This however is not a good thing as any points won by Rangers or Celtic now get divided by 5 instead of 4 , given the 3 other teams will by and large contribute next to nothing going forward it only makes it harder to stay in the top 12 positions .Again the MSM miss the point as the show their usual ignorance towards the whole coefficient issue .