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I presume Souttar will replace Souttar. Its a shame for Souttar because Souttar has been good. But Souttar is better than Souttar so it would be good to get Souttar, and Souttar can be back-up to Souttar. Or, Souttar can play beside Souttar.

It was an Ultra display, not a history lesson, FFS.

You are specifically chosen by an elder (22 years old) who will see a vision in mystical blue smoke inside a Buckfast bottle. A manilla envelope will then be slid under your door by a young man wearing a black balaclava. Alternatively you can apply via their Facebook page.

The William Poole thing is most complicated but the usual suspects in new, modern Scotland reduce it down to anti-catholicism. It is the 1840s on the north east coast of the USA. The great famine is happening in Ireland and on the northern west coast of Scotland but, other tragedies are occurring ie the pogroms in Eastern Europe and the beginning of the end of slavery in the south of the States. Tremendous mobility of labour concluded at the entry point to the USA, New York. Irish, Jews and, Blacks arrived in increasing numbers and lowered the price of labour. Those born and bred in New York attempted to ring fence jobs and opportunities. I am NOT agreeing with this or the methods chosen to effect the decision, I am explaining the facts. During the 1840s in New York, Tammany Hall was in full swing. William Poole and his ilk felt they had no recourse, they advocated protective collectives and fought those they perceived to be undermining their standard of lives. I suspect those responsible for Tuesday night's TIFO feel similar(I mean the decision makers) and, have decided to lionise Bill the Butcher. Martin Scorsese's film was an over romanticised version of Poole's life, as John Mc says, he perished at the hands of one of his adversaries. As a retired chap, the one aspect of Poole's life I find attractive is he was the founder of, 'the Know Nothing' political party. Shelby Foote does a pretty convincing critique on Poole's political activism being one of the enablers leading to the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. I find our current crop of professional politicians to be deeply unattractive, particularly here in Scotland. They have few if any principles other than narcism and maintaining their snout in the flowing trough. Nihilism can be just as attractive as nationalism but, just as wrong. The usual suspects clap their hands to gain attention then identify their preferred bad guys. The events of nearly 200 years past in another continent are revised to suit their agenda. I have posted on another thread that the TIFO was clever because it upset those that find William Poole's actual life to be inconvenient. Today is the anniversary of the St Bartholomew's Day massacre, modern day estimates say between 10,000-30,000 Huguenots were murdered in a single day in late 16th century France. Now, that is really inconvenient and maybe should be a consideration for the next TIFO?

Of a fictional character. People are looking far too deep into it. It was a made up person in a film. The seethe over this is yet again OTT.

If he supports Celtic then he will already know everything about our finances.

Very reliable guy. Winter, spring, summer or fall, all you have to do is call.

Exactly. It was an Ultra display, depicting a film character, at a football match. Next time it'll be Freddy Krueger, Pinhead or maybe even Jack Torrance - who gives a f*ck.

William Poole (Bill The Butcher) was of course killed by his actual Irish immigrant adversary in real life and also his fictional one in the Gangs Of New York film. Daniel Day Lewis is of Anglo-Irish background, his grandfather was a Church of Ireland minister who had pretensions to aristocracy apparently. I didn't see the game so I've only seen pictures of the display. It's visually spectacular, there's a ton of work goes into creating something like that, it's really very impressive. I won't pretend to understand ultra culture, I'm too old now. For obvious reasons he wouldn't have been my first choice of character for the banner, but then I don't think it's aimed at me. I'm not sure why they have that Andy Capp type character either. Is that open razors on the banner? Many young men seem drawn top these type of characters, the popularity of Peeky Blinders is another example of the romanticising of violent thuggery society seems to enjoy. The 'nativi' thing the Milan fans use a slightly more political point, regarding 'natives' and immigrants. I'd be pretty uncomfortable if the Union Bears went down that road.

I have it on good authority that UBs are aware their display upset Scottish Nationalists, Yahoos, The Daily Record etc. and are happy about it. Expect more of the same, thanks to threads like this. 😀

Instant image of 26th OF riffling through packed filing cabinets looking for his "dossier"...🤣🤣🤣

RANGERS are today pleased to confirm the appointment of James Taylor as the club’s Chief Finance Officer from September 1. https://www.rangers.co.uk/Article/rangers-appoint-james-taylor-as-chief-finance-officer/3BcmlGFIMGAg19K8tLaP2p

The character in the film was based on Poole but changed for the movie and the character was called bill cutter. A character created by an Italian American catholic and portrayed but an Irish Anglo actor. Its a bit like getting mad at the dinosaurs in jurassic park for eating humans. It was just a film.

Just received this so thought I'd share as not seen anything official. "Harry Souttar on-loan all but done apparently". Don't shoot the messanger

Fixed that for you 😗

Pinhead would be appropriate after this thread. It has been an exquisite combination of pleasure and pain to read.

I don't think he's a fan, is he? I mean I'm sure he wants us to win currently, but I doubt he'd much interest in us prior to this.

There's obviously been a lot of speculation about the alleged £1m compensation/cancellation fee that we have received for not buying Tillman. I was just listening to Davie Edgar on today's Daily Update and he described it differently, and I hadn't heard this take before. We indicated that we wanted to buy him and Bayern immediately activated the buy-back clause that they had built in so effectively we got the difference, which was around £1m. This makes sense and it probably a more realistic take on what happened. In addition, there is a sell-on fee so we would get a percentage of the €14m(?) fee that PSV have agreed with Bayern.

Yeah, very low risk.

Could have been, absolutely. Just found it interesting the Dutch journos have said nothing, the manager dismissed it and none of their players have complained. Compare that to the usual reaction to something similar domestically and it becomes headline news for a fortnight.

Well, you cannae wear a jaiket wi’ a jerkin but apart from that, he’s impressive. On the subject of impressive, I assume the foreign journos were Dutch. Can you imagine oor boys from PQ and the Record doing that next week in Dutch? Me neither. In fact, if they could do it in English it would be a step up.

That certainly wasn't the criteria for becoming a member of The Blue Order. All it took as a "firm handshake, being able to recite the complete poetry works of Edgar Allan Poe then a couple of X-Factor type auditions. From what I can remember I became a member of TBO after reading an advert either in one of the fanzines or on-line about the creation of a singing section. Applied and got a seat move to Broomie Front. IIRC The Union Bears were created as an off-shoot of TBO as they wanted to take the group in a different direction and moved to Copland Rear. A few years later both groups moved to BF1 (I stayed in BF4), the UBs basically took over. There are still a few of TBO guys sitting back in the original section in BF4 and TBO banner(s) make sporadic appearances.

A group of fans have made a banner that uses more energy making a statement about being anti-Irish than being pro Rangers. It suggests they think about Celtic a lot. I prefer to simply bloody ignore them.

Look at what pyros did to that poor lad's head!

The more I read and listen to about Rangers this season, it seems some fans are expecting us to play the perfect game of football every time we enter the pitch. A lot of fans have been quick to crucify Beale about his failings this season but I've not seen many lining up to give him praise for the way played last night and how we used our subs.

During the first half of a Hibs v Aston Villa commentary, Liam McLeod has mentioned Rangers on seven separate occasions. The 2016 Scottish Cup final has had two mentions. Once because McGinn, Hanlon and, Stevenson all played in the game, the other because the final is Easter Road fokelore. Another two mentions for Rangers - Liverpool in last season's Champions League. Once to emphasise the apprehension SPFL Premiership sides have taking on English Premiership clubs. The other as a warning what English clubs can do, the word utilised was, "humiliation". Liam then mentioned two Villa players, he witnessed Diaby score against Rangers for Leverkusen; then he pipes up on seeing Bailey do similar. Finally, last night's Ibrox fixture against PSV was raised by Liam, "many thought Dessers was offside in the build up to Rangers second, the new quick VAR decision suggested only the player's arm was offside". Of course, Liam omitted the big Rangers against Villa story, the 1887 FA Cup semi-final which the Birmingham side won 3-1. Maybe Liam will squeeze it in during the second half?

Ross Wilson. Genius.

Candidate for a new profile picture.

The least a man like Halsted would settle for is first dibs beating the UB drum.

As long as he doesn't go straight to gold on MyGers

Probably for both parties IMO. Hope the lad gets his medical situation sorted.

I'd be interested to know whose place he would take if he is to come back.

Fashion loyal.

I think it was a great deal for Bayern.

As much as the detail, the scale and visual impact of the display was undoubtedly impressive, I did wonder why they chose a character that was famous for making an anti-Irish sentiment in a film. Dare I suggest a display showing our great managers, players or victories would have been more inspiring and appropriate? There's a museum across the road showcasing this in great detail. Ultimately, it seems to me that a lot of energy and time has gone into trying to wind up the other lot rather than celebrating something that we've achieved. And we call them obsessed.

A few contenders and most have been mentioned by others. I've gone with Dessers as he was key to both our goals but could easily have been Butland, Goldson, Souttar, Cantwell.....

See Stewart’s shoes? Double buckled slip-ons. Obviously hasn’t learned to tie shoelaces and needs the added security of a second buckle in case he doesn’t do up the first one right.

Absolutely, one of my favourite players of ours, guy was fantastic.

We could do with a Brahim Hemdani type player for Europe. Don't need one for 90% of domestic games but games against them and in Europe this type of player would be useful.

Due to bad work planning I spent all but 6 minutes of last night's match in the car traversing the roads between Buchan and Glasgow with Radio Scotland Sportsound as my company. The pre-match stuff was fine, Steven Thomson, Neil McCan and Tom English weren't the worst, it was balanced and there was a decent interview with a Dutch journalist who gave some insights into PSV. They also interviewed a Rangers podcast guy, maybe This Is Ibrox(?), who was calm and articulate. Tom English threw him a couple of snide questions about fan media and being able to criticise players or the club, but it wasn't anything the guy shouldn't have expected, and frankly something I've thought about too. I then proceeded to listen to Rangers get hammered as wave after wave of PSV attack was launched and Rangers struggled to get possession. Liam McLeod described a game that doesn't seem to match the one my son, some friends and the posters on here watched. Dessers work rate and contribution is being complimented on here, while on the tranny he was isolated and ineffective. Cantwell was lucky to stay on the pitch apparently, something that's perplexed most of the bluenoses I've spoken to this morning. It was the crowd noise that told me we'd scored, the commentary was surprisingly muted at that point, Radio Scotland don't celebrate (Rangers?) goals like those Spanish or Brazilian commentators, that's for sure. Our defence were being overran on the radio, while here they're being complimented as our best players. It's a shame the commentator wasn't a bit more 'even', as the show was definitely trying to be.

I think it's important to say that I don't actually have an idea why Halsted has become a director. What I am saying is it's very unlikely to be just for the kudos of sitting at the Rangers board table. Any major changes will require a shareholder resolution so he doesn't need a directorship to protect his interests. My only conclusion therefore is he has come on board for his expertise, which is raising investment capital, specifically in the American sector.

Sifting through the Beeb Shortbread Sports App yesterday I came across an article "Rangers in CL Qualifying: PSV carry old and new threats". Time for revenge. The article boldly stated. What followed was an in-depth summary of the PSV squad, prefaced by a recap of 12 months ago. GVB v RVB. The latter left after winning a cup stating personal reasons. GVB was ejected after a CL campaign so bad that it broke all records. Vastly experienced Peter Bosz now in charge and he knows how to win games at Ibrox. He has PSV buzzing. Destroyed Sturm Graz last round. Tillman returns to Ibrox but not as Rangers fans hoped. The 1988 EC winners have only lost one match at home in 22 games. Extremely dangerous tie for Beale's side. Now, my assumption was this article had been penned by some Dutch PSV blogger. Scrolling back up to see who penned the article, shock! horror! None other than LIAM McLEOD. PQ's new cheerleader clearly behind all Scottish clubs quest for glory. Except for one of course. Absolutely disgusting article, the venom drips from every sentence!