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I note our First Minister has utilised Twitter today, Nicola reads a piece of Burns. A reply entitled, 'Tae a Sturgeon' is appropriate for transferring to this forum. Tae a Sturgeon You kin hae but noo ye canny Men with cocks are known as Tranny Do say nothing don't say a thing Aboot ra Sellik Paedo ring.

This is very funny and well worth your time this morning ; a fan of the bard or not...

Don't think I've mentioned this for a few weeks now. Rangers must have the worst website that I've ever used. Why do I get charged a £1 web sales fee for the privilege of using this rubbish?

Long hair is wrong and tattoos are distasteful? You pair must be cracking on a night oot!. Came out of work yesterday to 4 unread pages on the transfer thread, ya dancer thought I, surely Raskin has signed?. Nope, long hair and auld wingers it was. 😔🤣

Not buying Tillman isn't on the agenda for me.

Just when you think the gas is at a peep on this story, step forward Graham Spiers to exhale bilious air to the flame. The Scottish football world is waiting for the Dandy Don hammer to fall upon Jim Goodwin and, Spiers takes to Twitter : Not sure this is a popular view with the Dandies but I hope Dave Cormack and Aberdeen FC go the extra mile for Jim Goodwin. His team were sheer guts and conviction against Rangers on the 20th December and, again at Hampden nine days ago. Darvel was a disaster but Jim Goodwin is a good manager. I suspect ra Bhoy in Corduroy has summed up Aberdeen FC in one short paragraph? As Richard Gough said over thirty years ago, "Aberdeen only play four games a season". However, I believe Graham has an alternative motive here. We know Graham and his son have been season ticket holders at ra Stade de Gadd these last four years and, Jim Goodwin and his son also have similar briefs. Could Graham be wanting Jim to remain in Furryboots city so he and his bhoy can nab Jim's tickets among the heated, green comfy seats in the North Stand? We should be told.

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Just noted regarding Charlie McCann: In addition to the undisclosed transfer fee, Rangers have retained a significant future sell-on percentage, as well as return options and matching rights on Charlie for the future. ... and we actually paid 750k to ManU back in summer 2021 for him. Whopping outlay for someone kept in the reserves and who showed up well when actually played in the first team. We supposedly got 350k for him now.

Not long to go now about six days

Would be gutting

Same, I'm more concerned with if he does too good here he wont want to come back as he'll have suitors elsewhere.

Being straightforward and honest helps in a dressing room. The better you are at football helps a lot more though.

The foreigners difficulty I understand, but Arfield, Lowry and Shagger? Come on!

It was wrong then and it is still wrong now.

Never understood the Burns thing why celebrate the life of a gauger

Yeah, I thought that might be what you were getting at mate. That being the case it is actually really sensible (IMO) to do it this way - the players can, in essence, get an extra 10k per week if they let their contract run out, save the club 2 mill in sell on fees, and sign a 4 yr deal. Makes sense to me. The obvious issue is that there are no guarantees they will sign on

Sound a bit like the script from Yes Minister

Wee bit of light reading to keep you occupied. https://club1872.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Survey-Report-Rangers.pdf https://club1872.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Survey-Report-C1872.pdf

I said he was the problem not the solution for me but it's not up to me.

Right ye are Captain Mainwaring 🥱

The sell on fees would be negligible anyway would they not ? We wouldnt get much for them in January anyway given Bosman status. Or are you saying that if we extend their contract then we are STILL bound by the original sell-on clause ?

It's not just about the player but more about the price and the balance between Tillman and other priorities on a limited budget. No doubt he's a good player but it seems to me there are other more urgent signing requirements this summer. I would also be cautious about Tillman (and Sands) until I knew a whole lot more about the terms of the current loan deal and what we may be bound to if we exercise our option to convert to a permanent contract.

Given the level of support for long hair it is easy to see where we have gone wrong.

Typical. In the week where the Dandies screamed and burned in Darvel, Rangers players are lining up to taunt and goad with their best attempts at spaking Ershur.

From the resumption, season 1947/47 up to 1964/65 Rangers were ten times champions, Hibs thrice, Hearts twice (should have been three) Aberdeen, Dundee, Kilmarnock and another team all had one championship. The same teams occupied the runners-up spots if they weren’t winning. Some third places are interesting. East Fife and Jags twice each, Motherwell, Third Lanark and Dunfermline all once. We all know what happened after that. As buster says, Aberdeen had a brief flurry and United managed it once. So, yes, Rangers are one of the two pikes in a pond of minnows, so, mighty to that extent though not able to compete with ocean-going sharks. A warning well given.

You can only do so much with your budget. Tillman has shown up well but lets see if he can improve on it in the next few months. We could do with seeing him making the difference in an Old Firm match. According to the manager, he sees the the players he is bringing in as first team starters. He also says he wants two players challenging for every jersey. We will soon see how Tillman and Cantwell fit in. If Lowry gets more opportunities and does stuff to merit more. A little later, how Hagi fits in. Only time will tell (unless minds are already made up)

Alfie got it right first time.

Football and neo-liberal economics The balance between Business and Sport The balance between the Haves and Have Nots - Changes in distribution of wealth (and therefore power) - Money flows more easily upwards to the top - Everything becomes about growing and squeezing more money out of X In Scotland, Aberdeen and Dundee Utd won the title in the 80's (Hearts were very close) and reached European finals before or at the time of the change that saw home teams keep gate money (League games), rather than share it. Now much more of the cake goes to the big two teams and the rest haven't a chance. Beyond Scotland, the boot tends to be on the other foot. European competition and how they organise the financial distribution, continually tweaking it, mostly to keep the big clubs getting more money. For example, the use of a 10 year co-efficient to make sure the big clubs hoover up most of the revenue, before a ball is kicked. England has seen a hugely successful product (EPL) very well marketed and it generates amounts of money that mean any decent player that we come accross and may help us become more competitive, will be gone before you can say Willie MacKay. Mighty within Scotland, although if we don't get our act together, we are going to get cut off in a no mans land where there is one dominant team, another (us) who can occasionally get in their way and the rest. To be fair to Hearts, they are showing signs that they could become a clear third force, at least for a while. Famous globally, for now. Perhaps not so much in a couple of generations time, unless we can somehow move upwards from the Scottish League.

Talks quite well and more importantly, comes accross as straightforward and honest.

We are agreeing on so much these days that I've had to pinch myself to make sure this world is real.

you could sell him the next day for 10. if we don't buy him we are off our heads.

Beale metioned transfer outgoings and with finances needing to be looked after, you'd imagine it won't just be McCann leaving this window. If Cantwell is the "first teamer" in the creative role behind the forwards, you wonder if the Tillman option gets less likely to be taken. I'm sure Beale would want him but can the finances support that deal and everything else that needs addressed ? Beale speaks of 2 players for every jersey Would that be Cantwell, Tillman, Hagi and Lowry for the 10 role ? There are ideal options and choices but viability increasingly comes into the equation and alters what can actually happen.