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He has got to be named today: 1. It's Friday 13th. 2. The appointment is, evidentially, nothing to do with the Football Board, and all to do with the ouija board. The logic is inescapable.

Taking away any of the chat about who would host such events, in no way should a country the size of Scotland, with the financial constraints that our footballing authorities have, ever be wasting any more money on a national stadium. It's a grotesque luxury, and not even a good one.

With Rangers playing St Andrews United in the Youth Cup on Sunday a wee reminder on the Youth Cup piece I produced recently. https://rfcyouths.wordpress.com/2023/07/05/rangers-a-youth-cup-history/

Possibly where they have excelled is in managing to keep this search and appointment process relatively private . Particularly given there are so many parties involved . Let’s hope the outcome is equally excellent

VAR has done very little to improve the consistency of decision making, that's for sure. The officials seem to be influenced by the enormity of the decision, and spend more time forensically examining a call by a referee if it's a pivotal one in the game (or season). The result being that big decisions are more likely to get overturned on technicalities that are routinely overlooked the rest of the time.

A few points to add to the fray of discussion. Sellik raised serious monies with their fourth share issue. It was this one that attracted the Dermot Desmond types. The fourth issue was a preferential share issue, I believe they continue to pay an annual dividend to this day? The last occasion I saw these shares mentioned in the media was MON's parting gift being a tranche of preferential shares. Wullie Haughey made a killing out of the M74 extension. When Scottish Labour announced the intension to link the motorway from Calderpark to the M8 at Kingston, the party's biggest donor in Scotland, Wullie Haughey had already bought up large tracks of land on the proposed route. He paid somewhere around £600,000 and received in excess of £11 million in compulsory purchase compensation. The Dalmarnock streets immediately south of London Road ie Kinnear Road, Buddon Street, Patna Street, Gailes Street, Troon Street, ........ etc were also condemned and demolished 24 years past. The District Council deliberately depopulated the area both north and south of the arterial road thus, the listed London Road Primary School was no longer needed. It was closed 20 years ago and Sellik successfully applied to the Planning Committee to demolish the Edwardian listed building and build a staff car park. Literally, it is, 'the Sellik Way'. Reference the land, there was a railway line running parallel with the then Sellik car park adjacent to Kerrydale Street. A bridge spanned London Road carrying the line. The pylon line ran parallel with the railway line, there was a pylon in the middle of the car park, allowing the line to dog leg into Barrowfield. I imagine British Rail would have owned that strip of land and bridge? The bridge was demolished, the pylon line re-routed and, the land containinh north of London Road is contained within the Celtic Park footprint.

Supporters wishing to pay their final respects to former player, Jim Forrest, are invited to gather on Edmiston Drive on Monday from 10am as the funeral cortege makes its way to a private service. https://x.com/RangersFC/status/1712757592504565958?s=20

It had to Happen(by proxy). Six days after the Hamas raid and the Green Brigade's reaction to it, PQ has finally acknowledged it occurred by proxy. Today's third story on their Scottish football website is entitled, 'Gossip' and, it contains a sub headline -'Abada urged to quit Celtic over Palestine'. Click on it and it reads, "Celtic winger Liel Abada, who has been critical of the Celtic fans group's support for Palestine and has been offered support by the club hierarchy, has been urged to quit the Scottish champions by Israel team-mate, Dolev Haziza". Another link is provided for the Daily Record story. This is akin to RAB Cosgrove and Tam the Token constantly saying, "we want to hear from Rangers supporters". The last thing they want is to hear from Rangers supporters but by utilising this particular refrain, they are ticking the box for balance. Similarly, a one line hidden behind a 'Gossip' link allows BBC Scotland to say they covered the story. Once again, the PQ CSC prove they know how to play the long game. Certainly, they know and value the benefits to be reaped by playing it cute, by proxy.

That's the spirit warpig, positivity.

As the days pass I have gone through my indecision, wavering, changing my mind and am back firmly in the Clement camp. I think they are both potentially good managers but I think only Clement has the European experience and pedigree and we need the European money to go forward.

Thing is, it's not just Rangers making offers for the candidates to accept or reject. Clement and Muscat will also be making counter proposals for Rangers to assess. Back and forth until everyone's position is as clear as possible ... only then can an informed decision be made.

When you try to get the best person for the job, it's logical to take your time and not to rush into anything, even if that means upsetting people that want someone appointed yesterday.

It doesn't matter: it was offside.

If those refereeing decisions had been against Rangers the fans would be on here moaning until Christmas I'm no Scotland fan but even I felt for them , wouldn't surprise me if he was under instructions to make sure only the so called big nations get to Germany Everyone's aware that uefa are as twisted as a pig knob

Im no great lover of the Scotland team and it’s support but I thought they were hard done by getting that goal chopped off last night Once again VAR the culprit. It was brought in to reduce wrong decisions but seems more and more to be creating wrong decisions

Yes. Sorry, should have said that.

Aye, hadn't watched it back but seen the push now. The meltdown in Scotland has been something to behold. You could argue that it's both yet Stewart has the TA on strings. Grim really.

Somebody told him that the 'Ayes' have it.

IIRC the two end stands were built by the now defunct Barr Construction & the North Stand overhanging the cemetery by Miller. Yes I’d heard that £40m figure too which was a lot of money for a club which had not long survived bankruptcy All sorts of rumours at the time of using cheapest materials, cutting corners, safety breaches etc. Crucially no one really seemed willing to question how it got planning permission especially after the old Celtic board said it couldn’t be redeveloped & were looking at alternative sites. Ultimately though it gave them a stadium with a 60k capacity but with a life expectancy of how long? And it gave them a stadium with a 10k greater capacity than ibrox or hampden. Then the bunnet began parroting phrases used by the Rangers board in the 1970’s about not needing hampden which had also got redeveloped but with national lottery funding, something which would come into play years later in 2020 when Mr Haughey would emerge as a hampden supporter as the SFA threatened to move games away from hampden. But to where? A rugby stadium in Edinburgh? Why not 60k Celtic Park? Maybe we’ll find this out soon enough. Their bigger stadium had the potential to get them more revenue through the gates than ours so our Mr Murray starting looking at other sources of revenue & whatever else that would unfortunately ultimately lead us to 2012. I still do believe alarm bells must have been going off in the Rangers boardroom about where Celtic’s funding was coming from back then.

I remember the figure of £40M being banded about at the time and it always seemed a very low figure (the club deck cost us circa £20M in the early 90s. I know its not compering like for like, but it gives you a comparison.

People's anger always comes to the fore, creativity and making a choice, not so much. Social media is pretty much based on this.

Just don't think Gerrard or Beale had a clue as to how to use him. Or was shite scared of deviating from ye olde reliable (🤔) in Morelos. We're seeing that now with Tav, Devine and Sterling methinks.