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Natzi Nic doesn't need evidence! she just makes things up!

Or stay in the pub until after kick off, everybody will have been checked 😁

Interesting. I have to be honest and say that I haven't seen him much beyond games against us. That said, he's looked solid, has a decent turn of pace and reads the game pretty well. Coming back from injuries the way he has both gives me confidence in his mentality, but also question his long term fitness and whether he's vulnerable to issues down the line. Providing its either a pre-contract or a reasonable fee if we get him this month, I think its one of those calculated gambles. And he also gives us another home player for european squads.

How did the Var decision take so long too ? Wasn't clear what they were checking either - in the end it was probably the right call but should not take that long

I think Helander is a class above them all, but Goldson has improved massively since coming to us (I guess there might be quite a few reasons for that).

Easily solved Ian, go through the turnstile behind me and they can view me which make it 50% checked, sorted.

Has there ever been such a waste of money as Pogba. Nigh on £100m, rarely plays or is a match winner and can walk away next summer for nowt.

Thats going to be carnage checking all those passports.

Will be great to see a parkhead full to bursting with septic scum as we stick it up them

There's a surprise.

I think we just don't have the money to buy new players so what we have tie up any contracts that need renewing with an eye on moving them on for some profit . No use putting the business into further debt we have sufficient staff to win the league, so let's get on with it .

I think that's the kind of deal format Rangers (and many other teams) are interested in doing nowadays. That can work when no-one else is interested but Skov Olsen does have other suitors. There may well be some cash to spend but where it's invested may depend on the future of someone like Goldson. For example, if he signs a new contract then we don't have to spend £2m on Doehki now to ensure we secure him.

There's a Buzz about the Place? Sunday's Off the Ball was a Godsend, literarily. The guest again(and again ......) was Big Issue Editor, Paul McNamee. The opening and show running topic was Religion and Football. The stimulus for this was the lesson the previous Sunday conducted by the parish Priest, Father Jim Lawlor of the Immaculate Conception church in Maryhill. An Oxford graduate, Fr Jim took Sellik's recent signings of three Japanese players and framed them as, 'the Three Wise Men from the East'. The gift they bore was an excuse for Sellik to post season tour Japan for the next five years. It's no surprise that the exercise in resurrecting Fr Jim's image has been taken up by PQ. A couple of decades past, Fr Jim was parish priest of Our Lady of Fatima church in Dalmarnock. He told a sorry tale of regularly setting out from his sectarian daubed Presbytery to walk the five hundred yards of Springfield Road to Sellik Park to watch his green'n'grey hooped favourites. He could not negotiate this distance without the threat of assault. The then Chief Reporter of the Daily Record, Anna Smith was looking for a Priest on such a journey, Sellik needed him more. Glasgow City Council in conjunction with the club had submitted plans for redevelopment of the entire area surrounding Sellik Park. A non denominational school was demolished, three streets next to the ground were demolished, another dozen streets south of London Road were demolished, a pylon line relocated, a couple of factories demolished, an entire duel carriageway road was constructed, ........ etc. The Commonwealth Games spin off was planned to enable Sellik and an embattled Priest was a good bit of necessary leverage. Fr Jim went from the front page of the Record to Sellik View columnist. As an aside, Anna Smith now lives in the same spit in the wind coastal village as Phil McFournames. Anyways, as part of the Commonwealth Games Village plan and a declining congregation, Fr Jim's church in Springfield Road became a casualty and was similarly demolished. Fr Jim continued his journey, he was transferred to Penilee and his new charge was the parish of Our Lady and St George. Fr Jim became a lost soul and this time he was the focus of the front page of the Scottish Sun. It was Sunday evening and two elderly female parishioners were entering the church with intent to clean the interior. They were shocked by the scene confronting them, running into Sandwood Road screaming. Fr Jim was atop the altar, naked from the waist down, bouncing up and down upon a vibrating dildo. He was surrounded by an array of other sex toys. The Police arrived to find Jim continuing to enjoy the buzz, he was charged with Indecency and Lewd Behaviour. Fr Jim resigned his position from both church and Sellik View. He took to a Retreat for several months to re-find his faith through prayer. The Procurator Fiscal quietly dropped the charges and a reinvigorated Fr Jim took over at St Simon's in the west end, served on the Chaplaincy team at Barlinnie, followed by promotion to the Immaculate Conception, Maryhill. Fr Jim returned to literary ways, he penned a tome entitled, 'Cardinal Sin - Power, Abuse and, Truth in the Catholic Church'. A contribution very well received by the independence website, 'Bella Caledonia'. I was informed by a Publisher that Cardinal O'Brien was in a state of high dungeon on hearing of Fr Jim's intent on writing a book. Of course, the proffered titles including, 'A Second Coming', 'the Risen Lord' and, 'My Special Devotion to St Bilbo of the Blessed Dildo' did not help. Let's hope Fr Jim's resurrection achieves continued success.

RABid Pomposity. Increasingly, in Scotland we are becoming used to an application of Laws and rules that are applicable to the majority. However, there exists a growing elite of those connected to the raft of 130 Scottish Government Quangos that have other avenues open to them. Friends and family enjoy the benefits. Even information is something rationed to those and such as those, if it suits the authorities that be. We were told before Christmas that bringing forward the winter break was, "an application of common sense" by everyone clutching the provided script. At the end of the first week of the new year we have all viewed English football playing on as normal, attracting huge festive crowds. We might want to be comparative? Information is needed and the constant service provided by Prof' Jason Leitch in this regard throughout the first two lockdowns, would have been most welcome on the national broadcaster, BBC Scotland. Leitch did NOT appear and we were NOT told if he had even been invited. Has Humza withdrawn Leitch again? We don't know and we won't be told. We learned from Off the Ball that Tam and family celebrated New Year on the Isle of Arran and RAB Cosgrove was hospitalised. Arran has become PQ's Martha's Vineyard, lots of holiday homes but no one appears to be affected by the 13 CalMac cancelations of Ferry sailings from the island after Ne'erday. Maybe another service is available to those in the know? Similarly, games being played behind closed doors does not impinge upon members of the PQ Gang Hut. They don't even have to pay for live streams, they hit the canteen then sit down and view their teams courtesy of Beeb Engineers. PQ even altered their schedule, shortening RAB's show by an hour to allow him to attend St Johnstone's League Cup final victory. RAB utilised his National column during November to break a GMB strike, pointing out a national Union's funds included English, Welsh and, Irish monies. Clearly, he put his nationalism before his socialism, he is one of those and such as those; was his hospitalisation private? RAB lionised the healing powers of Amoxicillin on Saturday and then proved that such a collection of anti-bacterial drugs does NOT improve cerebral performance. Cowan was relating Lulu's testimony of her departed co-star in the 1967 film, 'To Sir with Love'. RAB barges in, "Aye, ah've seen loads of stuff written about Harry Belafonte". Cowan interrupts, "do you mean Sydney Pottier"? There are loud guffaws, anything to mask the fact that a broadcaster in his seventieth year has made a cnut of himself. Cowan then evokes Only Fools and Horses where Grandad and Rodney have an argument over the pronunciation of Pottier. RAB then gets the Grandad and Uncle Albert characters mixed up. Time to bring on the guest. It's John Barnes, late of the PQ parish. Currently, he is Killie TV's commentator. He is from Ayrshire and was the recipient of Jim McLean's right hook back in the day. RAB and Tam do the tired and lazy Rangers supporting accusations, then move on. Barnes is telling a story about working for BBC Scotland in Teblisi, Georgia nearly 20 years back. He tells of a frightening place, a nationalist Government out of control. He had left the press box at half time and could not re-enter because of, "one of Shevardnadze armed goons". RAB flashed his 70th year credentials again, "who was Shevardnadze playing with at the time"? Barnes explains he is talking about Georgia's then President, Eduard Shevardnadze. Increasing embarrassment is a no no for such a pompous prig, quickly he brought the show on to much more comfortable ground. He reminds us he was an Executive for Channel 4 and regales us with tales of ...................... heard it all a dozen times and, more. RAB was quite important. 'Walter - A Life in Football' came up and RAB clearly angered he was not involved wondered aloud about the reaction of the documentary's Director, Martin Conaghan when first told he had the gig, "Ah prefer to do Henrik". The Walter piece is decent although the lack of attention to Walter's second tenure at Rangers probably equates to BBC Scotland's determined start to queer relations with club and fans. The biggest advantage is Cosgrove's non involvement, see what he brought to the Mark Walters film? RAB is our Tony Blair, a property portfolio wielding, sense of entitlement holding, frequent story telling lazy bore. Arise Sir Stuart of Pacific Quay.

Of course not, just like the evidence for no juke box in the pub, seating only, a substantial meal and 10pm pub curfew.... it was all total bollox just to show they were doing something.. anything.

Soutter whilst being a decent player and decent potential signing, I don't think he's in same class as Helander and Goldson. Hope to be proven wrong if he does plump for us.

Lord Tyre has removed David Grier's snout from the public swill bucket. Seems a shame that the Crown did not admit liability for a 'malicious prosecution' in his case. What's £9M? Chump change from the back of Sturgeon's sofa. David Grier loses fight for damages over Rangers case Published 2 hours ago David Grier was charged in 2014 but eventually cleared along with a number of other men https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59953108 A business consultant who was arrested during the probe into Craig Whyte's takeover of Rangers has lost a £9m damages action against the Crown Office and Police Scotland. David Grier was arrested in November 2014 but was later acquitted of all charges by a High Court judge Mr Grier said the arrest had been a "career ending moment". A judge at the Court of Session ruled Mr Grier had failed to prove he was the victim of a malicious prosecution. In total, seven people were arrested during the fraud investigation in 2014 but Craig Whyte was the only one whose case ever went before a jury. Mr Whyte was accused of using Rangers' own money to buy the club while claiming the funds were his. He was found not guilty in 2017. The Crown Office has already admitted that two employees of financial consultants Duff and Phelps - David Whitehouse and Paul Clark - were subjected to "malicious" prosecutions over their role in events at Rangers. Mr Whitehouse and Mr Clark were appointed administrators of the club in 2012. They have received damages from the Crown Office of £10.5m each and £3m in legal expenses. The current Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC apologised to both men in a statement in the Scottish Parliament. The Crown also admitted that there was a malicious prosecution against Charles Green, who led a consortium which took over Rangers in 2012. In August, Mr Green settled for £6.3m in compensation for being wrongfully prosecuted by the Crown Office. He also had his legal fees paid. In a judgment from the Court of Session on Tuesday, judge Lord Tyre said he recognised that comparisons could be drawn between his decision on Mr Grier, who also worked for Duff and Phelps, and the outcome of actions by Mr Whitehouse and Mr Clark. He said: "I do not regard it as appropriate to attempt to identify reasons why admissions of liability were made in those cases but no finding of liability is made in this case. "The admissions of liability were decisions taken by the Crown in the light of the factual circumstances as they were perceived." The judge said his task was to assess the evidence presented to the court in the claim before him.

I looked at his appearances and injuries last week and they seemed to be specific injuries which he recovered-from rather than niggling injuries coming and going. Assuming proper rehab and not being rushed back, there's a very low chance of them recurring again. It does sound like he had a period of bad luck, but I guess every player we sign is a risk in one way or another.

I’d suggest we need one CB now and two if Goldson leaves. Helander & Balougen missing too many games nowadays for my liking

I think signing him is a "no brainer" if he wants to come, even with concerns over his injury record.

I would think so which is good news for Ian

I doubt it. There wasn't for banning juke boxes, pub curfews at 10 or having a substantial meal with your pint following each lockdown!!

no they insisted it was all needed. Then dodged questions on the subject.

Still fucked for me, I am double jabbed, no booster & have no intentions of getting anymore!.

I think he's a good replacement for Goldson and a decent option for free but we'd need another central defender (probably Doekhi) as well given the fitness worries around Souttar, Helander and Balogun (should he sign an extension).

Sturgeon has confirmed restrictions will be lifted from Monday. However, Covid certification at Scottish football games now only valid with booster… clubs must check 50% of attendees! Sounds like fun for the forthcoming games...

Knicker wetters will be grieving so please show some sensitivity.

Just another link i don't think has been mentioned on here. We are supposedly interested in signing Benjamin Siegrist from Dundee United on a bosman. Southampton also interested. As a backup I'd take him. Give him a chance to be #1. We have been linked with Zander Clark but i think Siegrist is probably the better of the two. Would like Robby McCrorie can step up too.

I hope Kent extends. I don't think his recent form gets him the move he would ideally want in the summer. He was linked with Leeds after last season for example, i don't think that link will be there in the summer unless he ups his performances.

Agree on the first point. Skov Olsen has all the markings of a player lined up for a loan to buy. Trouble is Bologna aren't flush with cash and will much prefer to sell. But they don't use the player in the correct position and he wants first team football so will likely move. As you state the other teams in for him if serious will force our hand. I think Doehki would rather see the next 6 months out at Vitesse and take the 2 million(as an example) as a signing on fee rather than move now, see Vitesse take a big chunk of that 2 million. I'm sure Stewart Robertson admitted the Aribo transfer cost us over 2 million despite the player only costing about £200k in development fees. I'd guess that the reason Lundstram is on such a high wage(if the rumours are to be believed) is due to us not having the finance to give him a big sign on fee in the summer. So we broke it down over his contract. I think ideally we would give a signing like that a big sign on fee and lower wage. Its a much lower risk.

The contract situations of several players is interesting but again will go a long way to deciding our transfer budget with or without CL football. I think Kent might extend his deal but not sure about Aribo. If they do then they'll be at our wage ceiling so several million over the course of three years if we take in the supposed Lundstram affect.

Trouble is we may have little choice in the sales.

I think we might get him on a loan to buy then buy in the summer after selling some players. Perhaps kent and Aribo.

He wants a good dentist to have a look at his own gnashers they are a disgrace