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Fishing with Grenades? I do not advise it. The trick is creating as much compression as you can, that's what kills the fish and subsequently ensures they float to the surface. Grenades have a small explosive charge designed to detonate after four seconds and propel shrapnel at high velocity in confined spaces. I am the voice of experience here, got the t-shirt in Belize, Borneo, and Arnhemland. You need an old ammo' box, fill it with several heavy stones, place a small charge of PE(remember do not mix up the accompanying fuse cord and det' cord), ensuring 15-20 seconds on the charge. Now, this allows the box to settle and ensures maximum compression. Piranhas have a fearsome reputation but are remarkably good eating. Dozens float to the surface, quickly gut and fillet the white meat. Find another ammo' box, a soupcon of oil, lots of chopped garlic, chilli to taste, throw in an onion(shallots are better), add rice at the end and allow to simmer. Drain and serve a tasty, nutritious piranha and rice supper. Again, do not confuse det' and fuse cord, or you will have no hands to eat this wonderful meal.

This is an email I sent to the Club 1872 Board members in October 2018. Nothing changed as a result. Dear Board Members, I am sending this to the generic e-mail address and also individual addresses. I don’t have one for Euan so please pass it on to him. I have also heard that Bruce has now resigned. I am writing this as a person who was on the Working Group that set up Club 1872 and heavily involved in the first six months of its operation. I have always tried to be supportive of the organisation although at times I have found it difficult. I am not trying to harm the organisation or any individual involved but I have grave concerns about the election proposals plus more general ones that I will go into later. Election proposal – what is the rationale behind moving from requiring a proposer and seconder to suddenly requiring 15 donating members to nominate an individual to the Board? This would preclude the vast number of members from putting themselves forward. The only people that would know for sure who is and isn’t donating are people with access to your database. From the outside it appears that you are limiting the number of people standing and making it more of a closed shop, which is the last thing that you should be doing. Three year term for directors – I have no objections to this in principle but you have failed to explain how this would work. If the plan is at the next election for five people to be elected for three years then that is very wrong. This has to be rotated so that there are still annual elections with a proportion stepping down each year. This enables continuity but also allows people with new ideas to be elected on an annual basis. Perhaps this is the plan but the proposal does not make this clear. You also need a method to appoint directors after resignations either by co-option or a one-off election. Maximum of five directors – I strongly oppose this and would make it a minimum of five directors required. Given the history of resignations from the Board and with the amount of members money that is being put at your disposal then I think it is necessary for the Board number to increase rather than decrease. Other – Communication with members has been awful. We used to get summaries of Board meetings and information on meetings with the club plus the occasional members meeting but that has all but disappeared. I know there was a ‘quarterly’ newsletter but out a few weeks ago which smacked of there are elections coming up so we better put something out. Failure to address comments made about the organisation is also a concern, particularly when these are made by an ex-director. In addition, the organisation has never held an AGM or given members an opportunity to ask questions on the accounts. The last two sets of accounts posted have been unaudited and only signed off by one director, who is not an accountant. I realise the CIC regulations state somewhere that independently audited accounts are not required for a CIC but given the vast amount of money involved I believe it would be prudent to have an proper audit, regardless of there being a cost. There are two different companies listed on the last two sets of accounts and people will wonder exactly what their role is. As I said, I want the organisation to thrive but membership numbers have, at best, remained stagnant. I think this is mainly due to the fact that the Club is now more stable and the number of different ways that supporters can put money into the Club. I wish you well but I‘m now considering whether it is worthwhile to keep my donation going as it isn’t the organisation that I had envisaged. I may share this with others. Regards Christine Sommerville

I don’t get all this “at least it wasn’t the league” pish. We just lost a great opportunity to win a cup and give our players and management the belief that they can be winners. You can lose a league game and it doesn’t cost you the title, lose a cup game and your oot, done, gubbed, you can’t win it. If you have won a few cups over last few years you can start being precious and prioritise, but when you have won nothing, you must win this. As much as I have been fantastically proud and delighted and amazed at our start to the season, tonight showed all our old flaws and when the pressure was really on we have completely blown it. I’m absolutely raging. I hope the manager is too.

FFS! some of the reactions on here are utterly ridiculous! we were pish tonight it happens, we didn't deserve to win it, St Mirren battled for their lives. I am gutted as well as I am whenever we lose, but we need to get a grip! could have been worse it could have been a league match.

Fascinating. Would this work with, say, Sturgeon?

whatever one seals 55

I don't get all this fucking attacking Rangers as soon as we lose a match! we have no right to win every match, it happens

Entitlement. "Entitlement" has become one of Stuart Cosgrove's favourite words. These last few weeks there has been a running battle on BBC Radio Shortbread over the exposure and specifics of National Clinical Director, Jason Leitch's proclamations. Aberdeen's owner, Dave Cormack has criticised the Scottish Government and it's handling of Covid arrangements and Scottish football. He feels there should be a graduated scheme to allow more fans into games in lower tier areas. Further, BBC Radio Shortbread should take the weekly questioning out of the hands of Cosgrove and Cowan, and place it into the hands of the more serious minded on Sportsound. Cosgrove is raging and wonders aloud what entitles Cormack, "who lives in Atlanta, Georgia" to tell us how to conduct our affairs. Cosgrove also offers, "Off the Ball is not Newsnight". Well, quite. DrStu' is obsessed where folks live, he wanted national coaches, Gordon Strachan and Alex McLeish sacked because they would not leave, "their big hooses in Basingstoke and Fulham". Steve Clarkes big hoose is okay though. Of course, Cosgrove has a property portfolio that would choke the proverbial, four properties in three different countries. Oh, and DrStu's big literary hero, Irving Welsh splits his time between Chicago and New York. What about Cosgrove's entitlement? Only two weeks past he told us, "ah've no missed a minute of St Johnstone's football this season". Well, when PQ send him and Tam to Fir Park to cover the 'Well/Saints game for Open all Mikes, or when he sits there after his Saturday/Sunday shows and watches live coverage coming into the studios, or even better; like last night when he has no broadcast duties and he goes in just to watch his team in League Cup action at Dunfermline. Entitlement by the endeavours of BBC Scotland engineers. Approaching his seventieth year, Cosgrove is one very entitled person. Your ordinary BBC Scotland license fee paying Rangers supporter is not allowed to pitch up at PQ to watch their team live on a monitor. In fact, compare and contrast what Cosgrove receives for his license fee and what is received by your average license fee paying Rangers supporter? DrStu' the very entitled establishment man. Next, he'll be lunching at Gamba with Neil Doncaster?

Taking into consideration the conditions, the fact that he was being hunted down and the importance of the match, has to be Roofe.

The due diligence claim has left me totally bewildered, it assumes we are all idiots. I think the statement effectively killed off any hope however infinitesimal it was of reaching 25% +1. Short of some benevolent billionaire riding to the rescue (which has its own dangers) they are in danger of making themselves totally irrelevant, they are alienating even some of their most ardent believers. Club1872 needs immediate total root and branch reform, they need to use some of their 5% expenses to pay for some quality independent professional advice.

Saturday is now huge - drop anything and the pressure on team / players will be massive. I can take getting beat, it's part and parcel of football, but that performance was woeful. It's the manner of the result that hurts and needs analysing, it was so reminiscent of post winter break last season. Win on Saturday is imperative.

That's a bit much mate. Take a deep breath, look at the league table, look at the Europa league group.

Now here is a front three: Law was part of United’s Holy Trinity, alongside Charlton and Best THE GAME DAILY | MATT DICKINSON The King known as ‘Cockeye’ who would have kicked his own granny – celebrating Denis Law Matt Dickinson Chief Sports Writer Wednesday December 16 2020, 12.00pm, The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/the-king-known-as-cockeye-who-would-have-kicked-his-own-granny-celebrating-denis-law-3pl859rpr It was in 1975 that Denis Law was surprised by Eamonn Andrews and his big red book for This Is Your Life. Forty five years later, Law receives the modern-day equivalent of that tribute with a documentary about his stellar career. There seems a growing appetite for these reminiscences about past legends — Jimmy Greaves and Jack Charlton among others recently — and, in Law’s case, it is not only the chance to relive defining moments but to fill some gaps in knowledge. I knew of his renown as a great goalscorer but not the fizzing aggression of this pugnaciously proud Scot. Sir Bobby Charlton once described Law “sending sparks and flames up around him” and, still at 80, you can see a mischievous gleam in his eye. Law talks about glancing around to check where the referee was looking before smacking a big centre half who would have been kicking lumps out of him. “Denis would have kicked his own granny,” Ian Ure says. The former Arsenal defender speaks from bruising experience, having once traded blows with Law, landing them both six-week bans. Courage was high on the many attributes of a footballer whom Sir Alex Ferguson hails, without equivocation, as “The King, the greatest Scottish footballer of all time”. The fireworks are all the more remarkable for the fact that there was never a less likely looking teenage prodigy. When Law moved from Aberdeen down to Huddersfield Town at 15, never having heard of that Yorkshire town, this son of a fisherman was scrawny and wearing thick round NHS glasses to hide a squint which earned him the nickname “cockeye”. An operation transformed his vision and it was on a remarkably clear-sighted eye for goal that Law built an extraordinary career in which he was the British record transfer three times as he moved between Huddersfield Town, two spells at Manchester City, a year in Torino and, of course, the glories at Manchester United. The first of United’s “Holy Trinity” — Charlton, Law and George Best — to be awarded the Ballon d’Or in 1964 thanks to the 46 goals in a season which remains a club record, he combined predatory skills with panache. It was not just that Law scored 237 goals in 404 United appearances — plus 30 in only 55 games for Scotland, a record he still holds with Kenny Dalglish, who won 102 caps — but that he had such style about him with the shock of blond hair, twinkling eyes, the hands tucked in the cuffs and that raised-digit salute in which he remains immortalised in bronze outside Old Trafford. Law was integral to the glories of United in the Sixties, though there would be two grave disappointments to his time at Old Trafford. He was stuck in a hospital bed for knee surgery drinking from a crate of beers on the night when the European Cup was lifted at Wembley in 1968. When time was called on his United career by Tommy Docherty, Law was less than amused to find out by reading it in a newspaper. Of course, it is impossible to escape that backheel flick in May 1974 which, according to legend, sent United into the old Second Division. The legend is slightly wrong — United would be relegated in any case — but Law was not to know that as he scored, almost as if he could not help himself given such a gift, and reacted almost apologetically. I had forgotten that Law walked straight off the field after what would be his last kick in English football. He went to sit, sombre, in the United dressing room. Aside from one appearance for Scotland on creaking knees at the 1974 World Cup finals a few weeks later, that was the end for a footballer whom Hugh McIlvanney, the great sports writer, once noted would have a chance to get into any team in the world, a finisher of the highest class inside the box and “brave as a lion”. A man, according to Ferguson, who “could separate himself from the fame quite easily, and I think that is a great quality”. At 80, Law still looks wiry, and certainly twinkly-eyed, even after battles with a few illnesses, including prostate cancer: still with that charisma which made him, for so many fans, the favourite of that special attacking trinity at United. The Lawman will be shown on Sky Documentaries on Friday at 9pm

As we continue to remember and honour our legends and fellow supporters we recently made contact with the family of Rangers great and record goalscorer Sam English with a view to placing a memorial plaque in his name at Cardross Crematorium.This was put in place today. We’d like to thank the family of Sam English whom it was a pleasure to meet again today at Cardross for their kind donation. Sam English. STRIKER English was one of the most prolific forwards ever to play for Rangers, having spent two years at the club from 1931 to 1933. To this day, he still holds the record for the most league goals scored by a Light Blues player in a single season. English found the net 44 times in the 1931-32 championship, a campaign in which Gers struck 118 times in total but still missed out on the title by five points to Motherwell. In total, the Irish forward scored 64 times in just 72 games for the Ibrox outfit and his was an incredible strike-rate. Sadly his career was overshadowed by his part in the incident which led to the death of Celtic goalkeeper John Thomson in September 1931. As he chased a through ball from Jimmy Fleming in the Old Firm derby, English went to shoot but his knee collided accidentally with the keeper’s head.Thomson suffered serious injuries to his skull and died in hospital a few hours after the match.English was cleared of any blame in a consequent enquiry but never fully recovered from what happened and was severely traumatised. He soon moved to Liverpool for £8,000 but retired at the age of 28, describing the latter stages of his career as ‘seven years of joyless sport’. English’s own life was cut tragically short in 1967 when he died from motor neurone disease at the age of 58. The former striker’s family donated a bowl in his name to the club in 2009 and it is now presented annually to the club’s leading goalscorer.Placed inside the accolade is a small ball for each goal English scored in that 1931-32 campaign. Kris Boyd was the inaugural recipient of the Sam English Bowl, having scored 31 times in the 2008/09 SPL and Scottish Cup-winning season. Sam English. (1931-1933) Appearances: 72 Honours: One League Championship (1932-33), one Scottish Cup (1931-32) Alfredo with the Sam English bowl which is awarded annually to our top goal scorer. 1 share

A lot of second stringers in that lineup but guess what, I’m not bothered. Not all that long ago the first choice XI terrified me.

We'll bring back the specialist on a loan deal, Kyle Lafferty. Title decider and need an early goal.........Call Kyle ! 2009: 6th minute 2010: 17th min 2011: 1st min

This. I don't care if it's an OG it's getting my vote.

Not that I’m trying to suck up to anyone on here but I thought John Bennett was fantastic. As for Club 1872, what little credibility they have left is gone after that statement.

So, Rangers is already 95% fan owned. Makes you wonder what all the fuss is about with Club1872, which does rather have the smell of "wrong kind of Rangers fan" about it. Given the shareholding Rangers fans on the board have invested THEIR OWN money, it's the sort of commitment that doesn't exactly stand out as needing a lot of safeguarding against. As the dinosaurs came to appreciate, you should never be 100% confident about the future but it looks to me like we're in a better position than any time during the last 20 years, maybe more. We spent about 10 years treading water, followed by 8 years in the shit, so for me the biggest thing is the current direction of travel ......... forward.

Unless you only discovered football in the last three months you already know that nights like this are part and parcel of football. Unless you think the rebuilding job at Rangers is complete then you will already know something like this would happen at some point. Stay calm, retain composure, the next game is just around the corner. No one said it would be easy.

How we respond at the weekend will be telling.

Our winning streak was going to end at some point. It was a bad night, typical cup game, they were up for it and grew in confidence as the game went on. No excuses really. But...as long as this doesn’t derail our main goal, and in some way it may be a blessing in disguise, as hard as that is to fathom.

Best you can say about this is thank god it's not the league

I must have fell asleep and missed the 100 re-runs of that over the ball challenge and the discussion???, ah! it wasn't Morelos that did it.

Poor from us we have let them drag us down to their level.

The larger fan forums, the RST, Club1872 - the in-fighting/skulduggery never ends. It's all a bit predictable and depressing.

Roofe would be my choice. It's one that we'll still be talking about in 30 years.

A post made by a new subscriber who hasn't reacted to replies highly suspicious of his posting IF a Gers fan.

Due to a previous work connection, I have had dealings with Dougie Payne and the other lads from Travis. They are all bluenoses apart from the singer Fran. Nice bunch of guys tbh

That's the worry, the momentum could swing back in their favour so quickly dependent on this weekend's results.

Hopefully a lesson learned tonight? Our next 2 away games are St Johnstone and St. Mirren and they won't be too far off that game there in terms of style. We just need to make sure we play our strongest XI from the start. Oh and defend better...

Can’t believe we’ve conceded three goals to st mirren

Let that be a lesson learned. It was coming to be fair. Rather lose this than a league game or an EL game.

The start of the second half, we became loose in possession, lost game management, lost the game. Congrats to St Mirren.

Is this the way the season ends, Not with a bang, but a whimper? (We have previous.)

Our midfield just aren't functioning

Itten and Roofe need to do more. Work their defence a bit more. Also Kent & Aribo need to create more.

FFS, Rangers, this is hardly Brazil 70 you are playing.

So clumsy from Bassey but really poor from Kent trying to dribble past people in that area.

It will be interesting to see if Zungu can do what Davis and Jack have done so well.

I'd give Tav and Arfield a rest. Hagi and Itten should start. It's an important match and I don't expect it to be easy but we should still be victorious, even without some first picks.

Your state of the union thread has shamed me, I'll write one for this weekend's match if that's okay.

Tavernier for me for that free kick. I remember moaning on here during the Caixinha era that we just didn’t have enough different ways of scoring goals. Championship winning teams are dangerous from free kicks and in the air and it is staggering how much we have improved in that regard. To have Tavernier and Barisic here at the same time with their dead ball ability is really rare.

"Good night for the West Midlands." A good night for The Black Country, which was needed after a miserable week end. "Is Guardiola bored and can’t be bothered? Would City look north for a replacement? I believe that Lennon could be tempted.

Agreed. So many things have changed for the better, Alfredo is beginning to remind us of the past and we know only too well where it tends to go from here. --------- I wrote a post on Morelos yesterday prior to the latest ban, that fits better in this thread.... If SG&Co think he is the best footballer in the squad for whatever role, then fair enough and aslong as results continue the way they are going, no problems. The most important thing for SG&Co is to continue the positive results, continue the momentum and not let enter doubts or negative history repeat itself. Where are the risks ? On Sunday, we saw something that we'd hoped had been sorted. Very early in the game, the Morelos challenge that we were very lucky didn't produce a red card. Was it a huge surprise, no, not really. Exactly a year ago this morning, the same general narrative as this season, was that Morelos had screwed the nut and improved his discipline (only 2 league bookings to that point in the season). However by late afternoon he had doubled the bookings and been shown a red. The second booking being a gesture during a goal celebration, stupidity, that we had seen before. The week before, he had played very well but didn't score in the League Cup Final against Celtic. The media went to town on him #frustrated At the end of the same month, we would see another stupid red card against Celtic, that cut our options for the post winter break games. A year previous to that he was the talk of Scottish fitbaw during the whole winter break as the compliance officer cited him for the same fixture. The first European campaign towards the groups stages under SG&Co came under threat when Morelos had a first half brain fart in Ufa and stupidly got sent off. We got away with it. Same season: Petulant League Cup booking versus Ayr Utd = No decent strikers for semi-final and elimination The conclusion is - His temperament and stupidity has cost us many times - He does and will not learn. Frustrations will get the better of him - He isn't and hasn't been sharp/on-form for about 11 months - He is looking frustrated - We got away with it on Sunday but it could have cost and led to a change in momentum - We can't trust him Would you play him in what will be the most important OF match for SG&Co to date ? Previous is no goals and two red cards Celtic will be targetting this game for a momentum shift. The media reaction after Tannadice will remind officialdom to remark Alfredos card. Risk (re.AM) is high IMO I'd play Itten through the middle against St.Mirren tomorrow and see how he does against a fairly organised side. I'd be asking Ross Wison what options may be available in January to sell and replace Morelos. Further decisions would be dependent on Itten showing up well for several games and what options were available in the transfer window. --------------------- Looks like Itten may well get more minutes. It's now up to him to prove himself.

After reading your post and seeing 26th's use of the word gangsters, I thought back to a 2013 BBC Scotland drama called The Field of Blood, written and directed by David Kane (source/wiki). The line that stood out was describing how much of a nasty bastard, Lafferty the hardman/gangster was. I'm paraphrasing but Lafferty was said to have thrown his dug out of the highrise windae because,...wait for it....the dug had been chewing on Lafferty's Rangers scarf. Now for many folk, a dug killer is as bad as it gets and to get a reference to Rangers in alongside it, was as blatant as it gets.

Being a long term member and previous contributor to this great forum / website (hell, they even gave me Admin responsibilities at one point ? ), this is still the only Rangers site I post on. I would love to get back to contributing more, but work and family commitments mean I can't guarantee time / effort to help out as much as I would like (sighs of relief all round). In all honesty, the quality of contributions now is very very good. Up most thanks and respect to @Frankie and all the contributors, admin, tech gurus etc who work hard behind the scenes. Lastly, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our fellow Gersnetters and Bluenoses. PS - do we still have the Gersnet awards??!!??

I’ll be quite happy if we focus entirely on domestic competition after New Year. Anything but what happened a year ago.