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Yes - congrats SG and credit to the full management team. Almost an unbeaten league campaign and a great Euro run - fully deserved.

That was a lovely bit of play which lead to the penalty. This bloody pitch though, how on earth can we allow that in our top division?

No one will ever convince me that artificial surfaces are the way forward. Hate them.

Guard of honour from Livi players and manager; a nice touch!

Hypocrites. They'll be the first ones supporting the SNP's fascist-like tactics if it comes to voting in Holyrood.

One in the same - joint statement

Another tick in the win column, another clean sheet and we move on to 99 points and remain undefeated in the league. Saturday is trophy day, but 1 point required to get to the magic 100 points tally and 1 MORE hurdle to overcome to go the entire league season undefeated. No matter what happens on Saturday, this team has delivered this season and I applaud all the players and staff. Can't express how proud of them I am. Rangers, Champions

Some really good goals and good football on a shit pitch. 3-0 was harsh on Livi but very professional job. Bring on the sheep and

Another brilliant team goal

Clearly played at an end of season pace but we've put together some nice stuff and well deserve our lead even if Livi have had a couple of opportunities to create danger on the break and from set pieces. Thought Aribo has done well at left back, Simpson's distribution is excellent and Kent again looked sharp. Unfortunately, the guesswork involved in reading the pitch means it's very difficult to maintain any sort of tempo.

Before they kick the sh*t out of our players?

It basically redirects your connection through one of the VPN provider's servers and encrypts it so that your traffic can't easily be tracked or traced. Also, you can kid on to be in another country if you want.

In my ill-informed opinion, Rangers not only should but must be involved in player development. Not just with a view to producing first team players, although that would be a distinct bonus, but with a view to creating product that can generate income in both the short and (mainly) long term. I believe that can only be achieved if everyone at the club, at all levels, is part of the same integrated programme. Actually, it's the only approach that makes any sense and the current management team obviously think so too. Simply relying on a regime of loaning out players clearly isn't working, the evidence is there in the stats. That's not to say that a loan deal won't continue to be the best option for the right player in the right circumstances but we clearly need more than that. It might even be that a combination of internal coaching in a competitive setting and occasional short-term loans is the way forward, perhaps focussing on partner clubs. The Lowland League isn't the best level for us but at the moment it's the only option available and we'll have to try to progress that as best we can in the future. I definitely see this as a progressive approach by a management team with a clear vision of how to break out of our past inertia.

Don’t know why we couldn’t have got this Livingston game moved to the weekend with neither side having a game and tv not picking it up anyway. Makes no sense to me going 10 days without a game then 2 in 4 days to finish the season. Scottish football administration in all its glory.

Well said Gaffer https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=476186870334255

Sturgeons black shirts

Terrific result and a good performance. Saturday can't come soon enough.

They'll lose the statement. Or heavily redact it. Or blame Westmonster.

99 league points is the most points in one season we've ever achieved. This side just keeps breaking records

1-0 Tav - deffo penalty and great pen from The Captain

I await SNP and Police Scotland condemnation ?‍♂️

Provided it is not Lord Mulholland presiding, we should get away with it.

I was hoping Brown could make an early switch to the sheep, so he can come and watch Tav lift the trophy on Saturday.

Must have been their "new guy" responding it won't have been the current crop.

Gerrard isn’t in the business of experimenting this close to the finishing line. It will be 4-3-3 with Joe at LB

Anyone still trusting the police, perhaps out of some nostalgic notion of fair play, needs to wake up and smell the stench. In Sturgeon’s Scotland everything is deeply tainted, none more so than our highly politicised police “service”

Just added ... IN - Zinedine Ferhat (28) - Nimes Olympique, Algerian, RW, contract 2022 - LINK - TM

Yeah very worthy over the course of the season. After Oct / Nov nobody could touch them as they went on that long unbeaten run. I still think they were better two years ago and the points tally says the same but they have got more steel about them this season and played most of the season without an out and out striker. They will have a bit work to do in the summer to get a striker - Sir Alex strengthened his team after every title win and the way Chelsea are improving they are going to have more wins on the board next season - so City will need one marquee signing IMO.

very very well deserved. Congratulations Stevie

Music to my ears. Congratulations Steven Gerrard. Onwards and upwards.

Well deserved, thank you Steven and your backroom staff.

Alternatively, you could relocate to the Republic of Ireland or the US and pontificate about offensive statues in the city you left behind, whilst making rather crude comments, based on stereotypes, about a tax-paying resident in your former homeland.

The gap between the Lowland League and the Championship is considerable. The vast majority of sides in the Championship are comparable to half the SPFL, you could swap St Mirren, Ross County and Motherwell with Dundee, Raith Rovers and Dunfermline and see no change in quality. Under Gerrard really only Nathan Paterson has played for our first team and even that was only because Tav was injured. Kennedy, Barjonas and McPake have had cameos but our recent record of introducing young players isn't great. Obviously Allan McGregor went out on loan as a young player, as did Charlie Adam and both went on to have decent careers. Barrie McKay also went out on loan more recently before returning and making an impact in the first team. But overall I agree we've struggled to introduce young players whatever route we've taken. I don't think I've mentioned Robbie McCrorie, what I would say about him is he's not played every game for Livingston, indeed he's struggled to become first choice there this season. I doubt either of us see him as better than McGregor or McLaughlin currently. In terms of the current Scotland squad I'd say Andy Robertson (Queens Park), John McGinn (St Mirren), Lyndon Dykes (QOTS), Ryan Fraser (Aberdeen), Ryan Christie (ICT), Stuart Armstrong (Dundee Utd), Kevin Nisbett (Dunfermline) and Robert Snodgrass (Livingston) would all improve our squad and challenge for a first team place. I've only picked the ones who started their careers in Scotland at a club outside of Rangers and Celtic. We can all debate the merits of each individual and I'm not proposing signing any of them, just pointing out their route to top level football. Some players simply need games, they need to play at a decent level along with grown men to develop. This isn't solely about physicality, this is about mentality. It's about learning that failing to track a runner or switching off for a moment can lead to the loss of a win bonus, something that can make a huge difference to a full time professional at that level. Those players won't be shy in letting a young player know what's expected and when they've let their team-mates down. I think we make certain assumptions about players at Championship level. In fact many of the players at that level are model professionals, guys making a living with significantly less natural ability than the young Rangers lads, guys with good habits and great work ethics. Look at our current side just now. Only Allan McGregor (who did go out on loan to smaller sides), Steve Davis, Jermain Defoe (spent a season on loan at Bournemouth) and arguably Helandar came through at 'big clubs' in the top leagues. Every other player in our side was either released by a big club and rebuilt their career at a lower level or came through at a smaller side. You could argue Ryan Kent but ultimately he wasn't troubling the Liverpool first team. Indeed I'd probably struggle to pick a side from the last 50 years of players who have come through at Rangers, and made a proper impression on the first team without a loan spell or starting their careers at a smaller club. Derek Johnstone, Derek Parlane, Bobby Fleck, Ian Durrant, Barry Ferguson, Allan Hutton, Lewis MacLeod. There will be others I've forgotten but it's not a long list. I'm far from an expert on this subject, it's just my observations and I accept the guys at the club now weren't there for much of the past 50 years, but I've come to the conclusion Rangers probably shouldn't be involved in youth development.

I agreed that they would toughen up, but I still believe they don't really learn anything useful for their move up to Rangers. How many Rangers youngsters have actually made it into our first-team after playing on loan at Championship sides? The intensity and level of football may be higher (not by much, IMO), but it doesn't help them get a game for Rangers, and it doesn't develop them into well-rounded players - too many Scottish clubs have no idea what a well-rounded player is! McCrorie has played every game for Livingston, but apparently -- going by comments on here, (by yourself?) -- he's not ready for Rangers. Regular matches, yes, but how many of the current Scotland squad would make it at Rangers, when they were on our radar, so to speak? Roberston did well at Utd, but were we clamouring for his signature? No, he had to go up a level, to Hull. McGinn? I actually thought we should sign him when he was at Hibs, but the majority thought he was p*sh. Again, he's had to go up a level. They are good players, but I wouldn't say they are well-rounded. Robertson is just hard-working, with a wonderful left-foot. McGinn is similarly hard-working. It's not just playing at Auchenhowie, it's playing against elite players in their age-range. Our 'B' team was playing against the best sides, and because the players are not outmatched physically, they can develop their technical skills while playing in a system similar to our first-team. You could argue that players developed from our 'B' team actually look much more rounded, and better technically, than anything produced before (McPake, Kennedy, Kelly, Mabude, Dickson, King etc -- I think Gilmour, too, but maybe not?). So, for me, we've got a structure that can develop good players. I would then agree that the next stage is regular games. Surely they'll get games for the Colts? They wouldn't use the team skills they'd learned if they were to go on loan. They'll have the team around them to play a certain way, utilising their technical skills, all the while playing regular games against 'tough' opposition. The 'B' team in the leagues is a win-win, for me.

What Robertson didn't say is that this proposal is in fact plan B. The original proposal was an expanded league 2, The swifts and young bheasts joining along with 2 from the Highland and 2 from the lowland. There would be no promotion for the big 2 but there was guaranteed payments from us and them to the Scottish league along with other contractual incentives. It was considered a goer earlier this year, but obviously something has happened to kibosh that model and the lowland version is now being offered.

I’d be happy for Jones to stay in Sunderland, for the right fee of course. If he plays a part in their promotion to the Championship, the discussions should start at £5M, as that is what really shit players are transferred for in that overpriced and overrated league.

"No one likes us, we don't care.". I embrace the hatred the Scottish press and government have for us. They can't punish Rangers for things that happen in the steets and people who hate us won't start liking us because we do as we're told. I hope all in attendance have a cracking day.