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I'm enjoying the IRE-ENG game. Rice and Grealish have both scored after being booed at every touch. This pleases me.

That's ten hail Marys for Declan Rice .

Hopefully Nick Pope comes of the bench and scores the third. Oops....think hes a goalie.

A customised Rangers/Albania kit? On the plus side, it was good to see Kosovo lose heavily last night.

Former Dundee United and Liverpool centre half has passed away

At least Kent was seldom injured & always available for selection.

Voddie Bhoy (an allegedly appropriate soubriquet, others suggest) has a staggeringly bad recent record: one win in 13 matches, I believe, and that against the Sons of the (other) Rock, the mighty Gibraltar. It includes, of course, being the worst team to appear at the Euro Finals this year. I wonder how such a sad curriculum vitae would be greeted, and treated, by the suits and blazers at SFA HQ, by the press and other media, and by the tablecloths and Timberlands of the tartan 'army', if the manager responsible for such ignominy had a connection with Rangers, or, indeed, was merely of the Reformed Faith. Imagine the obloquy heaped upon his head, from every quarter. Actually, we need not speculate. We need only recall the vituperation rained upon Alex McLeish: a vicious shoeing with the sole purpose of hounding him out of the job. Clarke, however, seems to get a free pass. Incroyable! Peut etre, non.

Tavernier is just the latest in a long line of players to be retained a bit too long. You can say the same about Morelos, Kent and Kamara. If he is going nowhere then the manager always has the option to replace him in the first team while keeping him as an expensive club captain.

The Tavernier situation is arguably a no-win one. We lose an influential player with minimal opportunity to replace him or we keep him knowing his influence is rapidly decreasing. It's arguably best he moves on which completes the reset and move Kasanwirjo/Sterling to right back. I'm unconvinced there will be a huge amount of genuine interest and, even then, certainly at figures smaller than we apparently turned down over the summer. However, with support split on his contribution, if we can organise a move/loan then it it might suit us and the player. It's a real pity the debate around Tav has become so toxic. He has always split opinion to various degrees but he's a player who has contributed positively in the main despite his lack of success. However, I don't think he'll find that level again so time now right to leave.

Hopefully not. I'd advise fellow Bears to completely ignore Cantwell.