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Rangers AGM is set for tomorrow, St Andrew's Day at the Clyde Auditorium starting at 10.30hrs. Any fellow Gersnetters intent upon attendance? What are the questions dominating life as a Rangers supporter? Ibrox pies are always a point of concern, the piquancy of the peppered mince pate, the melt in the mouth pastry and, are they warm enough? Talking of culinary triumph, will we see the return of Bears' Pakora, the King Rib sandwich or, the chicken salad wrap? Club'72 has no white Burgundy, no Gravadlax and, no Bollinger. Working TVs in concourses is another favoured concern, perhaps with new Management Team appointments, Red Hot Dutch TV will be made available? Oh, and the welfare of Rino Gattuso is usually uppermost in the collective thoughts. Prominent attendees in the past were Tom Shields(ra Sellik View Columnist), Graham Spiers(the Laird of Dunlop), and, David Low(top Fergus Fluffer). Will Phil McFournames, Chris McLaughlin and, Michael Stewart trap, BIG Clown Shoes to be filled? Will anyone mention Finance? Will BBC Scotland provide coverage? In the mid-late sixties, I attended my first Rangers AGM. I was a ten year old schoolboy accompanying both my Father and Grandfather. The venue was the Kenilworth Hotel, located on the corner of Queen Street and Argyle Street. I remember a shareholder being reprimanded by the Chair for intemperate language utilised to describe the then Manager, Scot Symon, "he is not a track suit manager, he is a fuddy-duddy". Oh, how the tuts echoed around the high ceilinged room. If I can summon the energy to depart deepest, darkest Lanarkshire, I might Kayak down the Clyde to the Auditorium. My dander is up and the desire to paddle exists. Why have our Board allowed Angeball Postecoglou's Sellik to win this season's Best Passing Team in Europe Trophy? The Daily Record's Gabriel McKay revealed ra Sellik had out-passed Man City, PSG, Barca, ........... etc. You may remember Gabriel, he was the worst of the Record's social media abusers, lots of 'H' term references and when Her Maj', the Queen was opening the Commonwealth Games 2014, he posted, "where's the IRA when you need them"? Today's new, modern Scotland and Gabriel still has a job, you would think he would be more concerned that his beloved Sellik have conceded most goals in the Euro Group stages for the second consecutive year? I hope the Daily Record send Gabriel along to cover proceedings. He will be fulminating when he is confronted with the post AGM repast, Duck a l'Orange avec un verre de Pays de Gers.

From what I've heard so far it was a bit of a standard AGM with a few points covered we already knew about, stance on selling players, further investment etc. How great is it to have an AGM pass by almost un-noticed after recent years.

Passed away at the relatively young age of seventy a first class player with the gunners and liverpool centre forward who blossomed as a type of left half ,great player.

Valid questions from the floor, important questions, and for me they were answered honestly. Still a long way to go in this project as a whole, and I have confidence in this board to meet every challenge in the best interest in Rangers FC.

That was great viewing and reassuring that we have some really driven and dedicated people working at our club.

He came to Liverpool as a striker and was initially a bit disappointing in that role, especially when compared with John Toshack. Bob Paisley turned him into one of the best midfielders in Europe and, according to Paisley, was the player who attracted most interest from continental clubs. I saw most of his games at Anfield and, once he had settled in, I don't think I saw him have a bad game. He was a lot more consistent than the more glamourous players, Dalglish and Souness, and was highly influential in the success that Liverpool had during his time at the club.

Will wait for the expert analysis from Kerrydale st before making any judgments.

Celtic is exempt apparently.

Dont think there is much chance of this happening unless Hagi is desperate to move, as you stated there is not much money in Turkish football at the moment. Actually i think its a good market for us to be looking at bring players in.

Booted Bates off the ball and should have received a straight red. is there still a compliance in place?

if it's going for nowt deal me in. Ta.

To go 3 at the back you need the right players to do so. We don’t have them at present

Yes these people are real experts. Pity they never figured out how much Lawwell siphoned out their own club & Desmond continues to do 😋

I expect a lot of yahoos will be more focused on goings on at our AGM than your average Bear will be.

Hate it with a passion.

Another 2 assists for Tav taking him to 10 in 12 league games, plus 3 goals. Phenomenal stats.

"Worth discussing" is a low bar and I'd say yes, largely due to Patterson being on bench when he is one of our best outlets on either wing. Tavernier Goldson Bassey/Helander Patterson Barisic Kamara Jack/Davis Kent/Hagi/Aribo Roofe/Sakala Morelos A team along those lines could do pretty well in games where it's mostly a matter of breaking down a low block, it doesn't look solid enough for tougher opposition without Helander at the back though. There are some obvious problems with it, by accommodating Patterson you are negating a lot of Tavernier's threat, though with the low block we play most weeks and given how much of the ball defenders have these days I think he could contribute quite a lot in breaking the lines and the opposition wouldn't know who should be picking him up. A second problem is how solid are you defensively with potentially two full backs in your back three. The third big one is that we do currently have a number of attacking midfielders and it's not easy to fit them into this system.

Balance? The Rangers media vortex was perfectly portrayed over the last few days, it was Scottish League Cup semi-final weekend and the Pacific Quay Gang Hut brought it's usual balance to events. The four semi-finalists were Rangers, Sellik, Hibs and, St Johnstone Off the Ball set the benchmark. One of the co-Hosts, RAB Cosgrove is a Saintee thus every fart and burp is covered including why 2,000 Saints supporters at Hampden on Saturday was, "a good turn out". Since the first semi on Saturday was Sellik v Saints, the Off the Ball show had balance, the guest was Craig McLean. A former Keeper at 'Well and Clyde gave up football for an Equity card. In his soliloquy he blurted, "ahm a big Sellik man". It was pantomime time on the Sunday show, another Actor and full time Hibee, Dougray Scott dropped the 'F' bomb and told of only ever being threatened once, by a Rangers supporter obviously after the 2016 Scottish Cup final. The balance was provided by RAB Cosgrove, even his mucker', Tam Cowan called it, "you're just a big Hater". RAB stated, "Gerrard was off before the next Administration" and, "Neil McCann will not be talking to BBC Scotland by the end of the weekend". RAB has recently entered his 70th year and his trolling of Rangers supporters extends to pronunciation. Giovanni van Bronkhurst is having his Christian name mispronounced. It's not Gee-o-vanni, the proper pronunciation is Joh-vanni. RAB quotes the authority of the Editor of Flourish - the RC Archdiocese of Glasgow Journal. Ronnie Convery has joined Kevin McKenna, Angela Haggerty, Jum Spence, Gerry Braiden, ............. and, Phil McFournames in telling RAB what to tell Rangers supporters. Ronnie was a Spokesperson for Cardinal O'Brien for several years, maybe he'll tell RAB why the Scots Cardinal spent his final four years living in Northumbria? Anyways, RAB will be the recipient of multiple pats on his napper from those named. He can be relied upon to supply that special PQ balance when required. Last week, he did the Big Dick thing, resorting to his newspaper column to present a preferred prejudice. He had several bites on radio about the way Actor, Brian Cox was treated on Question Time. I watched the show and the Dundee born and bred Thespian made a roaring cnut of himself. The final question epitomised, it was with reference to Glasgow hosting COP 26 and a bin man strike taking place because of a plague of rats? Brian answered, "that's life". Brian Cox is just another big Sellik man and he has lived outside Scotland these last fifty years, the last couple of decades in Manhattan. He was the ScotsNat rep' on the panel. He got off the plane, pinned on the necessary lapel badges and the damp of the SECC reminded him why he left the country. RAB was outraged such a special Actor was disrespected. So much so, he utilised his National column to inform the five thousand folks that continue to purchase the comic that those administrating the bin workers strike(the GMB) were funders of the Better Together campaign. Further, they were not interested in promoting Scotland's good image. Nicola and Brian copped it unfairly, the bin men were only motivated by greed. RAB brought balance to the rats and chaos present in the FM's constituency of Govanhill. It's hardly surprising, RAB of the sandstone villa in Dennistoun, the Sri Lankan villa with infinity pool, the East London flats, ............ supports Nicola and Brian against working men toiling in appalling conditions. His Socialism is framed in precise National terms, pronunciation - RAB Balance.