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I'm sure it's been mooted on here before but we should be putting in the groundwork to bring in Lyall Cameron from Dundee next summer. He'd be a more than decent flexible rotation option in the midfield who could develop into a starter imo. Especially if we're letting Lawrence go. Which we should be.

I reckon that's why we've had a slow start tbh, aye it's been a big turnover but we've got a lot of young and inexperienced players in the XI and match day squad now. I'm quietly confident that we've got the beginnings of a decent side. Let them live a European campaign and title challenge this season and they'll be better for it.

Hearts are a great example of a well funded, well run football club. Why investment from someone with no feel or care for the club is being welcomed is beyond me. There's a bigger question regarding what kind of club we want. It seems some would welcome us becoming part of a larger 'football organisation', owned by an American hedge fund or Arab state investment arm. Rangers would simply become a stepping stone club, somewhere to 'park assets' in the hope one day they'll be good enough to play for Wolves or Al-Ittihad. Fuck that. If that's the future for Rangers I'm not sure I want any part of it. I'd argue we were a decent centre forward away from winning the league last season. Certainly the margins were small. This season we've started poorly, but it's early days. Of course panic has set in, that's what we do as a support, but the season is long and it's got twists and turns to come. It's far too early to judge anything yet. On the B team in the Lowland League, the standard is simply not good enough. The idea was interesting, but the reality is different. We've 3 young players starting regularly for us currently. One played 59 games for Aberdeen, one 96 games in the Danish top flight and one 31 games in the Cypriot top flight. That's the level we need our B team players at if they've got any chance of progressing to our first team. We'd be far better off finding clubs we can loan our younger prospects out too. Or even do deals where they literally join a club with a guaranteed buy-back in place. Young players make mistakes, lose concentration and can be dominated by experienced players. All this talk of a player trading model overlooks the fact that a sizeable percentage of our support will rise with fury at a series of misplaced passes far less a run of games where someone is trying to play their way back into form.

The idea was to play competitive games against the top youth sides in the world. Other B team focused clubs do similar. I felt like we were doing that but it seems to have dried up. I do think pulling the B team was a little short-sighted. The level was poor, but playing regular games against men was the main objective.

Who had Levein in the sweepstake?

Hah, yeah fair point. Officially then.

Do a bit of research & you’ll find out a bit about Gillespie & his current role(at the kibble). Not someone you’d appoint

Quick update on some of the guys that have left. OUT - Kieran Wright (25) – on loan OUT - Robby McCrorie (26) - signed for Kilmarnock, already been dropped and lost his place in the team OUT - Sam Lammers (27) - sold to Twente plays most weeks and scored a couple of goals. OUT - Connor Goldson (31) - sold to Aris Limassol OUT - Todd Cantwell - sold to Blackburn Rovers → Contracts ending Summer 2024 Jon McLaughlin (36) - contract 6/2024 - signed backup at Swansea City Kemar Roofe (30) - ST - contract 6/2024 - still without a club Borna Barisic (31) - LB - contract 6/2024 - at Trabzonspor, plays rotated with their Turkish lad. Ryan Jack (32) – CM - contract 6/2024 - signed for a Turkish 2nd division outfit, on the bench at the weekend. John Lundstram (30) - CM - contract 6/2024 - signed for Trabzonspor. Played early on but dropped recently. 'Lundstram is a very heavy and cumbersome football player.' - technical director Senol Gunes Abdallah Sima (22) - RW/ST - contract till 2024 (season long loan) joined Breast, will play in the CL. Fabio Silva (21) - ST – loan to Las Palmas to play with Oli MCBurnie and Scott McKenna. Not played yet. Reason for the update - I think this illustrates how these guys we have lost wouldn't add any value (out with Sima) and we shouldn't be concerned with letting highly paid / low performing players go.

Can't help but think Emery's Villa are what Clement is trying to replicate with us. They're not proactive in the press, play with a no 10 and a direct style of play. What Villa do consistently that we don't is fire it through the centre into their teammates who have the confidence and technical ability to trap it, turn and play forward again. The only one doing that on Sunday was Barron and funnily enough it was when we were playing our best stuff. If our lads just creeped out of their shell a wee bit and were consistently proactive we'd be a side transformed.

Mr Gilligan has an almighty task in hand this director of football and a CEO won't come cheep all the more so when you read that the EastEnders are awash with cash . And if the commonwealth games come to Glasgow you can be sure that the EastEnders will be at the head of the queue when grants are dished out to upgrade their stadium from the Glasgow Celtic Council.

Can one the more diplomatic forum users help John get up to speed?

The standard of football in the lowland league is shocking

Why be open minded when you can just join in the misery and incessantly slate the club instead.

That's one way to look at it. Another way is that Hearts will become another Hibs or Dundee, a feeder club. Fuck that.

A lot of Brightons recruitment and business strategy is/was propped up by heavy debt owed to Bloom. They owe him £100's of millions. We have that benign investment currently - what we don't have is a financial package offered to us in our domestic broadcast deal that would allow our board to bite the bullet and invest in capital projects to turbo charge the club. That's pretty much why Bordeaux went bust btw, France are struggling to put together a decent TV deal and potential buyers, like Liverpool, decided the risk wasn't worth it. Bloom is a gambler, he started out on slot machines believe it or not - he saw the premier league riches and decide to roll the dice with his money and it's paid off.

There would be no point. Any money spent on the smartcard system will be saved and used to cover the unpaid invoice for Todd Cantwell's leaving night.

The magpies huffed and puffed their way to victory yesterday

Are there? They were hardly fighting each other to get control of the club when it was in the toilet the when we needed them to release the grip of the spivs. I don't think King would be hard to deal with if anyone was interested in buying his shares 🤔 It's a glorious thought and the ideal solution, that some mega-rich Rangers person will ride to our rescue but wouldn't bet on it.

If we play 3 we're in bother as soon as one of them [Balogun] gets injured, playing 3 limits our ability to press as well. For me it's Propper and Souttar, I think JS game will improve no end with having a good experienced guy alongside him every week.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/rUPsZgenqHJedvC6/ Very promising.

The BBC report on the game takes one word to start having a go (first word 'Unconvincing'). We weren't great but Dundee United never troubled us at all. Dunno how any Bear can live with funding PQ CSC.

This is a disgrace: